While Rachel hummed in joy downstairs, Sarah had just finished moving the boxes away while refusing to be aided in this endeavour.
Morpheus sighed and scratched his silky hair, 'I think I beat her too hard...'
He likely did, but it doesn't matter... the objective had been accomplished.
"Here, do you want me to clean it for you?" It was a little dusty but it was a big room nonetheless, these kinds of houses are difficult to attain in London but since it's an inheritance, they can't do anything against them as the ownership is on paper.
"It's okay, I can clean the rest." He said and waved his hand lightly.
Sarah felt how a breeze moved through her cheeks, eventually turning into a small tornado that fluttered the dirt around in its core, she moved her shocked gaze towards the God that only remained with his eyes shining slightly, his short auburn hair fluttering in might.
She blushed and moved her gaze away.
"How can you do this, are you even going to tell me? Is it magic?" If he doesn't have any enhancement, how exactly does this work? She's too curious.
"It's magic… but the way it works, it's not something you can comprehend."
"Can you take a bunny out of a hat?" She tilted her head with a challenge.
"..."
'I will ignore that...' Truthfully, he can't... why is this again?
"…" Seeing his silence, she didn't inquiry further, it had been just a cliclé question alright? that's the most basic thing you must be able to do if you claim yourself a magician!
'If you want to be cryptic, I'll realise myself sooner or later.'
Rather than leave the room to let him do wha the wanted she sat on the bed instead.
"…?" He natural expected her to depart by now.
"Can we talk?" She fidgetted with her gaze glaring straight at him, she wasn't a shy girl by any means, but when in front of this fellow, she can't help but get awkward.
"What do you want to talk about?" He rested against the wall with his arms crossed, waiting.
"I wanted to apologise… last time… I tried to kill you… you could have also done so many times but I was stubborn… so, sorry…"
"No problem, is that all?" He'd be a joke to consider that 'game' an assassination attempt.
His life had never been at risk.
Only that missile that V2|N used before could have possible cause injures to him, not a mere robotic girl…
"… no, there is nothing else…" she wanted to talk about something else, but didn't know what to say.
"Would you like to play with VR? I have a second one…" She grit her teeth when he broke up her favourite pink shining one, only the grey dull one remains.
"Play? Play what?" He furrowed his brows, has he ever 'played' anything in his life?
Probably not... his entire life was spent either fighting or suffering... perhaps only with Yaksha... but they played another kind of game...
"I don't know… games, races and that… you have never tried it right? To some extent you can without having a chip… mother said that you don't want to have a chip. I thought the anti-techno faction had perished a few decades ago."
"I'm not from any 'anti-techno' faction... I just don't like having those disgusting things in my sacred body..."
"That's something someone from the 'anti-techno' faction would say..."
"..."
"... s-so? should we play?"
"Very well, but in exchange, I want something from you."
"Do I have to beg you to play!?" She felt outraged, isn't this a friendly exchange? how comes she suddenly has to give something back?!
"..." He crossed his arms, determined to take something out of this experience, not only would he have to step into that filthy room full of neon light, he'd also have to spend some of his brain cells!
"Okay okay... what do you want? nothing lewd..." She blushed and added that in the end, totally aware that he'd likely not do something like that... that's why, she had to give him the idea, right?
Her 'idea' got utterly disregarded by the magic god who didn't even pay attention to it.
"I want information and also... to check your arms.. your bionic arms..." He regarded them, after having checked them last time, there were plenty more things he is curious about.
"Oh...? deal! what kind of information do you need?" She thought he'd request for something more complicated.
Since he accepted she stood up, took his hand and lead him to her room.
"I know where the room is..."
"You might get lost..."
"... do I look like a kid to you?!"
"Sometimes..."
**
**
They reached her neon hell and the girl got literally forced to decrease the brightest of her neon lights.
But really... he felt as if he was sitting in the sun's crest... he had done that before and it's more comforting than this.
"You didn't answer my question, what information do you want?"
She took her grey VR and sat on the bed, then took some kind of weird glasses and passed them to him.
"It's about this world... I want to know what things are being done for this world to be in such a state..."
"What do you mean with 'things'...?" She switched on the VR and linked it with the glasses, motioning him to put them on.
"The resources that are being extracted, how exactly are they being extracted? how much is this planet being exploited?" He wore the glasses and waited.
Back in his world, it's not like evolution didn't exist, people took ores, minerals from the earth, but it never reached a point where any of those planets had this degree of devastation occurring to it.
It also never happened that they had this degree of technological evolution either.
Sarah patted the side of her bed, beaconing him to lay beside her and he did.
"We can go through that later, right now... we're going to play!"
"How does this work?" He analysed the glasses, she pressed some buttons on her VR helmet and a light shone in the glasses.
"With those glasses, you will be just a spectator... in order to truly play the game you need to be connected to the local network and have a chip, you will only be able to interact with me and see me, we're going for a ride, are you ready?~"
He nodded, perhaps not too expectant of anything.
[Begin Connection, load disk: Centric Danger, load server: Spurtzdusk999]
[Loading Connection: success, loading spectator... connecting to the spectator:error:404:notfound... initiating local VLAN connection:success]
"Oh..." Hearing the voices in his head, Morpheus literally wiggled his feet with emotion, mostly wondering what kind of procedures are moving beneath the scenes to produce this exchange 'connection this', 'connection that'.
When she saw this she giggled.
It was then that Morpheus' vision through the glasses broadened.
"Your vision won't be perfect since the game is expecting you to have enhanced sight, but it should be okay..."
Sarah's body stopped moving completely and instead, he heard a rather 'cute' voice to his side when they arrived in a world that looked like a barren city.
He moved his head to the side curiously... he doesn't have a body, just a vision... then moved his head to the direction of where that cute voice came from, and that's when he saw it.
"AAAHHH!!" He yelled involuntarily when he saw what looked like a weird mass of green blackish goo standing beside him, the hell!?
"Hey..."
The 'Goo' spoke!
"Who are you!? what are you!?" He never saw such a weird lifeform before, sadly he didn't have hands in this world, otherwise, the god might touch it to see what it's composition is... looks like some kind of acid poison.
"I'm Sarah!"
"Hey, Sarah! there is an ugly thing here saying that its name is Sarah! where are you!?"
"I'm Sarah dammit! stop shaking my body! I can't move it!"
...
It had taken a full ten minutes of convincing before the girl had to reluctantly switch her avatar into something that resembled he real appearance.
She changed it to a pink-haired mature bombshell with shining red hair.
"..."
"..."
"Who are you?"
"I'm going to hit you, Morpheus... for real." She's reaching her limits, even her grandma is not this klutz.
"... guess you're truly Sarah, only she is this violent." He had to sigh and relent, what a weird world this is.
She grits her virtual teeth at that moment... that was an insult, right?
[spectator lost... waiting...]
He took out his glasses and outside, everything looked the same and Sarah was lying on her
[reconnected...]
"It's really some kind of virtual world... so? what are we going to do here?"
"I told you we were going to do some racing..." She started to wave her hand within the barren city and some kind of weird interface popped up in front of her.
"Hey Sarah, about time you came!"
Suddenly someone yelled from afar...
"... UGH..." Now, this is what she didn't want to face.
...
Morpheus moved his gaze to the side and noticed a bunch of people coming his way, each looked stranger than the last.
An octopus, some kind of reptile, a rat with a hat... what the fuck?
'This world doesn't make sense.'
"Ashton..." Sarah sighed, a little relieved that the guy is alive, but right now she doesn't want to meet him... she wants to break up with him, but not in front of Morpheus.
"Sarah, you haven't even come to see me in the hospital, I'm still in bed you know!" He then moved his gaze to the 'ghost' that was floating beside her, the spectator... and shivered!
"Yeah... I'm sorry Ashton, I don't think I'll be able to go... I'm kind of... busy, but if you're okay we can see each other at school next Monday and discuss some things..."
She tried to not sound like a bitch, she's the one that led him to a beating after all.
"W-Why is he here?!" Ashton's gaze, when looking at Morpheus' ghost, felt nothing more than pure fear.
The beating he had gotten... it's a miracle that he's alive!
"..." Morpheus remained silent, he didn't really care about this bunch, in fact... if not for the fact that she said 'Ashton' he might have forgotten her boyfriend's existence... such people aren't even worth remaining within his memories.
"Oh, is he the one boss? we will beat the shit out of him!"
!!!
"S-Stop fools! Sarah.... why!?" He didn't want to get his entire gang disabled, but he still needed to know why she is hanging out with the guy that beat him to a crisp and almost left him crippled.
"Well, we're kind of friends now... right?" She turned her delicious artificial body to the ghost who only shrugged his shoulders and nodded.
"I suppose... are we doing this or not?"
"Yes, right away! fufu~ I didn't know you liked races that much..."
"No... it's just, this world looks rather interesting... I'd like to see it further." The ghost moved his head around seemingly forgetting the existence of the three fellows.
"So, that's how it is Ashton... sorry for before... I'll make sure to pay the repayments of your enhancements, see you on Monday..." Sarah touched some buttons in the interface and she together with the ghost disappeared.
"..." The rat with a hat couldn't say anything more.
His girlfriend just treats him like a total stranger.
"That's how they're boss... it happened to me too, after a single fuck... she left me, guess I wasn't that good"
"Don't worry, we're here for you... always will, boss."
"I DON'T NEED YOU, DAMMIT!!"
**
**
"WOOOO!!"
With Morpheus sitting in the co-pilot seat, Sarah drove recklessly through the streets in a kind of luxurious sports car, going full throttle down the road!
Morpheus had his gaze looking at the other twenty vehicles behind, she seems to be rather good at this.
'So this is driving...?'
"So what do you think!?" She drove, trying to showcase her best skills and looking at the boy that resembled more a kid that was looking at a screen for the first time in his life.
"Ah? Well, it's rather thrilling but... I can't help but think why would you do this here if you can do it in the real world?" He wondered, just get a vehicle and do it, right?
!!!
"Of course because you can't do this in the real world! you will get arrested if you're seen going this fast, it's like breaking the rules!" She drifted along a curve with outrage, isn't the question self-explanatory?!
"Breaking the rules? is that bad?"
"..." Now she's truly empty of words, what is she supposed to say? who is this person? is this a person or a kid?
In all truth, there are no rules for the Magic God.
"Forget it... can you attack those people?" He pointed to the cars approaching from behind.
"Yes I can, but I haven't obtained any box yet!"
"Then what are you waiting for? kill them..."
"You're unexpectedly violent... oh wait... no, that's normal in you"
Her cheeks are witnesses.
**
**
At another instance, Sarah found herself clutching inside a massive building in the middle of the night, holding a futuristic light-based sniper.
She took cover behind a iron desk, awaiting her 'partner's instructions...
"Are there any?!"
"... I don't see anything, go, go now!" Morpheus said confidently.
"Okay!" She prepared to move to the next mark where she would be able to snipe the hell out of the other team, having a ghost in this case is quite useful.
*PAPAPAPAPAAPAPAP!!!!*
But the moment she left the cover, bullets rained on her!
Totally useless!
She miraculously managed to reach it by sliding but her health went down more than half!
"YOU SAID THERE WAS NO ONE DAMMIT!" She wanted to cry.
"Oh, sorry... I didn't see that one."
"THERE WERE FIVE!"
"Ups?"