The Shadow teaching the Sun [Closed/Mentor]

[Steel]

“I wonder what to do today?” Steel asked himself as he walked the streets of Londonium. Probably because he went out hunting countless mobs every day for 2 weeks straights, doing that for about 12 hours each day. Not to mention, he was always doing it by himself. It was no wonder the mental exhaustion was starting to catch up to him. And for that reason, Steel decided that a change of pace for a day or two was necessary. In fact, he was wondering why he hunted that long in the first place. It was then he realized he didn't have many friends to go on adventures with all the time. "Well, hopefully nothing will go wrong today although god knows how many times I’ve said that and it doesn’t happen." He whispered to himself, remembering all the other times he said this, wondering if he’s jinxed himself already. Right after he said that, he had bumped into someone. When he turned to see who it was, it was a girl and there was a guy that Steel found familiar that was right next to her, presumably her date for the day. "You okay there?" He asked the girl he bumped into as he offered a hand to help her up. As that happened, romantic sparkles came from and put the girl in a slight love sick like trance. This did not go unnoticed by the guy who was her boyfriend and that guy became irritated at Steel. Wait a minute… He began to think in a slight panic.

"What do you think you're doing, hitting on my girl?" The guy said as he got a hold of Steel's collar. It seemed he didn't know about the Courtesan ability or it's just that he was pissed that his date became like that. Not that his rage was completely unreasonable. The guy looked a bit more closely at Steel. "Oh heck no! It’s you again you *******!! How many times do we have to run into each other like this!?!" He exclaimed even more angrily. It was indeed the guy Steel first pissed off back in Stratford and then again later at a different town during the Coconia festival as well as last week. Oh come on!! Give me a break! Steel exclaimed in his mind he was seriously getting sick of this guy.

“Hey, it’s not like I like this sort of situation either!” Steel exclaimed in an annoyed tone. He didn't want to get into a conflict and he knew this wasn't going to get any better from here. He hurriedly turned the skill off, snapping the girl out of her little trance. I hate how this skill acts like a running gag!! Steel exclaimed in his mind before using martial arts to escape his captor's grip and jumped back.

"Sorry about that again!" Steel exclaimed before running off. He hoped that he wouldn't be chased by that guy although he probably would like he did the last two times. This day was already off to a bad start and the Half Alv Swashbuckler hoped that this day wouldn't get any worse. Oh who was he kidding? Steel already knew what was going to happen next.

A few minutes later...

Just as I expected. Steel thought to himself as he continued to run. For some reason, that subclass skill kept turning on to the point that Steel just gave up on turning it off each time. Unfortunately, because of this skill, Steel ran across several similar situations where he accidentally caused a girl to fall into a love sick trance in front of her date and/or boyfriend, causing the said date to chase after him in anger. It didn’t even matter whether they were People of the Land girls or female adventurers. On a side note, the girls affected went back to normal once Steel was over 10 meters away. As he escaped his latest foe, Steel was just getting tired of it. "At this rate, I'll be the enemy to all men and I won't be able to catch a break." Steel said as he panted a little. Although he was more physically fit than most people, he's had to run a lot today so being tired was expected. But mainly, he was mentally tired from all of this. He was partially amazed that nobody has caught him yet. He knew that he had to lie low for at least a while. But how would he do that when he stuck out like a sore thumb being one of the people who didn't have a date and his Courtesan skill wasn't helping either. For once, he couldn't have a low presence, something he took for granted in the past. "Okay, I gotta calm down and think this through." Steel said to himself as he found himself in an alleyway. "In order for me to regain my low presence I've gotta redirect the attention of other people." He then calmed down as he turned off his courtesan subclass skill and then blended into the crowd. Using his eyes, he directed the attention of the people around him elsewhere and now people weren't really paying attention to him. The rumors about him were spreading though. I've got to find a way to get rid of these stupid rumors. Steel thought to himself in annoyance as he walked down the streets.

At this point, he didn't care that he was going back to his daily thing of going out to hunt because he really didn't want to deal with any of these people out on the hunt for him. He decided to just go out into the fields and go hunting in order to lay low. He was even planning on sleeping in a tree that night. In a few minutes, he was close to one of the gates that led outside. "Well, I guess nothing else will happen." Steel said to himself before berating himself mentally for possibly jinxing himself. It was then he bumped into someone as he wasn't paying attention to where he was going at this time. When he looked to see who he had knocked down, he saw a girl with a skin tone and color much different than he's seen before during his time so far in this game. She seemed to be of African descent. This wasn't the first African he's met in his life. Back in the real world when he used to be on his school's Basketball team in Japan, one of the teams his team had to face had an African exchange student who towered over Takeshi and his team. This guy was at least 6 feet and 5 to 7 inches, about half a foot taller than Takeshi. Takeshi didn't really like the guy since he kept saying all Japanese were short and terrible at Basketball. He and his team got mad enough that they were fired up and beat that team by 15 points due to a combination of Takeshi's steals and passes along with the shooting guard's three point shots and the power forward's powerful dunks. Well, he wouldn't judge people based off of one person's attitude.

"Sorry about that, are you okay?" Steel said in apology as he extended a hand towards the girl to help her up. As that happened, his courtesan subclass activated once more on its own causing the romantic sparkles to come out from him. Once Steel noticed, he got annoyed and turned it off once more. Stupid running gag skill of mine! Steel thought to himself in annoyance as he helped the girl up. "Sorry about that." He said once more in apology. He then noticed that his misdirection had 'deactivated'. Well really, due to the fact that he did something that would draw attention, he was now noticeable. It was then he heard footsteps going at a speed of a stampede. He knew that it was the angry mob after him and he needed to hide. He didn't want the girl to be stampeded over either so he grabbed her with him into an alleyway right before the angry mob went past them. "Geez, these guys are persistent."  Steel said in an annoyed tone before turning back to the girl. "Pardon my lack of manners, my name is Steel, what's your name?"

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Sunny

[Sunny]

"I'm Queenbee," the dazzled girl said in a dazed voice, mind reeling with fuzzy feelings for this handsome stranger. What just happened?

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Sunny knew who he was the moment she caught sight of him flirting with that first girl: a vision in black that seemed every bit as bad as she'd heard. The undercurrent of town gossip carried words about an Adventurer seducing the women players of the game, a trait that settled unpleasantly with the men folk of Elder Tales. Sunny didn't know what to believe at first, but after seeing him in action, she knew that the rumors had to be true.



That was why she had decided to stalk him around town, see if she could put a stop to him before things got out-of-hand. When he got caught between a girl and her jealous boyfriend, Sunny teetered between doing something about it and just letting him take a hit to the face like the deviant he was. Then the little pervert had started to run, and that was really a shame. Now she would have to find him again!



It wasn't long before she sniffed out his trail again. The big, angry mob heading for the town gates had been a pretty good hint of his whereabouts, so Sunny followed closely behind, trying not to get lost in the sea of raging bodies. It was perhaps because she'd been trailing the crowd that she'd picked up what they'd missed as they hounded the guy. There were voices coming from an alleyway. Sunny held close to a corner and peeked within the alleyway, spotting her mark with yet another girl, this one leaning against the wall in what appeared to be in a confused daze.



"You never stop, do you," Sunny said, approaching the duo.

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[Steel]

Oh boy this is a bad situation. Steel thought to himself as he snapped the girl out of her love sick trance by turning off the Courtesan skill. The after effects would last for a few minutes where the girl would be in a bit of a daze but he'd deal with that later. He knew he had to figure out some sort of plan to get rid of these rumors. As he was thinking about this, another person had come and walked towards him and the girl that was with him. The newcomer started saying stuff in an accusatory tone, making Steel sigh a little, knowing that her current attitude towards him which was understandable for a person who didn't know the full story was because of all of those rumors about him being a flirt and danger to all women. This girl also seemed to be African as well and from her voice, Steel could guess that she was somewhere from South America, probably Brazil. The tattoos on her body indicated that she was of the Race of Ritual and she had a grimoire and a gun at her disposal. While Steel wondered what class she was since he never checked the status screens of people he didn't know, but noted that her equipment was all of the beginner level showing that she was probably no more than level 3, showing that she wasn't a threat to him in terms of battle. Well, first off, I've gotta try to clear all of these misunderstandings before the situation gets worse. Steel thought to himself as the girl he had accidentally affected earlier had snapped out of it fully and walked out of the alleyway in a slight daze, wondering what happened. Well, that would make things easier for Steel to deal with. "You've got it all wrong." He began to say. "From what info I've collected while I was running from that angry mob earlier, I'm assuming you're confronting me about the rumors of me being a flirt that seduces any female I meet and other such similar rumors." He then proceeded to explain and hopefully convince this girl that he wasn't what the rumors said. "In reality, this is just a huge chain of accidents that led up to now. My subclass skill for my Courtesan subclass, Allure has been activating on its own and affecting other people around me. I have no idea why its been doing that and I've just been annoyed at the thing. I could turn it off and then it would turn itself on a minute or two later. If you don't believe me, you can stay around and watch me do nothing before the skill turns on by itself or you could just go ahead and hit me if you want and we can end it at that." He was being serious about this but he wondered how this girl would react. Steel put his hands in his pockets to show that he wouldn't access his menu or anything.

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Sunny

[Sunny]

Standing steps away from the pair, Sunny continued to gauge the situation, studying the other girl's face as she -in turn- stared adoringly at Steel. What on earth did that guy do to her anyway? She looked like she was in more of a trance than under the influence of silver-tongued seduction, and that annoyed Sunny even further. Was he abusing his player skills to take advantage of other players?

Dude, not cool. . .

Unlike Steel, Sunny was not shy about using the interface, and she had every intention to do so; however, before she could even flinch in that direction, the other girl began to move, the enchantment lifted apparently as she stepped past Sunny, heading for the open air of the city. The Swashbuckler reached for her, hand cusping the murmuring Queen Bee's shoulder just to get a better look at her. The dazed girl jumped, startled from her mumbling, and when she looked at Sunny, the Brazilian saw confusion in her eyes., heard it in her voice.

This guy totally WAS abusing his privileges, the little pervert! The Ritualist glared at him, ochre eyes burning holes through the deviant as Queen Bee stood by idly, waiting to be released so she could continue mindlessly drifting through the streets, like a boat without an anchor. Sunny had no idea what his level was, but she didn't care. Maybe she could hold him while the other girl went to look for that big, angry mob. He surely couldn't take them all!

Her righteous -and obviously skewed- anger was only fueled by his shoddy explanation, because really? His skills were activating on their own? And only around pretty girls? Oh, how convenient for him. What a ridiculous and lame excuse! Sunny took her gun, aimed, and fired at Steel's feet. 

"Liar!"

She reached for another bullet.

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[Steel]

How troublesome. Steel thought to himself as he could obviously tell that the girl in front of him didn’t believe him and was quite angered at him. Steel was actually already expecting this outcome and reaction from her. In fact, he wouldn’t blame anyone if they didn’t find his story to be very convincing. Nonetheless, he couldn’t help but feel that he was now in an annoying situation that would be difficult to get out of. This is why I hate that stupid running gag of a skill! Steel thought to himself in annoyance. “You really don’t like giving the benefit of a doubt do you?” Steel asked. He barely had time to finish his sentence before she shouted at him and called him a liar and shot at his foot with her gun which she just pulled out. The swashbuckler didn’t even attempt to dodge the bullet and the bullet hit him in the foot, causing him to bleed a little. With his speed, he could have fired a wind bullet from his fingers to deflect the bullet. Since a wind bullet took 0.5 seconds to fire, it would be faster than firing a normal bullet which took a full second. But yet, he didn’t do a thing and he let the bullet hit his foot. His foot stung a little and it was bleeding but Steel didn’t really mind it. Well, it was more like he was trying to ignore it until later when he could heal himself. “I think you aimed at the wrong place.” Steel said in response to being shot in the foot. Despite what just happened, there wasn’t that much of a change in Steel’s facial expression or anything. He then saw her reach for another bullet to fire and he then began to wonder how angry she was, wanting to keep firing bullets at him. “I think if you really want to hurt me…” He then reached for the girl’s hand that held the gun and moved it so that the gun was pointed directly at the left side of Steel’s chest. More specifically, the area where the heart would be. “…you might want to shoot me there.” He said as his hands went back to his sides. His tone was similar to that of a teacher’s, something that he had gotten used to. This was a first for him though. Normally, he taught people how to fight the enemy. This time, he was teaching her how to kill him. Well, that would be the case if they had their old bodies in the real world. In this world, a simple bullet shot wouldn’t kill a person so easily, no matter where it was fired. Also, he just said that stuff so he could see how the girl would react. As noted from his earlier observations, this girl was a complete beginner in the combat of this world and a majority of the people who just got started would be hesitant to do something that they would instinctively know from the real world that it would most likely kill a person.

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Sunny

[Sunny]

Her brain fired a sharp, mental curse in Brazilian once Sunny realized she'd actually hit him. She'd hoped he would have at least attempted to dodge the bullet. The Ritualist wasn't a fan of physical retribution. The shot had been more of a scare tactic, something to make him rethink his goals in life -at least, as far as life in the game went-, but he had to go and let her hit him, the jerk! Still, she had an image to maintain, and that she would do, because this guy had to learn his lesson, and he had to learn it real fine and fast.

Gun reloaded, she pondered shooting past his head this time -really get him sweating-, but when the guy guided her aim to his heart, it gave Sunny pause. She blinked. Slowly, the possibility that he really was innocent doused whatever rage she had been feeling, and she was left with a diluted annoyance that really made the whole incident seem rather petty. Heaving a sigh, Sunny removed the gun from his chest and then gingerly -can't be too careful, you know- pulled her finger from the trigger.

"Fine"

And then she slapped him, hard, right across one cheek. "But don't let it happen again." The Ritualist backed away from Steel then, keen eyes watching his face before scouting the area for Queen Bee. That girl had flown the coop already, though, the first shot having had snapped her from her trance and sent her out into the streets like her rear-end had been set to fire.

Realizing this, Sunny made for the exit to the alleyway, fully prepared to leave this fiasco far behind. She'd leave this as an afterthought, though, "you should get your foot taken care of while you're at it too."

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[Steel]

Steel wasn’t expecting the girl’s reaction towards him letting the bullet hit his foot. To be honest, he was expecting her to get scared that the shot actually hit him but instead, she seemed angry about it. I’m already guessing that she thinks that I’m a jerk for not dodging her bullet. Steel thought in his mind as he saw her angered expression. Obviously, she was not trying to hit Steel in the first place but rather, she was trying to make him dance the dodge bullet dance. This was exactly why he didn’t dodge the bullet or deflect it when he had the chance. It would stop the dance before it was supposed to start as she wasn’t intending to hit him. He could figure out she would probably try to purposefully miss a shot somewhere else, probably near the head or the body in an attempt to scare him. That is why he moved her hand towards his chest, making the gun aim at his heart.

As Steel predicted, the girl with the gun faltered when he directed her gun hand towards his heart. It seemed it made her snap back into reality a little. At the very least, it seemed that she’s cooled down and wasn’t so mad. Thankfully, she decided to pull back her gun and move it away from him before taking her finger off the finger. After a word that showed that she was willing to drop this, she slapped the Swashbuckler hard. It stung but Steel didn’t really react too much to it. In the first place, he was already expecting a slap, except he thought it’d be earlier. After that, she just told him not to let the same situation happen again. “I’ll try my best but as I said earlier, this thing activates on its own sometimes.” He said in response. It seems that girl from earlier had already left, probably after hearing the gun shot. Well, it was better for Steel that way. Having the affected person around wouldn’t help matters here.

When the girl who had shot him had started leaving the alleyway, Steel followed suit. It wasn’t like he had anything else to do. It was then she turned towards him and said that he should take care of his foot as well. Steel glanced down at his foot, having completely forgotten that it was still hurt. “Ah right, I forgot about that.” Steel said with a small smile that showed a bit of embarrassment and a carefree nature. “Don’t worry though, I can fix it up quick.” He then activated his skill Heal. Upon activation, Steel’s right hand glowed green as little particles of light came from his hand and went towards his foot. The girl would find that the wound Steel received from getting shot had healed up. “That should do it.” Steel was obviously not a person who would willingly choose a healer class for a character but he chose this spell in his skill list so that he could help with basic healing when needed or help a person feel more comfortable. "Anyway, my name's Steel, what's yours?" The swashbuckler asked afterwards, remembering that they haven’t been introduced yet due to the earlier situation.

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Sunny

[Sunny]

It was to Sunny's initial surprise when he showed himself capable of healing. Some subconscious part of her mind chimed in -while she watched his green-glowing hand erase all traces of the wound- that there was an Universal healing technique available for players to learn. Now that she was all into playing the game again, it'd probably be wise to pick it up sooner or later.

For now, Sunny was content on just level grabbing. She didn't want to become someone else's responsibility in the game, and being level one just took the fun out of a lot of things, like demon hunting, which was something she was really looking forward to doing in time. She had big plans with her gun. She could even see it now, bullets bursting with holy energy, blowing through phantom monsters as if they were made of paper.

The Brazilian stepped out into the light of the day, with the guy apparently not far behind, and then froze as he was introducing himself. Some of the more prominent members of the angry mob were retracing their steps, still burning wild to get a hold of the town charlatan. Her instincts told her to duck back into the alleyway, but then again, it wasn't her blood they were after. The guy, of course. . .No! Little-by-little, his attitude was convincing Sunny of his innocence. She couldn't let him take a fall like that.

"Uh oh. Save the "nice to meet yous" for later. I think we should run," and without another thought, the Swashbuckler sunk deeper into the alleyway, aiming to find another exit elsewhere.

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Steel

[Steel]

Steel was able to catch on to girl's worries and followed after her down into the alleyway. "If we keep going down this way, we'll reach a dead end." Steel said remembering the area around here. "We'll have to use other methods to escape since it is very likely that they'll check the alleyways." He said this in a moderately analytical tone as he thought of an idea. "I have an idea, sorry about this." He said before apologizing. He then grabbed the girl helping him escape and jumped up. "Fold Step!" He exclaimed, activating a skill that would propel him in a certain direction, this case being upward. The skill was enough for Steel to grab onto the edge of the roof above them with one hand. Due to his training, his strength has increased quite a lot despite his somewhat thin body. He also got a skill of sorts that increased his body strength even more. Steel waited for about 5 seconds before the cool down for the skill was over and pulled himself up a little before using the same skill again to get the two of them onto the top of the roof. "Hahaha, it actually worked." Steel said with a bit of a laugh as he set the girl down. He then eyed the mob of angry people that just reached the alleyway the two of them escaped from and decided to redirect their attention. he pulled out a bottle of ink of sorts and small piece of paper. He wrote a small word on the piece of paper before throwing towards the opposite direction of the mob. "Explode." Steel said, causing the ink to explode a little, not enough to do anything other than make a noise but it made the mob to decide to look elsewhere. "Well, that should distract them enough." Steel said as he turned back towards the girl. "You okay there? Sorry about the suddenness." He then remembered that she still hasn't introduced herself. "I don't think we finished our introductions have we? My name is Steel and I'm a Swashbuckler."

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Sunny

[Sunny]

By the time it registered in Sunny's mind that she had been grabbed, they were already two feet off the ground and only getting higher. The look on her face was a motley crew of surprise, worry, and excitement as her wide, bright eyes watched the surrounding brick walls rush by the ascending duo. For a moment, she didn't think he was going to be able to pull them both onto the roof; she had quite a bit of meat on her bones, but that doubt was quickly overwritten when he -lo and BEHOLD- managed to do the deed.

Up on the rooftops, Sunny waited in suspense to see what would come of the mob that had been tracking Steel. The devil himself was currently at work with a plan, she could tell as much with the look in his eyes and the ink bottle and paper in-hand. It was like watching a magician -an act she'd taken quite a delight in as a small child- as he activated the ink explosion in an attempt to distract his pursuers. When it became apparent that they were going off in another direction, the Brazilian could no longer container her excitement. She chuckled, face beaming with one of her usual, toothy grins that reached her wild eyes and stretched her tattoos.

"Sunny," she finally announced, the introductions being far overdo. She offered her hand, a formality that seemed to prevail in these parts.

Uh, what a rush! She couldn't wait to get out onto the fields and start doing a little hunting herself.

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Steel

[Steel]

“Nice to meet you Sunny.” Steel said with his own smile as he took the hand that she was offering him and shook it. It seemed that this girl had now stopped thinking of him in a negative light, previously thinking he was a lecherous pervert and was now smiling at him. Steel could even sense a hint of excitement coming from her due to the large grin on her face. “I can see that you look thrilled about all this. Was all that really that exciting? I just used what skills and materials I had available to me. I don’t think it’s all that impressive. I bet a lot of people could figure out solutions like that. There are probably people that could make up a better solution.” He said out of modesty. He also seriously knew of people from the Japan server that were much better strategists than him so in his mind, he thought he was telling the truth as well as being modest. The first two people that came to mind was his late friend Kyousuke who was the original Steel and the infamous Villain in Glasses Shiroe, an enchanter he met a few times on the Japanese server.

“Anyway, we should probably get down from here.” Steel said as he glanced down towards the ground. He knew that eventually, the two of them would be noticed up there and then it would be even harder for them to get away. “Sorry for the suddenness again.” Steel said before grabbing Sunny once more and jumping downwards. To make sure he wouldn’t damage himself from the fall, he used light jumps on the ledges on the way down to slow his ascent. Still, it didn’t take so long for them to get back to the ground due to gravity. “Now that we’ve gotten back to the ground, we just need to blend in with the rest of the crowd before going to wherever we need to go.” Steel said as he put Sunny down. “I’m going to the fields to hunt, I’ve gotta escape that angry mob for today at least. What are you going to do?”

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Sunny

[Sunny]

It wasn't anything personal or something that Steel had done really; Sunny was a bit of a thrill seeker. Flying through the air had a certain charm to it that tickled her fancy for running wild. It would have been no different had she been the one to grab him and leap to the very top of a building. "Nah. It's just been a while since I did anything in this game," she explained simply while taking a gander at life beneath their feet. "It's a nice change of pace from just strolling around town and hanging in the taverns." She could still see the mob; although, it was slowly starting to dissipate . People were evidently growing tired of the chase, possibly thinking that their mark was long gone, halfway to another town. They had absolutely no idea that he was perched high above them, safe as could be. Why they hadn't thought to send someone to check the rooftops was beyond her until Sunny remembered that mobs tended to operate with a hive mind mentality.

Expecting him to take hold of her this time, Sunny nodded and conceded, having no way to get down by herself at this point. In time, however, it would be different.

Being level one was suffering.

Back on the ground, the air was less fresh, less invigorating. They weren't quite in the clear yet. Steel would probably stay on the hit list for a while. When he announced that he was going to be taking to the fields until the situation blew over -if it ever did- Sunny considered going with him, a part of her still intrigued by the guy's supposed problem. Another part of her thought it'd be good to get out and start working on her own skills. She was still feeling hyped from the rooftop hop. "Maybe I'll go with you. I need to head out that way eventually, anyway. That is, if you don't mind the company."

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Steel

[Steel]

“Why haven’t you done much besides strolling around town?” Steel asked out of curiosity. “I’m sure you could have gone out to the fields to hunt. There are several areas that are easy to hunt in and have low level monsters. And besides, you need to defeat monsters to earn gold.” As he was talking about this, the mob had begun to dissipate and everyone had gone to do their own things, most likely bored of the chase. Steel knew though that he’d have to stay low key for a while. Well, that’d be easy for him since all it took for people to not notice him was to take off his coat and put away his swords in his inventory.

When he took hold of Sunny before preparing to jump down, he felt little resistance from the girl in question and he assumed it was because she already expecting it. When they got back to the ground, he could sense a bit of sadness coming from her. To Steel, who’s had to deal with different types of sadness himself as well as observing and sometimes helping others with their own sadness, each type of sadness had its own feel. The type Steel was feeling from Sunny was something he’s been through before, the feeling of being weak or at a lower level. Unfortunately, he couldn’t think of how to talk about this yet.

After he had stated his objective and asked Sunny about her own, she answered saying that she would go with him to the fields. “Sure, I don’t mind.” Steel said in response with his usual smile. “Let’s form a party then and go hunting together!” He said as he sent Sunny a party request. Afterwards, he put away the two swords on his back and into his inventory. He then took off his coat and put that into the inventory as well. Steel knew he would be asked as to why he was doing this so he decided to explain. “As you already know, I have to stay low and it seems that people don’t notice me when I don’t have my cloak or my swords out and when I use a little trick called Misdirection.” He then began to leave the street. “Now then, let’s get going.”

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Sunny

[Sunny]

“Haven’t had much of a heart to start over until now,” Sunny answered, eyeing the area below. Sure, there hadn’t been anything physically stopping her from going out and attacking the beginner-level monsters inhabiting the areas; however. . . “That whole ‘getting knocked back down to Level 1’ kind of killed the hype of playing for a while, though.” That being said, the hype had sky-rocketed straight to the stars. It was chugging along juuuust fine, hence her interest in following Steel out to the fields for a little monster-hunting. Sure, it would probably pale in comparison to demon-slaying, but it was something at least. She had to start somewhere, you know?

When they found themselves on the ground, the senior Swashbuckler kindly accepted Sunny’s presence during the hunt. She grinned, pleased enough. Had he rejected, she probably would’ve just shrugged and carried-on by herself until she found someone else to hang with. She wasn’t forlorn or anything, just annoyed by her situation. Regardless, the two-man party was forged. Out-of-habit, Sunny double-checked what little she had on her person. Her HP and MP were at full-capacity, thanks to her lazy days.

When Steel began to strip himself of his weapons and coat, the Brazilian merely quirked an eyebrow to the action. The question was clear, albeit unspoken. It was interesting how a change of clothes could essentially make you a different person in the eyes of someone else. Of course, mobs weren’t exactly known for being independent thinkers, but she still found the thought to be amusing. “Ahh. I seeee.”
With that out of the way, the Ritualist nodded at Steel's words, grinning and fully prepared for their hike out to the fields. Now that whole pesky misunderstanding was out of the way, she took no issue in checking out his stats. Swashbuckler. . .Level. . .-

"Level 52, huh? Why bother hanging around this area then? You can't be getting much out of the monsters here."

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