“Hmm~ Hmm~.”
Nikolai was in an excellent mood after logging out of the ga COVENANT.
It would be his first ti in a group and tempting a dungeon!
So exciting!
He went out of the pod, wore his big round glasses, and went out of his room to get a bottle of cold water to quench his dried throat.
On the way to their mansion’s kitchen, Nikolai yawned and stretched his arms. His feeble arms and legs were getting mushy for staying in the pod too much.
“You’re finally out of your pod.”
“Yikes!” Nikolai yelped before he cleared his throat and arranged his glass on the bridge of his nose.
He then addressed the older lady in his mid-twenties. She was sitting casually on the bar with a glass of wine swirling in one hand while her other hand held a phone in her ear. Her light blue curls were down on her shoulders. Black stocking frad two long shapely legs under a knee-length skirt. Blues eyes languid, pouty red lips seductive, and D cup breasts almost slipping from her neutral-colored suit.
She was beautiful and appeared like an older, kind lady who had everything in the palm of her hands.
“Hello, sister. You’re ho early.” Nikolai greeted before going to the fridge and chugged a bottle of water in a hurry. Ren said to et at Rocky Hills tomorrow, ga ti, which ant around an hour or so in real-ti.
Suri raised her perfectly shaped brows. “It’s already past two. I thought that we were going to have lunch together? I went ho because you’re not answering your phone. I thought sothing had happened to you.”
Nikolai choked, and water slipped from his nose. “That late already?”
He looked at the clock hanging on the wall and faced his sister with a guilt-stricken expression. “Sorry. I didn’t notice. I forgot to set my pod’s tir.”
He was so engrossed in grinding and exploring that he wasted so much ti in Maze Forest, totally forgetting about their lunch.
“Never mind that. I bought you take-outs since you stood
up in the restaurant.”
“Sorry.” Nikolai wanted to prostrate before his sister but decided against it when he realized he was hungry. He needed to eat, take a bath and log into the ga ASAP!
He still needed to prepare before their dungeon raid later.
Ren gave him a list of items to buy in the town, and he couldn’t afford a single minute wasted in the real world.
Nikolai hopped on the table and gobbled all the food his sister had brought him.
“Calm down, or you’ll choke.” Suri reprimanded, but it all went on deaf ears.
As Nikolai concentrated on his food, Suri took the ti to study her little brother.
Nikolai was only fourteen years old. Too young to be alone in this big mansion. His skinny limbs were a concern of hers, as well as his ntal and physical health.
Good thing that COVENANT ca at the right ti. It helped him cope.
But she still had to work on Nikolai’s physical health. He couldn’t just stay in his pod the whole day and play the ga.
Suri promised that they would talk about that. For now, she got back to her phone.
“Sorry, dear. My brother had finally graced
with his presence. What were we talking about?”
“It’s about the ga COVENANT. Don’t tell
you still haven’t played it? You were a pro player of Clash of Guilds back in your days,” said a girl on the other end of the phone.
Suri rubbed her temple.
Why?
Her eyes then briefly looked at the young boy sitting opposite her, whose excitent could be felt even miles away. This was the first ti that she saw her little brother so excited and smiling again after their parents died.
It was thanks to COVENANT.
Suri went to her feet and stayed in the living room.
“You know why. I had to take care of the company and Nikolai. I don’t have ti to be playing a ga.” Suri looked at the garden over the floor-to-ceiling window. The sadness in her eyes was reflected on the glass, and she blinked them away.
“And besides, I’m too old to be playing a ga. My gaming days were over once I finished college. It’s all in the past.” Suri joked and chuckled with no joy.
“It will just take you an hour. It’s precisely why COVENANTs ga ti defers from the real world by a huge margin. It’s to accommodate everyone. Working class, the old, the young, the undergrads and grads. Anyone can join. It operated in your sleep.”
Suri shook her head with a bitter smile on her face. “I don’t know, Silvia. You know . I’m an addict to gas. Once I start, it’s hard to stop. It’s better that I don’t play. Least I want the company and Nikolai neglected.”
Silvia sighed on the other side of the phone. “You sure? And here I thought I could convince you to play as a Dwarf Defender.”
Suri nearly choked with her chuckle. “. . . A Dwarf . . . Defender . . . ?”
“It’s the only race that had a tank class. At least at this current ti. We badly needed a tank, you see. We’re going to attempt a dungeon!”
Even from the other side, Suri felt Silvia’s excitent. It was apparent from her sharp tone and fast-paced talk. There was a bitter pang in her heart. A jealousy and eagerness that she had a hard ti controlling that made her want to play the ga.
The urge to explore, defeat enemies, hunt for treasures and beasts, participate in guild wars, grind and strategized to reach the top was all the things she missed so much.
She and Silvia were once in the sa school when she took her six-month master’s a year ago. She was ahead of her for six years, but the mont they t through common acquaintances, they clicked right away.
COVENANT was their favorite topic in the past, even before the ga could be launched. And Suri told Silvia that she was once a pro gar.
Suri licked her lips and giggled. “Ara-ara~ why are you so into this ga? Did I influence you that much, and now you wanted to be a pro gar as well?”
There was a slight pause before Silvia answered, “Of course not. I just wanted the thrill and challenge. It’s just another world waiting to be explored and conquered!”
Suri stifled a laugh. Leave it to Silvia to make everything a challenge.
“You said your brother is playing, right? Don’t you want to bond with him in the ga?” Silvia enticed by using Nikolai as her leverage.
Suri rolled her eyes. Silvia knew her soft spot with Nikolai.
“I’ll think about it. But not today. I have many works to do that I won’t be logging into that ga anyti soon.”
Silvia sighed. “We badly needed the Tank within an hour. Do you happen to know anyone who might be playing that class from your list of pro friends in the past?”
Suri thought for a mont, but only the image of her ex-boyfriend appeared in her mind. She shook it away and took a deep breath.
“I’ll search through my contacts and let you know who I find.”
“Great! That’s already a huge help. Thank you.”
“You’re welco.”
After they ended the call, Suri leaned on the glass with a blank look in her eyes, recalling the mory of her past self who didn’t have any worries while playing gas the whole day.
It felt like a distant mory.
It was not her life now.
Now. She had a lot of responsibilities.
Saving her parent’s company from the aggressive shareholders who wanted to take over after her parents died and ensuring that Nikolai would inherit that company was at the top of her list.
She had no ti to play gas.
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A/N
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