When Van got to his room to shower and clean himself from his exorcise he noticed one of the girls from the orphanage standing outside his door.
"Hey Erika, what's up why are you just standing here?" He asked. Van's Relationship with Erica was pretty close because they both had been brought to the orphanage on the same day years back.
There were 3 others that we're brought in in their batch, 2 had supposedly gotten placement in homes while the other that was still in the orphanage had found friends from another batch that he got along with well.
Erika looked around nervously as she gestured for Van to come closer. Once Van was an arms length away from her she asked if she could go into his room to discuss something serious.
[Another interesting one, I wonder why there's so many interesting people around you…] the melodious voice of the system sounded in Van's mind.
Van wasn't sure what the system meant but he had a few guesses what it could be talking about. As far as Erika coming into his room it wasn't against the rules because they lived in a mixed dormitory. They just weren't allowed to sleep the night in each other's rooms and were required to let the orphanage Mistress or Headmaster know if and when they started to have more adult relationships.
Just because they were orphans didn't mean they were omitted from studies in fact their education could be said to be exceptional at the least as during the school months they would all take buses provided by the government to their respective public schools that were actually pretty decently ranked amongst public schools and academies in this world.
Van hoped she wasn't confessing to him because he had just began to start forming an attraction to women after meeting with Doctor Vixxen and seeing his system in human form.
He still invited her in regardless of his expectations. When they got in the room Erika sat down on the couch with her hands in her lap and her head down.
Erika was a meek girl with a humble figure, She definitely fit into the category of loner as well as most girls didn't want to hang out with her due to feeling inferior. She had the face of an angel fallen from heaven, she was sure to grow into a woman any man would die for.
The boys at the orphanage were less likely to hang out with the girls unless both groups of friends got together or he was confessing his feelings and they became romantic.
Since she didn't have any girl friends the only guys that approached her got their heart broken so she became know as and Ice cold beauty scaring away the guys and exciting envy in the girls.
"So what's up, is everything okay?" Van tried to use a more gentle tone seeing how anxious she was to come here to his room.
"I.. I think something is going on here at the orphanage… Don't make any noise and please I'm begging you please, but I was born kind of unique…" she said still looking down and fidgeting with her hands.
Max was extremely surprised but he always felt she was noticeably different from everyone he was surprised that she hadn't been swept up by the doctors but hearing her explanation. If they're looking for newly awakened kids to experiment on then her being born awakened means she'd never show symptoms of awakening unless she blatantly used her ability.
It had been almost 10 years so he was interested in how she had kept her ability a secret this entire time. "So you have a unique ability? How have you been able to keep it hidden so long?" He asked.
Now it was Erika's turn to be shocked, how was he able to deduce so quickly she was hiding an ability… unless. "You have an ability too!" She said in an excited and noticeably louder voice before she shrunk back down hoping nobody was outside the room to hear.
"Yes, I do so now we have to keep each others secrets, anyway how'd you keep yours a secret this whole time?" He asked, Van's tone and personality was more reserved with Erika as they hadn't spent the time getting as close in friendship he and Max had but they still talked and ate together from time to time they also went to the same school.
"My ability is kind of different, I can see peoples memories and once I've made any kind of physical contact with them I can see what they're doing and where they are at all times." She replied, which made van a little afraid if she could see his memories didn't that mean she would know all of his secrets and about his system and his time affinity?
[Hive Mind, it can do a lot more than what she suggested but to think someone would awakened something so advanced like that here]
Seeing the aprehensión on Van's face she consoled him, "Don't worry I won't stick my nose in your brain but you should be careful I used my ability a little earlier and I think they're watching you and Max, whatever you're doing I suggest you lay low."
After saying that Erika got up and left, she had already made physical contact with Van so when she got out she transmitted a message directly to his mind. 'I'll communicate with you like this from now on I just didn't want you to think you were going crazy when you heard my voice in your mind'.
'Great now I have the voice of two women in my mind.' Van thought.
'Huh there's another lady's voice in your mind?' Erika asked after Van thought that.
'Ahh no no thank you for letting me know how do I cancel the connection?' He asked.
'Oh I have to do that, well I'll see you later if you need me you can just think of me.' She replied and continued on her way.