What's this? Is it an update? Holy fudge! It is! I finally got fudging inspiration for this story people! –Dances around happily while throwing flowers everywhere to show my happiness-

Heng Shi: -Brushes away some flower pedals from his shoulder, walking over to lie on the comfy leather couch I have in the 'studio'- I have quite liked my months of vacation actually.

-Stops throwing flowers and slowly turn towards Heng Shi who is still lazing around in the couch- … When did you get free?

Heng Shi: -Shrugs- During these months you were away. Nothing I couldn't do really, just took me some time.

-Starts to nervously back away- Are… Are you going to take over the story…?

Heng Shi: -Stares at me for a long time, thinking over his decision- Nah. –Turns around on the couch with his back turned towards me- You are kind of useful. Even though I don't like that you're revealing stuff about me, you will give me a satisfying end at least. Sitting chained down in that chair was really uncomfortable and as long as I don't do anything, you won't put me back there, will you?

-Slowly backs away a little further, my back pressing against the wall- I don't trust you… You are up to something… You would never say that I would be useful! You would rather take over the whole story completely and fudge everything up! And how do you know about the ending anyway!?

Heng Shi: I won't do anything as long as you don't do something that I absolutely hate. And I found out from that. -Lazily points over to my right from where he's lying-

-Looks over in that direction and is just able to see a flash of white before it runs out the door- Gah! So that one revealed it to you!? Damn you! Is this how you repay me with using your idea!? Ugh… No, I'll just move on to the story. Something special will happen in this chapter, it will change the course of this story slightly. Just the tiniest bit.

Heng Shi: -Turns around to look at me- Don't tell me you're going to use that idea you've had for a while…

That's right! It will be so much fun!

Heng Shi: … Whatever, this one is fine. Do that. –Waves his hand towards me in a dismissive motion while turning around again-

You've really changed through the course of this story… I also should change the beginning slightly, there are too many 'evil grins' there than necessary. But anyway, here's a chapter you guys! A little longer than usual. Enjoy~!

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I sigh tiredly, lying on the bed and staring up at the metal ceiling. Chou and Quin are in similar, bored positions as I am in the chair and couch. Absolutely nothing is entertaining anymore. We've played cards for two days now and third day was spent just lazing around, but torturing those boys and dumping their bodies on the first day was fun. I heard when people found their bodies, hilarious. Where I stabbed them, I impaled them with sharp poles; their cuts could have come from anything on their way down so I put their blood on a few things here and there in their 'path down' so to say. Of course, I did this in the night. I can't be seen after all.

I haven't told Chou and Quin anything new about my powers even though they've asked me many times. Why should they know more about it anyway? They know enough as repayment for helping me survive. And why should they know? It's not like I'm at an advantage if they know about me, I would rather be at a disadvantage.

I groan once again, feeling my blood boil and scream under my skin. I'm going crazy in here! No killing, no cleaning left to do (I've already cleaned the room two times), no cooking, no homework, no killing, no computer, no training and no one to fucking kill! I didn't know that it would be this fucking annoying to not kill anyone for a while. Thinking about the blood coating my fingers and being superior to the other being only seems to make it worse. I don't physically hurt over this feeling, but it's really annoying to get all these urges when I shouldn't kill these two humans who are with me in the room.

I can hear their fucking heartbeats, and the sound is so annoying that I just want to drive a knife into those things and release the beautiful red blood that will come out. But these two are right now my subordinates. I won't be able to go outside for a while, but they will be able to. I need them alive at the moment; I can't kill them no matter how satisfying that would be. I would first see them writhe and scream in pain as I slowly cut them up, first in the face and then on the arms, just to coat them in the beautiful red of their blood. Then, I would carefully cut up their insides and twist their organs so that they'll scream even more. And when that annoying heart is beating in an uneven, annoying rhythm, I would slowly squeeze the life out of that muscle.

"What's wrong? Heng Shi?"

I don't realise that I'm laughing until Chou asks me what's wrong. My laugh comes to an abrupt halt and my face goes into its emotionless state. I will not let my blood lust take control of me. I'm in control of the blood lust and let it come out in battle. I will not let it take control over me when it isn't needed. I cover my eyes with my right arm, feeling myself start to grin when I don't see anything. I can freely imagine the beautiful red patterns I can draw. Without my consent, I start snickering.

"Holy shit, he's losing it…" I hear Quin say, actually sounding terrified of me. It only makes me laugh again, turning so that I'm facing the wall as my whole body shakes in my laughter. I let a picture of my mom appear in my head, the smile on her face helping me in calming down my blood lust. I snicker a few more times before my laughter completely dies down.

"Don't think so lowly of me, Quin." I can hear her flinch when I address her. That's right, be afraid. You have every reason to be afraid of me. "I am the one controlling the blood lust. The blood lust will not have control over me."

I see a flash of red appear on my mother's face, as if she just killed someone, and I quickly sit up, a hand immediately finding its way to my forehead and laughter tries to burst out from me. That face became even more beautiful with the blood stains! I wonder how mother looked like when she killed, she must have been a goddess back then. Of course, during my first cycle I would only admire her skill but she would have looked so beautiful with someone else's blood coating her snow white hair. A small snicker gets released before I can push down the urge to kill at the moment. I drag down my hand over my face, looking up at a very pale Quin from between my bangs with my hand pulling down my lower eyelid ever so slightly. Quin scoots as far away from me as she can in the leather chair.

"But of course, it can still try…" I tell her, a huge grin slowly making its way over my face. As I continue to stare at the woman, I get those urges to just cut her up and hear her scream in pure torture. To feel the blood soak my skin and clothes, making me feel alive, giving me a purpose for still existing. I am just about to fulfil that urge when I realise what I'm about to do and quickly turn away from Quin. I place both my hands on either side of my head, placing my elbows on my knees so I'm hunched down. I'm shaking in effort to keep the urge under control. And there's nothing here to distract me!

I flinch harshly when I feel a hand on my shoulder, suddenly feeling the blood running through the limb and hearing the owner's heartbeat so clearly. Without hesitating a moment, I shove the hand away, jumping to the other side of the room while I'm panting hard. Damn it! Just when I started to get control over it! If I stay here one more day, I really will kill them.

"Don't come fucking near me." I tell Chou, the one who touched me, harshly, leaning against the counter for support while I cover my face with my left hand so I won't see the other persons in this room. "That heartbeat… That blood… If you don't want to die, don't come fucking near me again."

The silence after that is eerie and I slowly but surely push down my blood lust to a tolerable level where my blood only feels hot and not screaming at me to kill something. I rip out my backpack from underneath the table and starts to shove in the little food and water we haven't eaten already. It's in the middle of the fourth day, and we're supposed to leave in the evening, but I can't take this anymore. I need to kill. I need to log in on second life, or kill a hobo, anything to get rid of this boiling!

"Pack up, we're leaving."

"But didn't you say-"

"Pack!" I interrupt Quin, glaring at her and almost letting go of my hold on my blood lust. In only a minute, we've covered the furniture with the white sheets again and are ready to go. I go out first, opening the trap door at the end and quickly scan around for any sign of enemies. No one's here. Quin and Chou step out from the pathway right behind me and I close the trap door, making it look like a couch again. We then make our way through the dumpster. I first lead us to the forest so I'll get to kill an animal, it will satisfy my blood lust for a day at least. So I kill a squirrel, painting a small smiley on a tree to satisfy me at the moment. Once that is done, we bound over towards the city.

We walk through town without any major problem I might have had to hold in my laughter when I imagine myself slaughtering everyone, but it's nothing we couldn't pass off as some joke. We finally reach my apartment building and I jump up the steps two at the time, not minding that it's hard to do for my short height. Now, I'll just rush inside and immediately go to second life and start raiding. I'll kill monsters and satisfy my lust for blood with no problem.

But when I step inside, my plan immediately changes as I see what a complete wreck my apartment is at the moment. Boxes turned upside down, sofa pillows all over the place, things tossed everywhere, doors knocked off the hinges and I don't doubt that the kitchen looks even worse.

"What the hell is this!?" I yell out angrily as I stomp into my apartment, looking inside the kitchen to see that it is indeed in a much worse state with food tossed everywhere and all cutleries tossed on the floor and some plates smashed. "What the hell were they hoping to find anyway!? Those fucking idiots! Why did they have to wreck my apartment?!"

I immediately move over to my room, intending to start cleaning it first. I turn around to point at the two assassins still standing in the hallway.

"Make yourself useful and start tossing away the spoiled food and broken plates!" I then step inside my room, quickly fixing the hinges with my time energy with the wave of my hand and then lock the door behind me. I turn towards my room, taking in the sights of all my books tossed everywhere and floorboards split open. I sigh tiredly as I start my task in cleaning everything up. This will be a long day…

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I don't stop cleaning until it's time for dinner, and even after that I continue to clean. I even clean the spots that look clean just to take away the invisible shoe stains the invaders have left behind. I walk back and forth through my whole apartment, broken things that we will toss away gathering in the hallway and I return to the hallway whenever I see something broken. All the while I am walking around my apartment cleaning, I force Quin and Chou to stay put on the sofa which was the first thing I cleaned. They were incompetent to clean the kitchen so it's just better if they stay out of my way.

My hair is swept back with a white bandana so it won't get in my way. And after cleaning up half of the kitchen, I decided to put on a dark blue apron as well so I won't dirty my clothes. I purposefully ignore all the shocked and bewildered stares I sense from Quin as I curse the invaders over and over as I clean my apartment spotless.

"They even had the nerve to use my shower while they raided my home!? What the hell is wrong with these gorillas, the hair is everywhere!" "Who the hell is the idiot who thought standing on my leather chair was a good idea!? It's full with grime!" "Gah! Why would they need to put their hands on my windows!? If I even meet this idiots, they will wish they never stepped a foot in my apartment!"

Yeah, it is something that people who don't know me would see as shocking that I would freely wear an apron and a bandana like a maid, cleaning my apartment while I complain on the people who messed up said apartment. I don't hold anything against her for being shocked over my antics, which is why I purposefully ignored her stares. Although Chou seems really content in sitting on the couch while he watch as I clean. Perhaps it's because my cleaning habit has been stuck with me my whole life no matter what happened to my mentality. One of the very, very, very few things I have been holding onto with my habits from my first cycle.

When the sun is starting to go down, the apartment is finally clean. With a satisfied huff and a smirk on my face, I look around my apartment. It's like the raiders weren't even here if you don't count the many things that are missing that are broken. I put away the cleaning utensils in the closet in the hall, calling out to Quin and Chou that they can get off the couch now. They do so and walk over to me in the hallway. Before Quin gets to say anything, I hold up my hand to stop her.

"You two are going to take this-" I point over to the pile of trash and broken things. "-to the dumpster. It's still not safe for me to go outside and you'll blend in much better in the crown. Tomorrow, we'll get things that can hide our identity. When you get back, don't try to bother me too much. I'm still having a hard time keeping my blood lust under control. I still have more things to do."

I then brush past them and walk over to my room to access my computer. I have stunned Quin to silence up until I close the door behind me when I've entered my room.

"What the-! Is he really the white snake!? Is he really one of the best assassins there is!?"

I can hear Chou chuckle at her distressed and shocked voice and rustling of broken porcelain following soon after. "Yeah, everyone seems to forget that he's still a human no matter how many people he kills. I'm just glad he has one of those quirks left… Let's go, he doesn't like people meddling with his business too much."

I lose interest in the conversation at that point, stepping away from the door and towards my computer. I start it and sit down in my black computer chair, absently glancing over to the innocent looking second life console that was left intact. I quickly shake my head, focusing on the glowing screen from my computer. I need to focus on this now; I can't play second life now. So once the computer is started, I log in on my e-mail I made when I became rouge and proceed to read the few mails I've received during my absence. Some advertising, some emails from school about my absence and some emails I know are from assassins that will immediately show them my location once I open them. So I stay away from those who are that type of email.

Once I've read the important emails, those from school, I proceed to write the school a reply. I tell them about how I had to go through a sudden transfer to Amerika and how I'm sorry that I couldn't contact them about it until now. Those sickly polite words almost make me frown but I keep a straight face as I write. When I am done with my email, I re-read it one more time to make sure that there is a hidden message within it that states that 'I've moved because I had to and that I won't come back' is pretty clear if you look hard enough. I then go over to the default page of the computer and write the 'password' I need to write to call on father's protector of all information. After just a second after writing the password, the little thing appears on my screen with its violet eyes shining in the middle of the screen. I go over to the page with my mail, making the protector look at my message. I then tap in the command that he will protect the location of where the email was sent from but make sure that anyone can see it.

I then lean back in my chair as the order is being registered, the email being sent by my 'protector' when it realised my order after a few seconds. The little thing then melts into the background, its eyes 'closing' as it disappears into the data stream again with the information of my location being kept a secret. So when my little 'protector' disappears, I shut down the computer.

My eyes glance longingly towards the second life console but I quickly shake my head a second time, standing up from my chair as I take the few steps towards my drawer. I have to train, I haven't been able to make my full training program during those days in my hideout and I can already feel my muscles slacking. That is something I won't tolerate.

So once I've changed into a tank top and shorts, I move to my living room to do my normal routine. I pull out my 20 kg dumbbells from the closet in the hall and start training my shoulders by lifting my arms over my head one at a time, the other arm staying down until the arm higher up comes back down in shoulder height. I do that about 20 times before I set them down on the floor to do my squats before I go back to the dumbbells. So after 50 squats, I do another 20 raps of the dumbbells over my head.

The next time the dumbbells are put down, I drop down to the floor to work on my chest with a few push-ups. First 100 on both hands, then 50 on each hand and after that I do the 'plank' for about 5 minutes. After 50 more squats, I feel humiliated that I'm getting tired much quicker than I did before my four day 'break'. But after those squats, I lie down on my back to do my 400 sit ups. That's when Chou and Quin step inside the door again. I barely acknowledge them when they step inside; just grunting in a small greeting when I glance at them as I continue to do my sit-ups. My tank top has been discarded after my second round of squats because it became too annoying with it sticking to my body. I'm already out of shape and I hate it.

"Whoah…"

I can't help but smirk at Quin at her amazed sound as she eyes my body. She is human after all; it's only natural that she would be drawn towards my muscles, I don't blame her. But I don't let her silent comment affect my rhythm more than a second as I'm soon done with my 400 sit ups. I hear Chou step forward, easily walking past me and sit down on the couch. But I don't hear Quin's footsteps so I guess she's still standing by the door.

"Hey! Quin, come join me!" Chou calls from the couch as he starts the TV, some sort of TV show on. After his call, her footsteps hastily make their way towards us, passing me with slight hesitation before she too sits down on the couch. I decide to block them out completely at this point. Soon after she sits down, I'm done with my sit ups and I roll backwards, slowly standing up in a hand-stand with a small grunt in effort before I start my hand-stand push ups, 50 of them. Once they are done, I stand in a normal handstand to breathe for a while; I then slowly separate my legs, moving them down together with my upper body, making my legs go past my arms in an almost sitting position without touching the ground before I slowly bring myself in an upright handstand position. I only manage to do 6 of those before my arms and stomach can't handle anymore. I'm really out of shape; I used to manage at least 10.

I breathe a sigh of relief that my exercise is over, lying down on my back for 10 seconds and just breathing. I usually end up exhausted after my work outs, it isn't exactly easy even for me I tell you, but I'm more exhausted than usual. So when my 10 second break is over, I roll up to my feet with a quiet groan, wiping away the white bangs from my eyes. That's when I notice Quin looking at me instead of the TV and I can't help but smirk again. Now that I'm done with my exercise and just have to do my stretches, I allow myself to be distracted. So while I put my arm behind my head in the triceps stretch, I address her with an amused voice.

"Like what you see?"

Quin quickly looks up to my face and she frowns in embarrassment when she sees my smirk, a slight tint of red staining her cheeks before she quickly push down the emotion and looks away, emotionlessly looking at the TV.

"It certainly isn't a bad sight but don't get any ideas."

I scoff at her words but leave her be. If she doesn't want me, it's ok. I can get anyone when I feel like it, but not right now. My priority is to finish my stretch, take a shower and then play second life. If I don't, I will probably kill them in their sleep. I change arm once I've counted to 30 and I address Chou this time.

"You two will come to an agreement on who will take the first night watch. It would be for the best that we keep a look out even though they probably won't search through this city. Tomorrow, one of you will buy the things we need while the other one sleeps after their night shift. I still can't risk going outside."

"But why can't you take the first night shift?" Ah, Quin always asks such stupid questions. Why can't that woman think for herself instead of asking me about everything? I give her a blank stare, shifting into a chest stretch with my hands clasped behind my back and pushed backwards. Quin's gaze makes a quick glance down at my chest before she quickly looks up into my eyes again.

"Sure, if you want me to kill you during the night, I can take the first night shift. Think for yourself for once."

Quin goes back to looking at the TV, a new frown on her face at my obvious insult. Chou says that he'll take the first night shift and that settles it, so the rest of my stretches are spent in silence with only the TV offering any kind of sound. I then go off to my bathroom to take a shower, only spending 10 minutes in there before I walk over to my room in only a towel so I'll play some second life. Once again, I ignore Quin's stare. I wonder what Garel has done during the days I've been away.

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When I log in, I arrive at the dango shop close to Sun City where I was the last time I was in the game. I look down at my clothing, smirking in satisfaction when I see that my gloves and coat are still there and well. I've had to change T-shirt and pants sometimes, but the coat has been easy to clean off as well as the gloves. I don't bother to clean the rings I have so they're always a little stained with dried blood. I clench my hands and see that the spikes still work, that's good. Everything is as it was when I logged out.

"Wha-? Is that Sabre?"

"Yeah, it is! Waaah~, he's so handsome~!"

I sigh slightly when I hear those comments and I am just about to draw my sword and cut them up when a very familiar and pleased voice interrupts me.

"Welcome back."

I look up to the rooftop, seeing Garel lie there with his spikey, white tail swinging back and forth over the edge. I jump up and grab his tail, Garel pulling me up and setting me down in front of him on the rooftop. I stare out across the small village while I lean back against Garel's stomach.

"Thanks, there was a lot of trouble in the real world. They found me so I had to hide for a while."

"Must have been hard, should we go and kill a little before I show you the place where I've hidden our loot?"

I grin at Garel's suggestion, letting go on my hold of my blood lust as I think about killing monsters. So without another word, I jump over on Garel's back, making him grow bigger with my mana and then we're off after I've changed my broadsword into a pistol. We land in a forest in between the small village and Sun City and here there will be a lot of goblins. We land in a clearing and Garel shrink down to his normal size, which is now up to the middle of my chest. Soon, I won't have to use mana to fly on his back; he could just fly normally without going through any kind of growth.

I look around the clearing, getting frustrated that there aren't any monsters here to kill. But that quickly changes when Garel emits his challenging roar, making the monsters in the distance roar in reply and probably run towards us. I pull up my pistol from its holster, spinning it around in my hand while I transform it into a katana, positioning my body in a typical sword stance. Garel is facing in the other direction, he wants some kills as well, and so we'll take one side each. The forest is quiet, the calm before the storm.

The first small goblin emerges from the trees, its cutlass held high above its head to try and cut me. The second it comes in my range, it is cut apart in the middle with its red blood staining me and my clothes before it vanishes. My grin stretches across my whole face when I see all the red eyes shining in the darkness of the trees and bushes surrounding the clearing.

"It seems your challenging roar has levelled up, Garel." I comment lightly, keeping my guard up for when they'll jump on us.

Garel doesn't get the time to answer because all goblins jump towards us all at the same time with their many weapons prepared to cut through both of us. I quickly change the katana into a pistol, shooting three of them before I have to change it into the twin blades with chain and block two spears aiming at my abdomen, twisting them on the T-shaped blades so the spears are cut apart. I then use one of my spells, electric shock, at the closest golbin and the spark which paralyzes my enemies jump from goblin to goblin until most of them are frozen. I take the time when they are frozen to launch my only fire spell so far, fire slash and swipe with my right sword to scorch the goblins in front of me.

I glance back and see that Garel is just about to get hit in the side by a goblin with a spike club. I quickly get rid of it by throwing one of my swords in its throat. In return, Garel hits a goblin behind me with his tail. I change my weapon into the hammer, hitting multiply enemies in one swing and causing them to fly back. Garel does the same but with his tail and he flies up into the air. Ah, so he's going to launch a fire explosion.

I let the goblins get closer to me, using another paralyzing spell but this one being transferred through the ground instead through enemy to enemy. Once the goblins are paralyzed, I hear Garel release his fireball up in the air I have just enough time to put up my water shield before it impacts with the ground and cause a huge explosion. The explosion takes out the majority of the small fries, which are always the first ones to attack when it comes to goblins. Now, it's only the 'challenges' that are left. The middle size goblins and the leader goblins. If we're lucky, we might have called on the king goblin as well but it isn't that likely.

The rest of the gobbling charge towards us at the same time and I change my weapon into my broad sword, grinning since I'll finally be able to fight more one-on-one and satisfy my lust for blood. If it's a huge group of small fries, I use more wide ranged techniques that will make my enemies immobilized and use as wide attacks as possible to take out as many as possible. It's now that the monster raiding becomes fun.

I clash swords with a middle-class gobbling, keeping my focus on it while Garel takes care of the small fries that wants to get in my way. With a big grin, I cut the gobbling apart in an upwards slash, making blood spray over me. The next gobbling quickly takes the first one's place but I dispatch this one much faster than the first. On my way towards the third one, I have to cut apart some weaklings to get to it and in the middle of the fight, a leader gobbling appears and manage to give me a small cut on my arm because I couldn't get away quite fast enough. It only makes me grin more. Let's release the little beast inside of me, shall we?

After that, it's a pure massacre when I release the limits I've been putting on myself up until now in this fight. There was a lot of loot afterwards, so much that it doesn't fit in mine and Garel's pouches but I have to carry some in my arms as well. And Garel has gathered even more loot while I was away. Perhaps I should buy myself something very fancy with the money I'll get from all this…

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"Well, that went well." I comment lightly as Garel and I walk away from the blacksmith shop in Sun City. Prior to coming here, we gathered up all our loot, put it all inside a huge sack I bought in the village we were close to and then I made Garel large enough to be able to carry it and me.

That's how we got to Sun City, our first stop was the normal item shop where we sold the majority of the food we got from the goblins, saving some for ourselves for when we get hungry. The next shop we visited was the accessories shop where we sold all the gems Garel has collected throughout these four days and the ruby we got from a goblin leader. But we kept the special gems which you can fuse with weapons. After that came the mages shop, also known as the brewing shop. That's where you can buy ingredients to potions if you're a brewer, like some mages decide to be. You can choose if you want one of those useless side-classes, I don't bother training up one. But yeah, there, we sold all the goblin bones and hairs as well as some dragon horns, some spider poison, bat wings, wyrm blood, that kind of stuff that Garel has collected. You get a really heavy sum for selling those things there. And of course, we sold all the weapons and armour we don't need at the blacksmith so with our selling spree done, Garel returns to his normal size since he doesn't have to carry a large sack anymore. We saved an egg and the few upgrading stones. We don't know what to do with the egg at the moment but we let it stay in Garel's left pouch for now.

"What should we buy? You deserve something good after all this. We need to spend the money on something after all."

I think about it for a while, wondering what I should buy. I have my gloves which increases my stamina, mana, health and defense. I also have my two red chains on my cloak that also increases defense. The rings I have increase the amount of health I steal when I attack, increase my speed, increases my intelligence and mana and a ring which increases my charisma, spirit, wisdom and luck. So I don't really want any more rings, it would be too much. And I have no idea how many points they increase my stats with either, they are growing accessories but I haven't checked on them in the stats window for a while now. And I shut down the system notice a long time ago so I don't know when they leveled up either.

Maybe I can get a necklace with high fire resistance, that way; I wouldn't have to put so much mana in making a water shield so I don't get hurt from Garel's fire. Perhaps some new spells, it could be useful. I majorly use lightning spells, a few water and only one fire spell. Maybe I should get some dark spells, just because they can torture and create curses for my enemies. It would be highly amusing to see them twist on the ground in pain. A new, larger pouch would also be good. I may have two pouches but they get full pretty fast with all the loot I'm collecting. I should ditch the red belt like I've ditched the chains I had on my pants. It's getting annoying. But the shoulder pads on my jacket are still very useful.

And the gem on my weapon, it only increases my strength by 2 so it's not really useful for me to keep it. I should ditch that stone and fuse my weapon with another stone that we got recently. One of them should have a better ability than increase my strength.

"Let's go to the item shop first and get larger pouches. Then we'll get some spells, maybe a fire resisting necklace and change the gem I have in my sword. It will cost a lot but we'll be able to afford it easily."

So about an hour later, I have a growing type fire necklace around my neck, three new spells with one of them being a fire spell and the other two dark spells, two new pouches and a sword which can't only steal life for the amount of damage I do but also gives me a kind of 'hardened skin' with the skin having its own health to protect me. Right now, the 'skin' only protects 20 damage but the blacksmith ensured me that the amount would increase the more I use the skin. The 'set back' for this gem is that NPC's will fear me more and sudden waves of killer intent will scare the players at random moments when I'm in town. But of course, this isn't a setback for me. I normally strike fear into the people's hearts either way so it doesn't matter.

So with my weapon upgraded with that gem, the players are now hesitant to call out to me or try to approach me. That's a first. But of course, it only lasts for a short while and soon my 'fans' go back to normal. Perhaps I should hatch that egg Garel got… Who knows; the pet might be useful.

Instead of going towards the exit of the town, I turn a right towards the pet store where I can hatch my new egg. Garel follows me without a word and soon understands what I want to do once we get to the pet store. I take out the egg from Garel's pouch, the dragon being too large to follow me inside because his shoulders are too broad, and enter the shop. The egg is pretty normal looking, an egg I've seen a few times when other players want to boast about the egg they've found.

It's a light blue, striped egg with a few stars here and there over the whole egg. The stars shifting between White and blue depending on if they are positioned on the white stripes or blue stripes. I put the egg on top of the counter, scrawling because she looks terrified of me and it will make her take longer time to hatch my egg. I don't want to waste any time.

"Hatch it." I tell her and with a squeaky 'yes', she quickly picks up the egg and brings it to the back of the shop. I lean against the counter, looking out the door where Garel is patiently waiting for me and watching the players walk by. I've really gotten attached to him, that dragon. I guess he has influenced me in getting a soft side and not only being treated like a great person in the social life… No, what am I thinking? I'm not getting soft! I have just… gotten a few more attachments then I should. Yeah, that's right; I've gotten attached to that dragon. He's just a fake partner anyway, he's not real. It's ok to be attached to him since he isn't real, I won't see him anymore when I stop playing. He's just a partner, just like Chou and Quin. He's useful and it would be better to let him live and serve me than letting him serve anyone else.

"H-h-here's your… New pet, sir…"

I turn around when I hear the NPC's voice and I can't help but stare at what she's brought out. No… That thing can't have hatched from the egg… I know that I've seen a few of them, but this is not what I thought would be hatched… How the hell can this thing help me fight!?

As I stare at the little pet, very little, the thing slowly floats up into the air after it has unfolded its wings. The wings are shaped like a dragonflies wings but a little more 'jagged' on their rounded shapes. It's glowing and… sparkling blue. The little thing floats up to my face and I squint in irritation because of its bright light. It notices this and lowers its light, leaving a blue haired, pointy eared female in its wake. Its hair is tied up in two, large bun-like ponytails. It looks like 8 with her hair being thick enough to make two ball buns in her ponytails. Her fringes are braided on either side of her face and her eyes are pink and they're sparkling in a hyperactive way. I sneer when she starts circling around me, a wide smile on her face stretching to the two whisker-like red markings she has on her cheeks. And that pinging sound it emits is so annoying!

I grab onto the annoying thing, the fairy that the clerk have brought out, and glare at it. The pinging sound stops as the fairy stares back up at me, flinching away from my glare and shrinks a little to seem even smaller. I turn my glare towards the NPC, the woman squeaking a little when I look at her. I guess it's the 'side effect' to my stone, the NPCs didn't fear me if I didn't do anything to them. I wonder if the NPCs who know me also fear me now… I don't know.

"You've got to be kidding me. This can't have hatched from that egg."

"I-I'm sorry, but the fairy hatched from the egg you brought… It's a very popular pet amongst girls and thus we have quite many of them that you can get from any monster…"

I glare harder at the NPC, lightly throwing away the fairy from me so I can slam my fist against the counter without accidentally hurting the little thing. It wouldn't do good to hurt it if it can be changed.

"I have no use for such a thing. And do I look like a woman to you? Change it."

"I-I'm sorry sir… I-I can't do that." She says, holding up her hands while backing away from the counter as far away as possible. "W-we can't change a pet once it is hatched… If you had sold the egg before the hatching process it could have been arranged… Fairies are support type pets s-so she can still be useful to you."

I glance down at the fairy who's sitting on the counter a little further away since I threw her, she winces when our gazes meet. She's afraid of me, of course. But if that fairy is a support type, she might be useful depending on what it can do… I stare at her for a while longer, thinking about my decision. If she'll be useful as support, it might be good to keep her. If not, I'll just leave her in a forest somewhere.

"Hey! Garel!" I call out, looking towards the door. Garel sticks in his white head, his green S shaped horns almost hitting the door post because he turned so quickly. I lazily point over to the cowering fairy, who got even more scared when she saw my dragon. "She's a support. Think she'll be useful?" Garel looks over to the fairy with the same criticizing look in his eye as I had. After a while of just looking at the thing, Garel nods.

"Yes, I think so. She's a blue fairy so she'll mostly focus on giving us boosts in attack, magic and critical hits. She'll also be able to decrease the monsters ability once she levels up some more. And if I remember correctly, a blue fairy will gain protection spells, create illusions and even some water spells if it's in a high enough level."

"I see… So it will take a while until she's very useful to us. Alright, I'll let you handle her leveling while I am gone. We'll keep her for now." I look over towards the fairy with a wicked grin on my face as I imagine what I will do to her if she isn't useful. "But if she doesn't reach my expectations, we'll see what happens."

The fairy flinches again when she sees my grin and she emits a few, quiet pings to show her discomfort. I wave her over, the grin still on my face and very hesitantly, the fairy stands up and starts walking towards me with her wings lowered in nervousness. Or at least I think she's nervous.

"Hurry up." I tell her impatiently and the fairy quickly jump up in the air and fly towards me at a fast pace. I look closely at the blue haired fairy, said thing squirming to show that she's uncomfortable. What should I name her then? She might just be a temporary partner like Quin but she could also be an important one like Garel. I'll give her a simple name, but not 'blue', that's too unoriginal.

"Do you want to be named 'Lumen'?" I ask the fairy, making her fly backwards slightly with a shocked look on her face. I narrow my eyes at her, not liking that she's wasting time. "Answer; do you want the name 'Lumen'? It simply means 'Glow' in Latin."

Hesitantly the fairy nods with a small ping in confirmation to show that she wants the name, although she's still a little dazed for some reason. I bite my thumb hard to draw blood, not bothering to use the spikes on my gloves, and hold out the bleeding finger towards the fairy. When the fairy still hovers a few feet away from me, not coming closer to the bleeding finger, I get irritated.

"Well? Are you coming or not? If you touch my blood, you'll be known as 'Lumen' and serve me. If not, I'll just walk out from the store and leave you behind." With a flinch, the fairy snaps back to reality and flutters forward to put her small hands on my wound. With a 'ping' confirming her registration to me, I say her name out loud and her stats window appears in front of me. So far she can just heal, increase my attack and lower enemies attack. Having three abilities in level one isn't usual actually; I guess she's somewhat useful.

"You, NPC." I say, turning towards the NPC who's been standing behind the counter doing nothing during my interaction with the fairy. The woman jumps slightly and meets my gaze nervously.

"Y-yes?" I reach over the counter, grabbing onto the collar of the NPC's dress and pull her face closer to mine as I glare at her.

"Do your duties better. Tell exactly what the pet will be able to do the next time. If Garel hadn't told me what this fairy could do, both you and Lumen would have been killed by me with your head cut off. Or…" I start to grin evilly at the cowering NPC. "Maybe I should kill you for your incompetence. After all, you'll just get revived, won't you?"

Tears start to gather in the NPC's eyes and she starts to struggle from my grip on her collar, begging me to spare her. Her fear just makes me grin even more as I move my free hand to where my broadsword is positioned on my back. But a tugging on my hand stops me from reaching the weapon and I glance up to my hand in irritation. Lumen is the one who is tugging at me hand, small tears in her eyes as she looks at the panicking NPC. With a snort in irritation, I shake away Lumen and grab the handle of my sword, changing it into its pistol form and shoot the NPC dead at close range. I grin when some blood spatter on my face and lick away some of the red substance from my hand as I let go of the limp body. The body hits the floor behind the counter with a 'thump' and I don't doubt that I got a few negative points to fame there.

I transform the pistol back into the broad sword and turn away from the counter with the dead woman behind the counter and the wall behind it being splattered with blood. Acting as if nothing happened in the first place, I place the broad sword on the half sheath on my back, the strap at the top automatically wrapping around the top of the sword to keep it in place like always. When I don't hear the sparkly sound of Lumen's wings behind me, I call after her.

"Lumen! Let's go!"

That's when I hear the sparkly sound of her wings closer to me and she lightly lands on my shoulder. And the nerve of that little thing, she starts to tug on my hair while she pings at me in her language. So when I exit the pet shop with a fairy tugging at my hair, Garel simply stares at me in amusement before he stands up to walk in the direction to the exit of Sun City. I angrily grab onto the little fairy and pull her away from my hair, holding her in front of my face so I can look at her. In response, Lumen increases her glow to a painful amount but I squeeze her to force her to go back to the tolerable glow she had previously.

"What the hell is your problem? You actually care about me killing that woman?" Lumen is still struggling to breathe in my tight grip so I let it up slightly so she can respond to my question. She meekly nods while looking down at my hand. I snort at that, placing the fairy on top of Garel's head and wipe away the fairy dust that has gotten on my glove on his snout.

"We got a softie Garel. She'll be afraid for us for a while before she can get useful."

Garel sneezes out some red fire since the dust tickled his nose and he shakes his head until Lumen falls off his head and is forced to fly by herself. Garel then glares back at the little fairy that is flying slightly behind us in the same height as my shoulder.

"Yeah, this will be really annoying… Hey! Lumen!" Lumen flinches and bring her attention back to us after have watched some players walking by us. She flies a little closer to show that she's listening but looking a little nervous. "If you're not useful, we'll dump you somewhere to die. If you're useful, you'll stay. But if you stop either of us from killing, we won't hesitate to hurt you. Right now, you're an underling since we don't know exactly what you can do, your position can either go up or down depending on what you do. Just remember, we are killers, so get used to it."

Lumen glances between me and Garel a few times before she hesitantly nods with a few pings. It will take her a long time to get comfortable with us, I can tell. I look over to Garel, a small grin on my face as Lumen's attention shifts towards some women players who start talking about me when I walk by.

"Should we go and take a mission and then go to Prince's city? I want to see how my little… 'Student' is and make sure that he isn't slacking." Garel starts to grin as well as he realize what I'm getting at and we both turn a left towards the mission building with me hollering for Lumen to follow since she got too caught up in listening to the players around us.

First, do an A-ranked mission. We haven't done an A-rank since the first A-rank we took was a little too much of a challenge. We nearly died with all of those high-level monsters attacking us all at once when we tried to get to the treasure chest our mission implied us to get. That was about two months ago and the B-ranked missions are almost easy now. So after an A-ranked mission, we'll go and have some fun with Prince and his squad.

I glance back to the new one in our little 'party', the little support class fairy who is looking all around her in wonder with an excited gleam in her eyes. She's too bright with how she is right now; we need to make her a little darker for her to fit our company. When I turn back to the road, I feel something tugging softly at my collar. I glance back towards a nervous looking Lumen who starts moving her mouth but only emits that pinging sound. I frown in irritation since I don't understand what she wants and I stop walking, making Garel stop beside me.

"What?"

Lumen starts pinging some more while pointing over to my left. When I look in that direction, I see that it's a clothing store. Does she want new clothes or something? But she's a fairy, nothing there will fit her. I look back towards Lumen blankly, still frowning.

"Nothing there will fit you, why even bother with trying to get me walk in there?"

The little fairy pings a little more, shaking her head. She flies over to the glass window for the store and excitedly points at something there. With a glance towards Garel, I get even more irritated at seeing his amused look when he meets my gaze. With a silent message of 'shut up', I decide to humor Lumen and walk towards the window after the excited fairy.

"That's Sabre, pure lightning." "What is he doing walking towards a women store?" "What a loser…"

I swiftly turn my sword into a gun and shoot in the direction I heard that last comment, feeling satisfied when I hear a sharp cry of pain. The girls squeal at my show of skill as I put my weapon back in its broad sword for on my back. Lumen looks a little more uncomfortable now that she saw that display.

"What is it?" Lumen quickly comes back to reality and points again at the thing she wants but looking much less enthusiastic than she did before. When I look into the window, I see that they are ribbon bands, one group of them being short and thin enough to fit fairies with a sign over the ribbons stating that it's specifically for fairies. I sigh heavily, putting a hand to my forehead as I realize what this means. Like any other female, she wants to go on a shopping spree… I glare down at the blue fairy, said pet flinching at my irritated gaze.

"No. If you prove to me that you are useful, I might let you buy something. But as it is now, there is no way in hell that I'm going in there."

With a sad gaze, Lumen looks back towards the small ribbons. But a new, determined light shines in her pink eyes when she looks back up to me. She flies up to my height, doing a small salute with the determined fire still burning in her eyes. Seriously…? She would fight this hard to just get some clothes…? If she's useful enough, I guess it's ok to buy something, but to become this determined for some clothes? Something is wrong with this one. Or are all girls like this? It wouldn't surprise me, females are crazy after all.

With a scoff, I lightly swat away Lumen from my face and turn around to walk towards the mission building again. I don't know if it was a good idea or not to get that fairy… She's the total opposite to me and Garel in so many ways.

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And you got to see Heng Shi a little more as a normal person! Isn't that nice? –Claps hands happily-

Heng Shi: Well, I shouldn't kill what is useful to me. As a rogue, I need all the subordinates I can get, Quin and Chou fit those roles.

Yeah, but I'm not only pointing at that, but also about your new pet! Lumen is such a sweet heart, I can't wait until she becomes more comfortable with the two of you. And just wait until she'll be able to talk! It will take a while, but she'll be so cute!

Heng Shi: Where did the idea to give me another pet come from anyway?

-Points over towards a white bunny that's sitting on the floor in front of me where I'm sitting in a leather chair a little further away from Heng Shi's couch- I blame this plot bunny. There was a lot of debate if I should use its idea, but in the end it was accepted by the court. So now, I don't have to jump so much than I originally planned between the important things that will happen.

Heng Shi: Alright, alright. It's fine I guess.

Really, you have changed so much with your attitude towards me… You were such a bastard before.

Heng Shi: -Glares at me- I'm still a bastard, just more accepting to what's happening.

(He's in denial that he's getting softer because of all the human contact and interaction he has gone through. Also added with the fact that he can't simply kill everyone who annoys him. He's in pure denial.) –Thinking quietly so Heng Shi won't hear-

But ok, that's the chapter people! Since I have inspiration for 'Time assassin' now, I might release a chapter much earlier than I did this time! Maybe in a month! Although I doubt it with all these projects I've gotten since I have started in 12th grade… I don't want to graduate~! –Goes off to a little emo corner to mope about it-

Heng Shi: -Flings a rubber at my head to bring me out from my depressed state- Deal with it, everyone has to grow up. It just so happens that I've done so more times than you have.

Alright, alright… But yeah, I hope I'll update much sooner next time. See ya soon~'