"Have you two finally recovered from your shock?" Vale asked at Kai and Jason, as he was staring at their frozen expressions, while holding on his rapier.
"..."
He got no answers, as he had expected, since it's been over half an hour since they summoned their weapons and ever since they uttered the words "What in the actual f*ck just happened?", they haven't moved an inch. Right now, he thought that the two of them had recovered, when they showed slight motions, but those hopes were dashed away and was tempted to slap them in the face. As for Mei, she had basically fainted a few seconds after the two of them stopped functioning.
"I'm rather curious, but is this a common thing that happens on your world?" Marianna asked, as he walked towards Vale and looked at the duo.
"Fainting from shock is not exactly a rare thing, it's rather common, but a normal person won't see it on a daily basis. But seeing them paralyzed like this, I feel like this situation has come out of a sit-com or something similar." Vale answered with a thoughtful expression, while contemplating about slapping them or not.
"A sit-com? What is that?" Marianna asked curiously.
"Ehhh... It's kind of a form of entertainment people of my world see. The basic gist of it is that it's a bunch of incidents that follow a group of people, be it friends, family, acquaintances, roommates and whatnot and those incidents can range from mundane things, such as struggling to pick your lunch, to absurd situations, such as being kidnapped by a fanatic and being forced to stay in their basement, as if you are their trophy and you belong to them." Vale explained with a calm expression, without turning his head towards Marianna.
"Oh. That is... A unique form of entertainment." Marianna answered with an awkward expression.
"Sit-coms aren't exactly meant to be taken seriously. They are just shows with a bunch of added comedic effects, such as dry laughs, fitting sound effects and the occasional tune to set the mood of the moment. Basically, just think of them as a bunch of small and bizarre performances, with the occasional drama and traumatic events included." After Vale finished his explanation, he breathed in and out a bit, before he suddenly raised his hand and slapped both Kai and Jason with all of his strength.
*clap* *clap*
"Ouch!" "Ah! What the hell?" Both Kai and Jason exclaimed at the same time, right after they were slapped.
"Welcome back to reality. Was the dreamscape good? Do you have any souvenirs?" Vale asked sarcastically, as he crossed his arms and stared at the duo.
"Dude. Don't expect a normal person to be fine after summoning stuff out of thin air." Kai explained, as he was rubbing his hurting cheek.
"I just did it in front of you. Wasn't that proof enough for you two?" Vale asked seriously, as he adjusted his glasses with a serious expression.
"Yes, but... *sigh* Nevermind." Kai tried explain, but gave up since he didn't have a good rebuttal. Besides, when he saw Vale summon his weapon first, he didn't think it actually work immy and maybe it take longer or something similar like that.
"So... We can summon weapons out of air now... Ok, I think I definitely had enough to drink last night and I'm currently dreaming of this, while snoring loudly on my couch." Jason exclaimed to himself, as he paced back and forth nervously.
*smack* "You are not dreaming. I also did the same thing as you just now. Got it?" Kai explained, as he smacked Jason's head from behind.
"Ouch! Why the hell did you do that for?" Jason asked with an angry expression.
"To snap you you out of it, you nervous dumbass." Kai answered back with the same expression as his.
"I have every reason to be nervous and panicking right now. Normal people don't just make weapons out of thin air, alright Kai?"
"I know it's not normal, but we just saw it for ourselves. We did it ourselves and these things are real. Accept it for now and we'll deal with this later." Kai explained with a slightly quieter voice, as he got close to Jason.
"Please let this be just a long drunken dream." Jason complained before sighing and rubbing his temples.
After somehow managing to calm down Jason, only then did he decide to thoroughly examine his white gloves. Of course, the examination didn't take more than a few seconds to find out all that he can learn from the gloves themselves. They were white, skintight and didn't seem to get any dirt or dust stuck on them.
"Have the two of you calmed down?" Archibald asked with a calm expression.
"I have calmed down, to a certain extent. Not exactly the first time I've gotten myself into trouble, but this is by far, not the worst I have experienced." Kai exclaimed, as he remembered some of his worst troubles he had experienced in his life.
"Really? What's the worst?" Archibald asked curiously.
"Always check the hours for the open air baths, whenever you go at a hot springs resort. Please, always do that, for the rest of your life." Kai explained with a dark and gloomy expression, before it turned into a desperate one. As he explained, he noticed that the room was quite emptier and aside from the royal siblings, himself, the otherworlders and a couple of other people, there was no one else in the throne room.
"Say, where did everyone else go?" Kai asked.
"They left because you two refused to wake up, after being called for a while. So the king decided to end the meeting a bit early and told me to pass you this message: "Once you three awaken, check on your abilities through the use of the word Status. As for the girl, summon your weapon, before you faint once again." Got it? Same goes for you too, Jason." Vale explained, as he adjusted his glasses and rubbed his temples.
"Are you for... Nevermind, this is a different world, so things are bound to work differently." Kai gave up in the end trying to make sense of things and instead, called out with a tired expression:
"Status."
Once he called it out, a familiar purple panel appeared in front of him.
[ STATUS MENU
PLEASE CHOOSE THE INTERFACE YOU WISH TO SEE:
STATS
ABILITIES
SPELLS
MASTERIES
LOGS]
So this was actually real. Kai thought to himself, as he stared at the purple screen, before looking at each and every panel, one by one.
[A/N: EX stands for Exclusive, RNM stands for Requirements Not Met]
[STATS:
NAME: Kaiser Berthegore
RACE: -7?@! -@43?@! -6;48$
STRENGTH: 1.4
DEXTERITY: 1.8
AGILITY: 2.4
INTELLIGENCE: 1.7
LUCK: 12
AFFINITIES:
FIRE: 0 WATER: 0
EARTH: 0 AIR: 0
LIGHT: 0 DARKNESS: 2]
[ABILITIES:
ACTIVE: Eye of Sight LV.1
PASSIVE: Mind Resistance LV.1, Heart of the Cards (EX), Consumer's Adaptation (EX)]
[SPELLS: Card Conversion (EX), Card Summon LV.1 (EX)]
[MASTERIES: Spade Style MK.A, Club Style (RNM), Diamond Style (RNM), Heart Style (RNM), Joker Style (RNM)]
[LOGS: Create a log to add it into the menu.]