144 I just wanna punch him! (1/2)

Kiki came with a wheel in his hand. It had a spiral pattern of black and white intersecting with each other.

\”So what am I supposed to do?\” Drake asked in curiosity. To be honest, Linri seemed more nervous than him about this whole situation.

\”Nothing, darling. Just sit there and watch the wheel,\” said Ms. Valerie and the wheel started to turn.

\”Listen to my voice. Relax. The world around is a dream. You are sleeping. When I snap my finger you will be fully asleep.\”

*Snap*

Drake's eyelids slowly closed.

\”Write down the keyword,\” Ms. Valerie told Linri and Kiki handed him a paper and pen.

Linri gulped. He was still wondering if he should do this, but even if he didn't write it down she could learn the word from Drake. To hell with it! Linri wrote down the keyword and passed the paper.

\”Drak,e listen to me closely. My voice will guide you. When I say the word all the walls on your mind will collapse. Radiant.\”

Drake's expression changed. He looked like he was in pain.

\”Relax. You are with friends. No one can hurt you. Now when I snap my fingers you will wake up. Three, two, one.\”

*Snap*

Drake slowly came to himself and looked around him.

\”So did it work?\”

\”Yes, it did! I can finally remember who I am now!\” said Drake with clear joy in his voice.

Linri was relieved. Thankfully nothing had gone wrong.

\”Okay, if you have nothing else to say you can leave now,\” said Ms. Valerie like a queen excusing her subjects.

After getting out of the room they walked in silence for a while before Linri finally said something.

\”Sooooo, how much do you remember?\”

\”Everything,\” said Drake. His tone was stiff. That was weird, he seemed happy just now, so why did he seem so downtrodden?

\”You shouldn't have done that.\”

\”Do what?\”

\”You shouldn't have tried to make me the main personality.\”

\”Why? Don't you want to control your own body?\”

\”*Sigh* You wouldn't understand. It's not that I wasn't able to come out whenever I wanted. I just chose not to. What you just did only served to destroy what I built. The personalities didn't even vanish and now they each have my memories. *Sigh*\”

\”And you didn't tell me something so important?\”

\”If I did would you just let me hide in there?\”

\”No.\”

\”See? That's why I haven't told you! I was just happy that way and now you had to go and ruin it. You didn't even get rid of the personality problem. Arghhhh, do you know how it feels like to live with copies of yourself, do you?\”

\”I claim no responsibility. I was just trying to help my friend.\”

\”That's why I haven't punched you yet.\”

Then Drake reached out his hand.

\”What?\”

\”My money.\”

\”Hell no! I told you that, even if you get your memories, I wasn't going to return the money!\”

\”Give me my money back, you fucking swindler! Worse of all, you swindled me with something you learnt from me.\”

\”No,\” said Linri and started to dash away from Drake.

\”Hey you- Comeback!\” said Drake and also ran after him.

It was a surprise to him that Linri wasn't able to shake him off. Drake actually had the same speed-related stats as him.

You see, in the club, when you are creating a character you started off with 10 CP: in other words, character points. Buying a primary ability cost 6 CP while buying a secondary ability cost 4 CP. Also levelling your attributes to the next level cost 1 CP.

When he created Drake, TBB didn't buy a secondary ability and instead invested the remaining CP into attributes: [2x Exceptional Speed] and [2x Exceptional Agility]. He found that necessary since he made Drake's ability to work on short-range. You couldn't throw explosions like a fireball, so yeah.

Back to the current events, Linri was still running and Drake was still chasing. When he took a turn Linri finally saw a glimmer of hope. Kris was there talking to Kou.

\”Help me!\” said Linri and hid behind Kris. Thankfully he finally got a meat shield!

\”Come back!\” shouted Drake and tried to grab Linri who hid behind Kris.

Kris, on the other hand, was dumbfounded.

\”Stop! What's going on?\”

\”He took my money!\”

\”I did not! You gave it to me yourself!\”