Several days passed by in a flash and it was now 17th of June. I have been diligently preparing for the mission, finding information, testing out more of the phone's function and my ability.
The information I managed to find was nothing special, after all there's only so much you could do with only a name. The Lunar street doesn't actually exist anymore. It was replaced a long time ago and is now under the name of Venar and it's about 2km away from my home. I went to check it a few times but found nothing strange. I even wandered the place for a whole night looking for potential clue but found nothing strange. It's frustrating but I would have to wait patiently till a closer date to find anything.
The testing of the phone went a little bit better with me finding some pretty useful function. I can actually use points to reset the cooldown for all app. However it's said that the price will increase exponentially, more specifically x10 each use and the starting price is 1k points so it's something to think about for later.
Next is the points itself. There'll be a point reward at the end of every month and one at the end of every year. It's dependent on how many missions(and it's difficulty) but there'll always be a based reward of 500 points and it'll increase every year. Looks like it's pretty considerate.
The last thing I managed to figure out was the price of [Help and advice]. The price for advice is typically points, however it can be free too if I have enough relevant information for what I want to ask. It's simply to make uses of and will potentially be very beneficial. The price for help however is much more... varied. It depends on the creator's mood which is too big of a gamble to take so I'll refrain from using this.
If everything went well and I managed to complete the mission, I'll use advice to learn how to 'grow' my skill. It might be a waste considering the cooldown is half a year but knowing the importance of [King of luck] I can't afford to waste its potential.
As for ability, [Athlete's boost] works much better than I originally expected. Using it helps my body return to peak condition no matter how tired I was. There's limitations though as it doesn't help my mental fatigue. It also can't heal my wounds as I tried activating it after making a cut on my finger. It only make me feels better but the wound is still there.
For now I decided to use the ability to train myself in the gym. Since I can practice two times longer than the average person I'll only need strong willpower.
However today is my break day. I'm currently hanging out in the bookstore I'm working at with 2 of my best friends. On the opposite side was a sunny boy with an energetic expression on his face. He has long brown hair, delicate facial features and bright blue eyes. Though he may seems small at first but the dude is 6 feet tall.
His name is Lucien, age 20 and son of a medium size company and an complete extrovert. The man got the charm and the skill having scored in the top 5 of class every time. He's quite the enjoyable fella to be with.
Next to the him was a perfect image of a cold beauty. Long smooth black hair and her face looks like a frozen sculpture. Her name's Mel and she's also 20 years old.
She tends to not speak a whole lot so people often think she has a cold personality. As a person who has hanged out together for a long time however I know that she's a big tomboy. Whenever she speaks a myriad of curses follows.
We met in middle school and stayed close ever since. I'm also proud to say they are dating. Why am I proud you asked? Well because it's the product of this amazing wingman! Yup, without me it would probably take them forever to start dating.
"Oh also, Lucien you know anything about the Venar street? I've read a pretty interesting horror story that took place there."
Mel looks at me like an idiot.
"Dummy you read the weirdest shit." [Mel]
I rolled my eyes at her remark. Since she decided to pick a fight I won't back down.
"Oh sureeee. Just because you can't stand horror stories doesn't make them weird 'Ms frozen princess'"
"Hey!" [Mel]
She glared at me with all her might. I glared back with double the strength.
The staring contest continued for a minute until Mel gave up.
"Fine fine. I never gets why you like reading horror stories in the first place. Real life is scary enough already!" [Mel]
I smiled at her smugly, savoring my victory. Lucien roared with laughter and Mel looks away embarrassed.
"Well I haven't heard anything interesting about that street but I'll keep an eye out for you buddy." [Lucien]
"Thanks mate."
"Everything for my best wingman." [Lucien]
I feel like every inches of my body just cringed from his word. I shouldn't have bragged about myself being the best wingman in front of him. Thinking about it is fine but hearing it out loud is simply too much.
"Never call me that again."
"Sure you Dummy." [Lucien]
I decided to take my mind of the matter and to enjoy the rest of the day.
* * * * * * * *
In the dead of night, the same day. Two hooded figures could be seen wandering around the Venar street. One wear a clown outfit while the other wear a boar mask. Despite the strange outfits, the pedestrians nearby doesn't show any interest and walked by them as if they weren't there. The clown figure asked the boar mask.
"How's the plan going?" [Clown]
A rough voice answered back.
"It's going smoothly. However recently there's a brat going around the street. He doesn't have any Karma reaction but he's definitely intentionally looking around, Desire already conformed it." [Boar]
"How easy it's to get rid of him?" [Clown]
"Doesn't seem like he belongs anywhere. However he's quite a rich brat." [Boar]
"Do what you must. Don't disappoint the organization." [Clown]
After saying those words the clown vanished. The boar mask took out his phone and called someone else.
"104 and 213. There's a job for you to do. Go find and eliminate the person in this picture. Do it quietly and don't contact back until the plan is done. Better be fast and don't disappoint us." [Boar]
Afterward the figure also disappeared, leaving the quiet street to it's own.
* * * * * * * *
At the same time, Dummy's house.
I couldn't go to sleep no matter how hard I try. Is it because of the many sleepless nights I had in this past or the many times I wander around at night. Or simply because I ran out of sleeping pills? I don't know.
When I was pondering what to do, the special phone start buzzing. It's the first time that this has happened so I curiously open it up.
[Quick-time mission: Survive! (Starting in 2 hours)
Difficulty: Rank 7
Description: Since you seek death, death is coming!
Unprofessionally probing around the supernatural world is the fastest way to get killed! Congrats on managing to do so on your first month!
Tasks:
1) Survive the assassination of a rank 8 and rank 6 Extraordinaries.
Rewards: A life saving amulet.
Failure: Death.]
...?
Calm down me. This mission was too sudden and the content spooked me out of my mind.
An assassination. Looking at the description, the reason for it is simple. I had wandered around the Venar street several times already and it's a location where some supernatural event is going to happen. From there it's easy to think why did this situation came to be.
I was too careless. Perhaps it's because the phone that I've assumed everything happening is a game. But it's not. I'll need to drill this matter into my mind later but for now I need to focus on how to survive this calamity.
First thing is there's no way I can do anything about it if the opponent is a rank 6. Although I don't understand much about the ranking system yet, it's easy to figure out how big of a gap is a rank 6 compared to me, someone who you could still very easily consider a normal person. Since that's the case, there's only one way I can think to get out of this...
The [Help and advice] section.
"Sigh... Just as I thought I should stay away from it I made this stupid mistake."
There's no point in complaining now that things have already progressed this far.
I pressed the [Buy Help] button with a heavy heart. Soon enough the plushie I hid in the safe teleported right on top my head, imitating a yawn.
"So soon? Dummy you're such a klutz lately you know?" [Plushie]
I look bitterly at it knowing everything it said was true. Since I have no way to make a comeback let's just get it over with.
"Can you help me with this mission?"
"Of course I can. I'll complete it for 50k points, you can go into debt in the shop if you're wondering." [Plushie]
50K POINTS?!? What's this price?
"Why is it 50k points?"
"Why? Because you're asking to resolve everything and that includes saving your life and dealing with the aftermath for you. Don't tell me your life is not worth a measly 50k points?" [Plushie]
That's true... but 50k points isn't something I could afford right now. A good beginning is something I need to maintain.
"How about this. You create a barrier around my house to prevent them from getting in?"
"It's 2k points. However that's a bad idea, they can just report back to whoever want you dead and there'll be a possibility of something scarier coming your way." [Plushie]
Dammit! What can I do? All I have is an ability that increase my stamina. Wait... that could work.
"Then can you make them drop to rank 10 when they comes in contact with me? For only 10 minutes!"
"If you want so. Since that's the case I'll simply take your mission reward and replace it with a small piece of information instead as price. Their rank will drop after coming 7m near you and they'll notice it 3m near you. Have fun!" [Plushie]
Without saying another word the plushie disappeared, possibly going back to where it was before. It went away suspiciously quick but I have no time to think about that.
Another problem I have to solve is that I still need an offensive option if I want to retaliate.
Comes to think of it, my father did tell me to check under his wardrobe for dangerous situations. I guess it's finally time to see what's inside.
As my house has 2 floor, it's best to stay inside my parents room upstairs too.
Opening up the trapdoor inside the wardrobe I found myself a shotgun.? A freaking shotgun?? Where did he even gets this stuffs.
Funnily enough my parents have already trained me to use several firearms including this shotgun too... Wait this shotgun is exactly the one I used in the past! It still has 'my gun' that I tattooed onto it.
Questions for my parents later but right now it's convenient. Although the time is tight I'll try to call for help. After all they will still be rank 10 Extraordinaries while I'm a normal human, I'll need all the advantage I can get.
Right now the only one I can think of is a police friend of my parents and the one who trained me with gun. But when I called him, no signal were found. A small wicked voice found it's way to my ears.
"Since you used my help for cheap I won't let you get any other help. Kekeke." [Plushie]
...
Fuck!