Intruder Arc (1)

The evening was pretty damn awkward but it doesn't matter, tomorrow everything will be resolved.

Mina and I both went to sleep on our respective beds, but alas only one of us closed their eyes this night: her, as I wanted to make sure the villain did appear, so that I can directly go for her the following morning

It was at around 2am that it happened: the door of our dorm was quietly opened and I saw a silhouette appear at the entrance.

"It's him..." I said in my head.

The villain of the intruder act didn't use some kind of sick magic to capture Mina, he just forcefully opened her dorm room and captured her in her sleep.

And the reason why she didn't wake up with all that noise was because...

"Time to use to powder" he whispered to himself before taking something from his pocket and blowing in his hand to spread it inside the room, it was high level sleeping powder.

He obviously knew that I was in the room but he didn't bother to even check if I was asleep or not as he thought the powder would do the job easely.

And I thought so too, I expected to stay awake to watch him do the deed just to make sure that the events of the novel went accordingly, then I would fall asleep because of the powder.

The thing I didn't expect was... to still be awake.

"What?" I couldn't understand how that's possible, the powder could put a middle-class monster to sleep in an instant.

Yet, here I was, still awake and kicking...

And I didn't have to wait long for the answer as the system window appeared before my eyes.

[New skill: Status Resistance]

[Why would you get affected by such puny tricks? Your hatred aura blocks most types of status changes and leaves you unaffected by them.]

Such a convenient skill...

But along with it came another problem: I had to now watch as Mina was kidnapped.

I also wanted the sleep powder to stop me from watching it happen but now it was ruined, my plan was to go do it first thing in the morning tomorrow.

And the thing that scared me the most as I saw the man lift up Mina from her bed and start walking away.

Was my anger meter.

[Anger meter: 97/100]

My rage was getting the better of me, yet I knew I needed to calm down.

"HOLD ON, HOLD FUCKING ON" I was screaming internally, "YOU CAN DO IT TOMORROW, DON'T ATTRACT UNNECESSARY ATTENTION."

But I miserably failed in the end, because soon enough I got up and dashed towards the dorm room, yet they had completely vanished.

I looked back at the anger meter.

[Anger meter: 98/100]

I felt like shit, I let her get taken away but in the end I let my feelings get the better of me.

"I know where they are..." I mumbled before running towards the location of the hallway where the secret passage was in.

I had spent approximately five minutes outside my door battling whether I should go ahead with my original plan, which meant letting Daemon deal with her, or just go ahead and save her myself to guarantee she stays close to me as a friend, and maybe more later.

[Skill: Trial and Error, activated]

I dashed towards the hallway in the middle of the night, trying my hardest not to make any noises that could alert people, I can't risk the villain discovering that someone was onto him while he was still in here after all.

***

Ten more minutes had passed and I was now in the hallway which led to the secret room where Mina was locked in.

[Anger meter: 99/100]

"..."

But before I was able to take another step, I stared into the air, blank.

"What is happening...?"

Everything was going the opposite way it was supposed to, and yet, nothing was making sense, I was here trying to save one of the heroines the main character was supposed to take, but I felt like I would regret it all my life if I didn't atleast try.

That's right, the main character did nothing in this version of the world, and the villain did the deed successfully, so I need to be the one to stop him!

Giving myself fake delusions that what I was doing was right was what kept me going, and just like that I took the first step.

I... I don't see the point in waiting anymore.

I refuse to follow the plot of this shitty story.

Even if it destroys everything later on, even if it creates a massive loophole...

"I..."

I entered the hallway and headed towards the painting where the secret room was.

"I will do it myself."

 [Anger meter: 100/100]

[Skill: Hatred, activated]