Book 2: Chapter 30: Shopping and Magical Realities

Book 2: Chapter 30: Shopping and Magical Realities

Scarlet

I hate my life right now.

Its your own fault for letting yourself give into her bribe, Tar says, sounding rather amused as he no doubt watches me fidget in the skirt and blouse Belle, Denise, and Emily are having me wear, the three simply enjoying themselves by taking pictures of me. Meanwhile Arthur can be seen smugly smirking off to the side.

Doesnt change that I hate this. And its not my fault Belle decided to bribe me with the exclusive beta test slot for the latest Hunter XI MMORPG that was only just announced.

How the hell did she even get that oh, wait. Pretty sure I heard that Silver Works had a hand in supplying them with the magical reality technology to make the game fully artificial through magical realities. An incredibly expensive project, and the first time its ever been utilized in a video game before.

Her only request was for me to try on clothes with her, Denise, and Emily at the mall. And Arthur was just kind of dragged here by Belle to watch the show.

And carry the bags, since as it turns out, the girls hate the idea of bringing a hired hand to do it for them. Something about not liking the idea of having a random stranger following them around all day and hearing everything they say.

Especially when Belle gets to have an excuse to drag Arthur around. Although he didnt seem too against it. Not like Michael, who Emily enjoyed dragging around the mall that one time.This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

I get the feeling Arthur is enjoying watching my torment though.

As soon as the girls give the go ahead, I immediately rush back into the changing room and change out of these horrid clothes into my regular ones. Then I activate my magi-tech armor over them and leave the changing room with a scowl on my face.

You better not forget your part of the deal, I say to Belle, the scowl not softening on my face in the slightest.

She just giggles and says, Dont worry. Ive already had the beta test spot switched over to your name.

Even though everyone kind of glossed over the dude at first since his power didnt exactly seem very useful beyond training himself for combat and stuff. Not until magi-tech became a thing that is, and they could have other people use it, and even get more than one person in the same magical reality.

This is the very first attempt at a global scale magical reality project. One that is accessible no matter where you are. Which is something that even the Interschool Tournaments dont do since they just have a single magical reality for all of the tournaments themselves with various different stadiums and seating that is based on various different locations. A single building in each Tier 1 city where people can enter the magical reality and attend the tournaments live.

Everyone else has always been stuck watching them through live broadcasts being streamed around the world.

Guess I can see why itd be such a big deal then, Tar mutters. And if it works, theyll likely be able to expand the number of people watching the Interschool Tournaments live, wont they?

Huh? Yeah, they would.

I dont care about that though.

I just care about the game.

Right, of course Tar mutters, sounding rather exasperated with my priorities.

Hey! Dont judge me! Video games have always been an incredibly important part of my sanity!

I glance at Arthur who no longer looks happy being here, likely due to the fact that Im not being tortured by the girls anymore and he is still lugging around bags, before I face where were going again. Only to find a group of people standing at a water fountain in a plaza of the mall one that, unlike the other mall, doesnt have any sort of VIP area for us to shop in.

The group is consistent of just guys, some high school age and some college age. And they look like they might start something with us considering the way theyre looking at us. One of them even starts whistling while not bothering to hide how hes looking at us.

I scowl at them, but right when they look like theyre about to head towards us, a loud shattering sound echoes in the mall, following which everything gains a red tint, and several demons begin appearing. Meanwhile the group of hooligans immediately runs away while screaming as a large demon knight suddenly appears in front of them, showing just how close we are to the core of this Fracture already.

Huh. That was actually pretty good timing.