Chapter 24: Another day at Charlotte’s room

"So you want me to... stream?", Charlotte asked warily, rightfully so.

"Yeah! This will help you with socializing!", Silla handed Charlotte a round webcam.

Charlotte inspects the webcam, letting some Reverie goo into the machine to check the inside. 

"What are you doing, little one?"

"Checking for demonic sigils.", Charlotte replied.

Silla pouts, "That's very rude! I only put them on my private stuffs!"

Charlotte gave Silla a suspicious stare, Reverie found nothing bad so she retracted it. She will believe Silla, for now.

"So, will you stream?"

"No."

"Why?", Silla frowned.

Charlotte pointed at her head, "Because I have the knowledge to make myself popular in an hour at most. Having the embodiment of imagination is really handy."

"Tsk, you can't have the joy of having subscribers and achieving mile stones with that mindset.", Silla sighed, "But I guess I can't force you to do things you don't like, not so gradually anyway."

So she would just suddenly force me...

"Anyway! Have you packed your clothes? We will be going this Sunday!"

Charlotte looked over at her suitcases, three of them, one for each occasion. Red one is sleeping clothes. Blue one is outdoor clothes. And yellow is for going to fancy places. Inbetween them, Charlotte put some of her items for the ride.

Though she held onto her fake knife, she does not know why but she felt it is important for her. She looked at Silla, then back at her knife, then back at Silla, and back at her knife.

Charlotte stabbed Silla in the stomach, enough force to make it went through her stomach. Silla was knocked to the wall, bleeding our of her stomach. Charlotte widen her eyes, looking at her now bloodied knife.

There was no force when I stabbed her...

To Charlotte, the knife went through Silla like butter, her fist was the thing that sent Silla to the wall, not the knife. Staring at the knife, disregarding the grumpy Silla.

"That was not really nice! Why did you do that?!", she yelled, rubbing her now healed belly.

Ignoring Silla, Charlotte asked. Reverie, is this connected to an Akashic?

Why yes~! 

KILL HER—

SHUT UP! YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO SPEAK YET, BE QUIET!!

Charlotte was taken aback a bit by Reverie's outburst. She smiled wickedly. So Reverie have a limit...

Silla stared at Charlotte, at her wicked smile, "Ch-Charlotte...? Are you... alright?"

"Yes. I feel good.", she looked back at Silla with a crazed look.

"Are... you sure?"

"Silla. Can I stab you again?", she asked expectedly.

"No! Even if I can shrug off lethal attacks, the pain is annoying!!", Silla retorted, pouting.

"Aww..."

"Welp, I'll be out of your room now that you discovered bloodlust. I don't want a child in my care stabbing me a whole bunch, so bye!", Silla hurriedly left the room.

Charlotte closed her knife, now knowing it was a lethal weapon like any other normal knife, but more dangerous.

"Reverie, why can people see the knife?", Charlotte asked, looking down at her eight pointed star pendant.

Well~ because what the knife represent is more~ outward. It wouldn't be very fun if you attack people with an invisible knife that could cut through concrete like butter!

I see...

Charlotte pushed her knife back into her pocket, she also made a mental note to carry the knife everywhere. Well, making a note for Survive incase she forgot.

Got it.

Now without Silla, Charlotte finally have peace. It was somehow more boring than it should be, with no one to use her knife on. As Silla said, she was on bloodlust, and there are no target around.

"Also, why do I still have the pendant?"

A souvenir of sort~ you can keep it if you want~

"Can I have it visible?"

I can make it visible if you want~!

"Then do it."

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Aww~ no 'please'?

"...Please make it visible."

That's the spirit! Done!

Nothing changed for Charlotte personally, there are absolutely no weight to the pendant. Charlotte could not use it as a weapon, more of a decoration than anything.

Does this pendant have a name? I think it should have a name.

Okay! Suggestion time everyone! Mine is Chaos Star!

The Pendant. 'The' is important in the name.

Compass Rose, nice and simple.

BLACK STAR—

YOU ARE GROUNDED!!!

Charlotte think about to use her dice again, but decided to go against it. This pendant represent Survive, the embodiment of survival.

"I will go with The Pendant. It is simple and... mysterious? Hey, does anyone wearing this gain the ability to not feel pain?", Charlotte questioned Survive, and it delivered.

Yes.

With that answer from Survive, Charlotte starts to look over her shelves, which was delivered yesterday, one made of wood and was as tall as her ceiling. With the amount of book she have, Charlotte think about having another shelf in the near future. She when through the section which contain her manga, right next to the comic section.

The took out a manga called 'Zozo's Bizzarre Adventure, Golden Gale' and flipped through the pages. She stopped at a certain page, the start of the infamous seven page beatdown.

She smiled.

Another idea came to Charlotte. Passively, from Reverie, she imagined all the things she can do while breaking someone. 

While reading her books, Charlotte moved away from the normal subjects and got into novels. She found herself enjoying protagonists who are morally gray, chaotic people, and outright commit war crimes more than the standard good, selfless people.

Why? Because to Charlotte, villains are cool. Now that Charlotte look back, the three people she interacted the most with are kinda evil in one way or another. 

On the alignment chart, Silla would be a Neutral Evil, seeing how she see this as a part of something fun and mess with Charlotte to the point of sending her to Hell. An evil person who would hit Charlotte's weakness the moment she have the chance to.

Athen is hard to pinpoint, but to Charlotte the Princess of Zagreus would be a Neutral Good person, she act nice and caring to Charlotte but that's about it. At heart Athen might be a good person, but does not actively seek out justice.

Charlotte chuckled a bit, she found the word 'Justice' funny now that she understood what that meant to the Akashic Records.

And Issac, the Director of this organization, he is a Lawful Neutral man, with how he accepted Charlotte's torture for a greater good Charlotte have no information about, but at the same time extended his help and basically gave her everything she now owned. His ideals are a bit hard to point out.

Then Charlotte thought about herself. Where would I land in the alignment chart?

Charlotte knew herself as an empty person, she only follow her interests and only listen to others with a reluctant mind. She was easy going, agreeing because the people around her were adults. Adults know best, right? That was not true at all.

Only Charlotte knew what is the best for her. Was she a chaotic person? Not in the slightest, she herself was quite calm though have a lot of repressed emotions due to Survive.

Emotions are what boost a human's capability. I store emotions. Unleashing them at the right time.

She will one day have to unlock her emotions. A day she look forward to, or one she would tear everything apart. Maybe that day Charlotte would know if the creature in her abyss was a monster, or a hero.

In the end of the day, none of it matter that much. Charlotte would still be Charlotte, just something for her keep an eye on herself.

Fiddling with the webcam in the hand, and with nothing more to do other than to read another book. Charlotte decided to set up the webcam. Except for the fact that Charlotte did not have a PC setup in the first place. Charlotte did not know who she avoided having one.

So in the end, she called Silla, and not Athen. Why? Because even if Charlotte dislike Silla, she still is more lenient than Athen.

Silla rushed over with a smile, not even a minute have passed. She got behind Charlotte and sat down onto the bed.

"So! What do you wanna do!?", Silla asked with excitement.

Charlotte looked over at her desk full of books, "I need another table... and a PC setup..."

"Aww~ anything for you, little one! Just don't fucking stab me, okay?", Silla widen her smile.

"I... did ask?", Charlotte recalled.

"I didn't expect the knife to work! At least warn me about that!!", Silla pouts, "Now, you can use mine if you are desperate. Just turn on incognito if you are searching for questionable things, I don't want anything you search to mess up my private fun time!"

"Okay...? What does that even mean?", Charlotte tilted her head, wondering.

"You'll know when you get older.", Silla waved it off.

"So... how long will I have to wait?", Charlotte turned back to the main topic.

"Eh, probably 3 days. But we'll be at Las Vegas by that time, so maybe after we get back!"

"That's a deal.", Charlotte nodded.

"Hey! Making deals is my thing!", Silla laughed.

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