《High school life in a world where everyone has superpowers》Chapter 17: a slight gaming addiction.
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The conversation froze, as Silence considered whether or not to answer her sister's question. Every second built up the expectation and her clock's ticking wouldn't allow her to lose count of this.
With a bit more thought, she stood up from her bed and walked around her room whilst succinctly replying before Helen's patience wore thin, "I'm on my school's Beam Toppling team."
A small pause and deep sigh later, her sister made her bemused comment, "Huh, you weren't kidding..." she changed her tone to a more uplifting one and continued, "Sorry, I meant to say congrats but... I'm confused."
She left no room for an explanation before speaking again, "I don't really understand what your school is thinking unless they really want to use random factor..."
"Er... What are you talking about?" Silence interrupted, tilting her head on her side of the call.
"Well, You're an audio user, right? How do they expect you to topple anything when all you can do is silence them," she explained.
"Uh, I think you misunderstood. I won some exhibition matches, hence I'm on the team. I've proven myself capable of doing the event. Hell, my only reason for training is to get a better method of toppling it that doesn't strain my voice. Though it's not going well right now," Silence replied.
There was another pause, soon broken by Helen, "Oh..."
She broke into a small fit of laughter before continuing, "I thought that they just picked you because you're highly ranked. Yeah, I know it sounds stupid, but a lot of pretty high ranking schools did that last year since they had no one else to do certain events."
Another pause was broken by Helen, although with a more serious tone, "By the way, you know that you'll need to use your full name in it?"
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"I do... I was told that you dealt with 'that' already, but I'd be lying if I said I was fine with it," Silence answered with a sombre voice.
"Mel..." her sister said in an almost pitying tone.
"Well, now that's out of the way, I'm sort of bored of talking about myself. So how are you?" she asked in a subtly annoyed tone.
Helen sighed, "Well it was going well until some idiot challenged me to a duel. I don't know what I'm going to do about it, though..."
Silence was almost breaking into a laugh at hearing it, rhetorically replying, "Huh. So someone is actually willing to duel with you?"
"Yeah... I'm at a training session hosted by Forth High, but it seems that someone else has the same nickname as me, so took offense. I think they're from fifteenth High, but there're eight other schools here, so I'm not sure. I don't really know if the individual cares about it, though," she explained in a worried tone.
"Well, it's your choice to accept or reject the challenge," Silence said indifferently.
"Yeah, I'm going to wait on making a decision. But that's pretty much all that's going on right now. How are your studies?"
"Well, to an anticlimactic degree. I thought high school was going to be hard, but... the 'espionage' test was a piece of cake, and science is so simple easy to understand it's stupid. Though, I'd have more notes if my damn pens didn't run out..."
Her sister responded with a lighthearted joke before actually giving a serious opinion, "Cool down hotshot, you're only in the first week. Just wait, Maths will probably wipe that confidence of yours. Also, science is just a dos at my level, let alone yours... Know how simple powers correlate? If you do, you'll pass with no problems since that's all that science is."
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"Really? I thought it would be equations and stuff," she stated.
"Well, there are equations and such... But at this level you'll only get one, maybe two, very simple ones," Helen said.
Helen cut out of the call, murmurs from someone else coming through Silence's phone. Soon enough her sister's voice came back, "It appears I need to go and eat. I'll see you next week, try not to ignore me next time. Please?"
Feeling the blow, Silence became meek in her response, "Sorry about that... Have a good week until then."
With the call ended and she started to stretch. Looking at her watch, it was about six in the afternoon.
Accompanied by a yawn, she crawled back under her covers. But within ten minutes or so of rolling around and contorting her body seemingly randomly, she gave up, having realized she was tired enough to sleep.
'Dammit! What to do, oh what to do... Oh, right. It's the weekend so that'll work,' she got up to fumble in one of her drawers, putting her entire arm inside before dragging out a familiar handheld console. She then rummaged around a nearby bookshelf full of games, drawing out her choice from her collection before sitting down to play it.
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Two hours passed like minutes as her continuous tapping of buttons repeated like her clock's tick. Her deadpan expression occasionally being overcome by small fits of joy and laughter, as her eyes laid locked permanently on the small screen as the colourful characters on it started to kill one another in bloodless but violent displays in front of her.
A grumble soon disrupted her playing session as a hungry stomach spoke up.
With another stretch, which cracked a shocking amount of joints, Silence walked towards a cupboard in the corner of her room. As her hands escaped, they revealed a series of chocolate bars, all of which she engulfed them in rapid succession to sate her hunger.
Afterwards, she went to bed with her game and played until she finally slept again.
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Finley- The Lost Prince
Life was okay for Finley. It wasn't great, wasn't bad but it was okay. He went to a prestigious school, had a couple of friends and a decent future awaiting him. Or he would have if the people who had abandoned him hadn't shown up with wings, horns and a proverbial wrench for his life plan. It makes for some strange days when you find out you weren't just an average guy all along. Book one of the Universes Series. All Aux Chapters are compiled at: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/27547/finley--diary-entries Discord to talk with me and others (hopefully~) : https://discord.gg/XnNwkKxX7x Next book!: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/38141/watchtower . . . . Clip art link:https://openclipart.org/user-detail/GDJ *thanks to GDJ for letting me use it. :)*
8 106The Delinquent King.
This is an Alternate universe where people in the whole world are living all together. Though there are few countries they are but to distribute population. Different casts, different religions live together. Happily, since it's what they have been doing from the very start of the world. In this world, the High-schooler and Middle-schoolers have become more independent and smart. They have started to take the world to different directions as they graduate and move to the outside world. But along with these smart and generous kids, the delinquents have rouse too. They are now more furious and troubling. Harry, pet name MIKE has decided to rise on top of the delinquents alone. He is a strong boy who looks weak. His frail body in uniform is actually hiding his masculine body and his weak walk is actually a facade. He will start from the lower dogs and reach till the tiger. Follow the naughty, furious, happy-go-lucky, strong harry or mike as he starts smashing faces and cracking their noses to become the best and strongest delinquent and create the strongest gang. =========== Content warning : Gore, Rape, Blood, Maniac, Almost incest(Step sister), Sexual Content, incest, evil mc, villain mc. Cover is not mine, all credits to the respectful owner/artist.
8 68Shadow of Steel
Purple. Persecuted. Poisoned. Saya was a poor teenager raising her family on a farm. She knowingly poisoned herself by choosing the dangerous job of picking Malvaos, mysterious purple fruits. The greater the danger, the better the pay. Picking Malvaos for five years turned her purple. Ever since she got her hands on a broken purple staff, weirder and stranger things have happened. So much happened that she questioned if things would ever go back to normal again. She journeyed back to her hometown, Steel, Michigan, where nothing was the same. Adding to the mess that the new human inhabitants created, the Orcs were trying to take over the town. There was no way to turn it back to how it was but she was determined to fight for Steel, for humankind. Being purple isolated and hardened her but it gave her extra power. With the help of a Tengu, new friends, suspicious elves, and naughty fairies, she would learn how to use her powers to battle the Orcs. Unintentionally, it's like "Percy Jackson" meets "Stranger Things."
8 199Follower Of Death
The story talks about a young boy by the name of Elliot and his life in the fantasy world. In this world of magic and conflict, nobody is safe and death can be around every corner. Join our young protagonist as he tries to learn magic, find comrades and survive against all odds as he gets his own territory, gathers an army, and becomes a powerhouse.
8 200Redemption's Rose
A reincarnated soul begins the journey to immortality for what he hopes to be the last time. Unfortunately, occupying the body of a boy many would have preferred stay dead.
8 76Alistair’s Great and Powerful Startup Dungeon
The Great Golden Hero Thorian the Fair is dead! Ok, Great might have been a little much… and the only thing Golden about him was his armor. Fine! Thorian was an ego driven maniac that killed thousands of Adventurers in the pursuit of glory. Now that he has died the God of Rebirth is judging his soul and determined that the only creature Thorian can inhabit is a Dungeon Demon. Devoid of his divine luck and stripped of his power, the newly made Dungeon Demon Alistair must struggle Fang and Claw to build his new home. Sometimes cosmic justice exists and it’s a kick in the head.Author’s Note: Hey, if you like Town/Dungeon building please come in and read my story. My main focus will be writing a fun story about a struggling demon trying to gain power and a little bit of safety in his new life. Occasionally, a chapter will deal with the outside world and how Alistair’s home changes some people’s lives. Sadly, there will be errors in spelling and grammar, but I am being up front about it, please leave specific feedback and I will gladly correct it.
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