章 31: Chapter 28 - Mark Sophie(1)
"Hmm, It's slightly impressive. Just above average." I hear a voice as I slowly wake from my slumber. "Oh, this must be what they call 'Morning Wood' " The voice is still the same. Wait,
"Why are you in my room?"
"You recognised me by my voice without seeing me and while half asleep? Terrifying, but impressive." I open my eyes and see her. She isn't in the normal academy uniform.
"Why are you here?"
"You're my slave for the next month so c'mon. I have a mission."
"I have clas-"
"I spoke to the principal. He's fine with it. Here's your card. You don't need to be in school for the next two months."
"I'm going to fail at the rate I'm going. I've been in school for a week in the last four months."
"I don't give a shit. Move your ass, and cover that dick of yours." I look down only to see I'm dressed in my birthday suit. That means I'm naked. It doesn't help I just woke up and my junk is copying Hitler's salute... Hitler's salute... Wait, who's Hitler?
My eyes furrow as the thought leaves me. What am I saying? Ah, right, my junk is standing up like something... standing up. Ugh, that sounded better in my head... where I'm still thinking about all this shit.
I already took a shower before going to sleep so I skip it and instead change into a pair of black army pants, a white t-shirt and black combat boots. I don't like clothes when they are too complicated, I look edgy as fuck but for some reason, I like it. Emo vibes.
I couldn't enjoy changing as much as every other day due to someone of the opposite sex staring at me the entire time. It was equally parts disturbing and arousing. Discovering new things every day, I guess. By the time I'm done dressing up like I belong in either a rock band or a funeral, she's already sitting on my bed with her legs crossed.
I stand in front of her and for the first time since she entered the room, I look at her fit. She's wearing a bodysuit, it isn't skintight like most but it's also not baggy. It just fits her. How did she not get swamped by horny men and women coming here?
It suits her. My brain conjures an image of the woman in front of me wearing the exact same suit and standing over a pile of corpses with her and her sword drenched in blood and okay! That wasn't supposed to turn me on! I'm hard again. I'm wishing for Death's Kiss and my taste in women isn't helping. Damn, my life choices.
"I may have a problem."
"Hmm? You say something?"
"What do you want?" I'm not going to do this entire bit of acting like she's not here for a reason and then only finding out when we get to the place and it's something we both can't handle.
"I want you..." Is she confessing? Cause my heart isn't rea- "... to help me in a... quest of sorts."
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!
I wonder where I've heard this before!! Do all the rich noble bastards do this? Can't y'all, I don't know, get your own fucking people from your own fucking family. The fuck are you rich for?!
"And if I say no?"
"You can't. We made a mana contract." Shit. I forgot about that. I can't break that over some petty shit like this.
Okay, I forgot about the contract but, that doesn't explain why she's being so casual with me or in my room. Or why she was here before I woke up. Or why I'm okay with it.
I assume we're not going to speak after this since it's a one-time contract but... with the way she's acting.
"Aren't you your brother's keeper or something?"
"He doesn't know about it and..." She mumbles something under her breath, no idea what she said.
"Am I allowed to know?"
"Family business and... he's technically not my brother."
"Complicated. Got it." Uh, I think she's going to be here until I agree. "When are we leaving?"
"Right now. A Hovertruck is waiting for us outside." She's already exiting when I catch my thoughts. I follow her, making sure to lock my door and stay two steps behind her. I have no idea what time it is but there aren't many students around. Just a few going in and out of training. When we are about to exit the academy I feel a bit of killing intent touch me. Neat, since when could I do that?
I turn around and catch a glimpse of Zane as he enters a training room. Great. More problems.
A butler is there to greet the young woman, by young woman I mean Dina, it seems appropriate since she's treated like one. I'll never call her that though, way too posh for me. He greets the young woman and gives me the stink eye. Oi, I'm not here by choice. I'm here because I gambled and lost.
Goddess fucking hell. Is this one of the tropes where the hundred-year-old worker is in love with their boss' daughter and will kill anyone who gets close to her? Oh, and if I say I'm not interested then they'll get angry and assume we mean the young lady isn't worthy of our attention and end up killing the person.
Fucking pedophile. You're lucky there's no Megan's Law in this world and you don't qualify for the Romeo and Juliet Law.
I get in the car, truck, whatever, not paying attention to the man oozing killing intent. I wonder why I'm able to sense their intent now. I couldn't do it before. Maybe low-level monsters don't have killing intent and I haven't met any humans until today so it could be that.
I ignore my thoughts on the new ability and look out the window, thinking of taking the time to enjoy the scenery instead of trying to speak to Dina or sit in the awkward silent atmosphere. I look out the window only to see the clouds. Sigh, right, flying cars. I keep forgetting I'm poor and had to walk or take hover transport instead of flying.
Why am I so freely getting myself into these situations?
I turn to Dina, the only reason I'm even in this car, to find out what we're going to be doing exactly.
"Where are we going and why?"
"We're going to the Groguy Stronghold." She does not elaborate.
"... Why?" That's pretty far away from Sirestir.
"Do you need to know?" Sounds like a threat. It also sounds like me not giving a fuck.
"Yep, can't expect me to help you out when I don't know anything."
She sighs and reaches into a pocket in space. Hmm, never seen that type of spatial item. Not even sure what type of item it is.
"My quest. It's something that will qualify me to participate in the run for the next head of the Nightshade family."
Okay, firstly, they sound like assassins. Secondly, this is the same plot Ray led me on with. Is Dina doing the same thing? Thanks to Inari's blessing I'm stronger than before, even if my stats are in the negative, I should have the stats of an average level 40 once my stats become 0 again. Ohh, I think there's a way to upgrade the rate I receive stats... I can't do anything until it evens out though, damn.
"This is Felix Blood." She stretches her hand and the projector shines with an image. Oh, he's not a fat bastard. He doesn't look half bad, just a bit above average, must have a high charisma... stat.
Oh shit, that's why she's so casual with me. It's my charisma stat.
Okay, so Inari is a relatively unknown god compared to big shots like Zeus, Hera, Shiva, and all of them. She is known by a few and that's only because of her shrine. Her blessing is common, not something specific. She doesn't have the power to give anyone an overpowered blessing unless she really likes them. It seems like she likes me since I have a general enhancement which increases all basic stats by 60.
Again, it's good at the beginning and then becomes irrelevant. This is the most basic blessing and it's only so powerful because Inari likes me more than the normal heroes... I think. They have blessings from some of the top Gods and Goddesses and it is specific to them, the main Deities should be able to give them better blessings if they took a liking to them.
"Are you listening?" I turn to the voice and -Wow. Those are kissable lips.
Is this because I stopped masturbating? I was never this horny before.
[...]
Hah, I miss you too Eva.
"Sorry, can you explain it again?"
"Felix Blood. Gangbanger. There's a bounty on him and he's Level 37. His threat level is C but within his mansion, it's B. Any questions?"
"Why are you killing him?"
"Look at his offences."
"Murder, Grand theft, Rape, Assault, Statutor... He definitely needs to die but that doesn't make him any more dangerous than half the criminals roaming around the world."
"You have a soft spot for children?" Ugh, is she doing this because of my increased Charisma or because she thinks I'm her slave for a week?
"They just shouldn't be involved in this type of shit." It's true. What have they done? Maybe their parents deserve to be punished but the kids have done nothing wrong, they shouldn't be treated like they don't deserve to be happy simply because their father's a whore and their mother's a drug addict forcing them to be the breadwinner at an early age and never learn what it's like to be a child...
That was awfully specific. Where did all this anger come from? It feels unnatural yet something I've always had.
"Naive"
"What?"
"You're naive for thinking that way."
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