From what I saw in the comnts, a large part of the day's viewership ca from the Tweep I made and the replies that the people I tagged made, but there was a small part that ca from so girl's stories on InstaBram? Unfortunately, I couldn't tell who had posted it, but if I could I would have thanked her. It helps a lot to have a bit of help in spreading the word.
Out of curiosity, I pressed F5 on the page and the views, which were previously at 401, had now jumped straight to 570. Surprised, I pressed F5 again and now it was 583. Views were rising extrely fast!
Wondering where these people were coming from, I quickly opened my Tweep to confirm, and just as I'd imagined, the image I'd posted of the artwork that "Jacob" had "done" currently had over 400 likes, and the number of likes was rising rapidly.
I knew that the vast majority of people who saw this Tweep wouldn't listen to the music, but as long as 10% of the people who normally liked the art I posted listened to the music, that would be enough for to complete the System mission, but seeing how fast the song's views were climbing, I realized that more than 10% were listening to the song! With Tweep's likes reaching 1k in a few minutes, the song's views were already at 848, very close to the 1k I needed, and that was still less than 5 hours since the song was posted.
I was feeling that I was getting too anxious, so to calm myself down I decided to go for a walk and keep my mind occupied. As much as I knew I would reach 1k views, I knew it wouldn't do my head any good to let my anxiety inflate so much in such a short space of ti.
To my surprise, when I ca out of the bedroom, my father was at ho, watching television with my mother. Then I rembered, although he worked on Saturday, he only worked until 4pm, so he had part of the day off today, and the whole day off tomorrow.
"Hey, Champ. Your mom told that you're also working out at night in the yard. A coworker of mine said he had so old weights and equipnt that he used to work out with at his house, and since he wouldn't be needing it, he told he could sell it to us for a low price. How about it? Do you want it?" He asked with a smile when he saw .
From the first day I started waking up early and spending ti with him before he went to work, I felt that our relationship has improved a lot. Even though we didn't talk about anything specifically, the awkward atmosphere between us from before has improved a lot now.
"Sure, what ti can we go?" I asked a little excitedly, since having equipnt to work out on would probably speed up the rate at which I would lose weight and gain muscle.
"He said he'd be ho in an hour, as he was going to stop by the market before he got ho from work. How about we go out in a bit?" he asked, also a little excited.
"No sweat," I replied with a smile as I continued walking out of the house, wanting to take a short walk to calm down.
As I left, I could see the surprise on my mother's face at how my father and I were now.
-------- Lauren's Comntary --------
Sitting on the sofa, lost, Lauren was a little uncomfortable.
"You know... before I felt that the relationships in our family were a ss, but as long as I was dedicated enough we could handle it well, but now I don't know what to do," She said, confused.
"I thought I would need to do the right thing for us to act like a normal family, but from what I've seen of Noah and Jonathan talking, and from what I've rembered of how Noah is acting with Ethan this week, even how Olivia started acting today, it seems they don't need to do that?"
Staring into the void, Lauren said thoughtfully. "It seems that Noah has started interacting with the family again. Everything has started to go back to the way it should be, as if he can see where each of the family's problems are and can solve them all by himself..."
"Was what he was singing really what they felt?" She said a little sadly.
-------- Comntary End --------
Leaving the house, I saw my father's old bike in the garage and was tempted to take it for a spin, but thinking about my current weight, even though I'd lost more than 10 kg, my 139.8 kg was still sothing a low-quality bike like that couldn't handle. So, just to be safe, I started walking down the street at a slow walking speed, feeling the nutrients of the sumr sun flow into my body. As it was still late sumr, the sun was a little hotter than ideal, but it still felt good to have the rays beating down on my body.
When I turned a corner, I was surprised to see a group of children playing, but I was even more surprised to see that there were two children sitting away from the group that was playing. The two children, far away, were sitting on the sidewalk, just looking at the other children playing with a ball. What puzzled a little was that one of the estranged children was Ethan!
Just as I was getting close, Ethan quickly noticed and ca running towards with an excited smile. Behind him ca a little girl who was sowhat shorter than him with short blonde hair and very thick glasses on her face, which was probably why she was sitting apart with Ethan.
"Noah!" Ethan shouted excitedly as he ran to hug .
Picking him up by his outstretched arms, I smiled as I lifted him up and spun him around a little before placing him on the floor.
[ 1 STR]
Although I was surprised by this notification, I quickly ignored it while asking Ethan, "What happened? Why aren't you playing with the other children?"
Hearing my question, Ethan was a little shy about answering, but the little girl who followed him over quickly replied a little sulkily, "They think we get in their way."
Seeing her frustration, I looked at Ethan and realized that although he was a little embarrassed, that was probably the truth and that he was also a little frustrated about it.
"Do you want to stay here and try to play with them?" I asked, looking at them both.
Hearing my question, the little girl looked at Ethan. When she saw him shake his head in denial, she quickly did the sa thing, making let out a laugh.
"How about we go out for ice cream then?" I asked, making them both perk up before Ethan beca visibly discouraged again.
"I've already spent my allowance..." he whispered in a low voice.
Ruffling his hair, I replied, "No fuss Buddy. I'll pay for the ice cream for the three of us."
Hearing that I was going to pay, both Ethan and his little friend got excited as they started talking about which flavor of ice cream they were going to eat.
When we left, the other children apparently overheard the three of us talking about the ice cream they were going to choose, and I could see so of them getting jealous, but no one had the courage to co over to us, so I just ignored them and went with the two of them to the nearest ice cream parlor.
Although I felt bad that Ethan didn't have many real friends, I wouldn't try to buy these children to be Ethan's friends either, as that would probably do him more harm than good. So I just went with the two of them to the ice cream parlor and bought three ice creams for us.
Looking at the ice cream cone with three scoops of ice cream in my hand and calculating how many calories it had, I figured it was probably around 500 and got a bit worried, but considering the high amount of calories I was burning daily, I quickly ignored this and ate my ice cream happily with the two children.
While I was listening to the two of them talk about which ice cream tasted best, a notification popped up in front of .
[Mission Completed!]
[Mission: Get your song 1,000 views in the first 24 hours.
Reward: 1 CHA, Mysterious Title].
[ 1 CHA]
As soon as the mission was completed, I felt a slight tingling sensation on my face for a second, but this passed and it returned to normal. This feeling was a little strange, but with curiosity, I quickly took out my cell phone and looked at the image of my face projected from the cell phone cara.
The change was less significant now than it had been the first ti, since my charisma went up from 7 to 8 points, which was only a 14% increase. It was definitely a smaller change compared to the 33% increase I had the first ti, but it was still sothing very nice to see my face getting 14% better looking. Was it even possible to notice that I've beco exactly 14% prettier by looking at my face? Definitely not. But with my 8 points in charisma, even though I was so overweight, I was now only slightly below average in looks, which was scored by the system as 10, so this would probably no longer be sothing that would get in the way of eting new people.
Now for the main part: I went to look at my new title.
[Tuned Ear: Achieved by those who take the ti to tune their listening skills.
Effect: 15% ability to identify musical nuances, making it easier to quickly learn new songs and improvise during performances].
As soon as I activated this title, I was surprised to realize that the music that was playing in a distant store, which had previously seed like just ordinary music, was now slightly unfolding in my ears and slowly separating each of the instrunts so that I could focus on each one to learn! The process was a bit slow, but considering that I wasn't even close to this level before acquiring the title, I was shocked to see how useful it was! I knew that the title was the best reward I could have gotten.
If I were to train to get a Skill as good as this title, I would probably need weeks, if not months of training in my musical Skills before this could develop. Too bad the titles only appear as rewards for missions. Perhaps there's a way to get them naturally, but I haven't figured it out yet...
While I was walking with the children, suddenly Ethan, who was distracted while talking to his little friend, bumped into soone.
Seeing him fall, I quickly went over to him, worried.
"Hey buddy, are you okay?" I asked as I looked at him.
He didn't even seem to hear what I was saying and just focused on the ice cream that had fallen on the floor, trying to control his crying.
Seeing what he was worried about, I smiled as I handed him my ice cream.
"Here, eat mine. I've had enough," I said while ssing up his hair.
"Really?" He asked with shining eyes looking at my ice cream.
"Sure," I laughed as I handed him the ice cream.
While he was distracted, I saw that he only had a slight scratch on his arm, which was no big deal for a kid his age, so I just distracted him again with the ice cream and was getting ready to leave until an angry voice spoke to .
"Hey, aren't you going to make up for the shit that kid did, Black Whale?"
As soon as I heard the nickna this person called , I knew who Ethan had bumped into. Unfortunately I didn't have my backpack now, and my tal bar had been left in it, so the only thing I could use to protect myself now were my fists.
Fortunately, I had raised the level of my Krav Maga Skill to Lv5, which was probably the sa as the average person who trained in that martial art for a few months - far from being a master, but already better than the average person.
[Krav Maga Mastery Lv5:
Effect: Develops an enhanced understanding of Krav Maga, accelerating learning by 5% and promoting more efficient body adaptation by 5%. Also improves retention of techniques and practical application during practice or combat. Gain a tangible advantage by absorbing the fundantal principles of Krav Maga].
Turning around and looking at this fucker's face, I knew that at so point I had heard his na, but I couldn't really rember it, so I started staring at him, trying to rember his na.
"What? You want to bla a 7-year-old while you're walking around like an imbecile without worrying about your surroundings?" I replied sarcastically while trying to rember his na to think of an insult, but his na didn't really co to mind.
When he heard what I said, he was furious.
"That brat must be your brother, right? That explains why he looks like a retard, being the brother of-" He was starting to laugh as he insulted Ethan, but this ti I didn't sit still and listen. I just ignored the urge to rember his na and ran up to him, punching him in the face.
That little shit could insult and I could pretend I didn't hear anything, but talking about my brother? Calling him retarded?
My brother may have ADHD, and occasionally he might act like a doofus, but insulting his intelligence like that was not going to go unanswered. After all, he's MY little brother!
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