[Umm... Arthur?]While Arthur continued to stare at the screen in front of him, the system that was currently up in the air, suddenly spoke making his attention divert back to it."Yes?" Asked Arthur as he clicked on the [X] button to close the Status Screen.He felt that the system wanted to say something, but was worried that he might get angry by her question. So, after pondering for a few seconds, he decided to ask if something was wrong."System, is there something wrong?" Arthur smiled gently. Because of this, it made the system go down in the air until it was right in front of him.[Why are you so desperate on trying to save him... To save Athan...?]Although the system had been with him for God knows how long, it never asked something personal up until now. It was because the system had respected his privacy, and never wanted him to remember something in the past before she met him... And was scared that he will go back to the way he used to be.When Arthur heard the System's
Five minutes ago. (The time where Arthur and his companions are in is faster)"Damnit!" A loud voice echoed in the dark cave.It hasn't been long since 'Athan' got out from the scraped space he cut earlier, he didn't expect that the place he was transported into was in front of a large door near what it seems to be a small abandoned camp.To be more precise, the camp where Arthur and his companions was in earlier."I came late..." 'Athan' said to himself. Then, he raised his head to look at the door with an tired expression.He was about to take his first step when he felt that his body was rather heavy that he almost tripped onto an air."I see... That skill took a lot of my mana, huh..." Sighing, 'Athan' sat down on the rock that was placed in front of him and stared at the campfire silently to take a quick rest."I really need to hurry up." With his finger under his chin, he tried to come up with a solution to his current problem.After pondering for a while, 'Athan' stood up and
'Athan' was about to help the other students not far from his direction when the latter didn't noticed that the black hole from earlier had suddenly shifted back into reality causing an explosion.*Vuuuuu...**Bang!*"?!"It released a shockwave carrying a huge amount of dust while it was on it's way to them.*Kuurk!*Thankfully, the shockwave wasn't strong enough to deal any damage onto it's surroundings as it's strength was only comparable enough on a gust of wind that made his hair including his clothes, to sway.When all the dust had finally cleared up, 'Athan' turned around and walked towards the giant crater, then sighed.Stopping, he said, "What a follow up."Although he said this with a smile, 'Athan' was still sas about his supposedly 'killer move' didn't look like a proper killing move. It ended only with an explosion without the enemy suffering from bleeding or some sort since his enemy was a machine with enhanced physical abilities and few lazer.Contrary to what he had ex
Somewhere in a small black room, where lights couldn't be reflected, a boy on his knees could be seen crying alone."Stop..."He covers his ears using both of his hands and looked down."Don't hate me..."Tears slowly escalated down in his eyes as he shook his body around."It's thanks to me that the world your living is in peace." He said that as more tears fell from his eyes."It's because of me that you people can understand peace.""But why..."He let go of his head and slumped his weakened shoulders down."Why can't you all understand that I've sacrificed my everything for the world?!"He screamed out using his last bit of strength."Why can't you all just appreciate me?"All his life he wanted someone to appreciate him..."Please... thanking me is also fine..."Thank him..."Please stop hating me..."And most of all..."I'm begging you... I don't want to be alone again..."But...Even after all of that... No one listened.He still became...Alone..."He... Hehe... Hehehe!"The
When I woked up, the first thing I saw in the corner of my sight was a black haired girl that had two horns on the side of her forehead, sleeping while holding my blanket.I was about to say something when the girl suddenly opened her eyes and sat up."Huum...." She let out a cute humming sound as she rubbed her eyes before stretching out her arm.It looks like she hadn't noticed me yet... Because of this, I closed my eyes to pretend that I'm still sleeping.After she was done stretching, the girl turned her attention towards me and poked my chest with her little fingers with a pout."Hey... Wake up already." The girl continued poking me on the chest, then arm, then up on my leg. This continued on until she went and decide to poke my cheeks that made me open my eyes and shove her hands off in annoyance."!!?""Stop that, will you?" I unconsciously opened my mouth to speak.The girl's pouted lips disappeared as she then crosses her arms and stared at me in complete silence.𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭?
Athena and I had a quick talk about what happened in their group before I arrived. Although I already heard every thing from Alicia, I just listened to her wholeheartedly without saying anything.Every time she opened her mouth when she was trying to say something, in my vision, I saw a faint silhouette of her with her previous life appearance.𝘈𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦.After the long talk about what happened in the dungeon, I finally decided to change the topic by saying, "Anyways, you said earlier that you wanted to ask me something. Can I know what is it?" "Ah... There's no need for me to ask that anymore?""Hm...?""Well..." Athena started fidgeting her fingers as if she was trying hard to think of something that could shift my question to a question that was not related on my question.Sighing, I waved her off to attract her attention back to me. "Actually, there's no need for you to ans
After Arthur left both of us alone, Athena once again continued with her long sermon. This lasted a few hours, until..."As I was saying," Athena crossed her arms. "It was because of you working together with your brother that she managed to graduate college. Also, it was thanks to your recommendations, her talents got recognized by government and was later placed to the same research team you are in before you retired. If it wasn't for your help, her life wouldn't be the same as the one she had in our previous life." She took a long breather before she continued, "She felt indebted to you after seeing you do those things. Even though you weren't blood related, and even though you could have choose to escape those responsibilities, you didn't but instead chose to help them. Because of this, slowly, that girl fell in love with you." Finally finished from saying everything she wanted to say, Athena slowly lifted her head to look at me straight in the eyes to see what's my expression.B
After my katana and I finished our long talk that reached until midnight, I decided to take a rest and closed my eyes to sleep.Without much thoughts in mind, I slept peacefully and woked up with my body that was fully healed by now.The nurse who took care of me two days ago was surprised when she saw that the injuries I attained during the dungeon exploration had fully disappeared a day after I woke up.I was immediately called out to the principal's office after they found out that I was fully healed to question everything I remember back at the dungeon, and how I got that injuries from.To keep things short, of course, I made a lie telling them that I fought some monsters while I was on my way to back Arthur and the others up, and that I got injured after those monsters ganged up on me, barely managing to survive.But, even though the lie I made up was a bit detailed, the principal, Eva, gave me a long stare before saying."I'm not an idiot," She sighed. "Stop lying or I might exp