Adam and Eve. A match quite literally made by God himself.
A man formed from clay and a woman created from one of the adult male's 13th ribs.
They must've felt a deep sense of connection from this, but wouldn't that make Eve his sister? And did Adam ever resent Eve for offering him the fruit?
They had children together, so that couldn't be the case.
They're so many plotholes in the Bible. It's no wonder why so many people challenge its authenticity. But it does have some good stories.
A boy with dark brown hair and eyes rested his head on a desk in what seemed to be a classroom and stared with a dazed expression out the window. Except for his above-average face, he is quite ordinary all around when only taking into consideration his appearance.
*Smack!*
"Ow!", The boy yelped after being struck on the back of the head by a thin, yellow, rectangular object decorated with lines that end with numbers.
The boy then quickly covered his mouth with his left hand subconsciously while simultaneously rubbing the back of his head to nurse the pain - hoping no one heard him.
"Everette, are you okay? Do you need to go see first aid?" An adult woman with black hair tied in a bun stood at the front of a desk that hid her laptop, and above her was a picture of various pictures of organism's anatomy.
She moved her gaze from the entire class to a singular boy who was seated in the far back left corner next to the window.
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*Everette POV*
'Oh great. Now, I gotta think of an excuse.' I quickly shot a glare at the owner of the ruler before looking towards the teacher.
"No, thank you, Miss. It was just a bug bite."
"b-bug...!?"
I snickered as I heard what my assaulter whispered in both surprise and irritation. I could almost feel like their glare was burrowing a hole into the side of my head.
After dozens of minutes, the bell finally rang.
*Pop Pop Pop*
The sounds of popping quietly rippled through my ears as I stretched my muscles to wake up my slothful body.
"Ah~ that was a good stretch..." I reclined over the backrest of my chair with my head turned up and my eyes closed, but a moment later, I could see that my eyelids were dimmer. Opening my eyes to figure out the cause, it seemed that the light that was supposed to be shining down on my face was now suddenly blotted out by a very clingy and irritable individual.
"..."
"What do you want, Ada?" I stared at her with a disinterested expression while waiting for her reply.
"A bug, huh?" She looked at me with her usual grin, only this time, it seemed to be twitching.
Ada Ambrose, The captain of the College's sports club and also... A childhood friend of mine. She had short blonde hair that always seemed to glow bright and light blue eyes that always seemed to glisten with playfulness. Coupled with her fair skin, which always stumped me, for she is always playing around in the sun.
Pushing myself up from the backrest, I shifted a bit in my seat until finding a good position. I straightened my back, and I turned around to get a better look at her.
Her body was slender, and she stood at the height of 176cm or 5ft and 9 inches tall. She was definitely still developing in some of the other areas.
Sensing that his gaze was somewhere else, she spoke up:
"Oi! My eyes are up here, buddy."
I tilted my gaze up towards her face and snorted, a mocking smirk plastered on my face.
"Heh! My mistake, you're more of a gorilla than a bu-!"
"A GORILLA HUUH!?"
She then grabbed the back of my collar and began dragging me out of the classroom.
Several people in the hallway who saw us giggled and laughed at the scene.
"Looks like they're at it again."
"It does seem so. When do you think he's ever gonna learn?"
"Dunno. I hope it's not soon because it's super fun to watch the "Adam and Eve" of our school."
'Oh right... I forgot about that little title.' I eavesdropped on my fellow peers.
At school, we're referred to as the "Adam and Eve" when we're together.
We kind of got it after getting caught stealing some apples from one of our school's apple trees, even though, it was never told in the Bible if the fruit was an apple or not.
Also, with how similar our names are to Adam and Eve, if you added in or took out some letters, it was probably expected.
'However... why am I considered the subservient one in this relationship!?' I cursed inwardly.
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*Yawn*
My hand subconsciously moved over my mouth to cover it.
"You really should sleep more, bro."
I look towards the side to see Ada return with two cans of soda. The place she dragged me off to was the university's front lawn before taking off to get some refreshments from the cafeteria.
I smiled and nodded in appreciation for getting me a drink.
"Thanks. I'll pay you back tomorrow."
*Crack! Hiss...*
I then brought the mouth of the can to my lips under Ada's concerned gaze.
"*Glug Glug Glug* Pah~! Nothing better than a nice cold can of soda." I moaned in a relaxed tone. I chugged the rest of it before shaking it to see if it was empty or not.
Placing it to the side, I lay down on the grass and stared up towards the clouds.
I then turned my gaze over to Ada, who was just twirling her drink around.
"Hm? What's up?"
She then turned to look at me with a nervous smile.
"It's about the biology exam tomorrow—" I immediately interjected with a shocked expression, "THATS TOMORROW!? Oh... I'm so screwed..."
She chuckled, "Pfft. You need my notes from class?"
I gave a confused look.
"Hm? Why'd you think I need notes?"
"Because I know you were half-asleep in the middle of the lecture."
"...", I envied her seemingly unlimited energy.
"Pffff... I'm fine... I'm built differently. I can probably catch up after reading."
I waved my hand dismissively with a smug look to mask my uncertainty.
"Yeeeah... you're just sooooo~ built differently that you always lose to me in our little occasional squabbles." She then returned my grin, except hers was a mocking one.
"...Well... At least I always beat you in that one game." I retorted back with a mocking one of my own.
She raised a brow before widening her eyes in realisation.
"Oh, come on! You've played it for way longer than I have! How about tonight we go another round then, hm?"
"Yeah, Sure!"
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*Two Hours Later*
"Phew! It's finally the school day." I stretched my back and glanced back at Ada, who seemed to be reading a notification.
I saw her display a small frown before she noticed my curious stare. Her frown instantly shifted to a bright smile almost as if she wanted to mask something.
"I got something to do at the club. I'll come on tonight to play, though!"
Before I could even say anything, she took off in a blink of an eye. I looked at her shrinking figure as she ran back to the main building. My gaze then shifted to the college's name displayed on a black metal fence. It was decorated on a black square metal sheet that said, "Welcome To KING'S COLLEGE".
I sighed in disappointment and began moving my legs back to the dorm. Academic life gets so much harder when you're alone.
After a few minutes, the view of the male dorms came into view.
The male dorm was a building about six stories high, and the rooms they offered were conveniently big enough. I heard that 2 or 3 years ago, they implemented these dorm buildings to help students get on time.
*Step Step Step*
'It's always so eerie in the hallways.' I commented on the atmosphere as I approached my door.
I reached into my pocket to pull out the key before inserting and twisting it.
*Click!*
I opened the door and immediately walked to my bed. Throwing my bag to the side of my bed, hopped into it, and faceplanted into my pillow.
"Ah~... Freedom at last..."
{"Ding! Initiating download!"}
"Huh!? Who's there!?"
I immediately pulled my head up from my pillow before glancing around to find the perpetrator of the noise. The only thing I found in my search was a floating... Blue Panel... with a loading bar?
"Huh? What's this?"
After a dozen or so minutes of inspecting it and prodding it with my finger, I began to wonder whether or not I was that tired enough that I was now prone to illusions created by my mind; it suddenly made another ding noise.
{"Ding! The download of [Eden] has been completed. We congratulate you on being one of the many individuals to acquire [Eden]"}
"H-huh...? Eden? Are you like a system, then?"
After I said that, I kind of expected a reply, but no one came.
"*Sigh* I bet someone was smoking weed or something in one of the rooms I walked past, and I just happened to have breathed it in—"
*Glass Shatters!*
"Argh!?" The force of whatever shattered my window blew me off my bed and slammed me into the wall. My brain rattled from hitting the back of my head against the wall. 'Why is it always the back of the head...?'
*Buzz Buzz*
'What's that irritating noise?' I forced my head to look up to see... a foaming bird-sized bee.
"... Since my back and head hurt, I assume... this is real..." Colour began draining from my face. The "Bee" then began to back up before curling its lower abdomen to reveal its stinger.
"Oh, come on... That ain't even fair—!?" It then launched itself at me with its stinger. I rolled away to dodge and ended up beside my desk. Using it as a crutch, I quickly got up to my feet, albeit with some difficulty due to how shaky they were.
I stared towards the "Bee" to see what happened, only to find...
*Buzz Buzz*
It got stuck in my brick wall.
"H-HAH! You may be able to shatter my window, but you can't break my wall, you STUPID INSECT!" I then began to laugh in mockery at the stupid insect, "HAHAHAHA... hahaha... haha..." Of course, that was before it wiggled itself out.
"..."
"...I-I didn't mean it when I called you stupid, okay? It was just at the s-spur of the moment" I began to fumble a bit over my words.
My hand began to tremble. Its mouth foamed more vigorously than before. Dark green and black liquid dripped onto my once-clean carpet floor. I seemed to have pissed it off.
'CRAP! CRAP! WHAT DO I EVEN DO?!'
I began to back away from the Bee before my ass was up against my desk. I pulled my right hand behind me and moved it over the desk - unconsciously trying to find some sort of weapon. It was then my fingers wrapped around a familiar long metal cylinder.
Quickly taking a glance back to make sure it was what I thought it was, I smirked as I thought of a plan.
The bee then curled its lower abdomen again - ready to pounce. It came with more ferocity than last time.
I swiftly stepped out the way out of the way. It shattered my wooden desk, causing it to send wooden splinters across the room. This carried on for a bit.
My bed shattered, my cushioned metal chair bent and dismantled by the bee and more. A back-and-forth chase in which my now-destroyed room is our arena.
"*Pant Pant*" By now, I was getting tired from all the dodging, but I knew it was too slow by how much slower it had gotten.
Over time, its stinger seems to get more and more damaged due to the things it has launched itself into. But finally, it's gonna come to an end because, on its sixth dash, it has lodged itself into another wall!
"PLEASE WORK!" I cried out as I placed my trust (Life) into the object in my hand. I swiftly held it up, It was a dark green cylinder with a picture of an X'ed out mosquito - It was bug spray.
I pointed its spray nozzle towards the struggling bee and pressed down.
"TASTE CHEMICAL WARFARE; YOU DAMN BASTARD!" The room then began to fill up with more and more gas released by the spray. The bee's mouth began to foam more and more of that weird-looking mixture. The bee went limp but was still moving its body around a bit.
*Hiss...*
The bug spray hissed out the last remnants of the gas. After abruptly chucking the empty metal cylinder at the bee, I picked up a torn-off metal leg of my chair before bravely driving it into the bee.
"RAAAAHHHH!" I yelled as my metal "spear" pierced the bee's abdomen. I began twisting it to move it in further.
"*SCREEEEEECH!*" The bee cried out as it tried bending its body again to try and remove itself from the wall. Not willing to lose the only chance of killing it I had, I pulled out my "Spear" and penetrated it again.
"DIE! DIE! DIE! JUST DIE, YOU FREAK OF NATURE!" Newfound fury erupted in me as I barraged the bee with numerous flurry of stabs. Multiple stabs through its wings, some through its head, and many more through its abdomen.
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{"Ding! Level 3 Infected Amped Bee Killed!"}
[ Level 1 -> 2 ]
"*Pant Pant Pant* H-heh... I lied; I meant everything I said." I stared at the mutilated corpse of the ONCE-threatening bee.
I then focused on the notification from [Eden].
"It really is like a system..." I gazed at it with shock and also excitement before feeling something wet running down my left cheek.
Using the back of my hands, I wiped whatever it was on and looked at what was on it. It was some blood from the bee as well as some weird black solution.
"... It's green yet also not?" As a biology student, I held some interest towards it.
"I should probably wipe this off unless I wanna catch whatever kind of devil disease that was." I began to wipe my face. I looked down at my bee-stained clothes and frowned:
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Hi! How was the chapter? Were there any parts that weren't constructed or played out well? Please do leave a comment for although I enjoyed writing this, I want my fellow readers too!
I also made up some stuff about the university to make it easier on me, I hope that didn't break your submersion.
[Wednesday 30th October] - "Hello! I've updated the compendium so I guess you guys can know the rough world background...?"