Not too shortly after, there class was over.
Null stood up slowly as he felt weak, he stared at his lack of stamina.
[STAMINA: 2/160]
He approached the exit but he turned around noticing Lumina did no follow, but saw Ezze stand and walk to the exit, in no hurry.
"Umm, Lumina are you staying?" Null questioned finding it strange why he would stay.
"Got, to talk with "The Man" how about you two don't get to talking till I get there, be kind to the lady now hehe." Null said gaining a teasing tone at the end, Ezze turned around with up turned eyebrows, and a red tint.
"Just kidding, red panda." Lumina said laughing.
Now thinking about Null looked at the colour tone of her clothes, there's, orange, black but no white maybe gray, guess she resemble's a red panda.
"See ya, Lumina we'll, speak later." Null said as he lightly coiled his hand around her hand and took her out the class.
As Lumina smiled as they left, and all the students getting out the class.
His expression went cold, as he stood and walked down towards "The Man" .
"You're friend, is a anomaly, if I may say so myself, Sir Rien." The man said with a neutral expression.
"Stay away from, my friend's." Lumina warned.
The Man, said in a cold tone, "You may be my student and you may be, who you are, neither the less, when you speak to me put immense respect in your tone." The Man ordered, putting a immense pressure on Lumina give the surroundings a red tint.,
"U.. understood, General."
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Null exited the class, alongside Ezze. A boy with falling curly black hair and a lean face, leather clothing and black iris eye, making the whole eye black except the whites of his eyes.
He stared at Null with a smile.
"Kids going to bring in money for me with out knowing." He mumbled to himself, speaking a fair good distance from Null, too be sure.
He then looked at the beaten Jern, his prey.
'let his anger fester.'
_ _
As Null kept on walking with Ezze he felt, eyes peering into his back. He turned his head and he say Ezze looking to the side, yet he saw she had a bead of sweat.
He looked forward but midway looked back at Ezze, not expecting this she looked at him with wide eyes and caught of guard.
"Ezze, I'm a friend of yours so why don't you, type out what's on your mind, i am not a bad dude..." Null said but he felt his leg..
He felt nothing, he can't feel his legs, then a sudden pain appearing on his head than that was added on the headache he already had from the previous confrontation.
[STAMINA: 1/160]
He had a blunt face, while on the floor, not able to feel anything below his neck than he felt the hair on his head confronting the air, but he saw the back of..
Ezze!?
He was not confused why she helped rather, how she'll find the way.
Ezze turned her head to have a visual of him.
With this Null understood what she meant Null than said "Forward!"
He may not be able to feel anything below his neck, he still had his humor.
While directing her, he decided to check out the pop ups in the corner of his eye, basically multi-tasking.
[Optional Quest: You choose your battles]
[Completed ]
[Reward]
<[10 USP]
<[130 EXP]
<[Unique card: Weapon handling obtainer]
Null looked at the rewards and observed his stats and scowled at stamina and fatigue with a childish kid.
[STATUS WINDOW]
[Titles]
[Common title: Whose mind and body aches but always heals]
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[NAME: Olvi'Doro ]
[RACE: Human (??) ]
[LEVEL: 5 (130/160 Experience) ]
[HP: 130/150 ]
[MP: Undetermined ]
[FATIGUE: 100]
[STAMINA: 1/160 ]
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[ STRENGTH: 21 ]
[ INTELLIGENCE: 20 ]
[ DEXTERITY: 15 ]
[ ENDURANCE: 20 ]
[ SENSES: 15 ]
[ VITALITY: 5 ]
[ WILL: 16 ]
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[USP: 10]
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[SKILLS]
[Active Skill : Inspect ]
[ Active Skill : Dash ](Common)
[CARDS]
[Weapon handling obtainer](Unique)
Null was happy about finding out a way to increase the rate of the fatigue multiple, so now to the next focuse how he would distribute his unallocated stat points but for now he needed a rest....
But before that he spoke,"Thanks Ezze..."
That was his last thought as his head fell over Ezze's shoulder's his curly puffy hair fell across her back neck, as his breathing was heard.
With those words Ezze gain a smile.
'No, problem.' She thought.
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Null woke up laying on the dark water, where countless thick tree's produring out of the water deep to the point it shrouded the origin of the trees.
And the energy that came from the top of the trees, atleast he suspects it did, as the energy flowed down the tree into the water then him. The energy flowed more to his head and back, Null focused on theses area he appeared on a white hole filled land and then he focused on the cracked, fractured area it only had small fractures and cracks as they were filled with flowing energy.
Theses areas closed, with new hole filled land, Null seeing this, easily suspeculates it was his skull, then he proceed to the next area on his body, his back.
He stepped on rectangular shapes protruding and going back to ground than to a white structure, that he suspects is his spine, than he looked at the broken muscles that kept on being filled with the flowing energy.
Null, than came back to the water and tree surroundings as he then tried to interact with the energy in any way, he raised his hand then....
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That was all he could do as he awoke in the dorm room, on the U couch, he was at the end of it and he looked at the other end where Lumina sat smiling.
"Finally awake, huh sleepy head." Obviously phrasing it as a tease rather than a question.
Than he looked at the middle of the couch, where Ezze sat, she gave a thumbs up with a questioning look.
"I'm okay Ezze, thanks." Null said as he sat on the couch rather than laying on.
The atmosphere between them were awkward, specifically Ezze, was awkward she, looked at the two friends, one smiling and the other, avoiding eye contact.
She, watched the two go on like this, for minutes she had too admit that the friend of short stack was patient, but she was not, she crossed her hands and let out a huff.
Null turned his head towards her, Lumina doing the same he laughed than, Null sighed.
"Fine, ask me any question." Null said waryly
Lumina looked at Ezze as she typed on her rectangular device, read what was on it.
"She says,'i just want to know how do you grow stronger?', i wouldn't mind knowing." Lumina said.
Null, was smart and back at the outer city, he knew not to tell your secrets or cards and skills, literally, he just wanted to.....not lie, why he didn't exactly know.
"More, i fight, more experience i gain in fighting i grow stronger, when my body breaks, when I'm exhausted I grow resilient with both and so on."
Null said looking towards Ezze, that gave a thumbs up, then to Lumina that had a smile but a speculative look.
"So, i guess you're word's of growing stronger last night was not for nothing."
Ezze, looked at Lumina with surprise, giving off the face of 'You heard that.'
"And when he said you were cute, in your P.J's." Lumina said laughing.
Null, tilted his head, with a inquisitive face as he looked at the red faced, shy expression.
"Now, what is your meta-ability?, 0." Lumina said, sharp squinted eyes and a smile.
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