Past ties
'Scylla Eirwen'
Jack's mind was racing with emotions and mixed feelings. He knows this girl or more correctly knew this girl in the past.
Jack and his family were living in another city before with Scylla's family as their neighbors back then. They were poor altogether and Jack and Scylla were inseparable friends.
When Jack's parents died, grandma Zeus took him to this city to find her old house just at the moment Jack needed emotional support from a friend the most and he hadn't seen Scylla ever since.
Back to the present, Jack's eyes widened in shock and so did the other applicants. He couldn't mistake that obsidian black hair and the light purple eyes that shone like stars. Thoughts like-
'Scylla Eirwen! What is she doing here?'
'She wants to beta test this game??'
'OMG! IT'S HER IN THE FLESH!'
-were rushing through the minds of the applicants.
Behind her were a bodyguard and a lady wearing a white shirt and a black suit and skirt, Scylla's manager.
The bodyguard was carrying sheathed katanas on his two sides and the first thought that came to Jack's mind when he saw that was,
'How can he hit back bullets with that?'
"M-miss Eirwen, please stop this behavior! Your mother wouldn't like this, you're supposed to be having dinner with young master Leon. P-" Scylla's manager squirmed.
"For fuck's sake Carla," Scylla tilted her head to look at her manager. "Just shut up."
Carla immediately zipped it and she looked to her left to look at Urman, the bodyguard for some help but he didn't reply her eye languages and hand signs.
Scylla turned back and she looked around and her gaze landed on the applicants. They all felt like their hearts would rip out of their chests, even the girls. Scylla's gaze finally landed on Jack and she removed her eyes from him but immediately she turned back again.
"Jack? No, I must be hallucinating..." she muttered.
She walked towards him and Jack's breathing almost stopped completely, He didn't even realize that Scylla had lifted his shirt and she was gazing at his chest causing shocked gasps from everyone in the room.
"It... It's you!" Scylla shouted seeing a spider scar on Jack's chest. It didn't look natural, it looked like something children playing with knives would do which was exactly the case.
"Um.. Hey?" Jack replied, still unsure of what to say.
The other applicants and Jasper were watching this conversation with curious and shocked looks, some even had anger. A mere plebian dared to talk with Scylla Eirwen!
Scylla was about to go in for a hug but she was stopped by her bodyguard, Urman.
She shot him an icy glare but he didn't flinch.
"Please stay back from this dirty commoner, Miss Scylla. He'll soil you with his... dirt."
For a second, Jack could have sworn he saw the bodyguard blush looking at Scylla's face. He kept quiet, not knowing what to say. He knew he'd only make things worse.
Suddenly—
~creak~
~click~
~clack~ ~clack~ ~clack~
—a door was swung open and a brown haired middle aged man in a navy coloured suit and a black tie, he had a fairly large well trimmed beard, the same for his mustache.
His teal eyes looked at each one of the applicants with excitement in them and it spread all the way to his face forming a grin and then–
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"
He let out a laugh for no obvious reason and after five minutes, he stopped with a cough and he wiped out some tears from his eyes, ignoring the looks on everyone's faces.
"Good morning y'all. I'm Tylor Anderson." he introduced himself."I'm sorry for what just happened, I was just-, nevermind, please move to the rooms at your backs."
Jack swiftly turned his head around and he saw the outline of a door. Again, his eyes were playing tricks! He could have sworn it wasn't there before.
He touched the "door" with the tip of his finger and immediately, it went in and he saw a passage. He stood up looking at the passage with shock and curiousity written on his face.
The other applicants did the same along with Scylla who had moved away though she was looking at him from time to time, their eyes met for a second and Jack's heart missed a beat and he quickly looked away earning a glare from Urman behind her.
When everyone stood up, the chair moved to the side and into the wall, it was clear this was the work of technology.
Jack looked at Jasper and Jasper did the same. "You better tell me what's happening between you and her when we get out." Jasper whispered.
"Sure."
Jack walked in and then he behind him he could hear an argument going on between Tylor and Urman. He heard something like "...We can't leave her alone-!"
He removed the thoughts of the childhood and the argument from his head and he focused his attention on the task at hand.
He walked for about a minute and he saw an exit to the "tunnel" he was walking through.
"Haa~" He exhaled as he walked into the next room to see what the future would bring for him.
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