Chapter 114 - The Date

"I can see you realised. Before you start coming to some sort conclusions, let me explain." Raynor said to Weiss while raising his hand to get waitress attention, The heiress mouth closed, and she waited for his explanation.

"First of all I am mentally eighteen, and physically seventeen." This make her jaw go down for second time today.

"Yes, I know that look, hard to believe, but yes I am a teenager with an unlimited amount of power." He said with an eye roll.

"...And being Dragon part?" Weiss decided not to bother with believing or not. If she is to be with him in future, since she doubts she can say no to him anymore, after all he did to Vale, and her family, which in turn to Faunus as well...

"It comes in two parts, first the cultivation method which transform one's soul, spirit into a Primordial Dragon, and the other one is body transformation where one choose his dominant Law, in my case it's Origin Yang." He explained to her right before the waitress came over.

"I would like to order today's special..." Raynor started ordering, he was internally amused that this place has Coca-Cola as well! He doubts that such meagre concept of space and time can be in way of such drink!

The waitress typed it down on her notebook.

"...and for drink I want some Coca Cola," he then look at Weiss who eye-rolled at him.

"Atlesian grilled fish please, and orange juice." She said after checking the menu, there was only a few fish dishes, and she picked one closest to her home.

After taking orders the Waitress left and Raynor continued to speak.

"I believe you will get along splendidly with my mom, she likes her fish," Raynor spoke with a smile, as he saw Weiss expression.

"Hmph! I can't understand the obsession will all this unhealthy food, do you know how bad it is for your health?" She asked him with a huff.

"Yes, because all this unhealthy stuff will kill me..." Raynor sarcastically answered her question.

Making Weiss stop for a second, and think, she then realised something.

"You know this is not even funny, I been trying to have a healthy diet, but then you can just snap all the bad ingredients out don't you?" She said that with deadpan look.

"I don't need to do that, my body will actively destroy anything which affect it negatively."

Hearing that he doesn't even need to snap his fingers made the white-haired girl pout even more at him.

"Don't worry, I teach all the stuff you need to enjoy eating anything you want."

This make her pout lessen, instead she started asking about his other realities which he has 'conquered'.

Well more like took over without any fighting...

From floating paradise, to realities focused on martial arts, even to the world where his swords have originated.

To say that Weiss was shocked just how different those places are is understatement!

A world without Grimm is already something shocking to her, but world without dust?

Their whole society is based on that!

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"Do you still want to be huntress?" Raynor asked her curiously.

"Because Remnant is about to change in upcoming days, while the Grimm will be around, they will be less of threat, until these creatures completely disappear." He said that while sipping his coke.

She then looked at him.

"Something is going on, isn't it? my sister is tight-lipped as well, every time I ask something about invasion in Vale she says it's 'classified', even Atlas troops are still here..." She said all that with narrowed eyes.

"You are right, Remnant is at its tipping point, everything is about to change." He confirmed her suspicion.

Weiss for second was thinking to ask him normally, but he might end up redirecting the question, instead she decided to see how he will react if she is to take 'Ruby' route for this.

"So, can you tell me what is going?" She asked with a genuine smile, which caught Raynor slightly off-guard.

One moment she was thinking, and the next one she started behaving out of character, he could use his powers to find out what is going on inside her head, but that would be boring, besides it's cute to see her behaving out of character like this!

Raynor leaned forwards with a smile.

"Very cute Weiss, but first do some practise runs..."

The white-haired girl exploded with blush, and quickly looked away.

"Since you are that interested in the whole thing I will explain to you WHEN our date is over."

Weiss slowly nodded hearing that, she can agree to that...

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"This is quite good, and very cheap..." Weiss said with small awe, she never expected for food cooked in a diner to taste like that, not only that but Raynor only spend pennies!

"The magic of home-cooked meals Weiss, now our next destination is arcade." He took her hand and started walking towards the arcade.

Her eyes widened for a second hearing where they going next.

"W-Why there?" She never been in that place! for her arcade equals stuff Ruby does!

"Because it's fun! I have only been in one in my home reality! even then only a couple times, which is a size of goddam kiosk which has three arcade machines inside." Raynor explained and same time complained, his home town bȧrėly has any entertainment of that sort!

"...Really?" The Heiress instantly got interested about that, since he only talked about extremely 'magical' places, while never mentioned from where he originated himself.

"My home town is incredibly mundane with bȧrėly functioning Public transport, since everyone has a car, population bȧrėly in twenty thousand, that means there is bȧrėly anything of interested, one cinema, several supermarkets, while we do have quite large marketplace."

Weiss never heard that city of that size can exist, the only place she can think of is Argus in Anima Continent, but even then it's either large city which is a Kingdom or small villages, nothing really in the middle exist in Remnant thanks to Grimm.

So, hearing someone talking about living in 'the middle ground' is new...

Not long after that they arrived in one of the arcades available in Vale, the City Kingdom of Vale is a massive city even by Earth's standards and small to average by Primal Chaos standards, but even by then he is on planet the size of Mars.

So, it's considered big, and it has several large arcades likes the one they just arrived, to put the cherry on top it has that futuristic setting with all the holograms all over the place, the only thing his inner otaku needs is games from his reality and he won't be leaving this place anytime soon...

Raynor walked to the cashier and pulled out a large pile of Lien(Remnant currency) and dropped on the table.

Weiss's eyes bulged out seeing the amount he going to spend here, she lived her whole life in luxury, but even so, seeing this much money to be wasted in this place makes her heart hurt.

"Raynor..." She was about to ask if he is serious, but seeing large grin she just sighed.

"Don't worry darling! with the amount of money I have I can buy hundreds of Remnants over, and if that is not enough I can just create more." He said that with shrug, he made sure whatever they speak sounds normal to people around them...

Weiss then remembered just what kind of being he is, in the end, she just shrugged herself, and relaxed.

"Fine then let's get this over with, I want to see why Ruby and Yang likes these places this much." She just showed a challenging smile.

"Let's go then..."

~~~

Once they passed the cashier, their ears were ȧssaulted by a bunch of different sounds coming from arcades, Weiss's eyes bulged out seeing so many different screens, lights and even forms of arcades, from UFO saucers, to cars...

"W-Where should we start?" She asked him, her voice was like a lost puppy in the streets, not knowing where or what to do.

"From the very beginning, of course!" All his tokens simply disappeared from his hands and with a hand wave, a ring appeared in his hand.

"Here this is intent-based storage ring, it has quite a bit of space, I have stored half of tokens in there." He handed the ring to her.

Weiss eyes remained wide, as she knows what ring mean...

'What... a sneaky guy!' The white-haired girl slowly took the ring from him, she instantly felt a connection to it.

She focused on it and she could see feel a massive nearly endless amount of space inside of it!

'Quite a bit.. yeah right! I can store whole Vale and Atlas in this ring!' Internally eye-rolling she put the ring on her right-hand index finger, it automatically rearranged its size to fit perfectly, not only that but it was white and icy blue...

"Good, it looks quite nice as well." Raynor looked at her dandy hand inspecting his craftsmanship which was done with 'Creation of All Things'.

The Heiress slightly blushed for second, she inspected the ring now on her finger.

"Yes...beautiful...*cough* now why don't we start?" She motioned towards the very first arcade she saw.

Raynor followed her gaze.

"Space defender? hmm kind of brings back memories..." He said that with chuckle remembering the days when he had Nokia 3310...

"Really? there are similar in your reality?" she asked curiously, his reality sounds so similar yet so different!

"There was a similar game in my home reality version of scrolls when they came out for the first time." He chuckled for second remembering how 'Snake' and that other game were the sparks which led him to be 'Otaku' and even towards this current status.

"I see... there are some games on Scroll, not that I play them." The Heiress admitted that she is not playing them, even if her partner offered to play multiple times...

"Well we going to fix that later, but now let's test this out!" Raynor quickly inserted one of the tokens and pressed the start buŧŧon.

He then motioned for the White-haired girl to grab the second controlled.

Even inserted the token for her, Weiss could just roll her eyes at his eagerness...

~~~

Several hours later, the duo have tested out most of the arcades, Weiss got hit by a hard case of competition, and very quickly learned most of the controls of the arcades, and would compete with Raynor on pretty much any games which is possible to play for two.

From car racing to zombie shooting, even dancing...

Since he was not using his powers many of the games were won by her, and many were won by him as well.

And, now several hours later they finally reached the place where Weiss's eyes were sparkling with need.

Yes... they reached the crane games...

"So which one you want?" He asked curiously.

The Heiress quickly snapped out, and composed herself for second, still there was a small embarrassed blush on her cheeks, after several hours she finally loosed herself, and stopped behaving like Heiress, and instead was acting like a girl her age.

"Well, they all... are... cute..." She said with an embarrassed voice, she never seen this many plush toys before!!!

"I see, then let's get all of them." He said with shrug.

She quickly looked towards him with disbelieve.

"What? I am serious, we still have more than half of tokens." He said like it was a common thing to spend thousands of liens in arcade...

"In that case, let's try..." The white-haired girl realised that it's the truth, so she nodded and joined him in the crane game.

Slowly but surely Weiss is becoming like Raynor...

The Concept of Common Sense has no place here....