not my novel I uploaded it here so I can listen to it on the audiobook while I work

Hi! So, I have a few things to say… and one of that the third arc/ volume (which I'm changing to volumes because it sounds cooler) will only be posted on Webnovel
But wait! Wait! (￣■￣;)
Don't panic! (☍﹏⁰)
This is great news; I have been given the opportunity to work with a big Chinese enterprise called Webnovel!ヾ(^^ゞ)
Beyond many things, such as having more publicity and support from their part, they even offer the possibility of making anime, paper-back, audiobook, and more!
Isn't that neat? Would be a dream come true!
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            From now own there will be premium exclusive chapters on their website that you can read by paying or for free.
            I hope you guys are as happy as I for this great opportunity! Getting professional here now aren't we? Hehe!
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            And thank you very much for all the support until now, you guys are awesome! (*＞ｖ＜)ゞ*゜+
Plus~~ I did that smut you guys wanted so badly between the younger brother and Aeglos… Just saying…≖‿≖
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I woke up, confused and disoriented, blinking my heavy eyelids, only to find out that I was… a dog?!

No…no, not a simple dog, but a hell hound; a magical creature made of fire and shadow, a fearful monster to be tamed or hunted down.
Driven away and forced into this world I soon realize that this place wasn’t as simple as it seemed to be; it was far more dangerous than that, filled with creatures like me, magic, evolutions, human hunters, necromancers, elves, dungeons and dragons.

I just hope I can keep me and my dumb brother out of trouble…

*Looks to the side only to see his younger brother trying to hunt a butterfly, but only bitting air and falling down while trying*

Sigh… that’s going to be troublesome.

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ML: You are so cute when you are angry.

MC: C-c-c-cute?! I’ll show you how cute I’m! I’ll bite your ankles!

ML: But I have made food for you…

MC:…

MC:Ok, I can beat you later, but why is your hand on my tail oi?!

ML:*chuckles*

~~Warning~~ 
Mature content, including gore, explicit smut, swearing, relationship between men.
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This book contains some misspellings that are being edited.

Thank you and I hope you enjoy it! *wink wink*
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Esta é uma webnovel de fantasia em um estilo semelhante as séries Discworld e o Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias.
O mundo de Propasa  tem fortes inspirações nas mitologias mesoamericanas como Inca, Maia, Asteca, Tupinambá, etc.…
Não existe uma intenção de um retrato fiel de nenhuma mitologia, mas uma influência multicultural com o intuito de criar algo diferente.
Existem muitas referências sutis a mitologia, livros, quadrinhos, filmes, RPG e até videogames. Como por exemplo a princesa prometida, um clássico da sessão da tarde.
E antes de começar a ler é bom saber que diferente da maioria dos livros de fantasia lançados recentemente, o livro que tem em mãos possui começo, meio e fim.
Boa leitura.



Em um mundo de fantasia um grupo de garotas recem saidas de uma academia de magia partem para aventuras. (primeiro volume "uma linda feiosa e os dragões de Licorne" esta disponivel na Amazon e clube de autores)

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--- Extra tags: Satire, Adult/Mature, Monster girl(Monster girl Encyclopedia kind), Fiction/Satire/comedy (I.E. Not to be taken seriously).

By the will of unknown deities, Clyde is swiped from Earth and tossed into an anime world. He’s the declared the Stone aka main character. One day, he must kill the Viper, the antagonist. Too bad things aren’t exactly as black and white as that. The Stone is something much more…
This world and its inhabitants are real. It’s another dimension with a lot to explore.

This is the story of a young man’s evolution from college boy of Earth to godhood and beyond. The challenges stand ahead of him:  demons, monster girls, crazy yanderes, even a girl with maxed charisma. He never thought he’d ever see a magical girl…

A story of comedy, action, and going from weak to completely unstoppable. He is the system disruptor…

In a world where tropes are present, anime girls falling in love so easily, and city-wide issues intertwining with the main mission, Clyde must level up power and his mentality, RPG-style. He can no longer be that earthling. He will learn… whether he likes it or not.

Someone who breaks systems…Feared by the gods…




~A lover of character development lover! 


Warning:
 Episode 7 and beyond contains and ramps a lot up on sexual content, including scenes. You have been warned.  This is not for the faintest of hearts! There are also monster girl quest references in here too. Once again, fair warning. Think about that before entering.
You now know what you're getting into...
[Recommended for those who know of the Monster Girl Encyclopedia] 
--Heads up: this develops into a Harem (and eventually they'll end up as his wives. If that's not your thing, this is your head's up.) 
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*He goes from cautious to embracing! 
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Hi, Mrdojo here.

How are you you guys doing? Good news guys, the first and second will be available on Amazon from October 1st. Book 1 & 2 of Necromancer System will also be available, too. Hopefully, the audiobook of both books (NS I & II) will be available sometime during October-November. 

One the books go live, I'll send you guys a heads up.

With that said... I'm currently writing a new series, and it's titled - OUTWORLD: Awakening. Be sure to check it out (Yes, I'm writing it on Webnovel).

Lastly, I'm still deciding whether to publish Book 3 of T7RS here. Haven't made my decision yet, but I'll decide once I'm done writing OA (probably mid/late October).

Well that's all from me. Have a great day.

Mrdojo.

Thousands of years ago, a legendary figure within the World of Realms disappeared along side an ancient clan.

Modern day Earth, world renowned archaeologist Olapa Asan and his team wanders into the ancestral grounds of a Fallen civilization. 

A series of near death encounters force Asan to flee from his world with a Legendary item, while saving his archaeological team.

Transported into the World of Realms, Asan wakes in the body of an assassinated ten year old.

From the information he had gotten from the Legendary item which was a white gemstone, Asan found out the world he was transported to had a strange power called 'Essence Energy' and majority of the Living things within this world were cultivators of this 'Essence Energy'

A world with myriad of races, from humans to Magical Beasts to Demons to Charming spirits and other oddities.

Thrown into the new world as a mortal, Asan must struggle to survive in a world where the weak were treated as second class citizens, while hiding from powerful organizations and cultivators.

His must battle to transcend his mortal roots and understand the mysteries of the new the world, this will lead him to forming friends and mortal enemies. 


      


Here is a link to the discord serve for the novel https://discord.gg/zUm5yDA


Thanks for reading.

It remained at midnight, looking at my spirit holding orange (D grade) and green (C grade) cultivation stones. Like big gems, the reflection of the rocks is mesmerizing. Cultivation stones, formed through a process called crystallization and elemental fusion, the name itself explains the rest.

"Let's start cultivation now, put the stones in front of me," I said solemnly.

"Wait, but you are too young to cultivate, your arteries would only rupture!"

"Trust me."

"But-" he knew he couldn't change my views, so he only nodded with a hint of loneliness.

Sitting in a lotus position, hands open to embrace the Qi to my veins. My mind focuses on the slightest movement of Qi. My white ring formed once again, turning tick by tick like a mechanical clock. Suddenly, a dense amount of Qi moved through my veins like a machine gun, knitting my bows, I suppressed overflowing though fine adjustments of my palms, the entryway. 

With high efficiency, I used the Qi to strengthen my heart, then my veins, my bones, my organs, and my skin. I feel a sense of familiar enlightenment, my white ring started to glow immensely, illuminating my room for a moment, it finally stopped.

"It's only been 6 hours, and you had a breakthrough, that efficiency!" my dragonfly spirit had it's jaw drop to the floor, it was petrified by fear but paralyzed by exhilaration at the same time.

I looked at my simplistic sparkling metal-framed window, it was sure that Yu Yuan placed a ton of effort in cleaning my room. My gaze slowly shifts outside the window. The moon engulfed by the mountains escaped from sight, the sun slowly rose in her place as she sleeps. The sound of fowl calls brightens the empty campfire sky; alongside the fowl, the birds chirping merrily and the tree rattle in harmony. Flower buds bloom as the intricate sun's ray seeps into the crevices of the petals, creating a bed of lush flowers. At such a scene, I couldn't help falling asleep. Awaiting the arrival of Yu Yuan's voice calling for me.

Moving through time, roughly 1.5 years later, the day before I turn 6 years old
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Beep beep!

"Did fall asleep again?" I mumbled to my drooling self.

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The year 2057, month 2, day 15, 11: 46
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Written strikingly on my clock, it's hard to tell that it is actually the year 2057, when everything looks very similar to our world in 2019. Minor difference like bigger and better quality of a TV and the lack of a calendar. The clock has become a multipurpose device of our day to day life, everything from music, temp, date, WiFi, virtual assistant, audiobook, a light switch could be found in a simple 12x10cm clock. The fact that everything is automated says a lot about our laziness.

Me, my mysterious parents and Yu Yuan live in an average villa type house, not the free ones on the air that cost a ridiculous amount, just a simple villa. We are, after all, not costly to afford those floaty devices, nor too unfortunate to be forced to live in the slums. Yes, slums still exist, but for varied reasons than my past world; in this world, slums are given to those who believed in the concept of extreme minimalism. Tenements are not crowded with corroded metal sheets and smelly feet, it is instead a small piece of land with a man-made cave owned by a minimalist, usually. Those people are off the grid and therefore unable to connect with the rest of the technologically advanced society. Think of them like a caveman that like to cultivate.

In this world, the population of humans only reached 6 billion before plateauing; paired with massive floating lands on the air, property on this content is pretty cheap. Furthermore, the people of this dimension are similarly advance in their perspective regions, that also means, not a single area has been underdeveloped and therefore have a massive population forced to cope with famine and starvation. This world is not without its flaws, politics, and power dominates this world; without a democratic system, corruption is more bound to manifest in the minds of people. 

Ring!

"Oh, looks that the bug is here," I said with an evil smirk.

"What do you mean?" Dragoon, the nickname I gave to Thunder dragon, questioned asked as he sprang up into the air. He seems to have forgotten the fact that I'm not as innocent as I seem to be.

"You'll see, let's go!" Without waiting any further, I rushed towards Yu Yuan.

"What is it big sister Yu, you don't seem so well?" I asked with a smile

"Li Bai, if anything happens, run alright?" Her face looks a bit sick

"Why?" I asked daringly 

"Just listen to me." Her face turned serious.

"Uhm..."

The door slammed open, and a 10-year-old kid wearing sharp gentleman's clothing walked in, accompanied by 2 tall titans wearing black suits paired with black glasses.

"Miss Yu, I've come to pick you up," he said as he combed through his short gelled brown hair before holding out to offer to Yu Yuan.

"Please accept our young master's gratitude, Miss Yu," the two titans bowed deeply.

"Wang Yong, I told you already, I will not become your fiancé!" Yu Yuan said with a forced voice and a boiling face.

Proposing at such a young age, kids in this world.

"Miss Yu, it is the consent of your foster parents, an arranged marriage."

"I will never agree to such marriages. Furthermore, how would I know if you are not trying to fool me into accepting a marriage?" It was clear she was about to erupt very soon if I don't stop this.

A deep voice from one of the titans, clearly impatient: "Miss Yu, we have a signed contract from your foster parents, and we can assure we are not pulling- Ahhh!" Both the titans were sent through the window and out of the house.

"Less talking, come back when you become stronger," I spoke in a monotone voice.

Wang Yong did not fret nor back down, he is a brave soul, too bad he picked the wrong person to mess with.

"I suppose you are Yu Yuan's younger brother, I didn't know you are this talented in lightning magic." Wong Yong spoke with courtesy.

Power speaks for itself, as the dominant the rule, everything comes second.

"6 years from now, we will spar with Qi, the loser will have to be obliged to do 3 things the winner propose."

"Only Qi and no elemental magic? The winner gets to propose anything, including taking your sister away from you?" Wong Yong asked with a twisted smile, he knows he won't be taking Yu Yuan away today, but is going to repay the shame I induce on him in the future, and he can't wait for that to happen.

"Yes"

"Li Bai, don't you'll get hurt!" Yu Yuan screamed from behind, with worrying glassy eyes.

Wong Yong said provokingly: "You may have caught my guards off guard today, however, in the future I'll make you pay 10 folds for today's shame!

"If you can!" I returned with a smile, and we both parted ways, back facing.

After the door slammed, Yu Yuan gave me a tight hug from behind, refusing to let go.

"I was my fault that I pulled you into this, as your big sister, I'm really sorry…" She slowly spoke into my right ear; I could feel droplets of salty tears flow down my neck. 

I barely patted her and replied with: "shouldn't you be happier, the fact that your brother is talented in elemental magic?" I guess she is too worried about any of this, my heart could melt at this point.

"But… the agreement."

"No elemental magic right? Don't worry, it's not like he would stand a chance against me either way." I said with a wicked smile, it is obvious she could not see it from behind or else she would have been shocked.

"He has 2 C grades spirit right now, with his talent, there is no doubt he would reach B grade rings along with his spirits in 6 years." Her endless worry and sorrow would not be suitable for her health to endure.

"How about this? Let's make a bet. If I win, you would have to marry me in the future, hehe." 

This should brighten the mood.

"Wa-" she couldn't finish her words before turning utterly red like a tomato.

"You can't marry your sister!" She yells, before breathing hardly.

"We don't have the same blood remember?" I teased her.

"Li Bai!" Those were the words that echoed around our house for the day.

If could go through a new life in a magical world indefinitely through the same timeline, in which your every action changes the future of your story. You are the writer of your story, your every decision would accelerate the future events and change all outcomes, you could chose to destroy the fate of your enemies or you could turn them to your side in a newly written story of yours.

This story is about a reincarnated young man named Li Bai, who is trapped in a vicious cycle of reincarnation every time he dies. The reincarnation is more like an uncontrollable time travel back to the age of 4 of reincarnation 1 in a different dimension. In this world people uses martial arts, cultivation and magic to show dominance. Out of the mist a VR game called, "Creation", stunned the world with it's peculiar design and cultivation enhancing system. The game world be refer as "second earth" by future descendant of this dimension.

This is a mix match story of cultivation, magic and VR gaming (Sci-fi). This is original story.

The town guards swaggered over to us. The waiters and attendants of the restaurant moved instead to soothe the other patrons of the restaurant about the disturbance.

One of the town guards, a broad-faced man with a rough mustache and stubble chin, pulled at an empty chair and pushed it over towards our table. He sat on it, facing backwards, and grabbed a chicken leg off the spread.

He munched on the meat and then pointed with the bone at Yae, "I remember you. Didn't I tell you to keep out of trouble? I see you've found yerself a whole new set of troublemakers."

Yae frowned slightly. "They were the ones to accost me, what was I supposed to do? It was self-defense, that it was."

"I'm not talking about some little crooks. You should just have ran away instead of makin' a show of it! Violence is not a solution to everything!" and then he pointed at me, "And you… what's your excuse?"

I smiled. "It was crazy, officer! There were these idiots who just wouldn't let us go until we allowed them to run their faces into our fists! Repeatedly!"

He scoffed. "A joker, huh? You'll find we have no patience for jokes in this here parts. No one asked you to butt in, you lot did more damage to the town than anyone."

"They were threatening to do things to Yae!" Elze shouted out. "You can't blame us from DOING YOUR JOB FOR YOU! What sort of town guards are you anyway? Where were you when all of this was happening?"

"Hey, what we know is what we can do about. If rascals want to rumble in the streets, that's not something we can fix until someone tells us so we can go there! You know how big this town is? We were actually just about to get there when you lot just all decided to run away! Don't you play dumb now, there's lots a' people who saw you fighting recklessly in this here good town!"

"Hmm? Why is damage to the town more important than criminals accosting people out on the street?"

Monika pulled up relevant info about town guards. When thinking about town guards, what immediately leapt to mind was Sir Terry Pratchett's novels about the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork in Discworld.

/"But that itself was inspired by the Rembrandt Van Rjin's painting of the Night Watch, which itself was commissioned by Captain Banning Cocq and seventeen members of his Kloveniers – civic militia guards! So… town guards might not actually be directly employed by the local lord or mayor!"/

She looked at the town guards. /"Yet volunteer militia would certainly be better dressed, better equipped, and better motivated for crime prevention. I think maybe they're less volunteer police officers than the more structured protection racket of the local government."/

Wait.. that brought up a strange idea. Could… could the whole thing actually have been staged, and the town guard were about to swoop in and show themselves being all protectors of the peace? The deliberately leaked Yae's location as bait as an excuse to show off and gleefully and justifiably break some heads? Remind the shopkeepers about how much they were 'needed', maybe?

I shrugged. "So what's the problem?"

"The problem is that you used magic in town. That's against the law. You damaged town property! And that's gots its penalty!"

"One could also argue that being under fear for our lives, NOT resorting to magic would have been dumb as hell going four against about, what, ten armed and hostile criminals? Criminals who had some strange courage to commit such violence in the middle of the day, threatening **** and death, and people were just watching interested at seeing a young girl beaten down."

Then I shook my head sadly. "I do not have much sympathy for this town."

"Who needs yer worthless sympathy? Two gold penalty for ye," and he looked at the girls, "each of ye, or ye spend a month in the clink!"

"Ha! Good lu-"

I reached under the table and patted Elze's knee to keep her from resorting to violence. She glared at me, pop-eyed, from the side. I shook my head gently. We did not actually have the budget to pay for an interesting restaurant floor fight scene with tables and plates and fleeing diners flying all over the place.

I had a thing against ruining other people's honest business for no good reason. I was always on the side of the poor innkeeper on those kung-fu movies and wished they had a decent bouncer to toss these hot-headed idiots out on the street.

"I guess that just leaves one question, then…" I reached into my chest pocket and flashed my purple Adventurer's Guild card. "Am I being detained?"

Monika groaned and palmed her face.

The town guard tsk'ed. "Just like I figured. You lot always think you can get away with anything. Just a Purple? Don't get too full of yourself, boy."

"There's nothing wrong with taking free legal advocacy that comes with being a duly licensed adventurer. The Guild does not usually interfere, but that doesn't mean they can't be asked to intervene. Some of us choose to follow laws as much as possible – and expect that the law treat us fairly as well."

"Just for that, it's three gold and if not we're bringing ya in right now!"

I raised my gloved hand up, still urging Elze or Yae not to move. The town guard flinched a bit, but then there was that flash of eagerness passing across his face?

I held that pose for several long agonizing seconds. I measured how much hassle it would be to just fight our way out of this joint. The guards had their hands on their swords and bent down slightly ready to move, but as the seconds passed no one budged.

I stared at the guard in front of me, meeting his eyes with the blankness of my own plastic-shelled visage until I could see him sweat. His face broke open in a contemptuous sneer. 

"You… you don't even actually want to do that, do you?" I murmured. "You want me to swing the first punch…!"

I closed my raised right hand to one pointing finger. "[Playback], please."

Then I had Monika replay the recording of what he had just said for the past thirty seconds. The sneer slowly faded from his face as he realized we had some magic to accurately replay events as evidence to his own superiors. Null magic was personal magic, it was not something they could stop just from denying access to magic stone.

"Oh. Right! I forgot, you did say you could perfectly remember and repeat again everything you could see and hear!" Elze gushed out melodramatically.

All the way back at the start, I had asked for and read the Guild guidebook. Reflet Guildhouse was happy to assist, it was always good to see new adventurers treating their new career seriously.

There was actually a very strong precedent for this and helped to protect the Guild's neutrality across different nations. Trumped-up charges was the best way for local lords to try make adventurers 'learn their place', until they learn that the adventurer they were hassling just so happened to have strong ties to an army or well capable of blasting through their town walls all on their own.

The Guild usually did not interfere with their adventurers unless what they were doing impacted the reputation of the guild as a whole. It actually turned out that local puissant lords thinking they could push around the guild and threaten adventurers was a threat to their neutrality. If their kings had already granted the Guild their grace to operate, from where do these petty tyrants get their arrogance?

Adventuring was also an old past-time of royals sending their sons to more directly gauge the mood of the populace and ferret out malingering lords. As the history of the Adventurer's Guild stated, not just a few adventurers became nobles in their own right, even kings. The monarch of a certain northern neutral kingdom was even a Guild Grandmaster.

"Is it just because we're adventurers? Do remember that there is nothing that prevents nobles and royalty from becoming adventurers as well, town guard. I know that you don't know who I am, so let me just ask you this – are you feeling lucky?"

I smiled thinly. You want to hassle me with legalese for dealing with your job of failing to keep the peace from criminals in your own town? Then be prepared for me to hassle you back with politics.

"Feth!" he spat aside. "You adventurers are all the reason we have this problem in the first place! You all think you can just walk into town and cause trouble? We have to live with the mess you all leave behind!"

"I would normally be much more sympathetic with the damage we caused, but really it's a good reminder that there are some people whom stupid untrained criminals can't just push around. If they had any real strength, they'd have been adventurers instead."

He grit his teeth. Implied of course, was that anyone with any real strength would be an adventurer instead of a mere town guard.

"So what if we're just town guards? You're going up the whole of Amanesque! You're just another criminal if you try to fight us!"

"And if I actually don't, you're just another crooked servant trying to steal good coin from their lord by under-reporting income from fines! I get to spend time in jail and get this whole thing made into a scandal for your master and then win money from him! You get to lose your head!"

I laced my fingers together in a Gendo pose and grinned. "Some property damage is nothing compared to evading your lord's rightful dues! I think we should be talking about how much you should be paying /me/ to keep silent about this instead."

"You…! You won't get away with this!"

/"Wait, why have the roles seem to have reversed so suddenly?"/

I kept pushing. "You won't get away with lying about anything, town's man. That eight gold you're trying to extort from me, I could pay a whole lot of adventurers and barristers to swarm this town instead. You know you don't have the personal strength to bring me in, and if you wake up the knights they're not going to thank you for it.

"You're vastly overstating the damage you're using as an excuse for this. I could easily prove that it was nothing more than some broken flagstones on the road and some scratches on the wall. That would be trivial to fix even by the shop guilds nearby. Why don't we go talk to the actual magistrates about the proper fines, hmm?"

/"Oh, I get it. All of this – it's a provocation. It's funny, maybe they actually were going to try to frame you or scam you through the Guild but you accidentally used their very own tactic against them first!"/

He scowled back at me for a few long moments, and I feared we'd have to resort to violence anyway.

But then he spat at the floor. "…. feh. I've no time for this noise. Lord Klass is nae impressed with any dang adventurers, you'll see. But I'm not gonna be stupid enough to get his attention, it's always in a bad way." 

He seemed to weigh the risks of me making some official ruckus versus the ruckus he wanted to get. Without a wrecked restaurant, he wouldn't have as much excuse for the hefty fines and the pleasure of seeing us on the rack. Once outside, adventurers would be far more easily able to overpower them, escape, and leave town with minimal damage. Just some adventurers roughing up the town guards... that was not worth the knights' time, making them chase down some miscreants on command. 

The tail should not wag the dog.

But adventurers wounding the pride of the powers of the nobility, that was another matter entirely.

He grabbed at a sandwich and motioned for the other guards to start plundering our table as well. "Count yerself lucky it's too late in the evening for me to bother dragging all of youse all the way down town!"

"Yes, that certainly is a believable excuse not to do anything," I replied neutrally.

The town guard snorted again, and then spat out a glob of phlegm at my face. "Wind," I uttered. The snot-ball was deflected off to the side. A waiter yelped out in disgust and dismay at the stain on his uniform.

"Whatever, boy. I'll be watching you. One more step out of line, and I'm tossing you into a cell, see if I don't!"

"We're just passing through, we'll be out of your hair by tomorrow." Or what's left of it, I didn't say. "And if we do meet again, I will remember you too."

Grumbling, they left the restaurant. They took whole dishes with them, and I meant including the dishes. They could probably pawn those off somewhere too.

"Honestly, such ruffians!" the waiter snorted in their wake. He glanced at our purple card and his nostrils dilated in barely-disguised disdain, but a Purple could become a Red or Silver eventually (and thus earn far more) and get famous. A town guard would always be just another trumped-up commoner.

"... I think it's great that you solved that without violence, Mister Zah," said Linze. Unlike her sister, she was much more sensible and didn't enjoy the thrill of combat and didn't hurting others even if they deserved it.

I exhaled roughly and slumped in my seat.

… yeah, this place needed a Sir Samuel Vimes far more than it needed a Batman.

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In another world with the most interesting smartphone! 

Behold the antics of Zah Playa Von Chara, someone actually prepared for his isekai adventure, and Monika, the traumatized AI living in his smartphone. They bring a new perspective into a tired old genre! Follow them along this Reconstruction of a cliche harem isekai story, bringing their unique brand of laugh-out-loud hilarity, innovative battles, real drama, and real consequences for every decision! 

Updates weekdays at 6AM GMT+8. 



- Disclaimer:
Isekai wa Smartphone To Tomo Ni is (c)Patora Fuyuhara. Doki Doki Literature Club is (c)Dan Salvato. All other properties copyright by their respective owners. This is a work of derivative fiction meant for non-profit purposes only.

Sajangnim=Bos/ketua
Ne=iya
Mwo=apa
eomma=ibu
hyung=abang (cwo ke cwo)
oppa=abang (cwe ke cwo)
eonni=kakak (cwe ke cwe)
nuna=kakak (cwo ke cwe)
omo=astaga
Haraboji=kakek
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"Nuna..." teriak si kembar berlarian menghampiri Yoona. "kami merindukanmu.." seru mereka belaga baik.

"Cih." Yoona malah merasa geli melihat tingkah si kembar itu. "apa hari ini kalian mempelajari hal-hal aneh seperti ini? Ehei.." Seoeon menyengir lebar.

"Nuna, aku lapar." sela Seojun mengelus-elus perutnya tak sabaran.

"Aku juga!!!" dibantu Seoeon, tentu Yoona tak bisa menolak permintaan itu. "oo?" Seoeon dan Seojun baru saja menyadari keberada Sehun disana.

"Anak-anak, annyeong.." sapa Sehun dengan ramah. Tapi tidak ada reaksi apapun dari si kembar. "aigoo, kalian sama saja." grutunya.

"Kau pulanglah, aku mau membawa mereka ke tempat lain." kata Yoona.

"Kita bisa pergi bersama.." sahut Sehun santai. "kalian mau makan apa? Katakan padaku." dan si kembar tetap tidak bereaksi. "aku akan membelikan kalian mainan, ottae?"

"Let's go...!!!" bersorak keras. Si kembar pun melangkah girang mengikuti Sehun menuju mobil. Meninggalkan Yoona yang masih termenung disana.
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     Tidak seperti si kembar dan pria itu. Yoona terlihat gelisah. Di sebuah kafe khusus untuk anak-anak, mereka duduk mengelilingi sebuah meja makan yang sudah dipenuhi dengan berbagai macam makanan. Dengan aneka bentuk dan warna. Si kembar menyantap makanannya dengan semangat, tak sabar untuk berlari ke area bermain. Sehun juga terlihat semangat seperti mereka. Lalu mengapa Yoona terlihat gelisah? Ternyata dikarenakan banyaknya pengunjung yang mengamati mereka.
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     Pengunjung yang berada disana rata-rata adalah pasangan suami istri beserta anak-anak mereka. Dan ketika Yoona, Sehun dan si kembar memasuki tempat itu, tentu berbagai macam pandangan langsung mengarah ke mereka. Sehun yang sudah sangat dikenal di negeri itu merupakan objek pertama yang menarik perhatian pengunjung. Dan kehadiran si kembar, semakin membuat para pengunjung menggila penasaran. Ditambah adanya Yoona disana. sekilas mereka terlihat seperti sebuah keluarga.

"Kenapa kau membawa kami kesini?" tanya Yoona berbisik. tak menoleh pada Yoona, menikmati santapannya dengan nikmat.

"Mereka menyukainya." jawab Sehun santai. Benar bahwa si kembar menyukainya, tapi dampak yang terjadi benar-benar membuat gadis itu pusing. Yoona tak henti-hentinya melayangkan tatapan was-wasnya ke semua pengunjung disana. "wae? Kau mau aku mengusir mereka semua? Itu hal mudah untukku.." pria itu sudah bangkit dari duduknya siap melangkah menuju kasir. Tidak mungkin menyetujui hal itu, segera Yoona menghalanginya.

"Yak.. yak.. yak. Jangan." memaksa Sehun agar kembali duduk. "anja." pria itu mendengarkan perintahnya dan kembali menyantap makanannya.

"Selamat makan.." seru si kembar bersamaan. Turun dari kursi lalu berlari menuju ruang bermain. Tinggallah Yoona dan Sehun disana.
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Sehun meletakkan sikunya di atas meja, menatap lurus ke mata Yoona. "btw.. bukankah kita terlihat seperti sebuah keluarga?" menahan senyum nakal diwajahnya. Yoona terlihat tidak senang mendengar itu.

"Cepat habiskan makananmu!" bentak Yoona kelepasan. Tentu Sehun kaget bukan main. tidak hanya Sehun, tetapi juga semua pengunjung disana. "aish.." menggrutu kesal, tak habis pikir ia akan mengalami hal seperti itu.

"Hoh, jantungku berdebar hebat berkat teriakanmu." pria itu menggeleng tak menyerah. Ketika itu terdengar suara tangisan Seoeon. Dengan gerakan cepat Yoona segera melesat menghampiri adiknya itu. ternyata si kembar tengah berebutan mainan. Dan Seojun yang berhasil.

"Seojun-a.. bermainlah bersama hyungmu.." bujuk Yoona seraya mengelus pundak Seoeon. Seojun cemberut tak ingin. Merasa sedih, Seoeon memeluk Yoona dengan isak tangisnya yang berbisik. "apa kau senang melihat hyungmu menangis seperti ini?" Yoona mulai bertindak serius kepada Seojun. "jika kau tidak mau bermain bersamanya, lebih baik kita pulang saja." menggendong Seoeon dan berpura-pura hendak melangkah pergi.

"I-iya iya.." teriak Seojun diikuti rengekkannya yang dibuat-buat. "arrasoyo.." ujarnya dengan mulut manyunnya. "hyung mianhae.. ini untukmu saja." meletakkan mainan itu ke lantai, lalu berlari menuju mainan lainnya. Yoona menurunkan Seoeon dari pelukannya. Sejenak ia merasa sedih melihat mereka. Sejak lahir mereka hidup tanpa seorang ayah. Tidak ingin terpancing akan kesedihan itu, menghembuskan nafasnya dengan semangat. Dan mulai mengikuti si kembar, ia merasa harus mengawasi mereka dari dekat. Di sudut lainnya, Sehun mengamati Yoona dengan senyuman bangganya.
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"Kemana eomma dan Krystal?" pikirnya ketika dilihatnya rumah itu yang gelap karena tak ada satupun lampu yang menyala. Si kembar sudah tertidur akibat kelelahan bermain tadinya.

"Kenapa.. cepat buka pintunya.. mereka berat sekali." keluh Sehun yang ternyata tengah kesusahan menggendong Seoeon dan Seojun sekaligus. Yoona masih saja ragu untuk membuka pintu rumah itu. ia merasa resah jika memasukkan seorang pria kedalam rumahnya itu. apalagi ketika dirumahnya tidak ada siapapun. "yak.." menyenggol pinggul Yoona mencoba mendesak gadis itu agar segera membuka pintunya.

"Aish, menggendong dua anak saja kau tidak kuat." grutunya yang mulai mengeluarkan kunci rumah dari saku celananya.

"Aku lebih kuat menggendong seorang wanita." sahut Sehun pelan yang langsung mendapatkan lirikan jijik dari Yoona. "cepatlah!" bentaknya geram melihat Yoona yang tak kunjung menggerakkan kunci rumah itu. karena kaget dengan suara pria itu, tangannya Yoona reflek mendorong pintu rumah itu hingga terbuka lebar. Tanpa pamit, Sehun langsung melangkah masuk. "dimana kamar mereka? Aish.. kenapa rumahmu kecil sekali." berdecak tak percaya. Benar-benar kesal, Yoona menepuk kepala Sehun. Sudah cukup untuknya menahannya. "Sssssakit!" si kembar nyaris terjatuh dari gendongannya.

"Disini." panggil Yoona setelah membuka pintu kamar si kembar. Dengan gerak cepat Sehun melangkah masuk lalu membaringkan tubuh si kembar ke atas kasur empuk itu. Tak hanya itu, pria itu juga membuka sepatu si kembar, membuka jaket si kembar, lalu menyelimuti mereka. Aksinya itu membuat Yoona diam tak percaya.

"Sepertinya aku telah berhasil menarik perhatianmu, benarkah begitu?" mengedipkan matanya ke Yoona lalu keluar dari kamar. "aku langsung pergi saja." katanya yang ternyata menyadari kegelisahan Yoona terhadap keberadaannya disana. Yoona mengikutinya hingga ke ambang pintu. "kunci semua pintu dan jangan menerima tamu yang tidak kau kenal, mengerti?" mengelus kepala Yoona dengan lembut, sebelum sempat ditepis gadis itu, ia sudah melangkah pergi.

"Seharian bersamanya bisa membuatku darah tinggi."
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     Masuk kedalam rumah itu dengan sneyuman yang tertinggal diwajahnya. Membuka kancing kemejanya yang teratas lalu melipat lengan kemejanya hingga siku. Terus melangkah menuju kamarnya. Tapi mendadak langkahnya terhenti, begitu juga dengan senyuman yang ada diwajahnya, menghilang begitu saja. dilihatnya kedua orangtuanya duduk berdampingan di ruang keluarga. Mereka tengah mengobrol dan sesekali tertawa kecil. Tapi anehnya, mengapa Sehun terlihat murung. Ini merupakan pertemuannya dengan orangtuanya setelah setahun lamanya ditinggal bekerja ke luar negeri. Tapi mengapa ia tidak menyusul orangtuanya dan malah melangkah masuk kedalam kamar? Seakan kesal melihat itu, Sehun bahkan membanting pintu kamarnya dengan kuat. suara hentakkan itu menyadarkan kedua orangtuanya.

"Astaga, bukankah itu dari arah kamar Sehun? Apa dia sudah pulang?" ujar ibunya yang buru-buru melangkah menuju kamar Sehun. Mengetuk pintu itu terlebih dahulu barulah mencoba membuka pintu kamar itu, terkunci. "Sehun-a.. ini eomma, bisa kau buka sebentar? Eomma merindukanmu.." panggil ibunya dari balik pintu. Di dalam kamar, Sehun mendengar itu. tapi berusaha untuk tidak menghiruakannya. Melepas jam tangan lalu kemejanya, masuk kedalam kamar mandi lalu berdiri lemah dibawah shower yang mulai menghujaninya. Sekilas Sehun terlihat berbeda dari dirinya yang biasanya.
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"S-sajangnim! Kau tak boleh kesana.. disana dalam!" teriak Kwangsoo penuh tenaga. Berlari di tepi kolam mengikuti gerak di kakek.

"Jangan larang-larang aku!" balas si kakek lantang. Dengan ban kuning berkepala bebek, mengayunkan kedua kakinya dengan cipratan air yang berhamburan kemana-mana. "yahoooo.." soraknya dengan kencang. Senang bukan main. padahal itu merupakan kolam renang pribadinya yang terdapat di halaman belakang rumah mewahnya, tapi ia terlihat seperti tidak pernah berenang.

"Kampungan." celutuk Kwangsoo pelan. Ia selalu kesal dengan bosnya itu. "aaaa!" tubuh jakungnya tercebur kedalam kolam. Syukur ia bisa berenang. Dilihatnya disana, Jae Suk, Jong Kook dan Joong Ki menertawainya. Mereka geli bukan main melihatnya. "aish hyung! Apa-apaan ini!" teriaknya hingga suaranya serak.

"Aaaa!" kali ini suara teriakan ketiga pengawal itu. mereka ikut tercebur bersama Kwangsoo berkat dorongan dari Gook Joo. Kekasih Kwangsoo yang berbadan gempal itu mengacungkan jari tengahnya ke mereka bertiga. "Apaan sih!" teriak mereka, tapi Gook joo sudah melangkah pergi. Bersebrangan dengan Yoona yang baru saja menemukan keberadaan mereka disana berkat suara teriakan itu.

"Oppa, kalian sedang apa?" dengan polosnya, melangkah ke tepi kolam. Mengamati seniornya bingung.

"Yoona-a, bantu aku naik.." pinta Jae Suk.

"Tidak mau." tapi Yoona menolaknya. Itu karena ia merasakan adanya niat jahat dari ekspresi wajah si kaca mata. "kau pasti akan menarikku."

"Eish.. kau menebak dengan tepat." gumam Jae Suk.

"Apaan ini? Kalian mau latihan militer? Berenang dengan setelan jas?" sela Chanyeol yang baru saja tiba disana. dibelakangnya terlihat Kai yang memilih duduk disalah satu kursi pantai, duduk santai sembari menikmati drama korea dari tabletnya.

"Hah, omong kosong apa itu. kami baru saja didorong sama si gempal Gook Joo." kata Joong Ki yang baru saja berhasil keluar dari kolam. Begitu juga dengan si kekar Jong Kook yang dapat keluar dari kolam dengan mudah.

"Yak, bantu aku." Jae Suk meminta Jong Kook untuk menariknya dari kolam. Pada awalnya Jong Kook benar-benar menarik tangannya, tapi ketika nyaris berhasil, dengan santai Jong Kook melepas tangan Jae Suk. Tentu Jae Suk kembali tercebur kedalam kolam.

"Aku ganti baju dulu." si kekar pergi begitu saja diikuti Joong Ki yang berusaha untuk tidak mengiraukan Jae Suk. Masih didalam air, Jae Suk hanya bisa menyumpahi mereka dalam hati.

"Nuna, ikut denganku." juga tidak berniat membantu, Chanyeol menarik Yoona untuk segera mengikutinya. Bingung dan merasa aneh, mengapa Chanyeol harus menarik tangan? Mengingat Chanyeol adalah salah satu Tuan muda dirumah itu, Yoona pun merelakan dirinya ditarik seperti itu.

"Tuan, kita mau kemana?" tanya Yoona berusaha mengikuti langkah Chanyeol. Mereka melangkah menuju parkiran mobil.

"Temani aku ke suatu tempat.." tiba dihadapan mobil sedan barunya. Mendorong paksa Yoona agar segera masuk kedalam mobil, lalu berlari menuju pintu lainnya. Beberapa detik kemudian mobil melesat kencang keluar dari halaman rumah itu. di titik lain, Sehun yang baru saja bangun dari tidurnya, berdiri dari balik jendela kamarnya yang menghadap ke halaman depan rumah itu. awalnya ia masih belum sadar sepenuhnya, tapi ketika dilihatnya Chanyeol yang menarik tangannya Yoona lalu pergi bersama meninggalkan rumah, Yang tadinya hendak menguap mulutnya malah mengatup rapat membentuk garis tipis. Terdiam mengamati kepergian mereka. tapi sedetik kemudian ia kembali ke kasurnya. Berbaring sejenak lalu kembali tertidur.
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"Sudahku tebak, dia pasti akan menyulitkanku lagi." batin Yoona yang sudah merasa lelah melihat banyaknya gadis remaja yang tengah menguntit dibelakang mereka. "kenapa kita kesini? Apa kau tidak pikirkan keberadaan fans-fansmu?" sudah tak memikirkan sopan santun, baginya Tuan Mudanya itu memang terlalu menyusahkan.

"Tenang saja.. kali ini aku tidak akan merepotkanmu." tersenyum lebar ke Yoona. dengan gagah mereka memasuki sebuah gedung bioskop yang luar biasa ramai.

"OMG." erang Yoona dalam hati. Semangat hidupnya merosot jatuh. Kali ini bahkan nyaris ribuan orang yang berhamburan mengelilingi mereka. "ini bahkan jauh lebih merepotkan." kata Yoona berbisik pada Chanyeol.

"Sudahku katakan, kali ini aku tidak akan merepotkanmu.. liat ini." dengan santai Tuan Mudanya itu menepuk tangan sebanyak 2 kali. Tidak lama kemudian datanglah puluhan pengawal ke hadapan mereka. Setelah menerima perintah darinya, puluhan pengawal itu langsung mengiringi Chanyeol dan Yoona menuju studio. "aman bukan?" bisiknya pelan. Yoona hanya memutar bola matanya menyerah.

"Kemana semua orang?" ketika masuk kedalam studio itu. tidak ada seorang pun disana. sofa penonton terlihat kosong melompong.

"Aku menyewa satu studio." kata Chanyeol yang sudah mendahuluinya, melangkah menuju sofa yang berada di tengah. "kemarilah." panggilnya menyadarkan Yoona yang masih termenung di depan layar raksasa itu. dengan langkah ragunya, Yoona melangkah perlahan menaiki anak tangga yang berlapiskan karpet merah. Melewati sofa-sofa mewah yang pastinya sangat empuk. "duduk." perintah Chanyeol yang meminta Yoona untuk duduk disampingnya. Yoona mengikuti permintaannya. Baru saja gadis itu duduk, sofa empuk itu bergerak pelan, membuat tubuhnya nyaris berbaring seperti di kasur. Sedetik itu Chanyeol melempar sebuah selimut berbulu yang lembut ke mukanya. "kau hanya perlu duduk manis disini hingga aku selesai menonton filmnya." jelas pria itu.

Mendengus sejenak. "yak, jika ingin menonton film, kenapa kau membawaku? Kenapa bukan pengawal yang lain?" keluh gadis itu menepikan selimut dari wajahnya.

"Mereka terlalu berisik. Lagi pula akan terlihat aneh jika aku pergi nonton dengan seorang pria." ujarnya dengan popcorn yang memenuhi mulutnya. "nuna, kau pasti akan menyukai filmnya." dan mendadak bersemangat ketika film sudah mulai diputar.

"Memangnya film apa yang akan kita tonton?" tanya Yoona mencoba membenarkan letak tubuhnya agar lebih terasa nyaman.

"Horror." sahut Chanyeol.

"Apa?!!" kaget bukan main. wajah Yoona mendadak memucat.

"Nuna! Kau mengagetkanku saja." popcorn yang ada dimulutnya berhamburan keluar.

"Kau bilang kita akan menonton film horror?" tanya Yoona lagi.

"Hmm.." Chanyeol menyadari itu, wajah Yoona yang sudah memucat dan tatapan gadis itu yang terlihat gelisah. "nuna, jangan bilang!" menutup mulutnya dengan telapak tangannya. Menahan tawa yang hendak meledak. "kau takut dengan film horror?" tanyanya dengan tawanya yang tertahan. Tidak menjawab, mencoba tenang, Yoona menyelimuti seluruh tubuhnya dengan selimut. "huahahaaaa... kau lucu sekali nuna.." Chanyeol tertawa geli.

"Diamlah." menyikut lengan Chanyeol agar pria itu segera menutup mulutnya. Dengan penuh tenaga, Chanyeol mengatup rapat mulutnya. "aish, kenapa harus film horror." batin gadis itu mengutuk dirinya sendiri.
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     Film terus berjalan dengan iringan musik horror yang mendebarkan. Kemunculan-kemunculan sosok-sosok menakutkan mulai terlihat. Suara teriakan sang aktor menambah kesan mencekam pada studio mewah itu. tapi sepertinya Chanyeol sangat menikmati film itu. berbeda dengan Yoona yang terus bersembunyi dibalik selimut, dengan kedua tangannya yang menutup telinganya dengan erat. Bahkan di ruangan yang sejuk itu keringat tetap mencucur di kening gadis itu.

"Nuna, kau akan terus seperti itu?" panggil Chanyeol berbisik. Yoona tidak ingin menghiruakannya dan terus meringkuk kikuk di sofa empuk itu. "nuna.. apa kau mau aku memutar satu film lagi?"

"Oo?" ditariknya selimut itu dari wajahnya. Ternyata filmnya sudah selesai. Dengan penuh syukur ia menghela nafas panjangnya. "kita pulang sekarang." tidak perlu menunggu perintah dari Tuannya itu, Yoona langsung melangkah cepat keluar dari studio mewah itu.

"Hoh, kenapa dia yang memerintahku?" menggeleng tak paham. Lalu kembali tertawa geli mengingat ekspresi Yoona tadinya. "dia benar-benar lucu." berlari guna menghampiri Yoona yang sudah melangkah jauh. "nuna, tunggu aku!"
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     Mereka kembali kerumah dan tiba disaat sore telah tiba. Di sore itu halaman depan rumah terdengar sangat berisik seakan dipenuhi banyak orang. Namun yang terlihat hanya si kakek bervespa, Kwangsoo, Kai, Jae Suk, Jong Kook, Joong Ki dan Gook Joo. Sedang apa mereka? Bermain Tenis. Sepertinya si kakek gaul itu sangat menggemari bidang olahraga. Dengan tubuh gempalnya Gook Joo berlari penuh tenaga. Dibantu Kwangsoo, mereka tampak seperti pasangan petenis handal. Dengan lawan mereka yang tak kalah tangguh, si kaca mata dan Bos kesayangannya, si kakek bervespa. Dipinggir lapangan, Jong Kook dan Joong Ki membantu menyoraki mereka agar lebih terasa seru. Lalu Kai? Tetap setia dengan tabletnya.

"Baiknya rumah ini dijadikan GOR saja." ujar Chanyeol yang mulai melangkah menghampiri mereka. Tapi paling tidak, Yoona lebih suka menghadapi hal seperti ini dari pada harus menemani Tuannya menyaksikan film yang paling ia hindari.

"Oo Yoona-a! Kemarilah, gantikan aku." teriak Gook Joo yang sudah keluar dari lapangan. Memberikan raket tenisnya kepada Yoona, gadis itu tersenyum mengingat dulunya ia juga pernah berlatih tenis. Sepertinya sudah saatnya untuknya menunjukkan kemampuannya disini. Dengan senyum beringasnya, melangkah masuk ke lapangan yang entah kapan menjadi lapangan tenis itu. Sajangnim, mianhae. Ujarny dalam hati. Dan pertandingan yang sebenarnya pun dimulai.


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Btw, saya sudah terbitkan buku. Judulnya White Romance. Untuk pembelian bukunya pre-order langsung ke penerbitnya. Tapi jika tidak ingin menunggu, kakak2 bisa beli dalam bentuk E-Book.
Belinya di Play Buku (download dulu aplikasinya di play store)
Harga E-Book White Romance murah kok. Hanya RP 51.000 saja.
Bagaimana dengan isi ceritanya? Dijamin mantaps.
Karena White Romance karya terbaik yang saya buat sejauh ini.
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Oh iya..
Subscribe channel youtube saya ya kak. 
Hyull Story (Audiobook)
Isinya cerita2 saya yang sudah saya buat menjadi audio + ada backsound gitu. Mana tahu sedang malas baca, bisa dengerin audiobook saya. hehe..
Maaci.. ^^

Six weeks later, Arial was deep at work proofing the last audiobook narration. Gracelyn had done a fantastic job and she was looking forward to bringing her art to audiences in five days. It was a bit frenetic around the office these days and she was worried about every detail being perfect. The enormity of the coming deluge of feedback from an audience the size she had never imagined putting her writing in front of was narrowing in on her psyche. 

Holly barged into the room out of breath. 

"You okay?"

"Oh, my goodness Speindler wants a meeting! Today! Before the books," she stopped and bent over slightly out of breath. 

"You need to take a deep cleansing breath," Arial said with wide eyes trying to figure out exactly what she was trying to tell her with all that gibberish. 

"Arnie Speindler called this morning from Hollywood and wants to talk with you about optioning the script of the books. He wants to do it before they come out, as Byron had told him about this and wants to get ahead of the deluge."

"Great, when?"

Holly wrinkled her nose, "wheels up in three hours."

"Today! I have so much to do!"

"Private jet to get us there, and back tomorrow morning early. We will be back before anyone can miss us, and possibly with a new contract in place that could change your life in even more meaningful ways than your current contracts."

"Okay," she said after a few minutes. She had long agreed to be along for the ride of this crazy train of a new author, so if this was part of the deal she was in. 

"I also have a little surprise for you," Holly said with a huge smile. 

"What?" 

"It wouldn't be a surprise if I told you," she said. "Now take a quick walk, pack an overnight bag and meet me back here in," she glanced at her watch. "Forty minutes."

"Okay, well that means I have to run," she said. 

"Go!" Holly said clapping her hands. 

Nine hours later, Arial was sitting at the tiny table in a swanky restaurant in LA trying to keep her stomach from growling. The crazy meeting with the great Arnie Speindler had gone great, though Arial still couldn't wrap her brain around the fact that it looked as if he was on board to direct her book into a movie. The screenwriters were over the top excited, and lawyers twittering during the meeting. Her brain was struggling to keep up with her reality. Private planes, lawyers, agents, and people starting to know her name was a new realm. 

She loved that something she created was getting so much attention, but she was struggling to figure out how to act. What to do with the new income? And honestly, who to trust to help navigate this new world. She just needed someone to talk to, and Adryn while he tried wavered between over the top happiness, jealousy and just telling her to go with it. He just as lost as she with all the new inputs happening to her world. 

She sighed and waited to glance at a bit at the high-end restaurant. She recognized a few actors in the room and felt like she was definitely in the wrong spot. As she sank a bit into the cushioned booth, the tiredness overcame her. She had been running on fumes for weeks, but this trip and the subsequent meeting had just about been the tipping point. 

"Hello Ms. Right," a deep voice rumbled throughout her system. Her heart tripped over itself, and her breath suspended as she turned in a fog. 

A tear threatened to overflow when her eyes traveled up the entire height of Zander. 

She slid from the booth, and without a moment's hesitation reached up to hug him, as he bent wrapping his arms around her waist. 

"Oh my goodness," she whispered in his ear. "I missed you so much."

"The feeling is mutual," he said lifting her off the ground. When she lifted her head from his shoulder they were face to face. 

Time suspended as she bit her lip, and watched as his eyes slid to her mouth. Every nerve ending in her body was alive and dancing, begging for something just beyond her reach. He bent forward slightly until she could feel his breath, and felt her lungs suspend movement. 

When his lips lightly fluttered across her, she had to hold on a bit tighter to his broad shoulders. She wouldn't have been able to stand up on her own two legs. She slanted her head slightly and fully sealed her lips against his. She felt like she was flying, and the feel of this kiss was short-circuiting her entire system. For just a brief moment she didn't care that they were in the middle of a public restaurant. 

"Wow!" Holly's voice cut in. 

Arial pushed back from Zander, as reality crashed in on her like a bucket of ice water. He put her down slowly, and she stepped back as her face flushed a crimson-hot red.

"I didn't realize you two were an item," Holly said looking ashamed. "I just thought it would be nice to surprise you with dinner with Zander."

"Oh we aren't an item," Arial assured. 

"I appreciated the call," Zander said. "I have been working for weeks straight, this was a great surprise."

"Great! You just kissed the up and coming author of the new Speidler film in a public restaurant in LA. You two better get your stories straight on what your relationship is because tomorrow there are going to be gossip rags picking this story up. Zander Tirado hasn't had a girlfriend in how long," she asked with a wave of her arm toward Zander. 

"Can we sit," he asked glancing about. 

Arial slid into the booth without another word, Holly came in next to her and Zander across from them. 

"It has been three years."

"What?" Arial said shocked. "How long since your last date though?"

"A year maybe."

"They are ripe for a new story to follow, and this will be it," Holly said. 

"We just won't respond and it will die," Arial said lightly. 

"Yeah, let's see how that goes. You do realize you look like a lovestruck teenager whenever the two of you are in the same room," she glanced between them. "So we can ignore it now, but soon this will come to a head and you will need to face your feelings for each other."

"I could use a drink," Zander said after a moment. 

"Me too," Arial added trying to keep the tone even though she wanted to slink off into a corner and lick her wounds. She wiped her finger across her lips, as hers found Zander. He smiled lightly at her, and she knew at that moment. They might be trying to act like nothing was going on, but that kiss told her differently and that smile let her know that the day was coming when they would need to discuss this thing between them. 

Tonight though was about friends and new opportunities on the horizon.

When Arial calls the wrong extension at work, she find a voice on the other end she wants to call again or maybe he could be the one she was looking for all along.

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