Yuuki sits across from her principal drinking tea whilst keeping a close eye on her movements.
Luka's avatar is new to Yuuki with mechanical horns on the top and a sort of beach outfit. With sunglasses on and a skirt, the blue and white blending together perfectly while I haven't even created mine yet.
"First off let's ask about your family history so I can confirm some stuff."
𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚖?! 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚒 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑? 𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠.
With a calm tone Yuuki answers, "well my mother is Japanese while my father is Irish as you've said, does that answer your question?"
"No it confirms it thank you. Now next question, who is your current guardian."
𝙳𝚘 𝙸 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚎𝚛? 𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚎𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚢 𝚍𝚘 𝚒 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚏 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐...
"I live with my parents."
𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜? 𝙸𝚜 𝚖𝚢 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐? 𝙸 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛. 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚒 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚝 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑? 𝙽𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚎 𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚔𝚢, 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚖 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚏 𝚒 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑, 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎.
"Anyone else?"
"And my brother."
𝙸𝚏 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚎 𝙸 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛.
"Alright now let's get into the questions for the culture in the game."
"I'm sorry but I might not be fit for this. I've been raised here and haven't been in Japan since my birth so I'm sorry but you can go find another person." Yuuki gets up out of her seat
𝚈𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎, 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚑𝚘-
"Actually I've been thinking about giving a scholarship to someone, but lately I've been running out of candidates."
𝙲𝚑𝚎𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎
Yuuki freezes before sitting back down, "So how do I get this scholarship?" Yuuki fiddles with her thumb nervous
𝙸 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚒-𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚘... 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗, 𝚜𝚑𝚎'𝚜... 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚒-𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗.
"Well I'm personally looking for an assistant, to help me with day to day chores and I will get you a world class tutor."
𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚊 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝... 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚢? 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚠𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝚏𝚎𝚠 𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚍𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚞𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚢𝚎𝚝 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛? 𝙸𝚝𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚠𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚕.
"Can... I have time to think about this?"
𝚂𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕, 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚎𝚛.
"Yes but of course, anyways wanna go play World with me? I'll show you key tips and tricks so you can level up just a bit faster than other players."
"N-No I'm fine I should be getting home." Yuuki stands up getting ready to leave.
"What if I said you could make a few thousand pounds just today?"
Yuuki completely freezes, "maybe even two thousand or more if you come with me." Luka eyes Yuuki's face of complete disbelief.
"H-How?"
"Well you know how weapons are in different tiers?"
"Yes...?"
"Well players are trading money for these rare items."
"Oh ho! I get it now!"
"Yes, and so the most expensive would be pure weapons these ones are the white shiny borders, followed by black or shadow tiers, then orange legendary, purple epic, blue rare, green uncommon, and white common. And for a legendary it's already around a few thousand depending on how strong it is. And since the game is only about a week old there aren't many shadows and pure which would mean these weapons cost at least a few million. All you need is a bit of luck." Luka shows off her large grin. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝙸 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘, 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍'𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙.
"But, my luck has never been great, what makes you think I can find a rare item?" Yuuki stands back up once again.
"Hmph fine you got me there but if you do one dungeon with me I'll trade you a free legendary. It'll be my way of saying thanks to you for thinking about the scholarship." Luka watches Yuuki's expression once more, though this time it doesn't change.
"Why so, insistent about it? I don't have any special qualities or anything that would make me valuable."
"I'm not looking for current values, I'm looking for potential." 𝙸 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛, 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚊𝚛 𝚒𝚖 𝚙𝚞𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜, 𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚗.
"Fine, I'll come with you, but only to show how useless I am."
𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚝𝚘𝚘 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏... 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝙸 𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎? 𝚂𝚑𝚎'𝚜... 𝙰𝚠𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚌𝚞𝚝𝚎 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚛 𝚢𝚎𝚝.
"Great." Luka stands up and cleans up her cookie crumbs grabbing it with one fell swoop before throwing it into the trash, she leaves the tea cup with a £15.80 to cover for the cost and a little tip.
"I used to be a waitress, pretty hard job needs higher pay to be honest." Yuuki looks up in her with confusion written all over her face. "Why tell me that? Seems pointless."
"If you're my future assistant you should at least know this much."
𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎, 𝚜𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚎? 𝚂𝚘 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚛𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜?
"Does this mean I have the scholarship now?"
"..." Luka looks at Yuuki with a cold dead stare
"Excuse me?"
"You said I am going to be your future assistant, so does that mean I am already guaranteed the scholarship?" Yuuki watches for any change to Luka's poker face. Luka starts sweating but keeps a calm face.
"It's just a thought." 𝙼𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚞𝚙? 𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝙸 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚎? 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚎, 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚢, 𝚐𝚘𝚍𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚗𝚒𝚝 𝚑𝚘𝚠! 𝙸𝚖 𝚊 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚘𝚝 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚒 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝?
"I was just thinking that you would be a really good assistant to have. That's all."
"So I'm better than the other candidates?"
"By a long shot although when I went through your grades you have average? How? You seem really smart." Yuuki looks down towards her feet.
𝚆𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝? 𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚍... 𝙳𝚊𝚖𝚗 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚒 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚞𝚙? 𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚡 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚡 𝚒𝚝.... 𝙰𝚑𝚊!
"Don't worry grades are just grades they don't determine more important stuff such as problem solving skill and time management." Yuuki doesn't bat an eye.
A worker spots the two standing in the middle of the doorway blocking entry. "Ay! Move it or lose it you two! You're blocking other customers!"
Luka walks outside and Yuuki follows suit. There's an awkward silence only broken every so often by the whooshing sound of hovering cars passing by.
An ad plays on a billboard.
"Come into our shop for a whole selection of goods, including but not limited to, avatar cosmetics for your customizable characters to show off who has the cooler more radical clothing. A quest locator, an auction house, and even pain killers for the players who hate pain like me. Notice that the pain killers may cause a slight numbness following the intake, this may last up to 24 hours take caution when using said drugs."
"So... Yuuki. Um what level are you may I ask?"
"Huh level? How do you tell that?"
"Just put on your glasses and scroll to stats." Yuuki puts on her glasses and takes a look around, a guy who was walking in front of her with a suit case and glasses. Turns into a robed man with a crown on while carrying a sniper rifle on his back with a godlike white aura. Another, a women walking around with her black suit on turns into a French maid costume with braids and ribbons on top while having a long sword sheathed on her back.
"You know Luka, whenever I see a cool looking avatar I get embarrassed because I don't even have one."
"Well no I actually did not know, but at the same time you shouldn't be, anyways when did you even get these glasses?"
"It's been exactly twenty-eight days, why?"
"You should already have an avatar then."
"But I don't have much time to play."
"... any specific reasons?"
"Oh it's just that I don't have time, I need to worry about other stuff."
"Well if it's alright with you then let's spend the day playing World so you won't need to worry about your avatar. What do you say?" 𝙸𝚏 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚗𝚘, 𝙸 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚐𝚘, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎'𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚊 𝚗𝚎𝚡𝚝 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎.
"Alright. I'll go. But you better be sure that I get the legendary weapon or I'll just leave your offer."
"Fine, fine I promise and whatnot no need to be like that."
Luka walks ahead, "so what even is your level?"
"Um. I. Well. Nova what level am I?"
(Notice) You are currently level 14 in your last played game "World" would like to check another?
"Thank you Nova! Well I'm currently level fourteen, wait, how about you?"
"Oh well I think I might be level 57 or 65 I forgot mainly because I fell asleep while trying to figure out what to add for the new update."
"You fell asleep in your pod? Did you even go to bed last night?"
"Well if course one of my maids saw me playing and carried me back onto my bed."
"Carried huh..." in Yuuki's mind she pictures a really buff maid carrying Luka's body, "Scary..."
"What did you say? You mumbled under your breath there."
"Oh n-nothing at all of course." 𝚂𝚙𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚢...
Luka stops as Yuuki bumps her nose into Luka's back. "Owie." Luka turns her head in an instant and starts checking her nose.
"How much does it hurt?"
"N-not that much anyways why'd you stop?"
"Because we've reached the shop why else?"
"Oh... S-Sorry for causing you even more trouble."
"Huh? It's alright you act like my maids when they do something wrong it's alright." Luka gives a quick head pat before quickly retreating her hand.
"Whoops sorry I have a pet at home I just instinctively do it." 𝚆𝚊𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚘𝚘 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜? Yuuki suddenly grabs Luka's hand and puts it back on her head.
"I-it still hurts." Yuuki holds the hand on her head for a little before letting go, Luka gives a pat before entering the store not uttering a word.
The cashier, a man with a large fedora that covers his head and a gray suit with a white tie. He carries a staff, a long rod with a crescent moon at the end of it.
"Good day what would like to do? We have three options, laser tag all day, pods for World, and buffet for those who likes to eat."
"Buffe- I mean pods please."
"How many hours?"
Luka puts her hand over Yuuki's shoulder. "How about you?"
"I- um me? Um one hour is fine." Yuuki tires you get out of Luka's slim, light arms.
"That would be forty pounds for two."
Luka hands over forty pounds and the cashier gives back two tickets. "You two can take the last two pods in the back." Yuuki quickly grabs the ticket and runs over to the specified pod.
"Daughters am I right?"
Luka looks over. "Yea I guess so." Luka enters the pod to launch World.
(Notice) You're being transported to World
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Case Log #1
Three Luka Employees Killed in their own home with clues pointing to a death threat towards Luka. All bodies were found with the same sized bullet hole but the time of the deaths were all similar and yet all the employees lived across the city.
The evidence was a computer hack with a video playing, the video had given out this encrypted message. "THVrYSBNdXN0IERpZSBGb3IgVGhlIFNhZmV0eSBPZiBIdW1hbml0eQ=="
Now we are currently trying to investigate Luka but she's not home and no one has spotted her as of lately. Luka hasn't been seen by her maids and butler for 4 days now.
Case Log End
Detective, Conner, Date: 24th of March 2056
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