I began to quickly put all of my clothes back on and reequip all of my weapons before voicing towards Claire.
"Claire we have no food or any spare clothes to change into, I'm going to run to the store to get us some stuff!"
"Wait, Faust, I'll head with you, don't go out on your own!"
"Don't worry, I'll remain in the sanctioned area, enjoy your bath, I'll be back in less than an hour."
I left as I began exiting the building. I pressed the button to call for the elevator and waited. A younger-looking girl walked up right next to me as she waited for the elevator as well. Standing at 5'3 with shorter blonde hair and a flat chest she could easily be mistaken as a boy, although from my point of view her face seemed feminine. Her attire consisted of a tan trench coat with black pants and boots.
Before long the elevator door opened as we both walked in. She got to the holographic panel before me as she chose the ground floor before looking at me.
"What floor are you headed to?"
"Ground floor as well."
She gave a plain nod before leaning on the side of the elevator as we began to head down.
"You the new resident on the fifth floor?"
"Yeah, my wife and I just moved in here today."
She tilted her head and gave a confused sound.
"Your wife? You look way too young to have a wife."
"It's a long story."
The girl laughed before the elevator's doors opened and she walked out. "Well, I'll hear about it another day, so long."
I quickly began walking out of the apartment building as I opened the doors to the front. Looking up I had noticed how it was still nighttime. Now that I thought about it, it was nighttime when we first entered this world. I accessed my bracelet to check the time as it read that the time was only 20:30. That couldn't be right, we've been in this world for almost a whole day. There was no reason to fret over this, everyone felt it was natural, I can probably figure out soon enough.
After wandering around in the city for long enough, I came across a convenience store. Entering in, it looks similar to those back home with just more upgraded commodities and some holographic displays. Going deeper into the store I found a clothing section where I randomly bought two sets of pajamas and a pack of underwear and also a pack of bras and underwear for Claire.
I hastily went to the food aisle as I saw a package of turkey legs sitting under a heater as I picked it up, and also a few bottles of alcohol. Afterward, I went to a self-checkout line. I scanned everything as the total came to 30 credits. The translation to credits and US dollars didn't seem that much different. I bagged all my goods as I began to walk out.
To the right of me, I noticed a holographic board in which the elevator girl was interacting with it. I got closer and shifted my position to see what she was looking at. The display showed bounty hunting contracts as she began accepting a few before looking at me.
"Man, you must not be around here if you are giving this much of a curiously look."
"Sorry Miss, no, we came from a very distant land."
"Hm... That is interesting, well it took a while for me to conform to this city, so no worries. Anyways, I'm heading home, see ya later."
I looked at the interface tab she left open as a bounty hunting job looking for any guards to be bouncers towards a casino for a weekend. The job asked for any level of experience and for all the guards to bring their own weapons. The one thing that eased me was that it was in a sanctioned part of the city. However, I felt that with several guards, we were sure to be well protected if anything got too out of hand. It's not like we could do a solo job with just Claire and I as the only two armed members. I accepted the job, as I then forwarded one of the listings to Claire's ID bracelet. I then began to walk back.
Eventually, I made it back with Claire still in the bathroom she heard me enter as I turned my head and opened the bathroom door and left the clothes on the floor before quickly getting out.
"Is that you Faust?"
"Yeah, I came back with some underwear and a sleeping gown for you."
"Thank you so much, I can't believe we didn't think this out earlier."
I began to change into my pajamas as I began taking out the turkey and the beer. To be honest, I bought it to see if an alert would pop up for me being too young, although I realized this isn't America, so the age of drinking isn't 21. I wonder if I am going to have to study and read up on the laws, becoming a bounty hunter seems like the type of job I should do only if I know my rights.
Claire came out with the new clothes as she sat across from me at the kitchen counter, she looked at the beer and then looked at me as I began placing turkey on two plates.
"Why did you buy that?"
"We're in a foreign land so might as well try something unique."
She sighed and shrugged before opening a glass and trying it. I opened the beer as I took a sip. It was something I had never tasted before that I couldn't even explain how I could describe it. The turkey tasted completely normal, at least there were some foods I was familiar with. A few minutes after eating I began to yawn and stood up and walked up a small set of stairs to where the bed was and went under the sheets and fell asleep.
What's this? Why am I floating in a dark void? I went to sleep, right? I closed my eyes again as I was in a dark basement, guns began to fire off at me while being covered by a desk. I had my desert eagle in hand as they continued to shoot at the desk, none of the bullets landing on me. I quickly went peaked out of cover as I began to look at targets, and found one who exposed himself. He had a metal shield in front of him with a mounted submachine gun firing at me. I tried to shoot some bullets at the shield but none worked. It seemed that he was exposed to all other sides but myself. I began to close my eyes as I felt all forms of heat around me. My gun was warm, especially the chamber, the bullets around me had above average heat as well.
Bullets have a small explosive charge through the primer that makes them shoot off. All I have to do is control where my bullet goes mid-fire. I began to picture the manipulation of the trajectory, a bullet curving around the shield hitting the man behind it. I had the image in my head as I peeked up again and tried to fire at him again with this visualization, shooting once more the bullet's trajectory didn't work. What could I be doing wrong?
Maybe I have to focus on controlling the object in a continuous sequence. I imagined the bullet currently in the chamber of my Deagle as I began to tense up my right hand as if I were holding onto a ball of energy. My nerves began to glow as I kept the idea of the bullet in the chamber in my head. Peeking once again I shot my gun a little to the shield's left as my hand twitched slightly I began to curve the trajectory. The repeating gunfire of the shield stopped as it thudded to the ground.
I gave a deep exhale as I closed my eyes again, opening them again I saw the same dark void as I was floating.
Where's Claire?