Chapter I - Mansion of Mysteries

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"...."

"Who might you be?"

The voices, I can hear them clearly. A lullaby, very soothing voice.

"I see, what a nice name."

"So why exactly did you... not help me?"
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"HAAH!"

"Nightmare, A nightmare. Who's that girl?"

I've seen a girl with a very scary face, I cannot remember it now but it might be that nightmare is from my memories.

I've fallen asleep in that teenage girl's room, I keep calling her teenage even though we're like the same age. Her bed is quite comfortable. I'm currently in the village.

I checked her information, she's not bad, because she's strong than me.

[Player Info:]

[Name: Shii Aki]
[Age: 16]
[Race: Human]

[Stats:]

STR(Strength): 15
DEF(Defense): 20
INT(Intelligence): 100
AGI(Agility): 15
MTL(Mentality): 35
LUK(Luck): 10
PTL(Potential): ???

[Health: 100]-[Health Regen: 0%]
[Mana: 0]

[Skills:

Vengeful Spirit's Blessing(Passive) -
Uses all the DEF to multiply the STR, making the user have no defense yet the attacks are super powerful. "STR x (DEF)"
(Only activates when the user seeks vengeance.)
]
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She's incredibly stronger than me, I've lost all my pride as a man. whatever.

[Help Info:]
Strength(STR) - It measures how strong your physical strength is, basically how strong your melee is.
Defense(DEF) - It measures how strong your body is against attacks.
Intelligence(INT) - It measures one's intelligence{obviously}, but it also measures how strong your magic is.
Agility(AGI) - Measures how fast you can move from one place to another, Also measures how fast your attacks are from blow to blow.
Mentality(MTL) - Measures how stable you can be in a situational events, also measure how strong you are against magic(Especially Illusion Magic)
Luck(LUK) - Measures your luck, Luck is useful when it comes to chances such as critical hits.
Potential(PTL) - Measures how fast your stats can grow.
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We have question marks on our PTL, wonder what that means.

"Hey! What are staring at in mid air?"

Shii Aki has returned it seems, Yeah! I know respect people by calling them in their proper names.

"I'm just.. thinking about my life"

Hopefully that response is not weird for her.

She just giggled.

That's not a good sign. Doesn't matter, Next time I'll think before responding to her.
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It's night time, currently. I fell asleep in the middle of the day, atleast the moment I tried out her bed if it's comfortable. It was a very nice experience, try it next time.

"Who're you talking to?"

"No one!"

"Stop breaking the 4th wall in the first chapter!"

So since it's night time, I had to sleep.
And then, she slept beside me.

"What are you doing?" I said.

"Isn't this my bed?"

"Well yeah but you could ask me to leave your bed."

"You can stay in the bed with me, I'll just pulverise you if you do something weird."

She's pretty scary for a girl, What is she? A lion?, It's pretty weird to have a girl right beside me.

It seems she fell asleep quickly, while facing me. She's pretty cute now that I've seen her pretty closely. She looks intelligent, She has a very serious face even when asleep, She do seem like a person who always worry about something then thinking in silent, usually loners are like that, in rare cases they're not, hehe yeah.

It fits her black hair, well I wish i have black hair too but I guess i have to stick with brown for now. She really look so beautiful this upclose, I'm like staring at a goddess.
Well I guess I'll sleep.

And so I did, While thinking, I wish I could someday get her out of worrying always.
I don't think, a girl like her deserves to feel
that way.

In the morning, she was hugging me. Lucky me, This is every man's dream. Welp! Time to get serious. I hugged her too because I felt like it.

This part is the best part, she woke up.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing?"

"I mean, you hugged me didn't you?"

"I will forgive you this time. Just let go of me."

If she's a little honest.. whatever. And so, she brought me to the village. It's a very poor place. Unlike her house. I'm starting to notice it just now but everyone's treating her like some sort of hero.

They're greeting her and moving out of her way without second thought. What great deed did this girl offered them?

"They're being courteous to you, what did you do?"

She didn't response, I wonder why.
I'm still wondering where we'll head to, then I see this bizarre looking mansion. It totally stands out because it doesn't fit in the village. It has that vibe of unpleasantness, it gives me insecurity the more we approach it. Well it look like a haunted house itself, just a bit too creepy looking, Because weird things are carved in it.

It's like a circus but you are afraid of clowns?.. that doesn't explain it. So we entered this mansion, it has chandeliers and some lamps but it's still quite dark. The fire doesn't emit much light. We're walking down a corridor and it gives me chills.

"This place is quite dark, are you sure you're not gonna sell to some slave trader?"

She looked at me in a very disgusted way, and that was quite painful.

"This place was intentionally dark because, the darkness consumes the sounds coming from outside, this is an ideal place for those who appreciate silence. You can say the fire are emitting less light because darkness consumes them."

Well, that sound like a contradiction in science but since this world is beyond our science, I'm not gonna question the knowledge you've given me.

We've just reached the door in the end of the corridor, the door is also as creepy as the carved images on the walls outside the mansion. It has carved screaming faces, jumped to the conclusion that the person who lives here is probably a very edgy person.

She started breathing deeply, and it worries me.

"O, Let me in, O, my master"

She chanted that, and the carved screaming faces on the door started to shout, with their eyes glowing as bright as the sun.

*Crack*

The door had cracks on it and fell down.
We continued and enter the room, I see a man, cross sitting with candles around him.
He must be meditating. Around us, I see coffins.

"This must be graveyard after all, and you brought me here so you could kill and just bury me after that."

She responded, "That sounds like a nice suggestion."

The meditating man started laughing out loud, his voice were deep. Who is he? the Demon Lord? and I was offered as a sacrifice?

"You've found yourself a comrade, Aki."

"I'm quite glad you had a comrade."

"He is no comrade", she responded. "He is just, a normal boy that I found so I picked him up."

Picked him up, hmm that was a very rude way to say it. I'm not just an animal you can pick up.

I wonder though, how strong might this guy be...















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