“Hnnnng make sure… to have…hhhmmm.. place to sta-gaauh…whueah?!”
After a long lecture that extended late into the night, Mia shook awake, her eyes wide open staring at the ceiling and her body sprawled out on top of the bed. She shuffled, trying to sit up but found herself pressed to the bed by an unknown weight on her stomach. A quick look downwards showed the culprit, her sister who was dead asleep taking up most of the bed and covers with her body, with one of her legs pinned atop Mia.
“Hmn, wasn’t a dream.” A tiny smile crept onto Mia’s face, this scene reminding her of home. Her sister had always been a heavy sleeper, but her sleeping posture had remarkably gotten worse “must have been really tired.”
*Blink*
Speaking of reminding her of her time at home, a familiar screen appeared in her view asking her a question she had not seen in a long while.
[Would you like to save to slot 2? Yes/No]
“Haa~” she breathed out a sigh, it had been awhile since she saved, a month, and her reason for it was her being indecisive on staying in this time. She had gotten beaten up, nearly killed, inflicted with a bad status, and lost a month.
But on the other side she leveled up a bunch, didn’t entirely lose her tail, and by the looks of her status screen the weakness was going away.
= = =
Name: Mia
Status: [Weakened: Minor]
Age: 8
LVL: 68
Points: 1,250
HP: 327/1510 MP: 2,000/5,300
Str: 50 (151)
Con: 50 (150)
Dex: 432 (895)
Int: 500 (1,150)
Mnd: 126 (265)
= = =
It went from major to minor, but she still wasn’t even at half strength, some were even comparably lower than how much the others have recovered. “Also don’t know if minor is last or if another level… but have a lot of points.” She didn’t like being weaker, but it had its perks. She doubted she could keep her temperature under control enough to sleep with her sister at full strength… she was regretting not keeping that ice resistance equipment…
Which is her biggest concern about staying, her sister.
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She had nothing against her, in fact she loved her, but she was still unsure how much she should get her sister involved in all this. Should she? Could she?
For the latter it was relatively easy to prove like she did with her aunt, but that just circled back to the former, should she get her sister involved.
“Aarrgh, too many buts.” She shook her head and gently moved her sisters leg off of her and slapped yes before rolling off the bed, landing on the floor with a thud. “Not telling but not going back, what ever happens, happens.” If she needed to tell her in the future, fine, but she had decided to not worry her sister about it.
She stood up, shooting a glare at her thin haired tail “…committing.” She sighed “also, serious.” She pumped herself up, deciding to put some of the lecture of common sense she got last night to good use, but first…
She stood over her sister’s sloppy sleeping form, watching with a grin on her face as her unaware sister absentmindedly rubbed her bare stomach.
“Revenge.” Mia said, raising her hand up high in the air “50 strength shouldn’t hurt too much.” She whispered to herself, if worse comes to worse, she did just save. “This is for dragging me around like a doll!!!” She yelled, bringing her hand down and slapping Ria’s exposed stomach. A loud SLAP resounded around the room, but then silence, followed by a low murmur from Ria.
“…” Mia looked at her hand as it started to turn red, then glanced at Ria’s unharmed stomach “…50 strength…” she whimpered.
[Hmm…?]
Her plans for revenge dashed, and more importantly, her ability to wake her sister out of the question, Mia headed downstairs. She wanted to leave a note, but she couldn’t find anything to write on so gave up. Ria did tell her she should let someone know before she takes off but… when was she planning on waking up? In the village she used to sleep till noon…
“Hey lass, where are you off too?”
While unsure of what to do, she had wondered down the stairs and to the lobby, and right when she was about to exit the building, a man’s voice had called out to her “Hmn? You…?” she looked up, seeing a tall, giant of a man leaning over the front desk.
“Jaxton.” The giant man waved “Owner of the Sleeping Giant Inn who has been taking care of your older sister, we met last night but you seemed… out of it?”
She didn’t recall the man, which was strange, he looked human but she was sure she would remember seeing someone this tall. He was almost the size of four of her stacked-on top of each other, at least 300cm she thought from her point of view. “Ah, no. sorry.”
He scratched the back of his head “No worries, so, where are you going?”
Tilting her head to the side, Mia was confused, then it dawned on her “oh! Guild, tell my sister? Could not wake her.” She could use this guy to pass the message, she hoped Ria didn’t freak out but…
“Huh? This soon?” He looked between her and the stairs “Didn’t you just wake up from a coma? Little girl I know the first floors can be safe but af-“
“No, not going into haunt, “Mia interrupted “Going to train.”
“…oh, then I guess that is fine.” He sat back down and leaned up against his chair “Yeah, I’ll let her know. Good luck.”
“Thanks.” Mia nodded, running out of the building, she had a long way to walk.
After a long and exhausting jog to the guild building, she found herself staring at the pure size of it “She said…up right?” If she recalled correctly, the guild offered facilities to help train? That was her goal. She had realized during her last fight against…that… she was lacking in basics and knowledge, she was all over the place, and after all this time she barely knew how a lot of this worked and was only alive because she could brute force it with [Time].
[You’re welcome.]
She wanted to test things, learn about her magic, and figure out what was the best for her and what she could do. Her last fight and the wrym had slapped her in the face with reality. She could not brute force it anymore.
“Hah…” That was probably what so many people have been trying to tell her, having high stats is nice, but eventually you run into a *wrym*, someone or something with higher stats and the experience to back it up.
She slapped her face, causing a few people passing her to turn their attention to her for a moment before continuing on their day.
“First, magic.”