Van hopped in the shower thinking about his new time limit for his mission and the information He'd just received from Erika.
'The ability to invade people's mind and to know so much about them after a single touch is a dangerous ability.' He thought as his mind roamed all the possibilities. She could do top tier espionage and probably even make people commit suicide. An ability like that couldn't be taken lightly.
As he thought of the time limit he had his mind went on a tangent of the time he wasted not thinking and making the most optimal decisions.
He also wondered how long he'd been on the headmaster of the orphanage's radar. This thought distracted him and brought him to wondering about time as he had awaken an affinity with time.
'What even is time, like is it a place, no it isn't a place because I can go to the field but I can't go directly to a time… unless I go somewhere else in the world but if I can go to a different time like that then it's technically place. And if it's a place what about the portions of time that are outside of the current day?' He thought but when this thought came around his head started to hurt and he began to feel lethargic.
[The host unlocked 2% of his time affinity, The host has gained 1 point in wisdom.] The feminine voice of the system sounded in his mind.
'2% isn't that kind of fast you said the highest affinity was 15%..' he asked the system as his eyelids began to get heavier and heavier.
[The host has to know with stat points his progress will be greater than those without a precise idea of their own strength…] as the system finished Van passed out in the tub with the water running.
…
Some time later Van woke up to someone knocking on his door. He got up and noticed he was still in the tub but the water was off and he was still wet. He quickly got up and dried himself off and put on some clothes before getting the door.
Surprisingly it was max, "You had me worried man I was waiting here knocking for almost 10 minutes anyway you trying to get some breakfast?" Max asked looking at the groggy eyed Van.
'Huh breakfast I must have slept through dinner' Van thought as his stomach protested sounding like he hadn't eaten in a week.
"Yea I'm down are we going to the cafeteria or the Platinum Owl again, man that food was good I need some of that again." Van asked as he was hoping they could go back there.
When Van said this Max pushed him into the room and entered the room while closing the door, "How do you know about my resturaunt I had planned on showing you today while I told you about my ability and we discussed some things."
In this moment Van was slightly confused because according to him they had done these things yesterday but knowing he had awakened an affinity with time he imagined the possibility of having reversed time back to the start of the day.
Knowing he reversed time to the start of the day hoping he might have also reversed his mission back to 1 month from his new one week deadline he opened the missions tab of his system.
[Missions]
[Escape the orphanage with Max and Erika before doctor vixen comes back in 1 week. Reward: 5 skill points, 100 shop points and unlock system shop. PENALTY FOR FAILURE: host will be dissected and have his organs transplanted into other people]
[OPTIONAL: Exorcise daily, 10km run, 133 Push-ups, 133 squats, planks for 10 minutes.
Reward: 10 shop points for everyday the host completes exorcises.]
Seeing he still only had one week and Erika was also added to the mission he was let down a little wondering if his run had really brought more suspicion towards him or what Erika said was true about the orphanage actually having eyes on him.
"Uhh how do I know, that's a little hard to explain… But you don't mind if we bring Erika along right… She's kinda important to my explanation." Van replied.
"If you trust her then I guess that's fine." Max said a little hesitant about someone else learning of his ability.
After Max Agreed he and Van went to Erika's room and entered. Once they we're in her room Max teleported them to the forest outside of Moon Blossom city.
There was an awkward silence as Van had outed both of their secrets in a matter of moments putting them in a position where they had no choice but to trust each other.
They soon arrived at the platinum Owl where Van told them about his time affinity and everything they talked about and had happened in the alternate timeline.