After I got back to my dorm, I decided to lie down for a little. I hadn’t eaten since breakfast, so I knew I should probably get some dinner.

  After a few minutes, I made up my mind to go eat something, and I headed out of my dorm.

  Only to instantly see Emily in the hallway.

  She and I look at each other.

  And I immediately panicked and shut my door.

  My breathing got heavy again and I could feel my pulse quickening.

  I sat on the ground and leaned against my door.

  And from behind me, someone knocks on my door.

  “Nyx, are you ok?” Emily says from behind the door.

  “I’m fine” I said back to her.

  She didn’t respond for a few seconds. “I'm sorry about earlier. I shouldn’t have said those things. Not without talking to you first”.

  But I don’t respond to her for a little while.

  “If you want me to give you some space, I can. But Nyx, I want you to know, I do like you. A lot.” She continued. “If your not interested, just tell me”.

  “Can you just give me a little time?” I say back. “I don’t know how to respond to this”.

  “Of course. Take as much time as you want” she said.

  I sat there for a few more minutes before I tried again to go get food.

  ∴

  Like any other day, Mama Mia had dinner for the whole S css in our dorm. I got some of it and sat at a table alone.

  I didn’t have a great appetite yet, so I just picked at my food for a while. All that time, I watched the rest of the css S students.

  Css S consisted of the best students in the school. Prince and Princesses. Wealth merchants children. Nobles from a bunch of countries.

  These people will be the future of so many fields. Future court mages, or battle masters, or grand generals.

  But thinking about myself, I didn’t have grand ambitions.

  The plot of the game is going to happen, starting in a few months. But what am I going to do after that?

  I am not next in line for my family. I don’t want to be tied to being a court mage. I don’t like research.

  The only things I really like doing are spending time with my friends and hunting. I can be an adventurer, but my friends are destined for better things.

  Emily is basically born to be a court mage, same with Aric. Lilith is the next in line to be the head of our family. And Rose, as much as she says she will always be with me, is subject to what the head of my family says.

  As I sat at my table, someone ended up coming up to me.

  “Nyx” Lilith said, walking up to the table I was sitting at. She was followed by two members of her student council, Amy, the vice president, and another girl whom I recognized as the head of the disciplinary committee.

  “Lilith” I said looking up at her.

  “Eating alone?” she asked me.

  “Um, yeah”

  “Don’t you normally have friends eating with you? Like the princess or that Aric guy”

  “Um, yeah. Just, wanted to eat alone, I think”

  “Well, mind if we eat with you?” Lilith asked me.

  “Um” the other two people with her seemed annoyed at this but they didn’t say anything. I have been missing Lilith a lot. I kind of thought we would see each other more often, forgetting she would have her own friends.

  All we do together is train in that one css.

  “Do you not want us to?” she asked, based on my hesitation.

  “No, go ahead”

  The three of them then sat down.

  “Did you go hunting today?” Lilith asked me.

  “Um, yeah. Rose Emily and I went into Thronevale today. We hunted horned rabbits for a while.” I tell them.

  “Really? Based on your skill with the sword, you could probably started with goblins right away. Maybe even hobgoblins” Lilith said.

  “I needed the horns for something. But I moved onto goblins for the second half of the day”

  This gets everyone's attention. Even to the point where the disciplinary committee head actually asks something.

  “How long did you hunt for today?” she asked.

  “Seven-ish hours. Why?”

  This gets both her and Amy to look right at Lilith, who stares at me.

  “And you didn’t get tired?” Lilith asks me.

  “No. I felt fine all through it”

  “Really…” she said, but not with a questioning tone. “Do you have pns for tomorrow?”

  “I was just going to go hunting again”

  “We are going to go with you for it” Lilith said. This gets Amy to look annoyed but the disciplinary committee continues to just stare at me.

  ∴

  The next morning, I went to meet with Lilith early in the morning. I found her, Amy and the disciplinary head. But this time, they were wearing combat equipment.

  Lilith had on an outfit I recognize from a boss raid in the st area. It is a bck pleated skirt, connected to a bck and red shirt. Over that she had a bck trench coat. She had on bck stockings and high heels. She looked unbelievably beautiful.

  Her equipment was the female ruler of the night set, with the coat of eclipse night over it. These were from a high power boss, so this must be her main equipment. On her back was a one handed longsword, known as the craven edge. It's a berserker weapon that gets stronger the more you kill things with it in a row.

  All of these were high power items, nearing post game equipment. The ruler of the knight set was a total +200 defense, the coat of the eclipse was +50 speed, +100 defense, and +100 dark attribute attack. And the craven edge was +50 -> +500 dark attribute damage. And thats all without any components.

  Amy seemed to be a magic user. She had light attribute boosting armor from the crafting skill, but it was strong. Probably +150 defense. But her staff was the strong item she had. It was a starfall staff, with +250 magic.

  And the disciplinary head was a padin. She also had crafted armor, but it was heavy armor that probably boosted just defense, around +250 or so. She had a greatsword on her back, which was a boss item called the great moon cymore. It was just a base +150 attack, but since it was a greatsword, it dealt 1.5x damage at least.

  I was wearing the same things as yesterday, the bunny hood and my basic adventurer clothes.

  “I feel out of pce” I say walking up to them.

  When the three of them see me in my cute bunny coat, I can see them almost ugh. But Lilith speaks up,

  “You look really cute” she says. “What is that equipment?”

  “It's called the bunny hood. There is a retired seamstress in the capital who made it. It is a really good speed item, but gives no defense bonus”

  “How much of a bonus?”

  “300%”

  “WHAT” all three of them say.

  “Its a scaling item? And that strong of one?” Amy says.

  “Yes, but you need to spend a bunch of time hunting horned rabbits for it”

  “But, that's still amazing” the disciplinary head says.

  With us having met up, we then made our way to the schools adventures guild where we met with the rest of Liltihs friends. Both of the secretaries from the student council and the treasurer.

  They all had basic crafting equipment, no boss items.

  Since they were fifth years, they probably knew people with high level crafting who help them out.

  “So, here is the thing. We are going to Thornevale so we can monitor my younger sister” Lilith expined to the group. “We won’t be in the same area, but she will be joining our party for this”

  No one disagreed with this.

  With that, all of us headed through the teleporter to Thronevale.

  *Emily von Stardom - Level 2 has been removed from your party*

  *Rose Bloodnight - Level 24 has been removed from your party*

  *Lilith von Blut - Level 71 has joined your party*

  *Amy Queenvale - Level 59 has joined your party*

  *Cra Armstrong - Level 62 has joined your party*

  *Kira Lightwood - Level 37 has joined your party*

  *Mira Lightwood - Level 37 has joined your party*

  *El Novacrona - Level 45 had joined your party*