I was spraying my former boss with the nozzle and he looked ridiculous trying to protect his face with his arms.

“What?” I said.

I stopped spraying and looked around. All my former coworkers were looking at me and my boss was screaming.

“What’s happening? Is this a dream?”

Then, like a delayed reaction, my tinnitus pulsated and raged and gave me a headache and I dropped to my knees.

“What the fuck!” I yelled while holding my ears.

Then the tinnitus calibrated itself and returned to its normal loudness, but the headache still remained a little.

My boss was still screaming in my face and telling me to get out, but I had a hard time focusing on him.

“Didn’t I die?” I said as I got up, ignoring everyone around me.

I grabbed all my stuff and stole five pieces of bread on my way out of the restaurant.

I sat down on the sidewalk outside while eating and just thought about what happened.

Then I remembered something.

“Oh shit! The train is leaving soon! I have to catch it and talk to the levitating guy!“

It appeared that my sense of danger hadn’t been affected by dying, and I was still living like life was a dream.

I ran while eating and swiped my personal mana battery to get onto the train.

It’s good to have money again. I hate being broke.

I made it onto the train right as the doors were closing and I sat in front of the old guy reading a newspaper.

When he glanced at me when I sat down and clicked his tongue when he saw I was eating my last piece of bread on the train.

“Good to see you alive,“ I said.

“What?” he said.

“Nothing.”

“Yeah she had some huge titties man!”

I looked to my left and saw a group of guys talking loudly. Or more like one guy talking loudly. A levitating tall slender blonde with long hair slicked back was in the center and all the other guys were surrounding him.

So… what do I do now? Go over and talk to them?

I wiped my hands and mouth of bread crumbs, and got up and walked over to them.

They were still talking loudly and hadn’t noticed me.

“Excuse me?“ I said.

They all stopped talking and looked at me with suspicious eyes.

One of the guys said, “The fuck you want man?“

I had actually talked to the blonde levitating guy, but he didn’t respond. He just looked at me with curious eyes.

“Eh, it’s just that…” I said. Thinking about what would be the best way to explain my situation.

“Yo, you better take a fucking step back. And don’t hide your hands in your pockets,” one of the other guys said.

Shit. Oh, fuck off!

The levitating guy was still looking at me and saying nothing. “Yeah yeah,” I said and took a step back and showed my hands. “You happy? Anyway, I need to learn magic,” I said.

Suddenly, all the guys burst out laughing at me.

“Get the fuck out of here man!“ they all said. The levitating guy was laughing too but still not saying anything.

Yeah, fuck you too!

I ignored them and went back to my seat in front of the old guy.

Right then the other group of guys, the one that threw the fireball, came into the carriage.

“Oh yeah…”

I stood up and approached them. This time I made sure to not stand too close to them and my hands were out.

“Excuse me?“ I said.

“Yeah what’s up?” the guy who threw the fireball said. All the other guys stopped talking and looked at me.

“Some guy hit me with magic. And ever since then when I drain my mana into my personal battery, I can feel the sensation of mana draining in the form of goosebumps that aren’t there. So I thought I had the potential to learn magic. How do I do it?”

When I said that, all of the guys looked at each other and took me seriously.

“Huh… What kind of spell were you hit by?” the fireball guy said.

“An a round black earth ball, at high speeds,” I said.

“Mhmm… that’s pretty unusual but would explain your partial mana sense maybe. Not that I’ve heard about an elemental projectile hitting you stimulating your nerves… that shouldn’t be possible. You see, traditionally if you want to stimulate another’s nervous system to respond to mana you would have to—”

“Sup!”

I heard from behind, interrupting the fireball guy.

I turned around and was face to face with the blonde slick-haired levitating guy. Actually, he was upside down. And smiling brightly.

“I’m Amygdala,” he said and took out his fist.

I took out my fist too and bumped his.

“I’m Precuneus,“ I said.

“Wanna join my gang?” Amygdala said.

“Hey, I was talking to him! Fuck off!” the fireball guy said.

“Isn’t your leader still in the hospital after I beat his ass?” Amygdala said and started laughing loudly. His laugh reminded me of a child having fun.

The fireball guy looked back at his friends but they all nodded no.

I looked Amygdala in the eyes.

“Fuck yeah I do,“ I said.

“My man!” he said and levitated to my side and put his arm around my shoulder.