Nacho Girl

"Wait, say that again!? You locked out the Daedric Princes!?" Serana blurts out at Michael's arrogant declaration...

"Yeah, took some work but I pumped Akatosh's Veil with so much Magicka that any attempt to break through would be like spitting at Aetherius and hoping to hit something... That's also why none of your Conjuration magic worked, not even Lesser Daedra are getting through that!"

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Serana feels completely dumbfounded... This guy just said that he outsmarted and overpowered EVERY Daedric Prince. The only reason she could start to believe it was because her Conjuration spells had indeed failed spectacularly during her earlier battle...

The Daedra weren't stupid... Even those who had no contact with him should have been able to sense what he was planning, they weren't gods for nothing, she'd even heard from her mother that they could follow and manipulate fate to some degree. She shakes her head, "What's the 'Veil of Akatosh?"

"Ah, right... You weren't around for that shit were you? To sum it up, Mehrunes Dagon lost his shit and invaded Tamriel, some bullshit ensues and eventually the Emperor summons, or becomes, or whatever, breaks the Amulet of Kings and turns into the Avatar of Akatosh which seals the connections between Mundus and Oblivion, he also kicks the shit out of Dagon before dying... Anyway, that's the veil."

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"And how long ago was this...? And what's the date?" she inquires, confused on whether or not to believe his words.

"Er, couple hundreds years? It's also the two-hundred and second year of the Fourth Era."

"F-fourth Era...!?" she exclaims.

*CReee*

The door opens revealing Saeko who walks inside with a platter of food, momentarily interrupted Serana's mini-mental breakdown.

"Tiff thought you'd want some food to go with your 'game-night'..." she says, laying down the tray of Nachos...

"Nachos!? Haha! I know it was a good idea taking her to those cooking classes!" he grins, ignoring Serana's mental turmoil...

*Ahem*

Saeko coughs into her fist, "Are you alright? You look pa-, more pale than usual." she corrects herself.

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"Didn't we tear each other apart not long ago? Why are you acting like you care all of a sudden?"

Saeko smiles, "A fight's a fight, that's that and this is this. Right now we can be friends or enemies, it's entirely up to you."

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"You're both so weird, you and I fought to the death and he's been undressing me with his eyes the entire time I've known him..." she says, causing Saeko to send a glare at Michael who looks away and continues eating. "Just give me a moment to process this, I've apparently been sleeping for thousands of years," she quietly mutters while rubbing her temples, brow twitching as Michael loudly chews on tortilla chips...

Saeko takes a seat next to Michael, their shoulders touching as she kicks her feet up and takes some nachos for herself. In the meantime, Michael goes ahead and begins setting up everything they'd need for 'Game Night'... He loads up Skyrim and accesses the saved game which had just rescued Serana...

"I-is that..." Saeko asks, almost coughing on her chips as she sits up.

Serana also looks up and her face twists as she looks at the screen... "Is that... Me?"

"It is, have to say, the game doesn't do you justice." he chuckles.

"Hm, so this is the 'secret game' everyone but me knows about?"

He nods, "Yeah, I was getting around to showing it off but figured this would kill two birds with one stone. Anyway, I present this to you both! The future that would have been without our intervention!" he dramatically raises he arms towards the T.V.

"Is this real or are you just trying to fool me? What even is this? Some sort of Illusion magic!?" Serana asks, unable to properly process everything that was happening... Truly, it was akin to a farmer being abducted by a spaceship and expecting him to be cool with it, even with the anal probes... Not that he was going to probe Serana... Right?

"It's all real, this comes from a land beyond even Aetherius. The gods would shit themselves if they knew about I reckon."

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"And... You're just showing it to me? Why?"

Michael shrugs, "I liked your character so I wanted to help you out... Plus, you know, the whole prophecy, blotting out the sun, return of Daedric Princes and all that." he shakes his head, "Anyway, shall we get started? Oh, you should try the nachos before I eat all of them, trust me, they're to un-die for."

"Michael..." Saeko groans and Serana can't help but nod in agreement, "You're terrible."

Ignoring that, he checks his in-game inventory to make sure everything was there and has his character move through the ruins.

"What's with all those Magicka Potions? Why do you have over a hundred of them?" Saeko asks.

"Well, a certain someone thought it was a good idea to specialise in magic completely, so any big fight requires you to chug down potions to survive..."

"Can't you just lower the difficulty?"

"It's already the lowest..."

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It takes almost the entire dungeon for Serana to finally relax enough to speak, she also tried the nachos but wasn't exactly a fan... The reason? Vampire tastebuds are, well, almost entirely tasteless.

"So, you've 'played' this before then?" she asks as Michael takes a break and hands the controller to Saeko, who immediately has the character pick up a sword and abandon the path of a mage... Megumin wasn't going to like that...

"Yeah, completed the whole questline and just thought that I could solve everything faster myself..."

"Then, what's that in the corner... 'Serana liked that'? It comes up after the character speaks to me..." she inquires.

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Michael sweats a bit, he could've sworn he'd turned off his mods for this... Unless Megumin went back on and enabled them? "Er, it just tracks how good the relationship between our character and yours is... Like-"

"Like a dating sim..." Saeko adds from the side.

"Dating sim...?" Serana questions.