"May I join you for a quick talk in this beautiful morning?" Akira asked Jishuka, smiling in order to comfort her and show her his friendliness. The latter was left socked and speechless.
"BAAHAHAHAHA~!!" Jishuka burst out laughing. Akira felt a little embarrassed as he didn't expect this sort of reaction.
The loud giggle lasted for an entire 15 seconds, "Um... The reason you're laughing like that..." He asked, his expression mixed between many emotions.
"Hahaha~ *she wipes her tears, I'm– I'm sorry haha, but that's the best cosplay of Nox I've seen up until now~. And trust me I've seen fanboys of all types." She replied.
"Hm~" Akira made a fake smile, clearly getting pissed from her commentary.
"Really? That's awesome, isn't it? But can a fan boy do this...?" He said earning a confused expression from Jishuka.
Akira turned around and suddenly made a vertical hand movement. This gesture caused the café shop to collapse on itself. A destructive move which made the entire building crumble to pieces as everyone fled while screaming in fear.
Jishuka quickly got up from her seat and ran away instinctively fleeing the danger zone. She didn't understand what was happening. How did the café collapse suddenly? Was the Nox fanboy really behind this? And how did he do it... did he plant bombs? Was he trying to kill her? Is this guy some sort of lunatic terrorist?
Too many questions with so little time and so much danger ahead.
"And where do you think you're going?" This voice surprised Jishuka, who stopped running at once.
Nox was levitating in front of her, blocking her path. "Wh–What are you?!" She asked, confused and completely ignorant of the dangerously of this situation.
"Haha. But I wasn't expecting this reaction of yours. I thought everyone with mild knowledge in the gaming industry knew about this face." He said.
It's at this precise moment that Jishuka understood the atrocity which was unfolding in front of her eyes. The NPC who was responsible for the destruction of the world's favorite game was no NPC, but an intelligent being who found it's way through the game and onto real life.
"What I am, is irrelevant." He said, disappearing. She looked around to see where he had gone only for him to appear right next to her, "Your world is pretty precious. And it's so... real and important. It'd be a shame if someone destroyed it like they destroyed the game." He said.
"What do you want?! What are you planning to my home?!" She asked, angrily.
Akira laughed for a second, "But did you remember that we're currently outside of Satisfy? You have no power here. Only I do." He said while levitating which highly intimated the girl.
He was right. Outside of the game she was nothing but an influencer, a completely normal and powerless human with nothing else to do other than accept its fate.
"Whenever I'm bored of something I just destroy it. So you better show me something worth keeping this sithole for. Like for exemple, this gentleman right here." He said, showing her a picture of a certain individual.
Jishuka analyzed the person's face and immediately recognized it. The paper brunt and Nox made eye contact with Jishuka. "Wh–What do you plan on doing to Grid?!" She asked, alarmed.
Nox smiled. He pointed his arm towards Jishuka which made a portal appear right behind her. The portal's grand opening made a chilling breeze sway through Jishuka's skin. She didn't dare to turn around because she knew exactly what traumatizing monstrosity was waiting behind her.
"Listen I already know where the bastard is, but I feel like enjoying the pleasure of seeing you betray your own friend. So you tell me where that nobody is, or you're gonna have a wonderful time in my purgatory of eternal suffering." He said.
Jishuka had a hard time trying to comprehend what the god was saying as her ears were completely overwhelmed by the sound of souls screaming in pain just behind her. Her eyes were wide open. Not flinching, she said the exact address without thinking a second time.
It was her instincts that took over her body. She was in no control.
Smiling, Akira bid farewell. The portal disappeared as well as him. Jishuka fell to the ground. The stare of a thousand yards drawn on her face. Grief, fear and anxiety formed her entire expression.
She knew just how fucked they were at the moment.
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With this unrefined downtime for Satisfy, many gamers have been looking for alternatives to replace the hole in their heart. After all, Satisfy was a genius game that seduced the heart of a billion people. Among those people was Grid, with the little fame he accumulated during the Satisfy days and his participation in the front lines, he was able to start a decent streaming account in Twitch and is now playing various game for a living.
Still playing video games in his parents house like a loser, the Shin household were about to expect a visitor like never seen before.
*Ding dong*
"Comiiiing!!" A voice responded to the doorbell. This was Shin Sehee, known as one of the most beautiful in her school and in the entire country, she's also Grid's youngest sister. The ideal citizen and her brother's exact opposite.
Opening the door, Sehee met up with a mysterious newcomer. "Hello dear lady. A pleasure to see such an elegant person on such beautiful day."
Sehee didn't find the adequate words to reply and she was just fixing this guy without talking nor flinching.
"I'm a friend of your brother so if you don't mind I don't have much time to spare playing..." He said, lifting his hand towards her as it glowed in an ominous purple aura.
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"Alright everyone, it seems like we've arrived to the final stage of the dungeon and are engaging in a boss battle. Ws in the chat guys. *Ding, Mr Beast just donated $1.99! Big black monkey b—" But as the streamer was reading through the donation, the door to his room was knocked away brutally.
"Ah, finally we meet you main character." The intruder said.
Grid quickly got up from his desk and looked at Nox with his guard up.
"Who are you.... No, you don't need to respond because I know exactly who you are... I've been expecting something like this to happen, but it was a worst case scenario..." Grid said, his eyes locked in.
"Haha. A lady earlier asked me what I was... Guess I'm also a harbinger of anarchy." Nox replied... His smile clashing against Grid's frown.
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