Erin’s eyes were glaring at his bloodied nose, and for a brief scary mont, Quinn was fearing what exactly she was about to do.
It was as if his book turned her into a monster.
That was, until she dropped him. Quinn quickly wiped away the blood on his face, and when he looked back at Erin, she was transfixed by a drop of blood that landed on her hand while she was still lifting him up. Slowly, she held it to her mouth, a bit of her teeth were shown through the crack of her lips. The entire situation had Quinn worried for her well-being.
"Erin!" he called out, snapping her attention back to reality.
A few students glanced over, curious about how soone like Quinn was on a first na basis with the ice queen herself. While so were thinking that Quinn was lucky to get picked up by Erin, both Fex’s and Leo’s attention was brought to that part of the room for another reason.
Erin looked at Quinn, then back at her hand. There was certainly sothing strange about this system, and they needed to do so research on this after class.
{Quinn} Erin.
{Quinn} Let’s et at the library.
Quinn would’ve normally whispered this to Erin, but he didn’t want to get close to her... just in case.
{Erin} K
His facial expression turned into a very visible frown at Erin’s response, but she seed to ignore it.
Erin wiped away the drop of blood on her sleeve, and the two continued to practice using their weapons like normal.
While Leo had his attention drawn there just in case he needed to intervene, he had sothing on his mind, and it was the fact that he noticed sothing about Erin changed.
’Just what had happened to her?’ Leo thought, squinting his eyes, ’She matches the other boy now.’
—
After class, Quinn went to the library alone as Erin apparently wanted to do sothing first before they t up together, which he didn’t fully mind, he liked visiting the library alone.
He initially ca to the library because he was researching different abilities he could learn in case his old book couldn’t be opened, but it was genuinely a nice place to hang out, and he was less likely to get beat up here. There was even a puzzle corner where he could fit two puzzle pieces together before ultimately getting frustrated and giving up.
The library was vast, as it was quite tall, with its nurous floors and nearly as wide. He wasn’t allowed on those floors, since they were for the second years, but it was not as if the first floor slacked off; there were walls and walls of books.
Heading to the back of the library, Quinn went to his usual spot which had very few people around. There was a reading booth embedded into the wall with a table, a window, and so cushioned seats that were quite comfortable, making it his favorite spot. Not only that, but a wall of books covered the area giving him so privacy.
He sent a system ssage to Erin where he was and imdiately got to work collecting books about anything that resembled what Erin was going through.
—
Before Erin went to the library to et up with Quinn, there was sothing she wanted to do first. At the mont, she was three thirds close to leveling up, and wanted to get closer to level 2.
Currently, she had a theory about the system, and walked down the hallway away from the library to test it out. Since fighting one of the beast weapon students and Quinn, she was able to gain EXP that way, which made her wonder about a ga that she used to play. One quick ga to test out her theory before eting up with Quinn shouldn’t take too long.
Sothing Erin noticed ever since she acquired the system was how much faster and stronger she felt. There was a limit to what the natural human body could accomplish without outside help, like from beast gear, but sohow, Erin felt like she could easily surpass that now.
Entering the VR room, Erin purchased an hour of run ti for one round, then entered a giant white egg-shaped device that was able to house a whole person inside. As she entered and sat down in the dark pod, she closed her eyes, and the ga was activated.
Imdiately, it was like she was teleported into a white room, but her real body was right where she left it. She was currently playing Power Fighters using the VR pod.
She took a quick look at her profile, and saw that it still listed that she had an ice ability. A bittersweet feeling tugged at her.
Because the ga was VR, or virtual reality, any person playing Power Fighters was able to pick out an ability for themselves to try out, or practice using their own real-world ability. The other thing about this being virtual reality was that Erin didn’t actually look like her real world self. She had what was known as an in-ga skin, which gave her pure white hair, and a blue crystalline romper that matched the the of her old ability.
Ignoring her emotions, she hit ’Quick Play,’ and waited to get matched up with a random player. Quick Play made it so that Erin would get randomly matched with another player who had also clicked on Quick Play. As the na suggested, it was fast, and only after a few seconds did the ga assign her to fight against a level 1 ability user, much to her disappointnt.
[Quest: Defeat FalseStepper]
[Reward: 15 EXP]
Upon seeing how tiny the EXP gain was, Erin was just saddened by the quick play giving her such a weak fighter. Not only that, but judging by their userna, their ability had sothing to do with false footprints, one that really seed weak in her mind.
Erin sighed, and was this close to canceling the match. It was almost not worth her ti, but she needed to see if she would actually get the EXP.
The fight began, and the other fighter projected so footsteps around her. Yawning, Erin shot out a simple ice spear to the opponent, stabbing him in the chest. She was declared the winner, and imdiately left the ga after that.
[EXP: 80/100]
—
Quinn was basically knee-deep in his books, going through every book he could find that recorded abilities, but not a single one of them listed anything about getting weaker in the sunlight, glowing red eyes, system ssages, or even blood. He was skimming the books sowhat so as to save ti, but even then there was nothing that matched up with what Erin was going through. The most he could find was sothing relating to soul weapons causing eyes to glow, but Erin simply wasn’t old enough to get one.
Partway through his research, Quinn was able to see a ssage about fighting soone nad ’FalseStepper,’ but he was instead more bothered by the fact that Erin was getting into a fight instead of being here with him at the library.
’Is she really that focused on trying to get experience?’ Quinn thought. Erin was more power hungry than he expected.
After about 15 minutes, Erin made it to the library spot Quinn was at, and she took a seat next to him.
"Couldn’t you have co sooner?" Quinn asked, a little bitter.
"I’m trying to level up. Why does it matter to you what I do anyway?" Erin shot back.
’I thought you wanted to get rid of the system?’ Quinn questioned in his mind.
"... Anyway, after doing so research, I can’t seem to find anything that seems to match whatever ability we have. There’s conditional abilities which seem to match us the most, but that requires sothing to happen first before being activated."
"What about the blood then?" Erin asked, "Couldn’t that be the so-called condition?"
"I thought of that already, but if we already have a video ga system without you drinking blood, then it’s probably not the condition, and what about you losing your ability?" Quinn brought up.
His head then dropped as he placed his hands under his glasses, rubbing his eyes, and sighing, "Ugh, research is not my thing... I wish I had so sort of ability expert to help out."
Right at that mont, a certain teenager with black, slicked-back hair, and very pale skin ca walking outside the library holding a book he hoped to return. However, he began to sniff the air, noticing a strange unusual scent that he had slled earlier that day. Following it through the library, he ca across his roommate, Quinn, hanging out with a beautiful blonde haired girl in a secluded part of the library.
Quinn hadn’t noticed him yet, and a thought ca to mind. Fex decided he was going to have a little fun.
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