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Prome quickly realized that in his zeal, he had forgotten to actually accept the quest. Fixing that, he pressed Yes and said "I look forward to it!" before thinking to himself 'I wonder what would have happened if I pressed No after everything I just said. These NPC's have some amazing AI, but how would they react to that? I wonder if the people who programed the AI for NPCs even consider such a thing, or maybe I'm just over thinking things again. Oh well, it's fun to overthink sometimes.'

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When Prome heard that his entire prototype had been destroyed, it felt like a kick in his brains balls (Don't question it dammit!). "The entire thing! Oh you poor thing, how dreadful, you probably didn't even have enough left to see what went wrong!" He clenched his hands into fist and shook his head "No, this will not stand. I can't just stand by while progress is halted by something as petty as material components!" His stance tightened up "It is my duty as not only a Tinkerer, but as a person to see that see this new power source completed!" Prome clasped the older man's hands in his, tears starting to form in his eyes "Sir Alfor, I swear to led whatever aid I can to see this deign become a reality!"



Lily watched as Alex had his Keijo match with Shion, and waited for Alex to leave the building before she approached him with a wave of her arm.
“Hey Alex. That was a great match,” she complimented her, sounding more reserved than her usual spastic mannerisms.
“I was worried there for a moment when you fell into the water. Looks like we both lost...Not that it’s a good thing, heh.” She glanced away while biting her lip, and then took his hand.
“Could we go somewhere? I know of this one beach that’s not that popular. I’d like to talk...Just the two of us.” She looked nervous, and fidgeted a bit as she looked around to ensure nobody was eavesdropping on them.

Alexander raised an eyebrow, a little worried at how...low energy Lily seemed to be “Sure, that’s fine. Are you alright, because you seem...off. Does this have anything to do with...whatever that thing in your match was? You got upset enough to go into your berserk mode, and the last time that happened was when the stomach shanker got me, so I was kind of worried about you.

Lily simply nodded, and without further ado, began leading Alex away. After some time, the two reached their destination: a lone strand of sand tucked away at an untouched corner of the islands. Lily took a deep breath, savoring the salty breeze that drifted from the sea, and turned to look at Alex, her hands clasped together.
“Alex...The reason I lost control again...It’s because of something that happened a long, long time ago.” She averted her eyes.
“Before I was a magical girl. It was...six or seven years ago...maybe. I was in high school back then, and...bullied.” She looked down at a lone hermit crab scuttling away.
“Sounds really cliche, I know, but these girls were mean. I think it’s because I refused to do their homework one time that they wanted to torment me. Well, I wasn’t super smart or anything, I just happened to get an A one time because I worked hard for it...” She realized she was rambling, and put a hand to her mouth.
“Sorry, I’m throwing a lot of stuff at you when it’s only my problem.”

Alexander shrugged “Eh, I don’t really mind. I’m pretty sure lending an ear when you need to vent is kind of my job as your boyfriend...at least I think I’m your boyfriend. Not sure how long you have to be dating to be boyfriend and girlfriend-and I’m getting off topic” He shook his head “The point is; I don’t mind if you need to vent, so go ahead and talk my ear off.” The idea of Lily having been bullied both enraged and bewildered Alexander ‘I just can’t see Lily letting people push her around. But man does the thought of it make me want to punch people.

Lily managed a small smile when she listened to him.
“That’s sweet Alex, thanks..” The two walked along the shoreline as Lily continued relating her bad experiences, until the topic shifted to something that caught Alex’ attention.
“And then, there was Chad. He was a boy I had a crush on...And Heather learned about it. One time, I received an invitation to a party, with his signature.” She stopped walking, and sat down on the beach, holding her knees.
“It was a trap. Chad never sent me an invitation; it was a fake one Heather planted to humiliate me. And there, as Chad was watching, the girls confronted me, saying horrible things and then pushing me into the pool.” A couple of tears formed in her eyes as she shook, struggling with her trauma.
“I ran away from home that night. I couldn’t go back home; I couldn’t see the shamed look on my parents’ faces.” She paused for a moment, recollecting her feelings.
“I remember just wandering, looking as people passed by. Then, I wished, for more than anything else, to move on with my life, to be free and pursue my dreams. That’s when I heard Ixion’s voice.” She wiped her tears.
“He offered me a chance to let go of my old life and become the heroine I always wanted to be. So...Not as glamorous a beginning as comic books have, huh?” She asked, looking in Alex’ direction.

Alexander sat down beside her “I’m an orphan who got cornered in an ally by some cannon fodder monsters and needed Sol to lend me some power to not die. I mean, you remember how hopeless I was at actually fighting back then, and even so once I got my magic I was easily able to kill the monsters that had almost killed me before. At least you had some traumatic incident first, I almost got wasted by bottom of the barrel mooks. Although if I were you, I probably wouldn’t have left without breaking at least one of their noses. In my experience, anger and rage are great for dealing with depression. Just channel all those sad thoughts into frustration, and you can let it all out much faster and without any of the lingering resentment that depression comes with. Kind of like what you did in the match; now that I understand that shakespeare girl was someone who bullied you, your response makes so much more sense. ” He took a deep breath and let it out “It feels so good to get all of that out at once, doesn’t it. All that stuff weighing you down gone, just like that. There’s nothing else quite like it.

Lily nodded occasionally as she listened to Alex’ tale, looking sad upon hearing how rough his life has been as well.
“I’m sorry to hear that...” She mumbled at some point. Gradually, as he gave her advice on how to resolve her emotions, she smiled...Until her Keijo opponent was mentioned. She shook her head, looking upset.
“No, she wasn’t! I just...She just happened to look like Heather, and...I got anxiety issues again. I was afraid she might attack me. But she’s actually a nice person. I made an assumption based on first impressions...I’m terrible.” She put her hands to her face, and made deep breaths as she resisted the urge to cry. She lowered them, and looked at the little fish swimming near the surface of the water.
“But you’re right, it did feel a lot better than when I kept that stuff bottled in. Maybe went a bit overboard with it.” She drew a circle in the sand.
“But talking about it...It’s a big help.”

...Maybe try limiting your physical venting to appropriate or willing targets in the future.” Alexander suggested “But that does explain why you always seemed to have some kind of beef with her. I mean sure, her speaking in shakespearean english is unnerving, but thinking back, you seemed to have some kind of personal grudge against her. Speaking of her;-” Alexander turned to face Lily “-What’s this about ‘stealing me’ and why did I just hear about it in the match? Attempted kidnappings aren’t the kind of thing you keep secret. Granted, with everything I know now, It probably was a misunderstanding or something. But still, I need to know these kinds of things.

Lily drew a star inside the circle.
“Yeah, I’ll keep that in mind.” She blushed a bit as Alex brought up a new topic, and blinked.
“It’s...Not a kidnapping thing. At least, not usually.” She turned her eyes to look at Alex.
“At first, I just went from town to town, fighting off monsters, saving people, but ever since I met you, it all changed. You gave me a reason to stay in Penrose. You’ve saved me from villains, tolerated my dumb stuff...” She slowly reached for Alex’ hand.
“So I was afraid...another girl might try to turn you against me, and then you’d leave me.” She inched a bit closer to her.
“But now I know that you’d never do that. You’re a kind person, Alex. Thank you for staying with me.” And then, she kissed Alex in the cheek, before blushing and going back to drawing shapes in the sand.

When Lily’s lips touched his cheek, it felt like that part of his body had just been sprayed with fire, yet was somehow pleasant. It took him a little while to get his mind back in working order “I should be thanking you; you’re the first person I had any kind of emotional connection to. The closest thing I had before was unspoken agreements with other kids in the orphanage to beat each other up as a way of venting our shared frustrations. Not even my parents made me feel anything like the way you do. I’m...grateful that you were able to put up with me. I know I’m not easy to be around, and that I’m kind of an asshole, so...thanks.” Not sure what to do next and acting on pure instinct, Alexander extended an arm out and pulled Lily into a side hug ‘She just kissed me, so this is alright...right?

Lily froze when Alex got close, surprised, but not rejecting the closeness. “Oh!” She smiled, and leaned her head against his shoulder, taking in a breath of relief.
“You can be a bit grumpy at times...But that’s because you actually care.” She stayed still, listening as the waves swooshed upon the sand, as happy as can be.

After some time passed, Lily stood up, a wide smile on her face.
“Would you like to go and spectate some of the other matches? I’d like to cheer my friends on, so they can all do their best~”

Alexander, not really caring one way or the other, just shrugged and said “Sure. It really is a weird sport. I know my match felt awkward, consider how much I had to alter my approach to fighting.

“Yeah, there’s a lot more strategy to it than you’d think,” Lily replied in a ditzy fashion, having missed the point. “I bet if Amaryllis fought against Alicia, she would find a way to counter the light magic...” She continued babbling on about Keijo as the two went off.
“Oh, but maybe Alicia is matched against Kimble! Wouldn’t that be really exciting!”

As Lily babbled on, A thought occurred to Alexander, one that surprisingly bothered him ‘I…don’t know any of these names. Why does that suddenly make me feel...cold?’ As he was lost in his own thoughts and Lily’s ramblings, his hand subconsciously grabbed Lily’s and held it tightly.


SHION


...and I think that’s everything.” Alexander handed the paper to the dolphin to check.

Dan took the offered papers and looked through them “Yep, these look fine to me. I got to say, I’m not surprised to see a guy like you signing up for Keijo” Dan said with a smugly raised eyebrow.

Alexander sighed “You’re actually going to give me crap about this? Come on, it’s an entire gold coin, and all I have to do is play a round of this sport, why wouldn’t I sign up for that? Do I really look like that much of a greedy asshole?

Dan just looked at him for a few seconds before responding with “You...you’re serious? Wow, okay, I have no idea how to respond to that.” He shook his head “Anyway, it might take awhile, since I think that most of our guests have already played an exhibition match, so there might not be anyone else willing to play, just as a heads up.”

And I don’t suppose I still get the coin if no one else signs up?

“Nope”

Fuck!

Shion finally reached the sign-up location for Keijo. “This is the place where we sign up for that gold coin game, right?”

“Looks like you lucked out.”

Alexander sighed in relief “That’s a relief. Yeah, this is the place. I’m just waiting for someone else to sign up for a 1v1 so I can play.

Dan then held out a signup sheet to Shion.

”That’s perfect then.” Shion took the sheet and filled it out. ”So when do you want to do this?”

As soon as possible” Alexander answered

“The arena can be ready in about a minute.” Dan supplied

”Sounds good.” Shion sat down to wait.




Not long after that, both contestants found themselves in the arena, staring each other down as they waited for Dan to signal for the match to begin. Surprisingly, a fair amount of people were here already. ‘Wow, they work fast. How did all these people find out about it anyway, were they just already here? It’s a shame that Lily’s in a bad mood, I feel like it would be nice to have her here.

“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for a very special match; the battle of the sexes!” Dan began. “In this corner, we have the Bitter Bodyguard, the Salty Savior, the Knight in Sour Armor himself; Alexander Shields!!!”

Why do you sound like you want to eat me!?” Alexander yelled at Dan

“And in the other corner, we have… Who are you again?” Dan asked.

”That’s about the response I expected, yeah. Anyway, you ready to bash butts, Alexander?”

Alexander cracked his knuckles “Oh, I’m going to do far more than bash butts” After saying that, he felt a sudden wave of killing intent from the audience

“Don’t worry folks, he’s not thinking about what you are, trust me” At Dan’s words, the KI quickly vanished

What!? What did I do!?” After a few seconds of not getting an answer, he just signed and mumbled “Girls...they make no fucking sense.” he cleared his throat and said “Alright yeah, let’s get this started.

“You heard them folks, it’s time to SLAM JAM!!!” Dan cried

With the word given, began pumping Beast and Reinforcement Magic through his body, making his fluffy ears appear “This is going to feel so weird” he said before rushing at Shion”

“And Alexander is starting strong with a Rush Down! Despite his defensive skill set, he’s shown in the past to have a more aggressive fighting style. Let’s see how he applies it to Keijo!” Dan commented.

Shion stared down the rushing boy, standing still with her arms crossed until the last moment before using her Magnetism magic to launch herself into the air, flipping over his head and attacking with her butt when she landed.

“A counter!”

Alexander fell to his knees, but managed to keep from falling “I knew it; this just feels so awkward. What I want to do is just make a huge wall and use it to push you off, but I don’t think that’s going to work. It’s like I’ve got to unlearn how to fight.” Taking a deep breath, he stared at her for a few seconds, trying to come up with some kind of plan.

“Poor Alexander, I can feel his tart frustrations from here”

Alexander tuned him out as he got to work. He quickly applied a large half circle barrier around the ring behind him, and then began to slowly walk to Shion

”Unlearn how to fight? You’re totally wrong there. You need to use your whole body in a fight, especially controlling your movement and weight, which is all this is really.” With that, Shion ran toward Alexander and jumped to the side right before colliding with him, running along the wall with her Magic to get behind him before jumping off towards him butt-first for an attack. ”He who hesitates is lost!”

Acting on instinct, Alexander threw up a quick barrier. Because he didn’t have enough time, Shion was able to break through it, but at the cost of her momentum. Acting quickly, Alexander rushed at her chest first, while also taking down the barrier wall

“And a spicy combo from Alexander. Despite his rather underwhelming start, he’s putting up a tough fight. Things are starting to heat up in here!”

Shion flew backwards and found herself barely still standing on the platform when she landed. Hmm… Is it worth it to keep this up? This isn’t the tournament yet, so… With that thought in mind, she ran towards Alexander and slid as if to go under his legs, but used her magic to propel herself upwards at a right angle from her feet, slamming her chest into Alexander’s like a hammer.

“What an impact! What a crunchy attack from Alexande-”

ARE YOU PLANING ON EATING ME YOU-” Alexander’s rant at Dan was cut short when Shion crashed into him, sending him off the ring and into the water.

“...uh. We have a winner! And...maybe I should be more careful with my commentary in the future”

Alexander reached the edge of the pool “Fucking dolphan.” He mumbled “I swear, if I wake up at night to see you above me with a knife and fork, I will stab your brains out!

“Epp! Understood”

”Whoa. Wasn’t expecting that to work. Oh well, not important.” She jumped off into the water and swam to the exit, shouting as she got there. ”Good match, dude!”

Alexander held up a lazy hand in response “Yeah, same!” He got out of the water and shook himself off “At least I’m getting paid for this.

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'It...almost seems like they know me or something' Prome thought as he walked in 'What a strange decision on the programmers part. Or have I perhaps come across a bug of some sort? Oh well, no harm in playing along' He then turned to the man and answered him "I have a rough outline of what I want, just a few blanks to fill in. However, while I was taking walk around town to get the creative juices flowing, I came across an interesting piece of information; that someone was working on some sort of new power source, and I couldn't help but be curious."

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The party had all split up to do their own thing. With no other obligation, Prome had decided to wander the marketplace in search of new materials, in the hopes of getting some inspiration to finish the blueprints he found "...but I still can't get over how eerily convenient it is to have found this design. It looks so much like my own work..." He pondered that thought for a few more seconds before shrugging "Oh well, I suppose it's not that important. After all, I still need to finish it. The actual suit looks solid, pun very much intended, but the weapon system clearly needs some work. Come to think of it...the power supply might also be a problem. I'm not sure coal is going to cut it. I need something better" He opened up his skill menu "Now, I wonder if...hello, what's this?" That's when he found a grayed out passive; Alternative Power (Steam). "Yes...this will do nicely. Ohh, there's a quest involved in it. Sounds like fun!" His objective decided, he began asking around for the location of this 'Alfor' guy. Once he got directions, he made his way over to his house and knocked on the door.


Magical sports sounded interesting to Alexander. Normal sports always seemed so mundane, but with addition of magic, it would add some much needed excitement. Granted, that wasn't enough to get him to watch it...but after he heard that Lily was going to play that changed "I wonder what this is all about"

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"What...the...hell?" Alexander wasn't thrown off by the sport itself. To him, it just seemed like an extreme form of wrestling with limited contact (which was an actually interesting concept). No, what had him baffled was Lily. She was pissed at this other girl "And what was that about 'stealing' me? Was there a kidnapping attempt that I didn't notice!? Dammit Lily, you need to tell me about those kind of things!" He groaned in frustration. Then Lily started changing and things got weird "What!? Why is she using her berserk mode? Just what's-...wait, who's Chad?" Not only was he starting to panic, but Alexander was also now thoroughly confused "...I feel like I'm missing a lot of context here" Things started getting even more crazy when Lily made a cage of lightning to trap them, with images that he couldn't quite make out between the bars "...The fuck is going on!?" And then Lily seemed to burn herself out, and the fight ended

"Fuck..." Alexander turned to walk out of the stadium "What did I just watch!? I mean, the sport seemed okay, but Lily just went nuts. I think she's going to need some time to calm down, I know I would after a fit like that. In the meantime...maybe I should look into playing that sport. I mean hey, free gold coin just for playing, so why not?" His mind made up, Alexander went in search of a place to sign up for a match.

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Prome shrugged as he casted his vote for Willow "It's a shame Joshua isn't here. He would probably make a good guild leader. He was always level headed like that. Although, he is lucky that he was too busy to play with us on launch day." He then quickly finished off his breakfast before checking his inventory for loot "...I wonder if the boss dropped anything..." That's when he noticed the blueprints "Huh, what's this?" He took a look at it "Blueprints for power armor? Why would the boss drop these?" His head slowly began to start hurting, before abruptly stopping "Oh well, no point looking a gift horse in the mouth."

Alexander paused his bacon feast to look at Lily "'Her'? Who's her?" He quickly ate a few more strips "It sounds like something personal, and I didn't know you could even feel that way about someone. I mean, you forgave that crazy bitch who tried to sacrifice you for her crazy anti love thing. What could someone possible do to you to get you angry at them? Is this some nonsensical girl thing or something?" He shook his head at the thought of the nonsense that went on in girl's heads "Still though...a gold coin. That sounds like it would be worth trying for. Yeah, you know what, I think I'll take part in this...whatever it is."

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Prome raised an eyebrow in confusion "Karuu? Who's that? Ohh, food!" His dialogue was interrupted when his order came and he started eating. As he looked around at everyone, he noticed that they all seemed kind of somber, and he had no idea. Putting eating on hold, he spoke up again "Also, why are we voting on a new Guild Master? Did-" And then he paused, suddenly realizing something "...actually, I can't remember who was Guild Master. Then again, I probably just didn't pay much attention. It happens sometimes."

He moved to resume eating, when another thought crossed his mind "Oh, that's right! I need to spend the points from my level up!" He opened his menu to do just that, when he found a couple of discrepancy "Wait...how did they get allocated already? And...do I have a Subclass now? How did that happen?" He started getting a headache that slowly grew in intensity, until "Oh! It must have been automatic. Probably because of my power armor or something. How convenient!" And just like that. his headache vanished and he resumed eating.

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