I ate together with Hina for a while. To be honest, I didn't think I'd have this much fun eating beside a cute girl.
"So, what's your Over Gear?"
"Hm? Oh, mine are daggers."
She said as she summoned them out. The place where her Over Gear came from was a bracelet. I've never seen a dagger type Over Gear before, let alone two.
"How about you?"
"Mine is just a prototype made by Mr. Aide."
At that, her face looked like she was looking at a crazy person. I didn't understand why she was looking at me like that.
"You mean the Dr. Aide?! The one who invented the Over Gears?!"
So that's why. I keep forgetting that Mr. Aide is actually old. He's just one of those people that doesn't seem to age at all. Sometimes humans really have weird traits. Actually, I don't even know how he made the Over Gears. Hell, maybe no one knows. A compact weapon that could kill otherworldly monsters. Maybe he also came from another world? Or maybe it's just the Over Gears that came from another world.
I summoned my gauntlets and showed them to Hina. I could remove them, which was a relief. She checked it inside out. Her amazed face was pretty funny.
"Wow, I've never seen anything like these before. How do you use it?"
"They're used the same way you use normal gauntlets. The only difference is they provide a 25% strength boost. Nothing big really. Eh? Why are you looking at me like that?"
She looked at me as if saying 'What do you mean nothing big?!' I guess it really is big since it makes my [Multiple] even more powerful than when I'm using it without the gauntlets.
"Can I try them on?"
"Sure."
She put the gauntlets on. At first it was all normal, but then the gauntlet started emitting the same kind of effect it does when appearing. I looked at Hina and her face was full of discomfort. I made the gauntlets disappear. She looked drained out, so I let her have a breather before asking her what happened.
"It was like I was being devoured by darkness. Do you not feel that whenever you wear those things?"
"No, not really."
I wasn't sure what she was talking about. Sure it felt like my mind was being taken over when I first got my Over Gear, but that stopped happening just after that one time. I should ask Mr. Aide about this. Wait, actually…
"Hey, I'm going to visit Mr. Aide's lab later. Wanna come with me?"
"Yes!"
She yelled in happiness. That hurt my ears a lot. Although, I'm happy she agreed. Because to be honest, Mr. Aide can be annoying when he talks about his new ideas and inventions. That's a burden off my shoulders. Though, I feel sorry for leaving this to Hina.
***
After class, I waited outside the school gates for Hina. She was talking with her friends when we were dismissed, so I just told her I'd wait for her at the gate. I had nothing to do until she got here so I took my phone out and told Mr. Aide that I'll be bringing someone over to his lab.
"Heyo Ayato!"
"Yo, you ready to go?"
"Yep!"
We walked together to the bus stop. I was still a bit uncomfortable with being this close with a girl, so I distanced myself a bit.
"Why are you that far away?"
Although, she noticed what I was doing right away. 'I guess I gotta man up.'
I walked beside her. After a few minutes of walking, I was actually getting a bit more comfortable with this.
We were lucky that the bus was at the bus stop right as we got there. I let her enter first then I follow. We sat next to each other at the very end. The journey to the lab was actually pretty long, so right now Hina is sleeping beside me with her head on my shoulder. Is she that comfortable with me already?
'I hope that a portal won't open. I'm having fun now, so that would just suck. I hope I had the ability to scan.'
Just then, something like what happened this morning happened again.
[Surrounding scan complete. Number of portals is 0.]
'What is this?!'
I was being careful not to scream so that I wouldn't accidentally wake up Hina. 'Hm, let me try something…'
'Is this a system?'
[Yes.]
'Damn, that worked…'
I wasn't really sure how to react to this. Although, it was pretty annoying that it talks to me through messages and not through a voice. I could probably make it so that it speaks.
'Can you just talk and not send messages?'
[Roger.]
'Wow, a girl is in my head. Wait, don't look at my memories!'
[Denied. All memories have been scanned completely.]
'Crap!'
Well, I think the system isn't sentient so it's probably fine. I just wonder where I got this thing. Was it from the things implanted in me? Is it a passive ability? And if so, why did it only show up now?
I decided to just brush it off for now because we are now at the lab. Maybe I could ask Mr. Aide about this.