Chapter 5: [Something]
It seems like I run into something interesting every day in this new world, but this one is probably my favorite thing to happen so far.
Instead of doing my homework like I vowed I'd never complete, I meditated. For much longer than I thought I'd be able to.
The first forty minutes were rather boring and more than a bit strenuous, but I managed to pull through. From there, things started to get weird. Like, really weird.
Since my eyes never opened during my meditating, I was just staring at the darkness all day. Nothing new, I was in the void for a while so it's not like I mind the darkness. It's just uninteresting to me. Though, I probably would be more traumatized by the void if I was a normal person.
Unlike most, I've never really had a dream before, so when I sleep it's either darkness or nothing. And by nothing, I mean I technically had a dream, but I forget it when I wake up so it feels like nothing happened. So infinite darkness? Meh. Been there, done that.
But a few hours into my meditating, which is much longer than I expected to be able to handle, I started seeing things move in the corner of my sight. (Or lack thereof since my eyes are closed.) It was irritating, to say the least like something was trying to interrupt my meditation time.
In fact, I spent so much time trying to catch whatever it was that I hadn't realized how much time I spent meditating.
It takes a few seconds for my eyes to clear up, but when I do it seems like it's midday again. Which it is, just almost a full day later. Twenty-three hours. How? I don't fucking know.
The only reason I stopped was that I felt an instinctive feeling of push back. As if I somehow knew that I was wasting my time by meditating anymore.
Maybe my skill page would have more answers for me...
[Meditation] Lv.9/25 (Active)
<You have looked within and found... Something. As a result, you've changed slightly. Sleep is only needed every 48 hours and Food/Water is needed 90% less. Now that you've mastered your inner self, maybe it's time to look outwards.>
...But I like food. Whatever, at least I'll have extra money now that I don't need to buy much food anymore. That sleep part does explain why I haven't fallen over during my meditation, though, I was confused why I felt more refreshed than before my twenty-three-hour session.
And having days between sleep lets me grind my skills throughout the night while others are sleeping. I still will have to force myself to sleep normally though, because I'm fairly sure the human body heals faster when asleep. And my muscles still will have micro-tears when I work out so I need to heal efficiently.
I could probably substitute that healing with a high enough cooking level though, right? Questions for later.
On another note, what does it mean by looking outwards? Like, meditating with my eyes ope-
~Nuh-uh.
The fuck? I could feel something flinch within me when I thought about just meditating with my eyes open. It felt familiar to the speck in the corner of my vision that annoyed me for most of my time in a trance. But it just pulsed with a firm rejection.
So if it's not meditating with my eyes open, maybe it's meditating while thinking of-
~No, silly.
Okay, so not that either. I even felt a bit of exasperation in there. Whatever you are since it's clearly not just my pride ability doing this, cut me some slack. This whole meditation experience has just been guesswork.
Outward, outward, outward. Out. Out... Side? Should I meditate outside?
...
No negative feeling that time. Guess I'm meditating outside then. I already missed school since it's six pm so I guess I can start again right now. If I start now I'll have quite a bit of the weekend to play around with magic if this does indeed grant me magic of some sort.
That being said, I take a shower before putting on some casual clothes. I've avoided going outside at night because I was afraid of getting ambushed by some random person hundreds of times stronger than me, but I've got no choice this time if I want to make progress.
After all, if my calculations are correct, I should have to meditate for more than a day to achieve level 10. Then again, if my calculations were correct I'd have already meditated for more than a day just to reach level nine.
Now, I should probably head over to the park or something to meditate. Doing it anywhere else would probably make people approach and interrupt me, extending the time needed to get to level 10.
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(Koneko)
She watched from afar as her target started to become a bit harder to keep up with. He was still moving at baseline human levels, but he started to take random turns and cuts through alleyways, all the while his presence slowly faded more and more.
Luckily, she could sense him still so he wasn't going to escape her anytime soon. Despite that, she frowned.
She'd only been watching Katsuo Naoki since the day before when he went into his home and didn't come out for a full day. President hadn't actually given her much information about what to look out for. Only that Sona found something interesting about him and that was enough for her to consider him a peerage candidate.
She was getting desperate, after all. That fried turkey was getting more and more uppity as the days went by.
Katsuo, though, wasn't that interesting as far as she could tell. He had a normal amount of magical power for a human and a body that was typical of a high-school boy. Frankly, she didn't understand what Sona saw in him to gain her interest.
That was, until today.
Something had changed about him. In a day where he was simply secluded from everyone else, he was now a bit different. According to her senses, nothing about his physical body or magical power had changed. And if he had a Sacred Gear, it was most definitely still dormant.
Yet she couldn't shake off the fact that he was different.
Maybe it was the fact that he somehow caught on that she was following him. It was obvious now that he knew, as he blatantly turned his head and looked her in the eyes.
It didn't matter, though. Wherever he was going, she would be able to find him. She should tell President about her thoughts, even if they were seemingly unfounded. Sona's thoughts didn't have much basis either, it seemed.
Frowning in slight concentration, a red teleportation circle appeared beneath her and she disappeared completely, transported to the Occult Research Clubroom.
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