September 20 2032, 9:50AM
“Everyone at the convention, prepare your weapons! Ignition Clan is coming to our territory. Make sure your cosplay costumes are at least level 30 to beat them.” An automated announcement system in the con venue spoke.
Inside of the colorful cosplay convention event in Mc Arthur Malolos Bulacan, it’s full of passionate cosplayers interacting with each other. Buying their favorite merchandises and trading some virtual cosplay items.
Till one moment, the group of 5 cosplayers come to the scene. They have a same costume level which is lvl. 42.
All the lights turned to red. Every eye of cosplayers was intrigued by what they saw. The happiness of these people turns into a tear of anxiety and despair.
Huh, an Ignition clan? Those ruthless groups of cosplayers that stole my cosplay costume for their own personal gratification!
A cosplayer named Aiban Crisostomo with costume lvl. 36, treats to attack Raymond Calixtro, a muscular gym/PE teacher of the ignition clan. He moves forward and gets his sword from his back.
Aiban Crisostomo is an androgynous male cosplayer with a long side bangs covering his one eye and has a wolf haircut. He has a straight blue hair and a green gorgeous eyes.
Raymond Calixtro is a cosplayer and a full-time teacher with a martial artist’s character. He has a simple black military hair and a green eyes. 0
“Kid, I know your face. It’s nice that you got a spare costume.”
He puts his body into a fight pose, planning to direct attack on his opponent. Every person in the venue watched the scene with anticipation on their face.
Function Initiate Open Inventory
As he executes the command, an interface pops up. In the system, he picked up his favorite consumable and applies it.
Fabric’s Super food: 25% Atk Bonus for 5 Minutes. This applies to a current cosplay costume.
Aiban dash to Raymond with his sword. He points out the sword to Raymond.
“Wind Samurai Dance!” He sway his sword to the front of his enemy. The wind from his weapon makes every person’s hair in the convention venue fly away.
“Karmic Counter!” Raymond clenched his fists, he punched the sword of Crisostomo. Every piece of his sword splattered around. The sound of a splattered metal raised Crisostomo’s ears.
Most of the audiences got their eyes widened out on what they saw.
“A fist? B... Broke his sword? Hehe, nevermind, my mind doesn’t understand on how the leveling system works on this half-baked AR technology.” One of the audience shouts.
“Now, your sword is a dust. Surrender?” Raymond said while his eyes are pointed to Crisostomo.
During the scene, they both having an eye contact. Their sweat is dropping to the ground like an anxious waterfall.
Function Initiate Open Shop
The interface of items pop up. He is looking for a repair item for his sword. His body shivers at what he saw. The repair item is sold out.
“I guess that you are attempting to repair your sword. Kid, don’t be such a try hard. We are doing this for a reason!”
As Crisostomo was staring at the shop menu with his tears dropping on his cheeks, Raymond clenched his fist. It’s glows like a firefly as he stares to his enemy.
“Prepare to die, kid! You don’t respect your elder. You deserve this treatment!”
Raymond put his one foot on the back and one for the front. He stretched his body to aim his fist more precisely at his opponent. His heart skips a beat as every second is passing.
During this time, Crisostomo’s tears are dropping, a despair of losing his sword. His hope is eaten by a big black hole.
“Grave Punch!” Raymond punched Crisostomo with his glowing fist, showing zero mercy.
As his fists were going to collide to Crisostomo’s torso, he saw an eye-busting light.
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During the verge of Crisostomo’s death, he heard a joyful notification sound from the system.
Achievement Complete: My Teammate, My Shield
Crisostomo got blinded by the light he saw. He just heard a strong banging noise and a scream.
What’s going on? I cannot see through because of that annoying light. Is this a trap?
His heart beats like a drum inside of his blurry vision. He wiped out his eyes and what he saw enlightened his own sight.
A mysterious cosplayer approached him. “What’s up? The cosplay world turns to a role playing game!”
His mind explodes in the familiar voice he heard. He looks on his side to see the cosplayer. “Eichi, why do you go here just to deal with these guys?”
Eichi sighs at what he heard. “Forget about it. We are in the serious situation that we must handle before chitchat! People that using someone’s stolen intellectual property to commit terrorism should be punished!”
Raymond is faced by him as he turns his body. He saw that the opponent was walking towards to him. He is injured with some scars on his body. The wall on the back of him has a crack that resembled his body shape.
The four members of the Ignition clan have an evil look against Eichi.
Eichi points out his fingers to the members with a voice of giving a strong warning. “Give me an answer to why do you make such catastrophe in the cosplay community? Do you want an attention or some profit?”
“We are here because we have a reason. That’s none of your business!”
Eichi raised his hand and shouts to all cosplayers who were just watching the battle. “Don’t watch! Teach em’ a lesson!”
All the audiences stand out with their weapons ready. The whole venue has been filled with their ego to fight for their rights.
After my battle with Zarvazin, my cosplay costume’s skillset has been changed because of error. Let me try this one!
“Academic Support Form 31: Passionate Teammate!” Eichi’s cosplay costume glows like a bulb. Every member of the Ignition clan got their eyes closed in no time.
The body of a eight random audiences highlighted and a text from the system beside them pops up. Aiban Crisostomo is also included.
Atk Buff: 130%
Debuff: HP Lost: 4%/s
One of the buffed audience points out his hard fist to Eichi. “Hey, what are you doing to us? Your cosplay costume should be put in the garbage can. It’s just draining our HP!”
He has a carry role but doesn’t know that I’m that off-field player is actually buffing his attack. Pathetic! The thoughts of his fellow buffed audience said.
“Watch your mouth, trash talk lover guy!” the third buffed female audience replied to the rude guy.
As Eichi heard the word of a rude guy, his fist clenched while his hot tears of furiousness drop to his cheeks. His patience explodes like a volcano. He turn his head on the back to confront that person.
“Who the heck dare you to insult my only love thing in my life? After this battle, you will see a glowing star from my palm, I swear to all ancestors of Alonica!” Eichi shouts to the guy. His eyeballs and vocal chord almost worn out of his anger outburst.
Hahaha, there we go again, my old cosplay friend! I’m glad that I don’t ever attempt to touch your cosplay costume or I’m in Inezkanan right now. Aiban Crisostomo puts a palm on his face to hide his laugher and annoyance.
He continues to shout despite of his face is reddish like a tomato. Even Aiban feels his strong heartbeat. “I was sworn under the President of Alonica that you will go home with a wheelchair!”
Most of the cosplayers that witnessing the fight cannot comprehend their emotion about what they saw. Their sweat drops on their curvy forehead while their mouth will go to indulge laugher.
Eichi continues his childish act while his blood is at boiling point. Despite that, Eichi’s childish act annoys the audiences. His eyes are getting sharper and more red. “Remember my words, everyone who did something to my dearest fabric would get a free taste of volcano lava from my fist!”
The unbuffed audiences start to gossiping. Everyone can hear a crowd of hissing noise from their own perspective.
Eichi noticed the behaviors of the crowd. Inside of his heart is an unbearable embarrassment. He breathes in the modest way to calm himself.
He raised his fist to send a signal to the buffed audiences. “Don’t let your atk buff worn out to attack the terrorists!”
During this scenario, all the audience members who received an attack bonus from Eichi formed an eight-player team against the five-player team, the Ignition clan.
“My friend, how can I fight with an unusable sword? Is that even possible?” Aiban said to Eichi.
Eichi puts his right hand to Aiban’s shoulder. “Don’t worry, this is your new sword. You don’t owe me everything.”
As much as you don’t slander my cosplay costume, you’re fine. That’s what you owe to me, a respect.
He gives the sword to Aiban with happiness on his face. Most of the audiences cannot believe on what they saw.
A 5 stars and level 60 shining sword is what he saw on his own hands. The good deeds from Eichi shocked his eyes. His soul is full of embarrassment on it.
“S... Stop this! You give so much to me since we meet each other. You’re abusing yourself from being too generous. This is a 5 star weapon that you shouldn’t just give it to your random friends.”
Eichi laughs at him. “I will help as much as I have an extra resource to give. I don’t care about the value of what I give to others. Giving is not mathematics, it’s a virtue, so why should I care about value when I’m giving something expensive?”
In one major condition, if you disrespect my beloved fabrics, I will throw you into outer space!
Despite of embarrassment, Aiban accepts the sword for the sake of not hurting someone’s feelings. He raised it in front of the five members of the Ignition clan.
“Samurai Dance: Serious Slash!” As he holds his weapon, he points it out to Raymond.
“You almost defeat me before. Time for payback!”
The element system is low-key and confusing. Eichi’s cosplay costume has a forest element. It gave me an atk buff. Let’s see what would happen if I attack Raymond with a desert element applied to his body while my attack is Alpine
Raymond drops a tear in his eyes as he is watching Eichi going to plunge an attack on him. “Is this guy.... A Theorycrafter?”
After a while, the sword collides with his body. The mouth of audiences widen out as they saw what happened.