VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

"Bastard."

She wanted to hit him again, but she could not do it anymore.

"You broke the rule, now you can't hit me for the rest of the day."

They had rules in this house, and breaking rules had punishments.

"You cheater!"

-Splash!

"You made me do it!"

-Splash! Splash!

"Don't splash the water like a little kid."

"Let me go and I won't!"

They weren't supposed to throw punches in the bathroom, but she did, and as a punishment for breaking the rule, he gets to hold her for the entire time they were in the bathtub.

She also can't hit him for the rest of the day in the house or outside so, he at least dealt with the physical things.

He always found it difficult to defeat her in a direct fight anyway so he did not want to waste time when they could do so many more fun things. Your next read awaits at empire

"Just stay still dude."

He rested his head against her back, and closed his eyes.

The cold water was not that cold to their hot bodies. With them sticking together, it was even less cold.

In fact, this was the best temperature that they needed right now. It was perfect, and she knew it as well.

"Hmph…"

She wanted to be the one to hold him this time, but he unfairly stole that chance from her.

He was a cheater, and he was a bastard. And on top of that, he was also a hot piece of hotness.

"Don't sleep." She kissed his shoulder and picked up the smartphone sitting on the side.

"I won't." And he kissed her back, sending another unexpected shiver down her spine.

"Hey…"

"Yes?" He placed his chin on her shoulder and looked at her with a smirk knowing full well just how much she liked this.

"You're a baby, you know?"

"Am I now, hmm?" He wanted to do it again, but there was no point in doing it when she was on guard.

So, he watched the phone screen that she was booting up.

The phone she picked up was a special phone that she called her bathroom phone, something she only used when she was in here.

There was no need to use phones in the house most of the time since both of them mostly used their [Cyberwatches] and PCs.

But these thin bricks of tech were still a fun thing to use even in this day and age.

-Ding.

"Hmm… let's see."

The smartphones were something of an technology of the older generation, but many people, many old ones still used them instead of the better C.watches.

"Hmm?"

"Did we have any messages? There weren't any the last time I checked."

The phone was connected with their other accounts so this piece was a convenient tech.

"I don't think I have any important messages but…"

His account had around twelve missed calls and around sixty messages.

And from a single person as well…

"Olive?" There were only two people who would call him so many times, and only one that would leave so many messages for him.

"I remember you still haven't told her you started playing NO, right?"

"...?!" Suddenly, an expression of shock popped up on his face.

-Splash!

"You didn't tell her?!" He shouted, splashing some water out of the bathtub as well.

"Did you tell me to tell her? I don't seem to remember you doing it though."

-Splash! Splash!

"But! Shouldn't you at least-."

"Hey. Calm your horses man. You're gonna empty the bathtub."

This was bad news for him. He did not mean to, but ever since he started playing <NO> the sense of time had become a blur for him.

In the last few weeks they had been playing this game, he had not come out of his Chariot that many times.

After his tutorial and after meeting her in Moongold, they almost only came out for some refreshments and a break.

With all the things going on in Moongold, that dark mage thing and the Library event and even the incident with that mage tower master almost left him with no time to be in touch with the others in here.

He surely talked with his mom a while back so she knew how he was finally doing something he wanted to try for a long time now.

But, even though he had just talked with her a while back, even sent her a message like he usually does the last time he was out… he completely forgot to tell one of the most important people of his life about his retirement and <NO>.

"Alex… I thought you told her."

His head dropped on her back once again, she thought about how this is going to be a complicated matter now.

"She's your girl friend, mister. If you're retiring, why would I tell her?" there was a smirk on her face, and he knew that without even seeing it.

She did that intentionally. She wanted to see some drama between these childhood friends.

But even she did not think this dumb bastard of hers would forget about it completely for more than three weeks.

"Haaa…"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

She did condition him to think she was going to tell that 'friend' of theirs, but it wasn't so effective to the point things would come down to this.

12 missed calls and 69 unread messages. That was too much, even from her perspective.

"Let's go down. And reply to her third message first. Tell her I'm not dead yet with that :tearful: emoji."

He did not need to read all those DMs to know what they might be. He could already guess the first and last few of them.

"Gotcha."

Olivea, his dear childhood friend and one of the closest people he had in his life.

She was family, and she owned a bakery on the third floor of their building so thankfully, they would not have to fly two states across to apologize to her.

"It's on you if she cries, hehe." She did not expect things would go this far, but this was only going to be better entertainment for her.

The Drama was going to be even more fun.

"..."

But, Elio did not like how she was thinking it so freely when he was having a mental crisis.

"You're a bad, bad girl, Alex."

He moved his hand up her back…

"...!"

And then, with his nails, he scratched her back down in a sharp movement.

"Ugh~."

"Even if it was unintentional, you went too far."

She was going to be punished for that.

Of course though… that would be after they get out of this bathtub.