New Function

As Lake was speaking with Amy his insides boiled with fury, though his expression never changed. So the reason she didn't go to someone else was because she couldn't.

Iyer continued speaking despite Selena's anger. "You should know that the illness that's inflicting our sister is special, besides me there are only a few other alchemists that could help you. But those old things only know how to focus on their research and won't bother with an actress. In fact I wouldn't be here either if I hadn't taken a fancy to you."

After hearing his last statement Selena's face changed slightly and sadness replaced the fury on her face. Her eyes reddened and tears were threatening to stream down her face. "Fine, what are your terms."

With a face filled with victory he said in a voice filled with greed, "There we go, don't worry it'll be simple. You just have to accompany me for one night."

"I-If I do this... You must swear that you will cure my sister, or else I will make sure that you wish you were dead." In her eyes was a mixture of anger, helplessness and killing intent.

"I assure you my dear, one night and I'll cure her for you." While speaking he reached over with his hand and stroked her face.

It was at this moment that...

*DING*

[Mission completed! Issuing rewards. +5 EXP.]

Inside Lake's head where the systems display lay, the screen flashed and a whole new display appeared. What had appeared was a chemistry set, filled with all the tools that an alchemist used to concoct elixirs.

[Due to the User meeting the correct conditions the Alchemy function has been unlocked. Using the alchemy function the User will be able to create elixirs with varying success rates. Recipes can be unlocked within the system or can be gained from outside sources, recipes will be saved by the system.]

Lake had known that gaining EXP would open a new function so he wasn't surprised by this. But he was bewildered because the function that had appeared was much too coincidental.

The quest had him tail Selena and Iyer to find out what was going on behind the scenes, and after finding out that her sister was ill, he unlocked the perfect function to help her with that.

Along with his confusion was extreme joy, with the new function as long as he had the right recipes and enough ingredients he'd be able to make as many elixirs as he'd need.

Meanwhile the mission for tailing Selena and Iyer had changed after awarding him the EXP.

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Missions:

[Achieve Stage 5 Copper Esper]

Time Limit - 3 years

Reward - Awaken User's Ability

Difficulty Level - 5

[A Damsel in Distress!] - The truth is revealed! Iyer is coercing Selena using her sister, use your abilities to cure her sister and stop this perverts actions.

Time Limit - //

Reward - EXP

Difficulty Level - 2

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'Ah? The quests can update like this? A quest like could be called a chain quest couldn't it?' Lake's thoughts couldn't help but become strange as the system had once again shown how similar it was to a video game.

But seeing the contents of the new quest almost caused him to start laughing as this was too much of a coincidence.

'Is this why the system gave me the alchemy function? If so then the system isn't as soulless as I thought.' He inwardly nodded in appreciation to the system.

Iyer opened his mouth again and said, "Don't worry I'll leave you alone for tonight as I'm quite busy. I'll come for you tomorrow and then I'll cure your sister after we... finish." While speaking he couldn't keep the lewd smile off, which when paired with his handsome face truly made someone frightened.

Afterwards, throughout the rest of the meal Selena kept silent while Iyer no longer restrained himself and took in her body with his gaze. Though on the outside he seemed charming and gentlemanly, he was a sick and perverted man on the inside. His actions thoroughly disgusted Lake.

While talking to Amy a plan had hatched up in his mind and he asked Amy for a pen, grabbing a napkin he quickly wrote a few words on it before putting it into his pocket.

"What are you writing there little brother?" Curious to what Lake was doing Amy asked.

Chuckling Lake said, "It's my phone number sister, would you like it?"

She was taken aback for a second before reaching over and pinching Lake's cheeks with a small smile. "You little kid, you're ten years too young for me!"

As soon as they finished their meal Selena stood up quietly. She gripped her dress tightly as she walked out, her actions made one unable to leave her alone. Lake saw that and quickly got up and went after her, but not before thanking Amy and saying goodbye.

She chuckled and waved goodbye as well before returning to work with a slight smile on her face. "What an interesting kid."

Lake didn't hear her while walking outside, he saw Selena silently waiting by the car with red eyes and biting her lips. He quickly put on a nervous face filled with blush as if he was seeing the crush.

"Hello miss Selena! My name is Lake and I'm a really big fan of yours and I wanted to wait till you were done before leaving." His eyes shone with awe as he spoke to her.

Despite her sadness Selena couldn't help but smile slightly at Lake's shyness. Ruffling his hair she said, "Hi there little one, thank you but what are you doing out here by yourself?"

"I saw that miss Selena was eating so I waited till you were done, I was afraid of disturbing your meal." As he said that he reached for her hand and took it into his own.

"You shouldn't be running around on your own though Lake. Go back to your parents now, right now I'm a little tired. I'll make it up to you another time okay?"

"I won't bother miss Selena anymore then, I just wanted to say hi. Thank you, I will hold you to that miss Selena!" Chuckling Lake ran off. As soon as he turned around his face regained it's previous cold demeanor accompanied by a slight grin.

Selena had a strange face watching Lake run off like that. At the moment Lake grabbed her hand she felt something slip into it and she knew that Lake gave it to her.

Opening the slip of paper a row of words appeared, underneath it was contact info, presumably Lakes.

"I can help your sister."

Her pupils shrunk as no one besides her and Iyer should know that her sister was ill. But Lake knew and he even said he could help her, yet she was unsure of if she should believe him since he was so young.

She spent a long time contemplating it on the way to her home. She walked straight to her sisters room when she got home.

On the bed there lay a young girl that currently had a pale face with sweat dripping down it. Her face was contorted and it could be seen that she was in pain. She looked no older than 8 yet she was inflicted with such a painful illness.

Looking at her sister unconscious and in pain Selena's face became resolute as she opened the paper back up.