Mirror Mirror, am I the Only Idiot Here?

Haruki felt his heart ache when he saw Daisuke's kissing Jun. From his app, a heart flew and broke in the air.

'Is Daisuke seeking death?' Haruki would help him get back to reality with a sequence of Jabs and a Cross. Holding his breath and closing his fists, the singer opened his chest to move forward and split the couple.

But before he got on top of the digital influencer, the singer felt himself being pulled back by a pair of firm hands. Ready to punch, Haruki looked over his shoulder and saw who had pulled him, it was Saito. He relaxed his fist, exhaling.

The mountaineer had stuck his fingers into the singer's shoulders, like eagle claws, causing pain and distracting Haruki, delaying his action. It brought some clarity to his mind. Saito had prevented him from making a big mess.

When he looked at the traitors again, he saw Jun pulling Daisuke's hands away from his face, breaking the kiss. With a quick movement, the baker crouched down, grabbing both of the influencer's legs, and lifted him up in the air, throwing Daisuke over his right shoulder.

Such was the dexterity of the action, that it looked like Jun was dealing with a small boy and not an adult man. Jun walked out of the casino without even glancing at Haruki.

The singer's eyes followed them, 'Where are they going?' Haruki made a move to go after them, and Saito's claws once again sank into his shoulders.

"Saito-senpai, let me go!" Haruki whined, he rather wished not to struggle to break free.

"No. Because you're going to get in the way, "replied Saito, authoritarian, and explained,

"Jun-san needs to calm his friend down."

Haruki wasn't interested in listening to any advice. As he turned to look at the mountaineer, the singer suddenly realized he didn't want to make his relationship with Jun public. The climber's argument was valid. And there was no reason for Haruki to refute it without revealing his secret.

"Saito-san is right," the artist put himself next to them, "Now we would get in the way rather than help. Tomorrow we will give our support to Daisuke and he will be able to explain what happened." Takashi had a gift for calming Haruki. And the singer nodded in agreement since that was the most sensible thing to do.

"We have only a few hours to go. Haruki-san, do you want to learn to play while the casino is open to us? " Takashi invited him again, clearly trying to smooth things over.

"Alright, guys. Let's win some diamonds." Haruki agreed, speaking animatedly to change his mood.

He didn't want to be depressed because of Daisuke's mean words. The influencer didn't know a thing about his life, and what he had said wasn't true.

'Something bad, terrible happened in his life and the casino brought everything up.' Haruki concluded. Daisuke's spirit was broken. His upset state was visible.

But grabbing Jun to kiss him boldly. What Dice-k was thinking, anyway?!

Haruki was curious to hear what Jun had to say about it all. After all, hadn't he said that Haruki was his first man?

Would a friend, 'just a friend', have the audacity to kiss the lips of another man in front of so many people?

******

After a few rounds, Takashi was absurdly rich. Saito ditto.

Hinata was also earning diamonds from a BlackJack game, much to Haruki's envy. The senior student had returned, after being expelled by Jun from the suite. The baker wanted to be alone with Daisuke.

The singer didn't lose all his diamonds because Takashi prevented him from continuing to bet on poker. Haruki couldn't concentrate, thinking about Jun and Dice-k alone.

Leaving his friends at the tables, Haruki went to try his luck at the roulettes.

He won the first round, lost the second, lost the third. Which made him give up, before he ran out of diamonds.

Wandering around the room, Haruki stopped in front of a slot machine.

The amateurs game.

He decided to take one last chance. However, to his delight, the third attempt was to succeed! Haruki got the full streak of cherries, recovering the diamonds lost in the other games.

'Am I really stupid?' Haruki ended up questioning himself for the first time in his life, unsure of his cognition. After all, he won the diamonds with his good luck, but he had only lost them by using his reasoning.

It frustrated the singer. Looking for answers he looked at the smartwatch to check the profiles of other players and compare with his and see how much worse it was.

'Oh, how bitter the developers are! They must have dropped my points.'

Touching the screen of the smartwatch, Haruki saw the list with the names,

"Yay! they updated our names!" The singer celebrated the news alone with a dance move.

...

NOGUCHI TAKASHI, - NERD

OKANE HINATA, - STUDENT

SASAKI JUN, - BAD BOY

TAKEDA HARUKI, - ATHLETE

YAMADA DAISUKE, - ARTIST

YOSHIDA SAITO, - CEO

…

And the singer started comparisons with Daisuke's data.

ARTIST

(YAMADA DAISUKE)

CHARISMA 70%

DEXTERITY 60%

INTELLIGENCE 60%

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ATHLETE

TAKEDA HARUKI

CARISMA 60%

DEXTERITY 80%

INTELLIGENCE 50%

...

'Oh we have the same number of points, but his points are better distributed, whereas my points are focused on dexterity. ' Haruki saw how Jun's points were distributed.

...

BAD BOY

(SASAKI JUN)

CHARISM 60%

DEXTERITY 70%

INTELLIGENCE 60%

...

'Jun also has a distribution similar to Daisuke's, with the difference that one is more charismatic and the other more right-handed, but less than me. And both are smarter. So let's see the Nerd! '

...

NERD

(NOGUCHI TAKASHI)

CHARISMS 60%

DEXTERITY 50%

INTELLIGENCE 80%

...

'Are you kidding me? Seriously, Takashi has 80% intelligence. And me and the Nerd have the same charisma? No, this can't be serious. They are cheating just because he's The Nerd. I remember there was an asterisk in the fictitious name, and the last name was Honda, just like the chief engineer. He's his favorite character. I knew it. This is wrong, they are favoring Takashi-san. It was never a fair game. ' Haruki crossed his arms and pursed his lips while he was having these thoughts. Just uncrossing his arms to punch the air, to vent his sudden frustration.

It could only be worse if Daisuke was the Nerd!

...

CEO

(YOSHIDA SAITO)

CHARISM 65 %

DEXTERITY 60%

INTELLIGENCE 65%

...

'Hum. Saito-san is only 60% dexterous?! It's not possible. Okay, he's balanced but impossible to be a mountaineer with 60% dexterity. ' Haruki spent some time reviewing the previous data. 'It can't be like that. Unless... Haruki you mummyhead! This is the CEO record, not the real Saito, the mountaineer. ' Relaxing his muscles, the singer smiled contentedly. 'I am not an Athlete. I'm not stupid. This is just a stupid record. It's not me. Only the missions here are barred or released by this stupid record. '

...

STUDENT

(OKANE HINATA)

CHARISM 70%

DEXTERITY 50%

INTELLIGENCE 70%

...

'Hm, Hinata has only 50% dexterity too, similar to Takashi, but has the same charisma as Daisuke and intelligence 70%, only less than Takashi's'

Haruki snorted, no record was really good. There is always something lame.

'Wow. Wait. If it was so complicated to change the names, and they've updated, is it because they won't get us out of here? '

Before he tried his luck again, at the machine next to him, Saito stopped beside him, and Haruki shivered.