"Who the heck are you?!"
'I assumed you were going to have that reaction. Mortals are so predictable.'
"Where are you and what are you doing in my room?!" Hunter screamed as he searched his room.
"This is trespassing, I could have you arrested!"
'There's no one in your room so you might as well take a seat. Plus, the lights are off, even if there were any intruders, how do you expect to see them?'
"Maybe I have night vision."
'Do you?'
"No."
'Have you realised how dumb your answer was then?'
"No."
'Why are you so hostile right now.'
"Coz there's an intruder in my room!"
"Shut up! Some of us are trying to sleep!" A voice sounded from outside his dorm.
"Sorry!"
'You can search every single corner of this room right now and you won't find anybody.'
"I've already searched everywhere."
'And did you find anything?'
"No."
'So will you listen now?'
"No."
'I don't have time for this, I'll be back tomorrow.'
Hunter's head ached at that moment before it stopped as suddenly as it started.
"Hello? Are you still here?"
"..."
"Well that was weird. He didn't hurt me so what did he come here for?"
That's when it clicked, like a lightbulb moment.
"My video games!" He dashed to his living room which he used mainly to store his video games and anime.
He hurriedly opened the drawer where he kept his video games and only after going through every single one of them did he relax. But only for a little while.
"My anime collection!"
"My laptop!"
"My PC!"
This went on for a while until Hunter was sure they everything he cared about was safe.
"So he didn't steal anything important. I guess he was just a stalker!"
"Shut up before I come over there and shove my fist down your asshole!!"
"Sorry!"
*Yawn*
"Since everything important is safe, I can go back to bed."
He laid down on his bed for a good night's rest but his thoughts were keeping him awake.
'How did he even get in here? He needs to have my handprint for that.'
'Maybe he has a transformation skill and transformed his hand into mine to get in here. But that means he could still be hiding somewhere here as a random object.'
He spent his whole night thinking instead of sleeping, getting up to search his room, going back to bed after finding nothing, trying to fall asleep and repeating the process over and over again.
———
"Dude, are you okay? You look awful." Damon asked as they were walking to the cafeteria for lunch.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just didn't get enough sleep last night."
"Me too, coz some idiot next door kept screaming nonsense in the middle of the night!" Ryan glared at Hunter as he said that.
"My bad, I forgot you were in that room. Wait, you were the one yelling at me!"
"Why wouldn't I yell? What were you even screaming about?!"
"Someone snuck into my room last night and I was trying to find him."
"How did he even get in?"
"Maybe he had a transformation skill and transformed into me so he could use my handprint."
"That doesn't make any sense. For him to do that he had to have known how every single part of your hand looked to be able to copy it."
"Oh, I didn't think transformation would be that complicated."
"How did you think it would be?"
"I thought maybe he just had to look at me or touch my arm."
"This isn't some movie with a bunch of plotholes. You need to get your facts straight."
"But I know for a fact that someone was in my room."
"But you have no proof."
"Yes I do. The amount of times your handprint is scanned should be recorded so I can just ask to see the data and if it's one too many, that's enough proof."
"You're still set on this transformation theory, aren't you?"
"Yes, I am."
"And how are you so sure they record you?"
"I'm not, but you'll never know 'til you ask."
"Who exactly can you ask?"
"Chris."
"Who?"
"Chris, the tour guide from yesterday."
"The guy who ditched us? Goodluck finding him."
"I will find him and when I do, I'm gonna rub it in each and every one of your faces."
By now, they were seated in the cafeteria, eating while Ryan and Hunter argued.
"Be logical. Chris is probably a second year and we aren't allowed in their section so the only ways for you to find him are if he spends every bit of free time he has in the first years' section or if he looks for you."
"Maybe he is looking for me."
"What on earth would that guy want with you?"
"Maybe he liked my charming personality and wants to befriend me."
"You're a lunatic."
"No I'm not. I'll prove it to each and everyone of you, one by one if I have to, that I am perfectly sane and that a person was actually in my dorm last night."
"I believe you about the person in your dorm."
"Really?!"
"Yeah, you were in your dorm last night and you count as a person."
"Okay, proof is what you need right? The guy said he'd be back tonight so I'm gonna livestream everything with night vision cameras."
"And when this turns out to be a huge waste of time, what do I get?"
"I'll give you half of my first allowance."
"The academy pays us peanuts. Half a peanut is as bad as a whole peanut."
"They don't pay us peanuts."
"What do you expect me to do with a thousand credits a week?"
"You're complaining about a thousand a week? You're a rich kid aren't you?"
"What?"
"That's why Chloe didn't hesitate to buy us weapons the other day."
"So what if I'm richer than you?"
"Everything. You can't be richer and stronger than me. That's unfair."
"Nothing in life is fair. The sooner you learn that, the better."
"Some stuff is fair."
"Sure, how abwout you gwo argwu with your liwwle imaginawi fwiend." Ryan said with a baby voice.
"He's real. I'll show you, I'll show all of you!"
He stood up and walked off while mumbling to himself.
———
After setting up his cameras, Hunter was currently adding some finishing touches to the equipment while the rest of the group were in their dorms watching the livestream.
"Okay guys, he's gonna arrive any minute now." He spoke into indeed of the cameras as he waited.
"This better not be a waste of time." Ryan complained.
Some time passed before Hunter suddenly shot up from his seat and started talking to himself like a madman. He was screaming at nothing while the others were watching in fascination. Eventually, he shut up and just fell to the ground unconscious.
In Damon's dorm, his mouth was wide open as he stared at his TV screen.
'What the hell is wrong with Hunter? Is he having some problems with his system or what? Do we need to send him to an asylum?"
In Chloe's room, she was holding her stomach, laughing.
In Ryan's room, he was stretching as he stood up from his couch to go to bed.
'I knew this was gonna be a waste of time.'
He turned off his TV and went to bed. After a while, so did the others with one thought in mind.
'What a weirdo.'