I went to my room after this long day and prepared my clothes before going into my laboratory with Sora following right behind me. She was still blinking her eyes multiple times while saying 'why a library?' like some sort of chant to clear her soul of problems and of the such.

I just looked towards Sora who followed me through the hallways of the laboratory with her hands still on the apron. My mind went to search for how does this 'date' work and see any of the options that will help me out in my endeavours’.

Nothing popped into my brain as I looked at the signs in the hallway that points me toward a specific location that I have been looking for. It was the workshop that has all my tools and weaponry that I had prepared just because I'm very defensive just in case the inquisition finds me out.

To this day, I have my laboratory on lock down with my halls monitored 24/7 by my golems, turrets, drones, and etc. This place is probably one of the most heavily defended place in the whole continent with electric wired traps, explosive magic mines, trap rooms, barriers, anti-magic traps, and my laboratory [Deportation Teleportation] spell. 

The [Deportation Teleportation] spell is like a trap that teleports everything from here to a different place if triggered. It's my final emergency protocol that will only happen if they reach my final defence and it can automatically activate itself when an unwanted person comes there.

The spell will teleport everything to the volcano on Mount Pino where everything either burns in lava or dragons will attack it. Well, getting rid of everything would make me extremely unhappy and discomfort me, as all my hard work will be nothing but fiery lava by then.

Also, I and Sora doesn't have to worry about all of this because I set everything in this place to not attack her. Well, I contemplated about it while I turned the door knob that leads to my workshop where all my tools and whatnot are. 

There are tables with papers upon, papers of plans that were about building others things that would take my interest. My tools can be rather dangerous, so I stuff them inside a tube like container on the far right side of the room.

Sora looks around as she is probably impressed by how much work I made in this place. Her eyes glowing while observing this place like a kid who found a toy which he likes inside a store.

Sora started digging through all my stuff trying to find something that will take her interest. She found a small hand grenade that was something that I created, which is  capable of blowing holes into iron and spreads metal in an area effect manner.

"Hey! Don't touch that! It might explode!"

I said to her and she put it down disappointed that she wasn't going to use it.

"Fine, you can use it in the test area after I finish up my date okay?"

She smiled and nodded her head repeatedly as her hand point towards something else.

"Why do you have a hand in this transparent tube with liquid?"

Sora said while staring at an arm that was inside a tube that fit the whole entire with some blue liquid which is to keep it fresh. 

"Oh that, it was one of my projects to build an automaton that could serve me with human nature and be like a maid who is also my friend."

I don't know why, but for some reason I wanted the automaton to be in a maid outfit. It never cross my mind on why, but maybe I'm just a guy who likes to have a maid or something. 

I cleaned the glass that was holding the head of a beautiful feminine face that had red eyes and black hair. Each time I swipe the surfaces of the glass, I would unconsciously smile as I stared at the beautiful face of the black girl here. 

"Suno, where did you get the design of this head?"

Sora said with a curious like face while looking at the head for a couple of second.

"I don't remember, maybe an extremely pretty lady passed by me and I caught a glimpse at her."

For some reason, she wasn't satisfied with the answer but didn't press on as she broke off while still staring me down.

"By the way, Suno when are you going to make her functioning and are you making anymore automaton instead of this one?"

I looked at her suspiciously as I don't know the reason for her questions at this point but decided to answer them anyway.

"Yes, I am planning to activate her when I get all the pieces to do so, but something is missing to finish making this girl and it's a soul. The perfect soul that would go into this body made with machinery, and yes I have a few more but they are all put together unlike this one."

She looks at me again and said something like some sort of detective.

"Your answer is kind of vague about this girl more specifically, why is she not put together like the others and what kind of soul is needed inside of it."

It's true, I'm being too vague on what is being said by myself and am not going to find more specific wording.

"I don't know, for some reason my mind is telling me that a specific soul is needed to fulfil the requirements for this automaton, and putting her together is something that is not required because I was extremely busy."

She nodded satisfied with the answer but not at the same before she asked me one more question.

"Why are we in your workshop?"

I completely forgot why because she's been talking to me for a long time and I forgot why I was here. Oh yea, I needed that one invention that will help me with preparing for a meeting such as this.

"I needed to wear something for such a special occasion like this."

I said before walking towards a well maintained suit that has a black and white color scheme. The white is on the chest while black is covering the rest of the things, with the buttons neatly in line of the chest area and the arms.

I put on the clothes while Sora was outside the room waiting for me to finish. Sora walked in with her hands still cladding together while looking at me.

"Hahaha! How do I look now?"

I said with a very cool facial expression in my mind while a smirk came across my face.

"You look like an idiot."

She said right back at me which demoralized me to the point my image of a cool guy crumbled.

"What I couldn't have looked that bad!?!"

"No, I mean your pose is horrible. Come on! If you are going to do something like that at least do it in a more respectable manner."

Maybe, I do look like an idiot but I guess it's time to give out my more serious pose anyway.

"But if I were to say anything about your looks, you are really handsome."

"Wha-what was that Sora?"

"N-nothing."

She said quickly before going to a silent Sora mode and quickly looked away as I could barely see her face which is somewhat red. Deciding to not give up on what she said I looked at her for a second and almost forgot something important.

I will need something for my date like a necklace to give to Maria as a present for her. I found a small necklace that was pure golden with a small tweaks to make it special compared to others necklaces, adding the ability to strengthen your body.

Now, that everything was completed I walked outside the room with Sora following right behind me. I used my magic tools to detect if anyone was nearby before climbing the ladder and sat on my bed as I waited for Sora to get up.

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"Sora you had been asking me a lot of questions already, can I ask something from you?"

"Fine, what is it you want to know from me?"

I sighed to myself before saying to Sora as I looked at her straight in the eye.

"How many friends do you have?"

I said and she blinked while staring at me in the eye before she started laughing uncontrollably at me.

"Hey!"

"Sorry, sorry it's been a long time since someone had ever talked about something so interesting with me".

She thought contemplating to herself before saying anything at all to me.

"Indeed, how many friends do I have?"

She said with a smile on her face while looking at the floor that was all white from the usage of marbles.

"That's a hard question, maybe like 4 people at most who I considered a true friend that helped me out in all my problems. Each of them has something special in that it's hard to comprehend what they are sometimes thinking."

She said while smiling to herself about them as if that was the most serious smile given to me. 

"We saved each other on numerous occasions in cases where anyone would have died and disappeared in the wind."

She said before sighing to herself and looked up at the ceiling above us.

"Maybe that was also one of my driving motivation instead of testing how humans react like experimenting on animals. Even though we were young, I can say at the very least we were much more mature compared to anyone else, well maybe with the exception of Rose."

Sora smiled as she mention her friend Rose who is now the Queen of this nation at the moment.

"Elizabeth was stronger than everyone else but the most silent, Darius was a little over protective, Teri was a good cook with a good personality, and Rose was really the get along person that helped everyone get along. I wondered where the other 3 went?"

I started realizing how bad it feels to take someone away from their friends and love ones as my heart swayed a little bit.

"I'm sorry that I summoned you over to this timeline!"

I bowed towards her waiting for the words about how someone could ever done such a bad thing to come towards me. Nothing came as I felt a hand on both sides of my head as it brought me out to eye point with her.

"You don't need to apologize after all you are my new friend and maybe..."

She stopped after saying maybe and looked away for some reason as her Sora stayed still for a moment. That was when I sense something large coming towards my room at high speed.

"Get down Sora!"

I said tackling Sora to the ground to avoid the incoming projectile coming towards us. It broke the magic enchanted walls before bursting through the other side and hitting the hallways. I analyzed the object that came shooting towards us, it was a fireball that was about 3 meters large.

I looked at the wall that was melted through and saw a large round circle and a few guys standing on top of a tower with a hoodie to cover his identity. Looking at them for a moment, I analyzed that they were wearing black clothing all around themselves and a mask to cover up their faces. 

Multiple people came pouring through the hole as they cooled down the heat with water magic but I already gotten up and prepared my spells to counteract there advances. Using my speed when it came to casting spells I instantly set up multiple barriers and pushed most of my mana into strengthening magic to have them come at me.

We are in close quarters, so I have to get into melee combat range and stop range attacks from coming towards me. A swordsman came swinging his sword downward at me with the intent to kill but my barrier made it bounce and I quickly followed up by twisting his neck.

A [Dark Spear] came rushing at me and since I didn't want to waste the protection the barrier gave me, I had used the body of the swordsman to receive the attack instead of me. I didn't know how many enemies there were and was careful not to get into a battle of attrition.

Sora helped me out by casting magic [Ice Shards] and shot it at the person coming to my right, hitting his head with pin point accuracy. She then made a [Ice spear] in thin air, and it floated for a couple of seconds before heading towards the magic caster who had shot the [Fireball]. 

It made the person go flying off the tower, which allowed me to not worry about the fire magician while the dark magician will be killed if Sora spot him. I saw a person with a dagger rush me, with me still holding on to the body of the dead swordsman I throw his body towards him.

It messed up the dagger wielder's momentum as he got hit by the body and was sent flying towards someone else. I got up close at personal range by using [Shadow Sneak] going with the shadow as I picked up the dagger wielder by the head and crushed it.

Blood splattered everywhere as the brain was ripped to shreds with his skull. The others were starting to back off as they saw me with my face covered in blood from it. Looking at them, I rushed in and finished everyone off with a clean swipe from my hand before capturing one of them.

I stopped as my eyes changed to see how Sora was doing. She was freezing a person left and right but something gave me chills, and that was because she was starting to run out of mana. 

Her breathe was running wild as she had to keep focus on fighting each opponent while trying to support me as well. This was beyond overkill why is she also helping me out? I can handle the rest of them… until I finally found the reason as I saw a lot of dead bodies lying outside of the hole.

I would had trouble handling all of them at once and would probably get severely hurt. She deflected a sword coming her way by using [Ice Barrier] to stop the attack and was panting as she was about to run out of mana. 

Seeing her in this state, the swordsman tried to slash her with a low slash in the stomach. I rushed to the guy in super speed and did a drop kick to his face sending him through the wall with his body crushed for the pressure of my kick.

"Hey! are you okay Sora!?!"

"*pant * pant* yes I'm fine just help yourself right now."

She said and I instantly saw that even more enemies were doing through the hole. I was going to be in a growling fight… "Alright, don't worry Sora I will protect you". I said and jumped in the battlefield killing as many people possible. 

I was exhausted and sat down with my butt on the floor right next to Sora. Why would so many people attack us? I thought in my head, are the officials in this academy in cahoots with them? No, that can't be or else even more people would have showed up or they would have an easier time of doing so.

Until, I realized today was an off day for the academy and not many people showed up, but I'm still a hostage so wouldn't they mean they would more people? What if all the guards were dead, than it would make more sense. Thinking about this assassination attempt is really stupid. 

I thought in my head, but as I was thinking that everything was fine, an arrow came boosting towards Sora. I saw that the arrow struck Sora in the chest area of her body.