IRON_WORKS.
Hello, I’m a metal user. Just in case you were wondering what a metal user is, a metal user is one who can produce any sorts of metal or metallic alloy out of thin air and control them. About 10 years ago, most of people all around earth gained this power. Yeah, just like that. I was a 5-year-old orphan at that time. Also, those who gain this power, well has a portion of their body turned into that same metal. Since all the metals look the same on the outside, you might want to reconsider fighting with someone. My metal is [TITANIUM]. I know, that might not sound like much, after all, titanium might be a hard metal, but it has no other special properties. But even so, there’re tons of people out there who wants to collect the same metal as mine. Oh, right, I haven’t said anything about collecting metals, now, have I? well, it’s quite simple. Remember the fact that a portion of a person’s body turns into the same metal as what he controls? Well, they come off like remote batteries. But the holder is the only one who can take it out. If you try to take it out by force, then the metal turns back to flesh. Also, only a small bit of the skin is turned to the metal, so it’s no big deal to take it out. And collectors are those who challenges metal users to battles where the loser will have to hand over their metals. This is the story of how I became the greatest metal-user of all time.
I possess 3 metals right now, [TITANIUM], [SILVER], and lastly, [STIBNITE] {STIBNITE is a sulfide mineral with chemical composition that is antimony sulfide (Sb2S3). The principal ore of antimony.}. Having control over an alloy is pretty rare, so I have to be careful, otherwise, if I catch the attention of a collector, I might get in unnessesscery problem. My original metals are [TITANIUM] and [STIBNITE]. Since stibnite is pretty fragile and soft, I had to get silver because mixing it with stibnite, makes stibnite harder. Although I don’t use stibinite that much, it’s my trump card. Nobody knows about the fact that I have 2 metals. Most people know Titanium as my only metal.
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“Hey, hey, what are you murmuring about? C’mon tell me!”
Oh, right, I forgot to introduce her to you. She’s Edna Sapphire. She’s a metal user as well. She’s been sticking with me ever since I enrolled in this school. She even told me her element/metal on the first day we met, (because I was hesitant to keep her around me) as a token of her trust in me. Her metal is [SODIUM], and [LEAD]. Anyway, she’s pretty annoying. At least that was my first impression. Since her metals possess special properties, and since she lives alone, my best guess would be she became friends with me because she felt that she needed security. Well, whatever, it’s not like it’s bad having a friend with a special metal.
“Anyway, I’m gonna go to one of my friend’s house in the evening, so you don’t need to come with me”
(……Somehow, I feel like she’s treating me like I’m her bodyguard or something like that)
“What do you take me for, your own bodyguard or something?”
“H-huh? I-I didn’t mean it like that, I just mean-”
“it’s okay, so want me to pick you up?” (of course, she wouldn’t be the type to treat me as anything other than her friend, who am I kidding)
“That would be very nice. I think I’ll be getting out at 8pm.”
“That so? Well, we did have some business tonight, so if you want, then it’d be okay even if you resigned from it”
“No, I will come to the sight tonight, don’t worry”
“………Okay” (she’s dead serious when it comes to matches, I guess you could say it’s like an obsession to her)
“So where are we meeting up with Iori-kun?”
“Inside of the old subway station”
“Oh, we’re gonna take sonna-san’s ride?”
“Yeah.”