Chapter 102 - Battle Royale (1/2)

Major Valen woke up the next morning feeling extremely refreshed and invigorated. He saw that Verona had already left so he was a little sad, but at the same time he would at least have last night and parts of the early morning to remember.

Having not felt this good in a long time, Major Valen sent out a message to everyone on the base with a slightly sadistic smile on his face.

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Gray woke up early next to Yurika, it felt weird sleeping in her room for once and he was fearful a gaggle of girls would come in a shock him again thinking he was intruding.

"Yurika looks nice and relaxed though." Gray said to himself.

Yurika was sprawled out on her back with the blanket covering only half of her body. She held a pillow that had a small amount of drool forming on it with one arm and the gentle sounds of her snoring told Gray she was extremely relaxed as he brushed her hair out of her face to look at it.

"If only this could last" Gray thought. Yurika then rolled over on her side, flinging her other arm over the pillow followed by a little bit of a slurping sound from the drool. Gray saw her flex her butt slightly and was trying to figure out what she was doing.

Suddenly Yurika farted, loud and strong, like a trombone on a 1000 Watt amp with a side order fried eggs and two-day-old bacon causing Gray to feel like he sat out in the desert sun for days on end until his hair burned away and skin turned to leather.

Ok, he was being a little dramatic, it was more like a cute little toot. Gray laughed slightly and thought that Yurika was still loud even when she was asleep.

A message came through Gray's armlet, then Yurika's went off moments after his. Gray picked his armlet up and read through it.

Yurika woke up from the notification sound, wiped the drool from her mouth, then lazily rolled over and almost screamed when she saw Gray.

"What the heck! You scared the crap outta me! I totally forgot you spent the night here!"

Gray died a little on the inside and said, "Was I that forgettable?"

Yurika laughed and kissed Gray quickly "No no no! It's just we're normally in your room so I got used to being alone when I was in my room!"

"I guess that makes sense... you should read the message, it's from Major Valen, sounds like it will be right up your alley!"

Yurika tilted her head slightly with curiosity then grabbed her armlet and read through the message.

Gray watched her eyes read through the message only she could see, then say excitedly, "Heck yeah! Sounds like we can give ourselves some well rounded training and a chance to beat up Major Valen!"

Major Valen had requested a mandatory self-defense seminar, he felt that the players on his base were lacking in close combat skills and that developing their physical reflexes and strength would help them. Also, last 20 minutes or so would be a Battle Royale style match where the objective was to get everyone else but yourself out of the ring. Winner would be eligible for a special mission and 500 merits.

Obviously just about everyone there was interested in the Battle Royale as the reward was tremendous for just a single seminar. It was only scheduled for 2 hours so Gray felt maybe Major Valen was using it as an excuse to give out a lot of merits.

"You remember our training hand-to-hand training combat earlier, right Gray?" Yurika said while grinning as she remembered repeatedly beating Gray's mech up.

"Don't remind me… even though I could never forget. I think it's a good idea, I bet only military personnel get this training for free normally so Major Valen is probably trying to just help the non-military players out."

Yurika nodded "I don't really need it, but a battle royale sounds fun and I think I have a good chance of winning, wanna get the team involved?"

"We can see who's available. We try to take it easy on Sundays so we've never scheduled anything on a Sunday before."

Gray sent out a message to everyone to find their availability and then said he was going to head back to his room and clean himself up.

Yurika merely yawned and buried her face back in her pillow then said to Gray "5 more minutes… I'll get ready in 5 minutes…"

Gray shook his head, then walked over and kissed the back of her head between her messy twin tails, which she always seemed to have, and went back to his room.

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A few hours later, Gray, Yurika, Paul, Xyra, Geoff, and Stacia met up right before the self-defense seminar started. Walking towards the large training hall, which hardly ever got used by the players, the six of them saw Major Valen in shorts and a tank top stretching.