New Users
Anna reorganized her belongings after Alex left her house.
Her house is quite far from the Guild building, but it is also very close.
From a bird's-eye view, it is only two blocks from the guild building, but walking down the street will take at least 30 minutes.
Even though she is used to it, she finds it very annoying.
If she prefers, she will choose a location close to her workplace so that she will only have to spend a few minutes getting ready.
Just think about her schedule.
As soon as she wakes up, she must prepare breakfast.
She will then take a bath before deciding on her outfit for the day and, most importantly, her makeup.
This schedule resulted in three hours of preparations.
However, she is accustomed to it and lacks the energy to alter her course of life.
"What'm I thinking? Anyway, I have already put everything in its proper place, so I may as well entertain myself."
She had planned to read some books she had purchased previously, but she did not have the time.
Now that she has time to read, she plans to immerse herself until she falls asleep.
However, she has noticed a buzzing sound nearby.
She looked around and discovered the sound in one of the bags she had used earlier.
"I can not remember buying something like this."
Inside, there is a rectangular device with some light.
If something goes wrong, she carefully inspects it and uses a wooden spoon.
There is no reaction, so she touches it and prepares herself, but there is no response.
She concludes that it is safe, so she holds it and examines the device.
Aside from being rectangular, it has a light in front of it.
She noticed some writing on the light and read it.
"The Shadow System Status has been activated."
…
"Let us head back."
"Okay."
Beatrice is staring back at her, even though they are leaving the front of the restaurant behind.
More especially, to the boy earlier.
Even though she has not seen him in a while, in her eyes, he is still the young man who made the vow to marry her when he grew up.
It appears to be a joke, but she is keeping his promise.
After all, that promise is what drives her to survive in life.
…
When Beatrice was younger, she lived nearby to their shop.
Unfortunately, her mother becomes ill and they need money for the ingredients for her potion, so they sell their shop.
That is how they became separated from Hambell's family, and it also marked the beginning of her hell.
Despite having the money, they could not find the potion's ingredients, and her mother died as a result.
Following the death of her mother, her loving father became a drunkard.
Her father is drinking more and more each day, but that is not the worst thing that has happened.
One night, her father arrived home drunk again.
He is crying and murmuring her mother's name.
She helped her walk into his room, but something strange happened.
When he looks at her, his eyes fill with longing, and he yells his wife's name as he jumps into her.
She sobs and tells him that she is his daughter and not her mother.
Her father did not hear her and is still attempting to undress her because he is preoccupied with the thought that his wife is still alive and standing in front of him at this very moment.
She fought to keep from being undressed, but their strength was so different that she could not fight for long.
"Alex… please help me…"
She is not sure why she remembers the kid who promised to marry her, but if there is a chance she will...
*Thud
"Huh?"
Her father collapses, snoring while smiling.
In his dream, he murmurs the name of his wife.
Her body's strength fell at this point due to relief, as she had almost been raped by her own father.
It is a good thing the liquor works and puts him to sleep.
She loves her father, who is not abusive despite being a drunkard, but the fear that this will happen again drives her decision.
She could not sleep for the rest of the night, but it gave her time to consider her future plans.
She chose to leave her home as soon as possible.
She is already of the age to study, so she applied for the scholarship at Academy City and was accepted.
When she told her father, he did not stop her and encouraged her.
The following day, she travels to Academy City, and the rest is her own history.
…
Her father passed away a year ago, and she is now living alone in their modest home.
Fortunately, the land and house are her property, so her only concerns are for water and food.
She has enough money to buy a larger house, but this place holds so many memories of her parents that she chose not to leave.
It was already dinnertime, and she was about to eat when she noticed a vibration.
*vibrates
She is serving her own food, but the vibration continues indefinitely.
Although her initial reaction was to ignore the strange sound, she ultimately made the decision to locate its source.
She quickly located the sound source beneath the living table.
There, a rectangular object has light in front of it.
After some observation, she discovered that the light contains some words written in it.
"The Potion System Status is Activated…"
…
Hambell's Shop.
After dinner, Alex decided to go out for a while.
His aunt is not in the house, so he is free of her.
However, this is not why he went out in the cold night.
"Is this really the location?"
In front of him is Anna Froze's house.
Earlier, the system notified him that there were two new smartphone users with system status in the city, excluding Rica.
He found out as he was about to read a book, which is why he is here.
He assumed that the smartphone user was similar to Rica, who is homeless, but he had no idea that the person he had previously assisted was the new smartphone user.
Although it is already night, he is hesitant to knock on the door, but he is still eager to complete his mission.
In the end, he chose not to knock because he was undecided about it.
It was already dark, and this was one of the two locations suggested by the system, so he decided to go the next day.
"HELP!!! HEL—!"
A yell is heard from the house.
The tone suggests that the person inside is in a bad situation, so he did not hesitate to break into the house and rush up to her room.
As soon as he opened the door, he noticed a man jumping on the window, holding a box.
Although it was only a blink, he noticed some bracelets and necklaces hanging outside the box.
He wanted to follow the man, but —
*Bonk
He felt a hard metal strike the back of his head.
'My skill, I forgot to activate!'
He fainted with a sense of regret.