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“Yeah I will… Just give me a minute.” I mumbled silently to my ever helpful personal system; always willing to tell me the most obvious things like I didn’t already know them. All the while refusing to go ih on far more entig or important topio doubt teasing it with all the smugness a monotone robot voice manage.What I hated most was hht they were - looking at the eerily still figure made me subsciously wonder if maybe they were just a statue. Staring a little more at the knightess who indeed didn’t move a single inch. Something that was slowly starting to vince me that I was an idiot sihere was no way they wouldn’t twitch even a little bit if they were alive.Finally reassured that it was merely a prop, taking a deep breath, I finally moved toward the door in order to pass by the clearly oral armour-“State your business.” An authoritative female voice was twisted by a metallic helm to bee something far more fearsome than anyone could prepare themselves for. More terrifying still was that the colossal metal hat reviously pointed between their feet) was now being held in one hand as it barred me from entering the pce. In fact it was a little unfortable as it pressed against my chest yet I also wasly willing to move an in case they took that as a sign of aggression.Part of me thought about sneakily whipping out my six-shooter yet I am at least self aware enough to realise that I may not have the firepower o puncture through that armour. This was not the world of earth but a pce with metals that I had never heard before. Certainly the faintly metal one was something I couldn’t pce which would have made me excited to study any other time.Nervously gulping I decide it’s best just to be ho while making no sudden movements. At first I thought about taking out the note so that I could prove my words… But then I realised that the note wasn’t from that woman but the captain so all I could do was hope for the best. “I was io meet someone here.”The knightess’ eyes couldn’t be seen through the helm yet I suddenly felt as if her eyes had finally turo me which resulted in a pressure that I could only pare to my teacher & their friend. A friend that I have never seen nor will ever i with. It felt like the knightess could see through every iny body as the ent blood in my body boiled uheir studious gaze.“You may enter, my honoured dy.” Shogly the knightess was actually rather respectful toward me, a realisation that brought embarrassment, makihink that I maybe should have just spoken up. They didn’t just step aside but turheir o their body as they moved in such a smooth fashion that it seemed natural that the door was in their hand & pulled open for me to enter.I was somewhat bewildered, heless I was more thao trolling myself. Stepping ihe building to find a stant hum of elegant music filling the room - although it still had that basey quality that was expected in a pce where you drink alcohol away fr eyes. And away fr eyes was most certainly what this pce was.This was in no way a dingy seedy bar but a prh-css establishment with even the iic stench of alcohol not being present. There also weren’t the sticky floors from stant spilges. Instead it was a dim yet respectful operation that had one main open bar with many semi-closed partments for more discrete ers to rest or discuss among each other.Though the source of the music wasn’t discrete; literally just being an a looking radio sat upon the ter.Having a sleek bck marble look that was finished with sleek azure ats that gave it a wealthy but not gaudy feel.There were a few tables littered about however it was obvious that most of the business was outside of the public pce. Of course there were still quite a few people wandering about the pce with all of them wearing what be sidered upper-css apparel. Though I could also tell that some of them were more here for the buying & selling of information based on how their eyes followed me.Simirly to what I imagine is in the adventurers guild; there is actually a mission board pced on the right wall even if it could be summarised as an anised cork board with paper hanging off it. I didn’t want to focus on that too much, for now, though. As I didn’t want to keep my host waiting for me any longer.I didn’t eveo ask around nor look very hard to find the woman who invited me - mostly because she was at the open bar with ay gss in one hand & a ing cloth iher. She was ing the gss but it was hard to see her as a mere bartender despite that fact. Betweeeeth she even had a tooth pick which she skillfully flicked about along her ever so alluringly full lips.Her singur eye was instantly locked onto me as soon as I walked in. It was with such accuracy that it almost felt like she actually may have been followihrough the wall itself. Howbeit; I wasn’t truly crazy enough to truthfully believe something like that. Regardless, I decided it wasn’t in my nature to leave a beautiful woman waiting so I promptly approached the bar without minding any of those around. My outfit wasn’t too far away from what could exist in a time period like this yet I could tell from lingering stares that the amount of skin was… At least something that made it hard to not stare (apparently).Sitting in front of the woman who didn’t immediately speak - leaving a surprisingly fortable silence as suddenly nobody was talking about my ass. Something I hadn’t even mao achieve in my real world let alohis world of fantasy & no clear identity for myself. “What even is the age of ption in the world or try you herald from?”My brow rose at her aowledgio be a pyer yet I didn’t eve a ce to answer.“Well I suppose it doesn’t matter for someone like you.” She said in that same monotone voice that I should have been expeg. Her voice followed along with the same exact fashion that she had spoke when she first came over to invite me. Wasting no time as she quickly fixed up a simple drink of rum & some lemorangely it was a green that I instantly reised. Although I couldn’t help furrow my brow as I wondered if she had chosen it based on the name and the retion it has to my own race. “Is the age of legal drinking in publiot 21 like in America?” “I’m above the ws of mere mortals.” She snorted as she pced the drink in front of me before leaning back against the small wooden walls that separated one shelf from another. Showing absolutely no worry that she may actally knoe of the tless expetles off as she crossed her arms uhat wonderfully bountiful chest that made me gulp.Both pushing her massive mammaries up to take some tension out her shoulders while also making them far more promi for those of us who like to admire the fairer sex. I didn’t know if she khat I was staring but, sidering how perceptive she had shown herself to be, I had a strong feeling she kly what I was looking at. Especially when she seemed to push them up that little bit more.“I believe it is time to talk.”“Huh?”“I aowledge you know little about this job so let me ask you an important question… Have you seen anything particurly unnatural on your way here?” Tilting her head which caused her vivid blue hair to fall aside slightly; previously it covered her eyepatch but now it reminded me that she indeed was g an eye just like me.Either way, her question made me think for a sed.
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Roaming through the backstreets of the port city; all around there were people with vibrant purple energy dying their eyes as they looked around for anyone who was uhem. It didn’t matter if they were previously a neighbour, a brother or a parent… They would mercilessly drag them out their hiding pd the hidden hunter had no care about what happeo them after that.Strangely it seemed that children were pletely left unharmed, however there was also the obvious question of what would happen to those children after those trolled people finish their task.
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The sound of bells rang as the only thing she mao see, before being ed by darkness, ierg violet eyes.
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Dodging water was surprisingly difficult (on at of it being both transparent & affeg the light that travelled through it through the various “fra” family of phenomenon). Still the girl tried her best to snake-like streams of water that stantly curled around her. Leaving very little room to work.In the distahe little goddess just ughed while g her hands - it was almost cute if not for her essentially bullying the taller girl. The tter was slowly managing to dodge more as time went o was hard to say that she was dodging everything that came at her. She was most definitely drippi.
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The howling of the world was joined with the bloody figure of a malevole holding the severed head of a once powerful man. Like all things in the universe; his life had to e to an end and it was this mohat delivered it to him. In all regards, the end did not care for the sequences, it simply did as it was supposed to.It ehings.
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“Nope.”“... I suppose that’s the smart answer.” The blue haired woman said as she watched me take a sip from the drink she offered; I didn’t really drink alcohol but I felt like I uood a lot about its use now.