Luna received a text from her crush tonight.
Yesterday when he had gone to the Mountain of Triumph for training he had a good conversation with her about his day but tonight he only sent her a text about how busy his schedule had become and he would catch up with her some other time if he got some free time.
This made her a bit sad as she couldn't hear his voice and see his face for the entire day. She truly wondered just how intense his training had become to not be able to even talk with her for a bit.
Just as her mind was engulfed with the thoughts of him, she felt a sharp pain in her head before her vision became dark for a few moments. She jolted and got up from the bed before tumbling over on the floor from the sudden panic attack.
In that short instant some images and information kept being engraved in her memory as if they were something she had experienced before. She was very frightened by such a situation and after her sight returned to normal just within a short moment, she swiftly accessed her inventory and took out her dagger as she got into a combat stance.
Her first instinct was that she was under attack by someone.
There's a reason why she awakened the Dark Edge extraordinary attribute, a variant of Darkness and Metal attribute while on top of that got the class of Assassin. Her life before she went to the academy was filled with violence and abuse. Her adoptive parents physically abused her whenever they were in a bad mood and sometimes they hurt her seriously enough to get her hospitalized for weeks. This continued for years and they never got punished for it as their social status was lofty enough to make any law enforcement agency to turn a blind eye.
Her life was beyond hellish and when she finally awakened and got sent to the academy she cried for a long time as she didn't have to return to that horror house for five years. Those adoptive parents were players themselves but to her young self who was unawakened their casual slaps, punches and kicks were excruciating and they seemed to enjoy her pained expression which apparently lifted their mood.
Her inner desire to stay hidden from their eyes and her murderous intent towards those pair of scums had resulted in the current class and attribute she now had. She had learned of this after teacher Nicole explained to her in a caring manner after hearing her painful past during a learning session in the Beast Racing club before encouraging her to graduate properly so she could get into the Inner Area to never have to see those two scums stuck at Outer Area ever again.
She only revealed it to her when her crush wasn't present there at that time for other matters and she had already requested her not to let him know about such things. In her mind, she didn't want to let him learn of her past which might make his kindself to accompany her out of pity.
She had never wanted to gain his affection in such a way.
She used some of her class skills and shouted at the attacker to show themselves but was shocked that there was nobody around. She then warily kept reviewing the information and images in her memory where it appeared to her as if she had experienced it herself. It was naturally absurd as the places and people were something she had never seen or went to before.
She couldn't help but frown as the matter of an attacker in this safe academy was also a bit outlandish in her opinion, after she had properly analyzed later as she calmed down.
“Then what are these new memories? Why does all of it appear and feel so familiar as if it was I who experienced all of it? This is absurd. Have I made some mistakes during training and now I have a memory problem!?... No, no. This is not that simple.”
She then texted him if he was available now for a call but to her dismay he had set an automatic reply for such inquiry on his smartphone. Turns out he was extremely busy there.
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She then frowned as a thought hit her.
“I shouldn't talk about such matters on the smartphone. What if it is being tracked by the academy? After all, there was that parchment I had to sign before… It's better to be cautious. When he returns I will talk to him privately.”
She made a decision but all of a sudden she noticed that the way she thinks, to be more precise, her thought process had slightly become more cautious and wary. Though she already had such quality before but now it seemed to have been… magnified?
She wondered in astonishment as to what was really happening to her.
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Blue spent much of the night accompanying Julie as they still continued from where they had to “unfortunately” left off in the morning.
Tonight however she decided to rein in her overflowing desires to keep engrossing herself with culinary arts together with him and thus bid him goodnight at past twelve as she finally realized that though sleeping was no longer necessary with those panacea in hand it was inappropriate to keep spending the entire night with him again.
The first night was just a happy accident.
He finally freed himself from her grasp and got to check on his women. Since the night was already deep he didn't bother Nicole and Luna. But he was surprised to see that Luna had something important to talk about with him privately after he returned.
This got him thinking if anything significant had happened to her at the academy.
Though he was also within the academy, this special facility was so secretive and restricted that it wouldn't be wrong to consider himself as being away from academy premises for a short time.
Anyways, he called Karla and she picked up the call quite first before complaining to him why he only called her so late. He obviously cooked up nonsense about how his training schedule was keeping him busy.
If he had revealed that he had spent the entire night in Julie's room last night, though with nothing erotic happening, there would be severe repercussions waiting for him from both Karla herself and the academy principal grandpa himself.
Julie was a noblewoman before being a player. He had detailed knowledge about noble society’s rules and regulations within the union. The fact that a young man like him, a commoner and irrelevant on top of that, had even went to a noble lady's room at night time was enough to stir up a commotion among the involved parties and no doubt that if he was residing in the Inner Area he would had been chopped into pieces by now.
Even if it was considered that now he was a student and an ignorant outer denizen with not much knowledge of the noble society, his life would still become difficult without a question. Who knows if she had some overbearing admirers and suitors back at the Inner Area? Hell, she might already be in a relationship with someone back there but unfortunately he had not been able to collect such information as it pertained to her lofty status and his current meager means was inadequate to even learn of it.
Her grandfather, a Baron, would obviously be livid if his granddaughter was found to have been in such a compromising state where any sort of leaked information would cause a scandal. Nobles of the union were such creatures that they sometimes valued their reputation and image more than the lives of their own family.
Among the four cosmic empires, the union had the division in social status in the form of hereditary nobles and commoners. The nobles in all the three domains had remained unchanged from the moment the Tri Domain Union was formed. They were all either trusted subordinates or related family members of the two Grand Dukes and one Grand Duchess. Oh wait, now it's two Grand Duchesses and one Grand Duke.
From the Marquis rank and higher were the family members while the below ranks were the trusted subordinates. Unsurprisingly, they were delegated their residence in the Core Area by this specification while the so-called “trusted” subordinates were shoved to the Inner Area to manage the territories for them. This type of high-level information was naturally available to a top powerhouse like his past self.
So with the smartphone being tracked by the academy he was obviously prudent of the matter.
Thus he talked with Karla for about an hour without mentioning anything about the late night cooking sessions before finally calling Clara later on. He also fed her the same thing Karla got to eat and with that he concluded the day as he went to sleep, or to be more precise, he started reviewing the Memory Palace bloodline ability as he spent the time to increase his mental strength limit which had reached an adequate stage in his opinion.
The next morning was when he would finally have that fortuitous encounter.