I woke up to the sound of... Heavy rock? I was suddenly hit with nostalgia. I have had a neighbor that loved heavy rock. In fact, he became my alarm clock. He would always wake up and play some heavy rock at exactly 8:30. I think his name was Heave Rocky. When you have a name like that you can't not play heavy rock. Just thinking of it gave me nostalgia. I shook my head. It's only been a month. It's not like Old man Jetins and his wife. Heck, just stop thinking. I sighed and got out of my bed. I did my daily routine on autopilot. Brush teeth, shower, make bed, wear suit. I reached my hand into my closet... and into the wall. I was reminded again that I would probably never see home again and shook my head again. Again, not the time for nostalgia. I changed into a green shirt that one of the employees gave me. Then I went outside. The recipient wasn't there and I called for her. She came out running. " OhsorryaboutthatIdon'twakeupthisearlypleasedon'tleaveabadreview," she said in a hurry. I was confused," Madam, don't be sorry, I was just asking if you served breakfast. She blinked and whispered to herself. "but I saw him with the Aurline, their rich people right? Well, the boss wanted to capitalize and a supposed rich customer, how is he so... polite?" " Excuse me, madam, I could hear you," I said. The poor recipient covered her mouth again," Pleasedon'ttellthebossI'msorryohpleaseErisGalglaim,evendeathcircusplease." " Please madam, calm down," I said. The recipient, " You know what? Lunches on me, consider this an apology for my untimely behavior." " No seriously I don't need-" " Shut up and take my money," the Recipient said. The Recipient then ran over to the cook and waiter, starting the process again. I sighed, this will be a long day.

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As the situation in the hotel was resolved, I came out full and ready to face a new day. I went to a thrift shop first. " Hello, welcome to Mikey's. What can I do for you?" The most demotivated person I have met said. "Uhh, what is this?" I won't blindly trust that guy who gave me the syringe, after all, I'm not an idiot. The old man's eyes widened," Is that an Aurline!? You could buy this stupid whole square seven times over, although the squares are not that expensive, but that's beside the point! Where did you get that! " The old man all but yelled. " Uh, a very strange guy named, Tom?" The old man yelled," How!" " I was discriminated by a guy named Dioline and Tom stepped in and asked for a duel and then he gave me this for compensation for having to watch violence? Y'know, when I say it out loud it kinda sounds ridiculous." The old man smiled and pulled out a knife," Today is my payday it seems then!" The old man charged. I was frozen before coming back to my senses. I dodged letting the old man crash into the wall. The old man screamed . I stared," I thought that would be harder but..." What am I doing, call an ambulance or something! I looked at the phone like-thing they gave me. I swiped until I saw a button: Emergency Services. I called an ambulence. I was standing there frozen while the nurses dragged the old man while screaming. " Curse you! Curse your bloodline! My son will find out about this and kill you!" The old man screamed threats until he was pulled into the ambulance. A man dressed in a suit called my name," Mr. see us in court in a week. You will automatically fail the trial and have to pay 5000 credits to Mr. Drando." The lawyer stared at me with cold eyes. I gulped and said," I will do my best to be there." " Thank you, Mr. Johnson, see you there." I turned and walked away before realizing, how did he know my name?

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After the whole incident at the thrift shop, I was in a hurry to get out of there and into the nicer area. The supernatural world seems more inclined to violence than the outside world. I looked at the syringe I had. " Just what do you do ?" I knew about aura of course. But it didn't seem that valuable. I mean, outside of combat, what can you do? It's not like on a random Tuesday a, I dunno, a were-dino-lion will challenge you to a duel. Although the encounter with the old man and the duel had me believe otherwise. I shrugged and went shopping, buying some clothes. As I was walking home I saw a shop in the poor part of town/ my home district. I shrugged and went in. The inside was filled with strange masks of all shapes and sizes. Bracelets too, and also necklaces. I went and bought a mask bracelet and a necklace. They all claimed to bring power to their wearer, though I thought it was just mystical nonsense, if people had auras then the weird trinkets could bring power maybe. The shopkeeper was weird. " So you bought these trinkets eh? These don't function properly without the proper activater. Do you want to play a little game to get the activator?" I said yes. If the man kidnapped me I had my phone. The shopkeeper pulled out a deck of cards . " This is marble struggle, one an exclusive edition in fact. How to play is simple, don't. " The shopkeep looked at the cards and placed them on a table. suddenly it turned into a screen. " The marbles hit numbers adding, and then multiplying. On one side they could keep multiplying the number. Or they could release to consume the other side's territory. If all the tiles get claimed, then one side wins. " I nodded, the rules were simple enough. My marble was red. At first, the game was all the shopkeeps marbles. They kept on releasing while red was kept on falling to the keep on multiplying side. Then the marbles were finally released, consuming the whole table, and won. The shopkeep laughed," It seems Lady Eris bestows her favor on you, come and visit me again and play again, that was one of the closest games I fought. " The shopkeep then handed me another bracelet. " Let these pierce you, and you transcend humanity, let these pierce you, and you will be what we are fighting, let these pierce you, and you can become the strongest." The strange shopkeep's words were mysterious. I said my goodbyes and went to my hotel. They upgraded my room for even daring to have slightly late service. I smiled at my emporer-sized bed, with metal that looked like gold. I then fell on my bed, sleeping the bizarre day away.