Okay, so got an exam yesterday.
It wasn't as difficult as I feared it would be, but there were still quite a few questions I wasn't 100% certain about. Hopefully, I pass.
Anyway, you all probably don't want to read about that, so let's get to the chapter!
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LonelyPlayAh (Original Poster)
Posted On Oct 9th AW94:
Hey there, everyone. I recently got into the Arena of the Great, and I'm currently looking for people to play with. None of my friends or classmates are really into strategy games, so I'm searching for a team here.
Does anyone here want to team up with me for some semiregular games on weekends?
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►XX_ThaProDude_XX (Unverified Tester)
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
just play with randos.
it's not that bad
►LonelyPlayAh (Original Poster)
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
Isnt' playing with random people basically a lottery when it comes to having decent teammates, though?
I would rather play with people I know i can communicate with, rather than some three total strangers who might not even know how to play the game.
►HappyNEWby
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
Playing with randoms will give you a chance to play with the Winning Team, though.
►111LetzWinThozeGamez111
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
can confirm
played with thm once barely had to do anythign to win
the easisest game of my entire live
►LonelyPlayAh (Original Poster)
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
I feel like it would make the game boring as well, though. I mean, where;s the fun in playing a game you know you're going to win beforehand.
Also, please try to use better grammar next time you write something. It was barely readable.
►HappyNEWby
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
true
►XXStephsStarsXX (Verified Tester)
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
I wouldn't mind letting you play with me and my team.
My friends and I already are a full team on our own, but there are situations where one or two of them can't be play with us, so whenever we have a free spot on our team I'll be sure to contact you.
►LonelyPlayAh (Original Poster)
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
Really?
►XXStephsStarsXX (Verified Tester)
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
Yeah, as long as you don't mind playing with us, and aren't an unbearable womanizer, we should be fine.
►1H8DEWATR
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
I did say i was sorry steph!
►XXStephsStarsXX (Verified Tester)
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
SHUT IT1!1 YOU DMAN WOMANIZER!
►BuggyNuggy (Verified Tester)
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
1H8DEWATR, XXStephsStarsXX, please move to a private chat if you want to fight, again.
►HappyNEWby
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
man, we really need some proper moderation on this site
►XX_ThaProDude_XX (Unverified Tester)
Replied On Oct 9th AW94:
yeah, tell me about it.
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(...)
Ilia felt nothing but boredom and anticipation as she sat on a basic office chair with absolutely nothing to do.
The computer screen before her wasn't showing anything interesting, and she only looked at it to check the time and the messages her friends might have sent her when she wasn't paying attention.
Unfortunately, no matter how much she seemed to wait, she wasn't getting any news from either of her friends.
The fact that she wasn't hearing anything from Snow wasn't a big deal. It was still early in the morning—which was far earlier than they would usually be online anyway—and she knew that her friend was going to be busy for the next couple of days as well.
The problem, however, was the lack of messages from Knight.
That guy was finally visiting Mantle today, and she couldn't wait to meet him in person.
It was going to be incredible to finally see each other eye-to-eye after literally years of talking to one another through the internet.
The only problem was that she had no idea when he would actually arrive. She knew that it had to be today, but whether it was early in the morning or late in the evening was unknown to her.
"Are you still waiting for your friend, Ilia?" The internet cafe's owner asked with the caring tone he so often used when talking to her. "I can make you some tea or hot chocolate while you wait for them."
Ilia turned around to look at the older man behind her.
Ever since her parents died, that man has been taking care of her like she was his own family. Considering just how much time she spent at this cafe with him, it wouldn't have been a stretch to say that he was the closest person to her aside from Snow and Knight. Sometimes she felt quite a bit guilty over receiving so much help from him. After all, had her parents never died, she would have been just another stranger to him who sometimes visited his cafe to play video games with her friends.
Thankfully, the older man never complained about having to help her so often, so she didn't need to beat herself over it too much.
"I guess I could get myself something to drink while I wait for Knight." She mused out loud.
The cafe owner smiled.
"Would you rather have tea or chocolate, then?"
She grinned.
"Chocolate, please."
The cafe owner chuckled slightly.
"In that case, one hot chocolate coming up."
"Thank you!" She shouted to make sure that the older man would hear her as he walked out of the room. "Be sure to make something for yourself as well. I wouldn't want to be the only one who gets something to drink."
The cafe owner chuckled a little louder.
"Don't worry, kiddo!" The voice echoed from the kitchen as the older man left the door open. "You won't find me forgetting about little old me anytime soon. I only asked whether you wanted anything because I was making coffee for myself first."
Ilia giggled a little before stopping a little and opening her mouth, ready to add one last comment to the conversation, when a subtle pinging sound chimed from the computer behind her.
She immediately snapped her head back towards the screen.
Knight had sent a message.
Her friend was finally in Mantle.
The smile on Ilia's face widened.
"Old man, make sure to prepare one more chocolate for my friend!" She shouted as she quickly stood up from her chair and moved to the wardrobe to get some warmer clothes for going outside. "Knight has just arrived."
She heard some frantic shuffling noises from the kitchen, but she didn't pay too much attention to them.
"Ilia, wait!" The cafe owner called out before she could leave.
With all the clothes on her, just as she was about to open the door, she stopped and turned around to see the cafe owner gasping for air in the doorframe leading directly into the kitchen.
"Yes?" She asked, slightly confused by the command.
"Where are you going?" The older man asked.
Ilia huffed slightly.
Did the cafe owner really have to stop her just to ask where she was going?
Seriously, she respected and cared for this man like no other, but did he really need to ask something so obvious and pointless when she was about to finally meet with her friend face-to-face?
She was wasting time that she could be spending with her friend right now!
"I'm going to the central train station." She said, rolling her eyes a little—the train station was the only place where she could be going right now, anyway. "Don't worry, I'll be back with my friend soon."
Not waiting another second for any answer, she immediately opened the door and left towards the train station, giddy to finally meet Knight for real.
"It takes at least half an hour to get to the central train station from here." The old owner of the internet cafe whispered as he saw the girl he genuinely considered to be part of his family now leave in a hurry into the city of Mantle.
In the end, he could only sigh.
"I guess I will just have to wait a bit before I make those hot chocolates, won't I?"
(...)
Jaune's first impression of Atlas was that it was underwhelming.
Sure, it was bigger and more dense than any other town he had visited in the past, but compared to what he imagined one of the biggest cities in the world would look like, it was simply ordinary.
When he had been on a train crowded with people that barely had enough space for his family, he thought that the destination would be something beyond impressive. In his mind, he saw the Mantle as a majestic city that everyone would want to visit and see with their own eyes.
However, as it turned out, the city itself was anything like that.
It was paved with steel, rust, and grime. There were hardly any places that looked clean, and Jaune was pretty sure he had already seen at least a dozen homeless people begging for money in the station.
Honestly, if the whole city looked the same as its centre, then it must have been the saddest place he had ever witnessed.
He genuinely didn't know why anyone would want to live here.
A quick glance at the reactions of his sisters told him that they appeared to share his opinion on this as well.
"Mantle sure doesn't look very impressive, does it?" His father asked out loud, as he no doubt noticed his sisters' and his reactions.
"Is this really the capital of the most scientifically advanced kingdom on Remnant?" Saphron asked, disappointment clear in her voice. "I thought it was supposed to be a better place to live than our hometown. You know, a place where everyone leaves in pursuit of a better life."
Charles Arc snorted in amusement.
"Do you mean Mantle?" Charles asked as he gestured to the city around them. "This place is the capital of Atlas only in the history books. Nowadays, I'm not sure if it's even maintained properly by the government anymore."
The Arc patriarch pointed upwards.
"If you want to see a real capital city, then you would have to visit the Atlas City instead." Charles huffed. "Unlike Mantle here, Atlas is actually properly supported and maintained by the Atlesian elite. Unfortunately, that city is a little bit outside our price range, so we will be staying in a hotel down here. I assume neither of your friends is from Atlas either, right, Jaune?"
The attention of his entire family turned towards him.
"C-Chammy certainly isn't from there." Jaune stammered at the intensity of his family's gaze. "I don't know about Snow, though. She might actually be from Atlas City. As far as I'm aware, her family is quite rich."
The expressions of some of his sisters momentarily brightened.
"Do you think she would let us crash at her place, bro?" Bleue, one of his more outgoing sisters, asked with a clear hope in her tone. "Just think how much more enjoyable our trip is going to be if we can stay up there, Jaune!"
Jaune looked at his sister with a deadpan expression.
"I doubt it." He said. "Snow might be rich, but I don't think she's capable of housing an entire family of nine people for a whole week. Most families don't have houses with enough rooms for seven children, after all."
Bleue sighed.
"Well, it was worth a try."
The rest of his sisters nodded their heads solemnly.
Their father chuckled heartily, while their mother giggled a little.
"Don't worry, children, we won't be staying in some cheap, dirty hotel for our stay here. Your father and I made sure of that." Their mother assured them. "Mantle might not be as impressive or clean as Atlas is, but it does have places worth visiting."
Jaune heard some of his sisters grumble quietly, so he chuckled a little.
His mother smiled and nodded at their reactions.
"If we're all on the same page now, then let's go! We have a hotel to visit and baggage to unpack there." Their mother said with enthusiasm that only she could muster before turning around and heading towards the exit of the station.
Charles Arc chuckled a bit more as he walked with Amelia, and most of Jaune's sisters sighed before begrudgingly following their parents.
Jaune smiled a little as he moved to follow the rest of his family too; however, before he could take more than a single step, he felt his Scroll vibrate a little in his pocket, signalling to him that he had gotten a notification.
He quickly checked to see what it was.
It was a message from Chammy.
He stopped in place after he read it, and a subtle smile appeared on his face.
"U-Uhm, actually, would it be alright if I stayed here for a bit?" He asked, causing his family to turn around. "I have just received a message from my friend, and apparently they are already on their way here. I don't want them to come here for nothing by leaving for the hotel right now, and u-uhm."
His mother smiled gently.
"You want to meet them."
Jaune nodded hesitantly.
"Yes, I do." He said. "Can I stay here to meet them?"
Amelia huffed.
"Of course, you can, darling." She said before extending her hand towards him. "Give us your baggage; we will take it to the hotel. However, make sure to keep your Scroll in your pocket and use it in case of emergencies, alright?"
Jaune nodded his head slowly, happy that his mother agreed.
"Also," Amelia said, raising one of her fingers and taking a deep breath. "don't accept any candies from strangers. When you meet your friends, make sure they are actually them by asking something only they would know. Don't follow suspicious-looking people into dark alleyways. If you need to go to the toilet, make sure to clean the toilet seat before sitting on it. Oh, and don't buy anything that seems too expensive for what it is; it probably has drugs hidden in it somewhere. On top of that..."
Jaune stood there awkwardly as his mother went on and on, warning him about any and all possibility of danger, no matter how silly or improbable it might have been.
Thankfully, just before his mother could start explaining to him the dangers of following mature women into their apartments, his father put his hand on one of her shoulders to signal that it was enough.
"I think that Jaune knows how to handle himself, honey." Charles said. "Besides, his friend is a local; I'm sure they are more than capable of living in the city they were born in."
Amelia grumbled a little.
"I'm simply worried for my baby boy, Charles." She asked. "Is that such a bad thing?"
Charles sighed.
"He will be alright, dear." His father turned towards Jaune. "You will stay safe, right, son?"
Jaune shook a little at his father's sudden question.
"Yeah, I will."
His father nodded.
"In that case, we will leave you to it." Charles swiftly grabbed Jaune's baggage and turned around. "Let's go to the hotel, girls. We've got the baggage to unpack, and I've heard there's some old cinema we might want to visit near it."
The women of the Arc family shuffled a little in place before following after Charles and leaving the train station to head towards their hotel.
Jaune, meanwhile, seeing his family slowly leaving him alone in the train station, decided to look around for some free bench to sit on and began to wait for one of his best friends to meet him.
He quietly wondered how long it would take for Chammy to arrive, but he didn't think that it would be too long.
After all, Mantle was the city she grew up in; she must be experienced in traversing through it, right?
(...)
The bus slowly turned left as the light changed from red to green.
Despite the driver's best efforts and most passengers' impatience, it wasn't travelling too fast. In fact, the bus was moving so sluggishly that most of the people on it were complaining about being late for their plans.
Ilia was among those people as well.
Couldn't this bus move just a little bit faster?
She had a friend to meet, and she was afraid they were going to think that she stood them up if she didn't arrive anytime soon. Knight might have seemed like a patient guy, but she doubted he would have the time to stand around waiting for her for an entire hour!
A quiet grumble escaped her.
None of this would have been an issue if she had just gone to the correct place from the get-go instead of going to a completely different train station.
How was she supposed to know that the train station she was going to wasn't the central train station?
Why did Mantle even have multiple train stations anyway?
It was a single city!
She sighed.
It wasn't like she visited the train stations regularly. The only time she had travelled by train in the past was to visit her parents' mine, back when they were alive, and that was years ago.
Hopefully, this time she's travelling to the correct place.
She didn't want to experience the teasing Knight and Snow would put her through if they learned that she got lost in her own city twice. They probably wouldn't stop reminding her of that for the entire month!
A slight shudder went through her.
No matter what happens, they must never learn of that.
"Next bus stop: Central Train Station." A somewhat robotic and prerecorded voice announced loudly from the bus's speaker systems. "Please hold onto something if you're standing, and make sure you're not blocking any paths. Thank you, and have a nice day."
Ilia stood up from her seat.
It looked like the bus was finally reaching its destination.
Although it took much longer than she thought it should, at the very least she had finally managed to get to the correct train station, and neither of her friends would be able to tease her about getting lost in her city in the future.
The bus's door opened before her as the vehicle stopped to allow its passengers to leave.
She arrived at the train station.
Now, she only needed to find Knight here, who she didn't know how he looked and who was a single person among countless people in the most crowded location in the whole city.
Yeah, all of a sudden, meeting with her friend didn't sound like such an easy task anymore.
She quickly pulled out her Scroll.
It might not have been the most advanced device—she was actually pretty sure that her Scroll model was so old it wasn't officially supported by any company anymore—but it was capable of running all the apps she needed to contact her friends.
Of course, it only worked properly after quite a bit of reworking of its programmes on her part, but she couldn't really complain about it too much.
Her parents were the ones who gave it to her, after all.
She sighed before shaking her head a little.
No, she couldn't allow herself to ruin her mood right now. Her friend was waiting for her, and they were about to meet for the first time. Meeting them while being all sour because of something like that would be just a waste.
With a faint grin on her face, she quickly sent a message to her friend.
MineChammy09: im at the train station
MineChammy09: whr ar u knight?
She nodded her head in satisfaction.
Okay, now that Knight knew that she was here, they only needed to agree on a location to meet at, and they were golden. It would take them barely a couple minutes to find each other; she just knew it.
A loud ringing sound echoed from her Scroll; her friend had just sent a message back.
Arch06Knight1: im at the electronic store
Arch06Knight1: at the 2 floor
Ilia raised one of her eyebrows in a slight confusion.
MineChammy09: y?
Arch06Knight1: got bored
Arch06Knight1: decided to check it out
Arch06Knight1: u hav so many new tech here
After checking the time, Ilia couldn't help but sigh a little.
Well, Knight did have to wait almost an hour for her; he had to occupy his time somehow. She probably would have been bored and looking for something to do if she had to wait for so long, too.
MineChammy09: i'm goign there
MineChammy09: wait 4 me at the stores enterence
Arch06Knight1: got it
With a nod of her head, Ilia quickly turned towards the train station building and started to run to it, through the entrance, and towards an escalator that would take her directly to the second floor.
As she ran and moved through the crowd, she heard a couple people complaining at her when she pushed past them. She didn't pay too much attention to them, though. They would probably forget how she looked by the time they left the station, and she was in a hurry to meet the friend waiting for her.
Reaching the escalator, she had to slow down a little, as there was no way to push past people on the narrow stairs that led up. She still steadily moved forward towards the second floor of the train station, however.
Technically, that floor belonged to a shopping mall attached to the train station rather than the station itself, but she didn't really care about such details.
After a dozen or so seconds, an escalator finally let her reach its peak, and the moment it did, she immediately turned and rushed towards the electronic store.
As she was getting closer to it, she saw multiple people entering and leaving it in a traffic completely natural for such a crowded location.
When she got really close, however, she managed to notice a young blond-haired boy, around her age, standing near the store's entrance, looking left and right, searching for something or someone in the crowd.
The moment she saw them, she knew exactly who they were.
"Knight!" She called out, uncaring about all the attention the sudden shout would gather.
The boy shook in place a little before turning towards her.
"Chammy?" The boy asked, probably unsure if he heard her right. "Is that you?"
Ilia grinned as she reached the boy.
"Of course, it's me." She said, as she tackled her friend with a running hug.
"Woah!" Knight cried out as he stumbled back from their collision.
"It's great to finally meet you!" She said loudly.
"Yeah!" Knight returned the hug; thankfully, they didn't collapse to the ground from Ilia's hugging attack. "It's great to finally meet you too. Did you really have to tackle me the moment you saw me though?"
Ilia smirked.
"What? Is a single tackle from a friend enough to defeat you and your incredible huntsmen training? Are you secretly goofing off while Snow and I train with all our might to be the proper huntresses for our future team?"
Knight groaned.
"You just took me by surprise, that's all."
Ilia let out a chuckle before letting her friend go and allowing both of them to stand up properly.
"I kid. I kid." She smiled widely. "I know you are putting in just as much effort into training as I do. We will need to spar with each other at some point. Do you think you will be able to find some time for that?"
"I suppose?" Knight asked more than stated. "My family and I will be here for the whole week. I'm sure there will be time to have a spar. We will need to organise the arena and weapons, though. I don't think we can just have a duel in any random park or alley."
A smirk appeared on Ilia's face.
"You would be surprised."
Knight blinked in surprise.
"What?"
Ilia dismissed her friend's question.
"Never mind that; we'll worry about it later." She said, before gesturing towards the exit. "Now, do you want to go to an internet cafe and play some video games together? I can get us a place for free."
Knight grinned.
"Do you even need to ask?"
Ilia matched her friend's grin.
"Let's go, then!" She said as she grabbed her friend's hand and started to drag him towards the bus stop right outside the building. "We've got a hot chocolate waiting for us, and I don't like to drink it cold."
"Woah!" Knight shouted in surprise at the sudden motion.
A giggle escaped Ilia.
Finally, she had managed to meet one of her friends face-to-face, and she was absolutely ecstatic. Sure, it would have been better if Snow was here with them as well, but she knew it couldn't have been done as easily.
Although, despite the fact that everything appeared to be going perfectly at the moment, she couldn't help but feel that she was forgetting about something.
Oh, right!
How could she have forgotten about something that important?
"My name's Ilia Amitola, by the way." She said loudly.
"Huh?" Knight asked, a bit shaken by how blunt their first real meeting was.
Ilia turned to look at her friend with a large grin on her face.
"Ilia Amitola; that's my name, my real name." She repeated slowly. "It's the perfect moment to tell each other our real names, don't you think? You know, with it being the first time we see each other in person, and all. What's yours?"
Even though Knight still looked somewhat confused at her introduction, she knew that he did catch what she was saying this time, and in no time at all, he introduced himself to her as well.
"I'm Jaune." Her friend, Jaune, said, before mumbling something right after. "My name's Jaune Arc. It's short, sweet, and rolls of the tongue; apparently, ladies love it. At least, that's what my parents keep telling me."
After hearing her friend's introduction, Ilia momentarily had to stop running, put her arm on something sturdy nearby, and explode in laughter.
"Oh my gods, that was terrible!" She wheezed out. "Do you introduce yourself like that to every person you meet?!"
Jaune sputtered.
"N-No, I'm not!" Her friend tried to defend himself. "T-There's usually no reason to introduce myself to anyone back home in the first place. I'm from a small village in which everybody knows everybody, so I'm not used to introductions, okay?!"
"That's hilarious!" Ilia continued laughing.
A blush of embarrassment appeared on Jaune's face.
"Can you stop laughing!?" The boy asked before pouting. "I'm sure that if Snow heard my introduction instead of you, she wouldn't have laughed like that. She would have a much calmer response."
Ilia wiped the tears of laughter from her eyes.
"She would laugh at that too, and you know it." She said, after managing to calm down.
Jaune grumbled.
"She wouldn't."
Ilia looked at her friend with mirth in her eyes.
"Sure, if you say so." She said, doubt clear in her voice, before she straightened herself up and sighed. "I wonder what she's doing right now. Do you really think we might have a chance to meet her this week?"
In response to her question, Jaune mellowed down a little before sighing as well.
"I hope so. Although without any idea who she really is, it might be more difficult to find her than I thought it would be before coming here." Her friend said before looking towards the bustling city before them with a distracted look in his eyes. "Hopefully, she'll at least have an enjoyable week without either of us with her."
"Yeah." Ilia agreed. "Hopefully."
(...)
The halls and corridors of Atlas's biggest theatre were bustling with activity.
There were hardly any places in the building that weren't filled with people organising some things, testing other things, or working on different projects. It looked almost as if a couple different renovation companies were working on it at the same time.
All of that was happening despite the fact that the theatre itself was closed and would be closed for another couple of days.
Weiss didn't need to be a master at managing resources to know how wasteful that was.
The whole activity felt even more pointless when she considered just what it was in preparation for. Her singing career didn't need to have so much support put into it, especially when she didn't care about it herself.
A quick revision a single day before her concert would have been more than enough preparation, in her humble opinion.
There was no need to rent the entire theatre from the city for a whole week before her performance to prepare it for her. As far as she was aware, the standards of the theatre were good enough on their own. There was no need for the SDC to meddle in the inner workings of the theatre at all.
Unfortunately, she appeared to be the only person in the theatre to hold that opinion.
"Why is the echo still spreading like that!? Has nobody done anything about the bloody directional sound systems here?! What are we paying you all for, you dimwits!? Somebody better fix this thing!" Her music teacher and one of the main directors of her performance shouted loudly at a bunch of workers trying to make sense of the different audio systems in the theatre.
"Y-Yes, sir!" A couple of workers shouted in fear of their boss.
Weiss looked at it all with a bored look in her eyes.
Why was she here?
Ever since she arrived at the theatre, the only thing she was doing was standing out of the way while looking pretty. It was a complete waste of her time and talent. There wasn't even any press here to take photos of her!
It wasn't like they needed her talent here anyway.
She knew how to sing and give a decent performance. It wasn't going to help her know how to prepare a stage for such a performance ahead of time; that was a completely different field.
An annoyed grunt escaped her as she once again moved out of the way of another rushing worker.
Well, she supposed she could simply find herself someplace to sit and check her scroll to see what her friends were doing.
At the thought of her friends, her mood soured further.
She couldn't believe that both her friends were finally meeting face-to-face and that she wasn't there with them.
It was a travesty!
Deep in her heart, she knew that the primary reason Knight was visiting Atlas in the first place was to attend her concert, but it didn't make her feel any better. She was still missing a chance to meet her friend, in the end.
She sighed.
Getting angry at the situation wasn't going to help her; she should just find a place to sit down and relax a little.
With a tired expression on her face, she caught sight of some comfortable-looking seats deeper into the hall and started moving towards them. She noticed a couple people sitting on some of those seats, but they didn't appear to be doing anything important.
In fact, they seemed to be on a break and deeply invested in something on their Scrolls.
As she approached the comfortable seats—and with them the small group of workers with their Scrolls—Weiss couldn't help but quietly wonder what had those workers so absorbed into their Scrolls.
Was it some interesting mobile game?
She had never really gotten into mobile gaming, with all the games she played with her friends being computer exclusives, but she couldn't say that she wasn't interested in it sometimes.
The number of advertisements made for mobile games was staggering, after all.
There were times—scarcely few, she admitted, but there were nonetheless—that the games promoted by those ads didn't look too shabby either.
Of course, none of those ads were nearly as good at making her curious about a game as the intense and focused expressions on the faces of all those workers on their scrolls before her.
A subtle smile found its way onto her face.
Now that was a proper commendation!
"What are you playing?" She asked upon reaching the small group of workers.
"Ahh!" The workers shouted, startled at her sudden appearance.
Weiss watched in silence as the workers before her scrambled to stand up from the ground after falling down from being utterly frightened by her.
Was she really that scary to the people working for her?
She just asked a simple question.
"W-We weren't playing anything, Miss Schnee!" One of the workers managed to say after calming down a little. "W-We were just calibrating the light systems on our Scrolls, that's all."
The look she gave them in response should have been enough to tell them how much she didn't believe them. However, in order to be sure they knew that she didn't buy their excuse, she decided to tell them what a stupid excuse that was.
"You're telling me that you were so engrossed in calibrating the lights that you didn't bother to look away from your Scroll for a second to see me approaching. On top of that, all of you were doing that on different Scrolls that shouldn't really have access to the theatre's systems in the first place. Is that what you want me to believe?"
The workers sheepishly looked away.
Weiss faked a sigh.
"Look, I didn't come here to punish you for anything." She assured the workers. "You can do whatever you want during your break, as long as it's not illegal or against your contract. You're not going to get in trouble for anything you did here. I was just curious about the game you were playing, that's all."
The relief was so clearly visible on the workers that she almost felt bad about worrying them so much in the first place.
"W-Well," One of the braver workers started. "W-We were playing Dustless Tales. It's a mobile card game that has been gaining popularity lately. Although it's a bit too pay-to-win at higher levels for my taste, it's still a lot of fun for the lower ranks."
"A mobile card game?" She asked; it wasn't a genre she really had any experience with.
The worker nodded.
"Y-Yeah, it's a game where you make your own deck of cards from the ones you unlocked and battle against other players with it." They explained as quickly as possible, clearly afraid of having to continue the conversation with her. "It's actually quite fun, if I can say so myself."
Weiss slowly nodded her head a couple times.
"We should really get back to work, Miss Schnee." One of the other workers said briefly, before grabbing the group and dragging them away. "Good luck on your concert, Miss Schnee!"
As she was left alone in her seat, Weiss lazily pulled out her Scroll and opened the app store.
A mobile card game, huh?
She supposed she could install one of those on her Scroll; having a game to play on her mobile device would certainly make some of her boring activities far more bearable. Maybe she would even manage to get her friends into one of those later, too.
She certainly wouldn't mind having one more game to play with them.
And Cut!
Ilia and Jaune meet, and Weiss find a new addiction! What a wonderful day for all three of them!
Still have no idea when the next chapter's going to be, but hopefully it won't be too long.
See ya lateh!