One Goblin down. With Majima bearing his knife into the other Goblin, it would take another 14 Damage from the full frontal stab. With Tae announcing how much HP the Goblin had left, all of the Gamers could now see its HP bar above its head go down by 14 points after Majima stabs it.

Of course, while the Gamers seemed to have the idea of ganging up on one at a time, so too did the Goblins. Seeing as how Rin got stabbed, the two Goblins that were once next to the now finished one move in, bearing their blades swiftly at Rin.

The first of the Goblins' slashes would strike right across her chest, but its second one was sloppy. This causes its blade to go flying out of its hand upon a poorly made contact with Rin's blade, leaving it disarmed.

The second one's blade deals another 13 Damage to her, further rending her armor as well. Its second slash made contact, but Rin was able to diverge some of the attack's force with her sword while her armor and natural defense took care of the rest, it only dealing 4 Damage to her. This left her with only 32 HP and no actual means to heal herself.

Next came the Goblin that already brought the circle in, the one that Soren spat on. It rears back its head, and spits, a thick, green glob sticking to Soren's shield. As it spits, it also swings its blade twice at Soren. Its first slash cuts deep, the white hot trail of pain dealing 23 Damage, but fortunately its second one was more sloppy, and served to wipe off some of its own saliva off of the shield.

Unfortunately for Soren, however; a second one steps in and attempts to slash at him. Another clang of steel on steel echoes out as its blade strikes the shield, but its second slash gets by, slashing Soren for another 23 Damage, a good indication that he should have asked Rei for some armor as his HP is now at a dangerous 9 points.

"Coward hide behind shield. Kill coward!" shout two of them as they rush forward right towards Rei. Unfortunately Rei wasn't able to fully defend against both hits, but the first hit dealt only five damage, and the second hit was completely negated by Defense and armor.

The Walker seems to do something, the knife that was flung away shimmering for a moment, before nothing happens, and he just shrugs.

Rei moves now, slashing at one of the Goblins with his sword. A full on contact, the blade slashing in deep, and dealing 30 points of Damage. A quick chanting of 'Swift Break' and Rei bashes the dagger blade sticking out of his shield right at the Goblin. Another 15 points dealt, but unfortunately the beast is still up.

Now the Goblins are surrounding all of the Gamers but Aiko tightly, with no way out except through fighting.​
 
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One down.
Six more to go.

The white devil took a second to get an overview of her battle-field. Under normal circumstances, the next closest target would have been the next victim. Or, maybe, she would have gone for the The Walker instead.

Her Soul Weapon wasn't made to protect. Not a Tool to protect lives. But even so, the Executioner valued at least the life of the Kendo-Freak high enough: closing into the still armed Goblin that assailed the younger girl.

[glow=red]Cut.[/glow]
The first strike hit.
9 Damage.

[glow=red]Cut.[/glow]
The second soon followed.
10 Damage.

[glow=red]Cut.[/glow]
Three times was the charm.
11 Damage.

Cut, Cut, cut.
This wasn't enough.
She had to Cut more.
She had to Cut stronger.

"..." Yet... somehow, something, was lacking. A growing feeling of dissatisfaction. A growing feeling that took her joy. Strangled her. Made this a bore.

"Blood..." Aiko whispered to herself upon this grave realization. The small Opera they were all a part off lacked a crucial actor: The smell, taste, view, and feeling of blood.
 
It was a mess of a battlefield, half the Gamers deciding to break out while the other half resolutely remained by the ‘shelter’ that was Rei, but Rin didn’t care. Explosions, insults, and incisions sounded behind her, and yet, she did not turn from her foe at all. There was a divide in mentality, ultimately, a stark difference in their thought processes.

Rin, Aiko, and Hira were aggressive, seeking victory.

Rei, Soren, Majima, and Tae were defensive, avoiding defeat.

And thus, even as the blades of two more Goblins sliced into her leather armor, Rin remained resolute, taking the pain as a sign that she was still alive. Her own katana parried, while her body shifted so that less important parts of her body were struck. At the end of the offensive flurry, she only had a little bit more than half her HP left, but even then, there was no hesitation, no fear.

The Gamer’s Mind? Perhaps.

But with the existence of ‘Kote’, she was accustomed with the idea of using her life, her health points, as just another resource. And now, all their attention was focused on herself. Her smile widened, the shadow of Aiko appearing behind the one that still held onto his knife. Three stabs to the back drew out a cry of surprise that suited the unobservant flesh-bag perfectly, as the goblin wheeled around to face Aiko.

That was a fatal mistake.

“DO!”

Her grip tightened, her blade aligned, and her hips twisted, the wind whistling as the steel edge sliced through the air. A singular stroke bisected the goblin, leather, flesh, and bone parting perfectly as Rin stepped by. A flick of her wrist discarded the pixelated viscera that clung to her katana as 32 damage burst into view and the Goblin faded. Continuing on with the momentum of her strike, Rin slid forward, out of the attack range of the remaining goblin, before wheeling around, shoulder to shoulder with her dual-wielding comrade.


“Nice effort,”
she said, eyes alive. “Hira, last one’s yours!”
 
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Hira watched as the goblin he hit turned to dust as Aiko slashed through him with some very spectacular acrobatics. However, he frowned a bit at it. She seemed to have compromised the damage she could do for a spectacular display. If this was her mentality in battle, he was somewhat disappointed. He could clearly see her bloodlust, but it was more flashy than anything in this situation.

It seemed most of the party did a good job dealing damage to the enemies. And even if they did no damage, they did well in defending themselves against enemy attacks. Hira did feel bad that Rin had taken so many hits, but he knew that she would draw aggro since she was the one who had made the first hit. Rei had done some considerable damage to his foe and he was surprised that he hadn't taken out the goblin in a single turn. It seemed it was considerably weakened, but it was not dead. It seemed Rei was even incapable of finishing an opponent so quickly.

However, now was not the time to sit back and observe others. As Rin finished off another Goblin, she gave him the chance to help finish off another one. He smirked as he raised his hammer and swung for the Goblin. He watched as the pointed end of his hammer connected with the Goblin, dealing 17 damage. It seemed people were aware of the unwritten rule to attack the weakest enemies and he was happy about that. He was hoping someone would come to his aid to finish off this unholy abomination. Goblins were the most annoying of all monsters, in his opinion. They were always talking nonsense and they had the most annoying voices. He'd make sure this 'Walker' fellow never created these nuisances again.

He was hoping Rei would head toward 'The Walker' as the rest of the party finished off the Goblins. But to make sure his suggestion was conveyed, he'd shout out to Rei. "Rei, we've got the Goblins!"
 
Soren wore a grim expression on his face, his health was running low, and, if not for the Gamer's body, he would be unable to fight after that last onslaught of attacks he took. Inwardly though, he was laughing. Stupid Goblins, Second wind will auto-trigger if you manage to take me down, I'll gain experience for that, plus you probably don't think I can put up that much of a fight now. Unless someone is leaking information about of skills to these little filth stains, We have the edge.

Letting out two huffs as to feign exhaustion, Soren dropped his homemade explosive carefully, then pulled out his Mace from his inventory window and lashed out.

Completely missing his swing, though he was trying to smash the goblin's face in, it really did fit with the look of him being exhausted. Fighting just really was not going in his favour, and possibly, neither was living.

Shit.
 
Majima looked to Tae Min "Looking like you'll need some more help, these guys seem to like you and your shield." He chuckles and goes to stab his knife into the shoulder of the same goblin he attacked earlier. Where were the others anyway, Rei, Tae, myself, Soren all here.... the others decided to move into the enemy ranks, all that did was get one of them outside of the circle though. Majima understood their want to break the circle asap, but it felt rushed and foolish to tango out in the open where they could get ganged on harder than near each other.
 
All around, the singing of clashing steel reverberated through the air. The goblins were capable of retaliating. And hard at that. Soren was brought down to a slim 9 health right before Tae Min's eyes. It was nostalgic, almost tragically so. The same enemies, the same clamor, the same surprise... and yet though they were supposed to be better equipped. But here they were, dropping health like flies.

Come on, move!

Tae Min pressed his lips together and dashed forward. His legs moved mechanically as he drew his arm back, rapier at the ready. His eyes focused in on a singular spot: the spittle goblin's fleshy armpit.

Clang.

An involuntary shudder passed through Tae Min's arm as his arm as his rapier came into contact with the goblin's own weapon. The teen clicked his tongue loudly. Tae Min pulled back from the clash, his smile looking a little more lackluster than before. Parried, yet again. He was beginning to lose count of how many times his strikes had failed to follow through.

Though his attack had failed, he hoped in the least that he had pulled away some of the goblins' attention.
 
Two goblins down. One at 20 HP after Majima's blade sinks into it, and another had taken 17 HP worth of Damage from Hira's Pike Hammer. Two of the Goblins were on Rei, one was fighting Majima, Tae, and Soren; and another had Hira, Rin, and Aiko to deal with.

The Goblin who had spit on Soren was attempting to take him down, despite Majima and Tae's attacks. It seems like it knows to focus on one enemy, so it isn't an 'Artificial Intelligence' like creature like some would think.

"You die human!" it shouts as it slashes its blade at Soren.

Another 23 Damage, its second slash fortunately missing by a large margin. Unfortunately though, Soren's HP is taken down to -12. Not enough to instantly kill, but unless Soren focuses his will or body and beats the pain, he would fall unconscious.

Believing that Soren was going down as his body begins to crumble, the other Goblin shouts "Now you die, you ugly human!" at Majima, slashing its blade twice at him.

The first slash connects, dealing 20 Damage. The second one somewhat connects, not fully, but still quite deep enough, dealing 17 Damage to the bulky 'realtor'. Already in two hits the bulky Realtor is brought down to 29 HP.

All of the Gamers really do need to get some Armor.

Still targeting Rin just like its two late companions, the other of the Goblins utilizes its blade to try and slash at her two times. Unfortunately, Hira managed to hit it with his hammer right as the beast ran away, the blow dealing 21 Damage as it fell right after it was hit. Not too many more hits now.

The two Goblins on Rei, in the meantime, continue their onslaught. The first one hits, dealing 17 Damage, the second blow misses. The second Goblin on Rei does the same.

Rei narrows his eyes slightly. Even if he wanted to go after the Walker, he couldn't with these things still alive and blocking his path. So he had to mow these two down first.

"Cleaving!" He shouts, swinging his sword in a wide arc from the side. The blade slashes through the first Goblin, cleaving it in two, and slices deep into the side of the second. Rei quickly follows this up with a quick bash from his shield after the initial 31 Damage is dealt.

The bash connects. And Rei is able to push the Goblin away with the bash, allowing him to quickly begin a charge towards the Walker now without the Goblin able to take a swing at him, the Goblin still keeping its focus on Rei as it seems determine to most likely begin chasing him on the next moment.​
 
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Hira did not pay attention to the rest of the battle unfolding this time. This goblin he was facing was his focus and he wasn't about to lose to this petty little vermin. Aiko and Rin had backed away from this enemy and they entrusted him with finishing it off. He wasn't about to lose against this opponent, who was most certainly weaker than Rin. He'd never be able to prove himself to Rin and gain back whatever reputation he might've lost if he did lose.

The most comical thing that happened was when the Goblin went to go for Rin and failed. It tried lunging for her, which allowed him to smack it on its way over. He was about to release a laugh from his lips when the Goblin did something even worse. It fell! He laughed a little as he raised his hammer once more, high above his head, and stuck the sharp edge of his hammer into the center of the Goblin. As he inserted the end into it, a bright red number appeared above the Goblin. It indicated that he had gotten a 'critical strike', which he knew because of the window that appeared before him about the skill 'Critical Strike'. The Goblin disappeared and he dismissed the window.

He surveyed the situation of the battle. There were three goblins left. Two were fighting Majima and Tae. Soren was unconscious. Thankfully, the goblins were leaving Soren alone and not trying to eradicate him. However, the goblins seemed to be doing some significant damage to Majima. A giant factor to that was that he wasn't wearing armor. So Hira went over to their duo and moved in front of Majima. These goblins were going down, whether he had to provide help or not. "Tae, flank the low HP goblin. Majima, make sure to strike that goblin too. Majima, I'll defend for you since it seems that they like to hit you." He then spoke directly to the goblins. "Good luck killing me, you piles of leathery green shit."

Hira blamed himself for this situation. He didn't do his job as the tank. He didn't keep the team together and the goblins split them up. This was what happened when a party wasn't prepared for a difficult dungeon. But he wasn't about to let any of these goblins fell any more of his teammates.
 
Sliding against the grassy field, Rin readied her sword once more, right as the Goblin lunged towards her. In that moment, the swords girl saw her own death, a critical blow as the goblin thrust a dagger in her back, through her heart. But just as quickly as that vision came, it disappeared, Hira’s hammer blow causing it to fall into the dirt instead, before another thrust of the spiked hammer ended it.

They were more or less finished now. Rei had broken free of the two Goblins, killing one in the process, and was now running towards the Walker that had summoned them. There were three left, one heavily injured, another unharmed, and the third Goblin looking to start chasing after Rei.

Soren had fallen, and Majima was close to death, but those were expected results coming from that trio of Gamers. Lacking in armor, skill, and initiative, while also allowing themselves to be surrounded, it was obvious they would take such heavy casualties.

One sapphire eye flickered to the Walker, so far away from everyone else. Her gaze then turned towards the Goblin that Rei had struck once. And finally, it settled onto the two that were still up.

The Walker shouldn’t be that weak. She’ll still have her shot at the bastard soon enough.

Running forwards, Rin slid past the healthier Goblin and went right for the second one, her shoes grinding against soft grass. A single stroke sundered the blade-wielding beast, 23 damage dealt in that one moment. Not the cleanest of blows, but as the monster dissolved, turning into pixelated ashes, it proved to be more than enough.

Two Goblins and an unknown.

“Still not finished here.”

No disappointment, no disdain. Just a statement and that same, small smile.
 
Majima grabbed his slashed chest and glared down at the goblin that did it, an audible, menacing growl escaping from his lips he gave a nod to Rin as she dispatched another one, her sword was a good choice for taking care of these enemies. He’s glad he decided to use his knife rather than his fists, these creatures would no doubt just shrug it off. Maybe adding an element to my fists would help, and reading through that ki book Rei gave me should be an immense boon. Something to think about when we’re not being mercilessly attacked by goblins.


He understood why the others bought armor now, something he should’ve asked Rei for, instead of goofing off and looking through his stats wondering which ones to bump up first. He curses himself and goes to slash the goblin him and Tae are ganging up on. He gave Hira a smile at his words. “Thanks for the assist.” He sounded genuine with his gratitude.
 
Rin was safe.
The left over Goblins didn't pose much of a threat.


With these thoughts Aiko's eyes wandered towards the only other humanoid here. He clearly stated himself as an enemy, though, even if not. For Aiko the fact he was not an ally as he just stood idle by was justification enough.

"You're next." The girl whispered as she sprinted into point-blank range of the mysterious stranger. Still not used to these new weights, her first attack simply missed before her second strike connected. Or... did she?

Aiko was certain her weapon slashed him, yet, the moment the merciless metal made contact with him he literally vanished just to re-appear a few meters away.

Annoying.

Glaring at him as she readjusted her combat-pose before getting ready for another assault. By no means did she plan to charge in blindly again but... [glow=red]"Afraid of getting hurt?"[/glow] She asked him in a playful tone.
 
The goblins were more determined than Tae Min originally gave them credit for. Both of his immediate teammates took blows, while he himself remained unscathed. And while he wasn't particularly fond of pain... it made him feel rather useless. All it seemed he could do was dish out scantily small amounts of damage while those around him took the hits.

However, that wasn't a sentiment that Tae Min held onto for long.

Whatever he had been feeling snapped away as Hira heralded in to give orders, while Rin bolted past (Speedy as ever, that one) and cut down the low health goblin. Tae Min didn't think so much as he simply moved to follow in suit to his teammates.

He pushed forward, arm pulled back, and thrusted his rapier forward at the remaining goblin. This time, his blade sank into his target, scoring a shallow 10 health off of the creature. Tae Min sucked in a breath as he pulled back.

It wasn't much, but it was something - a small purchase to try again where he'd previously blundered.
 
The searing pain, drifting away, as his mind slowly went hazy.

You're not done yet, Pull it together.

His thoughts becoming clear as he forced his eyes open and his vision cleared from the abyss of death, to the sight of battle before him. His second wind had triggered.

Rushing towards the closest remaining Goblin, Soren pulled his arm back and gave it a good full swing at the creature.

Gob, reading the flow of Soren's first attack, doesn't even move as the swing passes over the side. He flashes his ugly misshapen teeth, about to make some comment about how even baby gobs can hit better than that, when the second one takes him in the ribs, dealing 17 damage to his HP bar and 100 damage to his ego.

With his second swing landing Soren grinned. He felt he wasn't in a place to truly make a snide comment towards the green man. But the look in his eyes would speak plenty to the goblin. You can't kill me.
 
Two Goblins left. And the Walker.

The first of these Goblins takes off after Rei, slashing at him twice. Both slashes are blocked by Rei's shield, who saw the Goblin coming as it quickly scurried after him.

The other remaining Goblin, on the other hand, quickly turns its blade on the already next to it Majima, seeing as how it slashed him twice before. Two twenty Damage slashes are dealt to the 'realtor', plunging his HP down to -11, which means unless he can endure the immense pain, or will himself to remain standing, he would fall.

Knowing that he needs to finish it off, Rei quickly turns his blade on the beast. The slash is all that is needed to bring the beast down, the sword cleaving right through its body.

"Aiko, he is way out of our league. Get the hell away from him!"

Rei doesn't charge, but instead just moves a few yards forward, shield readied. No time to guard, but at least he isn't gonna charge up recklessly.

The Walker just gives a small nod. "Your heterochromatic friend is right you know." He just smirks a little. "I may be just a mere 'delivery man', and thus not really a combatant, but with those shoddy skills and how much of a novice you are, you can never hope to hurt me."

He sees though that there is only one Goblin left. A small smile forms on his face as he shrugs.

"Well anyway, my job is done." A glitch of static, he teleports fifteen yards back down to the south and thus away from the main fighters as he holds out a strange, red orb. The Goblins did drop their daggers, and the one Rei just killed even dropped a suit of leather armor.

Unfortunately these Items would not go to the Gamers. As they, and the remaining Goblin, are all absorbed into the red orb with static glitching around all of them as they are turned into energy and taken into the orb.

"If you guys continue to be that Green, you're never gonna make it in the Abyss." He just shrugs, a glitch of static appearing around Rei's pocket.

"Feel free to employ me if you ever need my services. As a courtesy, ill even give you a discount. For now, I'm gonna go get paid, then get some Korean Barbeque." He just chuckles.

"Well, until next time."

With this, he vanishes and the Pseudospace shimmers a bit.

Rei sighs a bit, waiting 10 seconds before putting away his weapons.

He reaches into his pocket, pulling out what appears to be a Business Card and a piece of paper.

Rei just looks at them both, clicks his tongue, and stuffs them into his Inventory.

Rei moves over to Soren, Rin, and Majima, pulling out what look like three slips of paper. They look like Talismans one would get from a shrine, only more intricate. Regardless of whether or not the latter is still standing, he slaps a Talisman on their bodies. A warmth shimmers through them as a 16 appears above Soren's head and a 15 appears above Majima's head as they regain that much HP. He does the same to Rin, a 15 appearing above her body as well.

Of course, if they tried to stop him, then Rei wouldn't bother with that.

"We can't train in the open anymore. You guys" he gestures to everyone, "May still not be able to be dragged into Pseudospaces, but the fact is they can still be invaded."

He then points above his head. "And despite being 'Level 5', that guy was way out of our league. So either he possesses a rare and powerful means for distorting Supernatural Information Gathering, he's able to lower or hide his true power through seals and the like, or despite his Level his ability and experience just put him far above us."

Rei sighs heavily, departing from that subject. "So we need to focus on getting ourselves a new place to train today instead. After all... we have no idea who else may show up today. Since all of our training in the open has just made us bring way too much attention to ourselves."

Rei is just rubbing the bridge of his nose between his eyes with two fingers, eyes closed. He looks sort of angry. Or just exasperated. Regardless of how... uncharacteristic this expression of his on him is...

The Gamers do need to find somewhere else to go.

Being out in the open is no longer a viable option.


 
And, just like that, the fight was over. Not with them defeating all the Goblins as well as the Walker, but with the man deciding that watching them fight any longer was pointless. The knives and armor that the beasts dropped upon their death was absorbed into a strange red orb, but Rin wasn’t bothered at all about that loss. No, what bothered her was the lack of closure at all, as the final Goblin disappeared before any of them could finish it off.

She glared at the trio that had failed so spectacularly in cleaning up their own messes, before sheathing her katana once more, placing it into her Inventory.

“Save those charms for those that need it,” Rin said, brushing off Rei’s healing talismans, “I need to confirm something.”

The raven-haired girl took one last look at the immense space that the Pseudospace covered, before muttering ‘ID Escape’ underneath her breath. With that, reality was restored, filled with light, warmth, sound, and other humans. Though they back in a world where plenty of bystanders were around, Rei had chosen this isolated section of the park for a reason: not many were around.

And yet, there were none that bore the same strange title the Walker had.

So it was freeform teleportation after all.

Alone in the park, Rin allowed carefully neutral expression to twist with irritation for just a moment, before she composed herself once more, returning to the Pseudospace that Rei had created. “Can Pseudospaces overlap?” she asked without a pause, almost impatient.

"Only in very special circumstances. Seeing as he had the power of teleportation, The Walker is most likely long gone."

A typical response, one that brought a small, regretful sigh.

“We don’t need this pseudospace now,” Rin said flatly, “So put away your weapons and let’s continue this discussion in the real world, to prevent further issues with being invaded.”

Too many words. Her father told her never to waste any.

“We do not need to be out in the open or to utilize a pseudospace outdoors except to slay more monsters.” Still too much. This was becoming a bad habit. “If it’s training alone, a private, indoors location would be enough for most of us.”

She turned her eyes towards Rei.

“But if you do want to find a safe spot outside, how about you contact the Walker and ask? Share the content of that note as well, instead of just storing it."
 
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Hira was ready to give this remaining goblin in front of him a real bashing, when he suddenly heard Rei shout something at Aiko. He said that 'The Walker' was out of her league. And he was slightly taken aback that Rei never went to the attack the guy either. It was interesting though. 'The Walker' was someone who had just given another clue as to who they were. They worked as a delivery man, their name was possibly Kousaka Endoh, and now he also knew where he was headed.

However, the most aggravating thing happened right after 'The Walker' had finished speaking. He summoned this red ball or something and then started sucking up everything! The loot! The bodies of the goblins! Hira gripped his hammer a little as he saw all of these things disappear. They deserved to keep whatever the goblins had dropped. The next time he saw 'The Walker', he would be sure to give him a good thrashing with his hammer.

Now combat was over and everyone was safe. For now, at least.

Rei spoke to the group about finding a more private spot to train. And Rin mentioned that they could just find a place indoors to train. Hira thought he could be of use in this situation. He recalled a place that one of his older coworkers had mentioned to him. It was an abandoned factory in the industrial district. He wasn't sure whether it had a lot of open space, but he figured they might as well check it out. "I've got a place we can look at to continue training in. I'm not sure it'll be a lot of open space, but it's abandoned, so there will definitely be no one there. Do you guys want to check it out?" Hira hoped the group would consider just looking at it. And even if it wasn't that open, he was optimistic that the group would be able to make some adjustments to the space.
 
Majima sucked in a deep breath and exhaled hard "Ya bastards are really pissing me off with this shit." He hated this damn part, seeing his life bar go down, inching closer to death as a constant reminder he was woefully under equipped for not only this battle but any battle. Something that was made even more clear after this Walker decided to suck up loot, bodies, and the last living goblin.He just decided to nod listening and turned to Rei after the man left. Majima thanked him for the healing then said

"Hey I want to use my money to get some decent protection without limiting my speed, you owe me for the bones and the money I got should be enough for something right? Maybe even another book like one that would give me the ability to add lightning to my dagger or fists?" He hated how weak he had been, during his fight with Rin, as well as now. If he hadn't had this power (frankly if Rin hadn't either) He'd have (died from the first cut) or taken her out with one blow. In many ways he was limited by this power, weaker than before it started, so Kazuo now knew he had to break his limits. "Rei, and I know this is asking a lot from someone who is a little bit less green than the rest of us but can we break our limits within this [gamer] class?" Majima looked to Hira and smiled "Ya know, that's not a bad idea, maybe we could add some things to it too, dummies for one, get some electric and shit in there too. Make a base out of it." Majima slid his light jacket off and tossed it into his inventory. He also made the changes to his stats bumping all the ones he could to 10.
 
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They had 'won', so to speak, but Soren was left with a very bitter taste. His tools had not pulled his weight. He was one of the only ones who had to use second wind. There was no loot left over. They could no longer fight monsters as they willed out and in the open.

"Damnit", Soren grumbled under his breath. Kicking the dirt with his sneaker. I need to get stronger, I need to make better tools. I messed up.

Rei soon came over and placed a healing Tailismen on Soren, unlike the ungrateful Rin, who denied the kind gesture. Soren took it gladly. Welcoming the increase to his health regeneration. I wonder how many of these one could have slapped on before it loses its effect? Soren rubbed his side as he felt the pain going away much faster than before.

Soren sat, a bit salty with all that had happened, he applied his AP as was advised by Rei, leaving him with only one stat that was not at the 10 benchmark.

"I'd rather be in a workshop than a dojo or gym." Soren looked at Rin, judging that that was the area she was suggesting, Hira's abandoned place, along with Majima's suggestion sounded like it could work though. "I like that idea." He gestured to the two men, "If possible, I could also have a work shed set up then, I should be able to make some training dummies and movable targets, If we could use the place and set things up there? Though I would need the material to do so." He thought of his empty wallet, and weither it was better to sell his bones now, or keep them for later. "And these bones aren't exactly what I would like to make machines out of." He sheepishly chuckled as he pulled out his bones from his inventory, save it be one, and presented them to Rei, hoping he would get the idea.
 
Aiko wasn't one to just give up only because her opponent was undoubtedly stronger. If anything, it was exactly what she wanted. Thus, him simply escaping like that annoyed the white-hair to no end. In the end, she would see who wasn't able to 'never hurt' the other. "Inventory." Stashing her weapons away she quickly followed with an. "ID Escape."

Giving it a small sigh however the red-eye knew she couldn't change much about this and instead concentrated on matters at hand. The blatant truth that he had some sort of long-ranged teleportation meant that even the place high up in the skies wasn't safe for Pseudo-space, though then again how many people would really target her? But even without the dangers of that, now, without the loot of the goblins, the knife-wearing girl was still limited to Skeletons. Skeleton's that were barely worth experience anymore... .

Ultimately it came down to whatever Aiko would open up her own place to her fellow friends or not. A decision which she didn't spend more than two seconds to decide one. Out of the bunch it was only Rin she would have really extended that invitation to and despite the kendo-freak already being aware of it in the first place she had an entire dojo for her own use.

Aiko eyed Hira for a good few seconds. While definitely not someone like Rin he did extinguish himself in one way or another, though the past image of his clown fiesta burned still strong in her mind.

Ultimately, Aiko decided to be silent for now.