Chapter 9: CHAPTER 8 – What to do now? (Part 1)

“♪♫♬♪♫♬… I FLY A GIGANTIC MONSTER; I AM CAPTAIN EVIL-STOMPER… ♪♫♬♪♫♬”

“…”

“♪♫♬♪♫♬… I GET TO WEAR A BIG BLACK HELMET; I PILOT THE HATREDCOPTER!!!… ♪♫♬♪♫♬”

“…Fuck…”

I woke up to the alarm, feeling an intense headache, exactly the same I felt when I first got here. And to make it worst, the pain from my own stigma hasn’t completely subsided.

“♪♫♬♪♫♬… I FLY THE BEAST MADE OF STEEL; TIN MONSTER, CRUMPLE LIGHT… ♪♫♬♪♫♬”

“Right, right, I’m listening, I’ll wake up in a moment… just stop.”

I stand up from the floor, as it seems I fell off the couch when I blacked out, and reach up to turn the alarm off.

Until Monday we won’t have any classes, so it’s kind of like a free period for everyone, though a lot of people will keep training everyday as to not fall back on the ranking.

That leaves me with the weekend to sort things out. What will I be doing? Certainly, I could try to live normally here, like I would in any other world including mine. But will that be all?

“That seems like the boring path to take… And I still need to see what this ‘Affinity’ is about… Thinking about it, I still haven’t seen my new profile. I’m dying to know how much did that guy limited my power.”

With that said, I reach out to the table just in front of the couch and grab the laptop, sitting myself on the floor to have it at eye level.

Turning it on, I start seeing the same black screen, with all the messages I couldn’t see because of the pain and blacking out.

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