Chapter 19
<span style="font-weight:400">Time seems to lose meaning as I get lost in watching the liquid move around in my body. Each time the liquidpletes the outline, I feel a slight pulse of energy gathering in my body and the liquid seems to grow slightly in volume each time. It isn’t until I feel a bump against my body that I pull myself out of the state I was in and return to thend of the living. It takes me a few seconds to register what is going on around me and that my phone is currently ringing. I pick up my phone and see that it is nnery calling me. I answer the call, putting it on speaker and cing it upright on the desk so I can hear it better as I start getting out of bed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mornin’ nnery.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Morning? It’s nearly noon you know! Bea and I are wondering where you are.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I tilt my head to the side slightly. “What do you mean it’s almost noon? I just woke up.” I ask in confusion as I take a moment to stretch a little to loosen my muscles. I suddenly hear nnery start choking as if she swallowed something wrong. “Are you okay?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“F-Frost, you turned on a video call…” I hear her mumble something aboutining but I don’t quite catch everything she says. I freeze slightly as my mind registers what she just said and I robotically look down and see that I am still very much naked. As I turn my head slowly towards the phone, I notice she can see everything. I make eye contact with her through the phone and notice her blush but she isn’t looking away which causes me to turnpletely red down to my shoulders as I rush over and turn off the video portion of the call.
<span style="font-weight:400">“S-sorry, I didn’t mean to…” I quietly say after making sure the video is off.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ahem, well at least I wasn’t in public and it was me calling instead of some guy. Just be careful okay?” nnery chides me lightly but adds in a quiet voice I nearly miss, “Not like I didn’t enjoy the view.”
<span style="font-weight:400">That just makes me flush even harder as the room suddenly feels much warmer than it did previously. “I’ll keep that in mind” I mutter, not sure what part I meant that towards.
<span style="font-weight:400">“A-anyways, how about getting dressed and joining us for lunch. No need for you to stay in your room all day before your match.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I will meet you girls in the lobby in about ten minutes.” I tell her as I hang up the phone. Once I am sure the call ended I sink to the floor feeling equal parts mortified and something else that I couldn’t quite ce at the fact that I just had my body seen by someone else. “How am I going to face herter…” I whisper ashamedly to myself.
<span style="font-weight:400">It takes me a moment to calm down and finally stand back up. I quickly go about taking a cold shower, which cools my flushed body, and then getting dressed. As I get dressed, I notice a notification blinking in the corner of my eye and focus on it.
<span style="font-weight:400">[Congrattions host! You have entered the Condensation Realm. You have received five free gacha spins!]
<span style="font-weight:400">As I read the message I understand what happenedst night. I seemed to have advanced my cultivation stage. What that means for me now, I’m not sure but I don’t feel anything different about me currently. I recall Zephyr into her pokeball and I make sure that I ce my new outfit and makeup in my bag as well to change intoter before heading down to the lobby to finally start my day.
<span style="font-weight:400">As I enter the lobby, I see Bea and nnery sitting at a table waiting for me. I rush over to them before sitting down at the table and blushing slightly.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sorry I’mte, I sort of overslept.” I tell them as I y with the end of my ponytail, making sure I don’t meet nnery’s eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s no problem, everyone likes to sleep in once in a while. If you train without a break, you end up breaking.” Bea responds.
<span style="font-weight:400">I look at Bea and nod in agreement as I see nnery giving me a teasing smile as her eyes trail along my body, causing me to shiver slightly at the feeling. It’s not unpleasant but I can’t help but blush more and grab the tablet to order myself some food. We spend the next few hours chatting in the lobby, all the while nnery gives me a teasing remark every time my blush wears off, causing me to re at her by the time it was time for us to head to the gym. Instead of the thirty minutes Bea and nnery gave themselves, I decide I want an hour to give myself time to get ready.
<span style="font-weight:400">I split with them at the door to the gym and go up to the league trainer that is manning the desk. Today it is an older gentleman who smiles warmly when I approach.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Wee to the Pewter City Gym. How may I assist you?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hello, my name is Frost Oak and I am to battle in about an hour. When I registered three days ago, I was told I would need to check in as one of my pokemon needed to be looked over by my sponsor.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright Ms. Oak, please ce your Pokedex and pokemon on this scanner and I willplete your registration.” I do as he says and ce everything into a small box with six round divots on the outside for pokeballs to sit in. I see him typing and reading something on the screen in front of him before he looks back at me a minuteter. “Everything is all set. Please make sure you grab everything and you can enter the waiting room at the end of the hall.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I give him my thanks and grab my phone and pokeballs before heading down a well lit corridor. At the end of the corridor there is a door with a sign that says “Waiting Room” on it, not like it was hard to miss as it was the only door down this hallway, though I’m sure someone like Zoro could still get lost on the way. When I enter the room, I see three other trainers, two guys and a girl, already there and waiting.
<span style="font-weight:400">The two guys look at me and nod when I enter, one of them goes back to what he was doing but the other stares at me longer. I can feel his eyes rake over my body in an unpleasant way and it makes me feel rather disgusted. I give the guy a cold re that causes him to recoil slightly when he sees my eyes. Looking away from the guy and giving him a cold shoulder as I hear him start to say something and I spot a woman’s bathroom on one wall and quickly disappear into it to get away from the creep.
<span style="font-weight:400">Once I close the door, I take a deep breath to get rid of the goosebumps that appeared on my skin from the revulsion I felt from that guy’s look. I notice that it is a simple bathroom room, like you would find at home, so I lock the door and head over to the sink where I pull out my outfit and makeup. I quickly take off the skimpy pieces of fabric that I have to call clothes until I can find something else, and take a look at the dress to figure out how to put it on.
<span style="font-weight:400">I can’t seem to find any buttons, zippers orces so I shrug and start tugging on it and I found the fabric is liketex or spandex and stretches much more than it looks like it should so I step into it as I pull at the neck of the dress. Once it is around my waist, I slip my arms into the glove like sleeves and finish pulling it up the rest of the way. The neck of the dress fits loosely around my neck but the rest of the fabric clings to my body like a second skin, entuating every curve I have.
<span style="font-weight:400">I pull on the heeled boots that make me stand just a few centimeters taller and take a look at myself in the mirror. The whites and blues of the outfit make the blue of my hair and eyes stand out even more. Taking a look at my ponytail, I frown as it doesn’t fit the look of the dress so I take the time to change to a waterfall crown braid hairstyle. I give myself another look before doing some light makeup and giving my eyes the cat’s eye treatment to make my eyes pop even more. Once finished, I pack everything back into my bag and strap it to my thigh under the dress where I can still ess my pokeballs that are attached to it.
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<span style="font-weight:400">I take a deep breath and stand up straight, with my shoulders square and tilt my chin up slightly as I step out of the bathroom, transformed into a valiant knight or warrior queen. As I enter the room again, I can feel two pairs of eyes on me again but the room goespletely silent. I take a nce around and see that the girl has left for her match and there are only the two guys left in the room. The sound of my footsteps echo loudly in the room as I walk over to a nearby seat and sit down elegantly with my back straight and hands ced in myp, watching the door as I wait for my match.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Dude, is that the same chick that came in just a moment ago?” I hear one of the guys quietly ask the other.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It has to be, no one else came in since she did.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Dude, what walked in was a bimbo that hardly wore anything. What came out of that bathroom…” The guy prolongs the sentence, not finishing what he was saying. “Think I can ask her to step on me?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Brother, if she walked in here like that I would have been on my knees calling her Mommy.” The other guy mutters quietly.
<span style="font-weight:400">I turn away from them and tune out their discussion with a slight sneer on my face. Boys can be such pigs at times. I rx my face, letting it go impassive and I zone out while I wait for my match. Forty minutes quickly pass by until I hear my name called from the door I was staring at. I slowly stand up and walk out the door and into a long hallway where I can hear the sound of the crowd waiting for me and so I take the first step on my path.