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Umm...

I was too busy with work and...

Nah, I'm not about to lie to you. I was legit too busy looking at memes and anime that I forgot to post this chapter. This has been already done for about a week now...

I'm sorry for being a piece of trash.

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*Le sigh*

Getting up was a pain in the ass. Quite literally. The way I had slept was so weird that even I thought it was. During the night, my legs were dangling off the bed with the upper half of my body lying along the width of the bed. When I had awoken, the stretch one would do caused my legs to drag my body off the bed, causing me to plop my ass onto the floor.

Utter bullshit…

I got up and started to cook the usual, this time, however, I was surprised that the spices in the cloned room actually were spices and was genuinely glad that the steak seasoning and garlic salt tasted the same. Apparently, every single food item that was stored in my mini fridge wasn't fake. If only this had happened for my inanimate items, I would have had two laptops right about now. However, now that the food I had was real I could cook some comfort food. I pulled out the pans and stuff from my closet and started to GET IT ON. The eggs were frying, the steak was being grilled, the rice was being reheated, and the gravy was coming to a rolling boil. If y'all don't know what I'm about to make, I feel bad for you mainlanders. I was making myself a good ol' loco moco, with three sunny side up eggs. What I didn't expect, however, was a knock at my door.

How the fuck? Isn't it a fucking portal? And plus, it's around 4:00 PM. This is the time I eat my dinner, and the time everyone should be hanging out with their friends… Wait… I've been acting a bit like myself as of late, I think I should switch over to Isaac because DAMN it's hard acting cool.

I finished plating my food and put the somehow clean pots and pans aside and looked through the peep hole that was JUST put inside my door. Legit, it appeared as I approached my door, looking out of the hole I saw a group of people outside. The question was not why, but how THE FUCK they even managed to find my room. Before I could even walk away from the door, a familiar voice called out to me SOMEHOW through the portal.

"Shadow! We know you're in there! Come on! Open up!"

I closed my eyes and debated whether or not to open up until another familiar voice bellowed from the other side of the door.
"YOU BETTER OPEN THIS DOOR OR I'LL OPEN IT FOR YOU!"

I looked through the peephole to see Val pushing everybody aside and placing a tunneling explosive on my door.

"HOLY SHIT, STOP! I'M OPENING UP! TAKE IT OFF!"

I opened the door to be greeted by a large group of girls and a Val taking off a large fucking explosive from the portal. Luckily, I was good at putting names to faces though I was bad at remembering names. There was Lone, Cupa, Ink, Val, Ki, Xera, Siv, Lich, Natalie, Sylvia, Hera, and Andr. I looked left to right, then started to pinch my nose as I took in a deep breath. I looked into the crowd of girls. I started to shack my hand as if I was waving goodbye as I went back inside, telling them off.

"No. Not going to deal with this right now, yall can do what you want, but I'm not about to take part of your shenanigans."

As soon I was about to close the door until Val stuck her foot in-between the door and the frame.

"No way, we're not going to let you slip away. Would you like to explain the scent coming from your room that Lone smelt?"

"It's food. Obviously."

"That's not what food smells like, food doesn't smell that good."

"It is. Would you like me to show you?"

She nodded yes and I headed back inside, grabbing the plate full of food and presented it to them. They seemed amazed at the sight and started to ask me questions. The questions ranged from what to how, each girl asking at least one. Now that the girls were satisfied with my answers I decided to try shut my door again, just for the door to be obstructed once again by Val's foot.

"Can we have some?"

"No."

"Can you cook us some?"

"Can you get the ingredients?"

"I think we can, what are they?"

I gave them the full list, from the salt and pepper all the way to the gravy ingredients. They reacted the way I knew they would react, they didn't even know what a majority of these ingredients were, like rice, salt, pepper, garlic, etc. I would've expected them to fail, but once again they are the princesses. As swiftly as they could, they bolted away with Xera and Ki lagging behind. I closed the door and took my jacket off as it was getting a bit heated from the steam my food emitted. I ate my food in peace and decided to listen to music on my laptop, helping to pass the time. Just a mere hour later the group returned with cloves of garlic, industrial grade packages of spices and gravy, a crate full of Minecraft beef and a shit ton of rice.

Holy shit, this could feed me for the next year to come.

"Umm… I have no place to store all of this… Do you even know what all of these are? Did y'all think about this before you got this much?"

"Nope!"

Jesus Christ… Okay… How about…

I walked out of the room and opened up a closet. I gestured them into the closet and it was surprisingly colder than usual. But that was to be expected from the phantoms, cold darkened spirits doing all sorts of dank and spoopy stuff. I took the boxes and put them in a corner where the staff wouldn't see it. Somehow, I was sweating even though it was cold as fuck, and I was a little embarrassed.

"There we go."

"Umm… Shadow?"

"Yes Val?"

"You're shirtless."

I cringed a little just as I realized she was right, simultaneously refusing to look down at myself.

Nope. Gotta get my shit together. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPE.

I sped across the group of girls and grabbed my jacket. I put it on and recomposed myself.

"Shadow, wh-"

"Nothing has happened. You have seen nothing. Nothing has been experienced. You will forget nothing as nothing has happened. Now… Grab a steak each, any amount of eggs, and a couple packets of gravy. After that's, all said and done, put all of it near the kitchen. I'll cook it, so wait in the hall for now, and I hope yall don't think of something while I'm away. "

Without hesitation, each girl did as they were told, all except Ki and Xera. I was standing in front of the two girls who didn't talk at all, and it was awkward. Ki stood there staring at me and Xera was pulsating more yellow as opposed to her average blue. I felt like being a good guy for once and decided to do something about the two.

"Look. I understand just a bit of your guys' pasts, yet at the same time, I don't understand you at all. I'm a bit worried if you two are eating at all. I know I hide my face, even if I'm eating, but at least I'm eating. The thing is, you two seem to just float next to your teams while they're eating and stare at their food. Do you get hungry at all while you two are in those forms if you do, how do you two even eat?"

Xera and Ki shook their heads no and hung their heads.

"Okay. I want to test something. I'll cook you something, and I'll try to feed you both. Are you guys okay with that?"

It seemed like they hesitated a little and then nodded. I told them to wait in my room until I came back, and they did as they were told. I headed down to the dining hall and saw that everyone was there except for Rot and Talon. I wanted to blame someone, but I guess the only person that could be blamed was me. I sighed and saw that they actually had enough steaks for everyone, but the issue was to figure out how much eggs each person wanted. I had decided to do it my way and call out who wanted one egg, two eggs, and so forth. An hour and a half passed and everyone was eating. Before anyone could compliment me, I walked out with two plates of my auntie's favorite style loco moco that she taught me to cook. It was a sweet teriyaki hamburger steak with three sunny side up eggs with a hearty serving of gravy, all covering furikake rice. I got back to the room and the two were still waiting there looking around my room.

How the fuck does one wait for almost two hours without something to do?

I set down the plates and beckoned the duo over and told them what I was about to do. I was going to teleport small portions of the food into the area where their stomachs should be. They consented and I was going to do Xera first as she had no clothes, so if it did fail, it wouldn't fall onto the insides of some sort of clothing. I was concentrating and a bite full of food disappeared. I looked at Xera and she literally lit up pink and green, she tried to hug me but I stopped her before she could.

"Is it safe for me to touch you? Like, your whole body is arcane energy, so it would be bad if I got burnt, shocked, or absorbed…"

Her colors dimmed into a brown, transitioning from an orange to a yellow. She suddenly grabbed a bag full of materials and started to experiment with her energy. By the end of it all, she had tested if she was any sort of hazard to living things, like heat or electrical current. Her results said that she was a non-lethal being, so I decided to let her hug me. Oddly enough, she was warm to the touch even with the steel runic plates she had floating where her skin and clothes should be. I started to do the same for Ki and it worked. Thinking ahead, I taught them the spell and they managed to learn it. It took a couple of tries to feed themselves but they managed to do it in the end. The amount of food that they ate was about two-thirds of the plate, despite that, Xera gave me a letter saying thank you.

Adorable… For an elemental thingy…

When Xera had left, it was just me and a Ki glowing pink from behind her mask. Apparently, the glow indicated mood or condition, one of the two if I had to guess. I think I had figured it out, pink was content, blue was neutral, red was anger, and all the others on my list were colors I hadn't correlated to something. Though, I could only expect that they have every single color you could think of as a condition. Then, if there was a condition for a color, then my list was perfect. Black, white, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink, and violet. Suddenly, three clicks snapped me out of my thoughts and I saw Ki glowing red and violet, having an eye each respectively.

"Sorry, was just thinking about something."

In response, she glowed orange and yellow.

"Anyways, how did you enjoy your meal?"

The glows turned green and pink.

"I'm going to take that as a yes…"

"So, why are you still here? Shouldn't you be hanging out with your team?"

She turned blue and turned away. I grabbed her fac- MASK and turned her gaze towards me. Her eyes lit up violet.

"Even if you can't talk to your team or you don't like them, make an effort to, I believe in you."

I gave her a thumbs up and she turned pink once again. I sat back and started to think about things.

I just can't keep trying to read her colors in order for us to communicate, like, what if… What if there was an emergency only those two knew and they had no way to tell us… There's got to be a way faster than writing… Wait… Ki and Xera have runes… Maybe, JUST maybe… Yes… We should do that!

"Wait, you're smart right? You have a good memory as well?"

She nodded yes, and I handed her a sheet of Morse code. I gestured her to try and tell me something, and she proceeded to use her gears to make the dots and the runes to make the dashes. Even though she made a few mistakes, I could tell what she was trying to say.

Please note that the following is purposely made this way in correlation with the Morse code.

'Cmn u pndrsand me..'

"It needs a little bit more practice but I can understand you."

'Grat'

"Make sure you practice, okay?"

'K'

Her pink glow now integrated green into it. She was a pretty nice person, well, both of the elemental girls were. If they were people, I think we would've gotten along nicely.

'S'm gon 2 go ngw,.'

"It's okay, I have things to do anyway."

'Cya.'

"Wait! Before you go, thanks for keeping me company…"

She struggled with the next one, glowing a constant orange and violet as she did. After taking almost four minutes, she had perfected her Morse code speech, and I was thankful that she was trying.

'I should be thanking you, but you have things to do. Bye now.'

"Bye then…"

I watched her float out, and she looked like she was about to self-destruct, as she closed the door she started to smoke out of her mask. I looked out of the peep hole and her mask started to burn violet and she was literally FUMING. You could legitimately start smoking meat with the amount of smoke she was emitting. I thought something was wrong and decided to tap her supposed shoulder, my finger being met with a cog instead. She turned to me, trying to recompose herself. She picked up the page I gave her and gave it a quick scan before she looked up.

"Anything wrong Ki? You look like you're going to explode…"

'Theres nothing wrong.'

"Oh… Okay…"

I gave her one last glance and returned to my room.

What is wrong with these mob girls? Fucking Christ man. Even though I just woke up, I want to go the fuck back to sleep.

I checked my clock and it read 7:00 PM, my body wanting to turn into mush. I was wide awake, but my body was like, "Sit the fuck down boy, these legs gon' collapse on your ass." And, I did as my body told me, with me sitting down with my laptop. I was still impressed by the fact that I could still access the internet from this universe even though there was a lack of satellites in this world. Before I did anything on it, however, my thoughts took over for a bit.

If I recall, aren't there other mobs? This is a bit suspicious because the fact that this fucking blocky world has forgotten about its latest update scares me. Maybe, maybe there's another large piece of land on the other half of this map they don't know of. But I'll never know, so who gives a fuck?

I opened up Safari and typed into the address bar. I decided to start watching Is the Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Sama. I watched the first episode, enjoying the characters for what they were. CALM YOURSELVES, I DIDN'T DO IT FOR THE TIDDIES! I did it for... Umm... Their personalities... Anyways, I continued to watch until 9:30, putting myself to sleep after the 8th episode. My body became heavy and my heart rate slowed, my eyes becoming the weight of an iron anvil.

What a weird chapter in my life…

Welp...

Filler chapters are fun right?

Or was it a filler chapter?

Who knows?

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