บท 30: Rage of the Doubt! Part 1
After consuming the chorus fruit I felt a strange sensation in my body. As if I was being pulled in different directions at once! This feeling was happening for only a few seconds and then suddenly it stopped.
As I opened my eyes, I noticed I wasn't in the kitchen anymore, but in another room in my base.
I recognized this dark atmosphere, I was in Teles' room! Hopefully, I didn't wake her up... If she was sleeping in the first place that is!
I turn around and I see her just standing there, she was right behind me the entire time! I guess she was still just getting ready for bed because I don't think I found a worse time to have eaten the chorus fruit because Teles was in the middle of changing clothes. (You have got to be kidding me...)
I don't know why, but I was frozen with shock! (Why can't I just leave the room!) Teles let out a startled scream while trying to cover up. I was mortified and didn't know what to do at this point, I just reached out to try to calm things down, but that's when my powers acted up!
My hands glowed green as I reached out to touch Teles and accidentally.... put whatever she was wearing left into my inventory!?!?!? (I guess this 'steal' power works on other things besides weapons...)
I looked at Teles and I knew she was mad. She started to show feelings of Shame Rage, her teeth grew sharp and she started to display a purple aura, if I was a betting man, I could tell this is what a provoked enderman would look like in this world!
In my panic, I jumped out the window of her room and sprinted away from my base. I didn't stop running and didn't look back.
I decided I should probably spend the night out here until Teles cooled off!
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'I should've at least apologized before I left...' I thought as I moped through the city.
While I paced around toward the square. I felt something, I turned around suddenly to see my friend's hand on my shoulder.
"Hey Tak, long time no see."
It was Steve, and with him were Alexa and Roy. It's been a month since I got to talk to them, things have been pretty busy lately. I set aside my thoughts and focused on my friends.
"Oh hey, guys! What's going on?" I said with a forced smile.
"We were just heading to the pub. Care to join us?" Alex offered
"Umm... I don't know..." I replied
"Ah come on, let's at least go to catch up!" Steve insisted
"Yeah!"
"How often are we all off."
I gave in, I guess I needed to do something to take everything off my mind anyway!
"Alright alright you win, lead the way!"
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We shortly arrived at the pub entrance. This place was called "The Sparkling Sip" a basic, but nice-sounding name for a bar.
Thanks to my position on the building committee I've known about this place, I think I sent someone here to fix the windows once, though it's hard to say.
This isn't the only bar/pub in Minemore City, but I was told this was definitely a nice one.
Now of course, I never really go to these places at night myself, nor was I invited here before, I'm that that big of a drinker, neither in this world nor in my previous one. I mean sure I have wine with Teles every now and then but that's it.
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As I step into the pub, the sounds of laughter and chatter fill my ears. The air is thick with the scent of ale and roasted meat.
The interior had wooden tables and a sit-down bar in the back, with the light source being Redstone lamps on the ceiling.
Honestly, this place is kinda of nice, not an overly fancy place, but seems like somewhere good to unwind at the end of the day. Maybe I should come here more often?
The 4 of us sat down at one of the round tables, our table was next to another group of adventurers.
It was honestly pretty busy today, I wouldn't call it a packed house, but it was pretty lively around here. I scanned the menu to see what was worth getting.
'Strawberry Wine? That doesn't sound half bad!' I thought
Might as well get some sliders while I'm here. I didn't really eat anything other than a piece of chorus fruit tonight. (Never eat another one of those again unless I have to!)
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'AH, this tastes delicious!' I remarked
I've got to get the recipe so I can make this again... Wait a minute....
I looked around on the down low and activated my crafting book power, my eyes glowed green, and used it on my food.
A few seconds later the green book appeared in front of my face, and I instantly saw the recipe to make these sliders! The ingredients were pretty basic, I needed wheat, beef, lettuce, etc.
The book doesn't tell me what I specifically need to do, but maybe it will taste just like this once I try to make it later!
I may have been staring at my crafting book, but the book in front of my face was invisible to everyone else, so it looked like I'd been staring at the table while my friends were conversing.
"Yeah, this new mission I've been given is a risky one," Steve said
"I get it though, it's about time someone did something about it!" Roy replied
While chatting Alex noticed my silence and turned her attention to me.
"You've been pretty quiet tonight. Something on your mind Takeo?"
I jolted her comment and respawned my book so I could focus. I paused for a moment before I talked because I couldn't really deny what was on my mind.
"Well... A little, things just felt like it's been pretty busy and complicated!" I replied
"What do you mean?"
"I felt like I've gotten thrown into multiple conflicts at once here, I've only been here for around a year and yet so much has happened.
Alex squinted with disbelief at my comment.
"A lot of vague answers there buddy."
My eyes widened at her remark.
"If you don't feel like talking then-"
"It's my frie- roommate," I admitted "I feel like I messed up, and my response to it made things worse!"
"Roomate, are you talking about Teles?" Steve asked
"Yep," I replied
"I bet it's involving all that speculation you received about her huh?" Roy said as he finished his cup of ale
Alex and Steve's death glare at him gave him the motion to shut up.
I squinted my eyes at Roy's remark.
"What do you mean Speculation?"
"It's nothing, he was just-"
"Just tell me." I insisted, "What's being kept from me!"
They looked at each other and nodded knowing that there was no way of getting out of this confession.
"Heh... well you see..." Alex started
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I can feel the color drain from my face as Alex's words sink in.
"What?" I ask, my voice barely above a whisper.
Despite everything Teles had done, despite how long she lived here, she's still secretly being discriminated against.
I don't know what happens when I'm not around, but are people in the community still treating her like a monster with no morals!?!?!
Steve sighed "Sorry Takeo, it doesn't matter what you do, people will always be narrow-minded!"
"B-But they're just being stubborn about it at this point!" I complained
"As long as Teles is around, that's gonna be you're new controversy. It's unfair sure, but you can't change what people think just like that!"
"After everything I did for this city... Me living with a demi-monster is what I'm only known for now???"
|Wow, even I'M feeling bad for you now!| Mr.Doubt said after hearing it all.
"It's okay! We don't think that right guys?" Steve desperately said trying to reassure me.
|That sounded a bit forced, but his mind is in the right place| Mr.Doubt said
Alex nods in agreement, her expression determined. "We won't let them get to you, Takeo. We'll always be here for you."
"I appreciate it guys, but a few people aren't going to change the minds of hundreds!"
They said nothing in reply.
I didn't even want to finish my food I was that upset. Everyone at the table was dead silent after my remark, but I didn't really care.
I wanted to just think for a moment, but I couldn't really do that either because the table next to us was so loud and lively.
It was a party of 5 who were drinking alcohol. Judging by their clothing and gear, they were either wandering mercs or adventurers.
It's clear they don't live in Minemore City, but they're just visiting for a few days.
I overheard their conversation.
"You guys won't believe the encounter we had today!" Judging by his tone, the man was probably drunk. "Tell them, Leon!"
"Ehh, it's not THAT special Carlo!" Leon insisted. This guy sounded more sober than the other.
"Yeah, it was, just tell them the story already!"Carlo insisted
"Okay okay," he sighed "So you know that quest of ours to reach that special 'End' dimension?"
"Yep!"
*Nods*
"What about it?"
"Well, we were finally able to get more enderpearls for the portal, but we're still a little short!"
"Yeah yeah, but tell them about that strange encounter we had with the enderman!"
"We were able to find a couple of enderman in the plains and harvested 5 pearls in total from them."
"I'm not talking about those, I'm talking about that strange demi-monster!"
I froze when those words left his mouth, I continued to eavesdrop on the conversation.
'They couldn't be talking about Teles, can they? NO NO, it HAS to be another demi-monster!!!' I thought
"You wouldn't believe it, it was some kind of endergirl!!!" Carlo said
"Woah, those demi-monsters are rare!" One of the adventures said
"You see, we found her under a tree near this city." Leon continued "She was sketching something on a large piece of paper, I think it was a map."
'Oh no, that was Teles alright!'
"We knew she was probably trying to plot something to attack the city. Everyone knows Demi-monsters are far more intelligent than normal monsters. It was clear she killed hundreds of people in order to get to this state, we were just preventing more murder!"
'I know he's drunk but that was the stupidest logic I ever heard!'
"Well, more accurately we just needed more pearls to make eyes of Ender!" Leon corrected
"Anyway, we knew we needed pearls, so we decided to jump the endergirl." Carlo repeated, "We devised a plan to guarantee our success!"
"It wasn't that crazy of a plan, but whatever..."
"Ahh shut the ***** up you downer! Anyway, we started getting the upper hand with splash potions, we used a potion of weakness and poison on her!"
"We then tried to finish the demi-monster off with our weapons-"
"But she teleported once we splashed her with the potions. We went back to back getting ready for an intense fight."
"You see, usually the way enderman fight is they overwhelm you with their teleportation, they mostly strike you from behind!"
"However, the endergirl teleported away! We stood on high alert for a few minutes, but she just teleported and stayed away. I've never seen an enderman run away from a fight before!"
"So basically you guys wasted some pots on a monster who got away?" Another one of them replied
"Unfortunately yes, but it was still a strange story." Leon said, "After all, I could always just brew more potions anyway."
"That still sounded like a pretty interesting encounter though!"
"Never seen a monster act so strange before!" Jess replied
They all continued to talk and laugh amongst themselves.
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I couldn't believe what I just overheard! Not only did they just straight admit to assaulting Teles while I wasn't around, but they made fun of the fact that she doesn't want to kill anybody!?!?
No one wants to confront them about it because everyone else doesn't care about Teles to begin with!!!
Why didn't she tell me this happened earlier!?!? Why did I have to find out THIS way? This makes me even more upset than I already was tonight!!!
I feel like time is slowing down around me
|The nerve of some people!| Mr.Doubt told me
'Yeah, tell me about it!' I replied to him
|You should confront them about it!|
'What? No! They don't even know who I am, nor my relevance to Teles!'
|After what you just heard? You don't want to do anything about it!?!?|
'It's not that I don't want to, but I know being confrontational about it will make me take a step backward!'
|Sounds more like the excuse of a coward!|
(Is he seriously mocking me at a time like this?)
'YOU do something about it then if you wanna act so tough!'
Mr.Doubt raised his head at my response.
|You want ME to do something about it? Are you sure?|
'Yeah, sure whatever I don't care anymore!' I replied with my arms crossed
|Alrighty then! If you insist!|
I was about to take another sip of my drink, but my eyes felt a little strange. When I closed them, I instantly got knocked out onto the table.
'What the ***** is going on!?!?'
'Ugh.....' *Slam*
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