In the afternoon, I was on the phone with Borros. The content was pretty simple - he'll let me get close to Eris to protect her. Moreover, I am to get rid of any male inthe
entire school who tries to lay their hands on her, no questions. asked. If not, I should inform him immediately. Of course, he purposely stressed the last sentence, which was to never hold any feelings for Eris. At the same time, he felt that Eris would look down on me any way so there was no need to bother. This hurt me a fair deal.
Jonin University's dorms were fairly decent. Each room was supposed to be shared by two people, and blankets, daily necessities and other commodities were given to us in a set. Sitting in the large bedroom, I finally realised why Leader Zinon was so uptight about the school fees - there was no way this school term costed anything less than a few ten thousands.
At dinner time, I went to the female dorm 1 alone. Not long after, Eris came down, followed by a girl in a green dress. She was pretty, at least pretty enough to steal a few
glances in a large crowd. Too bad she's standing next to Eris, who was far beyond comparison. From afar, I thought:
this girl made friends too recklessly!
After the two girls stopped in front of me, Eris shot me a glance before saying: "Come on, let's go eat!"
I kept my mouth shut, saying nothing at all. My status here constantly reminded me that I wasn't part of the rich families that could send their children here. I was hired to be a bodyguard for her.
Surprisingly, the beautiful girl next to Eris Ar keep looking at me strangely. She extended her hand and said to me with a Smile: "You must be the Leo that Eris talked about, right? She has told me everything. I'm her roommate, Laura. Nice to meet you!"
I shaked her hand, nodding and smiling. "Nice to meet you, Laura."
"How old are you, Leo?" Dong Cheng Yue suddenly asked.
I shivered a little: "18..,"
"Considering how you look, that can't be true, right?" she asked mischievously, her head slightly tilted.
I tightly clenched my fists: "Fine, I'm 19."
"That's not true either, you definitely look like you send your children here instead."
Laura continued to make fun of me, before Eris stopped her, saying: "That's enough, you should stop teasing him so much, Leo. What's there to tease about this boring guy? Let's quickly go and eat so we can prepare a little earlier. Tomorrow 'Requiem' officially releases, and we need to rush to the number one spot quickly!"
Laura smiled happily, saying: "Okay, okay. but I find Leo is really interesting though."
I smiled sarcastically, replying: "You praise me too much, Laura. Which canteen should we eat at?"
"Number 1!"
"Okay"
The two beautiful girls were in front of me, talking about school-related topics in high spirits, happily laughing and smiling, Eris finally let out a smile. From the side, I snuck a peek and my heart fluttered a little. She looks really good when she smiles.
In the dining room, Eris sat together with Laura on the opposite side, while I sat alone. The two of them wanted a Western-style dinner. I ordered two servings of omelette rice and one serving of ramen. This only happened because Eris took out her gold credit card and paid for all the food. Thank god I don't have to pay for my food while working as a bodyguard. I could save the money from my salary to buy Shinon, gear and Requiem the helmets so we could enter the game world together and rebuild our
Vitality office. Once again, we could gain fame and glory!
Hmm, to be honest the Vitality office never once had fame and glory...
"Leo-" Laura looked at me with a smile, saying: "I've heard from Eris that you also have a gaming helmet, you going to accomnpany Eris in the game as well right?"
I nodded my head, saying: "Yea, my gamer ID is 000747, it's relatively early isn't it?"
Eris puckered her lips. "Dad made people line up for days to go get the helmets, so obviously it's early. We actually wanted to send that helmet to someone as a gift, but that person already purchased it, so you're lucky this time."
Laura smiled, asking: "Leo, have you played any games before?"
I raised my index finger to indicate one, saying: "In 2014, wasn't there that game that boasted 27% realism? It's called Conquer which I played before."
"Oh, really?" Laura's beautiful pair of eyes widened in surprise, saying: "Ive also played Conquer before, what were you called and what rank were you in the server-wide
rankings?"
I replied fearlessly: "Forget about the name, I myself can't even remember clearly. I only remember being placed at about 3, 970, 000th rank!"
Laura smiled again, saying: "As far as I know, doesn't Conguer have about 5 million players? Aren't you a below- average player then?"
I nodded my head, "Practically."
On Eris beautiful face a little disappointment appeared. She said: "oh, then... then do you mean that the limited edition helmet I passed to you was wasted? Damn, what a pity.."
Laura, while smiling, lightly hit Eris's shoulder and said: "Everyone has some self-respect, don't put it that way... Leo, we'll be playing Requiem together, what plans do you have? Out of thefive races and nine classes, which one will you choose?"
"Well... to be honest I haven't looked at any information yet."I replied.
Eris got a little mad. "You haven't even looked at any information and you still shamelessly accepted the helmet I gave?"
I smiled wryly and said: "There's not much to worry about, if I just go online and read about the races and classes, I'll naturally know what to choose. Laura, why don't you tell us about the races and classes?"
Laura seemed to be a game addict, and she recalled religiously: "The five races are humans, wind elves, barbarians,
undeadand moon elves, the barbarian being thestrongest class in terms of power. The wind elves are great at long distance combat and the moon elves are the best at prolonged
fights. The undead have an attack boost of 15%, which is considered the most dreadful. The humans are the most average of all the five races, but they can choose any class."
I nodded my head: "What about classes?"
Laura blinked her eyes, before smiling and saying: "The nine classes are swordsmen, magicians, berserkers, knights, assassins, healers, marksmen, archers, and monks. You should be able to tell from the names of the classes what their jobs are since you've played before. Oh yea, what class and race are you going to select?"
I take in a deep breath before saying: "That's easy. I'll select a support class, one that can heal. I guess I'll select the healer? That's the one they nicknamed the 'breast milk' class5?"
Laura smiled widely: "Yeah, the healer can heal others, it's definitely going to be a popular class. I thought you were going to choose something like a swordsman, knight or a berserker, those kinds of classes. I heard that most of the boys in our class are going to choose those violent classes."
As she said this, she looked over to Eris Ar mischieviously and said: "Eris, there's a guy who's willing to play the support class for you, you should just go ahead and marry him."
Eris replied with no expression at all, saying: "If you want to, you can go ahead and do so yourself. I'm not happy with this at all. Leo, I'm interested to see how you survive the early stages of the game by picking the healer class. Picking a support class as a guy, I'll see how well you fare!"
Of course, I understood what Eris meant. The healer had no attack power at all, and you definitely need someone to carry you in the early stages of the game. If a girl picked it, she could just stand at the beginner village and ask sweetly: "Brother, won't you help me level?" Definitely, some guy would help her. If a guy picked it, unless you were those super handsome Korean stars, you definitely would be sitting there alone hitting things with a wooden rod.
However, my heart was prepared and wasn't afraid of that at all.
I confidently told Eris with a smile: "There's no cause for worry, I'll be able to manage."
Eris's lips pursed a little. She did not say anything and seemed as if she still doesn't fully trust me.
Laura on the other hand warmly said: "I've already decided to be a magcian a class that loses out in terms of pure strength. It's Destiny's version of a magic-user. Eris
decided to be an assassin, so we could alternate between short and long distance combat and get levels that way. We should
be able to rush for the top soon!"
I nodded my head, saying: "Mm, good luck to you guys!"
After eating dinner, we exited the dining room and casually strolled outside. There were lots of students heading in our direction.
A few minutes later, a guy suddenly pointed at us as if he saw ghosts, and yelled loudly: "I.. I haven't seen wrongly, have I? That girl... isn't that Eris, the star that five months announced ago she was quitting the entertainment industry?"
After that, several guys turned to look our way, and some nodded: "Yea! That really is Eris! Wow! Who knew Eris would go and attend jonin University, I'm so lucky!"
Several male students suddenly rushed forward, and one in particular shouted: "Eris is that you? We... could we take a picture? I'm your greatest fan, and I really loved your [Heart of Time] piece!"
Eris looked a little embarrassed, softly saying: "Im sorry, I already quit. I only want to study here normally from now on."
Whish
I quickly stood in front of Eris, my arms spread out wide, holding several guys back. I smiled and said: "I'm sorry, but Miss Eris doesn't want to be disturbed, so please respect her decision as fellow schoolmates!"
One guy got enraged, saying: "Who in the world are you? Is this a place where you can speak? Get lost!"
I did not speak a word, but I jerked my arm a little, and hu the sounds of a few guys stepping backwards could be heard. Each
one of them stood there, all slightly afraid. They didn't even understand how they got pushed back.
Coldly standing there, I didn't say a word. I didn't let any stranger get close to Eris, which was borros's biggest order.
Laura giggled from behind, saying: "Woah, this Leo is actually pretty decent."
"Let's return to the dormitory?" I asked.
"Okay."
Eris was standing below the female dorms, when she suddenly looked at me and said: "Leo, tomorrow's breakfast and lunch will be sent to our dorm directly, you don't have to come. At 12 noon tomorrow Requiem opens so don't disappoint me"
"I understand" I nodded.
Only after seeing Eris did I myself leave. Walking on the pathway connecting our dorms, I wiped the sweat off my forehead. I don't know what job she had, to actually have so many hardcore fans. The journey ahead of me will be long and arduous!
Entering the bedroom, I opened the door only to find a diary on the table. There was a guy sitting on the bed on the opposite side of mine. There's no need for much guessing, this should be my roommate.
My roommate raised his head, his thick glasses reflecting light into my eyes. He smiled and said: "You must be my roommate,
Leo Lee Subaru right? Nice to meet you, I'm called Takashi, but you can call me Ah shi."
I nodded my head, saying: "Mm, nice to meet you glasses boy"
"Please use my name, Takashi, TA KA SHI!"
"Sure, glasses boy."
Glasses boy's age was definitely above 23, seeing as his head contained so many
wrinkles. I wonder how much money this guy poured into the school before they allowed him to attend, what complete horse hockey.
Glasses boy quickly pulled the chair out, seating on it. His face was extremely excited, and he said: "Just now, I was atthe canteen and I saw you and Eris sitting together. What's your relationship with her? Hoho, knowing Eris, you must be really lucky!"
"Lucky for what?" I asked with a little confusion.
"Who exactly is Eris?"
"My god!"
Glasses boy slammed the table, saying: "You don't even know? Eris.. two years ago, when she was 17 years old, she came out with a hit single [Heart of Time] which shocked the entire Asia continent. From then on,she was known as a goddess. She's the idol of many guys' dreams! What a pity though, five months ago she quit the entertainment business. Who knew, she actually came to jonin University to study."
I was shocked: "So... she could sing?"
Glasses boy spat a mouth of blood on his computer screen.