Gagan was happy to see his best friend after about a week.
While he would wake up at 6 a.m., she hadn't changed her habit of waking up at about 8 o clock, so he decided to end training early today.
He did what he usually did when he was practicing Kenjutsu, but instead of going home at 9 o clock like he usually did, he went back at about 8:15 a.m. after changing into his normal clothes.
He saw Alma sitting at the dining table, she was still in her pajamas. She was ecstatic to see him for some reason.
"Morning Alu¹, you slept well?" He asked as he sat next to her. The food looked like plants found in the sea.
She rubbed her eyes and said in a yawning voice, "Yeah, good morning. Also, how many times have I told you to not call me that?"
She pointed at her stomach, "This is not fat." and then at his, "This is."
Gagan pulled his shirt up to look at his stomach, his chest was hairless, so all he could see were his 8-pack abs.
"Maybe I am slightly fat?" He thought out loud. Then he looked at Alma and looked at where she was looking, "Why are you not looking at me?"
"Idiot." She said, as she left the half-eaten seaweed on the plate and headed to Swara's room.
"Huh?" Gagan looked around himself to check for any clues of what he did to make her go away.
Unfortunately, he found none, since his vision did not reach his hand, that still had the shirt in its hand, showing off his abs.
He decided to ask her what it was about later. He ate his fill and then started walking towards his room.
On the way, he saw Kamron, but neither of them greeted each other or said any word for that matter, they ignored each other as if they were just another part of the floor.
In his room, he changed into clothes better suited for the gym and headed there.
He decided to only do some light weightlifting in the second half of the gym's time, and would only observe in the first.
Apparently, the guys who were in both the groups had spread the news like a plague here too.
Luckily Kim wasn't one of those guys, so Gagan didn't have to face any scream or moan again.
But Verdon was present and within 15 minutes, they had again compiled two lists.
These people were better since most of them had been in the gym for a long time, there were less than 10 people who had less than 6 pack abs, with only one fat guy named
The baby-faced guy hadn't even joined the gym for a whole month and everybody was asking him if he needed help in losing weight and becoming muscular.
The guy cried without letting anyone see and promised himself that he will always be ready to help these guys if they were even in need of it.
Though once again, all the 30 people who weren't in the Etom Empire or not playing the game altogether were conveniently ignored by everyone.
Once the gym was over, he headed back home. He saw that Phyllis and Alma had left and that Himu was still playing 'Axonian Adventures'. He decided to join him since it was 11 o clock already and Swara had said that everyone would continue playing half an hour after that every day.
Swara wasn't home for some reason, but he thought that she must be with the two sisters and think much about it.
He was about to put the headset on when he suddenly heard a WOOF!!!
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Author's Note: Surprise!
1- Alu means Potato in Hindi.