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The wind gave light touches, the sun started to fade away signaling that the afternoon was fading and the night was beginning, making the Bambi Osaka Youth football club players to realize that the training season was coming to an end. Some of them were happy due to the hard work they had to do all the day, others sad because they wanted to keep playing the sport they loved, but none of these emotions represented the light blue hair Hiori Yo, who was eager to get home (precisely his room) to chat with the person named @iceowl10, whom he met in a fans group chat of the game NieR: Automata.
Hiori wasn’t really interested in meeting people online, he considered that with his school friends was more than enough, but due to his full schedule in his football club or the exams he couldn’t be fully focused in the game announcements or new mechanics, that’s why he decided to join this group chat. One night he was trying to pass a very hard level but it was impossible, so he had to resort to ask in the chat if anyone knew a way to defeat the level, hoping for a nice and gentle person to save him and luckily for him, the nice and gentle person appeared;
@2yoyoyo3: hii, does anyone know how to beat the level 40 in hard difficulty ? ^.^
@iceowl10: you can’t be that stupid to not know how to beat it, its almost common sense.
@2yoyoyo3: ??? i was just asking, there’s no reason to call me that, if you already beat it can’t you just tell me how to do it?? O-o
@2yoyoyo3: please !?!? T-T
@iceowl10: why should i
@2yoyoyo3: pleasee…..?
@iceowl10: send me a message.
Since that little odd interaction Hiori and @iceowl10 started to talk more and more about tactics or how to beat different levels, even sometimes things that weren’t related to NieR. They started to form a friendship bond after realizing they had more in common than they thought, they shared a taste for horror and terror, played football, and were passionate about science fiction and horror games; one thing led to another, and—despite never having seen each other's faces—they began to develop a romantic interest in one another, drawn together by their similar personalities. Although their relationship was quite strange in terms of how they treated each other sometimes, they still loved each other. Hiori found his "soul mate" in an application and didn't care if he could be a disgusting 50-year-old old man who takes advantage of him (he tries to convince himself that he wouldn't care), he hoped to talk to him every time he got home after training.
Hiori walked to the locker rooms almost dragging his feet, with his face sweaty, hair stuck to his neck and a towel on his shoulder while thinking about his virtual boyfriend, excited to see if he got a message from him, when hes about to get to the dressing room he feels his partner and friend, Karasu Tabito shouting his name from afar.
- Hiori.. Ah... It's good that I reach you haha.. Tabito says with a smile, while putting a hand on the blue-haired man's shoulder. "Where are you going in such a hurry?" I mean, I know that the training is over but it's as if you had a super important event right now..
- I'm going to... My house? Like everyone else... Besides, yer know that my parents are very castrated with punctuality and my sleep schedule, you know, athletics.. He says with a sarcastic tone that sounds bittersweet.
- Of course, I had forgotten, I'm sorry! I was calling you to ask you out before classes start, you know, before school hell and that.
Hiori opened her eyes slightly remembering that classes started tomorrow and that this indicated that she could talk much less with her boyfriend, because he rarely answered him, and if he did it was either very dry or a few. Hiori didn't care that he had different ways of answering him every day, because he loved him no matter what, but the return to class indicated that he would have homework, exams, and worse, the pressure of his parents for soccer and school, it was as if two cannons shot him at the same time from the front and back, and that in the meantime his parents attributed to bury blades to his whole body. Hiori tried not to think about everything negative and ran a hand over his forehead.
- I had forgotten that classes started tomorrow, too bad...
- I felt that the vacation lasted almost nothing, even so, do you want to come or not? I also invited the boys, you know, Reo, Bachira, Nagi and Isagi were seeing if he could arrive. - He expressed while putting his thumbs up with a smile.
- Karasu.. I.. I'm sorry, I would love to go, but yer know that my parents won't let me, much less with the start of classes tomorrow, I'm really sorry.. - Hiori looked down slightly when he refused his friend's invitation.
- No problem! I expected that answer without offending haha, it's okay Hiori, I understand! We'll see each other tomorrow, right?
- Of course! We'll see each other in class.
After saying goodbye, their hands collided and each one went home, although Hiori does not consider the place where he lives home, for him it is like hell. He got into the car and his face immediately changed from a gentle and kind face to an empty and half dead one, before his parents asked him how he did in training, he told them that they did a lot and that he was quite tired to tell them what they did, using in his favor the excuse that he wanted to rest to be able to get up motivated for school, his parents complained a little for the refusal to "interact" with them but they gave in and let him go quietly and serene while listening to the playlist that someone he loved very much dedicated.
Hiori would not deny that he felt a little guilty by denying the invitation to Karasu, probably if he asked his parents they would tell him that only for a specific time span and they would put an arrival limit, but Hiori preferred his secret boyfriend of exactly 3 months and 13 days earlier than his friends. He couldn't miss the opportunity to talk all night with his boyfriend, because Hiori memorized the days and hours when his beloved connected and responded faster and they talked more. In others eyes, he was probably very “obsessed” with the stranger he met, but no one would understand even if he explained it to them. They connected so well the first day that they talked although the user was a little rude, the blue haired would describe him as perfect, thanks to him he was able to disconnect a little from how overwhelming the days at home were with his parents, he told his boyfriend how he was and he told him that he had a similar experience with his brother, they understood each other perfectly and that Hiori loved him, like many other things that he could list from 1 to 10,000.
Hiori arrived at his house and immediately went up to his room almost running to turn on his computer to send a message to @iceowl10, with the certainty that he would answer in approximately 3 or 2 minutes because it was already almost 10:30 p.m. and just at that time was where he answered faster, turning on his computer, he texted
@2yoyoyo3: hello ^^
@2yoyoyo3: I just arrived home from training !!
@2yoyoyo3: how r uuu:)
Hiori left the screen on while taking out his pastel light blue and white striped pajamas and socks of this same pattern and began to change his clothes looking carefully at the screen, he counted 1, 2, 3 minutes and suddenly I heard the "beep" of the chat. He received a message.
@Iceowl10: hello.
@Iceowl10: I'm glad.
@Iceowl10: I'm fine.
Hiori finished dressing quickly while a big smile appeared on his face, he closed the door of his room so as not to have discomfort and went to sit in his chair in front of his computer and began to type.
@2yoyoyo3: that's good!!!
@2yoyoyo3: hey, before I left my friend invited me to go out with our group, but I told him no :3 you know, I prefer to talk to you !!!
The blue haired began to message non-stop until a specific text made him slow down;
@Iceowl10: we need to break up. I don't want to be with you anymore, I have more things to do and being with you is not in my plans, a virtual relationship like this was not going to last.
- Huh?