Chapter 25 – Resting

After having brunch, which was actually not that good, Rai returned to his room. However, for some reason, someone was following him.

"What do you want, Rena? I believe my debt for the clothes and my thanks have been paid fully with that pudding?"

"Nyahahaha, that's right. But I am bored, so I want to talk with you more."

"I am returning to my room, though?"

"So?" Miss Clown tilted her head cutely. Her twin-tailed pink hair fell to the side. "Is that a problem?"

"I might attack you," Rai replied coldly, intending to push her off.

A usual girl would back away after being told like that by a man who could give them pleasure and weaken them just by a touch. However, Rena wasn't a typical girl.

She grinned playfully as she pulled down her bodysuit near the collar area, showing off her bare nape and the upper part of her breasts.

"You want me? I don't mind if it's you, Rai. I wanted to feel pleasure again. Nyahahaha."

"…" Rai was stunned by her boldness.

Still, that boldness was a part of Rena's charm.

'It's making me a bit excited.'

But not now. Being excited didn't mean he wanted to do it right away.

"Save that for when my side effect attacks me."

So he stayed calm and replied as how he should be. He continued to walk down the well-lit corridor, ignoring Rena's pout as she followed from behind.

Arriving at his room, he opened the door with his System Watch and entered. Ami wasn't inside yet, so he put the pudding he bought for her on the table.

"Hmm, so you have roommates?"

Entering after her, Miss Clown looked around in interest while humming.

"Leader sure do take extra attention for you. Your roommates also serve as your emergency food if your side-effect attacks again, no?"

Instantly, Rena was able to guess Ossa's plan after connecting it to Rai's ability she had seen before.

"That's right. I hesitated before because she was in the shower, but I would talk to her about my ability later."

Rai opened a hologram screen by operating his System Watch. It was connected to the system and holograms in the base, making him able to keep a semi-permanent floating screen in an authorized area. In this case, his room.

The screen floated on top of the pudding with the words, 'This is for you as thanks for tidying my bed.'

While Rai did all of that, Rena walked around the room curiously, trying to find out what was different from hers. It didn't take her long for her to find the difference.

"What is this?! Your bed is so soft! And the sheet is made from the highest-grade synthetic silk! Wow!" Miss Clown exclaimed loudly as she jumped onto Rai's bed, still with her shoes on, and buried her face in the pillow.

"Hey!"

Rai shouted at her but was ignored.

"This room is heaven!" Raising her body, she turned to Rai with a big grin. "Hey, can I live here? Rather, let me be your roommate!"

"Ask Ossa about that."

"Great idea!"

Rena responded seriously to Rai's sarcasm and jumped off the bed excitedly. She ran out of the room, shouting, "Wish me luck! I will give you a kiss later!"

The door was closed automatically, and Rai just stood there, letting out a long sigh.

"Let's message Ossa not to let that girl have the same room as me. I would be exhausted to be her dressing doll." Muttering, he sent a message to Ossa through his System Watch.

He remembered this morning when he went to her room to get a change of clothes. It was the reason why he was so late in arriving in Alpha City. He needed to try a lot of clothes before Rena was finally satisfied with his appearance and let him go.

If she was in the same room as him, he could imagine how he would wake up and be her dressing doll.

"Anyway…"

When he checked out his System Watch earlier, he noticed a menu with a full list of schedules that minions needed to do for the day.

The morning started with training, just like him, in the training area near the dining hall. Then there was breakfast and a short tea break before Vice General Draco, General Scheid's Vice-Commander, held a course on how to become an evil organization's member.

Afterward was lunch and free time. Minions were free to do as they pleased. They could even play around in an entertainment room on the lowest floor. Some chose to continue training their bodies to advance to Captain sooner, so Ami probably was still in the training area.

"My physical condition is bad. If I don't increase it by training, my body won't be able to hold my massive Magicule in the future. It will keep increasing if I keep using my ability and magic."

'But I am too lazy for that.'

And that was troubling him.

So he decided to lock the door to protect himself from Miss Clown's barging in uninvited and decided to sleep.

Before that, he made sure to add a hologram note on top of his head for Ami to wake him if she returned. He also set an alarm that would wake him up at 6 PM if his roommate hadn't returned yet.

"I will explore Alpha City again at night." He muttered and crawled over his bed, closing his eyes.

***

In a hospital specialized in treating Guardians located in District 8, a girl was leaning against her bed while looking out of the window. Her gaze was hollow.

Inside her mind was a mess of emotion.

'…H-Help!'

"Hya!"

Hearing the desperate voice of her teammates, a former teammate in her head, she curled into a ball while holding her head.

'You're weak.'

This time another voice with a sugary tone rang in her ears. It calmed her, somehow. And it made her remember the sensation she felt before fainting. Her body shivered instantly. That sensation was not foreign, but it was hard to understand.

"Why did I feel that way?" She muttered in a low voice as she raised her head again.

Outside the window, the sun was blaring hard in the sky, observing everything happening in District 8 Alpha City. People were doing activities normally; nothing had changed.

'But I can help you.'

The deep, tantalizing voice resounded once again. The girl, Ciel, shook her head, causing her long black hair to follow her head movement, and slapped her cheek hard.

*Pah!*

A loud sound resounded in the room, and her cheek turned red.

"No." She declared in a strong tone. "I shouldn't fall to his temptation."

For she was strong–

'You're useless.'

The voice rang once again. Ciel squinted her eyes, trying her best to ignore it.

"I am strong."

Focusing on her own voice, she tried to drive that deep voice away.

However, she didn't realize that it caused the darkness inside her to grow slightly due to her greediness for power and her subconscious, which sought the feeling she had experienced from that man.