———Orrel———
“So of you even doubled in strength. Obviously in the grander sche of things it isn’t the biggest boost you could’ve gotten, and why are you two slowing down?” Rico said, sounding both impressed and disappointed.
“Hey. In terms of gain I am only a little behind. And you’ve played RPGs, right? It’s impressive, all things considered.” Karra quickly interjected.
“This isn’t a ga, you know?” Rico said with an expression she rarely gave out, a disappointed, if also slightly hostile glare. It’s weird that she seems to be offended by a joke. She barely paid any mind to insults, let alone jokes. “Alrighty! Let’s do so tests to see how you guys are after the break. If you do worse sohow, I will strangle you to death!”
———Karra———
“Never asked you this before, but you have so dirt on Rico, right?.” It’s kinda dumb of to not bring it up. Maybe I got a bit too desensitized to the obvious red flags since she is around.
“Not exactly the best phrasing, is it.” She sarcastically replied. “But yeah. I got so. Better to not talk about it though.”
“...That bad?” If even she isn’t willing to talk about it, then I won’t. “Is it seriously on the sa level as the full story on why Mythical Eclipse even happened?”
“I wouldn’t go that far, but it is personal info. She’s hiding it, so I won’t share.” Wiina answered with a clear adamant tone.
So much for that. Guess I’ll just have to figure that out down the line. I still don’t know why the school turned into what it is, and so of the kinks of all the changes raining down on the world.
I have plenty of ti to figure that out. It’s about stuff that already happened. And I’m sure Wiina would’ve told any information that is very important. Like a ‘how not to die’ guide.
She probably already insinuated a few things to make sure I wouldn’t act out foolishly. It’s always the small throwaway line that holds so of the biggest implications. The words added at the end that you couldn’t fully figure out without a pretty good mory.
If I rember right, Wiina has a pretty damn good mory. She should be able to figure out all the little details in a conversation like she is playing a visual novel.
Feel like if I had sothing like that I could figure out a lot of stuff on my own, but that is simply not the case, so let’s not mope over that particular detail.
*Click* *Tap* *Tap*
“Can you at least tell if she was like this before or after the Eclipse.” That would tell a lot without being too explicit.
“Before.” She said casually while in the middle of her gaming session.
Now that… Hmm… Would that an the rumors are completely accurate and her and Wana are… That’s really a lot to think about. “What about her power compared to yours?”
“She’ll have a hard ti killing .” …So she can do it. That’s a bit concerning, even if it sounds like that scenario shouldn’t happen. I an, I feel like that conflict would’ve started a long ti ago if there’s any real malice on both sides.
How many powerful beings even exist out there? Are there so sort of super ancient beings roaming around as well? Maybe from thousands of years back? Sothing more mytho… I guess elves and gods were already talked about, but I still have no clue on that. All Edea ever said about elves is… nothing, basically. I guess I need to find this friend of theirs. And the whole two gods thing… is very existential to even think about? I don’t even know a single thing about this topic. Like are there more gods? Are there only two? Is it from a specific faith or what?
*Click* *Tap* *Click*
What ga is she playing right now anyway? Let take a look here… Ah, this one, of course. Now that I think about it…
“Wouldn’t you be able to ace basically every ga? Won’t it get boring after a while?” I asked, knowing that she can split her attention well enough.
“More or less. But that’s also why I shut off most of my abilities so as to not make it too unfair for others.” She answered. Guess she doesn’t care about always winning, probably a mindset that should be more common with so gars. “I can’t turn it all off, but just enough so I’m just a pro player level.”
“Weren’t you already quite good at this ga? You smoked during our fight at the firing range.” I got a bit tilted at that, but thankfully I didn’t throw out any insults.
“Yeah? I am still better than before the Mythical Eclipse.” She said while nonchalantly getting another kill on the board. Got all that mouse and keyboard movent down.
“You could be in the pro league if you wanted to with that kind of gaplay.” I can’t help but remark.
“No way. I’m not gonna get in the way of those teams.” She said with a slight bitter tone.
“...Are you still salty they didn’t get to finals by one point?” I said since I rember her-
“Yes I still am!” She said with a bit more emotion than she usually shows. It’s pretty damn tragic, but they kinda fucked up in multiple matches, so it wasn’t like it’s super surprising or sothing. “anwhile your favorite team gets second in finals!”
“Could’ve gotten first.” I said just to ss with her. They get insanely close twice in a row, but I’m not that miffed about it since they at least get to finals. “That tournant was not good for my sleep schedule, that’s for sure.”
“At least this ti around I can stay awake for long enough even if it reaches double digit matches.” She said, sounding like a brag more than anything.
“Speaking of that, isn’t the next one coming soon? It was delayed because of that thing, but they should be up and running soon.” I pointed out. I’m sure she can secure the tickets for the both of us.
“...You want to go? I thought you’d be watch-partying.” She said, sounding rather perplexed.
“Nah. I doubt I’ll get any views on that anyway.” Besides, it’s sothing we both are mutually interested in. I’m sure she’s quite ecstatic about it.
“If you do your best as a stand-in for my self-control.” Why is that her answer, of all things?
“What is that about?” I asked, puzzled at her weird request.
“Basically… Ah… I want to do the et-and-greet, for once. I feel like I might be tempted to cast a performance-boosting spell on them.” She explained her reasoning, and… I guess that makes sense? But that sort of foul play would probably be detected, right? At least the players should have noticed it… “I know it would cause a stir, so I’m asking you to help out here, alright?”
“Speaking of causing a stir. You sure you can behave yourself and not show up as yourself for the kick of it?” It would be really distracting to have soone like her disrupt the gas. Last thing we need is her intruding on the stage and delaying the gas. “By the way, what do we know about the tournant again? Is it safe to open up there?”
“It’s not in this wretched land that is the United States, so they should be fine…” She said before her tone changed a bit at the end. “Actually…”
You gotta be kidding. You’re thinking about doing that!?
“Actually, before thinking about that. Is the school closed during that ti?” …Oh. That might be a problem…
———Jeff———
“You do know we have school tomorrow, right?” Gregori said despite coming along for the ride anyway. “Do you even have a way to reliably provoke the monster?”
“Like any of us have a way to do that.” I pointed out while discerning the expressions of each person.
Kist’s face is a bit hard to see since his dark blue hair is in the way, the colors kinda make it hard to even tell that he has cat ears and tail. His expression looks neutral.
As for Wers, he’s a bit grumpy, and with the scaly hands, feet, and ears, it really adds to that expression.
Seni looks a bit scared. I wonder if her bright blonde hair would attract… Wait, why does she even co if she’s scared? She’s so weird.
Anyway, us five should have no issue even if none of us are ard in any way. I an that schoolmate killed a giant bird just fine, right? Then we can easily kill up to five or six.
“I guess the best way to do it is to split up, or rather, leave one of us to roam around by their loneso.” Gregori suggested. I guess that would work, but… “For the highest odds of it working, Seni should be the one to do it.”
“Are you out of your mind?” Wers anwhile quickly opposed the idea. “She’s shaking badly right now and you want her to do that?”
“Monsters are pretty good at sensing fear, which makes their prey weak. That’s why she’s a good bait.” Gregori explained, not considering her feelings at all. “I’d rather get sothing out of this than not.”
“I swear if we get in trouble for this…” Kist anwhile seems more worried about all the commotions this might cause… Yeah. Would other people wake up from this? Last ti there were four people woken up by the sound of that giant crow fighting her.
I think we’ll be fine regardless. Seni is a strong gal, she can flung magic around easily enough, and it’s not like she’s frail. None of us are frail. Of course, if she doesn’t want to-
“I-I’ll be fine.” …In that case, let’s send it.
———Lynda———
“So that’s what that fucking was…” I don’t think of them as teacher’s pets, but I also don’t think of them as troublemakers either. That commotion was so damn loud that it disturbed much of the neighborhood. I was out in the park and these dipshits were in the middle of a public place in the middle of town! Where I was at doesn’t have many buildings near it, and it is next to a forest.
“Kinda wish I could see it, but then again…” Fiss said while probably staring at the bags under our eyes. This really should get in trouble, but it is a rare incident no one knows what to make of. Outside of the public disturbance they didn’t really damage much. Maybe a few cracks in the road, but nothing really severe outside of the corpses left to rot. Seven in total.
“I would absolutely not recomnd…” Trener said, having by far the worst condition out of all of us. So people just handle getting their rest disturbed better than others and he got the short end of the stick.
I really want to give those guys a beating, but I don’t think any of us have a good list of who they were, and none of them are snitching.
…Then again. I would probably get slaughtered by them. I’m pretty darn confident that I’m not weak, but they’re just too strong. It’s pretty damn unfair.
“*Gulp*! Haaah…” I drank the broth and put the bowl back down.
“...That’s gonna be so many calories.” Fiss jokingly said.
“I can burn that off easily enough. In fact, I think I’ll go do just that after… Wait a minute.” Almost forgot the sides, I shouldn’t waste any food. “I’ll go to a training room after this. Let off so steam and relax afterward.”
*Gleam*
Her scythe reflected the artificial light, shining it right into my eyes and blinding for a mont. Her grin is both frightening yet oddly elegant. That outfit of hers is as out-of-place as it ever was. An elegant blue dress contrasting the giant brutal scythe.
“Let’s see how you improve in the last few months.” She said, sounding very confident in her chances. She should be, I can tell that she has significantly improved since the last ti we fought.
“You’re gonna regret looking down on like that!” If nothing else, I could at least show off so bravado! Bring it on you psycho!
**Dash** *Clash*
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