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PK Pandemonia Arc: Chapter 82 - Witchcraft

25 February 2024

Katalysis, 43rd Floor

With a blue stone on my right hand, and a red stone on my left, I placed both on the only table in the inn room.

Tekion's hammer paused mid-swing, as he turned towards the 2 glowing stones with increasing interest.

"So that's gonna be your new spear, eh?" He went over to the table, placing his hammer on his small anvil.

"I don't see why not," I gave a little smirk, as his finger tapped onto the red stone. A small system window popped out in front of him.

"A-class," He nodded, as he tapped onto the blue stone as well. "Both of them. Very well, your new spear's on the way."

"Am I missing anything else on the material list?" I brought down my menu to check my inventory.

"Whatever I have with me is more than enough," Tekion waved me off. "That trip to the smithy was damn worth it. I'll get this done by tonight."

"Wonderful. Can't wait." I tried to show my enthusiasm as I reached for the door.

"By the way, how are my swords?" Tekion asked. "Surely they can't be that bad."

"They do work well for practice, but I guess they do need more improvement." I let my honest opinion out, as I closed the door.

I took slow, careful steps towards the door that I was about to knock on. Considering the complete silence at the other end of the door, the SoH members must have gone out already.

But, for some reason, I could tell that the inn room wasn't empty anyway.

I raised my hand in a loose fist, ready to knock. My fist swung forward, expecting the impact of the hitting a hard surface.

But it kept on going. The door had swung open in that instant, as my fist went front first into the inn room.....

But not before it hit something softer than the door.

Maybe I was still pretty much sleepy in the morning, but whatever the case, not retracting my fist might have costed me my life.

Half of my fist felt the sensation of something bouncy. I blinked for a while, before realising in the horror that it landed just beside the right side of Rakuno's chest.

"Ah."

That word expressed all the surprise, shock and fear that I had. I tried to swing my fist back to me, but Raku's right hand grabbed it with what felt almost like a vice grip.

Her pointed hat, which covered her face, tilted up to me, as I could clearly notice the reddish shades of her facial skin fading away. She gave me a cheerful smile, but one that felt ominously rigid.

"What the hell?"

".....I would like to present a valid explanation for what I had accidentally done."

I tried to get myself out of this situation, while praying hard that Raku would listen to reason.

She burst into laughter, in which I would nervously go along with that.

"Hahahaha--wait--no, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop, I can legit explain this.....!"

Raku's left hand was reaching for Picturesque Brancher as she was laughing, which prompted me to desperately pull my fist from her grip.....which proved to be pretty futile.

She stopped laughing abruptly, switching to her death stare.

"You were this close to triggering the sexual harassment system warning, you know."