Eris Reinhardt
Eris took a quick glance over her shoulder, with a reassuring smile on her face as she talked to Cassandra, on the way to her apartment.
Once they reached it, Eris left Cassandra to her own devices for a few minutes while she went to bathe. To say the truth, Eris thought about inviting Cassandra to as well —hers was quite a spacious bathroom after all— but declined the idea for the time being.
"It's better to not do actions that can be misinterpreted." Eris slapped her suddenly heated cheeks, wondering if she was doing some sort of weird face.
When she came back, Eris had changed into another of her school uniforms, just in case they were to go outside for any kind of reason. After coming to terms with most of her life recently, it looked like Eris had adapted to some of the local customs, like pretty much wearing her uniform 24/7, or to not wear shoes inside of her apartment. Nevertheless, she never bothered Cassandra to do the same, if the redhead didn't wanted to.
"What to do now?" Eris wondered aloud as she sat by the table. Eris had just asked Cassandra if she wanted to wash refresh herself as well and, while Cassandra decided if she would do it or not, Eris considered their options while looking over her apartment. It was a simple, albeit luxurious place, designed for a single person or at the most a young couple, such as most others on this complex, it was designed with Purple Crown students in mind.
The kitchenette where Eris was, was separated from the living by a counter, being well stocked since Eris had prepared beforehand, for whatever they might need for cooking. The living room had pretty much being converted into an atelier and was full of Eris' works of fashion, in various stages of development, while her bedroom and the bathroom were pretty normal, for someone of Eris' standards, that is.
The main difference from the last time Cassandra came to visit Eris would be that Eris changed all of her grooming products for a new brand with a sweet kiwifruit scent and that Eris' bedroom had been redecorated into something considerably more girly —favoring soft purple colors and antique style furniture— than her previous spartan dwellings that barely had a bad and a bookshelf for the whole room.
Finally, there was the balcony —that could be accessed either from the living or the bedroom— with a single glass topped garden table, four chairs and a few plants, including a couple of mini palm trees and a few flowers, most of them being orchids. Indeed, Eris' apartment had turned from something barely habitable to something one could call home, a great, great improvement.
Eris was snapped out of her revelry by the the sound of her own fingers tapping against the table, which was actually the same counter that separated the kitchen from the living room, noticing that she had been lost in idle thinking for quite some time.
"Did I?" Eris thought out loud, as she wondered if she had dozed off without even noticing. All the work she had been doing these days was good, that Eris couldn't deny, but it was taking its toll on her. Sleeping without noticing when she had time to, was not uncommon at all for Eris these days.
Nevertheless, Eris' self-consciousness just snapped back when she remembered about Cassandra. Looking aside with embarrassment evident in her features, as Eris wiped away a small strand of drool with the nearest napkin she could find, while wondering if Cassandra had noticed her sleeping or not?
"God, why don't you kill me of embarrassment, already?" Eris thought, unable to bear such a disgraceful thought.
Burning Blossom
Killed a LVL 06 Dissolution: 2500 EXP A certain blazing haired mage yelled from over the derelict remnants of what was a convenience store back in the real world.
Burning Blossom, Emma's Deep Ground alter ego, didn't even need to look at the notification ping on her HUD to notice that her Level 2 ability -Pyromania- was about to be fully charged, the mere sight of her hair being literally turned into a fiery mane was visual warning enough for her as well as anyone else that one of Blossom's next spells would be a blast.
After going back home with Aaron, Emma made quick work of her promise to go on a Deep Ground date with him, going to scout the Faded City's outskirts in search of prey and being lucky enough to ran into a group of
five LVL 06 Dissolutions after a few minutes of walking around aimlessly.
"A pack of Cyber Dragoons? Let's turn'em into molten scrap, Nixon!" Was all that Blossom said before cast the first stone, or Fireballs, in this case. The twin spells hit the packed group of Dissonances, knocking about half of their hit points off at once and immediately pulling all the aggro to Blossom, making it easier for Nix to maneuver to a backstabbing position, if he wanted to.
While the Cyber Dragoons -which were flightless, despite having wings, since they were too heavy- charged, consuming their actions for the turn to close 3/4 of the distance that Blossom's Fireball's could hit them, she used her second move to cast a pair of Lightning Bolts at one of them, knocking the remainder of its hit points off. The mechanical menace exploded in a rain of polyhedral multicolored EXP crystals.
"One down, four to go!" Blossom yelled with a manic grin slapped on her face, despite the fact that she would be screwed if Nix didn't felled at least one of them and drew some aggro to himself before the brutish mobs reached Blossom.
Yuuno remained silent, letting Asahi speak his mind for a few minutes. Sincerely, Yuuno didn't knew what to say, or how to say it, thus the time seemed to drag between them, until she was finally able to come up with a
"I see..."When Yuuno was about to say something regarding the school festival and how the Bruisers and Strykers —and, by logic, the two of them— were going to be working together to try to defeat the Masks and Rangers while the Harleys were caught in the cross fire, trying to save their neutrality, Yoshino, of all persons came in through the door, greeting them with her usual formality.
"Ah! Y-Yoshinon!? What are you doing over here?" Yuuno asked, bolting straight up from surprise.
"It must be something related to Rider-sama and the Strykers, right? I think I should give you sometime, then. I really should take this chance and go to the toilet, perhaps?" Yuuno said as she tried to slip out of the tense atmosphere of Asahi's room and buy some time to think about how to take this issue again.
Itsuko laughed a terse laugh as she noticed that Hibiki hadn't bought her, admittedly, flimsy excuse, but saying not to either confirm or deny her friend's doubts.
"Yeah, let's go. I think we can play when we are at home." Was all that Itsuko said as she and Hibiki went on their way.
"Sure. Thank you again." Itsuko said to Angus as he left them. She made a point of remembering to properly thank the ones that helped her earlier, whenever she gets the chance to, as well, but now her attention had been given to Hibiki.
"So, what are we gonna do?" Itsuko asked as she found a place to sit, after they had reached her apartment. Almost immediately the grin she had been sporting for sometime turned into a wry smile as Itsuko said, with her face turned to the window, gazing at the horizon far beyond the expansive cityscape in front of them.
"Y'know, Hibiki. I'm sorry for keeping on causing trouble to everyone. I'm only talking to myself here, you don't need to reply if you don't want to, right? Itsuko said; she knew that she wasn't a good liar at all, obviously Hibiki would find it out soon enough, so the best Itsuko could do if she wanted to be call herself a friend of Hibiki was to open up a bit.
"There was a time when said that I wanted to be a hero when I grew up. Then, someone said 'Who knows? If you train hard enough and never give up, it may happen one day.' Ever since that day, I trained and trained, harder and harder until I couldn't even count how many bones I broke or how many bruises I got. Yet, how can I be a hero if I can't even protect myself and keep causing trouble for everyone?""Hehe, that's kinda funny, right?" Itsuko's laugh came out more as a bitter chuckle as she continued to gaze at the distance, silently.
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