Akira's POV
The confirmation arrives at midnight with no ceremony.
I was alone in the training yard when the system speaks again, not with the voice this time, but with the clean, familiar text that has always been its preferred language. The words settle into the back of my mind with the same quiet finality as every previous update.
[Host Rank Update: A Rank]
[External Display: B]
[A rank abilities will be unlocked after new quests are completed]
I stop moving.
The night air is cool against the sweat still drying on my skin. I had come out here after the rest of the complex went dark because sleep would not take me.
My body still recalled the memory of Kael's hands, the stretch of his fingers, the weight of his cock on my tongue, the way he had held me afterward and told me he was going to speak to my mother.
