She didn't need to wait long before the pink-haired girl came from her room, a quick scan of her shadows showed an empty room, it seemed that both the butler and maid had returned to inside her shadows after finishing her work.
"Morning Eli-Eli..." Said the pink-haired girl while rubbing her eyes with one hand and covering a yawn with the other. She was still wearing her pajamas, a very loose pink top that showed one of her shoulders, and a pair of loose pajamas that seemed would fall at any moment.
She did seem somewhat frustrated as if her last minutes of sleep weren't comfortable and looked suspiciously at the blonde. "Didn't you sleep well, Rossie?" Asked the blonde in what she hoped was a nonchalant tone.
"Actually I did sleep well...Had one of the best nights ever since starting studying at the MPI." Answered the pink-haired girl. "My problem was that at the last part of my dream when things were getting to the good part..." She said while seating herself and looking at the breakfast.
She judged it for a few seconds and even tasted it, but in the end, just shrugged and carried on saying "It stopped." She said while taking a sip at a cup of orange juice that the little maid girl had left.
She wasn't aware that Rossie liked orange juice, a quick look at her own cup showed the classic mango-flavored juice she had been drinking almost all her life.
"It stopped?" Asked the blonde, not sure if her quick escapade had caused a change in her dreams or something.
"Yes. I had such a nice sweet-smelling dream even...." Said the pink-haired girl with an undertone of longing, at this point, her eyes would start shining usually, but it seemed that evolving her [Origin] had solved that particular problem?
That or her mana veins were now more robust.
"For no reason even!" Exclaimed the pink-haired girl while huffing and viciously (?) biting off a part of the bacon the little girl had left them for breakfast.
Unlike one of the five stars or diamond breakfasts that Rossie liked to make, the little girl had left them a more normal and average breakfast. Just fried eggs with bacon and a single sausage for both of them.
Even so, the blonde girl wasn't sure what to say about that. She wasn't going to come out and say 'Hey Rossie, sorry about that, but it seems that I teleport while sleeping!'
Or 'Hey Rossie, I might invade your personal privacy and use you as a hugging pillow!'
Yeah...She was her friend but they weren't that close...'Not yet anyway'
"Yeah, that sucks Rossie...I had a nice dream too, even if I woke up sore all over." Said the blonde girl while eating her part of the breakfast.
"Oh right, wasn't my turn to cook?" asked the pink-haired girl...
There weren't turns to cook anymore since her friend had hogged all of them...And the cleaning schedule...And the only reason she didn't hog the shopping schedule was because they were planning to use her [Inventory] skill to carry the stuff they bought...
"Oh, that...One of Nyx's minions can cook it seems." She said while taking a small sip from her mango juice. Hmm...Freshly made...That girl had talent...
"Am I to assume Nyx's minions are also responsible for repairing our Living Room?" Asked the pink-haired girl while pointing to their now repaired furniture and recently polished wooden floor?
Was that wooden floor before?
She wasn't sure.
"...Yesh?" Answered the blonde girl while trying to see how many threads were woven into her new hoodie.
"That is a very convenient minion that Nyx has." Said the pink-haired girl while looking at the small dragon who was eating in her bowl.
The dragon for his part just looked at the pair of girls and with one of his little adorable and cute paws made a series of numbers.
"Four?" Asked Rossie while looking at Elizabeth.
The blonde started thinking back and sure enough, she remembered seeing several different castes of dragons frolicking about in their living room when she awoke, "I think he means to say that there were several types of Shadow Dragons working...There was the butler, the maid...A few that looked like soldiers...I think there was this one that had a more sleek body so perhaps a scout?" Started recounting the blonde girl.
"Eli-Eli...I think you didn't pay enough attention in powered class." Said the pink-haired girl while sighing.
"That's not true!" Answered the blonde girl while standing and pointing at Nyx "He is just a very good summon!"
Nyx for his part just stood and nodded along, he was indeed a very good summon. He was after all..[The Twilight Dragon of The End].
"And the crazy old man never taught us much...He just put us in the arena and made us fight." Finished saying the blonde while sitting back in frustration.
"I didn't mean that one, but the normal ones at school. You know those that taught us about bad triggers and stuff." Added the pink-haired girl while finishing eating her breakfast and grabbing her plate.
Granted since it seemed as if she had made breakfast it would mean she had to do the dishes...But she could just summon that maid girl to do it too...Couldn't she?
A mental prod into her shadows returned a negative. Was it a cooldown type of summoning? She didn't feel like it was. Perhaps the little girl didn't want to confront her 'Mother'?
No, that wasn't important!
"What classes?" Asked the blonde confused. "Weren't most of the stuff about powered taught at this school?" She was sure no one taught them about powered at school.
And her father always said that most powered stuff was about feeling. When she asked him about that was all her father answered.
"They didn't teach you about bad triggers?" Asked flabbergasted her friend from the kitchen, and she sounded as if she was eating something.
She had moved to the living room and was now resting in one of the sofas, sprawled all along the comfortable and fluffy cushions. It seemed that the pink-haired girl had decided to eat some of the remaining food scraps in the frying pans the little girl had used?
Did that girl give less food to Rossie? That shouldn't be.
Either way, she said, "Not that I think about it. There were some examples of powered people in positions of power such as [The Twelve] but nothing much on triggering outside of controlled environments. Nor how to use [Skills]." Answered the blonde girl.
"Maybe they have a better control over possible bad triggers in Avalon so they don't investigate as much?" Mumbled the pink-haired girl while returning from the kitchen, she had indeed eaten something while doing the dishes since she was licking his lips and hands.
Wait...Did she do the dishes, then eat after? What about the dishes left to do after she ate again? Perhaps she decided this conversation was more important and she would in turn do the dishes later?
Gah! Who cares in what order Rossie decided to do the dishes!
"Anyway...In a nutshell..." Started saying the pink-haired girl while sitting herself in a chair near her all proper while the blonde girl stayed sprawled over the sofa. "A bad trigger is when a powered awakens their [Skill] but either doesn't awaken it fully or doesn't awaken the necessary parts for the [Skill] to work as intended." Said the pink-haired girl.
And then stopped saying anything else. "That's it?" Asked the blonde girl, that didn't sound too bad.
For her part, the pink-haired girl just smiled as if she knew the girl would react like that. "You are adorable Eli-Eli." And just said so while taking her smartphone from...Wait...Where did she get that smartphone?
Her friend unlike her walked out of her room still with her pajamas on, a pair that showed way too much skin and made her focus in the face of her friend more than needed. Did those pajamas carry pockets?
She would order a pair if so...In a more appropriate size.
"Here look at this." Said the pink-haired girl while showing her a picture, there was a house on fire with the title being 'Bad Trigger takes the lives of a family of four...Still searching for the culprit.'
"The kid had a drunk father that beat him and his mother daily. One day the kid triggered in a fit of rage...So when he felt the [Skill] form in his body...He funneled all the mana he had in it...Prematurely ending his awakening and in turn...[Triggering] the skill earlier than recommended. " She said while turning the picture to one showing the remains of a house and in the middle the silhouette of what couldn't be anything else but the figure of a child.
"He had no control of the flames, they fed into his anger and burned with the power equivalent of a C-Tier...and the control of an F-Tier. He confessed five years later when apprehended by a group of heroes." And after that, the pink-haired girl showed the picture of a scrawny teen.
"Sentenced to 15 years in [The Midnight Fortress] for dangerous powered. He has no control whatsoever on his skills, it was suspected that some group of [Villains] helped to his capture since he liked to let his flames go wild near civilian areas...But no hero group confirmed that." Said the pink-haired girl.
"That's...Gruesome...We...Don't really have many of those...Even [Villains] usually never do actual crimes in Avalon." Said the blonde girl thinking back, there were petty crimes all right, but half of those were just that.
Petty. She did hear about vicious crimes in the news and such, but she didn't remember any mention of bad triggers...Did the news media block that kind of thing?
Why would they do that?
No wait...Was she a bad trigger then? She looked down into her shadows, she...Didn't really have that much control nowadays of them did she? They reacted quite strongly to her emotions after all...
"...I might need to look into that..." Said the blonde girl, she would need to find that library to read into that...And then look into someone with a similar enough powerset to hers...
"I mean, some of the older dudes like to say that thinking about a bad trigger is enough to make you into one, and others like to say that bad triggers are contagious." Said the pink-haired girl while scrolling throw some articles on her phone. She...Didn't find those articles on her phone.
Was her phone faulty?
Ugh...Knowing her father perhaps he had put some kind of blocker or filter in her things...He did like to baby her too much, that was part of the reason she hadn't really planned to go to that [Villain] he had suggested.
"Also I will buy a new phone on the way out I guess." Said the blonde while throwing her phone into her shadow, she would fish the sim card from it later...Perhaps she could try and use one of her [Identify] on the phone and see if the skill brought the information about if it was giving her filtered information?
She doubted that would work, but it was worth the experimentation. Besides, Rossie had told her to use her skill in some ingenious way already. To see if one could see the library of spell nodes or magical circles would give quite the boost in information gathering.
She hadn't wanted to use it on her friend since she was already invading too much of her privacy with the link they had established...And into her personal space with her half-sleep teleporting...
"What's wrong with that one?" Asked her friend, walking over to her side and sitting on the floor peering at her smartphone.
"W-well..." stuttered the blonde trying to not think about how loose and revealing the garments of her friend were. "...For one I can't find those articles you mentioned." And quickly passed her phone to her friend.
She quickly focused her eyes on the screen and not anything else...NOTHING ELSE AT ALL!
"hmm...Weird...Can't install any other browser either..." Mumbled her friend who was looking all over her phone settings.
She was never one for technology since most of her stuff came already configurated by one of her father's friends. "Custom SO?" continued her friend utterly focused on her phone.
She looked adorable when she was focused like that, and also kinda cute with her hair all messed over the place, some strands of hair even going inside her shirt and straight into...'ADFLSKFASDLKFHASDF'
"Something wrong Eli-Eli?" Asked the pink-haired girl suddenly turning to the blonde. Who right now was trying to shove and at the same time bite one of the cushions with her face.
"N-Nothing~," Said in a muffled tone the blonde girl still with her face behind the cushion. "What did you find?" Said the blonde girl after finally coming from under the cushion where she had hidden her face.
For her part, the pink-haired girl just smiled and pretended to not see anything out of order "For starters, your phone has custom SO. This shouldn't be legal, and should flag your phone when connected to the net."
"Yeah...Papa might have pulled one of his [Hero] friends to get it under the radar..." 'Or over the radar from [The Twelve]' thought the blonde girl but didn't add on the end.
"So this means what info you can get from the net is limited to some arbitrary settings, from what I found on this quick search anything about Awakening or Triggering is filtered. Mostly about premature awakenings and or Triggers... And it covers some of the most gruesome [Villainous] acts..." Added the pink-haired girl while typing something on her phone and into hers.
"For example [The Puppet Master] does not show in your search. "She said while on her phone there were several entries about a [Villain]. She didn't get enough time to read them since Rossie quickly closed the tab in question.
She was about to complain when she brought the next one "And these are weird too." And then proceeded to type her father and mother's public names. While on the right phone(Rossie's) there were articles about what they did and the villains they fought.
In her, there were articles about their biggest achievements...And the fights that had occurred last week. Same with most of [The Twelve]...Well except for one. For some reason [The Tinker] only had good articles...And [The Traveler] had the least amount of information.
[Shadow Pact] of course had the biggest amount, so she never actually cared about the amount of information she got.
"See? Weird. Your father's friend must be a fan of [The Twelve] with some weird biases." Said the pink-haired girl while standing and giving her back her phone.
"Might want to get a new number too... Since your powered form will need a different contact information too." Said the girl while walking towards her room and stretching. "Anyway...I will try and go to sleep and finish my last dream now after eating, have fun in your day." Finished saying her friend while closing the door.
Right...She needed to do her chores outside...
Couldn't she just sleep today? No?
'Ugh...Might as well.' Thought the blonde girl while standing and making sure her hair hadn't been ruined too much in her attempt to suffocate the intrusive thoughts.
And in a somewhat confused mood, the blonde girl walked towards the door. "Let's go Nyx, we have plenty of things to do today..." And summoned the shadow dragon so he could dive into her shadow.
She would need to go to the library to learn what she could about those topics somehow she missed while growing up...Find a new phone and get herself to work with some [Villain] group...
She would dig into the net to see what group was more viable too... She was already missing her bed.
She didn't need to wait long before the pink-haired girl came from her room, a quick scan of her shadows showed an empty room, it seemed that both the butler and maid had returned to inside her shadows after finishing her work.
"Morning Eli-Eli..." Said the pink-haired girl while rubbing her eyes with one hand and covering a yawn with the other. She was still wearing her pajamas, a very loose pink top that showed one of her shoulders, and a pair of loose pajamas that seemed would fall at any moment.
She did seem somewhat frustrated as if her last minutes of sleep weren't comfortable and looked suspiciously at the blonde. "Didn't you sleep well, Rossie?" Asked the blonde in what she hoped was a nonchalant tone.
"Actually I did sleep well...Had one of the best nights ever since starting studying at the MPI." Answered the pink-haired girl. "My problem was that at the last part of my dream when things were getting to the good part..." She said while seating herself and looking at the breakfast.
She judged it for a few seconds and even tasted it, but in the end, just shrugged and carried on saying "It stopped." She said while taking a sip at a cup of orange juice that the little maid girl had left.
She wasn't aware that Rossie liked orange juice, a quick look at her own cup showed the classic mango-flavored juice she had been drinking almost all her life.
"It stopped?" Asked the blonde, not sure if her quick escapade had caused a change in her dreams or something.
"Yes. I had such a nice sweet-smelling dream even...." Said the pink-haired girl with an undertone of longing, at this point, her eyes would start shining usually, but it seemed that evolving her [Origin] had solved that particular problem?
That or her mana veins were now more robust.
"For no reason even!" Exclaimed the pink-haired girl while huffing and viciously (?) biting off a part of the bacon the little girl had left them for breakfast.
Unlike one of the five stars or diamond breakfasts that Rossie liked to make, the little girl had left them a more normal and average breakfast. Just fried eggs with bacon and a single sausage for both of them.
Even so, the blonde girl wasn't sure what to say about that. She wasn't going to come out and say 'Hey Rossie, sorry about that, but it seems that I teleport while sleeping!'
Or 'Hey Rossie, I might invade your personal privacy and use you as a hugging pillow!'
Yeah...She was her friend but they weren't that close...'Not yet anyway'
"Yeah, that sucks Rossie...I had a nice dream too, even if I woke up sore all over." Said the blonde girl while eating her part of the breakfast.
"Oh right, wasn't my turn to cook?" asked the pink-haired girl...
There weren't turns to cook anymore since her friend had hogged all of them...And the cleaning schedule...And the only reason she didn't hog the shopping schedule was because they were planning to use her [Inventory] skill to carry the stuff they bought...
"Oh, that...One of Nyx's minions can cook it seems." She said while taking a small sip from her mango juice. Hmm...Freshly made...That girl had talent...
"Am I to assume Nyx's minions are also responsible for repairing our Living Room?" Asked the pink-haired girl while pointing to their now repaired furniture and recently polished wooden floor?
Was that wooden floor before?
She wasn't sure.
"...Yesh?" Answered the blonde girl while trying to see how many threads were woven into her new hoodie.
"That is a very convenient minion that Nyx has." Said the pink-haired girl while looking at the small dragon who was eating in her bowl.
The dragon for his part just looked at the pair of girls and with one of his little adorable and cute paws made a series of numbers.
"Four?" Asked Rossie while looking at Elizabeth.
The blonde started thinking back and sure enough, she remembered seeing several different castes of dragons frolicking about in their living room when she awoke, "I think he means to say that there were several types of Shadow Dragons working...There was the butler, the maid...A few that looked like soldiers...I think there was this one that had a more sleek body so perhaps a scout?" Started recounting the blonde girl.
"Eli-Eli...I think you didn't pay enough attention in powered class." Said the pink-haired girl while sighing.
"That's not true!" Answered the blonde girl while standing and pointing at Nyx "He is just a very good summon!"
Nyx for his part just stood and nodded along, he was indeed a very good summon. He was after all..[The Twilight Dragon of The End].
"And the crazy old man never taught us much...He just put us in the arena and made us fight." Finished saying the blonde while sitting back in frustration.
"I didn't mean that one, but the normal ones at school. You know those that taught us about bad triggers and stuff." Added the pink-haired girl while finishing eating her breakfast and grabbing her plate.
Granted since it seemed as if she had made breakfast it would mean she had to do the dishes...But she could just summon that maid girl to do it too...Couldn't she?
A mental prod into her shadows returned a negative. Was it a cooldown type of summoning? She didn't feel like it was. Perhaps the little girl didn't want to confront her 'Mother'?
No, that wasn't important!
"What classes?" Asked the blonde confused. "Weren't most of the stuff about powered taught at this school?" She was sure no one taught them about powered at school.
And her father always said that most powered stuff was about feeling. When she asked him about that was all her father answered.
"They didn't teach you about bad triggers?" Asked flabbergasted her friend from the kitchen, and she sounded as if she was eating something.
She had moved to the living room and was now resting in one of the sofas, sprawled all along the comfortable and fluffy cushions. It seemed that the pink-haired girl had decided to eat some of the remaining food scraps in the frying pans the little girl had used?
Did that girl give less food to Rossie? That shouldn't be.
Either way, she said, "Not that I think about it. There were some examples of powered people in positions of power such as [The Twelve] but nothing much on triggering outside of controlled environments. Nor how to use [Skills]." Answered the blonde girl.
"Maybe they have a better control over possible bad triggers in Avalon so they don't investigate as much?" Mumbled the pink-haired girl while returning from the kitchen, she had indeed eaten something while doing the dishes since she was licking his lips and hands.
Wait...Did she do the dishes, then eat after? What about the dishes left to do after she ate again? Perhaps she decided this conversation was more important and she would in turn do the dishes later?
Gah! Who cares in what order Rossie decided to do the dishes!
"Anyway...In a nutshell..." Started saying the pink-haired girl while sitting herself in a chair near her all proper while the blonde girl stayed sprawled over the sofa. "A bad trigger is when a powered awakens their [Skill] but either doesn't awaken it fully or doesn't awaken the necessary parts for the [Skill] to work as intended." Said the pink-haired girl.
And then stopped saying anything else. "That's it?" Asked the blonde girl, that didn't sound too bad.
For her part, the pink-haired girl just smiled as if she knew the girl would react like that. "You are adorable Eli-Eli." And just said so while taking her smartphone from...Wait...Where did she get that smartphone?
Her friend unlike her walked out of her room still with her pajamas on, a pair that showed way too much skin and made her focus in the face of her friend more than needed. Did those pajamas carry pockets?
She would order a pair if so...In a more appropriate size.
"Here look at this." Said the pink-haired girl while showing her a picture, there was a house on fire with the title being 'Bad Trigger takes the lives of a family of four...Still searching for the culprit.'
"The kid had a drunk father that beat him and his mother daily. One day the kid triggered in a fit of rage...So when he felt the [Skill] form in his body...He funneled all the mana he had in it...Prematurely ending his awakening and in turn...[Triggering] the skill earlier than recommended. " She said while turning the picture to one showing the remains of a house and in the middle the silhouette of what couldn't be anything else but the figure of a child.
"He had no control of the flames, they fed into his anger and burned with the power equivalent of a C-Tier...and the control of an F-Tier. He confessed five years later when apprehended by a group of heroes." And after that, the pink-haired girl showed the picture of a scrawny teen.
"Sentenced to 15 years in [The Midnight Fortress] for dangerous powered. He has no control whatsoever on his skills, it was suspected that some group of [Villains] helped to his capture since he liked to let his flames go wild near civilian areas...But no hero group confirmed that." Said the pink-haired girl.
"That's...Gruesome...We...Don't really have many of those...Even [Villains] usually never do actual crimes in Avalon." Said the blonde girl thinking back, there were petty crimes all right, but half of those were just that.
Petty. She did hear about vicious crimes in the news and such, but she didn't remember any mention of bad triggers...Did the news media block that kind of thing?
Why would they do that?
No wait...Was she a bad trigger then? She looked down into her shadows, she...Didn't really have that much control nowadays of them did she? They reacted quite strongly to her emotions after all...
"...I might need to look into that..." Said the blonde girl, she would need to find that library to read into that...And then look into someone with a similar enough powerset to hers...
"I mean, some of the older dudes like to say that thinking about a bad trigger is enough to make you into one, and others like to say that bad triggers are contagious." Said the pink-haired girl while scrolling throw some articles on her phone. She...Didn't find those articles on her phone.
Was her phone faulty?
Ugh...Knowing her father perhaps he had put some kind of blocker or filter in her things...He did like to baby her too much, that was part of the reason she hadn't really planned to go to that [Villain] he had suggested.
"Also I will buy a new phone on the way out I guess." Said the blonde while throwing her phone into her shadow, she would fish the sim card from it later...Perhaps she could try and use one of her [Identify] on the phone and see if the skill brought the information about if it was giving her filtered information?
She doubted that would work, but it was worth the experimentation. Besides, Rossie had told her to use her skill in some ingenious way already. To see if one could see the library of spell nodes or magical circles would give quite the boost in information gathering.
She hadn't wanted to use it on her friend since she was already invading too much of her privacy with the link they had established...And into her personal space with her half-sleep teleporting...
"What's wrong with that one?" Asked her friend, walking over to her side and sitting on the floor peering at her smartphone.
"W-well..." stuttered the blonde trying to not think about how loose and revealing the garments of her friend were. "...For one I can't find those articles you mentioned." And quickly passed her phone to her friend.
She quickly focused her eyes on the screen and not anything else...NOTHING ELSE AT ALL!
"hmm...Weird...Can't install any other browser either..." Mumbled her friend who was looking all over her phone settings.
She was never one for technology since most of her stuff came already configurated by one of her father's friends. "Custom SO?" continued her friend utterly focused on her phone.
She looked adorable when she was focused like that, and also kinda cute with her hair all messed over the place, some strands of hair even going inside her shirt and straight into...'ADFLSKFASDLKFHASDF'
"Something wrong Eli-Eli?" Asked the pink-haired girl suddenly turning to the blonde. Who right now was trying to shove and at the same time bite one of the cushions with her face.
"N-Nothing~," Said in a muffled tone the blonde girl still with her face behind the cushion. "What did you find?" Said the blonde girl after finally coming from under the cushion where she had hidden her face.
For her part, the pink-haired girl just smiled and pretended to not see anything out of order "For starters, your phone has custom SO. This shouldn't be legal, and should flag your phone when connected to the net."
"Yeah...Papa might have pulled one of his [Hero] friends to get it under the radar..." 'Or over the radar from [The Twelve]' thought the blonde girl but didn't add on the end.
"So this means what info you can get from the net is limited to some arbitrary settings, from what I found on this quick search anything about Awakening or Triggering is filtered. Mostly about premature awakenings and or Triggers... And it covers some of the most gruesome [Villainous] acts..." Added the pink-haired girl while typing something on her phone and into hers.
"For example [The Puppet Master] does not show in your search. "She said while on her phone there were several entries about a [Villain]. She didn't get enough time to read them since Rossie quickly closed the tab in question.
She was about to complain when she brought the next one "And these are weird too." And then proceeded to type her father and mother's public names. While on the right phone(Rossie's) there were articles about what they did and the villains they fought.
In her, there were articles about their biggest achievements...And the fights that had occurred last week. Same with most of [The Twelve]...Well except for one. For some reason [The Tinker] only had good articles...And [The Traveler] had the least amount of information.
[Shadow Pact] of course had the biggest amount, so she never actually cared about the amount of information she got.
"See? Weird. Your father's friend must be a fan of [The Twelve] with some weird biases." Said the pink-haired girl while standing and giving her back her phone.
"Might want to get a new number too... Since your powered form will need a different contact information too." Said the girl while walking towards her room and stretching. "Anyway...I will try and go to sleep and finish my last dream now after eating, have fun in your day." Finished saying her friend while closing the door.
Right...She needed to do her chores outside...
Couldn't she just sleep today? No?
'Ugh...Might as well.' Thought the blonde girl while standing and making sure her hair hadn't been ruined too much in her attempt to suffocate the intrusive thoughts.
And in a somewhat confused mood, the blonde girl walked towards the door. "Let's go Nyx, we have plenty of things to do today..." And summoned the shadow dragon so he could dive into her shadow.
She would need to go to the library to learn what she could about those topics somehow she missed while growing up...Find a new phone and get herself to work with some [Villain] group...
She would dig into the net to see what group was more viable too... She was already missing her bed.
