iiregularhunters:

Shadow smiled sadly as he watched her go. It was an unfair trick he was playing on her, as he had no intention of going after her.

As Rebecca took her time to get settled, the robot master waited to ensure that no one was watching before stepping back into one of his own shadow portals. It swallowed him up, taking him into the distorted realm that would lead him along the shortened path to the fortress that Kai (and Tomoe) lived in.

He wouldn’t find Rebecca… but she wouldn’t find him again, either.

It took a good fifteen minutes for Rebecca to stop being excited about getting tested by an actual ninja.

It took another fifteen minutes before she realized that he wasn’t coming to find her at all.

She jumped down from the shelf and peeked out from the closet, wondering what was going on.

The hallway was empty. There didn’t seem to be a single trace of Shadow anywhere.

It took her a good moment of staring before embarrassment burned in her cheeks, and then it turned into and anger before she stomped off to the VR room to blow off steam. He could have just told her to go away! He hadn’t needed to trick her!

She was so embarrassed that she had fallen for it too. That felt humiliating.