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The days passed slowly as Aoi began to frequently visit Bai Yi for a sessions. When he'd gotten to the point he wasn't physically harming himself with lack of sleep as well as avoiding it. Bai Yi had talked him into slowly starting to see another Doctor. This was for many reasons, though mostly because he wouldn't be able to help Aoi after this point. His main goal was to get Bai Yi healthy enough to deal with these issues. Though the underlining issue wasn't found, there was a bit of ideas he could offer his co-worker who took Aoi's case.

Aoi wasn't to happy about the idea of a new Doctor, however when Bai Yi explained that their close living arrangement and the fact that Aoi was wanting to talk longer then the recommended appointment times was causing some issues with professionalism. Aoi had no wish to stop talking with Bai Yi, but it wouldn't be as his doctor. This would change everything, however at least no one could question his relationship with Bai Yi should they meet outside of 'meeting' times.

Aoi reluctantly began to visit a new psychiatrist, this was only once a week which he wished were only once a month. His prescription was also slightly changed by the lady, thanks to Bai Yi's notes in his case file.

The only blessing about this, was that now Bai Yi and Aoi were able to just spend time talking about random things, and instead of 'diagnosing' him. Bai Yi was just taking interests in the youths life. They had soon found out that they enjoyed the same game! What more Bai Yi was in fact [[God_Of_War]] while Aoi had told Bai Yi he was [[V1RUS]].

Needless to say that Bai Yi had to make a slight joke about Aoi really being male now that he saw him. With the buffer time of the two getting use to one another, Aoi wasn't as mad with Bai Yi's teasing. Though he gave a fake grumble before the two began to play together. The feeling of mutual friendship seemed to help more than the therapy had ever done so. Aoi slowly began to become more healthy in look. His skin no longer sickly pale. A nice healthy tint to the white skin.

Now that they could game properly together. Aoi would often visit Bai Yi's place to play the game together with a borrowed computer. The two within the game slowly rose to the top of the leader board together, claiming place one in a tie. This was because neither Bai Yi nor Aoi would lose in a fight, and one fighting one another the round would be declared a tie before a winner was found!

Aoi had really lost himself in the pleasant feeling of playing with Bai Yi, that when the announcement that Taoist Ascension would be closing its servers and shutting down. The game that had run for so long was no longer going to be up! The news had shocked Aoi and caused him to withdraw into his shell and hide for several days. Bai Yi was a bit worried as he would often go and knock on the youths door. However, it wasn't until the 5th day that Bai Yi finally got Aoi to open the door.

Thankfully Aoi hadn't looked like he'd stopped sleeping again, however the depressed air was still around him. "You are about to finish college right?" was the first thing Bai Yi said, causing Aoi to be taken back. He nodded, having switched to taking online courses during his depressive bout. Thankfully the only classes that couldn't be taken online had already been passed.

Bai Yi nodded while sitting down, folding his arms. "Then instead of being upset about the closing of the game, why not just make a new one?" he asked. It wasn't odd for students in the coding field to become developers for games. Besides, Aoi had known enough about gaming and coding that it shouldn't be hard for him to find a suitable alternative to make. He also didn't seem to lack in money for some odd reason, though Bai Yi wasn't told how Aoi worked.

Thus Aoi's mood shifted slightly as the Idea of making a game slowly took root. His eyes that had been dimmed, during the days he'd locked himself away, had began to brighten again. He slowly began to process the ability he would need, as well as how to go about doing it. Though it wouldn't be so easy as just slapping coding down, he was that he could figure it out.

Thus when Bai Yi had left to go to work, Aoi had busy himself into the online world of game making. Reading all kinds of reviews as well as researching many different character designs and MMO concepts. His attention was also drawn into the VR realm of reality. Exploring the different VR headsets as well as how they worked.

Without much haste, Aoi began to slowly work on building his new game. Though he didn't plan to really do anything with it. Aoi just wanted something to play with Bai Yi, as well as the few other friends he'd met in Taoist Ascension that he hadn't met in person. With the distraction of Bai Yi to help him remember to sleep, as well as school work. Aoi slowly began to forget about his depression and once more became lively.

Bai Yi was his rock at this point, and without much haste, Aoi was able to finish his college classes and focus on building his own VR version and designing the back end of the game. He still needed to figure out how to do the aesthetics of it. Though he'd worry about that part later. He still hadn't finished the headset part, using a 'Testing' world to see if his ideas would work or not.

Time slowly passed as Aoi entered a world of tech and programming, slowly drifting from one task to the next. Bai Yi had been the only thing to keep him from forgetting anything else all together. The faint idea that Aoi could be slightly Autistic passed over Bai's mind, however he didn't inspect into this possibility himself, he instead sent a note of this to Aoi's new doctor, who now only met with Aoi once a month.