~3 weeks later~

"Congratulations, Summer Rose! It is upon this day that you graduate from the APASCS training regimen! It is my belief that if you keep a steady head, remember what you have learned, and know thy enemy as thou know thyself, you will lose to no man or woman on Remnant!"

"I hope so. I did not go through all that just to get bent over backwards by some thug."

"And you will not! Especially if I am with you."

"Someone's full of themselves."

"I meant that more people means more means more power. Since when did you get so snarky?"

This is… A development.

"See! Even System agrees with me!" … "...Allen, who is System?"

Why do I hear Ghetsis's theme?

"U-UH, just this thing that's in my head!"

"Really?"

"Yes!" Why is she pulling out an ar-

"Then you won't mind me peaking in for a bit, no?"

"YES I DO! I WILL D I E!"

"Fine. but you are my rival and mine alone. I refuse to let some jerk manipulate you into making you theirs."

HOLY JESUS CHRIST I JUST DODGE S-

"It's also the reason I can do this stuff." as I said this, banishing the last couple of seconds from my memory, I demonstrated sleá bréagach.

"So there's the reason I have a rival to begin with, hmmm?"

I don't like where there is going.

"...Tangentially, yeah, I guess."

"All is forgiven."

"We should probably get back to the village."

Hey, system, did I manage to level up my affinities?

yes. Liquid is at level 19 & mirror at level 8. Dimension is at 3. With Liquid at level 19 and with 3 experience points left, all you need to do is use sleá bréagach 6 more times to be able to make water become all 3 states of matter & manipulate them…. With varying degrees of efficiency.

Delightful.

"Hey, Summer, I can control water now."

"Thats coo- wait, what?!"

"Yeah. System makes it so that as I use my abilities more, the Affinity tied to it gets stronger and I get to do more stuff with it."

"That is overpowered. That is so overpowered it is stupid."

"Praise be to the great machination that gives me the power to save every nation."

"You bette-"

It was at that point we heard a dragon roar.

For a singular second I was confused.

Then I remembered a certain attempted genocide.

And I saw nothing but red.