"...!" I opened my eyes suddenly after the world around me broke into pieces to appear in Hikari's room, I look at my watch and I see that it's just 6:45 Am, I'm only asleep for 4 hours but I don't feel tired ... my weird Situation is answered by two notification windows that are in the lower left part of my view, it has the shape of a triangle with the exclamation symbol inside yellow and a small red two below the triangle.
When I focus on the notification, two sales appear in front of my view.
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Congratulations you have obtained the skill: [Clear Mind Lvl 1]
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You have slept in a soft bed during the night which makes you recover your energies and your mind is clearer, you recover your mana to the fullest.
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[Clear mind]
Level 1
Function: Allows the user to keep up with blood and complicated situations.
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Use the observe skill to know more about the skill I gain to see how much my range was being leveled 1, apparently if I watch as they kill another human in front of me while they torture him little by little, the ability will be ineffective due to his low level.
But it's more than enough to keep me sane and calm in a fight against the damned goblins.
I leave my bed and then store it in my inventory, it will be useful for its bonus to sleep in it, I turn to see Hikari who is moving from one side to another while her face shows signs of not having a good time, but if She is in the same situation that me, I will not wake her up and I will only sit by her side while I wait for her to get the ability too.
I had to wait until it was 7:05 a.m. for her to get up all of a sudden but she did not look scared but calm down like this indicating that she got the same ability.
I looked at them and managed to see how their eyes were looking for the lower corner of their sight and take advantage of that moment to talk.
"Good morning Hikari, did you also get the ability of Clear Mind?" I got up from his bed to give him space to process what happened.
"Good morning too and yes, yes I got the skill you just mentioned and I was about to see what the scope of it is" She turned to see me when I spoke to her and she sat on her bed while she spoke.
"Do not waste your mana, the ability only gives you an increase in your resistance to the grotesque a bit, save your bed in your inventory and get ready that it's already seven in the morning and we should leave in half an hour, I'll be down while preparing something to eat "When I got the information I wanted, I retired to make something simple to eat and that did not have much smell.
Prepare some egg sandwiches, two for us, had said that half an hour we ate but terms a little earlier than planned but already have everything ready to go we left the house of Hikari.
We went out the back door of the house because the front was blocked and it was a mess to clear it, but when we opened the door we were surprised, I could not see the only one because of the black and gray clouds that were for the things that were burning somewhere I could see columns of black smoke as I got the smell of burning, I could not smell it inside the house because we had closed all the windows and we had put the curtains so that it could not be seen from the inside out or vice versa.
"Possibly the bastards have already raised their own communities ..." I spoke with a bit of hatred at having an idea that the goblins had already gathered in crowds.
"You mean monsters, right?" Hikari turned to see me while asking for clarification by not understanding who I mean.
I touch her head while I sit despite her being taller than me.
Hikari is a muscle head like her father but behaves like her mother which has always surprised those who get to know her and they realize that she is not very intelligent, she is direct which causes her Tomboy behavior when we were children although she does not lose it yet, so usually she only lives at her own pace, she would be more of a naive genius, because despite not being very smart she manages to stay within the top 20 in school in all subjects except one , she excels more in sporting things like her father.
'How many of my companions will remain alive?' I thought as I remembered some of them, but there were only silhouettes of them since I never interacted with them enough.
Leaving my thoughts aside we left the courtyard of Hikari's house and the houses were still in the same conditions as last night, that indicated that there were no goblins in here but it does not mean that outside the walls that surround the houses are the same.
After walking for an hour we did not find any goblins, but in return, there were many bodies on the ground with wounds and most of the stores that we found were already looted, some buildings or houses were completely burned and there were only the leftovers left by the fire.
Apparently, the goblins are nocturnal because we did not find any during the way to the North, but if I could hear sounds of the buildings which were not human, usually that building would be with its windows blocked by whatever was inside it and thus avoiding the entry of light.
We decided to move away from those buildings and continue moving towards the north, in the middle of the walk I stopped because I managed to hear voices from another group of people, Hikari turned to see and I could see in her eyes that she was waiting for my orders on what to do now, show us or stalk them and judge them.
I decided the third option so speak "Use stealth and follow me" began to walk slowly while being followed by Hikari who was holding my shirt.
It was a group of 3 men and 2 women, the one who was guiding them was a tall man like 1.80M with a Japanese average face, a muscular body, short hair with military cut, brings as weapon a firefighter emergency ax, behind the youngest of the group comes, a young man a little bigger than me, with a superior face than the average one with big round glasses, he does not have any weapon but if a backpack packed with things up to the top, behind him two women followed adults of the same age as the one who directs them, neither of them has any weapons and they wear simple clothes that still highlight their figure ... possibly to attract the attention of one of the men, one is blonde and the other redhead, end is a giant man sure is two meters tall, has black gloves which have a metal plate on the knuckles and possibly a gun under his left arm, they all bring similar clothes to leave, a shirt of some color and jeans and tennis shoes or leather boots.
While watching them, hold a stick from the ground and save my sword, apparently, Hikari did the same because she also picked up a stick from the ground, the stick that was on the ground were surely some weapon that came from the goblins because they were very robust.
When they came close to where we were, something happened that took me by surprise, the one with glasses turned directly in our direction and spoke, he thinks that we could not hear him but I can.
"Wait Yuto, I found two survivors and they are stalking us, I can see them but I do not know what intention they have and they are in that direction" He moved his arm towards our direction and apparently was about to give more directions, so I decided to show myself better.
I took a few steps toward the center of the street while being followed by his gaze, I turned to see Hikari who had a confused look and did not blame her.
"Come out of stealth, they can still know our location, the lenses can find us, you have seen it seen to point us" I said while pointing to the boy with lens.
"It's okay!" Hikari left the stealth and walked in my direction.
"We don't want problems! ... I just wanted to be sure you were human!" I shouted while looking at the lens and in that one of them is thrown in my direction with amazing speed but I feel no danger and my instinct doesn't alert me of anything and thanks to the ability of Clear Mind, I could be indifferent to the burden of man who came to me with his ax near my neck.
I quickly thought of the list of abilities like Melee and remembered the ability of [Charge] that ability allows you to launch against a target instantly and costs 3 Ap, I don't buy it because you can't change the direction in half flight and it doesn't increase your damage in anything and [Sharp flash] is better.
While I kept my mind wandering, the man started talking.
"Woou, boy you're sure you're 'something' for not flinching over something like that! And tell your girlfriend to calm down that I will not do anything to you haha!" 'Yuto' retired a few steps from me and then returned with his group while he spoke.
"Calm down Hikari, he was just testing me, in what ?, I don't know" Reassure Hikari who looked at 'Yuto' with hatred.
"I'm sorry, it's not just that it bothers me what he did to you, but my instinct tells me, we will not get along" Hikari told me that while holding her heart as if she could see her instinct warning her.
"So where are you going ?, we go to the house of one of our companions in search of their father and maybe we can go together, if it is in the same direction" He turned to see us while walking backward towards his group.
"We are going north in search of our parents"
"Oh, good luck guys, we're also going north but a little farther east in the residential areas" Yuto showed a smile for the fun that was the situation for him and now he walked well towards his group but stopped a moment.
"Hey !, join us! ... can you defend yourself right?" He turned to see us waiting for our answer as he walked towards his group but his eyes were not the same optimistic as before and apparently he is judging us whether, we are useful or not.
"We managed to kill some monsters without weapons, now that we have this I think it will be easier" I swung the stick in my hands without much trouble showing that if I could move it well without effort, Hikari wiggled it like a sword while nodding showing that she was not a useless one and looked at Yuto with eyes that he should not judge her.
"That's good!" He smiled knowing the answer and withdrew and signaled us to follow him.
"Guys, this is my team that is made up of; Hiro the glasses, Yuri the giant, better call him Bear, the red-haired girl is Akane, the blonde girl is Lucy and I'm Yuto ... Questions ?! "He stared at us waiting for us to have something to say, so I speak having the opportunity.
"Why did not you say your last names?" I asked something that caught my attention and more when I live in Japan, a place that has a follow-up and dictates that in the presentations you say your last name first, which would be very rooted in someone so big of age like him.
"Oh! ... you still don't know it apparently, since the portals appeared your last name is not taken into account by the system or rather since they appeared we don't have a last name, why? I don't know, but my friend here says we have not won it and that's why we don't have "Yuto hugged the lens boy (Hiro) who looked annoyed at his action.
"Then that's it, let's go!" As he did not see any more questions from us, he began to move towards the North.
I was trying to open my State in front of them to check my name but I decided not to do it and to prevent Hikari from doing it, because I remember well that this window is public for all according to how Hikari looked at my state when I opened it for the first time.
When I saw them walking away because I was distracted, I ran in their direction to integrate them when we saw their training. I decided to stay by the lens boy's side.
Hikari decided to be behind us two apparently, I realized that when listening to her steps.