Offline:\Sinagtala Relocation Site\Sinagtala Tenements>
Saturday at the break of dawn, Ren woke up and dressed up casually as a bread peddler in Manang Abe’s store. He took his bike outside and met Roy by chance.
“Hey Ren, where are you going?” Roy asked.
“Working!” Ren happily answered.
“Hmmm... As for me, I gotta draw somewhere”
Roy’s stomach grumbled loud, and he giggled,
“Seems that I’ll be your first customer this time”
“Okay, let’s go then” Ren enticed Roy to come by the bakery.
The two went downstairs, lifting their bikes till they reach the ground floor.
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The two biked their way to Manang Abe’s bakery and she welcomed the two,
“Hello Ren and Roy! Glad to see you guys here early in the morning today!”
Roy brought out a ten peso bill and asked for a bag of freshly-baked Kabayan muffins. Manang Abe gladly handed out a bag of Kabayan muffins to Roy. Ren went inside the bakery, then told his friend,
“I’ll be with you guys online at high noon or earlier, okay?”
“Sure Ren! If you’re done, find me at the hill” Roy replied back, then he biked his way to Sinagtala hills.
Ren and Butchoy went to the garage and loaded their bikes with loaves of freshly-baked bread. A new worker went to the garage, and it turned out to be their former customer few days ago.
“Oi Kokoy!” Butchoy greeted their new working buddy.
“You’re our customer last Sunday, right?” Ren curiously asked Kokoy.
“Yup, Ren! My mom eventually allowed me to work during weekends for my extra allowance!” Kokoy gladly answered, as he helped Ren and Butchoy pack breads on their bikes.
Manang Abe came to their garage and she told them,
“You know, it is rare for the kids of your age helping out at work, and because of you Ren, Kokoy also started helping out on our bakery. Kids like you are really rare these days”
She sighed for a moment and she patted the shoulders of her young workers in a friendly manner. Manang Abe left a remark to the three,
“Take care out there boys, and I’ll generously reward your efforts after, okay?”
“Yes ma’m!” the three affirmed, then they left the bakery’s garage to sell bread.
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Henry, wearing navy blue oversized chino shirt, yellow mid-length fitted athletic polyester shorts, woke up with a smile on his face. He wore his square-framed glasses then he asked himself in front of his mirror,
“Hehehe, am I gonna run around with this trap-looking clothing?”
He went to his closet and brought out his blue hoodie with yellow short sleeves, black fitted shirt, and his yellow, blue-streaked, mid-length loose chino shorts.
“There! These look better, unless Hatsumi thinks of having a sleepover, therefore I’m fine with my trap-looking sleepwear” Henry chuckled as he wore his chosen clothes.
After wearing his clothes, he struck a get-go boy’s anime main character pose in front of his mirror and laughed at himself,
“Haha! Yeah, I may look like I dressed up as some main character in a ‘shonen manga’, but I feel like I’m the villian instead who questions a lot, or a whiny, weak-looking character. Probably I like my look as a puny, whiny main character, but after all, I’m the serious one”
Unexpectedly, Doree, one of their maids, was behind his door, listening to his monologue. Doree thought to herself,
“Who is my young master talking to? Probably he’s courting the Japinay cosplayer!”
She giggled for a moment, and finally asked,
“Who are you talking to, Henry?”
Henry opened his door and got surprised by Doree. Henry answered his maid,
“I’m only talking to myself because I find this outfit perfect for me. I might even see Hatsumi outside too, running”
“I knew it! You have your first crush, and that’s the Japinay cosplayer, right?” Doree giggled.
“Yeah, Ate Doree. She’s beautiful, a bit sexy for her age, and she’s cute though she’s shorter” Henry affirmed.
“Regardless of her height, or even her beauty, if her attitude’s beautiful too, you got the perfect girl for you, Henry” Doree advised Henry.
Henry laughed, and blushed for a moment since they talked about his crush, Hatsumi. He went downstairs, hurriedly grabbed his ham sandwich and headed out. Doree giddied afterwards, and she also asked herself,
“When will I have my own papa partner? I envy my masters!”
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Henry arrived at the park and he saw Romeo petting three stray American shorthair cats. Romeo’s stray cats approached Henry and rubbed their heads on Henry’s shins. Romeo smiled and giggled at Henry,
“The cats liked you more than I do!”
“Though you actually looked more of a cat than me, Romeo!” Henry teased Romeo.
While the two were playing and petting the cats, Hatsumi approached the two. She sported her fitted pink t-shirt, and pink mid-length fitted polyester shorts as her athletic clothing. She uttered a cat sound, then the two were distracted by her. The cats approached her and rubbed their heads on her shins, and pink running shoes too.
“Now, the cat girl is here too...” Romeo said to Henry, with their eyes squinted yet looked at their daring cosplaying friend.
Hatsumi carried one of the cats, and stroked her back. The cat she carried simply vocalized,
“Meow meow”
All of a sudden, the cat licked her nose and Hatsumi laughed,
“Romeo, these kids of yours are hungry. Find ‘em some food!”
Hatsumi let go of the cat she carried and wandered around for food, but nothing was found. Romeo grabbed his messenger bag for a bottle of milk, and Henry searched for a styrofoam party plate at the nearby trashcan. The cats looked at the two as the bottle of milk is poured on the party plate. The three stray cats rushed towards their plate of milk and happily drank it. The three watched the cats finish their drink. Less than a minute, the cats emptied the plate and they rubbed their heads again at the shins of the three pre-teens.
“Once we started feeding them, they’ll recognize us... and I can’t afford to take a stray cat home at this rate” Henry mumbled to the two.
“Nah, I’ll keep the cats instead, nya!” Romeo immediately volunteered.
“After all Romeo, you are really a cat person” Hatsumi chuckled at him.
The cats they fed saw a sewer mouse, and they chased it.
“Seems that we fed them an appetizer, and they finally found their main course” Henry snickered at the two.
Romeo noticed the clothing of the two, then he brought out his smartphone, and he asked them,
“Hey, mind if I take a picture of you guys together before we all jog or something?”
The two stood back-to-back and struck poses straight from a certain Japanese animation series. Romeo took a picture of the two with his smartphone, and squealed with glee,
“Squeeee!!! You guys are really cute with those clothes”
The three started jogging around the park for an hour...
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Ren and Butchoy were on the bread-loaded pedal-powered tricycle, while Kokoy another bike with a bread basket on the front. Ren told Kokoy,
“Kokoy, you go around the tenements, while Butchoy and I will go sell some bread on this street. Later we meet at Mang Mario’s, okay?”
“Sure Ren!” Kokoy affirmed, and he went to the tenements.
Ren and Butchoy went to the streets, peddling bread to their regular customers. Kokoy’s mother came outside and praised the two,
“Because of you guys, my son started helping me by earning extra money for two of us. We’ve been receiving no word about my hubby overseas lately, so we have to rely on ourselves for now...”
The two were saddened at the news at first, but they realized that they become Kokoy’s driving force to help his single mother in any good was as possible.
“When was the last time did he talk to you?” Butchoy asked.
Ren playfully pinched Butchoy’s arms and whispered,
“Let’s not dip on other’s lives, Butchoy”
Kokoy’s mother chuckled for a moment, and she shared a bit,
“Probably last month, he said that he’ll be working in California as a taxi driver, and that’s it... I’m worried” then she cried for a while.
The two stepped away from Kokoy’s mother, and Ren reprimanded Butchoy,
“Oh no, we shouldn’t meddle with other’s lives... We made her weep, now what do we do? I hope Kokoy gets back though”
“Sorry, kuya Ren...” Butchoy apologized.
The two continued peddling bread, and were able to sell some more bread in the neighborhood.
Meanwhile in the tenements, Kokoy only have two customers in the ground floor and felt that it was his first unlucky day working in a bakery to peddle bread. While peddling the remaining bread, he thought to himself,
“I thought doing this job is easy... How come Ren maintains his happiness while doing this job?”
Then he ascended to the second floor and continued hollering potential customers. Four mothers from separate tenement blocks caught his attention and approached him for some bread. They paid him nicely, and unexpectedly, a drunk, groggy, fat topless man came outside with a 2 x 4 wooden plank in hand. The groggy man yelled at them,
“That’s too early, your noisy calling disturbed me! YOU LITTLE RUNT!!!”
The man approached Kokoy, and he hurriedly took his bread bike back to the elevator to head down. Unfortunately, the drunkard grabbed Kokoy’s shirt, and cussed at him,
“Where are you going, booger!”
The angered drunkard tried to strike Kokoy’s butt, but it only hit once, and he teased further,
“What the heck! You are now doing all the work? Poor you, but I’ll even make you poo--”
Kokoy’s customers cussed the drunkard altogether, “Imbecile!” and they whacked the drunkard with their brooms and dustpans, until the rest of the residents suppressed the drunkard. One of the residents even wanted the drunkard dropped off, but the tenement-based baranggay officers brought the culprit to their prison for a day or less.
An hour after peddling bread all over Sinagtala, the three young bread-sellers gathered together at Mang Mario’s internet cafe, though Kokoy had a bad start. Kokoy wept at Ren,
“Ren, your job’s too hard for me, I sold less than you guys”
Ren consoled his new weekend coworker and told him,
“Kokoy, it’s fine. At least you tried your best, you’ll get used to it someday”
“I... I’m about to be clubbed to death by a drunkard at the other tenement, Ren. I felt like... I can’t do it anymore” Kokoy admitted.
Ren breathed deeply and helped him calm down. Butchoy suggested,
“Say, why don’t we ask Mang Mario, and my mama, to let him sell bread at his internet cafe instead? At least we won’t be having much trouble with those kind of guys”
“That’ll be a good idea, Butchoy” Ren immediately approved his suggestion.
The three went back to Manang Abe’s bakery for completing their morning jobs...
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Orion and Marietta were on the boardroom briefing all teams for the afternoon’s first World Boss event. Orion started their planning,
“This afternoon, Eden will send Les-Skaly to the world. We have to come up with different campaigns for those who are unaware about this event”
“Say, we have our MyFriendBook official page, right? Let’s make use of it” Marietta, Orion’s wife, suggested
Charlie Yan raised his hand and supported her idea,
“That’s it! Let’s use MFB and then how do we promote that event?”
“Say, he looks like a tree, right?” Lisanna asked Charlie Yan.
“Yeah, and...” Charlie Yan approved, yet lost his next words for the idea.
“Hmm... How about snuck in an environmental message?” Gregorio laughed.
Marietta heard Gregorio’s message and she raised support of his idea,
“That’s clever! Considering the fact that the Russian designer made our first world boss resemble an angry sentient tree malformed by an alien, we can add this: Don’t wait for Mother Nature’s wrath”
“That’s clever idea, sugar!” Orion affirmed his wife’s idea.
The rest of the development team were baffled at Marietta’s idea, and the texture artist named Marcelino Manalang asked,
“Where do you work, Mrs. Kanlaon?”
“I’m actually one of AGM Network’s Verdegarde senior marketing specialist, primarily aiding their social media team in spreading environmental awareness” Marietta answered to support her previous supportive statement.
The rest of the staff were amazed that they’ve gained ties to one part of the renowned multimedia conglomerate in the Philippines through Marietta Kanlaon’s assistance. Another supporting suggestion is raised by ReiDev Japan’s president live on WeCall, Hirohito Haruyuki in English,
“Kanlaon-sama, we’ve been following your developments for a week and so far we are impressed that we’ve concurred with a small yet growing gaming conglomerate that also partake in environmental affairs. My team thought of an idea, though it’ll open our ways towards micro-transaction”
“Haruyuki-san, just in time! We’re considering that as well, and the 50% of the earnings from that item alone will be donated to a wildlife preservation organization” Orion replied.
“I see, sounds like a decent plan but it seems that your game is just nearly a week old for that” Haruyuki apparently turned down the proposal.
“We have not fully implemented the game’s premium item mall yet, Haruyuki-san. But we’ll do something about it, like killing Les-Skaly with their own abilities without any premium gimmick will reward them with gradually-delivered premium items” Orion rebutted the proposal back.
“Hmmm... universe-wise, it makes sense, as our neighboring planets and friendly aliens are not going to tread on that planet if that first awakened creature is around” Haruyuki accepted his twist for introducing optional premium items.
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Robin woke up early in the morning and he turned on all of his laptops for another session of NOAH before the hyped Les-Skaly event. His main account suddenly received a private message from someone named AnathemaKorlov,
[Hi Leiji, or whatever your unpronounceable name is.
It seems that you are a bad botter to me. Why the hell
do you have to produce different avatars that they
nearly look like your true avatar? You wanna get killed?]
Robin was shocked by the mysterious person’s message. He angrily typed in his response to Anathema’s message,
[Do I care? I don’t even blatantly advertise my service
to the whole world, freak. Ban me if they can. After all,
I have studied some bits of avoiding their banning methods.
Avoid hanging around with rainbow aura people, and arm
my botting units with any form of Hotspot Shielding, or IP Troll]
Moments after, he received another message from the same person,
[I do care about you guys. Apparently, I finally paid my botter
and got this bitch of mine more kickass gear. I’m sure she’ll
pawn Les-Skaly and anyone else later on!]
In a split second, AnathemaKorlov sent another message,
[Don’t join the Les-Skaly event if you’ll go out there
with your automated mooks, okay? I’ll sell you out if
you do!]
Robin Tsai is hesitant, ignored her message and continued playing the game, with bots still active.
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Mikhail, Cody, and Rick hanged around at his bedroom. His room is filled with some anime posters, and a handful of 15cm-tall colorful robot girls occupying one of his bookshelves. The four boys were watching a certain action adventure Japanese animation series about group of adults and teenagers taking down hairy giant creatures donning ancient building-like structures as armor. Cody screamed in dismay after seeing two of his favorite characters fell down from nape of the hairy giant, bearing cathedral-like ruins as its armor.
“Errr... Don’t worry, they’ll live!” Mikhail cheered up Cody.
Just before the two heroines in the show fall on the rocky ground, they hooked themselves back to the legs of the creature. Cody sighed in relief, then Mikhail told him,
“I told you, they’ll live!”
“Where they’ll hit that church-bearing Colossal Titan? On the forehead?” Rick asked, as he sketched his own weapons on his spare notebook while watching ‘Attack on Colossus’.
“Nope, at his throat. The area where less amount of those ruins are present suggest their weak spots” Mikhail answered Rick’s question as if he watched the whole show all day alone.
Suddenly, Cody received a text message from Jeffrey,
[NOAH guys have announced
a rewarding experience after
defeating the big boss today!]
After reading the short text message, Cody informed his friends,
“Once we defeat the boss within this day, they said that they’ll bring something for us!”
“So, let’s all log into the game then?” Mikhail enticed his friends.
“Sure!” Cody and Rick agreed, and the two started packing up and headed to their respective homes.
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At the Sinagtala hilltop, Roy drew a picture of a giant face-armored basilosaurus-like creature accompanied by energy-winged humans fluttering above the scenery filled with dense foliaged quartz-sandstone pillars.
“I wonder if those guys at NOAH will like my drawing... Hope that I’ll be known someday, even though I’ll be misunderstood at first” Roy thought to himself as he shaded the remaining parts of his drawing.
Ren, Butchoy and Kokoy approached Roy and peeked at his drawing.
“Your friend draws well, Ren!” Kokoy praised.
“What animal is that?” Butchoy asked Roy.
“It’s a basilosaurus with some crazy armor on its face, being guided by magical boys and girls” Roy answered the kid’s question.
Ren patted Roy’s shoulders, and he suggested,
“Why don’t you enter that on NOAH? You made the drawing well, and fitting for Brygul!”
“I... I’ll think about it, but they should not turn this guy into a targetable monster. He looks a bit peaceful to be rampaging towns” Roy answered.
Hours later, and it seemed that the entire gaming world is geared up for the first World Boss for NOAH...
Online:\Brygul Planet\Walled Metropolis “Kanpeki Sekai”>
Twelve-thirty in the afternoon, thirty minutes away from the expected arrival of the feared monster, lots of avatars around the world gathered at Kanpeki Sekai’s park. Many of the avatars surrounded a beautiful cat girl non-playable character named ‘Hijinn the Guildmanager’. Arnval asked Hijin to make a guild out of her current party and named it, “BusouShinkishi” since she has Rennin, Roy-kun, Maryann, and the two newcomers in the game named Makabosog, and Masher321.
Butchoy’s avatar is Makabosog. He is a Lv7 pig humanoid wearing a beige dinner jacket, black shoes, and beige top hat. The pig avatar’s weapons are a pair of pistols with extra damages on mechanical and fleshy entities. On the other hand, Kokoy has Masher321. His character is a Lv5 hamster humanoid wearing futuristic steel armor suit and armed with an assault rifle.
Other guilds started summoning vehicles for their usage, some of them have five-man battle tanks with their guild flags. Other avatars brought up animals, bicycles, cars, jeeps, and oddly enough... a giant rubber ducky that can accommodate five persons.
Estorille brought out her motorcycle, ClaraEukrante, AobaAnoaAndrea, and Arnval summoned their Ride Vipers. StrarfShine summoned her power armor and she told the rest of the members,
“As much as possible, we have to avoid accidental firing on other people, or else they’ll get us first!”
“We got you, Strarf!” the members of BusouShinkishi affirmed to her orders.
Unknowingly, one of the game moderators around the populous part of Kanpeki Sekai started handing out starter vehicle packages to first 1500 players. Rennin, Roy-kun, Makabosog, Masher321 and Maryann approached a game moderator named GM-Galmann. GM-Galmann is a middle-aged semi-realistic human avatar with long unkempt spruce green hair, and dressed like a post-apocalyptic armored raider. Many players surrounded him after the four players from BusouShinkishi guild got their first vehicle packages for the world boss event.
The vehicle package contained 10 pieces of Ride Repair T1, 10 pieces of Max-Fill fuel, and a motorcycle with two small-caliber machine guns mounted at the bumper.
The famed Hatsumi’s Livestream Party spawned at the farther north area of Kanpeki Sekai. Hatsumi found another Guildmaster waiting, that also shared a model of Hijinn, but with red hair, and was named Timuu. Hatsumi talked to Guildmaster Timuu, that they’ll sign up to become a guild. Hatsumi’s party members suddenly started deciding for their guild name,
“I vote for DX-LAWS!” Eisen suggested first.
“I call for Raging Hearts!” Crio supported Eisen’s suggestion.
“Hmmm... this one’s a bit punchy though: Lucifuge!” Evyll suggested.
“I go for Nyan!, nya!” Hotaru suggested, and even shamelessly struck a cat pose.
Hatsya finally gave his final say,
“Both of them are punchy and intimidating for a name, but with respect to Hatsumi, I’d rather go for either Raging Hearts or DX-LAWS”
Hatsumi glanced at her male members and heard their guild name suggestion. She finally decided,
“I like Raging Hearts better!”
She raised her left fist to the sky with overflowing cheerful vigor, as if she’ll transform into a butt-kicking magical girl when she called their guild name.
“Raging Hearts... Okay, we’re fine by that!” Eisen approved the name as well.
Unexpectedly, a long-haired girl with glasses, wearing coffee brown short jungle shorts, blue wifebeater shirt with crazy Tron-like linings covering her breasts, approached Hatsya, then she whispered,
“Hatsya, I’m going to return your GM powers someday. For now, I’d like to play with you, young brother, as your level 8 street-fighting sister!”
Eisen, Crio, Evyll, Hotaru, and Hatsumi were surprised at Hatsya,
“Who is that girl?” the members of Raging Hearts exclaimed, and their hands pointed at the girl’s forehead.
“Oh c’mon, she’s Hitomi, actually it’s my sister who plays it” Hatsya casually introduced his sister’s avatar to the group.
Hatsumi added Hitomi to the group and the rest of the boys of Raging Heart stared at Hatsya’s sister. Hitomi gave a gold-bordered plastic card to Hatsumi. The card contained a drawing of a large armored vehicle with four plasma turrets, unloading a biker and an ostrich rider.
“Wait a minute Hitomi, this is... this is a rare mount card! W-where did you get this?” Hatsumi asked Hatsya’s sister about the card.
“Somewhere beyond the Forests maybe. We’ll grind there after we defeat Les-Skaly, okay?” Hitomi answered, and ended it with a promise.
Hitomi ,the flirtatious street-fighter, commanded Hatsumi,
“Summon the vehicle now, and don’t worry about the gas and its recovery items. I have them all, Hatsumi!”
Hitomi winked at her, and hugged her brother tight online. She finally talked to Hatsya,
“Brother, papa allowed me not to be a game mod for a day. Instead, I’ll be like you, a sneaky mouse. You are right about this, Hats. I felt like I wanna wear Hitomi offline!”
“Great, I hope you won’t be baby-sitting me much here everytime we play huh?” Henry talked back.
“I’ll always warp right beside you just in case you’re weak to grind, brother!” Hitomi promised.
While waiting for the Les-Skaly update, RavenSythe came back, but with another weapon strapped at his back, and it is a blood red dragon-ornated M110 semi-automatic sniper rifle. His little pair of handguns were kept at his chest holster, and he has a pair of glossy black semi-automatic pistols with guide rod lasers below the barrels. RavenSythe flamboyantly asked Hatsumi,
“Whoa there, Hatsumi. Who’s that another chick on your team?”
“She’s Hitomi, a street-fighter, and she’s Hatsya’s older sister” Hatsumi introduced the new girl in question to her live-stream cameraman slash gunner, RavenSythe.
The flamboyant black-dressed gunner coldly stared at Eisen and Hatsya.
“Who the heck are these boys again, princess?” RavenSythe arrogantly inquired Hatsumi again.
Eisen aggressively pointed his [Dark] Ox Tongue spear at RavenSythe’s throat, while he has both of his new pistols aimed at Eisen’s forehead and crotch. Hitomi suddenly grabbed Hatsya’s five-shooter pistol and threatened the two,
“Stop fighting you two, or I’ll PK you both here, permanently!”
“Oh really, how?” RavenSythe snidely asked Hitomi, with his other pistol aimed at her chest.
Skrillegrillah, the rusty brown spiky robot, was about to go to the northern gate of the city until he saw the three trying to kill each other. The brown spiky robot brought out his M110-like sniper rifle and he began shooting the knees of the black-dressed combatants. Eisen’s and RavenSythe’s knees were hit by Skrillegrillah, and they both sat down, crying in pain. The spiky robot gunner approached his victims and reprimanded them altogether,
“Instead of you guys attempting to beat the crap of each other, why not we all go and hit Les-Skaly now! I wasted two of my anti-armor bullets on you guys, damn you!”
Beside Skrillegrillah, the Raging Hearts guild’s vehicle summoning completed within 25 seconds.
“Mind if Ougon-kun, and I be your guests for today’s raid too?” Skrillegrillah asked Hatsumi.
“Sure! The more, the better as they say!” Hatsumi happily permitted the brown sniper robot.
Evyll healed his two guild members’ injuries and helped them to go inside the armored vehicle named “D-Hog”. Hitomi volunteered as the driver of the D-Hog. Eisen, Crio, and RavenSythe were at the vehicle’s mounted gun turrets. Evyll became the team’s medic, Hotaru, Hatsya, and Hatsumi were passengers of the D-Hog for now. Skrillegrillah is fine not to be in the team vehicle for he is complacent with his flight unit, and of course he’s a medium-sized military robot.
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