Mantra Building

The next woman he saw was a tall woman who was also walking but she was walking from the direction he came from. She had: long black straight hair, wore a black shirt that exposed her belly and her belly piecing, jeans with a bunch of metal chains as if she came from prison, a small leather black backpack and leather boots. Her style of clothing was especially eye catching to him as he never saw this sort of style in his life. It was just, dark. No bright colors, just black, and silver from the chains around her and her piercing.

Most women wore bright colors like white, yellow or pink, which he believed represent purity. This all black style accompanied by chains and the short shirt that exposed more of her skin made her look as if she had a wild side to her. Although it was strange seeing this, he didn't dislike it, in fact he actually found it refreshing seeing something new! She had a pretty face and a nice body too so even if he didn't like the style, he knew outside that style she would be attractive. 

After thinking of all of this, he decided to approach her. Despite his nerves still getting to him, he didn't think the interaction would go south since the last one went well. He walked towards her and as he got close, she looked at him for 2 seconds and smiled. When he saw this he found that to be way nicer then the last woman who only gave him a glance, so he chose to speak at that moment, "Hey lady, are you a student here?"

She took a step towards him after she heard this and turned her body fully towards him, "Yea I'm a first year! My name's Madison, what's your name?"

This woman's response to his question was entirely different compared to the last woman despite him asking the same question. He believed this woman must be in a good mood, which in turned eased his nerves a little, as if she was transferring her good energy into him! 

"My name's Ku- um Jake, it's good to like meet you Madison. It's also my first year here, but I don't know the um, layout of this campus. So I was wondering if you'd know where I could find printed copies of the map of this campus."

Madison's strong eye contact made his nervousness rise again and he began to look around and not at her eyes as he spoke to her. She still stood there smiling with her hands behind her back as if she was the happiest person on earth, giving her full attention to him nonetheless.

"Oh yea I had that problem as well haha! Yea I know where those are. If you go inside the Mantra building which is down the path I'm walking on and make a right, the main office of this College is there. Go inside and ask the receptionist for a copy and they will happily give you one!"

He enjoyed this woman's energy a lot more then the last one he approached, she actually seemed like a very nice woman which he wasn't expecting after the last interaction. He also noticed how the woman that wore pink and white who he believed would be pure and kind didn't seem like that at all, while this woman did! Maybe the women in this world were the opposite of his world's women, or maybe clothing didn't determine a person's personality. 

Although his world had men and women just like this world, he knew there were still differences between the two world's humans, since his were a lot more powerful in almost every field compared to the humans here. 

Kubera smiled and did his best to maintain eye contact this time, "I see, thank you very much Madison for the help today. It was a pleasure meeting you!"

Her smile grew, "Of course it was nice meeting you as well Jake! See you around."

She then spun around and continued walking down the path to wherever she had to go to. He stood there and watched her leave, thinking how it would be great to marry a woman like her. He wanted to go and follow her and talk to her more, but he remembered that it was most likely his low focus and mental stats causing this desire to procrastinate. 

He decided he'd do one more approach before going into the office to grab that map. He looked around again and this time he spotted a woman sitting on a bench studying. She was a darker woman who had braided dark-red hair, a white dress, big metal ring earrings, and a laptop on the table she was looking at and typing on with her bag that she carries the laptop in being a black shoulder bag. 

He's seen darker men and women back at his world, just not often as they were a part of a different area of Arctov. This woman's style really enhanced her dark skin as her dress and hair are a lot brighter compared to her skin with the metal rings reflecting the sun a little as well. All of this added her own unique charm compared to other women he saw. Her face looked really cute and the curves of her body stood out despite her sitting because of her tight mini white dress which exposed her long slender dark legs.

After the last approach he started to calm down a little, well, his heart was still pounding, but his palms weren't as sweaty. 

He went up to her and used the same line, "Hey lady, are you a student here?"

She looked up at him, "Boy who is you calling lady? I have a name you know, it's Nelly. And yea I am a student here, watchu want from me?"

This response reminded him of the first approach earlier, but a lot more assertive yet playful. Although she asked why he addressed her like that, she still gave him her name and answered his question, so he knew it wasn't entirely bad. But this reaction still caused his nerves to come back, again..

"Oh well um, Nelly, I was wondering if like you knew where um, I could get printed copies of the um, campus map because I'm not familiar with this campus layout."

"It's right down that path and to the right in the Mantra Building, look for the main office and ask someone there for a copy. Is that all, mister?"

He couldn't help but think she's calling him mister to imitate him calling her lady, "Um yea that's all, thanks for the help. It was nice meeting you, Nelly"

She didn't respond and instead turned her attention back to her laptop. He found this sort of behavior weird but didn't think too much of it and just thought maybe she was acting all aggressive because she was in a bad mood.

After having finished those approaches, he finally calmed down and redirected his focus to the Main Office in the Mantra Building. He walked over and entered the office which was very spacious with lots of chairs and a long receptionist desk with multiple counters for each receptionist working there. There were 2 cameras inside the waiting room with not many people in there. He went up to one of the receptionists and asked for a copy of the campus map, which they gave him after a second. 

He opened his notebook and placed the map on one side, and used the other side to write any additional notes that can't fit onto the map. He saw a clock and realized it was only 8:00 am and the time he arrived was around 7:30 am. He thought it might've been over an hour since each interaction with the women felt long to him, but now he realized they only took a few minutes at most. 

He remembered that he doesn't get picked up till 4:00pm, and since he never had any plan to attend any class because of his tasks and also to not activate the 'slave mind' skill since it encouraged technology use and taught whatever the government wanted him to learn, he decided to try and finish as many tasks as possible today. 

After interacting with those women, he knew he should probably focus on the scouting task first before approaching since they took a toll on his mental, working his nerves and causing him to not focus as much on his surroundings. His focus is already bad enough so he believed he might miss a camera or two if it went any lower.

With everything decided, it was time to go scouting, so he went out and left the office.

Right when he left the office however, he noticed there were two campus officers standing at the corner of the Mantra building. Seeing all the equipment and weapons they were armed with in person added to the pressure, 'Although they don't have an aura, their status and equipment still make them intimidating. Their weapons called 'firearms' are supposedly as fast as a buffed harpoonist, so if they decided to, they could kill me in a heartbeat..' 

Even though he was allowed on campus, just the thought he could die again and have no way of fighting back with his current body, his body couldn't help but form cold sweat on his back.

'Wait, this might be just what I needed! The system did suggest I ask them about the security here..'