Chapter 396 - The Host (5)

"Why didn't you ever tell me about this?" Luke grabbed one of my shoulders.

"Why should I?" I wondered.

There was nothing to my advantage if I did tell them. Maybe my reincarnation would link me to the rest of the s-class monsters. While I didn't know much information on the second chance card except that I would live as a human being again. Plus, I already told him about the dimensional library.

"It does explain why you like those comic books and junk food so much. With the amount of surveillance we placed over you, there was no chance of you getting any exposure to those kinds of things," he pieced some strange things together.

"You either lived in a place like the second or third district in your past world. But it can't be the second district with how you couldn't catch up with the curriculum in school or you must have died at a young age," he discerned.

Noticing me about to place the headgear on me, he quickly grabbed it away from me. Maybe I really should have begged Ailes to not take him with us. I started to feel a great amount of regret since I could have been already gaming if it wasn't for Luke.

"I already told you everything so give it to me back," I gestured to him.

"The second chance card?" He wanted me to give him the details.

"I don't know much about that card. I just know I'll have a second chance at life but don't know where and what my new body will be," I told him one of the reasons I was reluctant to use it.

"Plus, these cards are iffy and mostly brought more harm than anything," I murmured to myself.

"What age did you die?" Luke seemed curious.

"Around the age of your brother," I tried to pick up another headgear from the pile.

Luke seemed a bit shocked, thinking I would have died at a much younger age. Using this chance, I grabbed more than a few headgears in my hands. And I dashed as far away from him as possible so he wouldn't be able to take them away from me again.

"I don't believe you," he narrowed his eyes.

"You don't have to believe me," I didn't care.

I smiled while beginning to enter the game. I was in the starting village again when I looked around. However, before I could search for some teammates to explore the dungeon, I found myself disconnected from the game. I patted my head, wondering where the game console had gone. But all the headgears were in Luke's hands, already out of my reach.

"I already told you everything," I tried to take them away from him again.

"Why are you doing this to me? I died in my former life, studying my life away! Do you know how I felt when everything was repeating in this life but on another level?" I felt frustrated.

"There's only so much I can believe from your story Rika," he looked at me with distrust.

"But everything is the truth!" I cried.

"If you really did die at that age, how can it explain you crying and begging every time to try to change my mind? Your study habits are also too terrible for you to say you have been studying your life away," he pointed out.

"You never fall for them anyways!" I refuted.

"And I had decent grades in kindergarten until all my knowledge was used up! Do you think all that I did was study in my former life like I do now?" I defended myself.

"Respect your elders!" I pointed out how I was older than him if I included my age from both of my lives.

"What's all the commotion?" Ailes slammed the door open.

"He doesn't believe me that I died before I could take my SATs!" I complained to him.

"Tell him that everything I've been saying is true," I crossed my arms.

"Why wouldn't it be true?" Ailes seemed equally confused.

"SATs?" Luke questioned us.

"A test people in their last year of high school take to determine what university they will be attending in the future," he explained.

"People study really hard during this time, almost equivalent to the long hours you study here since they don't have the time-space rooms," he added when I gestured it wasn't enough.

"That's right!" I showed him that I wasn't lying.

"Who wouldn't cry if they always had to study like they were about to take the SATs for over eight years? Wouldn't you do the same?" I turned to Ailes.

"Well, wouldn't that be pure torture?" He agreed with me.

"And all those foods like pizza, chicken wings and spicy rice cakes! You won't ever get to eat or touch them. Plus the headgears in this room, I touched them for the first time a few weeks ago!" I revealed my miserable situation.

"I'm sorry for your loss," he began to pity me, knowing I was a part of the otaku fandom.

"That's why I'm really thankful you brought me here, don't we need to stick together?" I felt it wouldn't be bad turning into a monster if I could game the rest of my days away.

"Give her the headgears," Ailes turned to Luke.

"You can game while we try to figure things out," he faced me.