Van stepped out of the bathroom, leaving Beatrice to tend to Andrea. He slowly looked around the house, his breaths turning heavier with every second.
He didn't notice it earlier since he was panicking and trying to find Andrea, but their house really was a wreck. It looked like it was ransacked by thieves and bandits, except they didn't take anything and just destroyed their things.
The table that he and his friends eat at, the sofa they lazed around when there really wasn't anything to do but relax. Even the walls were covered in letters written in red paint. Words like 'beggar' and 'stay away' were written all over the place.
Their windows were smashed and the black fumes that they saw when they rushed to the house were actually their clothes burning, all of it. Van's jaw started to shiver as he imagined what they did to the house, how they tied up Andrea, who had no way to fight back.
The sound of his teeth chattering filled the empty living room as he saw the stain of blood on the kitchen. Van could not help but fall to his knees, picking up the pan and cleaning out the litter of wasted food on the ground. He then grabbed the small knife that was also on the floor.
It was a bit sticky, probably from Andrea's sweat and the oil she was cooking with. Van's eyebrows started to tremble again as he thought of Andrea pointing this knife helplessly to the trespassers.
Why? He thought. Why would they even do this?
They were living peacefully.
And they just had to ruin that.
He then stood up as he retrieved his pouch full of crystals from his pocket and quickly grabbed one of the two remaining Yellow crystals that he received during his first day in the Academy. And without any hesitation whatsoever, swallowed it, going into superspeed so as to not explode from doing so.
[Gained 1500 EXP!]
[Base Lv. Up!] x1
[System Lv. Up!] x1
...Only one? Van furrowed his eyebrows.
He was deliberating on whether or not to use the other one that's left but now decided not to. It would probably best to save it as there might e a time when he needed to use it to recover his HP and SP. He didn't even bother checking his Status Window as he allocated all his points to INT.
He has been neglecting INT a lot, and with what he experienced in the Portal, he now knew that battles could go on for a long time, running out of SP during that time would be… disastrous.
The four men that they saw running out of the house couldn't have gone far, he thought as he walked out of the house while still holding the small knife in his hand. He quickly hid it, however, as soon as he was out of the gate.
It would seem that Harvey's incessant screaming has garnered the attention of the neighbors.
"Van!
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