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In the time that had passed since the tutorial had come to an end, Samuel had come to learn quite a few things. First and foremost, from what he could tell, this Earth-Chan had managed to put a block on most forms of technology. Cars could no longer be accessed, a gun ban overall had been placed upon the setting, and any form of computer had various limitations placed upon them. The only thing that one could really even do with a phone now, from what he had learned from one of the other people that had been meandering about Los Angeles, was to access information prompted by this 'game'. Re:Earth or so it was called. "Come now, Sami, what makes you think that the world is on your side? You may be free now but at this rate, it's quite likely that you will die." "Die.. Yes, die. It's the only thing that we are good for, thanks to you. Why couldn't you be better?" "YEAH!! If you don't manage to increase in strength, the next time that we run into one of those freakish beasts, we'll be taken down with you!" It was quite clear that the voices were going to blame him for all of this. As if he was somehow responsible for the entirety of the world changing. Albeit, it was certainly possible. His own reality had changed two years ago.. Whose to say that he isn't the reason that everyone else's is now? It is entirely likely that this entire scenario is being perpetrated solely within his mind after all.
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In an attempt to try and dissuade the voices from speaking to him, Samuel would simply ignore them. It wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world to do, given that they were always there but at least he had been trying. Of course the best way to try and ignore them was to instead focus himself on something else. Or someone else in this particular situation. Given that the two of them had completed the tutorial together, Sami had figured that it might be best for himself and Pori to stick together for the time being. "Hey, hey Pori. Hey, hey, heyyy. Take this!!" It wasn't that long into their little journey across the city that Samuel would send over a friend request. "Confirm it, P. This was we can communicate whenever we need to. Can't remain in the same party forever, right?"
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Earlier on, the two had been lifting some food from an abandoned store. It wasn't exactly the best thing to be doing in this moment but.. well, it was the apocalypse. Who cared for conventional rules at this time? Perhaps in the future this would change but for now Sami would be perfectly okay with acting as a criminal. Whilst within this store, the young man would be sure to gather various ingredients for baking a cake. He had to try and keep up with his promise if he were going to convince this puddin-, er, slime to stick alongside him. It wasn't all that difficult to gather what ingredients he had needed. Thankfully there had even been a regular batch of cakes that was being held in a fridge somewhere within the backrooms of the store. Clearly a birthday cake meant for an employee but Samuel didn't think that they would be coming back any time soon. After having gathered all of these ingredients and the cake, Sami would proceed to throw them all into his inventory before the girl could really see it.
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Eventually the pair would find themselves back at the beach. From what he could see, Pori hadn't appeared to have been all that happy. Perhaps the reality of the situation had finally caught up to her. Rather than allowing her to sit there and possibly sulk, Sami would opt to take a seat beside her. He didn't mind that the waters of the beach had been washing onto his grippy socks. It was simply something that he would have to worry about later. "So I took some time to play around with the status menu." As he had said this, the holographic display from before would appear before him. "..and I have come to take note of a submenu that I hadn't noticed earlier. A shop. From what I can see, there are a whole wealth of things that we could acquire from the shop. Things that will let us bypass the restrictions that Earth-Chan has set upon us."
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A simply shrug would then be offered to the girl before Sami would slip on away from the shop submenu and would click on the inventory menu. "I also noticed that we not only leveled up after having completed the tutorial but that we were gifted with a few rewards for overcoming the trial. Would you like to see what I got?" As he has asked this, he would then flip back to his character sheet submenu. From there he would transfer over any of the appropriate stats that he had received from overcoming the boss.

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Sami couldn't help but quirk an eyebrow at Pori as she had stated that she didn't have a cellphone. While that may have been pertinent information prior to the light overtaking the world, that had no longer mattered when it came to communication. At least that was what he had come to believe anyways. It would be good to have a phone for other reasons though. Being able to access information that Earth-Chan had been trying to get everyone to see.. Well that much would be rather nice. "No worries..!! We'll find ourselves a couple of phones in no time. Even if we have to pry it off of someone else that is no longer capable of using it. Y'know, if you catch my drift." A bout of laughter would than escape from the mans lips once more. As he had been laughing this time around though, his undivided attention had been turned towards the slime girl. For the time being anyways.
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Having heard what else the teen had to offer him in terms of communication, Sami would begin to sway his head from side to side. 'Level 0? Why would they start off at level 0? It's quite natural that everyone would start at level 1.' 'Truly a shame that such a person will be stuck with the likes of you, Sami.' 'Is.. Is this girl really that dumb?' Trying his best to ignore the various thoughts that had gone against his own will, Sami would begin to smile at the pudding-like girl. After all, it wasn't him that was having these thoughts. Not exactly. 
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All that he could do at the moment was continue to shake his head from side to side whilst smiling. After a couple of minutes of this, Samuel having become lost in his thoughts for a all of that time, the man would turn his attention away from the teenage slime and towards his status menu. After having flipped to the Inventory submenu, Samuel would remove a quick item. Dwelling within the center of his palm had been a rather sturdy and firmly packaged box of ice cream cake. "While I diiiid mange to snag this for you while we were out, that wasn't what I was talking about! No, no, no. I got this!" And with that, Samuel would connect with the systems interface before mentally clicking the item that he had earned upon completing the tutorial. As he had done this, a holographic emoji of angry earth-chan would appear directly overhead. The emoji would proceed to remain overheard for a few seconds before disappearing. The bouts of laughter would continue to follow the  appearance of the emoji before Samuel would speak up once more. "Isn't this great?!"

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Out of the various responses that Sami had assumed would come from the teenage slime, a trade request hadn't exactly been one of them. Pair that with the fact that this girl had been offering him a pink motorcycle helmet and well.. The man was stumped. His laughter would immediately die down as he would begin to contemplate on whether or not such a trade would have been beneficial for him. Whilst this emoticon had been little more than a toy for him to play with, was the helmet really something that he had wanted? Not exactly. Thankfully it wouldn't be all that long before an idea would crop up in his mind.
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"A trade, huh?" The smile that had overtaken him earlier would now relax down into a bit of a more sincere one. It wasn't exactly a genuine smile but at the very least, it had seemed to have been. "I don't mind trading with you in exchange for the emoji function. Rather than trading for the helmet though..." Taking a moment to lean in close to the slime whilst slightly fondling the bottom of his chin, Sami would quirk an eyebrow in the girls direction. "How about you trade me for it with these points that we've been accumulating? If you give me about thirty of them, I'll trade the function over to you right now."
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A sudden barrage of thoughts would begin to overwhelm young Samuel as the life in his eyes would begin to dull out. For all of minute or so, it would appear as though Sami had been staring out into space. That wasn't so far from the truth. The only downside though is that this was something that had happened quite frequently with his illness. Either he wasn't entirely all there or his thoughts were overwhelming him. Once this ordeal would pass though, Samuel would begin to nod his head a few times. "So what do you say, Pori Pon Puddin'? Thirty points for the function!! Sounds like quite the deal to meeeee~"

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In all honesty, Sami had never expected the trade to have come so easily. There wasn't any bartering on the girls end to be had. It almost made him feel as though he was taking advantage of the poor teenage slime. Almost. "Great!" Rather than worry about possibly taking advantage of the situation, Sami would quickly filter his menu back to the friends submenu. Once there, he would initiate a trade between the two of them. "Right, so all that needs to happen on your end is that you'll have to select the currency option on the bottom. Then you'll simply change the number from zero to thirty! After that, you'll just have to accept the trade. Sound good?~ Good..!"'

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It wouldn't take long before Samuel would send forth his own part of the deal: his angry earth-chan emoticon. While this might have been something to enjoy whenever it had caught his fancy, or perhaps was something that could later be pawned off as a collectible, Sami didn't worry too much about it. Instead, he would happily accept the trade that he had thrown onto the table. If he could continue to grow the points that he was accumulating than he could easily power his way to survival. Because that is what was the most important thing in this moment. Survival. "So what is the plan for the time being? What would you like to do now?"

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She.. she thought that he was the best? Well this was certainly something that he never would have expected. All that he had done was trade away something that he quite honestly didn't have much of a use for. Was it going to remain this easy to keep her on his side? Just some cake and an emoticon? Well as long as she didn't end up turning against him in favor of another, he had supposed that this was correct. Even with the snide remarks that the voices had begun to make, this had felt as though it was the correct decision. "Well I am glad that you are enjoying it so much!! Just think of all of the shenanigans that one can get up to with that thing. It's going to be glorious, I'm sure~"
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Samuel would then proceed to listen to the various things that Pori had to say about her future plans. From what he could tell, it was quite likely that they were going to be sticking together for quite awhile. Or at least until she had managed to find a place in which there was enough food to last her a lifetime. "I see, I see. You know, Pori, we are currently in a situation akin to the apocalypse. Finding somewhere that can offer us tons of fun.. Well it likely isn't going to be all that easy." While part of Sami had been saying this to keep a shield in between him and his enemies for as long as he possibly could, the other part of him had been entirely sincere. In the novels that tended to focus on situations similar to the one that this world was currently facing, it has already been a couple of years since all of the craziness has occurred. The government was still able to manage some semblance of control over those that would become known as hunters or players. Given the vast difference in timing.. Well it was likely that they would have to deal with some major difficulties before the world was at a point in which a semblance of normalcy would return.
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The fact that Pori had been looking over weapons and such was something that had given Samuel a bit of relief. Given his skill set, it was quite clear that he was only able to defend himself. And even then it was primarily against mental attacks. If he were going to survive then he was going to need to find someone that could act as his sword. 'Is she seriously askin' if she should buy a weapon? What kind of idio-' "Yeah, I think that you should. Our abilities don't exactly seem to be unlimited. Unless we focus on increasing stats like willpower, it'll be rather unlikely that we'll be able to have huge reserves for our attacks and the like. What kind of weapon are you thinking of getting? And uh.. Who is this 'he' that you are referring to?"

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'Food.. Such a simple motivation.' 'At least she has some kind of motivation.. What do you have? Nothing. No one. Even your own family didn't want you.' 'Maybe you should just end things here. Leave the safety of this [Safe Zone] and hurl yourself into the grasp of the creatures in a [High Risk] zone.' Not wishing to hear any of the things that the voices had tried telling him, Sami would start to scream loudly in his head. He had hoped to drown out the voices.. but such a time would never come. No matter how loud he had been in his mind, the voices were always louder. "Shut up..!! Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up..!!!!" None of this had meant to sound as though it was directed at Pori but well.. It was extremely likely that it had seemed that way from an outside perspective.
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Having just shouted his lungs out, Sami would realize how things might have looked in this moment. 'Damnit...' Figuring that he might have just scared poor Pori, Sami would begin to idly scratch at the back of his head. His gaze had refused to meet her own, only focusing on the sand in between them. "I.. I'm sorry. That.. is a very interesting weapon, Pori." Although he hadn't been looking at it in this moment, he had managed to get a glance at the whip before his little breakdown. 
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Deciding to try and draw the attention away from himself and back towards the situation at hand, Sami would return to what she had stated earlier. That this 'he' was simply not important. "At least you are coming around to see things the way that you probably should. There is no telling if any of the people that you are thinking of are out of that light. Honestly, they could be anywhere in the world right now. But still.. I guess that if you want to try and track this person down, that yo-.. we can find someone that is able to assist in that matter. Just make sure that you get strong enough to take on anything that gets in your way, up to that point."

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Yet again, Samuel had found himself in an instance in which this illness of his was making things worse. It wasn't ideal, and he quite honestly didn't know this girl, so there was no real telling on what he should do here. On one hand, if he were honest about what was going on, she might become more afraid of him. On the other, she might as well just end up running off anyways... Being sick was disgustingly difficult to navigate. "...I hadn't been speaking to you when I told you to shut up." A moment of being genuine. One that had even surprised him to have been allowing to slip beneath the cracks. "..I really did think that your whip was fancy. It's like a long ranged eating utensil. Not everyone can manage to get one of those.." A tired sigh would than escape from the mans lips as he had begun to curl up into a fetal position.
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For a moment, all was quiet. He didn't wish to expose too much about himself but at this point, it wasn't as though he really had a choice. One way or another, he was going to need this girls assistance. For the time being anyways. "I.. hear these voices sometimes.. and they don't say very nice things about people." Unsure of what else to even say or do at this point, the man would continue to ignore the voices. His head had begun to hurt as he simply sat there, trying to figure out how to get himself out of this situation. Being alone.. While it was something that he was capable of, it wasn't something that he had wanted to do. "..I only said that we could find these people of yours to try and help.."

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