60***White Truth
"How about me?" A familiar voice broke in. Immediately after, a figure came walking out of the bushes!
"… Wait, Mi… Eleora?! Is that you?!!!" I asked in disbelief!
'Who else could it be you little s***." She said dully. My eyes twitched at her language, and I found my eyes drifting to Angus and focussing a glare on her.
"What's with you, creep. Jeeze, I know you're a nerd, but don't go being a perv too." She said in reaction to my stare. I had half a mind to just sic Sher on her again.
'With pleasure!' Sher spoke up, responding to my feelings all too readily…
"… Please don't." was all I could say back to her.
"*sigh* Eleora… Do you mind… escorting us back to The Beginners Area please?" I asked, cautious as too why she came back.
"Sure. That's why I came back anyway." She responded. Her monotone, though I'm used to it, still made me wonder if I'm not imposing. She's a level 70+ player after all. I'm pretty sure she has better things to do than escort two noobs through the easiest Areas in the game!
'…Actually, now that I think of it… this situation kind of feels like…' at that thought, my hands clamped up and my heartbeat increased!
"Well then… lets go…" I said, now very conscious of my situation.
I haven't been seeing any players for a while now, which means that I'm out here alone with 2 girls! (I'm not counting Sher)
This is harem material if I've ever seen it…!!!
"Ah. It a shame that one is an angry obsidian flare, and the other's so cold and antisocial that I might as well be walking with a brick wall…"
"Hmm? Did you say something nerd?" Angus asked out of the blue.
'Eh?! What the… did I mumble to myself without even realizing!' I thought frantically to myself!
"N-n-n-nothing! Nothing at all!!!" I replied quickly, practically stumbling over myself in my haste!
"*tsk* Weirdo." Angus mumble under her breath.
*STAB* ouch Angus! I felt that!
"Hmm? Are you okay?" Eleora turned and asked me. She leaned in close to analyse my face better, and I went pink!
"I-I-I-I'm fine! D-don't mind me!" I stammered out, frantically putting space between us!
*trip!!!*
*catch!!*
I tripped and fell over backwards and instinctively closed my eyes, expecting to fall straight to the ground, only to be stopped mid-way by a very soft pair… of arms?!
"What are you even doing?" Angus asked, her voice coming from… above?!
I opened my eyes and found Angus looking down at me from what I assume is a Tango Catch pose. ()
I felt my heart speed up and my pink hue started changing to a red!
My hands flew too my face of their own accord.
"P-please don't look at me like that…" I mumbled out, thoroughly embarrassed.
Then I felt my blood freeze.
"Oi… Brat…" Angus started, Passive Aggression getting activated! The spell I was under wore off and I shivered in her arms.
"Yes...?" I asked in a small, terrified voice.
"… Stop. S****. Around already!!!!!!!!" She yelled in my face, then proceeded to drop me unceremoniously on the floor.
'Ouch, what was I thinking.' I thought to myself as I got up and dusted off my behind. 'Angus is way too scary to be in a harem!'
***
Ten minutes in and nothing much has happened. The few goblins that did show up where quickly squashed out of existence by Eleora, so we walked in relative silence. I would have thought of that as weird, but there were traces all over the path that showed that Eleora had been through this way before, so I just let it be.
Ever since that little episode from before, I spent the better part of the time staring at Angus. Nothing even close to what I'd think of as attraction was stirred up, so I just wrote that occurrence off as mental interference, probably from that entity that was messing with us in the dungeon just know.
*notification*
'Eh?!' I thought to myself, paused and opened BMO Share.
'Lore Hunters!!!' I screamed internally!
'I haven't heard from them in ages!!!' I almost cried from the flood of emotion!
I didn't even miss the Lore Hunters while we were on that adventure, what with the mind tapping and me not even getting any form of connection in the dungeon!
'Wow, you really are addicted to those guys.' Sher spoke up as I read the posts I missed and started theorising with the other Lore Followers.
"Sher! What have you been up to?" I asked, surprised to hear her voice after 10 minutes of nothing from her end!
'I've been catching up with your memories.' She replied…
Wait what?!
'Don't worry, I can only look at your memories in game. Anything out of that is still safe.' She assured me…
'Wait, she knows that she's a…'
'I gained that understanding from your memories. As it appears, I am indeed just a computer program. That still doesn't negate the experiences that happened to me however.' She said answering my thoughts. It seams that she's adapted to the notion of her being fake with a good mindset.
"So, do you have anything else on that?" I asked, referring to her memory.
'Sorry, still have nothing.' She replied, sounding downtrodden.
'I see…' I thought to her and myself. We walked in silence for a few seconds at that.
"… So, about my hair…" I started, getting to a different subject.
'What about it?' She asked, sounding confused that I'd ask about that.
As to why that is, I don't know.
"You aren't the first person to comment on it being white. What does that mean?" I elaborated.
'You don't know?' She asked in surprise.
"No. I wanted an adventure, but I don't have even a slight strand of orange hair on my head. So, I'm out of ideas." I replied.
'No wonder…' Sher trailed off.
"… What is it." I asked, slightly worried.
'… well, you know how people with blue hair are always looking to prove themselves, or red hairs always look for a fight, or how green hairs have a childish outlook on life?' she started.
"… Yeah…?" I asked, understanding what she was saying, but not quite enough.
'Well, ones with white hair like you are very… unorthodox thinkers.' She stated. 'You all always look around and outside the box and at any angle to fix your problems.
'When you have white hair, that means you're always looking for a deeper meaning to something, even if there isn't one.' She finished, leaving me in thought.
"So you're saying… that I have white hair because of BMO Lore?" I asked, understanding where this is going.
'Well, in your case you have a full head of it, so this game probably isn't what you're really trying to find meaning behind.' She said back to me.
I thought about what else it could be and didn't have to think long before I found what it was.
"Yeah, I think I know what it is…" I mumbled to myself, mentally waving away the image of my dad that surfaced.
"Were here." Eleora announced suddenly.
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