⌜Chapter 69⌟

Arriving in front Shujinko Store, Tanaka leaned on his motorcycle which was the latest limited-edition World of Iceforge I bike, a bike made by the Iceforge Motors, owned by Tanaka himself, it was a sci-fi bike made utilizing the Virtual tests and was able to make it successfully,

Its appearance is of the one from Tron bikes with LED lights on the stripes and doesn't run on gas but power electricity except that it has a different bike design and allows two people to board the bike, Tanaka looked at the time and it was already past the time of the meetup, but he still decided to wait.

And so while waiting, he put on an earphone and started listening to music, though, they are not music that can be found on the internet yet, he was told by his council of men that they wanted to have a theme, but actually no, to be exact, they want to have the guild its own anthem like a country.

Tanaka found it cool and agreed to it but it has been a month since then and he still hasn't found anything that he liked, most of them were just shit like this world's music industry, hell, even rap from his past life sounds better than the ones here.

"Hmm, I guess, I have to make it by myself huh?"

He thought, though, he knows no shit about music-making but he can learn, it was much better to learn many things than not knowing how to make it.

"Or maybe, I can just take one from my past life, but I have to recreate it to the scratch, ahh, what a drag"

Tanaka sighed, he then looked around and still didn't find any shadows of Sinon.

"Oh, wait, I didn't tell her what I look like"

Tanaka suddenly realized his mistake, he never said what he looked like and where he was among the crowd, Tanaka immediately took his phone up and remembered that he also doesn't have his contact number for Sinon.

"Ah, I did it in a rush, so many mistakes"

Tanaka couldn't help but wince inside, though, he knew the real-life appearance of Sinon, it will be a little bit difficult to find her as she must be hiding somewhere and warily looking for him, heck, he may even be mistaken as an old guy.

'Should I put up a sign?'

Tanaka suddenly had an idea, and just as he was about to put it to action.

"Ummm..."

He heard a voice from behind him, turning around, Tanaka saw a girl that has thin hair tied in small ribbons by the sides of her face, with the back cut short just like her avatar in GGO, except that she had dark hair, She also wears a pair of half-rimmed glasses with oval-shaped lenses. Her skin is pale and she has black eyes.

"Are you Sinon?"

Tanaka acted surprised and asked.

"Y-yeah, my name is Asada Shino"

Sinon admitted, that her appearance is almost the same as her appearance in the game.

"My name is Ryuuji Tanaka, sorry for not preparing much that I even did not tell you how to find me"

Tanaka gave an apologetic look.

"N-no, it's okay, it just took a few minutes to find you... 'I was just watching you from afar'"

Tanaka didn't hear the last words she said because she was muttering and a flux of people talking to each other passed by them.

"That is good, I thought you wouldn't come and left me hanging"

"No, it's okay, I'm just surprised about all of this"

"That is good, how about we go eat first or get to know each other first by walking around"

"Let's walk around first"

Shino was a shy girl and this was her first date, even though she has a guy friend, she doesn't have any guts to talk to other guys, especially, someone as handsome as Tanaka.

"Then shall we go around then"

Tanaka said with a smile.

"But how about your bike?"

Shino said pointing at his bike.

"Don't mind it"

Tanaka grabbed Shino's hands and immediately pulled her away which surprised her, the two ran as far as they could before they stopped on the bridge and watched the calm river from there.

"My name is Ryuuji Tanaka, my game name is Morax, I'm 16 years old despite my looks, and I have a family of 4"

Tanaka reintroduced himself with a big smile, which somehow made Shino feel the warmth from him, she felt at peace and felt like this man can be trusted, so she took a deep breath and also reintroduced herself.

"My name is Asada Shino, my game name is Sinon, I'm 15 years old, and I lost my father and my mother has become traumatized because of the accident and I now live with my grandparents, I have a phobia of guns, and seeing one makes me puke, even if it's just a toy and I am single"

Shino said in one breath which made her feel like the burden on her chest lessen, but then she suddenly realized what she said and couldn't help but be embarrassed, she covered her blushing face with her hands and expected Tanaka to laugh but after waiting for a while, there was no laugh that came. she peeked through her fingers and there she saw Tanaka with a gentle smile on his face staring at her.

"I see, you are a strong girl, a very strong one"

Tanaka extended his hand and patted her head, Shino didn't know what to say but this time she didn't feel embarrassed but couldn't help but stare at Tanaka's eyes, no one have ever said that to her before, even her grandparents looked at her with pity, and most people who knew her story will pity her, like she was helpless, now, someone saw her effort, to live life even if its full of difficulties.

Shino didn't know what happened next but the next thing she knew, she was crying as Tanaka hugged her tightly in his arms, all of her frustrations coming out, she couldn't help but feel this strange encounter is something, she just met him but here she was, being comforted by him.

Just as she was hugging him tightly.

"Tanaka! what a coincidence meeting you here"

Both Shino and Tanaka turned towards where the voice came from, the moment Shino met the girl's eyes, there was powerful lightning that sparked between them, and it was a spark of rivalry.

"Hosaka, what brought you here?"

Tanaka asked surprised and wasn't able to read the mood at all.

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Sorry for not being able to do the daily updates guys! I got sick yesterday after being wet from the rain, but now the daily updates are back!

Quotes:

Isn't it funny, how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is just different?