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It feels warm…

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I hear a faint voice

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“You------”

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Huh?

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“You did it! I knew you could do it!”

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… ‘Who are you?’

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*sniff sniff* I heard sniffles around me as I slowly woke up.

“FENIX! You’re awake!!!!”

As I slowly woke up, I started to regain my vision. Ayuzawa is here… and there’s another girl? She’s holding my hand with a solemn look on her face, she was crying without making any noise.

Although, I woke up… it looks like she doesn’t want to see me or face me. Is it perhaps the girl I saved?

“Why?”

The girl asked as her crying intensifies.

“Why?” I said in confusion to her question.

“Why would you save someone you just met? Why not be like the ones who ran away and used me as a decoy?”

“When there’s someone in need… is there really a reason to ask why? Why would you save someone? Perhaps it’s not logical in surviving, or it might seem like it was a dumb move to risk my life to try to save someone else’s I’ve never knew. Well, to be honest, I’d admit that it was also a dumb move to make, but my body acted on it’s own and so did my heart. If I could save someone I would make that choice anyday anytime.”

*sniff*sniff* “It doesn’t make sense… YOUR ACTIONS DON’T MAKE SENSE!” she shouted at me and plunged her chest onto the bed weeping and crying while grasping my hands.

“It’s okay, as long as you’re safe that’s all that matters to me.” I said as I gently caressed her head resting on my body.

“So, I’m really sorry to ask about your traumatic experience, but what was that all about? The cause of the incident and why did your guildmates abandon you?”

“It… it’s not a bright story to tell… I was abandoned…. It’s actually not a very new story, I was always mistreated in my guild… being the one who held aberrant powers in comparison to the norms nowadays. I’ve always been treated badly and I’ve always been at the short end of the stick. Being treated badly, forced to support them always their lap dog… I was always forced to do their bidding be it inhumane… I had to do it, or more like I was forced to. During our skirmishes to the dungeon levels I would also always be forced to support them and always acted as a bait… even after all of the hard work and most dangerous positions being covered by me… they always take 95% of all of the earnings of that session and threw the remaining at my face… I HATE IT… I’m… so sick and tired of this, I was actually slightly relieved that I was finally going to die… I can’t live like this any longer.”

“Why do people always have to be like this.” I muttered to myself in annoyance.

“Well, do you want to join my guild …….. Etto, I forgot to ask for you name.”

“My name is Kuyomi Yanai”

“Alright, then Kuyomi Yanai, do you want to join my…. Nevermind, will you join my guild? I promise you that it’s a guild of compassion and passion.”

“Hehhh- you would even go so far as to invite me to your guild even after saving my life… I have a cursed power on me that caused me to be distrusted and treated as a monster ever since I it became physically seen. And you’re telling me you want to recruit someone like that into your guild? I don’t understand.”

“To me, a cursed power is only something cursed if you believe so yourself, even if it’s cursed you yourself can change the darkness to the light. And who’s to say that cursed means it’s bad? I don’t believe so, neither should you. I believe that that cursed power would prove to be your strongest weapon and your greatest light in a certain point of your life.”

Kuyomi’s burst into tears after hearing me.

“Th-Thank you so much Fenix, I would gladly accept your guild invite.”

Mei looked at us with a content smile.

“さすがfenixです”

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“Well then, Kuyomi, let’s begin the ritual.”

“... Yes!” she said as she sat on a stool beside of the einrit

“Please remove your shirt, I need direct contact with your back.”

Kuyomi does as she’s told albeit being flustered.

“KYAAA~” she squealed as I placed my hand on her bare back.

“Wh-wh-what? What’s wrong?”

“It’s nothing, please proceed.”

“Okay, if you say so.”

I focused my energy and brought upon the energy that was flowing in the einrit towards my body. A cyan light can be seen floating from the einrit around me swirling in a soothing river pattern around my body. As I feel the energy surround me I focused on using this energy to materialize an insignia on Kuyomi’s back, the cyan stream can be seen flowing into Kuyomi. It ultimately became a floating circle behind of Kuyomi and pushed onto her back burning an insignia on her.

“Do you have a statistics card Kuyomi?”

“Yes, I do, do you need it?”

“ Yes, I need it to update your stats and your guild. Could you hand it over?”

As I received the statistics card I had a closer inspection on the card, it was a plain white statistics card that had roughened up edges and slight burns. It barely looked like it resembled a rectangle.

“Uwaghhh, this statistics card is in bad shape? Was this also the work of your guildmates?”

“Yes.”

“It’s okay, this will work, we’ll definitely earn enough to buy you a proper one too, this just won’t do.”

Upon hearing those words, Kuyomi slowly welled up tears in her eyes, they were words that were gentle and warm, unlike those she’s heard her whole life. It was someone who was kind to her.

As how I’ve always been updating statistics card, I focused the energy of the einrit and my energy towards the card, a cyan light landed on the card vertically and spread out as if it was a smoke circle. The card was updated.

“While I’m at it, I should probably update my statistics card too.”

"Here you go Kuyomi, you're updated stat card."

Kuyomi Yanai Level 1 Strength(Str) E389 Constitution(Con) E363 Defense(Def) F254 Dexterity(Dex) C443 Intelligence(Int) B562 Charisma(Cha) G78 Wisdom(Wis) G87 Willpower(Wil) E217 Perception(Per) A701 Luck(Luk) C487 Fenix Level 1 Level 2 Strength(Str) SSS1071 G0 Constitution(Con) SSS1132 G0 Defense(Def) SSS1009 G0 Dexterity(Dex) SSS1489 G0 Intelligence(Int) SSS1391 G0 Charisma(Cha) SSS1012 G0 Wisdom(Wis) SSS1298 G0 Willpower(Wil) SSS1398 G0 Perception(Per) SSS1299 G0 Luck(Luk) - G0

“WHAT IS THIS? I’M LEVEL 2? AND WHY ARE ALL MY LV.1 STATS SSS?

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Mei : "WHY THE FUCK DO I NOT GET ANY LINES FOR THIS CHAPTER FUCKING AUTHOR!"