'Honestly- what do I do next with her?' Sion questioned himself as he had laid the Zara on his bed for the time being.
>> You kidnap her and proceed to put her upon your bed- your not a pervert are you? << Sion immediately took offence as he covered the woman with some blankets before yelling back at 02.
"You think I'm like that!? Didn't you see my fucked past 02!? I ain't that low!" He was pissed as he exited his bedroom only to see his phone light up again with 'boss' indicating Franes was calling him yet again. 'She was useful then. Now she's a pain' he thought as he turned his device off instead of silent this time.
>> It was a joke before << 02 spoke, this time seeming somewhat apologetic?
"You keep surprising me on your attitude towards me" 'was 02 adapting to become an AI with intelligence of a human?' Now that he wasn't distracted he checked his status for the first time in awhile.
>> Host status
- Name: Sion Reed (fake name: Sho Night). Skill points: 17 >> 26
- lvl: 15 >> 17
- strength: 72 >> 92
- stamina: 80 >> 86
- agility: 85 >> 89
- intelligence: 75 >> 82
- Age: 18
- Species: Lycan (teenager)
-Job (N/A)
- Title - "King of Dominance"
- ????- ??????????????????-
When Sion read his status nothing seemed out of place, although he was surprised to see he levelled up so much while training. He was more interested in the sudden question-marks under his title?
'What the hell? Why did that show up only now?' Again like he did when he first saw the status he went to tap it. A part of him expected to touch nothing, however his finger was actually stopped by the screen this time. 'Wait… what?' Tapping the screen a few times to make sure it wasn't just a fluke he realised he could do something he couldn't do originally. 'What's up with this? Why can I touch it now when I couldn't back then?'
A brief flash of the altar came to mind but he shook off that dreadful feeling of it having something to do with the sudden ability to be more in depth with the system than before.
Without thinking too much on the new development, Sion tapped the question marks for another tab to show up next to the only one he'd been able to see until now.
= Tab (information) =
- ???? - ??????????????????-
The? blo??od in y?our vein?s is n?ot yo?ur?s????
(The blood in your veins is not yours?)
????????Se?ek t?he? F?i??nal?l me?mor?ies?????
(Seek the final memories?)
13%/100%??
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'I can barely read this? What does that even mean?' Sion suddenly realised he'd heard this before not too long ago.
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'why am I so aggressive?'
- Cause you have blood running through your veins that isn't yours anymore -
"What? What does that mean?"
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'There's no way that beast is responsible for this? Is there?' Looking at the percentage of memories that it seemed he had to find was even more of a confusing tip. 'The final memories?' He was pretty sure he hadn't sustained head trauma, emotional, physical and mental breakdowns in the past sure but nothing like amnesia.
Then again he wouldn't have been surprised if he had sustained something like that.
'02? You can see everything I can see right? Can you maybe read this?' Sion pointed to his status as 02 spoke.
>> I can see what you see mostly outside the system, but I cannot see the system the way you can << Sion put a hand under his chin to lean on it as he slumped on the table a bit in front. It was clear to him that 02 was more the system and couldn't see the status or extra tabs that provided more information.
'I guess that rules out the whole conspiracy theory of 02 being a different entity like the beast… or does it? If 02 is able to control and make the system work to the advantage of something that's been said, then wouldn't that mean that 02 is superior to the system in general?' So many thoughts as he then noticed something else in front of him on the top left corner just above the status information.
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(@) message 1
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He had a message and it seemed to flash? Sitting up Sion reached his arm to it and tapped it, making it open up till he was swallowed into another room?!
This room was white with no windows or doors and it seemed that his chair had been dragged in, a rather cliché convenience. Blinking a few times, Sion looked around till he spotted something appearing on the right side wall. A door seemed to glitch into existence and open revealing what seemed to be a panda that walked into the room?
This panda was clearly way too tall to be a normal panda, it also appeared to wear quite expensive clothing. It wasn't the weirdest thing Sion had seen in all honesty. People with their 'second genders' tended to take photos of their beast and display them as art. Although to Sion it was technically nudity and well yeah -regardless of fur, feathers or scales when most of the world was technically all that and more with abilities.
The panda seemed to stop and look at Sion with round black eyes, 'it's kinda cute' Sion expressed to himself, already realising that 02 wasn't present in this artificial made space. Although they had made eye contact, the panda kept staring, it was an awkward sort of silence that would make anyone kind of uncomfortable.
Finally after 5mins the panda spoke, "sorry I needed to make sure our language was the same, I had to wait 5 mins till it was downloaded" 'what the hell!? Downloading a language??' Sion sweat dropped at that as the panda suddenly began to float in midair in front of him. "I am surprised though" the Panda spoke once more, Sion finally taking notice of the gruff voice as the creature pulled out a bamboo stick and proceeded to munch on it.
"What exactly are you surprised about?" Sion wasn't very patient and this guy wasn't exactly going to go any faster in speaking what or why this was happening.
"Frankly I'm surprised you didn't scream, faint or touch me thinking I was a dream or something like that" 'something like that… was this guy referring to when someone got high?'
"Well it's quite normal where I come from" was he really just speaking casually with this guy? Granted his 'second gender' had an inbuilt calm reaction to any chaotic or confusing situation but this was just…ridiculous.
"You seem human enough though? Don't tell me the God's have already contracted those in your world?"
"Contracted?" Sion questioned as the panda crunched his new second bamboo stick.
"Yes- it's something like a form- there's many world's you see and many God's- I was told that this world has only just begun reconstruction-" he spoke his words with bamboo in his mouth as if it was such a common and normal thing that happened.
"Are you saying that there's more than just fractures, dungeons, monsters and the ability to use powers?" Sion enquired more seriously as the panda pulled out his 4th bamboo stick having finished his second and third.
"Yeah that's about the gist of it- reconstruction of a world usually begins with the light purge"
Upon that line of words Sion pushed himself so quickly towards the floating panda and pushed his fist directly close to his chubby head. However within that split second the panda had pulled out a gun and had the metal pressed against Sion's temple in return.
"You're pretty fast- does that mean that you've already been contracted- no you're fast enough to make me draw my gun on you, so maybe you're a descendant?" The panda spoke as his once black eyes seemed to now be electric green while his bamboo stick was being held in his mouth still with his other paw.
'He was fast enough to see me coming even though I'm faster than a bullet. He's dangerous, I shouldn't have engaged without a bit more assessment on the situation' pulling back his arm Sion made distance between them, his seat long forgotten on the floor as the panda put his gun away.
It seemed that Sion's world was about to get a rude awakening for the second time since the green light purge.