No GUNS!!!

Startled by her, he looked at her, annoyed.

'Miss, can't you shout so loud? What if you attracted someone nearby?'

"What are you talking about exactly?" Jon asked wanting to play it cool, but inside... his heart is leaping.

"Your HP! why did it increase so suddenly? How did you do that?" Mia asked.

'Huh? How-- how did she…?'

Jon could not believe this, 'Wait, maybe she has some kind of superpower that can see my status?' Jon thought that isn't impossible with how he has a system now. If the popular 'System' trope is true in reality, it would not be much of a hassle for other tropes' like 'Eye powers' and 'grandpa's in pendant' to be as well.

"I don't know what you are talking about?" but Jon still decided to lie for a little while more, if she indeed had a superpower that can see through him, it matters not if he lied once or twice, she will find something is odd about him eventually.

"Just now, I saw your Hp increase from 60 to 70," Mia said confidently.

Jon looked more and more troubled, "and where exactly did you see that?"

Mia hearing his question gave him a 'Are you serious?' look but when he returned back a confused 'look'.

"Don't tell me you didn't notice the party Status panel on the left?" Mia said and Jon only then did notice the said panel.

It can't be blamed on him as the panel and other icons will become more transparent when the player didn't focus on them, to reasonably not hinder their sight. So he didn't notice it.

When he focused on her reminder, he found a small panel below his status.

JON

ALIVE 95

KILL 0

Pts 0

Party Mates:

Mia

HP: 60/60

The panel listed his party members and was accompanied by a small HP bar denoting her health.

'You got to be kidding me?' Jon could not help but curse the system for putting him in this trouble. 'I should have made this choice before acting on them, that way the situation could be avoided' anyway there is no use crying over spilled milk.

"Maybe you saw wrong! Mine had always been 70" Jon decided he will lie until it became the truth.

"You can't fool me, you got to be hiding something…What is it?"

Jon was troubled and this came out as irritation "I'm bloody sure it was 70 and even if it is not I don't think I have to explain it to you"

Jon glared at the end of it threateningly.

Mia glared back for a second before she turned aside "Humph, I don't care. Just end this game and be on our merry way" She said angrily before walking over to the chest.

Jon moved towards the chest as well, earlier he didn't have the chance to see its content. Mia leaned inside and pulled out a pair of plated greaves. They had a red border coating and looked beautiful.

His eyes lit up, he doesn't know much but steel armor is still better than the leather one he is wearing. As he was thinking this, Mia pushed the greaves to him.

"Here hold this" Jon gladly took hold of it and planned to arm it when the woman pulled out the torso part of the armor. The torso part was for a woman, and Jon knows this by the protruding part that is made to accommodate a woman's chest.

Since Mia had leather armor on her torso and leg she moved to remove them but stopped when she noticed his gaze.

"You! What are you looking at?!!" Mia sounded angry, 'I'm changing and you don't even avert your eyes?'

"I'm looking at you" Jon blurted out in response and this landed him in being chased out of the pavilion and standing guard. Mia still looked at his back a few times to make sure Jon isn't looking and generally looked at all other directions once as the pavilion is open in all directions.

Mia could not have been this concise in other games since she knows nothing is really there, all are just pixels. But this game is special and scary as her game body is exactly the same as her original body and the pain and everything are close to reality making her concise.

The torso part had to be locked on her back which she can't reach in the plated armor, so skipped them and she proceeded to put on the rest of the parts, the leg and hands went next. Finally, she took out a helmet, it was a Corinthian helmet (a Greek helmet style that originated in a city with a plume made of red horsetail hair).

When she finished she looked like Athena, the Greek goddess of war, or so she believed.

She then hesitated before calling Jon inside and asking him to clip the lock on her back.

Jon compiled before he eagerly went to the open chest but he found it empty.

"Hey, why is it empty? What about other things?"

"What other things?" Mia asked back confused.

"The big guys?" Mia looked confused still "The guns! Where are they?" he asked exasperated.

Mia looked at him like an idiot, "Don't tell me you still hadn't figured it out?"

"Figure out what?" Jon asked and started suspecting she had hidden the gun for herself, but sooner shook his head as the gun that she can hide are only pistols.

"There are No GUNS!!! I didn't think you to be slow-witted. It makes me reconsider keeping you in the team" Mia said, in Jon's hastiness he forgot the one who send the invite is the leader of the party. Mostly the team leader has not much power, other than the power to kick others out of the team.

So if she desires, she can kick him out, but unfortunately,, the act does have its consequences. As a way to prevent backstabbing team members after kicking them out, the team leader can't move for one minute after kicking a person. They will be paralyzed, she knows this by the notification she got as soon as formed a team but suspected Jon didn't get the same.

But either way, she isn't really planning to kick him out, that would just window for him to act upon and kill her. Even if it was a game, she rather not die painfully.

Jon laughed out loud "You got to be kidding!!! Right!??" Jon asked, but deep enough he already guessed them. it's just he vainly hoped for it to be false. With a gun his chances of victory will be raised as they are fatal even in a weak person's hand, if not he would be facing against who knows how many others who have experience and combat knowledge. By then his defeat is assured.

Mia roll her eyes, 'Come on bro, have you seen any guns in the games? Why don't you just get over the thought and see this is a sword and magic game?' as she complained not knowing Jon believes everything to be real, she suddenly remembered something.

'Wait, how long had it been…'

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