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Ace shrugged casually and informed Catherine that she and Travis can be good friends. The haunt agreed without doubt, sugar was amazing. She didn't understand Ace's agony but at the same time felt loved when the man did that all for her. Her husband was the best, their marriage was absolutely the most wonderful thing.

She crooned and wrapped her arms around Ace, sadly it was a sensation. "Nice. You're improving." The man recovered grinned at Travis. Ace took a glance at the rest of the cakes. "I can't even look at them, I asked the lady at the counter to pick some of the best for me. Glad that you enjoy them." He subtly pushed the box towards Travis's side, he missed his spicy foods already.

However, the Sun trainee took another piece from it before he did that, one with bright orange. This time, he didn't say anything as he chewed the thing. His eyebrows knitted together again, the cake tasted less sweet than the chocolate one. It accompanied with sourness which gave a good balance Ace felt lucky. His partner could receive his sensations and feels just right, he didn't really need to speak out.

"How's your new life?" He suddenly asked, initated a conversation.

"Ah, Sahara." Ace nodded. "I was there too, saved a girl." The stationed hunter made a serious face and mumbled "clone of -" when he took the girl and dismissed him. He chuckled at Travis's tone happily. "Jason said it's called a Titan, it was also my first time to see such an intriguing thing, like we're all action movie actors. Haha. It reminded me of the sandworm monster in old movie, which dwelled under shifting sands."

He changed his posture and shrugged. "Anyway, we're safe now. I've been here for quite a while, at least a year?" Ace wasn't certain about the exact time he spent on this island, he passed a christmas there, so it must be more than one year already.

"I think the Sahara desert is one of the dangerous locations for missions." Ace recalled his memory on the place that gave Jason some nightmares. "Last time, me and Kimberly, another trainee were led by a full hunter for reconnaissance there. Turned out it was a stronghold for the Famine Clan, we fought against one and got some injuries." It was very thrilling in his opinion, that experience didn't scare the trainee and made the Sun trainee craved more in the future.

Given Travis a glance, he asked. "I mean if we're still in our normal life," He made the quotation marks with his fingers, "how can we experience all of these?" It enriched his boring life, filled it with excitements and new things. He could feel his heart racing rapidly within and sense how it felt when Death was knocking your door outside.

He took another bite on his sour-sweet cake.

"Normally not everything's that big." Ace mused as he rubbed his chin. "But some are powerful, like the horsemen are always a threat to us. They're merciless and hostile towards hunters. Except that, our duties are quite peaceful."

He took a peek at Travis's coat, but the symbol was somehow unable to be seen. "By the way, which division you're from? I'm from Sun."

"Training," Ace shurgged again without any negative feeling involved. "We're the frontline warriors, so we've to keep our physique at best condition. Through those exercises, we allow our bodies to remember how it should react in reflex against different situations."

The Sun subtly pulled up his sleeves to show his slim but firm muscles. "Cat isn't extremely heavy, I bet you know that weapon in owner's hand doesn't weigh much. In order to utilize her fluently, I have made not only little efforts." He winked.

Then he grinned, "How about Moon? I hear they're mainly supporters for frontline Sun hunters and usually specialize in healing?" He was quite a curious man actually.

"Hard indeed, but it's all for survival, so it's fair." Infirmary might not be an exciting place, but different people were suitable for different positions, he had no problem with that. Don't misunderstand the man, if life was interesting enough, there was no way he don't cherish his life. Ace was as shallow as that.

The Sun trainee gave an interested smile listening to Travis. "Sounds useful. With Moon's support, Sun can go further."

Ace made some musing sounds, "Um, you mean in mission? I have yet to find my Moon partner, I've encountered several cool hunters from the Moon division though." He explained. He hoped to find his but he guessed when the suitable time came, he would anyway. "During a civilian rescue mission, I was injured and a full Moon healed me, think his name's Harrison? Then, I met Jason - my friend, who's also a Moon. But he attacks as his defense?"

He continued to dig his memories for names to no avail. Sorry Travis, he wasn't that helpful.

"Sure, why not?" Ace replied swiftly. "There're always external missions for us to sign up like regular patrols near weak points, probing information about Halloween world via golems, or we can simply do division specific training in island together."

He loved to make new friends and did stuff with them. Besides sweet foods, he seldom rejected people. The sweet reminder from the Haunt was in contrast bad news for the tall man. He reluctantly picked up another cake, but quickly set it down. "By the way, tell me some mythical creatures or beasts near where you live?"

Starting another topic shall be a good way to delay his affliction.

Grifferie

"Bigfoot - the bipedal ape-like creature?" Ace was not sure if his memory was telling him the right thing. He waved dismissively therefore. "Should be. You know, halloween creatures are resulted from human's fear of things." He gave Travis a glance to see if he followed well. "So literally anything that arises from human's imagination and become a source of fear. For instance, my partner is a doll haunt like the famous Annabelle."

The tall man moved his fingers in a spooky way, "Something like that."

"Uh-huh, a ghost possessing a doll, not a lively doll. I think that belongs to another faction -" He paused then eyes widened. "There's chance from time to time you would visit a school in the Halloween world as a student, their classes are quite fun."

He chuckled, seemed to recall some pleasant moments. "I was a succubus last time, and the lecturer apparently had some misunderstandings of us, humans." It was a brand-new experience to have wings and tail naturally like your hands and foot. "If you're really interested in knowing more about them, don't miss the chance. You get some extra money too."