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The phone rang. It was from Gordon.

"Hello?" I picked up the phone, wondering what will it be.

"Ah, Inigo! Hi!" The voice from the other side sounded happy, but it went silent for a few seconds. "...I'm not bothering you, am I?"

"Not really, just done with the swimming routine, " I answered, as I looked at the pool. "What brings you to the phone though. You barely make calls as far as I can recall."

"Oh, umm... just wanted to know if you've been well, that's all," Gordon paused a little. "So, how are things? Are you doing alright?"

"Yeah, things are rather smooth. Got my studies covered and such... Everything's fine," I let out a soft laugh. "Thanks for checking in on me though."

"That's good to hear..." Gordon replied. "Now that I remember this is your last year there. To think that you'll be leaving there soon, how do you feel about it?"

"Huh, that's kinda a weird topic to talk about," Not that I hated it anyway.

"J-Just wanted to chat more with you... Am I bothering you much?"

"Oh no no no no... It's alright. But how do I put this..." I sat by the poolside. "Guess I will be missing everything here."
"Well, not everything, you get what I mean. But still... it is quite a fun experience here in La Tour D'Ivoire."

"La Tu... what?"

"La Tour D'Ivoire. French for 'Ivory Tower'. Not the actual school name though."

"Oh."

"I found that term the other day and I went on bragging with my friend just about that."

"Huh..."

"But yeah, it's good here. The school is somewhat fun, the classmates are good, love the hostel experience there... I'm gonna miss those fun days," I let out a slight sigh. "Things were a little hectic these days, but they were good so far."
Then I talked about how was it living in the hostel with no elevators, how Lok got in trouble the other day because he forgot something for the class, how the modeling job went, and so on...
Things about battles in malice and personas were not supposed to let anybody else know though, so I skipped that one.

About half an hour passed, the sky started to turn dark.

"I think I have to hang up now, gotta wash and head back to the hostel."

"Ah, sure," Gordon paused. "Thanks for talking with me. And, uh, sorry that I got you in trouble that day..."

He must be talking about 'that day'.

That was when I went to confront those guys out there and got myself into rather an... unpleasant situation.

"It's alright... but let's not talk about that, shall we?"

"Sure... bye then, Inigo."

"Yeah, bye."

End of conversation.

I stood up, staring at my phone.

"That late? Gotta go for now then."

--END--