"You're back?" Kayden sat on his chair with his knee up to his chest.
"Those were mine you know?" Theo said, as he took off his shoes and put them under his bed.
Kayden looked down at the chip he had hanging from his mouth.
"Is that right? It must have been mixed up with the ones I bought."
Theodore's eyebrows arched as he looked at the pile of wrappers on Kayden's desk.
"Right. Just take them."
Kayden who hadn't bought anything for himself when going to the convenience store didn't feel any sense of sha when eating Theodore's food.
"You're the best. I'll get you so later." Kayden acted as if they had already known each other forever now. It seed only natural for them to be this close and comfortable with each other even though they had only known each other for a couple of days.
"Anything you want in specific?" Kayden was mostly asking about allergies.
"Nah just get whatever. I'll take a shower first." Theo had already unpacked his luggage and so he just took so fresh clothes from his closet.
The weather in Basilian was truly disastrous. Even though Theo was mostly inside the building where there was air conditioning, just the walk from the campus to his dorm was enough to make his clothes sticky from sweat.
This was because his body simply hadn't gotten used to such weather yet. He would naturally start to adapt as ti went by.
Kayden was still on his phone when the sounds of the shower stopped.
Theodore ca out in a thin white shirt and workout pants and a towel around his neck sitting on his comfy rolling chair.
The rooms were also air-conditioned, so he didn't have to worry about taking another shower before going out again.
Seeing that there were still a couple of hours before his next class, he took out his phone ready to scroll through so novels to pass ti.
"Do you play Mobba?"
"The RPG?"
"Is there another one?"
"Yeah. I have an account."
"I didn't think you would be the type to play. I was going to introduce you, but I guess even you couldn't escape the power of Mobba." This ga had been sweeping the gaming industry, but it wasn't big enough to say that everyone, even those who didn't play, knew about it.
If you were to say that you are an avid ga player and you hadn't heard of Mobba RPG, then you were either lying or living under a rock playing only board gas.
"Do you want to join in for a ga? My high school classmates and I made a guild a couple of years back and we're pretty good." Kayden was trying to be humble, but he couldn't help but smirk with pride.
"Sure, I'll send you my ID and you can just send an invite."
Theodore: [ID: Doorii]
"What's up with your ID na? Door from Theodore?" Kayden found the ID cute and also sowhat familiar.
"Don't ntion it. I made this account back when I was 6. I called my sister Emilin, Emi, all the ti and so she started calling Doorii. I know, adorable right?"
Theodore gave himself a self-deprecating laugh.
"Wow, so you started playing right when it ca out. I didn't even know that this ga existed back then. How did you even find it? I can call you an old veteran now."
Theodore thought about it for a bit before responding.
"It just popped up one day. I didn't think that it would have beco so well known in the future, so I guess I was lucky. The ga is very different now. It's gone through quite a few updates actually; I don't think I would be able to rember how the original interphase even looked like."
"If you're such an old player, how co you haven't joined any guild or even just built your own guild yet?"
"I guess it was a little too troubleso, plus, I don't really keep up with this ga anymore. Even if I started playing earlier than you, you probably know more about Mobba now when compared to ."
Kayden nodded as he sent ID: Doorii a friend request.
"Hey, you don't have friend requests turned on."
"Oh right, um. I'll turn it on in a second." Theo had long forgotten.
The mont he switched it on…
*Ding you have one new notification*
*Ding you have one new notification*
*Ding you have one new notification*
…
*Ding you have one new friend request*
*Ding you have one new friend request*
*Ding you have one new friend request*
Notifications filled his screen as his phone vibrated.
…
"Shit man. How long have you not logged on?" It wasn't unnatural to have notifications from the server piled up if you hadn't logged on for a while and so Kayden didn't really think too deeply about Theodore's vibrating phone.
"A couple of days. Maybe you should have just given your ID."
"It's DenK."
"Wow, your na is even more original than mine," Theodore said sarcastically.
'It was obviously just Kayden, Denkay, and then Denk…'
{Author's Note: pronounced Denk, not Denkay, but it can be read as Denkay or Kayden for the people who know him}
"Thank you. I spent hours to get myself a perfect na." Theodore tried his best to ignore how serious Kayden sounded.
'I don't know if you're serious, but if you are. That's just sad.' Theodore didn't say that out loud less he'd hurt Kayden's feelings if he was serious. It would be a low blow, even for him.
*DenK has been added to your friend's list* Theo turned off the notifications as soon as he finished adding Kayden.
"Yup. Got it. I'll add you to the guild now."
"Will the other mbers be okay with you adding another mber just like that?"
"Yeah, it'll be fine. Most of us know each other in real life."
"By the way. I feel like I've seen your ID sounds familiar."
"Oh that. It's probably because there's another top user with a very similar ID. Dori."
"That's it! He's ranked 4th in the international server. But I think he's going to be dropping in ranks soon."
"How so?" Theo showed a little bit of interest in the topic and so Kayden elaborated.
"You mustn't have heard since you don't seem to play much, but there's another ranker who has already sworn to take him down from his pedestal, and after that, he's going for rank 3 and then 2 until he's number one in the international server."
Kayden seed like Mobba more than Theodore had originally thought, especially since he was into it enough to stay inford.
"Who? What's his current ranking?"
"Bear Storm. Currently ranked 14th. He streams every once in a while, and so he has quite a fan base when compared to Dori, but he uses a voice modulator and hasn't shown his face."
"You know what." Kayden, who had just finished his round looked at Theodore, who was then staring at him.
"What?"
"I think our nas are pretty damn good by comparison." Theodore smiled radiantly, showing Kayden a part of him that he had not known before. Displaying his strong charisma.
"Don't do that to ! I thought you were going to tell that my new roommate was a murder." Kayden said in the midst of laughers.
He himself did not realize that his face had beco a little hot at that mont.
Theo didn't notice either as his attention was once again on his screen.
"Hey, but he's quite ambitious for soone 10 ranks below Dori, no? Why do you think he'll be surpassed?" Theo asked.
"That's because he's only started playing recently, well at least this account was only created recently," Kayden explained.
It would be very hard to rank up so quickly without the right resources, especially without enough ti and experience.
Mobba was a ga easy to start playing, but incredibly difficult to master.
"Do you think that he's another ranker who made a new account?" Theo asked.
This was actually one of the most likely possibilities, but it could also be that there was so other reason for Bear Storm's success, completely unknown to the two of them.
"Who knows. Maybe he is maybe he isn't. There are just too many top rankers who don't care about fa or fortune. None of them show their identities and so it could be just about anyone."
Theodore nodded in agreent.
"Well, but I don't think it's anyone in the top 4. Why else could he be so keen on beating Dori." Kayden expressed his thoughts on the matter.
"Well forget about Stormy Bear. Let's start our ga."
"Bear Storm." Kayden corrected.
"Sa difference."
"Then let's go." Kayden conceded.
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