The girl then walked towards to Theo. "Theo right? I would like you to follow me." "I don't think that's a good idea." Catherine said, but Theo sees that the girl that was talking to her is also wearing a ring that look like his.
He pulled out his phone and looked at the time, 3:27 pm. "I only have 33 minutes, am I able to came back here on time?" Theo asked. "Of course," the girl said and Catherine looks at Theo and went to Thea as they leave.
While then Theo followed the girl to an unknown place. After the got into the earthscraper, they went to the lowest floor. As the door opened. He saw a person sitting on the desk.
"Theo right? I heard a lot about you from Halt." Michael said. "So, why did you call for me?" Theo asked. "I'm pretty sure you have an Arch, aren't you?" Michael said.
Theo looks at his ring as he concluded that the 'Arch' that being said is the ring. "It seems that you know this thing are, care to enlighten me?" Theo said.
"Of course I will." Michael said. Then he stated that the Arch was an relic or some sort of supernatural artifact that couldn't be removed by any means.
He also said that the Arch give it's wearer some sort of supernatural natural abilities, like something that you would associates with powers.
"Is there any drawback on it?" Theo asked. "Nothing really much, your life expectancy will decrease by a little amount though. So with that, did I answer all of your questions." Michael said.
Then Theo left the room, not wanting to have a conversation, as the girl escorted him through the building. "That just who he is, he's not a bad person." She said.
"Judging by your uniform, you goes to Maria Ibara National High, are you" Theo nods at girl's statement as they were walking through the hallway.
"By the way, I'm Alexia Fernandez, of 9-Rizal, if you have more questions, asked me, I'm just on my room." She said. After a while the two of them have left the building and Theo walks away.
"What's with that child?" An older woman looks at Theo as she speaks at Alexia. "A new Arch user, he'll probably be working with us soon enough" Alexia said.
"Well, I hope I could get to know him." A guy with the same age as him said. "Well, you don't go to school Xi, so if he doesn't want anything to do with us, you'll be alone." Alexia said to Xi Mercado.
Xi Mercado, a 16 years old shut-in ex-artist who usually plays video game, and the older woman is Carla Claes, a 21 years old. And both of them are also wearing the same ring, therefore being both an Arch user.
Soon enough, Theo have arrived at his work at 4, but while on there his phone rang. "Thea, you called?" Theo answered. "Actually, it's me." Catherine is calling him with the use of Thea's phone.
"I just noticed, how come that I don't have your number?" Catherine asked. "You never asked." He stated. "Nevermind that, so how was it?" She asked.
"How was what?" He replied with a question. "About that girl I mean, why did she want you to follow her? and also why did you follow her?" Catherine asked with multiple questions.
"Didn't you see the ring on that girl's hand?" Theo asked. "I did.." Catherine answered. Could it be about the ring!? Catherine concluded.
"I'll talk to you for more details, bye." Theo turning of his phone as he was continuesly serving customers at the restaurant.
"Where did that call from? A girlfriend?" A coworker asked. "I don't have such a thing." He replied.
While Theo is working, at the earthscraper earlier, after a while he left. Alexia went back to Michael's office and reported to him.
"Earlier, when I arrived, Theo and his friends encountered Balbal." Alexia said. His eyes widen and stand up, "Is it possible that the other two saw him using his Arch?" He asked.
"Yes, that's likely." Alexia replied, "what a bothersome problem." Michael sigh as he said that statement. "It might be a problem soon, we should focus on catching Balbal." He said.
Alexia then leave the office, APC, or also known as Archiand Protection and Control, a global non-government organization in which handle everything that has anything to do about the Arch users and keep them from being known in the public.
Going back at Theo, he finished his worked as he head's to the residency that he's currently living for now. "I'm back." He said as he enters the house. "Wellcome back." Thea said while sitting at the front of the door still wearing her uniform.
"Your sister has been waiting for you." Catherine said as she peeked from the living room. "Is that so?" Theo said as he patted Thea's head
"Either way, where should we discussed the thing about earlier?" Catherine asked. "In your room." Theo replied as she nodded in agreement.
Then the Jessica has finished cooking the dinner and the two grabbed their plates and their food and immediately went to Catherine's room. "What's going on with those two?" Jessica asked.
"Nothing important!" Thea's reply as she sat on table and started to eat.
At Catherine's room, the two sat down, Catherine on her bed and Theo on her desk. "So, which one you should hear first? About the girl or about the ring?" Theo asked as he takes a bite of his food.
"The ring first." Catherine replied. Then Theo told her everything that Michael said about the 'Arch' and it's supposedly give you any superpowers.
"You're telling me, that ring is supposed to give you powers?" Catherine said as she bite on her food. "That's what I said" He answered. "Then, considering that everything they said is true, what kind of super powers do you have?" Catherine asked. "It is not known for now." He replied.
"Then, what about that girl?" She said. "She's our senior, in 3rd year, section Rizal" He replied. A senior huh? Catherine thinks and said "We should go there tomorrow."
The two have done finished eating and went downstairs to place their used plates at the sink. "Have the two of you done something, you know?" Jessica asked the two of them.
"What are you talking about?" Both of them asked. "Yeah, generic answer." She said. These two aren't even curious about something. Jessica said to her own mind as sighing in disbelief.
"Ms. Santos, it seems you wanted a perverted daughter?" Thea said as she observe. "Well, you see, Catherine is too serious, at that age, I was already playing with myself." Jessica said.
"Playing with yourself? It seems you have no friends backthen." Thea concluded by herself while thinking that she plays childhood games by herself. "That's not what I meant!." She's in disbelief witnessing the three denseness in some matter.
Then after that, Theo and Catherine washed their own plate and place it on a drying rack. At the same time Thea change into her usual clothes. Then the three of them went to each others room.
As soon as Theo lay down on his bed, he pulled out his phone and scroll online. And once he saw the news again about the non-consensual intercourse, he soon opened the comments at last, which left his eyes to be widen.
:[What is she wearing?]
:[I'm telling you, she seduces them]
:[why do you think re got r∆pe? Of course she would want it]
:[Lucky~]
:[She definitely enjoyed it]
What a rotten world Theo's thought as he was reading most of the comments in which full of criticism, victim blaming, and jealousy. After having enough of the news, he turns of his phone and went to sleep.
June 8th, 2135, Wednesday. He wakes up and went down to the kitchen as usual. "Good morning, Theo." Jessica greeting him. "Good morning." He greets back.
The two cook their breakfast and fixed the plates and utensils and call the people in the house for breakfast. Thea and Catherine head down earlier than Catherine's father and they all went to eat at the table and having an conversation.
Then the three change their clothing into their school uniform and went to their school. "Theo, Catherine, good morning!" Halt waving at them as soon as he spotted the three of them.
"So how was yesterday?" Halt asked. "So it's you huh." Theo replied. "What do you mean?" Halt asked again. "No nevermind,in fact, I'm great full that I got the answers." he answered.
Then Thea went to her class and the three of them also went to their class. They sat down and Theo asked Catherine about the comments on the news. "Yeah, that's usually is, it's a good thing that the perpetrator isn't handsome, or else, she might not get the justice she should deserved." Catherine replied.
While the three are talking, someone sat at the front seat letter 'D' It's her both Theo and Catherine concluded. Then Catherine stand's up and approaches her. "How are you?" She asked.
"I-.. I'm the victim...so why..." The girl whimpers, tears dropping from her eyes. "I am the victim here so why!?" She shouted and at the same time Catherine saw her hand. She wears an Arch.