[Host has completed the final task using NSFW methods. Grade: A+. Low Level Mob Completion: 100.]
[Host has completed Punishment. Overall Grade: A+. Recommendation: Host should seek treatment for sadistic behavior.]
Aida laid on the floor gasping for air, disregarding the con system's snarky commentary. The system deprived her of her abilities even in simulation with the reasoning that she didn't have powers when she fought these Variants. Knowing what to expect, she had turned on her nothingness state and used it as a stacked skill that carried on throughout all the fights. It was a BUG. Fortunately, the con system wasn't able to take it away from her.
As for the con system's commentary on her attack method, she had a lot of pent up rage from having been kidnapped and almost violated so she used the most brutal way to slaughter these Variants 100 times. Instead of just stabbing them in the carotid as was her usual style, she proceeded to remove the source of her captors lasciviousness, torturing them both physically and mentally
[Moving Host back to Home.]
Quickly leaving the system, she checked her watch and noticed that not much time had elapsed since she was pulled into the system. It seems the system was able to control and distort the time elapsed that she perceived, especially given that her first time in the system, it took her a few days to wake up. This made sense in that the brain has an ability to speed and slow time as it wishes while asleep [1], the system probably uses the same concept. Based on this, it would be wise for Aida to spend her nights in the system itself so she would have more time to train.
With that thought, she finally closed her eyes and managed to drift into sleep while hugging Xiao Ai.
Light and Ace didn't notice Aida's actions this entire time, instead they were doing their respective activities. Light was continuing to meditate, attempting to unravel the ball of threads one by one. While doing so, he also practiced spreading his consciousness outwards to encompass a larger area. On the side, Ace was back on his laptop, continuing to mumble something under his breath.
Looking up after a while, Light decided to get up and stretch a bit. Unraveling his mind was a tedious and exhausting process, he knew he had to pace himself. He saw Ace acting odd, and came up to him to ask about what he was doing.
Ace turned his attention to Light with glimmering eyes as though he had been waiting for this question for a long time, "Do you want to know? Actually, I've been practicing a song to sing to a girl I'm interested in. I'm hoping to use it to confess my feelings."
Light nodded, "Ok, that's pretty great."
Nodding excitedly, he agreed, "Yeah! Do you want to hear my song?"
Without giving Light a chance to respond, he began singing with extreme passion and fervor.
"Ohhh I sit by the water, staring down a cliff...
Why did you drift, why are you so hard to be with…
Oh oh oh I miss you
Ah ah ah I'd kill for you
I'm sorry I chea…."
"Wait wait wait," Light interrupted Ace as he sang, "What did you say you were singing this song for?"
"To confess!"
"..." Light paused for a moment, "Where did you get this song from?"
"I found it on the internet when I looked up romantic songs."
"What's the name of this song?"
"I Cheated. Why? Is there a problem?" Ace cocked his head to the side in confusion.
"..." Light paused again before saying, "Maybe you should rethink your song. It doesn't really fit well with the atmosphere."
"Hm…. You're right! I will have to go look for a different song!" Ace nodded and immediately delved into looking for new songs on his laptop.
Seeing this, Light shook his head, wondering, not for the first time, what was wrong with Ace's head. Who would sing a song about cheating and breakups at a confession?! He would be lucky if he didn't get beat up and humiliated.
Shaking the excess thoughts out of his head, he continued to meditate. He decided to first focus on the strand of emotions connected to Ace. From the connection, he could feel happiness and excitedness oozing out of him. He told himself, this should be the easiest connection to detangle. In reality, he just wanted to separate anything he had that connected him to this unsound person as soon as possible!
The night passed quickly and quietly. As the time arrived to change shifts, neither Lucifer nor Aida required a wake up call or reminder. The moment they sensed Light and Ace approaching, they both immediately woke up. From this, it was clear that both of them had received training on alertness.
Ace and Light, in contrast, quickly fell asleep. They were utterly exhausted from the escape and fighting that occurred. However, they were doomed to have very little sleep today. Every time one of them seemed to begin snoring or didn't notice the items Aida threw at them, she would slap them awake. Originally, Aida had intended to train Yukio and Rin in the same way as well, but after seeing their cute and innocent faces as they slept happily, she decided to give them a break for tonight. Afterall, they had all been through a day full of excitement.
[1] Time dilation in sleep is very common and most people believe that their sleep was a lot shorter than it actually was. There are many scientific theories behind why this is the case. The leading argument is that the altered state of consciousness prevents us from determining time from external factors, so one is unable to perceive the time at all.