It has been way too long since Shuichi Saihara and several other Ultimates have been taken to New Hope, A spaceship Kaito Momota has used for an alternative for the Gofer Project which was free from whatever Government that wanted to dictate how the Ultimates wanted to live. Though there were still heartless, important people who also escaped on separate spaceships to let everybody else on Earth to perish.

Kaede Akamatsu had gone to New Hope’s laboratory to check up on Shuichi, she didn’t have a chance to do it earlier since there was a fight that she had to mediate, she was glad that she did see him right now though. Shuichi was at a sterile white table while wearing a lab coat, gloves and a mask, he was trembling, already in a bad state of mind. He was hovering over some rocks that were brought in a couple days ago.

However, Kaede heard a choked sob and the sound of metal tongs clattering on the tiled floors. Shuichi backed away from what he was looking at, he pressed a hand to his covered lower face while tears streamed down his eyes, gasping for his breath

“K-Kaede..!” Shuichi only just noticed that Kaede was also in the laboratory, perhaps he didn’t want her to see him like this.