A few hours later, Yuki exited the lab, his face sweaty. He stretched his arms for a bit before heading to the lounge. When he arrived, he noticed that Yuna has already left, leaving Akira and Erica by themselves.
“Done?” Erica asked. “What were you doing?”
“So experints,” Yuki replied. “Got so results. I need to work on it so more before I can finalize anything.”
“Experints?”
“Mhm. So weapons and materials. I’ll be using them for a variety of things.”
“Are you done for the day?” Akira asked.
“Yes. We can go back ho if you two want,” he said. He glanced at the screen they were watching. “Is that the tournant from today?”
“Yup,” Erica said. “I got Uriel to hook us up an hour ago. Before that Akira and I just ssed around for a bit with so gas.”
“I see. Did you find anything interesting?”
“They didn’t really show you and Yuna,” Akira replied. “The few tis they did, the announcer only made passing remarks mainly about how you’re a human and Yuna is a bright prospect.”
“That’s good. Are you two planning to finish it? I can wait.”
“No, it’s fine. We should get going.”
“Are you planning to cook?” Erica asked.
“If you want, I don’t mind. We can also swing by soplace and eat there. Whatever you guys want.”
“Let’s go ho,” Akira said.
“Alright. I should have so things I can put together,” Yuki said. “You’re fine with that, right Erica?”
“Yeah. I don’t mind,” she smiled.
“Let’s go then.”
The three of them walked to the transportation room where they were promptly transported back to their bar in Junction.
“Let
get a drink real quick before we go back,” Yuki said as they walked into the main room.
Akira nodded and Erica followed him as he made his way to the bar. He signaled to the barkeep who smiled at him.
“Hey, boss. What can I get you today?” the barkeep asked.
“Hmm. Erica, you want sothing?” Yuki asked, turning to her.
“I was going to get so wine or sothing like that,” she said.
“Then we can split that. I’ll take a bottle of Duskdrought,” Yuki said to the barkeeper.
“Alright.” She walked to the back wall and scanned the shelves before withdrawing a bottle. “That’ll be twenty bronze.”
Yuki slid over the paynt and took the bottle, storing it within his ring. He gestured to Akira before heading out of the bar. Akira caught up with him and Erica as he opened the door. Together, they walked to the transportation center in Junction, chatting with one another. A few minutes later, they arrived in Fenrir and after a short walk, their apartnt.
“Oh, so that’s what you were busy with,” Yuki said as he walked into the apartnt.
It was clean and spotless with the dishes washed and based on the baskets, the clothes washed as well.
“Yes,” Akira nodding, blushing a little. “I thought that since I never really do anything around the house, I could help out since you were busy today.”
“I see. Thanks, then,” Yuki said. “But leave so for
sotis. I want sothing to do around the house at tis.”
“I helped,” Erica piped up. “I folded the clothes.”
“Mmm. Thank you as well then. I’ll get started cooking then. You two can do whatever until I finish,” Yuki said. He placed the bottle of wine onto the kitchen counter. “You can split that if you want, as well. Just leave so for
later.”
“Alrighty,” she said, gabbing the bottle. She went to the cabinet and grabbed two glasses. “Akira, you want so?”
“A glass is fine,” Akira replied from the living room.
Yuki turned on the stove and started cooking while Erica poured out the wine into the glasses. She pointed to one and told Yuki that it was his before walking over to where Akira was, handing her one of the glasses that was in her hands. Around thirty minutes later, Yuki finished the final touches to their dinner and walked over to the living room to hand the two plates, taking his empty glass with him.
“Thanks,” Akira smiled.
“Nice,” Erica said, slling the dish. “Didn’t think we’ll be eating beef today.”
“I saw and thought that it would be nice to eat,” Yuki said. “It’ll go well with the drinks. I think. We still have so right?”
“Mhm. We didn’t drink that much. There’s still enough for a few glasses, I’m sure,” Erica replied.
She poured out so more wine and the three of them started on their dinner. They ate in silence for the most part, Yuki thinking mainly about his experints earlier in the day and bit about the tournant. There was still a small thing that he wasn’t too sure on. A little statent in the description of the next round that was cause for consideration.
‘A surprise,’ he thought. ‘A surprise during the second round of the tournant. I wonder what that could be. They didn’t say other than there was a surprise planned. At least I know there is one now. It won’t be that much of a surprise now.’
“Yuki,” Akira said suddenly. He looked up from his dish. “What were you doing in the lab today?”
“I thought I already answered that,” he said, tilting his head.
“You did but I wanted to know if you could tell
the specifics. I’m curious.”
“Just so materials,” Yuki shrugged. “That’s it. I’m basing off of a reward I got from the tournant earlier today. Self repairing cloth.”
“Really? That’s interesting,” she said, her eyes lighting up. “Do you have the glove with you?”
“Ah, no, sorry. I left it in the lab with Damian. We’re working together on this little project,” he said. “But it’s a pair of black gloves that seem slightly armored, nothing particularly strong. When ripped or cut, nanites or sothing of that nature repair the glove. I forgot that such things existed.”
“And you want to recreate it for materials that could repair themselves?”
“Basically. It’ll prove very useful as a material in a lot of things. Maybe not so much in weaponry because it might prove to be more harmful than helpful, but for other things like clothing and building, it should be very nice.”
“I see. Do you need help with it?” she asked.
“With the project?”
“Yes.”
“What kind of help?”
“I can do research,” she offered. “I’m good at that. Or maybe so advice. If the material is going to be tal or earth based, I can offer so guidance.”
“Guidance? Like what to be exact?” Yuki said.
“tallurgy or alchemy. I’m fairly good at that.”
“tallurgy. With earth magic?”
“Yes.”
“I didn’t consider that,” he mumbled to himself. “I should learn that. Akira, maybe you can teach
that. I know crafting but I haven’t tried tallurgy or alchemy before.”
“I’ll gladly teach you,” she smiled.
“After the tournant,” he nodded. “Show
after the tournant. I think if I learn it, I can accomplish what I’m trying to do.”
“You’ll need materials, no?” Erica piped up. Yuki turned his attention to her. “For tallurgy.”
“I would assu.”
“I knew a few people that were tallurgists. You’re going to need a lot of different types of materials if you want to start dabbling in that subject,” she said. “One guy I knew had an entire floor dedicated to supplies. There were like rows upon rows of neatly labeled boxes and such of tals and ores. It was pretty impressive.”
“Yeah. I guessed as much,” Yuki said, rubbing his eyes. “I have materials but I’ll probably need more. Sotis, odd combinations can create so surprising outcos.”
“Yes,” Erica said, giving him a finger gun. “And I can help with that. I think.”
“You know suppliers?”
“For tals, yeah. If you want drugs, not so much,” she grinned. “Though I haven’t had contact with them in a while so I don’t know if they’ll help . They should have good mory though. They are demons after all.”
“I see. That would be very helpful then,” Yuki nodded. “If you can do that for , that’ll be great. I’ll compile a list you can bring to those people of all of the things I already have. Or really, Uriel can.”
“I heard that,” Uriel’s voice said.
“You know it’s true,” Yuki replied. She laughed a bit before going quiet again. “Anyway, she’ll be doing that after the tournant.”
“Can I go with you when you do that?” Akira asked Erica. “I’m curious about what a professional tallurgist does. What I know is really informal and what I learned from books and trial and error.”
“Sure, I don’t mind. They would probably be really happy about an earth elentalist coming into their workshop.”
“Great!”
The three of them chatted a bit longer as they finished their al and the bottle of wine. Yuki collected their dishes and placed them in the sink, rinsing them a bit.
“You know, tomorrow, if you two want, you can go to the tournant,” Yuki said as he walked back to the couch. “To watch.”
“Wouldn’t we need a ticket? Those are sold out aren’t they? There weren’t many to begin with,” Akira said. “I checked.”
“Well, yes. But the ticket isn’t a physical object. It’s digital. And if it’s digital, I can do sothing about it.”
“You’re going to fake a ticket?”
“Two tickets. And it won’t be faking,” he corrected. “I’ll be adding two more tickets to the list for the tournant. Then I’ll be giving you two one of them each. I’ll even throw in the money if that makes you feel better.”
“Oh, I wasn’t worried about the legal side. I just wanted to know how you were going to do it.”
“You can put in money for mine,” Erica said.
“So you’re going?” Yuki asked.
“I an, I don’t have much else to do until after the tournant anyway. The most I can do is train,” she shrugged. “Plus, I want to cheer you on.”
“I see. Akira?”
“Of course I’m going,” she smiled. “You don’t need to ask
that. I wanted to go before, but the tickets ran out.”
“Alright then. I’ll tell Uriel to do that,” he nodded. He glanced at his watch to check the ti. “It’s not that late yet. Do you two want to do sothing? I have nothing I need to do right now because of the tournant. And I don’t feel like doing much.”
“We don’t really have anything around here,” Erica replied, scratching her cheek. “Do you like gas?”
“I guess. Why not,” he shrugged. “Let’s play.”
“That’s the visitor entrance,” Yuki said, pointing toward an archway that led into the tournant arena. “You two are going to enter through there. I’ll be going in through the participants entrance.”
“Okay,” Akira nodded. “Good luck today.”
“Thanks. But I hope I won’t need it.”
“See you later and I want a rematch from last night,” Erica said, waving as she grabbed Akira’s hand and began walking toward the entrance.
“Fine with ,” Yuki replied. He watched them for a bit before turning.
He made his way to the restricted entrance and saw Yuna standing outside, waiting. Her eyes t his and she waved to him.
“Hello, Yuki,” she said as he got closer. “Ready?”
“We’ve been ready for almost a week,” Yuki said. “We’ll be fine.”
“We should,” she agreed. “There’s nothing that I need to know, correct? No new updates?”
“Nothing terribly important. Just prepare yourself for any surprises,” he replied. “They might throw sothing our way.”
“Understood.”
“Alright then. Let’s go.”
Yuna nodded and they walked together through the imposing doors of the arena as they prepared for what was to co that day.
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