"It is indeed true that I have a new fiance, but they're from a smaller family you wouldn't know of. This was because they offered to give us 3 S-rank power stones to arrange an engagement among their first in line with me.
But don't worry, I don't even like him, and my family is planning on eradicating the family anyway," Mia explains while lightly kissing the top of my head.
"I don't believe you," I respond.
Mia lets out a long sigh that clearly didn't want to put up with my stubbornness, but before I could apologize, we could hear the shutter of a picture being taken.
We snapped our heads in the direction of the sound and saw Isabell with her phone out, taking a picture of Mia and me.
"Just wait till the school hears about this," Isabell smirks, but before she could walk away, Mia stood up and ran towards Isabell before dropkicking her.
Isabell was knocked unconscious upon slamming her head against the hard metal floor, allowing Mia to grab her phone, delete the picture, and then erase it from her recently deleted folder.
"Fucking bitch," Mia says before helping me stand up and walk away.
"I'm sorry," I apologize before scurrying over to Mia's side.
"*sigh* Do you believe me?" Mia asks while rubbing her eyes with both of her thumbs.
"Yes,"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes,"
"Sure, sure?"
"Sure, sure,"
"Okay, good, then let's head back. Lunch is almost over anyway, and we have to prepare for the real test raid. Also, it seems you've taken a liking to these capsules, so I'll buy you one once I get home," Mia says after wiping her frustrated expression from her face and replacing it with a smile that made me feel much more at ease.
"I can buy one myself,"
"Nah, I don't think you have enough to buy one," Mia smirks as soon as we enter the capsule room.
"I think I have enough," I refute.
"Show me your bank account," Mia demands, putting out her hand, which I immediately followed.
She then gets me to type in my password before opening my bank app and checking my balance. But in the process of that, her jaw dropped.
"What's wrong?" I ask with a smirk.
"So, you clearly don't have enough, but I didn't know you had Transactions Black," Mia says, causing the entire room to go silent.
"What?" I ask as soon as I saw the entire class staring at me.
"Oh, it's just us teens aren't really allowed access to it cause our parents set restrictions. If we did have it, then we'd be buying out every shop, so our parents forbid us from getting it. They even shut down any alt account that could potentially have it,"
I guess this reaction makes sense as they can't get it as their parents set restrictions, while poorer kids can't get it because they can't even afford it.
"So your parents just don't trust you," I say with a deadpan face.
"O-of course not. We are perfectly law-abiding citizens who will never buy out stores," Mia says, trying to avoid my gaze.
Says the one who's in a criminal organization.
"Okay… well, all of you can stop staring now," I say, looking back at my classmates who still had their jaws dropped.
The rumors of me selling my body are only gonna get worse… well, whatever…
"Also, how much is a capsule?" I ask Mia who was scrolling through my text messages.
Of all people, you should be the one to know that I only talk to you and Tolf…
"Uhhhh… they're about half a trillion for the best ones," Mia says as if it was nothing.
My jaw dropped as I didn't even know currency could go that high, and Mia said it as if it was natural- wait, these shifty eyes again.
"You… will be broke after that purchase again, right?" I ask, slowly moving my face closer to hers.
"W-well… maybe, but I also need to take a loan out to get that amount… I'm just a few billion off," Mia says.
Just a few billion…
"Do you know how much a few billion is! My mother and I could've been literally perfect for the rest of our lives with that much!" I shout, slapping Mia on the back of my head, forcing her to give me back my phone.
"Ouch," Mia says, rubbing the back of her head, and just as she tried to apologize, one of the receptionists from before came into the room and told us to enter our capsules.
We, of course, followed her directions and entered the capsules, excited and ready to fight once again.
"Oh yeah, the headmaster said you boys and girls could skip classes for the rest of the day as the capsule company paid them even more money to test it out again," Our teacher said, and as we closed our capsules, I could hear cheers of joy.
As soon as my capsule closed, silence had fallen, and endless darkness surrounded me… until I blinked once.
Once again, I was in a white room with a robot in front of me that began to say a few things.
"Welcome, Beta Tester… the administrator is currently setting up your party… please wait… please wait… please wait…."
"Mute," I mutter once again.
"Muting now… Once an important piece of information is given out, the system will automatically unmute itself…."
Hmmm… what to do now…
I began to scroll through the menu, which I opened with a simple,
"Menu,"
Searching for anything interesting, I then found an intriguing option for the background setting of the capsule.
"Hmmm… Settings, change background, wall," I mutter, causing my vision to go dark.
Blinking once, I realized I had arrived at history's most traumatic place in the last 500 years… the walls between the human society and the dungeon paradise or… the monsters paradise.
I wasn't able to move, and suddenly, I saw thousands of monsters, even some that I had never seen, break through the solid stone wall in front of me.
Their wide grins only sent shivers down my spine, and my body subconsciously began to shake as if humanity had been bred to live in fear of those things.
ROOOOOOAAAAAAAAAR
In the distance, I hear a roar, and if it weren't for the pain nullification within the capsule as this world was fake, my eardrums would've exploded.
I saw it… a massive 10 story monster that resembled a lion with a massive black snake coiled behind it as a tail.
The snake's fangs were dripping with acid that disintegrates anything it landed on, causing even some of the monsters to run and scream in fear as they began to converse in a language I had never heard in my life.
But suddenly, after only hearing a few sentences, I understood what they were saying.
"SLAUGHTER, THE OPPOSING CREATURES, OR THE DEMON KING WILL BEHEAD YOU!" A loud booming voice says, and I saw a humanoid monster with long red hair and pale white skin when I looked up.
A vampire…
Those slivered pupils and blood-red eyes would never be mistaken. And without much effort, I noticed the two protruding polished white fangs within the vampire's mouth.
Turning around, I saw the humans… in tanks, in helicopters, in massive mechs that pilots controlled.
They tried to contest against the monsters, but the bullets did nothing, and the overwhelming number of monsters destroyed and slammed the mechs to the ground.
It was definitely a one-sided slaughter, and I could bȧrėly even look at it due to how pitiful my race was.
"Or, ex-race, I guess," I mutter before hearing a beeping sound.
"Successfully unmuted… Welcome, Beta Tester… the administrator has finished setting up your party of… 33 participants… as you have no power stone, please select one from the given few below," The robot says, creating a panel similar to my status in front of me while the war around me completely disappeared, leaving the blank white room to wrap around me once again.