"I don't want you falling asleep during morning classes," he didn't like me returning late.
"Sure," I readily went along with him since I was in a good mood.
Luke slowly looked up at my face, finding it strange why I wasn't arguing with him like I normally do. Before he could study me any further, I hurriedly entered my bedroom, getting ready to sleep. Luke possessed extremely strong attention to small details, able to discern things really fast. I would need to bring the others with me very carefully to the club room.
Hiding behind the walls while bringing only Sienna and Shelly with me today, Ellen and Delia stayed inside the café to cover for us. I sent them a message earlier in the morning about my plan. Unlocking the club room with nobody here yet, I finally relaxed once I entered the room. Both Sienna and Shelly couldn't stop looking around the room, finding many fascinating things.
"I never knew there was a place like this," Sienna discovered why I never wanted to leave this room.
"This is pretty impressive," Shelly agreed.
"Oh it's you Rika," the president seemed a little surprised I was here before him.
"I brought some new members," I introduced Shelly and Sienna to him.
"Here's an application form," he passed to them.
"We heard from our friend what an amazing place this is," Sienna handed the completed form to him.
"Others wanted to come as well but we thought you would be a bit overwhelmed," Shelly told him others will be coming soon.
"The Clarence and Locast families. We welcome you," he still appeared a bit stunned.
"There's the headgears and comic books here," I started to lead them towards the shelf.
"There's everything here," Sienna's eyes sparkled.
"We can try cooking too," Shelly found some tools.
Ever since Shelly came to my house to bake some cookies, she became more interested in making food by herself. Sometimes we would go through some recipe books and videos together, imagining what it would be like to create them ourselves. But with everything already here, including the ingredients freshly stored inside the shelves spelled to make sure none of them decayed, it wouldn't be impossible anymore.
"Anything is possible!" I turned to thank the president again.
"We have some new members?" Other high school students began to come into the room.
"I am Sienna Auclair Clarence and this is my friend Michelle Monete Locast, we were introduced to this club by Rika," Sienna introduced herself with Shelly.
"First the Roselia family and now the Clarence and Locast families," A member mumbled in shock.
"What should we start with?" I asked Sienna and Shelly.
"Maybe the headgears," Shelly suggested since I liked them so much.
"I knew you would get it!" I ran to hug her.
We ended up spending the rest of the day using the headgears. While I introduced them to defeating the demon king, they were surprised by my avatar. But we were able to defeat multiple dungeons together until the other club members woke us up. Stretching my arms, I found myself near the time that Luke wanted me to return to the dorms.
"I never enjoyed myself this much!" Sienna didn't want to leave the room.
"I think I know why you like this game now," Shelly sulked while putting the headgear off her head.
My marble began to vibrate, getting a call from Delia. I swiped to accept the video call to show them the room as planned. Walking around the room to give them a better view, both Delia and Ellen seemed interested in the room. If it wasn't for Luke, all four of us would have already joined together.
"Is it our turn tomorrow?" Ellen asked us.
"Wait, can I take another turn?" Sienna asked Delia.
"We can have Henry cover for us with Cillian," Delia suggested, unwilling to give up her turn.
"We can!" She agreed with her idea.
"But won't Luke think it would be strange when they normally don't come into the café?" Shelly pointed out.
"One of us will have to stay," I frowned, not liking the situation.
"I'll stay but I'll get my turn two times in a row," Ellen gave into Sienna's pitiful stare at her.
"So we have Henry, Cillian and Ellen to be in that café tomorrow," Delia went over our plans again.
I nodded my head to go with her plan. And ever since I told Oili about the news about the club, he also wanted to join tomorrow. It was easier to play games or use the karaoke machine here than going to a room provided by his fraction. In fact, Oili didn't believe me when I told him that everything he liked was inside this room. Thankfully, this club room wasn't well known in the school compared to the dance and decorating clubs.
"Can you lock the club room after we leave?" The president was about to leave.
"Here's the keys," I passed the duplicates from the machine in one of the shelves to Sienna and Shelly.
"We'll get to enter whenever we want!" Sienna thanked me.
"I'll lock the door!" Shelly seemed excited from getting access.
After leaving the club room, I barely arrived inside the dorms at the time Luke set as my curfew. Looking away from the piling doc.u.ments almost reaching the ceiling, I walked towards my bedroom as silently as possible. Since I wasn't late, Luke continued to work on the doc.u.ments alone. Closing my bedroom door, I sighed in relief.