80 [Chapter 80] Winter, Meet Winter

As I enter the hall, I see a wolf girl standing there, her white wolf ears and tail twitching slightly every now and until she sees me walk out of the room. Her tail wags slightly as she sees me and a purple slime walk out of the door, seeing me slightly annoyed, she asks, a nervous smile on her face.

"What happened? Are you actually ok?"

I take a moment before nodding and turning my irritated look into a smile. "Entitled bastards." Suddenly, a small meow of agreement comes from the purple slime that is resting on my head. She looks up at it with interest and waves at it.

"Who is your friend here?" I laugh nervously as I prepare myself to make the stupidest joke to ever exist. I clear my throat as I look at her.

"Hi Winter, this is Winter. Winter, this is Winter." She freezes for a moment as her pupils constrict.

"What?"

I get a confused meow as well before I laugh slightly. "Your both named Winter." She takes a moment before laughing herself, the warmth clearing away the little irritation I had before.

I see her tail begin to wag as her hair suddenly turns silver. It gleams in the light as it reflects into the walls of the hallway.

I get very curious as I look at her hair. 'What the hell?' And I don't keep it a secret.

"Uh Winter-" suddenly, I hear a meow along with a, "Yeah?" In between some laughter. I sigh as I realize this is going to get annoying. "First off, I will now say slime Winter when referring to you king gelatinous-" I say as I point at the purple slime on my head. "-and second, Winter, your hair is silver."

She freezes and stops laughing almost immediately before looking at her silver hair and blushing extremely. "Sorry, I actually came here to see if you were alright and to make a request."

"I'm all ears." I say as I stare at her cherry red face. 'What's so embarrassing about silver hair? I think it looks cool.'

She takes a moment, as if to gather her courage, before speaking, stuttering slightly as she speaks.

"Would y-you be willing t-to teach me how to-to transform?"

"What?" Now it's my turn to say what as I question if I heard her correct. She looks up as she is about to repeat herself before I stop her.

"No need to repeat yourself, sorry, I was confused by what you said. I don't know but why did you come to me for advice on transformation?"

She takes a moment before she begins to explain her thoughts.

"I thought that I was always faulty as I grew up, unable to control my ability to transform, but when I saw you become that reaper, I thought maybe the reason I can't control my transformation ability is because we transform differently than the rest, the other runts and me....."

I nod as I think for a moment before shrugging my shoulders. "I could try and teach you, but I am no expert." 'And I only know how I feel when the system transforms me, not on my own. But she definitely needs the boost in morale and besides, no harm in trying.' I think as I nod, "Sure, but I still would like to visit your place first, I never got to finish talking with your mother about attacking me, and I am not going to forget even after I almost died."

She nods as her tail that was once going wicked calms down and we begin walking towards what I think is her house. 'Thanks to my system, it's a lot easier to use my abilities, which is ironic seeing how it is an ability.' I think as I create a dagger in my hand and test one of my new passives.

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Weapon Proficient (Passive) [Basic]: You have tried to mastered too many weapons to count! Becoming a master of weapons is a hard task, but you are well on your way!

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'I hope that I can begin to increase this ability's rating, this is how your supposed to do it right?' I think as I continue to mess with the blade in my hand, the ethereal smoke flowing off of it as it flows rigidly in my hand.

'Although, I can't tell if this is the system, or my incompetence with daggers.'

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"Hello, you must be Kurayami! Pleasure!" I am greeted by a average looking man with decent looks. He has brown hair and brown eyes, although the white ears and tail kinda differ from the normal.

'How the hell did he get together with his wife?! They are already polar opposites!' I look from Winter to the guy in front of me, back to winter, and then look back at him. 'I guess he is the reason she hasn't tried to kill anyone yet.' I am reminded a conversation is happening when the man continues speaking.

"I can tell by the purple hair and eyes of your wondering, Winter didn't miss a detail when describing you, although she described you as larger..." I glance over to see Winter blushing even more red faced than when she requested my help. 'Is she a fan girl or something....' and then it hit me, this is like she is introducing a boyfriend. 'That explains a lot now.'

I nod before explaining, "I got weaker after my fight with that one guy-" 'Speaking of, I need to find his corpse, he was absurdly strong.' "-and I came here to talk with your wife about her actions against me."

Now he nods and turns around walking into his room, suddenly, I hear fast footsteps as a disheveled looking women enters the room, her once clean suit and tie and utter mess, and her hair all over the place, and her eyes different pupils. 'Woah, what did I do to make her like this?! No, scratch that, why is she looking like this?!'

She walks over to the couch and sits down, clearly exhausted, but clearly fighting to stay awake, not daring to sleep in my presence. I sit down on the seat opposite of her as I ask my first question, "What happened for you to look like this?"

She looks at me, one of her slit pupils staring at me, "You did Kurayami. After you killed the Executive, the place has been in havoc, we have cleared it up, but now the alphas have decided to move up the competitions to next week, saying they need a new executive almost immediately." I sit there mouth agape. But what she says next shocks me even more.

"They also said that managers and their kids cannot sit it out if they want as they will be forced to participate, and there will be no forfeits or surrenders."

I suddenly imagine Winter, all bloody, gashes in her sides and a massive cut across her face, fighting against that vampire chick. As the last plea of surrender escapes her lips, the vampire smiles before knocking her out cold.

I stand up and glare over at her, "We have no time to waste then, You need to get some rest, I am going to begin training your daughter so she doesn't get the crap kicked out of her in that arena of hell. But after this is over, I will come back to question you, so don't you dare run off."

She smiles and nods before suddenly passing out on the couch. "She finally is asleep, she has been up for three days straight trying to get them to let Winter sit out as she technically would have no chance seeing how all the other managers' children are monsters."

I say nothing As I grab Winter and drag her out of the door. "Take is to the arena." I say as I stare at her. She says nothing as tears fill her eyes and she hugs me, crying into my chest.

"Thank you.....I thought I was going to die in that arena." Winter says between silent sobs. 'Holy crap, why is this chick so emotional?' But I say nothing as I awkwardly pat her head. I glance up at slime Winter to see the slime smirking. Can slimes even smirk?

'Oh knock it off.' I think as Winter calms down and let's go. She wipes away the tears and shows a smile while giggling. "Hard to believe I just cried in the arms of the executive killer." "The what?" I ask as I stand there before getting a Ping!

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"New titles unlocked! Executive Killer: When equipped, you have a higher chance of being acknowledged by a higher power as powerful."

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'This is useless! Why would I need this when I can just show them actual power?!' I think as Winter begins a now useless explanation.

"Your known as the executive killer, a creature who killed a higher power, a being we didn't even consider human anymore, although I doubt anyone will recognize you as you were in that reaper form."

I nod and we continue to talk about various things as we make our way to the arena.