In room 04-A, at the Gray Gate meeting, all the members were talking to each other.
"Hey Ralph-san. You really surprised me, what's up with that long hair?" Josef spoke as he looked at Ralph in surprise.
"I was a little tired of my usual appearance." Ralph spoke with a smile.
"I see, you must have used several life stones and didn't know how to control the effect, right?" Josef spoke with a smile.
"Sigh ... You are right." Ralph spoke with a bitter smile.
"You should ask Touka-san about how to control this effect, she is an expert when it comes to Life Stones." Josef spoke and winked at Ralph.
Ralph rolled his eyes and looked at Touka, who was talking to another girl in the club.
Touka caught Ralph's gaze and looked back at him.
After a brief glance, Ralph looked away and said to Josef:
"Then I ask her about it. But in any case, I'm interested in your opinion on the impending war."
"The war ... It seems that you are worried. The truth is that no one knows for sure when it will happen, but the Chinese have been very agitated recently." Josef spoke and sighed.
"Josef-san. If the war starts, what's the point of being in school or not?" Ralph suddenly asked.
"What you mean?" Josef frowned.
"I've been thinking that I shouldn't spend so much time at school. Now that I'm involved with Deep Sky, what is a diploma for? What matters is strength." Ralph spoke.
"... Listen, don't do this. Don't leave school." Josef spoke as he put a hand on Ralph's shoulder.
"Why? I don't see an advantage in staying here." Ralph spoke with a frown.
"... Think about it, if the school was useless, why would several Aura Masters be attending? Listen well, this is almost a secret, the Aura Masters need to somehow integrate into the world of normal people." Josef spoke in a low voice.
"Huh? But why?" Ralph asked in surprise.
"I will not explain this to you in detail. Furthermore, even if a war does occur, it does not mean that the school will stop functioning. Unless Japan has its line of defense broken." Josef spoke and then took something out of his pocket, it was a white stone.
"Listen, even though I'm scared by the growth in your strength, I can feel your energy. It's good to have allies in difficult times, use this stone to communicate with me if you need to. I can also talk to you through it." Josef spoke and then reached for Ralph's space ring.
The white stone disappeared, and Josef said:
"Ask Touka how to protect your space ring, or else you can easily be stolen."
Ralph had heard this from Lieutenant Shizuka before, and he is determined to find out how to protect his own space ring, which he hasn't even paid for.
"Oh, really, can you tell me where I can buy useful things for combat?" Ralph suddenly remembered something.
"Do you mean Deep Sky stuff? Like artifacts and other treasures?" Josef spoke as he put his hand on his chin.
"If it's that kind of thing, you can buy it on the internet. It's hard to open a market for these things openly in today's world. Here, access that site later." Josef spoke and handed Ralph a small card.
"My family owns some businesses here in Tokyo, if you need anything just go to this website that is on the card." Josef spoke with a smile.
"I understand, thank you." Ralph nodded.
After talking a little more, they had to pay attention to Aoi's voice, who spoke out loud:
"Guys, you certainly remember what I said about the artifact, right? For an unknown reason we have to speed up our pace, we are all going to Kyoto right after the subject evaluations."
Most looked surprised and began to murmur among themselves.
"Cough ... Despite this inconvenience, I also received the information that the artifact is, in addition to being intelligent, useful for healing." Aoi spoke with a serious expression.
"What!?" Josef and Touka exclaimed at the same time.
-Hoh?
Ralph was also interested.
"We know that because the place where an artifact can appear shows signs, special phenomena ..." Aoi said while looking at Ralph.
"I see." Ralph spoke.
"In the last few days, the site, which is close to one of the veins of vitality on Earth, has been undergoing sudden unexpected mutations, and it was possible to translate these mutations into information with the help of a master expert on the subject. Aoi continued.
"Please prepare. We will be leaving shortly after the last day of evaluations. The train tickets will be paid for by the school." Aoi spoke while looking at each member of the club.
Ralph took a deep breath and clenched his fists. If he gets a healing artifact, he certainly doesn't have to worry about injuries in the middle of the battle. But he probably won't have an opportunity to own the artifact.
After Aoi talked about some other future club activities, everyone was dismissed.
"Wait, Ralph-san!" Aoi shouted from a distance when Ralph was passing the school gate.
Ralph looked back and saw Aoi running towards him.
After reaching in front of Ralph, Aoi wiped the sweat off his forehead with one hand and said:
"Did you forget what I said earlier? Can you help me with that?"
Ralph frowned slightly and spoke while looking into Aoi's eyes:
"It depends. What am I going to get in return?"
Aoi ground his teeth in disgust at Ralph's mercenary attitude.
"Do you just think about it? Can't you consider it a favor for a friend?" Aoi spoke while pouting.
Ralph gave a weak laugh and said:
"You? My friend? Since when?"
Aoi frowned disgruntled and said:
"Didn't you raise your opinion of me all this time?"
"Sorry. I don't consider you my friend, but I do have a favorable impression of you. If it weren't, I wouldn't do things for you." Ralph spoke with a sigh.
Aoi looked deeply at Ralph for a moment and sighed.
"As I thought, you have confidence issues." Aoi murmured.
"It's not that I have any problems. It's you who are still naive." Ralph spoke and shook his head.
"Am I naive !?" A vein appeared on Aoi's forehead.
"Yes. But this is normal." Ralph nodded and started walking again.
Aoi took Ralph's arm and said:
"Listen, how about a book? I'm sure you'll be satisfied."
"Now we are speaking the same language. What kind of book, what is in it?" Ralph turned and spoke with a slight smile.
"I will only speak if you agree to help me. But I guarantee it is something useful for you." Aoi spoke as he crossed his arms.
Ralph sighed and was about to agree when he was interrupted.
"What are you talking about?" Touka arrived suddenly and asked.
Aoi just looked at Ralph without speaking, and the latter said:
"Anyway, send the details to me, Aoi-san."
Ralph started walking again, ignoring Touka.
"What's wrong with this guy?" Touka spoke with a sigh.
"I would also like to know." Aoi also sighed.
Touka and Aoi exchanged looks and smiled bitterly before breaking up.
"Oh! Again, I forgot to ask what happened to his hair." Aoi slapped one palm against the other and said.
Quickly, Touka reached Ralph and said:
"Hey, what kind of crumb did she offer you this time?"
"It's not your problem." Ralph spoke disgruntled. He really doesn't like people meddling in his affairs.
"How rude! Did your parents not educate you?" Touka spoke irritably.
Ralph remained silent, and Touka remembered something and was embarrassed.
"Sorry, I forgot that you don't-"
"It doesn't matter. My real parents raised me well." Ralph spoke, interrupting Touka.
"As well?" Touka was confused to hear that.
Ralph sighed and didn't explain.
Both went to the apartment together, much to Ralph's unhappiness, who likes privacy.
While on the bus, Ralph looked briefly at Touka and wondered:
-What should I do? Buying a bigger apartment? Of course not, at least not because of her. What does this girl have in mind?
Touka seemed to notice Ralph's vision and looked back at him as she thought:
-Why is he staring at me so much? Maybe thinking about why I'm staying at his apartment? Or maybe that I am beautiful?
After staring at each other for a while, they both realized it was getting weird and looked away.
After getting off the bus in the Chōji district, Ralph remembered that he needs to shop and started walking towards the market.
"Where are you going?" Touka asked curiously.
"Sigh ... Shopping, there's nothing in the fridge." Ralph spoke depressed.
Touka frowned and said:
"What's wrong with you? Don't you like girls? Every time I approach you, you look like that."
Ralph stopped walking and spoke while looking directly into Touka's eyes:
"Don't you understand? I'll explain it to you. I don't like people who invade my privacy, especially people with whom I have no intimacy."
Touka did not look away and said:
"If you continue to do so, you will probably be alone for the rest of your life."
"This is not your problem." Ralph spoke and started walking again.
Touka for some reason felt irritated and followed Ralph.
Ralph decided to ignore Touka's existence while he was at the market. But Touka didn't make it easy, she simply chose some products and put them in the shopping cart without Ralph allowing it. Obviously, she was testing Ralph to see if he can keep ignoring her.
Ralph thought for a moment and simply bought what she had put in the shopping cart as well. The reason? He also liked the products.
Touka did not expect this, and she had to settle for the fact that she was unable to irritate Ralph.
Ralph placed the purchases in the space ring while using an illusion for anyone to notice it.
"If you like acting so childishly, you should go back to kindergarten." Ralph murmured in Touka's ear as they left the market.
A vein appeared on Touka's forehead, but she was silent.
Ralph walked in the direction of the apartment, while Touka walked a few steps back, watching Ralph.
-This guy must really think he's an adult, he's only 15 years old and I'm even older than him.
Touka thought discontented.
When they arrived at the apartment, Ralph arranged the purchases, placing them either in the refrigerator or in the kitchen cabinet.
After thinking for a moment, Ralph decided to make a good old Yakisoba, since this is basically what he does best.
After smelling the smell from the kitchen, Touka looked and saw Ralph cooking. She had just taken a shower and was wearing plain white clothes.
"Need help?" Touka asked.
"You don't have to." Ralph replied and started cutting the vegetables.
Touka went to the kitchen and, after seeing what Ralph was doing, she said:
"I also know how to make Yakisoba, let me help."
Ralph frowned and thought for a moment before nodding.
Touka then started cutting some vegetables and how much Ralph was preparing the pasta and meat.
After several minutes, Yakisoba was ready.
"It smells good ..." Touka said, salivating.
Ralph smiled slightly and took a couple of new chairs out of the space ring, next to a hardwood table.
"Wow, where did you get these things?" Touka asked in surprise.
"..." Ralph did not answer and removed the old furniture from the room with the space ring.
After that, he pulled out a new sofa, along with a television and bookcase.
After quickly fixing the furniture, Ralph wiped the sweat off his forehead and went to the kitchen to pick up the Yakisoba and place it on the new table.
"Itadakimasu." Ralph and Touka spoke before they started eating.
"Did you buy these things? Or did you find them there?" Touka asked curiously.
"I found it there." Ralph spoke. That's true, he found these things in abandoned houses in some villages in Korea.
"I should have found a new bed ..." Touka murmured in a low voice, but Ralph listened.
Ralph smiled bitterly as he ate and said:
"Do you really plan to live here? When are you going back home?"
"I don't know ... Seriously, I don't know what my dad is thinking." Touka spoke with a sigh.
Ralph frowned slightly and continued to eat.
After finishing eating, Ralph took a new bed out of the space ring and placed it beside the sofa.
"If you want something more than that, you better go to work and buy." Ralph spoke without looking at Touka and went to take a shower.
Touka looked at Ralph entering the bathroom and thought of something.
"I want to see if you can continue acting aloof ..." Touka murmured and got ready.
When Ralph was about to undress, the bathroom door opened and Touka came in with a smile.
Ralph twisted the corners of his mouth and looked at Touka in surprise.
"What is it? We better shower together to save water." Touka spoke as she approached Ralph, but she was clearly nervous.
Ralph can't help himself ... and laughed out loud.
"Why are you laughing?" Touka asked with a vein on his forehead.
Ralph laughed and said as he undressed:
"If you really want to take a shower with me, you'd better get undressed. Besides, haven't you taken a shower just now?"
Touka took a step back and thought:
-What's wrong with that reaction? Isn't he just 15? Don't tell me he's a pervert? But he doesn't seem ...
Without giving Touka a reaction time, Ralph was already in his underwear and said:
"What are you waiting for, hurry up."
Touka gritted his teeth and shouted as he left the bathroom:
"Perverted!"
"Why are you running? I don't bite." Ralph spoke while laughing.
After closing the bathroom door, Ralph showered with a slight smile.
-What funny girl, wanting to provoke me with just that?
Meanwhile, Touka was sitting on the couch, her face red with anger.
-That guy, why did he act so naturally? and still laughed at me ... Don't tell me that he already has sexual experience !? But he's only 15 ...
Touka was thinking while gritting his teeth.
After hearing the bathroom door again, Touka couldn't help shaking slightly.
"Hey Hey, why didn't you take a shower with me? That way you would be helping the environment ..." Ralph spoke as he approached Touka.
Touka was about to say something but saw that Ralph had only a towel around his waist.
"Pervert! Go and dress up!" Touka shouted.
"Huh? But what are you talking about? This is my home, I do what I want here." Ralph spoke with a smile.
Touka gritted his teeth and pulled a katana from somewhere and pointed it at Ralph.
"If you approach me, don't blame me for not having mercy."
"Hoho ... Point that sword somewhere else. Don't tell me you have a hobby of breaking into other people's homes and dictating what owners should do?" Ralph put his hands on his hips and continued:
"Besides? Weren't you the one who came into the bathroom with a mature attitude? What's with that shame now? Don't tell me that's the extent of your maturity? Child."
Touka ground her teeth and looked at Ralph with murderous eyes.
Ralph continued to smile while looking at Touka.
After a while, Touka lowered the Katana and put it back, making it disappear.
After taking a deep breath, Touka looked determinedly at Ralph and said:
"Do you think I am a child? I am a year older than you!"
"Big Deal." Ralph spoke in a sarcastic tone.
"I know what you're thinking, you're going to stay that way for me to decide to leave, right? Well, you're underestimating me." Touka spoke and approached Ralph.
Ralph frowned slightly as he watched Touka, he felt there was something out of place.
-Where did all this courage come from?
Ralph considered.
Standing about a step away from Ralph, Touka said:
"I dare you!"
"Hoh? What kind of challenge?" Ralph asked as he looked into Touka's green eyes.
"Since you are so mature, I dare you to ..." Touka started to speak but was distracted by smelling Ralph and seeing his exposed body, it was the first time she had such close contact with a man.
"Puhahaha!" Ralph started laughing again when he saw this.
-This girl is just a teenager, but it's really funny to see her get lost like that.
Ralph thought as he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.
Touka realized her mistake and became even more irritated, to the point that she lost self-control and shouted:
"I challenge you to a stress test!"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Ralph spoke with his eyes curved like a moon.
"Whoever loses, will have to agree with the other's request, how about that?" Touka spoke with a smile.
"I'm not in the mood, I have more to do!" Ralph spoke and turned.
"Wait! You coward!" Touka screamed but Ralph ignored her.
After putting on a comfortable outfit, Ralph went into the living room to talk to Touka.
"Hey, Touka-san. Can you teach me something?"
Touka, who was using the phone, ignored Ralph.
"Sigh ... You promised you would help me, right? Can you teach me how to use the Aura to increase my physical abilities?" Ralph asked.
Touka remained silent.
After a moment, Ralph sighed again and said:
"Okay, tell me what a challenge this is."
At that moment Touka's eyes shone and she said:
"Who has the best resistance to alcohol."
Ralph twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard that and said:
"Listen, don't you think you're being a little childish?"
"Childish !? Don't tell me you're scared?" Touka was annoyed and shouted with her finger pointing at Ralph.
"Fear? My only fear is that something will happen because of this and that you will try to kill me later." Ralph spoke as he put a hand on his chin.
"What you mean?" Touka was confused.
"It's simple, a man and a woman alone in a closed apartment. Both drunk and full of hormones ... What do you think can happen?" Ralph spoke slowly and with a smile as he watched Touka's expression.
Touka certainly noticed the problem and looked somber for a moment before she said:
"Hah! Do you really think I'm afraid of something like that? If you try something, I'll just kill you!"
-Something will certainly happen, I am absolutely sure.
Ralph thought with absolute confidence. What Touka said is simply a flag.
Still, Ralph took several bottles of whiskey from the space ring and said:
"I only have Vodka, and it's hot. I'm going to get ice from the fridge."
Whiskey is certainly something that Ralph obtained in Korea.
Touka was a little lost to see that Ralph had so many bottles of drinks. She planned to simply leave the challenge for another day when she was ready ...
After putting ice in two glasses, Ralph gave one of the glasses to Touka.
"Listen, it's not because you're only 16 that I'm going to pity you. I'm good at this." Ralph said as he filled the glass with whiskey.
Touka snorted and filled her glass without hesitation before swallowing the drink at once.
"Hoh? It looks like you're not that bad." Ralph spoke while drinking the whiskey from the glass at once as well.
From there, both continued the challenge. One bottle, two bottles, three bottles ...
After several hours of drinking, both were inevitably drunk due to the high alcohol content of whiskey.
"You're a damn arrogant, you're only 15 and think you're an adult!" Touka spoke with a red face and sobbing.
"Hah! You are just too nosy. Is it your problem the way I am?" Ralph spoke while drinking a glass.
"I'm annoyed! You are just too cocky!" Touka spoke and hit the glass on the table.
"Hehehe, I say the same for you! I'm tired of this bullshit! Get out of here, this apartment is mine and you are not welcome here!" Ralph shouted.
A katana appeared in Touka's hands and she shouted:
"You are a coward! You are afraid of a woman living in the same place as you!"
"Who spoke yellow when bathing! Did you know something? I'm going to win this challenge and send you out of here! Go live under the bridge!" Ralph screamed as he drank straight out of a whiskey bottle.
Touka also started drinking again.
After Ralph emptied the bottle, he sobbed and had to restrain himself from falling on the floor.
"Hahaha! You will lose!" Touka shouted as he continued to drink.
Ralph ground his teeth and looked to the side, there was only one full whiskey bottle left.
Without hesitating, Ralph took it and said:
"Who will lose is you!"
Touka realized that there was only one bottle left and shouted:
"This is not fair! I want that bottle too."
"No! She's mine!" Ralph shouted and walked away from Touka, who pursued him.
After a short confrontation, both fell to the ground, with Touka on top of Ralph and with the bottle in their hands.
"Hahaha, the victory is mine!" Touka spoke as he started drinking.
Ralph gritted his teeth and took Touka's chest, making her cry out in surprise and drop the bottle.
"You bloody pervert, I'm going to kill you!" Touka screamed with the katana in hand and started chasing Ralph again inside the apartment.
As he ran, Ralph tried to drink the whiskey from the bottle.
Touka gave Ralph little opportunity, and she was always trying to get the bottle out of him.
After a few minutes, however, the bottle was destroyed by the katana by accident, dropping the whiskey on the floor.
Ralph and Touka looked at the Whiskey and then looked at each other:
"I drank more than you!" Both shouted at the same time.
After arguing for several minutes, neither reached consensus.
With blurred vision, Ralph looked towards the bathroom and had an idea and started to laugh.
"Let's do it like this, if you take a shower with me, I admit defeat!"
"In my dreams!" Touka shouted angrily.
"What is it? Are you afraid? It's just a bath. Unless you're so childish as to care about it?" Ralph spoke, covering his laughter with one hand.
"Fear !? Never!" Touka screamed while gritting her teeth and looked at the bathroom.
"Okay! But if you touch a finger on me, I win and kill you! Besides, we're both going to bathe in clothes! If you don't agree with that, I won't accept it." Touka proposed.
Ralph thought for a moment and smirked as he said:
"Alright then, come on!"
Ralph entered the bathroom and after a while the sound of the shower water could be heard throughout the apartment.
While being bathed in water, Ralph looked at Touka with a malicious smile and said:
"Do you see? The shower is small, it is better to get closer."
Touka was hesitant for a moment, but gritted his teeth and went over to Ralph.
With just a few fingers away from each other, they could both smell each other's breath and smell despite the falling water.
"Wow, you wear a purple bra!" Ralph suddenly exclaimed.
Touka was shocked and looked down, and saw that her clothes had become transparent. She was wearing a plain white shirt.
Her breasts were well shaped, the purple bra is partially visible, it is undoubtedly D-Cup.
Her face started to boil and turned red as a tomato.
Ralph, clutched as he was, laughed and said:
"What's wrong? Why didn't you start soaping yourself?"
Ralph took the soap bar on the side and gave it to Touka.
Touka started to gnash her teeth and tears slowly appeared in her eyes.
Ralph took advantage of the moment and took off his shirt, showing his spotted body to Touka, who almost passed out.
Without much hesitation, Touka ran out of the bathroom, while Ralph shouted:
"I won!"