The pressure in the room seemed to have doubled, with the air around seemingly pausing from Oliver''s narrowed stare.


    But soon, a voice rang out and broke the tension.


    "Leave the poor boy alone. He already said his piece; it''s not up to him whether you choose to believe him or not..."


    The voice came from none other than the oldest-lookingdy, who walked over to them.


    She grabbed Oliver by the ear and pulled him off the seat, dragging him away to his room.


    "Leave me alone!" Oliver screamed as he tried to escape her grasp, but Nn watched with interest as orange-colored chains suddenly moved out of her hands and wrapped tightly around Oliver, constricting him until he couldn''t move an inch.


    She then dragged him away from the ce.


    CLINK!


    The sound of the pilot room door unlocking echoed through the room, just as a golden-haired guy walked into the room, his eyebrows furrowed.


    "At our current speed, we''ll reach the realm of Antis in exactly 12 hours. We need to discuss our ns before then."


    "How about a meeting three hours from now?" Ferris said to everyone.


    Nn watched as they shrugged their shoulders, indicating their willingness and eptance.


    They really weren''t doing anything, nor did they have anything else to do, so why not?


    Ferris walked back to his room after saying that, and the others also left for their rooms, leaving Nn alone in therge living room.


    He rested his back on the chair when a thought suddenly urred to him.


    ''That reminds me. Ipleted some quests earlier...'' He thought to himself and quickly activated the system interface.


    ---


    [System Interface]


    [Quests]


    [Congrattions, you havepleted the quest: Spar with a godly ten.]


    [Rewards: +1000 EXP gained.]


    [Congrattions, you havepleted the quest: Survive the encroachment of the shadow ones.]


    [Rewards:


    1. +2 Level Up Cards


    2. +3000 EXP!]


    ---


    STEP. STEP. STEP.


    The sound of footsteps rang out nearby, but Nn didn''t pay much attention, focused on the system''s interface before him instead.


    ---


    [System Interface]


    [Name: Nn Gottscahld]


    [Age: 16]


    [Title: God''s Apostle]


    [Level: 18]


    [EXP: 5500/9000]


    [Level Up Cards: 4]


    [Does Host wish to Level Up?]The system asked Nn, who responded,


    ''No.''


    The strength he currently possessed was enough to give him a sense of security. So he found no need to increase his strength just yet.


    With a thought, the panel disappeared from Nn''s vision, but his mind soon directed him back to the footsteps he heard, couple minutes back.


    Turning his face to the side, he jerked his head back when he found a face mere inches from his...


    "What the!?" Nn shouted in shock as he looked at the figure before him. He rolled his eyes and shifted away from her.


    "What are you looking for this time..." Nn asked, and the answer he received was a burst of loud giggles ringing out directly in his ear.


    "Someone seems offended..." Gaia teased, her green hair falling over her face as she grinned at him.


    Nn furrowed his eyebrows before rxing them.


    "I''m not. So, what do you want?"


    The girl beside him was none other than the green-haired girl he''d met in the cafeteria.


    The one who had sent him mming into the wall and whispered to him that certain people had their eyes on him.


    To Nn, she was a bit too jumpy and mysterious, so he wanted to keep his distance, even though he had a system quest involving her. It was something he wouldplete, but not here, not now.


    "Arrrgggh," a sudden groan of pain left Nn''s lips as he felt a figure roughly m into his chest.


    "Get off me!" he screamed as he tried to push away the figure sitting on him, but he found his fingers interlocked with a slightly cold pair of hands.


    His hands were pinned down to the sofa, and immediately, veins bulged on Nn''s arms as he tried to push her hands back.


    But no matter how much his hands expanded, it only worsened the pressure on his arms until they mmed back down onto the sofa.


    GIGGLE!


    The giggling rang out from Gaia as she looked at Nn''s disbelieving expression.


    "You''ve grown slightly stronger thanst time..." she whispered to him, her hot breath all over his face. But soon, Nn''s shock faded, reced by an evil grin.


    "You forgot about my legs..." Nn mused. Before Gaia could make another move, Nn''s legs instantly rose up and wrapped around her waist.


    In the next instant, he rolled off the chair.


    The sudden momentum was enough to make Gaia wobble, and she fell off the seat with Nn.


    She had been on top of him before, but when they turned, he ended up being the one on top. Then...


    THUMP!


    A loud thud echoed as Gaia mmed her back onto the tiled floor, with Nn right above her. Her hold on him slipped for a moment, causing him to slip away.


    Nn quickly jumped back,nding on his butt, but in the next instant, he was sent flying backward as Gaia suddenly knocked into him, sending him rolling on the ground.


    He found himself back in the position he thought he had escaped from.


    "You''ve be more feisty than I remembered..." Gaia whispered into his ear.


    "Than you remembered?" Nn asked, raising an eyebrow. "Do I know you?"


    Gaia''s eyes remained dazed for a moment as she looked into Nn''s eyes, finding not the slightest trace of a lie within them.


    With her moment of hesitation, Nn used the opportunity to quickly turn himself over, and gently kicked with all of his strength, sending her flying off him.


    He jumped to his feet, but the world shed with speed, and he felt his back m hard against the wall, with her already before him once more.


    "Arrggh"


    "Tell me again that you don''t know who I am..." The voice sounded in Nn''s ear as he turned his gaze up to look at Gaia, but was bit surprised seeing something.


    Something he had never seen on her before.