Walking through the busy streets of Valor City, Kimura walks down three blocks down from the Academy, using his weekend to explore. While walking he looks down the street to see a burglar running, the walk sign turns on as the burglar made it just in time, running down as they run past me. Just as that happened a couple of police officers nearby, chase after the burglar. Kimra continued walking as that was none of his business as his destination was Valor Mall.
There's a lot of people here this time…
Kimura notices as people flood in and out of the mall constantly, walking towards it he squeezes on in as the mall was packed this weekend. Wasting no time, he scurries through the crowd of people as he walks towards the middle section, making a left turn and taking an escalator upwards.
While he stands on the escalator to make it to the second floor, Kimura notices Naoki off in the distance, entering what looks like a trading shop. Huh…what's my roommate doing there…? Curiosity catches his eyes as he makes his way towards the same shop. Hal's Trading Card Shop & Figurines was the name, looking at the large sign above the shop, Kimura walked in as it was somewhat bustling with customers.
A trading card shop…?
Kimura notices Naoki standing idly by, staring down through a glass container as he stares at a rare card. Kimura makes his way over silently as he overhears Naoki's voice mumbling. Looking over at him Kimura notices that he's just mumbling to himself but he's unable to make out what he's saying.
What exactly do they sell here…
Kimura frowned a bit as he softened his expression and looked around, seeing figurines from regular to…unique…ones. However, the main show of this shop was the trading cards, especially Husks and Graces. Naoki was staring at a card called Florescent Harbinger, an entity card with a short explanation of what the card does.
"I need that card…It'll go great with Twin Ravagers…but I also do need to look for the Valiant Light of the Cosmos magic card…"
"But…Gallard's Impervious Army will nullify it…but Florescent counters Gallard's Army…then Icarus's Feathers will just remove the field buffs…which is why I need Valiant Light…Ahh man…the choices here are just too good to pass up…!"
While Naoki was having a geek breakdown over a couple of cards, Kimura looked around the place to see what else he could find. While looking around Kimura didn't see anything that seemed to interest him as he made his way out. Just as he did, Naoki looked over to the side just in time to see him leave.
"Kimura?"
He questioned if it was him as he turned back to look down at the Fluorescent Harbinger card being taken out and given to someone else.
"A-Ah! W-Wait!!"
Naoki pleaded as Kimura left the place, walking on the upper floor of the mall. Well, I got sidetracked… Kimura thought as he walked towards a game section, looking up as it was Xendra's Net Cafe & Arcade. Kimura entered as the receptionist sat there, looking up as she waved at Kimura.
"Hi Kimura!" The girl smiled and waved.
"Hello Yei-Sha." Kimura replied.
"How was your morning today?" She asked.
"I'm fine so far, it is the weekend, so I have time to stay this time." He responded chuckling.
"Finally! I needed help on this one dungeon!" She went off track for a second.
"Yei-Sha, my net card?"
"O-Oh right!" She blinks as she gave him his red transparent tech-looking ID card.
"Thanks Yei-Sha."
"I'll come and join you once I'm on my break!" she shouts as Kimura walks off.
The Net Café was popular as it had not only regular people but gamers and competitive players within it as well, alongside that it also came with an in-built arcade and trade shop to buy or rent physical copies of games.
I walked up a couple of steps to an upper floor of the Net Café to see my spot taken up, sighing, I walked over to a computer near a girl in a bean bag. Sitting down at the computer, I insert my ID card and login. Let's see what the guild's doing… Kimura thought as he logged into a game called Torrent Fantasy Online or TFO for short.
Once he logged in he began his gaming session, however the girl sitting on the bean bag was coincidentally Ayameko who was reading a book. The sound of a fast-paced keyboard clacking was beginning to annoy her as she looked up from her book.
Who the f-
She was about to just send her shadow to yank them off their chair, Ayameko realized it was Kimura who was doing the fast-paced keyboard clacking. What the hell…? When did he get here? Ayameko raised an eyebrow as she was confused. However, upon looking at the screen she realized that Kimura was in an intense duel.
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The sound of two swords clashing and cutting the air breezed all around as Kimura and his opponent were weaving around and pretty fluently as neither of them has landed a perfect hit, only grazes.
"Nice moves you got there DragonHavest419."
"You too ReapingClover77."
Both players were complimenting each other during the middle of the fight as ReapingClover77 ducked under a wide swing, thrusting his dagger towards DragonHarvest419. He shifts his stance as he blocks it in time, his sword going diagonally downwards as he smirks.
ReapingClover77 smiles as they were fighting in a battlefield called The Endless Ocean, a flat world with nothing but water, the sky and the sun. The battlefield was preferred heavily for 1v1 duels as it provided no cover but also revealing the player's skillful tactics.
As they clashed the sky within the endless river began turning gray, water droplets pouring down as both were inflicted with "Soaked" debuff, making their movements slightly slower and minorly makes them drain more energy.