lting Snow was surprised to hear from his cousin, he knew how busy he had been. Opening up the video call, lting Snow couldn't help but frown at how tired his cousin's avatar appeared to be. He had a feeling that he was overworking himself again if it was showing this much inside of the ga.
"What's with the frown, my cute little cousin should always be smiling," Zixuan told him with a grin.
"I would be smiling," lting Snow staring hard at his cousin. "If a certain cousin of mine didn't look so haggard."
Zixuan eyebrows raised in disbelief, "Haggard, you say? The ga might be realistic but I doubt my avatar could look haggard."
"That's just it if you're so tired that it's changing the appearance of your avatar, then sothing is wrong." lting Snow said seriously.
"Are you worried about ?" Zixuan began, chuckling. "It seems my little cousins have grown sowhat."
Peeved, lting Snow retorted, "Don't try to change the topic. I'm very worried, you could get sick from the way you're overworking yourself."
Zixuan saw how sincere his cousin was in his concern about him and tried to soothe him, "Don't worry, I know my limits. I will even give you permission to check up on and make rest."
"Are you sure you want to give permission to boss you around?" A mischievous grin ford on lting Snow's face at the thought of telling his cousin what to do.
"Well," Zixuan started, already knowing what kind of thoughts that were going through lting Snow's mind. "I know you would never take advantage of it, right?"
lting Snow couldn't help but pout while silently tsk'ing in his heart before saying, "Right, I would never do that."
Zixuan wished he could give his cousin's head a pat right, he looked so adorable standing there pouting. Before he got a chance to say another word he saw his cousin's face light up followed by the sound of a man's voice calling lting Snow's na.
~
Xinya couldn't hide the joy that appeared on his face when he saw lting Snow standing there, in front of the inn. He couldn't believe how much lting Snow had changed since the last ti he saw him. He was still as cute as ever with his black wolf ears and fluffy tail, but the gear he had was upgraded a lot.
He looked like a modernized samurai, wearing a blue and gold hakama for his armor. It was completely different from a normal one, the pants, for one thing, wasn't loose but fitted perfectly to his legs while his undershirt hung loosely over his trousers, and lastly, his golden Haori lay open over his shirt.
lting Snow swords were also different, gone was his twin black swords, they were now replaced by blue ones that matched his outfit perfectly. Xinya could tell that his armor and swords were custom made, and was happy to know that lting Snow had such a caring brother that would spend so much on him.
Seeing that lting Snow caught sight of him, Xinya smile beca bigger and he started to walk over to him, "Long ti no see, did you miss ?"
"Well we did chat all the ti with one another," lting Snow replied jokingly. "So not really."
"I'm hurt, and here I thought you missed going on adventures with ." Xinya teased him.
lting Snow huffed at him, "Don't even get started. I still can't believe I missed that epic adventure you went on."
Xinya just laughed at the frustrated expression that was currently on lting Snow's face. He almost forgot how amusing this boy was, all his irritation about handling monster guts disappeared. It seems he did miss him more than he thought.
~
The sound of soone clearing his throat interrupted lting Snow's inner rant about how stupid his brother was and how much he wanted to kick him. The sound ca from his cousin who was looking at him as if saying, 'You didn't forget about did you?'
"Oh, I'm so sorry cousin," lting Snow sheepishly said, "Let introduce you to my friend."
After changing so settings in his video call, the once transparent screen that was only visible to him could now be seen by everyone. lting Snow grabbed Xinya's arm and pulled him closer to him.
"Drifting Cloud et my older cousin Nascent Soul," lting Snow said happily that his two favorite people in the ga were eting.
Xinya was taken aback by the suddenness of the introduction but pulled himself together. Looking into lting Snow's video screen he said, "Hello, Nascent Soul, it's nice to et you."
lting Snow always talked about his cousin a lot so Xinya was quite curious to see what he looked like. From how lting Snow talked about him he expected a gorgeous god-like man, but what he saw was a semi-handso man that looked very tired. He had an urge to ask if he was alright.
"It's nice to et you too, Drifting Cloud. I heard so much about you from lting Snow." Zixuan said polity not thinking much of the other man.
He could see why his cousin was so enamored with him though, The Dryad did look cool. With his tree-like skin and how leaves made up his hair. It was like the man was a living plant, although he was older than what he expected. But, from the way he heard them speak to one another, he didn't feel like he had anything to worry about.
"The sa could be said about you," Xinya said with a smile.
Chuckling, Zixuan said, "I guess he doesn't have anything else to talk about."
"Hey!!" lting Snow gave both of them the stink eye, "I have plenty of things to talk about that don't contain you two."
"Oh? Like what?" Xinya asked curiously.
"You know things." lting Snow replied while shyly looking away from them.
Zixuan was about to chi in when he suddenly heard a knock on the door. Rembering that he told his guild mbers to inform him when another guild ca, he started to say his goodbyes to lting Snow.
"It seems we have to cut this short. I will ssage you later cousin and Drifting Cloud it's been a pleasure to et you. Please look out for lting Snow for ."
"Don't worry, I will keep an eye on lting Snow for you," Xinya said.
lting Snow just rolled his eyes, "I don't need anyone to keep an eye on , if anyone needs it, it's your cousin."
"You could be right about that," Zixuan said with a chuckle.
"Goodbye cousin." Was the last thing lting Snow said before turning off the video chat.
~
"Your cousin seems nice," Xinya stated once lting Snow said goodbye.
As soon as the words left Xinya's lips lting Snow begins to speak warmly about his cousin. "He is, he looks out for . He helps with any problems I'm having. He just the greatest."
"So basically you got two caring older brothers instead of one," Xinya said while smiling lightly.
"Right..." lting Snow's face distorted for a mont but cleared up before Xinya noticed it. "Two caring older brothers."
"So are you ready to go to where we are staying for the next couple of days?" Xinya asked.
"I'm sure I am, where is it?" Questioned lting Snow, wondering where Xinya was going to take him.
Gesturing for lting Snow to follow him, Xinya said, "One of my friends nad Wandering Sound, rented us a boathouse to stay in."
"Wandering Sound?! That's right I wanted to ask how you beca friends with him. With him being a celebrity and all." lting Snow asked bouncing around Xinya as he walked.
Confused, Xinya stopped walking."What do you an? Wandering Sound is a celebrity?"
"You an you didn't know? He's one of the biggest idols in the eastern region of the ga." lting Snow said as if it was a known fact.
Xinya couldn't believe he was hanging out with a celebrity all this ti and didn't know it, he wondered why Wandering Sound didn't tell him and Wei. After being around Wandering Sound for this long he knew he wasn't the type of guy to hide things. So the only thing he could think was that there was a reason why he didn't want to let them know.
Xinya started walking again, weaving in and out through the crowd of players and NPCs with lting Snow, trying not to bump into anyone. Turning his head to face lting Snow, Xinya said, "When you et Wandering Sound, pretend like you don't know him."
"Why?" asked lting Snow curious as to why Xinya was asking him to do that.
"Because I think he doesn't want to be recognized and wants to be treated like a regular person," Xinya explained. It was the only reason Xinya could think of as to why Wandering Sound was hiding his identity.
Since Xinya wasn't paying attention to the road and busy talking to lting Snow he didn't see the man who was holding a giant cake coming towards him very quickly. Before he knew it, the two of them crashed against each other causing the cake that the man was holding to fall, completely ruining it.
The man was horrified, Xinya was covered in cake and lting Snow was desperately trying to hold back his laughter. After wiping off so of the frostings that landed on his face-off, Xinya began to profusely apologize to the man.
Xinya expected the man to get angry, but what he did exceeded his expectations. The man started to literally bawl his eyes out. Xinya and lting Snow exchanged glances but neither of them knew what to do. Since he was older Xinya thought it was up to him to calm the man down.
Patting the man on the back, Xinya said, "Are you alright is there anything I can help you with?"
"This cake was for the mayor's banquet tonight," The man spoke still crying a bit. "If it's not delivered on ti the mayor will have my head."
Xinya had a bad feeling about this, this was the second ti that he ran into an NPC that had to do sothing for the mayor. Sothing about this seed so familiar to him like he read it before.
While Xinya was thinking, lting Snow tried calming down the man by saying, "My friend here is a chef, he would be able to help you make a new one."
[Quest Triggered!!]
The man looked at Xinya with hope in his eyes and said, " Are you a chef?"
"Yes, I am," Xinya said, watching as the man's eyes fill with happiness.
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