"Don't worry," She winked. "I won't say anything to anyone. On the contrary, if you want something from me, don't hesitate," She then took his hand onto hers. "But can I still ask you something?"
"S-sure," He blushed.
"Can you come back into the VR please?" She looked like a cute cat wanting a pat from her master. "I went every day there, but you were never connected. So please, can you?" She got closer to his face.
"Y-yes I can. I was planning on going there this afternoon. Do you mind if we only hunt monsters? I don't want other people to recognize me," Kye had dropped the act. Sylvia already knew him, and she looked kind enough to keep his secret. So he decided to trust her in this regard.
"Yes of course," She made a radiant smile. "Let's fight a stronger monster then. The Zora is good, but at some point, it will begin to be easy. Especially now that you seemed to have gotten stronger."
Kye nodded. He welcomed the idea very well because stronger monsters also mean more EXP. 'I wonder if I will get something when I will be level 5," He thought before being interrupted by one of his friend's voices.
"KYE, are you alright?" It was Ven. His fighting partner couldn't fight him anymore, so he decided to search for Kye. Only to see that his suit was torn apart and he has wounds on his stomach area. "Is it this bitc-... I mean her who hurt you?" His hair began to point upward, indicating that the gravity began to change around him.
"Long time no see, Ven," Sylvia smiled while using her real strength to keep up against Ven's aura.
"You guys know each other?" Kye asked after putting a hand on Ven's shoulder to calm him down. He then looked at Sylvia so that she put her aura back as well. Even though their aura wasn't aimed at him, he still felt the pressure. And it was suffocating.
"Yes, we know each other," Ven replied once he lessened his aura. But he still let it active in case Sylvia were to try something funny. "Every once in a while, all the big families join for a little party where all the family members had to attend, and that's where we met each other. It was the same for Yugo and Enzo. But as I said last time, we act as if we didn't know each other."
"That's right," Sylvia smiled. "Every year, during summer holidays, we all meet up. The adult discusses some important matters while we have to stay together too, as they say, build a relationship with each other. But we never talk to each other. It's easier to ignore each other than act friendly. So we only stay together during this event because we're obliged to," Sylvia explained in more detail the gathering they had to attend.
"Hmm, it's quite sad," Kye said after thinking for a moment.
"What's sad?" Both Ven and Sylvia asked at the same time, tilting their heads to the side.
"That you guys never tried to befriend each other," Kye said with a sad smile. "You are all amazing, kind with great personalities. But you all keep your distance because of how your families told you bad things regarding the other big families,"
"Well, I guess it can't be helped," Ven said.
"Now that I think about it," Sylvia put her hand on her chin to think for a second. "Yugo and Ven, since they hang out with you seem to have grown closer to each other. There's also Enzo who seems to have taken a liking to you, Kye, so he will surely begin to hang out with you too, so by extension, Yugo and Ven as well. So just thanks to you, you managed to regroup all the big families in a single group."
"It's because Kye is amazing," Ven said, proud of him that he was one of his first true friends. "He treats us all well without giving up on our caprice. And he is so cute that he looks like a little brother to us. The little brother that we all wanted," Ven had such a warm smile on his face that it was clear that his emotions were genuine.
"T-Thanks," Kye smiled as well and turned toward Sylvia. "Then Sylvia, do you want to hang out with us as well?" He asked, hoping that he can grow closer to her so that he could be her friend, but at the same time so that she would say even less about what he hides from the world.
"Does it also means more VR time with you?" She asked excitingly.
"Yes, I guess so," Kye smiled.
"Wait, since when did you go to the VR area, Kye?"
"It was the other day when you and Yugo were sleeping. I decided to sneak outside the room and go play a little, sorry to not have told you that sooner."
"I don't mind you going there," Ven looked a bit sad. "Do we... No, do I look so much not trustworthy to you so that you have to wait for us to sleep to go without telling it to us?" He even looked like he was about to cry.
"Don't say that Ven, you know well that you're my best friend, you even know everything related to me," Kye said while looking right in his eyes. "It's just that I knew that you wouldn't have let me go alone if I had told you about it. And I didn't want to bother you with that either. Sorry."
"Does that mean that you're fed up with me, so much that you went alone?"
"No, of course, n-..." Ven didn't let him finish and turned away with such a sad expression that it looks he had cried for days.
"Ara~, how cute of him," Sylvia said as Kye rolled his eyes at her before catching Ven.
He then hold his wrist to stop him and said. "Ven, I'm sorry. I swear I won't do that again," Even after having said that, Ven still didn't look at Kye. He was looking to the side where people were still fighting.
"Ven, tell me what I have to do so that you can forgive me," Kye said, beginning to be sad as well because of the situation. He didn't want to be cold with Ven, but if the latter wasn't trying to do anything to help, then there's nothing else to do for now.
"You know very well what I mean."
"A hug?"
"It won't be enough this time,"
"You're just being greedy, Ven," He turned once again trying to leave. "Okay, okay, I will do what you want. But what can I give you more than a hug?"
"Pat my head and tell me that everything will be alright from now on," His look was full of expectation.
'Guess it can't be helped,' Kye thought before doing a big hug to Ven. The latter was still taller than him by a lot, so Kye's face was in his chest area. He could even hear Ven's heartbeat quickly. It seemed full of joy.
He then took a step back before putting his hand on his head and beginning to rub it. "Everything's alright, Ven. I promise you that from now on, I will tell you instead of hiding it from you."
"Only me, okay? Not Yugo, Lidi, Enzo, or Sylvia," Kye hesitated a little before nodding, making ven's happiness skyrocket.
[You cheered up someone who was depressed to the max.
+1 Stamina
+1 free stat] (AN: He will get this free stat to put wherever he wants every time someone who is depressed has their happiness to the max thanks to him. And no, there's no bar to tell how much someone's happy. It depends on one person to another.)
Kye rolled his eyes internally seeing that. He had the impression that he was now cheering his friends to get stats points. 'Let's put this free stat in Agility.'
Just as he thought that Ven hugged him at his turn. He was so happy that it was almost an automatism.
Almost.
And unbeknownst to Kye, Ven send a cold glare to Sylvia who was looking at them with a smile, before the latter made a middle finger to Ven to answer his glare.
"Ven, I can't breath," Kye managed to say with some difficulty even though his mouth was covered by Ven's chest.
"Oh, my bad," He immediately let him go. And right at this moment, they heard Madison's voice.
"Alright everyone, today's class has come to an end. I hope to see everyone again tomorrow!"
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(AN: I opened a discord, so you can come and talk about MAS if you want ^^. I will also put it under the synopsis, so you can copy-paste it quickly.)
https://discord.gg/ceD4KzUR