<span style="font-style: italic">Try to act all calm and collected huh?</span>Isana thought as she twisted her hair around her finger. She shrugged mentally and did not approach him as all of his body languages pointed that he wanted o be left alone. She turned to Ryu and clapped her hands, more than aware of someone else whom she knew hated her guts somewhere behind her, "Shall we proceed before something else happens?"<br/><br/>Just then, her phone rang on her collar and she answered it quickly. "Hello? Kenji?"<span style="font-style: italic">What?</span>She thought to herself, what could someone like him be calling her for? Her eyes narrowed as she squinted at the queue for no reason in particular, other than to figure out why was she being called. "I'm at the ESP Arena. I mean I got dragged there." She corrected herself quickly.<br/><br/>------<br/><br/>Evan was at the very least, disappointed that he could not witness the CortexWave technology firsthand unless he actually participated in the competition. A difficult dilemma, really: To leave his safe, conditioned haven or expose himself to the elements of nature and the randomness of fate by actually going to the Arena. He chose the latter, after all, what was life without a little risk?