"I'm currently working at a convenience store, a part time job to be precise." Arliette muttered, he is currently not wearing his disguise, he was able to apply with an ease due to him being a privilege as a male, to help them and also manage the population of the male ratio to 1:1 as much as possible.
'Being able to apply a job in this world, without any too much information around me and since I don't exist on this world, I need to be careful if someone were to investigate around my background information, luckily I already added some procedure about my background and such but if they look deeper then I'm in trouble.'
"I may have powerful magic, but because I don't exist in this world or any even a single piece of information then I'm screwed." (╬☉д⊙)⊰⊹ฺ
'Anyhow I find it relaxing being a cashier in this store, since it's a traditional store where a Human is the cashier, while the other stores are now automated, while this store is akin to more traditional.'
'I can feel some gaze at me, I should perhaps disguise myself even at work, but that would violate the rules for the University, so I just might as well use my original look.' While he waits for customers, most of the customers here are older people and sometimes very young. He could see sole teens from time to time, but most of them are females, and they're all looking at me while blushing.
'Ah youth! I can't help the fact that this is the world where the females are the dominant one, a Matriarch system but it's quite rare to see a Patriarch in some places.'
'Now I remember, monsters appeared into this world through dimension shifter, where the world is abundant of mana and too much can cause a dimension shift which opens a rift in fabric of space, and the monsters are called Voids that would range from category 1-9, with 9 being the Extinction of Humanity, while 8 is the destruction of the surface planet.'
'In my world, something like this is a normal Dimension shifter, and the 300 Years of war, between my world and other nations.'
'I'm glad I'm now out of that world, I can actually relax here.' He smiled, his golden eyes shining once more.
He then saw the automatic door opened, and he was quite surprised. They were a group of 4 students from Acadia.
"Welcome to the Store." He offered his greetings to them, while wearing his job outfit.
While the female students blushed at his looks, they just nodded.
'That felt weird.' His body shuddered in discomfort.
Suddenly, a blaring noise could be heard from everywhere. A rift has been open into this world.
'Guess that's the void, anyway I should probably go to the shelter.'
"Mister hurry!" Said by the student of Acadia. She grabbed his hand, and the group of students followed and went to the shelters.
"Thank you." He said.
"Don't worry! It's my duty to protect a man like you who has no magic at all!" She said proudly.
'Oh right, I disabled my mana.' He said while looking at his ring.
Then suddenly another blaring noise, this time it was an announcement.
[ WARNING! WARNING! CATEGORY 6 HAS BEEN DETECTED, ALL CIVILIANS EVACUATE TO THE NEAREST SHELTER! ]
"What's happening?" He asks.
"A Void appeared into this city, don't worry with us in here, we shall protect everyone as much, this is our pride as the students of Acadia!" She proudly stated along with the others nodded.
"To think I would meet a kind student like you." He complimented the student who is also a 1st Year student of the Acadia. He doesn't know her name yet, but her resolve deserves praise.
"I- Uh! Of course! Thank you!" She blushed, her face red like a tomato as she didn't expect a man like him would compliment her.
'I just got a compliment from a Handsome Man! Thank you for being such a kind and virtuous person! Yes, being a Gentlewoman helps!' Her thought was about to leak but she calmed herself down.
"Ah, forgive me I haven't learned your name."
"Ahem! I'm Catherine Zelensya, from the Zelensya Family, and a 1st Year student of Acadia." Catherine proudly stated her name and her family name.
Catherine, her curly long purple hair, and pink glossy eyes, along with the perfect purple blazer uniform along with a skirt, she was a proud student of the Acadia.
Catherine keeps trying to avoid to look at his face, due to him being handsome she couldn't help just blushed by his appearance, but she composed herself and gathered enough courage to try and speak without stuttering in front of a man.
'Catherine, you're a woman! You have the power to do this! He's just talking to you! Not flirting! Come now head, stop making some lewd imagination, this is not the time!'
Until the shelter began to shake, and some rubbles began to fall down. The people shouted in fear.
"Everyone calm down!" Said by one of the Police who is helping the people to calm down, and rationalize the current situation.
A Category 6 is rare to see, but the reinforcement from the Main branch of the Anti-Void is still far away before they arrive, they specialize in dimension shifters, and even closing them with the help of Magic Compressor to close the gate.
Suddenly the power went out, and the people began to panic as the police and other people began to scream in fear.
"Let the Light devour the Dark!" She chanted her magic, and a pure bright light appeared causing a miniature sun to luminate the entire area.
Catherine with a proud look, despite being terrified, her hands are shaking along with her friends.
'You who stand above the rest, you are fit to be a true mage, despite the danger you are still standing, and for that I'm proud of you as a fellow Magician.' He was used to this, he wanted to eliminate the void with his hands, but due to complication he might get caught and be questioned. So he would only act if it's absolutely necessary, because that's how he always works this whole time.
For his pursuit of knowledge, he will do what is necessary, but endangering others who don't deserve it is something that contradicts him, but that's what makes him a human, a human with a flaw. From his eyes humans are already perfect because of one thing.
Until suddenly, a void destroyed the roof of the shelter, and it was the Category 6 Void, it was quite tall around 25 meters and its silhouette is similar to that of a wyvern. But everything was pure black, and its breath was something akin to a cosmic poison where a pure mana becomes so pure that it's a poison.
A Void isn't a malicious entity, rather they are a natural disaster so to speak, they devour Mana and cleanse them. They're a void of disaster a black hole that has a form of an entity.
The void tried to crash down but Catherine with her remaining mana, she casted a powerful barrier, but due to the Void being a category 6, she was only able to block in just a minute before it's about to break down.
'You are indeed a good person, and now I shall grant you some help if you don't mind.'
He was silent, as Catherine slowly breaks down as she bleeds from her eyes, as she forces her Mana to be consumed, draining slowly as the Barrier cracks bit by bit, by each attack of the Void.
"Come on you Bastard! I'll hold it off as long as I can!" She shouted.
Suddenly, a new barrier appeared, and this time it was more powerful than her. The barrier was comparable to that of one of the high ranking mages.
"Huh?" Catherine pondered who could have done it, but as long they are safe she didn't question it further, as she almost collapse to the ground.
"Hey are you okay!?" Arliette catches her, Catherine feels weak and passes out.
While the void continues to attack the barrier, until finally the Anti-Void Squad appears, and deals with the danger by leading the void out of the Shelter.
…
Catherine wokes up, and she is currently being treated by the doctors. "Ah!" She screamed in pain, while she was covered in bandages, especially some parts of her eye.
"You're lucky, if you push your body even more seconds you would have been blinded."
"Thank you." Catherine said while the doctor just nodded.
Catherine looked around, she was trying to find Arliette, since she forgot to ask for his name.
'It seems he's gone.'
…
"Finally I'm out of that place, time to go back home for now." He sigh, as he went back to his apartment to rest.
(~_~;)