Seeing the surrounding crowds only continued to raise her heart rate. But this was a trial she was willing to endure. She'd left the safety of her room, the familiarity of Hebijo Academy and now walked the city streets... all to meet someone. Not just any someone though. She had gone through all of this to meet someone from a group in one of her mobile games.

This person had grown quickly on her. Not only did he prove to not be complete and utter dead weight like most of the normies who tried to join her group, he was versatile in the roles that he could play during clan-wide actions... and, whenever she was in a particularly foul or anxious mood, he'd always lend her an ear.

A part of her wanted to preserve the anonymity, to keep him faceless and to continue to have him be a person she didn't know whom she could vent things to... but when she found out they lived in the same city, a part of her just really wanted her to go out and meet him. So, after weeks of hyping herself up to it, she endeavored to do exactly that, set the date and invited him to come.

She stood at the front of the store in a busy mall, quivering slightly while throwing harsh stares at anyone who turned her way while keeping an eye out for him. She looked down at her phone again, to get another look at his face, before she spotted him, wandering through the crowd and trying to get his bearings on where he was. She realized she'd either have to go over there and get him or hope that he figured out he'd already passed their meeting point.

With a sigh, "...Oooh... I miss my pajamas..." she mustered her courage and began to frantically step through the crowd, meshing her hands together to keep her grip on something solid. When she quickly closed the distance with him, she called in a voice that was barely audible over the surrounding crowd, "...Over here...! This way...!"