At the old arcade once agai- wait no, actually he is in school. Shocker.

John was very, very happy with himself. Why you may ask? Well, the best thing about having 9 mana regeneration was that he now could let Possession run, forever and the same held true for artificial spirit as well. What was the logical consequence? Both had levelled up like crazy through hours of constant usage, and it just kept going.

He was storing Aclysia in his Inventory, something he would ask her about later. Possession he still didn’t dare to level on school grounds because there still was this information broker afoot of which he had no clue about who he was. Therefore he was currently just sitting on mana overgeneration, a slight sore spot admittedly but still he was very, very, very happy with himself.

That lasted exactly until two minutes after the bell rang. “Hey there, John.” John looked up from his phone game, sighing as he did. He knew exactly who that was. He looked up to find Frank Dickinson, sport jock, boyfriend to Vanessa and his tormentor since middle school. “Good day, Frank.” John said with resignation. He already knew how this worked, Frank would make some jokes at his expense, everyone would laugh, then he would want twenty dollars and go make out with that stupidly hot girlfriend of his.

“Still playing that dumb candy crush game of yours, huh? Why don’t you try to crush some pussy instead. Aw, right you can’t because you are such a nerd.” Some people giggled, no one stopped him. John leaned back and just revelled in the fact that he actually had a girlfriend now, although he couldn’t tell anyone without giving away her identity. “What do you want?” “Aw, are you getting nervous, aren’t we old pals?” He wrapped his left arm around John in a chummy mater. The reality however was the Frank was pressing his arm down so hard that he was slightly chocking John. “We are pals right? You know what pals do?” The sound of a door opening. “They give each other money and as it stands I am need of some. So, hand it over Newm-“

“Yo.” Frank was interrupted as somebody tapped him on the shoulder. “What?” He turned his head to find a plain looking half Asian brunette standing there. “Keep your hands of my boyfriend.” Frank was stunned for a moment, as was John but for completely different reasons. Silence filled the room. Then Frank started laughing.

“Look here, our Nerd got himself a girlfriend. A plain looking, aggressive little twat it seems.” He mocked. John could see Rave’s left eye twitch slightly. Frank stepped towards her with open arms, “Man, you got nothing on Vanessa but even you are leagues above this pale skeleton, why don’t you hang with me instead, huh? I know some guys who would love to get to know you.” The door to the classroom opened again, in stepped Thomas Jefferson, the male half of the class president duo. “Hey, Marianne, want to get eat…oh, hey Jane what are you doing here?” He asked. No answer. The air in the room suddenly changed however. “Jane?” Frank asked, “As in Jane Hollmey, the party wrecker? Man, you are a legend. You should really hang with me instead of this loser.”

That must have been what Thomas had been referring to when he told him that Rave had a horrible reputation back in the bus. It was only a week ago but to him between now and then an eternity had passed. Rave stood there and tapped her foot in a slow beat. ‘Not a good sign.’ John thought and silently prayed that somebody would just stop Frank from insulting Rave even further while praying even harder that nobody did. “What, am I not good enough for you to answer?” A slight pause and he put his hand on John’s shoulder. “Your boyfriend is so silent too, maybe he doesn’t care for yo-“

The beat was interrupted by Rave heavily stomping down as she pulled back her fist which then crashed into Frank’s face. In an almost comical fashion the impact made him turn around three times as he stumbled over to Vanessa’s desk, he held unto the edge for a second before collapsing at her feet. Vanessa looked at Frank, one of the toughest guys in school and her boyfriend, with a wide agape mouth. Everyone else slowly rose their eyes to Rave who crossed her arms. “What? I told him to keep his hands of my man.” Rave pulled up John, who was grinning widely, and hugged him while sticking out her tongue to Vanessa. “Listen, you frigid bitch.” Vanessa started a rant but John just said. “Let’s get out of here, Jane.” And ignored her as the two of them left the classroom.

“That was awesome!” John said. He knew that telling Rave that publicly punching somebody into a comatose state was probably not the best way to keep cover was the smart thing to do. He however didn’t feel like saying the smart thing. “I know, everything I do is awesome.” Rave took the compliment with a big smile and guided him up to the roof.

On the way they met a certain redhead. “Hey, Moi-Moi.” Rave waved in a mocking tone as they walked by. Leaving Moira staring angrily at her as they passed. Now John was actually confused. “What just happened?” “Baldy came back this morning and told me we are now under the protection of a bigger group called Bloodfallen. We are so small we are not worth starting a war over so Moira now got her hands tied and I can actually meet you during school time and beat up your bullies.” “Really? That sounds great!” John was ecstatic. “Yep, Baldy also looked a lot stronger. Daddy is also coming back next week.” Rave was beaming, so much that John wasn’t entirely sure if some of her magic wasn’t leaking out. “I love my life right now.” “Well, I love you.” John sneaked that in there and gained a kiss on the cheek as a reward.

They arrived at the roof. “What did they mean by ‘party wrecker’ by the way?” “Exactly that, I went to a party and as all of the people there were annoying losers I wrecked it by telling everyone to fuck off. I also accidently destroyed a table.” Ah, wait. “Technically I am a loser to.” John had to admit. “Well, A, you are not annoying and B you are my Loser.” Rave said and stepped a few lengths away from him before turning to him. “Which brings me to a question actually. Who the fuck is Aclysia?” John tilted his head. How? He opened the party menu. “Well, I’ll be damned she is listed here.” He mumbled. “Yep, so Johny.” He looked up to see the slightly annoyed expression of Rave in her brunette camouflage. “Get to explaining.” “Sure, just a second.” He raised his hand and created an I.D. without monsters in it. Then he opened his inventory and pulled out Aclysia.

The figurine from yesterday had grown to be as big as his hand and was exactly as he left her, gnawing on a pen to gain more mass. “Wow, wait, what.” Rave stepped closer and looked at the little woman. “That is both creepy and incredibly cute. What is that?” John told her the whole story, about how he got the skill and how he was in the process of levelling her. “An artificial spirit that can grow and learn?” Rave summarized the whole thing with a baffled expression. “Your bullshit never ceases to amaze me. That is some advanced magic you got there. Where did you get a Crystal like that anyway?” “It was the quest reward for fucking you the first time.” John answered truthfully. “Wow. Those Crystals are worth upwards from half a billion.” He, in fact, did not know that. “Half a billion.” He groaned, “That means for fucking you I could have retired in a nice mansion. That is…bullshit.” “Ja.” Rave agreed. “Ja, it is.”

His girlfriend stubbed Aclysia with a finger. “Can she talk?” “I don’t know she speaks to me via telepathy.” John raised the little plastic woman to his face. “Can you talk to Rave?” He asked. Aclysia stopped eating for a moment and turned to Rave. She opened her mouth like she had seen the two of them do but nothing came out. ‘I don’t know how, Creator John.’ She said and got back to eating.

“She says she can’t…wait let me try something. Aclysia you can reshape your body, right?” ‘Affirmative.’ John thought hard about the way the human vocal organ worked and tried to sent Aclysia a mental image. He was rewarded with a window.

‘I cannot do that, Creator John.’ Aclysia apologized in the same moment. “Okay. So she can’t talk yet, I need to raise her stats.” “Okay, how do you do that?” John shrugged, “Honestly I have no idea, she has no EXP bar so I assume that she gets stronger when she eats more and stronger materials.” “Okay, in that case why are feeding her ballpens’ Instead of steel or something?” “Because I don’t have enough steel lying around to create a human sized body with.” John explained. “But you have enough pens?” “Well, no but plastic isn’t exactly hard to come by.” Rave nodded, “Okay, yeah makes sense, I guess?”

John put the little Aclysia back into his inventory and destroyed the Instant Dungeon. Break was almost over. “When will your classes end today by the way?” “16:30.” “Nice, we will meet at the gate then.” Rave said as they walked down the stairs. “Aren’t you getting detention for punching Frank?” John asked “Do I CARE about detention for punching Frank?” Rave raised a question right back at him. “Good point.” He conceded and with a quick kiss they parted for their individual classes.