Note: The bold text is the blastia. The bold and italic text is what she inputs or thinks to the blastia. Italics are the annoying voices in her head but they don't show up much in this chapter and the song. But you can tell that it's the song really easily.
Recap:
Getting out of the bed, which didn't hurt for some reason, I turned to the two girls and said, "Shall we go help the adults and show we aren't useless?"
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When I put my hand on the door I heard Gauche cry, "You can't leave this room or you might get hurt!"
Turning, I noticed I was shorts and a thin grey jacket. I just put on my "I'm an idiot smile" and said, "Of course! Your right! I could never think while being embarrassed from being in such weird clothing! Why thank you for telling me!" It's not that I don't know what she really means, it's just that I want to prove I'm useful and not to kill me and to do that I need to get out of this room. Now let's hope I have clothing in the endless pit but I'm sure I remember putting in some cosplay dresses in my bag for some reason.
Opening the door I pushed the two girls out against their will most likely. Well I guess it's time to look through what I can wear and see what looks the most Vesperian and doesn't have a short skirt because from all the clothes I remember seeing were all ones that Miku wears, and she has a lot of short skirt outfits... Yes I bought them all at the age of 11. Let's just say I had a big hoard of money from my allowance and I was Miku for Halloween. Now that I look back on it... I was a really crazy fan girl...
Hmm let's see... Well now that I look, my hair isn't the traditional Miku hair it's the one that's purple at the roots and fades into a light blue and curly at the tips so... I won't put on the outfit that goes with this because the skirt is really just too short, so maybe some other dress?
Picking up my magic bag that has all the things that I brought with me in it I flipped it and dumped the contents onto the bed, surprisingly, only clothes came out of it. Maybe it has a sorting system in it like the inventory menu does that you can control with your mind! That's unlikely though. It's probably just some freak coincidence. That is a lot more clothes than I thought I had...
Sorting through the clothing I found that about 3/4 of the clothing had a skirt too short for my tastes and that only a fifth of the fourth of the clothing would fit me. All the rest was a bigger size. I guess I thought that I would still be a fan girl later in life because I'm pretty sure I saw a dress that would have fit me a few days ago when I was 21. No. Stahp thinking of that or your brain will hurt from remembering you were 21 a few days ago.
From the small pile of clothing a strapless dress caught my eye. It wasn't anything special really. Although it did have finger less gloves with it. It was a dress with a black bottom that looked like it would go to knee-length. There was also a ribbon around the middle of the top part that somehow didn't form the bow in the back of the dress. Not to mention it fit really well with the gloomy Manor of the Wicked atmosphere.
I took off the shorts and the grey jacket that had a white T-shirt under it and I then slipped on the dress and the gloves. Then I shoved my earth clothes and all the other clothes into the magic bag. Surprisingly the dress it was very comfortable and flexible. Isn't that the opposite of a lot of dresses? Meh!
Slipping the bag, that actually matched the dress, on my arm I went to the door and opened it, only to suddenly need to suddenly move backwards because Gauche and Droite ran into the room and fell on the ground. I guess they were trying to force open the door or something.
Droite sat up rubbing her head while helping Gauche sit up as well since she landed underneath Droite. I walked up to them and offered out my hand to help them up. Gauche looked at my hand suspiciously like I was going to try to hurt her more. In the end after Droite took my hand and had nothing bad happen to her, Gauche took my hand.
I walked to the door and gestured to them in a 'follow me' motion. This time they went without complaints. It's a bit weird that they're not asking about my change of clothing. After all, my bag looks more like something to carry gald and nothing else and it's the only thing that could hold anything I have on me.
Thank god in my last play through of the game I memorized all the dungeons including The Manor of the Wicked. Exiting the room I saw I was in the room that the Don is in before everyone jumps out the window and breaks it... Except there were no weapons on the walls of the room now. I turned to look at the two sisters and saw they were right behind me... Staring with their little soulless eyes into my soul. Okay that a bit of an overstatement but that's what Gauche's face looked like to me.
Turning back around I walked down the manor's hallway and saw that Yeager was right... I think this place is bigger then Torim on the inside... Thank god that the path to the stairs was still the same. Okay let's see... I need a plan to help...
I could use a blastia. I'm sure there must be blastia for a lot of stuff here. I mean, Yeager is the head of Ruin's Gate, the guild that excavates the blastia in the first place. The Yellow Jacket said that the monsters are weak to loud noises. Although it would have to be so loud it would most likely deafen someone, so that's a problem to be solved. Unless I could wire a lot of headphones to my MP3 player to make it only make noise to the monsters. Although, do monsters have ears? I also really want to know... How did they find out that these monsters are weak to really loud noises in the first place?
Even if I figured that out the next problem is what noise would I use and how do I make it louder? On earth I would just use music or something like that and use speakers to make it louder. Wait... I have my MP3 player so if I somehow magically had speakers in my endless pit of a bag that ran on a battery...
"Um..." I turned to see Droite staring at me weirdly.
"Yes?"
"You've stood there muttering stuff for the past five minutes." Dammit... Now I look insane... Although since when did I start caring about that?
"I was just thinking... Say, does this door lead to a room that has boxes of blastia in it?"
"It has boxes in it but I don't know if they're blastia. I remember it from exploring!" Droite exclaimed proudly while her sister gave here a look that said "why did you say that you dumbo!" Come to think of it, why did she say it? I might understand if she really is six but with the way Gauche acts, I would think that they were eight.
"How old are you guys?"
"Eight." This time it was Gauche who answered my question. Probably because her sister was saying too much and Gauche was trying to prevent that.
I just nodded and turned to the door and opened it. Can I just say that the rooms are bigger too. The room I opened the door to had to be four times bigger than it is in the game... Oh well. Yeager really wasn't lying...
I walked in the room and observed it a bit. There wouldn't just happen to have a box labeled not programmed blastia that I can use would there? Probably not. That stuff only happens in movies and games. But this is a game. Was that the annoying voices in my head again? So I wasn't dreaming. They really are back. At least they gave useful information this time. NOT.
So let's see. Let's start with the grey box over there! Although they're all grey... I walked to the box to the far left and started looking through that one. But before I could look at it correctly I felt a hand jerk me back.
Falling on my butt I looked up to see Gauche staring at me. Her soulless eyes staring deep into my soul. And that was an understatement this time. And she has a really strong grip for an eight year old.
"What are you doing."
"I'm looking for a blastia I can try to figure out how to program to help everyone fighting outside. Please don't kill me mommy!"
Gauche stared at me with a really big wtf face before putting out her hand to pull me up... This won't end well. Oh well. I'll take the risk...
Grabbing her hand I fully prepared myself to block any punches she might try to throw. Even if she probably isn't trained I'm sure her punches will still hurt. Getting up with her help I stood up and clearly saw the look that said, "I swear if you try anything your dead" and nodded showing I understood and went back to searching the boxes.
When I looked at the contents of the box there was a label in there written in the Vesperian alphabet. I did look at a picture that had the alphabet on it and studied it so I was able to read the label. It said "yet to be programmed blastia". I swear...
I took out the biggest blastia that was only about the size of my eleven year old fist and put it in my left hand. Okay so what did Rita do to open the screen thing? She moved her hand or something like that. I moved my hand across the blastia randomly. Unfortunately it didn't now what?
I started to just touch the blue-green blastia in random places and after touching a spot lighter than the others it somehow worked. I got this screen thing in front of my face but it didn't really look correct...
In the game I'm pretty sure the screens are red and have a bit of a circle shape. However this screen was the same color as the blastia. It wasn't a circle shape either. It was a rectangle and like a keyboard at the bottom part and... YES! IT'S WRITTEN IN THE ROMAN ALPHABET! And in English! :)
"Are you sure you know what you're doing? I don't think that's supposed to look like that." I heard Gauche ask from behind me. When did I say that I knew what I was doing? I'm just touching it in random places and hoping it works.
"Nope! This is the first time I ever saw a blastia! Much less programmed one! And I don't think I'm doing it right but screw it!" I swear I can feel Gauche glaring daggers at me...
I heard a beeping noise from the blastia and I looked down to see a message that said, "Input your command". Uh... What do I put? Am I supposed to program it like a computer? I didn't take computer programming lessons though... Screw it. I'll just put in regular commands.
Um... I imputed "can you help destroy the monsters?" A message popped up on the screen. So you want a Hoplon Blastia? What the... Is this blastia alive? Is is like TARDIS alive or Siri alive? I hope TARDIS alive or I'm going to have half my answers be, I can't answer that. That won't be fun...
So I don't want a Hoplon Blastia so... How do I word this? I input "No. I want something that connects to a noise amplifier and then it only makes noise to the things I want it to make noise to. Like putting on headphones, the person wearing is fine but the person next to them hears it only a little."Does the blastia know what headphones are...?
Ah I get it. You want me to make it so you can play a loud noise and only the monsters will hear it. I can do that but the people around the monsters will hear it slightly. Can I ask why?
The monsters are weak to loud noises. Noises as loud as an explosion. Yeah it makes no sense...
I agree. It doesn't. For it to work is it okay if I take a blood sample from you so I can understand what's going on in your head so I know what to direct the noise to?
I really don't know what's going on... I don't think blastia are supposed to act like this... How would it take a blood sample anyway?
"What are you doing? What do those words say?" I turned to see Droite staring at the blastia with a wtf face. Gauche was still staring at me with the "if you try anything your dead look". She's really scary...
"And is the blastia somehow replying to you?" Droite continued. Still staring at it with a wtf face.
"I'm trying to figure out how to program the blastia. These words are just me trying to program it, and yes, it is somehow replying to me." I answer her question and sat on the floor, trying to figure out what to say to the blastia next.
Are all blastia like you? I mean, do they have your intelligence?
No. Programmed blastia don't have intelligence. They just do what they were programmed to do. Before you ask, if I have a blood sample from you I can tell want you want me to do because you can send me messages through your mind and then I, the blastia, will be bonded to you and cannot be used by anyone else.
This... Can't be a regular blastia...Wait. How do I know the this blastia isn't like a that Dalek in the first season of the new Doctor Who and when I give it the blood sample it'll try to kill everyone... I'll just ask! Not that it really help.
How do I know when I give you a blood sample you won't be like that Dalek in the first season of the new Doctor Who and when I give you the blood sample you'll try to kill everyone!
Good question. You'll just have to try. Also, what's Doctor Who?
You know what headphones are but not Doctor Who?
I don't know what either of them are.
So should I really give this blastia a blood sample? I guess it will be easier if I do but... You know what? Don't look, just jump! But first... LET ME TAKE A SELFIE! I'm kidding.
I turned to look at Gauche and asked her, "How long has it been since I first tried to leave the room?" I don't want to have been here for half an hour unknowingly.
Gauche stared at me weirdly and replied saying, "About ten minutes I think." Okay good.
I went back to texting the blastia... That sounds weird... MASS TEXT, MASS TEXT! SHUT UP YOU STUPID ANNOYING VOICES!
... I'll let you take the blood sample but first, can you tell me how you're going to do that?
Like this.
I felt a prick in my hand and when I moved the blastia to my other hand I saw that the blastia had somehow pricked my hand and that there was now blood on it and the pain was staring to increase. and my left hand is my dominate hand... Well it's gone now really... The pain and the blood.
And now I shall take over the world!
I knew this would happen... "Scheiße!"
*Random 3rd person thing*
Yeager turned his head away from the monster after killing it and stared at the room that the three girls were in. Not that he knew they were there.
"What is it boss?" Yeager turned to face on the Red Eye that asked the question.
"Nothing. I just thought I heard something." He turned away from looking at the room and went back to fighting.
*Back to 1st person!*
"Scheiße!"
Just kidding. When I got the blood sample I also got a bit of your personality, and if you didn't notice yet, I'm speaking in your head.
Ja, I didn't notice at all! Nothing like being in the Manor of the Wicked to spark up your wanting to speak in German!
Also about those annoying voices, I don't think they'll be talking much anymore.
Did you take their place in my head...?
Yep. Don't worry though. I won't be like them.
Good. So should we go get rid of the monsters?
Yep!
I turned to face the two girls and said, "So let's go help the adults now okay?"
I walked to the door and heard Droite follow me but Gauche didn't follow before asking, "Can I ask what you're going to do?" Okay... How do I answer that...
Help please?
Use one of your idiotic explanations or something!
"Well you see I'm going to connect this thing to this thingy, to this thingy!" I replied in my I'm an idiot voice while getting my MP3 player out and somehow pulled out speakers from my bag and pointed to them.
"Then I'll connect those thingies to the blastia!" I continued, seeing the wtf face forming on Gauche's face. She then held up her hand in a "I get it please stop" motion and followed me too then.
I walked down the hall to where the stairs should be and stopped when I got there and stared at that picture... I don't think it was easy to get someone from the artist's guild here. I mean, this place is surrounded by a dark, eerie forest and I don't think that anyone would want to come here. So did Yeager have to go to the artist's guild's HQ and carry that painting here? I think the first one is more likely. It is a good picture of Yeager, though it could do with some color.
Turning away from looking at the picture I looked to the left and saw through the window the monsters Leviathan's Claw was fighting. They looked fine. Beat up monster, throw away monster, have someone else kill monster. Easy.
I was about to call this a useless trip until I saw one of the monsters that I thought was dead, a dragon like thing, change form into a tortoise and attack again. A regular Red Eye killed it again and the monster changed into a lion-like creature and attacked again. This time a Yellow Jacket killed it and it changed into a hybrid creature of all of them and attacked. This time Yeager killed it and the monster evaporated like they do in the game when you kill them.
Observing the battle I could tell there was a pattern. Regular Red Eyes kill the birds and some tortoises, Yellow Jackets kill some tortoises and the lions, and last but certainly not least, Yeager kills the hybrids.
Turning to look at the girls they were starting to figure it out as well. I poked the both of them and asked, "How do you open the window?"
Droite gave me a look that said, "you want to open the window and let all those monsters in". After seeing her look I shoved all the stuff from my plan in her face. She sighed and reluctantly opened the window for me.
I connected the USB port for the MP3 player to the speakers and then put it in the little hole in the side of the MP3 player. Now let's hope the aer doesn't posses my MP3 player and it plays THAT song.
I swear if it plays THAT song I'm going to defenestrate my MP3 player.
Defenestrate?
Means throw you out the window.
Ah.
Shouldn't you know what it means if you're in my head?
Why would I know something from your 4th grade math class?
Cough cough.
Hmm?
You said 4th grade math class so if you know where it's from why do you not know what it means?
Good point. I dunno.
Okay so where can I connect the wire so you can do the headphone effect?
Headphone effect?
It's what I'm calling the plan.
Ah. Just place other end of it on me.
Okay... Uh...
What?
Do you have a name?
No.
Would you like one?
Yes...
Would Utilis be okay?
Sure. It sounds like a type of flower.
...
What?
Nothing...I put the wire from the speaker and placed it on Utilis. Yes I do notice the two sister staring at me weirdly. I can feel their stares eating my soul!
You ready Utilis?
Yes. Just choose want song you want and press play.
Okay. Oh, and please don't make it so the Red Eyes, Yellow Jackets, or Yeager gets deafened by the noise or me and the girls behind me.
Aye Sir!
Okay let's see. I looked through the song I had. There was Bad∞End∞Night, of course Children of Darkness, The Game of Life- Ah... That's unfair! I didn't even press the play button.
The MP3 player had started to play The Game of Life all on it own. Stupid aer possessing my MP3 player. Why does it like this song though? I don't have anything against the song, heck it one of my favorites, but why this one? Why not Children of Darkness? It fits too. Although I guess the aer had enough playing Children of Darkness one time.
My first life was so boring just forget I mentioned, And my second life seemed to let me do all of the things the first life didn't, My third life was a hateful man all poison to the bone, In my fourth life I played piano but didn't have the eyes to read the notes.
Okay... So it's playing the English version that Juby Phonic sang... Okay now everyone knows what the words mean... I'll just have to live with it if I'm asked questions. And... HOLY CRAP UTILIS! YOU HAVE BLUE SPORE THINGS COMING OUT OF YOU GOING ON THE MONSTERS!
In the fifth life I supported girls - of course that wasn't all, My sixth life was corrupted but I guess it was a little fun, Seventh life I cried so much and all I did was mourn, In my eighth life I was so rich I could have bought the world and everything.
This is where the real focus of the song starts. Right? I think so.
In this life is a game played by a flaky god, He gambles every life, Try to escape but you know the path you're on is game and set.
See how the game of life is playing all of us for fools, Dancing strings around us making all these silly rules, See how he looks down on us like we're acting out a show, Throw the dice and let's see which head will role...
The monster that the spores attached to are now... What do you even call this? They're turning into harmless little mushroom monsters (You know the ones at the beginning of the game) and are... Spontaneously combusting ? Well I'm killing mushroom monsters which are close enough to mushrooms for me! I hate mushrooms so I'm actually starting to enjoy this. Sadistic much? Nope!
By nine, I drew some manga but the deadlines left me dead
My tenth life was a teacher, as a pedo***** I worked part-time
Next life, what, eleven? Sorry I try to forget... Never could describe how awful - no I'm terrified to think of all
The things that such a die can do, kinda crazy. Deciding everyday. Try to escape but the days repeat and keep you here to stay.
See how the game of life is never won, you only play
Bore him and you will find you're crumpled up and thrown away
Clinging to fate and blaming it when life won't go your way Such a laugh HA! Life is just a game
Well all the Leviathan's Claw members are looking at out direction except for Yeager. Well he's looking at the monsters but he's probably indirectly looking at us. Or... I swear there a bit of a faraway look in his eye. Wait. How the hell can I see his eyes? My eyesight is kinda crap... Ah hide! They're starting to look at me.
I ducked under the window frame so they hopefully don't see me. However the point of that was useless the second I did it because the two sister looked down at me weirdly and pointed at me weirdly as well. I really want to just grab Utilis and run away to that room right now. But when I last looked all the monsters weren't gone yet...
Cry out all your eyes or win a new fortune.
The chance is one out of six.
Try to escape, why not try your luck and see what you may get?
See how the game of life is playing all of us for fools,
Dancing a string around us, making all these silly rules.
See how he looks down on us like we're acting out a show,
Throw the dice and let's see which head will roll...
Sickly grinning downward, tosses out a pair of dice,
Cheating way around the board "Ah this is paradise"
People praying on their knees but no there to hear,
Ah look down at all the puppets here
Ah look up at all the puppeteers.
Okay it's done. I looked up a little from the window frame to see all of the Red Eyes and Yellow Jackets were starting to move to the manor door. I guess all the monsters are gone. However one person wasn't going to the manor door. That person would be Yeager. AH! He saw me!
I stuffed my MP3 player and the speakers into my endless pit I call a bag, grabbed Utilis in my hand, closed the window somehow, and ran back to the room I woke up in. All the while hearing the lackeys/Red Eyes and Yellow Jackets starting to go into the manor and that Gauche and Droite were following me back to the room.
I ran into the room and almost slammed the door on the two girls' faces. I repeat, almost. I remembered thar humans can get hurt by having a door slammed in their face/I finally payed attention to the fact they were there. I really cut it close too... If they hadn't slowed down a little then they would have a broken nose right now or whatever other injuries you get from having a door slammed in your face.
I pretty much just jumped on the bed doing a belly flop and sat up to face them. They just stared at me with a "explain or die" look. Well really I think Droite's look was more like "explain or I'll tickle you to death" if that can even be a look.
"So umm... Want to... Play a game...?" I stuttered out hoping they would say yes.
They stared at each other and came to what looked like a silent agreement. They shrugged and at the same time said "Sure."
I randomly put my hand into my endless pit I guess I should start calling a bag, and pulled out what looked like Apples to Apples in the Vesperian, Terca Lumiran alphabet. I think I'll just call it Vesperian to avoid any headaches. Wait. This is Apples to Apples To Go. There's a chance I'll get the Fat Bastard card... I know it's a real card because I found it on the ground after the boys playing it put it there...
I set the box on the bed and gestured for the girls to sit on the bed and started to explain to them how to play. Perhaps I can make him think he really didn't see me and we just here playing games the whole time. I know I wanted to help but... I don't want to die from being asked too many questions about what I did...
