Cleaning Break 3 - (League of Legends Gameverse, Janitor!MC)

Today was the second day as the 'Summer Holidays' started and...

Fuck, it's the best feeling yet!

I couldn't believe it. There was no one but me in the resting grounds and the battlefields. One of my first worries was for some NPCs to be there and potentially slip into the safe place 'as karmic retribution' for this sudden good news.

Admittedly, I thought that it was too good to be true that I was now alone. It was just me, a large place with plenty of food and items to have a three months-long blast and...

DID I MENTION IT WAS JUST ME?!

Okay, okay- I have to confess this is getting a bit insane on my part, but after half a year of being around people that could, one way or another, kill me, willingly and not, I think I have a fair reason to be so ecstatic of the event I was stuck with.

Sure, I could see how doing something on repeat may emphasize the fact I was alone in such a huge area for the summertime, but that's why I spent the first hours of this new morning with a solution in mind: I would try to have a planned holiday within the resting grounds!

Each month will be split between three main activities then further divided in various general bits for each. The first month, I decided, would be about potentially renovating my room and, while this may sound boring and unusual for a holiday, there was a big freaking reason for me to take it that slowly...

This reality had yet to fully sink in.

It sounds absurd, but I also knew I couldn't just drop everything to be a chaotic moron when I know full well that some places were outright forbidden by the notion of common sense alone- an example of that is that I wasn't going to check any of the champions' rooms.

I could access them, technically speaking, but I saw no point in putting my life on the line for shits n' giggles. Especially when it came to female champions since a few of those really had it out to hurt me. Jinx was on top of that list-

In fact, I have this strong gut feeling that I dodged a cold and wet one by skipping on the 'Summer Work Camp' experience.

It would be quite tempting to just mess Jinx's room up, but that would warrant ten time the intensity as a comeback. And I really didn't want to spike the tension to that extent.

There was also the fact that this 'Whisperer' lady, who had been a rather unpleasant boss, could have some tricks up her sleeves. I doubt she just 'let me be' despite the chance to literally put me through another more humiliating slave job.

Something about it didn't feel correct- for a almighty entity, it felt off-putting how I had yet to be either punished or shown this to be a prank of sort to show 'the right of choice was an illusion'. I just waited for that moment, that hour, that would have proved me right in that paranoia.

...

So yes, my main goal today was something I had been thinking of doing for months but couldn't since I hardly had a long enough break to focus on it: which is to redesign my room's interior. Within the storage room I had as part of my job, there were enough resources to get a few thing I could do.

Starting with the appearance of the walls. I couldn't exactly do a perfect 'modern' job, but one of the few resources I could find were some humidity-cleaning vines that didn't need to be watered. I just had them fixed up on one of those stark-white walls and it gave it a greater personality.

Next up was actually shifting some of the furniture around- the bed was the most difficult to move around, but I had enough physical training, time, and patience to disassemble it, move each piece around and then put it all back together.

Most of the day went out that way, and I felt quite happy with the end results as I felt the room was now designed more along what I wanted it to be like. I also felt better in knowing that the first day could be spent just 'fixing' stuff around as, despite my job being one of a mere janitor, that didn't mean my skills were limited to just that.

Doing DIY stuff was something I used to try out and love back home, and while I hardly had a reason or a chance to do much with that in the last few years, I saw a few sections of the resting grounds that required some loving.

I started to get some of these bits looked at, studying what was needed and what was best to use to get the job done. Nothing really 'important't as it was about some of the boxes and shelves around that looked a bit too ruined to linger for long.

A few more hours went by and it was soon time for dinner. I walked to the cafeteria and I found the dispensers still working as intended as I got myself a can of soda but... paused in actually getting pre-made food as I realized the kitchens were free too.

I felt a little hint of delight at the sight, but something greater as I stepped over the counter and walked to the stoves. The fridges and cupboards worked in a similar way to the ones in my room- food would just restore itself if taken out.

So, rather than get myself one of those delicious premade steaks, I decided to cook one myself. Was it better in quality? No. Would it have killed my stomach had I put a bit more spicy tomato sauce on it? Definitely. But what really made it great was that it was something I cooked for myself.

I munched at it happily, I cleaned the dish properly, I shat the content of my stomach minutes later, but I went to bed a happy man that did something noteworthy of this 'second' day of freedom. Alas, nothing really insane came out of it as I found myself wandering off to my bedroom, switch to my PJs and get myself some needed hours of sleep.

The night went on uneventfully, and I found myself waking up with a smile as I prepared for the next day... but stopped as I realized something was wrong about this room. The fact I wasn't alone in my room to begin with.

While there was no Champion around, the large cast of short hooded entities that were split among those wearing blue, red and purple. Their faces were shadowed and only their 'same-colored' eyes glowed through the darkness of their hoods.

There was a tense moment of peace and then, as they all started to exchange looks, they all threw their hands up and made celebratory noises.

"Oh, hello boyos," I muttered, trying to grasp my mind around the fact that the minions had been spawned, which means the Nexuses/Nexi got activated and-

This made no sense at all. Why the hell are the minions here!?

AN

Something's up in the Resting Grounds!