Chapter 181 - No More Other Districts (1)

"Nothing, how can anything happen inside this room?" I took one last glance at the mirror.

"Where is the slice of pizza?" I noticed Luke bringing in another bowl of the same porridge.

"I'll give it to you before we leave for school," Luke placed the tray in front of me.

I sulked since there was three weeks more to go before I returned to school. All I could do was to stay in the room and read the books Luke brought me, but unable to use my mana without him noticing. I stared at the unappetizing looking bowl that I was almost sick of.

"So you're telling me to do nothing for the next three weeks?"

"Didn't you always want more sleep?"

"You know what I want," I rolled my eyes.

This was the perfect setting for me to enjoy my otaku supply. Why couldn't he understand? I was always a indoors person in my former life as long as I had my supply. I placed the untouched tray on top of the cabinet beside the bed.

"I won��t try to leave this room and I'll do everything you say for the next few weeks. I don't even need that slice of pizza. So can't you let me have access to them?" I started to beg him.

Luke sighed and passed me his tablet with a contract displayed on it. The contract was at least hundreds of pages long. I guessed he wanted me to sign it. I wondered when he got this prepared. Did he anticipate this happening?

I tried to scroll and skim through the pages, but my head started to hurt and I knew I would get nowhere at this rate. I decided to sign, hoping to take the chances as I lifted up the pen. Once the contract was signed, the area in front of my bed shined to show stacks of my otaky supply.

I gasped as I admired the scene in front of me. When I tried to get out of my bed, Luke pointed out a term in the contract.

[You cannot touch the books unless you finish your meal first]

I instantly devoured the large bowl to touch the goodies in front of me. However, before I could get out of bed, Luke read out another term in the contract.

"You have to study at least one week worth of class materials ahead of time before you can access your books," Luke passed me some thick books related to school.

Was this a joke? At this rate, I would never be allowed to touch them. It would be a torturing sight since they were right in front of me. I knew that contract was too good to be true! There had to be something in it for it to be over hundreds of pages.

This was how I never got to touch my otaku supply. I pouted inside the hover car on the way to school. I didn't even get my slice of pizza since it was exchanged for the rights of getting the chance to access the goodies.

False hope was a scary thing. I was definitely going to contact Ben soon to get some of the stash I left with him back. It was silent inside the hover car as I watched the scenery outside the window to avoid looking at Luke's face.

"I knew I should've never signed that contract," I mumbled, still disappointed.

"But at least it's over now. I'll get more freedom once we're in school," I accidentally muttered my thoughts out loud.

"We still need to check up on your condition Rika. The contract is still in place until you're one hundred percent recovered," Luke pulled out another stupid term.

"I'm not following that damn one-sided, corrupt contract anymore!" I couldn't hold in my anger.

"I'm sure that I'm one hundred percent healed so don't you dare use that contract anymore," I gritted my teeth.

"You do know the penalties inside the contract?" Luke narrowed his eyes.

"I don't and I don't care. How binding could it be anyways? It can't be worse than now," I reached out my hand for his tablet.

I was curious what other things he put in that I didn't know about. Luke passed me the contract and I went to the penalties section to see the consequences. My eyes trembled when the section was around fifty pages. How many things did he put inside here?

I started off by reading the first page very carefully. It was the details and how each word was presented that mattered when you interpreted a contract. I immediately frowned after reading the first term.

[Party B must hand over all 'otaku supply' including light novels, manga, vocaloid merchandise, clothing and others to Party A as long as Party B's lifetime or termination of the binding contract]

I flipped over to more pages to see that Luke had spotted every one of my weaknesses that I knew about myself. The contract was binding using subtle hints of mana so that the other Party couldn't break it as easily. I flipped back to the table of contents to find when the contract was terminated.

I almost cried when there was only one single term that somehow covered everything.

[The contract is terminated when Party A determines Party B has fully recovered]

This meant it was Luke who determined when the contract would end. Now I knew that I would never sign another contract with Luke until my deathbed.