Chapter 2 : Uwah ! Nacchan found something she shouldn't have!

"Hyah ?!"

My human bath cushion disappears and I fall, water fills my mouth and nose rapidly. I get out immediately and cough out the treacherous liquid while rolling on the white tiles. Eurgh, it tastes like soap... I look around to see I'm alone in the bathroom.

Once again,she/he/it disappeared without notice. I decided I'm annoyed enough for it to be an 'it'. It's an it day.

"Mouuu..."

Without cleaning up ! I hate cleaning behind myself, so don't ask me to do it behind somebody else. It's only a few clothes, but it's the principle of the thing !

...

Wait a minute.

While angrily putting the clothes out of the way in the basket, I notice something.

R was wearing those clothes, that means it ran out starkers ?

Ahem. I feel pretty scatterbrained, it's a novel experience. My body's pretty weak too, can't even lift the bed with one arm. So that's what it is being a normal 12 years old human being? How intriguing! And there's also the fact I can't eat too much or I'll get ill ! Well, once dried I put on the clothes R bought for me with my money: a blue and white dress, some underwear, black shoes and a small lavender scarf. I like scarves, my neck gets cold easily you see.

..Hm ? What's that ? I look at a small chain with a pretty ring on it.

"Ah, well, must be hers."

I put it with the rest of her clothes. Didn't peg h-it to be one for jewelry.

I feel a bit lightheaded and giggle on the bed. I roll towards my computer.

Back to the gam-the simulation! If everything goes according to plan, the zombie armies should attack in about three months, every country needs to be infected before that, and Madagascar's pretty hard to get to if you don't start there.

Braaaaaaains hehehe.

I really shouldn't laugh about that.

Back to the academy....

The troublemaking class was staring at the burly, black clad men of the Gleipnir force. The burly men of the Gleipnir force were staring at the troublesome students. Well, most of them anyways. 'Lily' blinked.

"What ?"

Their apparent leader, a middle aged man with a bald head and dark glasses, crossed his arms while another man got a document out of a folder he had under his arm.

" A week ago, there was a breakout in our headquarters. The Gleipnir virus was mishandled and infected the researchers. One day later the main strain of the virus escaped the laboratory. One Sorano Lily... " He showed them an image of an adult, blonde woman breaking through a glass tube, Agito suddenly checked a box in his pocket, only to find it empty and swore out loud. The leader looked at his reaction and smirked before continuing. "...and one Nekota Agito are to be taken into our custody under suspicion of bio-terrorism."

"Duuuuude, that's heavy. So , whyya call me? I was bathing with the cutest little thing ever~"

Here she came, in her great, towel clad, still drenched beauty, the great, the mighty... Me! Sadly, the others just stare at me as if I'm interrupting something important. Pfeh, as if, it's only Yggdrasil's seed holding court. 'Oh, she's so innocent' 'Oooooh, my goddess is so merciful' Blah blabbity blah. Seeeeriously, stuff like that is sooo last millennium.

Nagito coughed, blushing, before pointing out something obvious.

"Hime, you're naked."

I put my hands on my hips and inhale to proudly puff up my chest. Jiggly Jiggly.

"I'll have you know that I am in fact, Not naked. I am wearing a towel, Nagito-nya." He winced at the name. Muhaha, fear my might petty mortal! Well, I do have to give him some credit, he didn't give into the Yggdrasil faith, or whatever it's called nowadays, and he is level headed enough to make decision regardless of their adherence to modern ethics. That, and he's a total bishie, unlike all the other manly ikemen, so he doesn't offend my aesthetic sense. "And I repeat, Why did NyAgito call for me?"

The older brother glared at me and hissed between clenched teeth, seriously, why so much hatred towards my pretty self ?

"I didn't call for you 'woman', I swore."

"Same difference, really."

"Will you just sh..."

"As I said, Agito-san, " The man turned towards Y's split " and girlie, whoever you are, will you please follow me? It would help proving your innocence and probably save mankind to have you back here, if you're the true Sorano Lily."

Wow, probably one of the worst attempts at diplomacy ever. Besides she would never come, so I wonder how it's gonna go now. I saunter around while the dramatic stunned silence is still in effect and drag lil bro Neko-Nagito towards the end of the classroom. The rest is already doomed, but there may be some things I can do with that one. Besides, he's the team's best tracker. Y probably let him keep his 'moveset' like she did the others because obviously, nobody would think something's wrong with the whole situation, neh? If that's so, don't mind if I dooo... I ignore his splutter and whisper.

"Yuri broke free, doomsday zombies are on the prowl, 'Lily' is an impostor and a megalomaniac tree became one of this world's gods. You in ?"

The black haired teen sighed.

"It's going to be one of those days, right ?"

"Eyup."

Nacchan really trained him well...

One thing that went less well, though, was her majesty's faithful guard dog. She started screaming something reeeal nasty and tried to drag 'Lily' away.

Fight ! Fight ! Fight !

...What ? An immortal needs their fun.

AnnouncementEnd of maintenance, status system updated

Yes, yes, go away, I'm peep-looking at something interesting here, the military got their guns out and the other side readied their magic for an epic confrontation.... And here's the divine 'eff you' coming in the form of the whole gang's dematerialization as the military opened fire. That's really, really underwhelming you know ?

"What's going on ?"

Oh, Nagito-nya's still here. Maybe because I touched him? Hm, I guess I should bring him back with me, things are starting to heat up. In my left eye, I see some sort of undead monster walking on a vast sea of snow. Heating up indeed, hehe . Guess I'll have to get involved directly. Well, just staying on the sidelines is boring anyways. Oh, yeah, Nagito-nya's waiting for an answer. I activate my [Cloaking] before answering, last thing I need is Y's snooping around and messing up my plans.

"Well, I could explain, but there needs to be someone else too, so I'll take you to my place where we'll all have a nice chat."

Back at the suite

Type type type a-waaaay... I'm currently compiling what I know of the system and arranging it in an orderly manner, just in case, you know... But it doesn't solve my main problem. I've spent years on the run, and because of that, peace does not befit me, sadly.

I'm boooored.

Like, really really bored!

I know that soon enough I'll regret my words, but I'm really bored right now! Regrets later!

AnnouncementEnd of maintenance, status system updated

Yay, blue box!

That's an invitation there!

Ufufu, I feel like a beta tester in a new game, I'm ready to bet that the others don't stalk their blue boxes asap! They have to go to schoool...

Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

Bwa ha ha, take that, suckers!

System notice x3StatusSkillsMagic

Ueh ? 'System notice'? Is that a special message thingie from the admin ? Wait a minute... If Y is the admin, does that mean I've already been found out ?!

Now seems to be a pretty good time to panic.

That's bad, really really reeeeaaaaaaally bad!

Oh well, haven't been smited yet, what do the messages say ?

Due to the pantheon not being formed, [Demigoddess] removed. Please wait until your species is modified accordingly.

Say whaaaaat ?

"I don't even have a species anymore ?"

As I say that, I notice that my body became slightly transparent. I wonder if I should panic. Should I panic ? I can breathe, so I'm not in immediate death danger. I think. I'm starting to think I'm bipolar, panicking then getting giggly, then being calm when I should panic. Or I'm too shocked. Naaaaah.

Next message.

Due to your knowledge about the [Beginning of times], you have obtained the [Forbidden Truth] Perk.

Due to your [Light] affinity reaching the maximum within the system, you obtain the [First magician] title, [Minor fire affinity (Rank 1)] and [Force of nature] Perk.

More ominous messages, yay.... On the other hand, free stuff !

Free stuff is always good. So, I suppose Y worked on the status page ? Is there a help menu yet, or a tutorial? Hmmmmm. Before, we hated not cheating in games, so....

"Erm, [Vocal input]?"

Vocal input activated. Please enter commands.

Thank me our voices are still considered to be the same...

"Oooo-kaaaaay. So whats'it gonna be? Help ?" Nothing appears and I puff up my cheeks in annoyance. Heavy duty code it is than ! "TestingCheatsEnabled true ? Toggle God mode? Admin mode activate? Debug Archive ? A...."

Debug mode. Archive opened.

... I honestly didn't think it would work. Is it because I come from Y ? It can't have left it there for free. Hm, does that mean 'Lily' has access to it too? That would be for her benefit and would facilitate Queen's distraction work... Ah well, anyways, works for me!

There's my manual ! I don't think I can do anything to stop whatever she's doing, but that doesn't mean I can't snoop around the database !

She's been working hard on the undead species, makes sense since she's going to trigger the world's end using them. Worrying though, if some of those mindless zombies start to think we'll be in trouble.

Species set to High Brython, [Life affinity(Rank 5) ] Obtained

It feels weird, squeezy, bubbly, and pretty warm and clammy. My limbs ache and I hear a lot of ominous creaking. After a while, feeling nauseous, I feel confident enough to move, my black shoes making soft clapping noises on the ground. I look at my hands, nothing changed much, maybe a bit thinner ? They are definitely paler though. My hair went now to mid thigh and was slightly curly. I immediately go to the bathroom in quest of a mirror. To my relief, nothing much changed, my eyes gained a hint of green but remained mostly the same, albeit a bit wider, my nose got longer and freckles appeared, dusting the olfactory appendage and my cheekbones that became slightly more pronounced.

All in all, I looked mostly the same, but lost every hint that I was of mixed blood. I wonder, is it loss that I feel ? I mean, I played around a lot with the colors, even the species, but now I see in front of me the proof I'm Fiona and not Lily. This is a pretty complicated feeling, I frown, and so does my reflection. I turn around.

"Archive: Species: Human"

3 folders found.

In front of my eyes hover semitransparent blobs. It looks like an evolution tree of the human race, mixed with some paths for other species. The second one is a list of the different human evolution and variants and the third one is some unintelligible gibberish. Probably some placeholder for now.

"Archive: Brython."

Life force+0Mana Pool+50Life force regeneration+0Mana regeneration+1/sSkillsMagic absorption (Rank 1 Passive PB)

SpellcraftingSpellsMinor Telekinesis (Rank 1)

Minor elemental spell (R1)

Variant: BrythonBrythons are a variant of humans that dedicated themselves to the study of magic.

Several generations of constant exposure made them specialists of the craft.

Among humans, they are the closest to the fae folk in terms of magical prowess.

That's troubling. 'Several generations', does that imply that she's going to erase and rewrite history ? That's even worse than what I first thought she would do.

As a [Brython] you may choose the element of your first elemental spell : Fire, Air, Water, Earth.

Okay, let's think game-ly. Training a spell long enough give you an affinity with the element of that spell. I know I have light and water affinities already. Nature's probably gone away with my demigod-hood, but I gained a life affinity in exchange, and I won the fire one because of my light one. Which leaves me with either earth or air. Errrr... I don't know, never dabbled with earth, and the closest I came to wind is with Ice, which properties would be closer to earth ? Argh, I don't know, okay ?!

I close my eyes and bat the air randomly with my arm.

[Minor Rock throw (Rank 1)] selected

As if that wasn't enough, the almost naked and still wet Himeko/R/Whatever appears, holding an unmistakably disgruntled and very familiar teenager.

"Honey, I'm hoooooome!"

My eyebrow twitches.

"You've gotta be kidding me."

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Minor rock throw, looks like you're gonna have a use soon...

...Yeah, Nacchan's totally playing Pandemic

I flipped a coin, it was either minor rock throw or minor splash for her first spell.

And Nacchan's not that happy at seeing Nagito-dude hehe.

2k words, wheeeee, you wouldn't believe how long it's taken me to go back to writing after the loss of the final chapters. It's trauma, I'm traumatized because of the Evil, Cursed story. Everything's its fault!

We finally get some Himeko Pov too.

Next episode: Long overdue questions will be answered ! Or not. Cause Hime's a troll.

Nanowrimo's over, 36k words, my internet died halfway. Maybe I'll post it here , but not before this story's over. Because that'd make even less sense otherwise. Make of that what you will u_u