11 The Message
Xiao Qiangwei entered the brothers' gaming room, it was dark and dirty, with only 3 computers illuminating the room, then he looked at the two kids.
One was a pair of centimeters higher than him, but from the ages of his bones he could sense that he was 14 years old, he was a lean kid with smooth fair skin, black spiky hair and red eyes with dark bags under them, surely from being awake for more time he should be.
He was looking at him with curiosity in his face. Then Xiao Qiangwei sized up the other kid, she was 7 years old, pretty small, her pale face was a bit emotionless but he could see an hint of shyness, she had white long hair with many different tints, and yellow and red eyes.
The two of them were observing Xiao Qiangwei too, a kid around the age of Sora, but he was a bit shorter, he had platinum blonde hair that reached his ears and sharp amber eyes, he was wearing simple clothes, his skin was pale too, but not because he was sick, but because he was a cultivator, but they didn't know.
Xiao Qiangwei: Alright, I am Xiao Qiangwei, the owner of the account Paragon.
Sora and Shiro nodded and the older kid talked.
Sora: I am Sora.
Then Sora looked at Shiro with a smile and patted her, then she started talk with a small voice.
Shiro: I am Shiro..
Sora: And we are Blank, a group made only with us created just some months ago.
Xiao Qiangwei nodded, then he looked at the screen, noticing the text 'You win' from the fight he and the brothers made.
Xiao Qiangwei: Heh, so you attacked me while I was going here..
Sora: How could we know that you were really going here?!
Then silence came another time.. Making this moment awkward.
Sora: *Sigh* Just pick a place to sit, sorry but I don't have anything to give you now.
Xiao Qiangwei raised an hand and said.
Xiao Qiangwei: Don't worry, you didn't knew I was coming here.. I'll sit here.
Sora nodded and he and Shiro sat back in the chair while playing some games, Xiao Qiangwei just spectated the duo and was shocked, they were just kids but they were capable of thinking about ideas that would scare even some cultivators, and they didn't even cheated.
Xiao Qiangwei messaged his mother telling her that he was in a friend's house, to not make her worry about him.
[Later]
Now, Sora and Shiro were playing another game while Xiao Qiangwei was still watching.
The duo were trying to get good items from a gatcha in another game so they could get more chances that they would reach the top on the leaderboard.
Sora: Goddammit!
Shiro: Nii, you are unlucky..
Sora: You don't say?
Xiao Qiangwei stood up and walked towards them.
Xiao Qiangwei: Let me try..
Sora: It is useless.. You have 0.01% to get a UR item, so you have 99.99% to not get it, even if you spin 100 times it is not guaranteed that yo-
Xiao Qiangwei: Done.
Sora/Shiro: ...Huh?
Then both of them looked at the screen and seen that he did a 10x spin, and all 10 of them had different UR items.
Sora and Shiro stood there watching the screen with a blank look, before rubbing their eyes and looked again at the screen.
The two of them turned towards Xiao Qiangwei, who was playing in his phone, and turned back at the screen.
Shiro: W-Wha..?
Sora: ...How is it even possible?
Xiao Qiangwei: I am just lucky..
No one talked again, then Sora changed the game and opened another gatcha system, in this ome there was a character that is gainable, but had 0.001% of chances.
Sora: Hey Xiao.. Can you try this one?
Xiao Qiangwei shrugged and pressed 10x spin, some dozen of seconds passed, and all 10 of the slots had the most rare character in the game.
Sora: 'Hey hey.. What's this luck..?' How can you do it..?
Xiao Qiangwei: I told you, I am lucky.
Xiao Qiangwei looked at his phone and noticed the time, then he said.
Xiao Qiangwei: Well, I will take my leave, it's late right now and my mom will get worried.
Sora: Oh, alright, then bye..
Shiro: Bye.
Xiao Qiangwei nodded and stood up before leaving, but he stopped in his steps and turned back.
Xiao Qiangwei: So.. Are we friends?
The brothers flinched, and looked at him with a surprised face.
Shiro: Friends..?
Sora: You really want us to be your friend..? With people like us?
Xiao Qiangwei: I don't care about what type of person you are. So, yes or no?
The two of them stood silent and looked at each other, Shiro nodded and Sora smiled, then they looked back at Xiao Qiangwei.
Sora: Why not?
Shiro: Mh.. It's a yes.
Xiao Qiangwei let out a smile in his face and nodded, then he gave them his email address and said.
Xiao Qiangwei: This is my email address, if you need help you can ask me, but don't abuse it.
Then he walked away towards his home, leaving Sora and Shiro alone in the dark room.
Shiro: Hey, nii..
Sora: Yeah.. That guy is strange.. And if the fight continued, I don't know if we could win..
Shiro: We will win.. Blank never loses.
Sora patted Shiro's head, while she closed her eyes and enjoyed the sensation.
[Meanwhile]
Xiao Qiangwei reached his home, and met with his mother that was in the sofa.
Xiao Qiangwei: I'm back!
Xiao Mei: Welcome home, sweetie. So, which friend was it?
Xiao Qiangwei: They are new.. They're interesting.
Xiao Mei: Alright, today there is chicken for dinner.
Xiao Qiangwei: 'Sweet.'
Then he walked upstairs to leave his things and change clothes, then he got in the shower.
Xiao Qiamgwei: 'They're nice.. Maybe being their friend was a good thing.' *Sigh* I wonder what would happen if I continued the fight..
[4 years later]
Xiao Qiangwei reached 17 years, his looks got even more attracting, which was annoying when he would go around the high school, but it didn't made any real problem at school, he had always over 90 points in every test.
Sometimes, to calm down his itch for fighting, he would go in some dark alleys in hope to be targeted from some people..
[Flashback]
Xiao Qiangwei was walking in a dark alley, he had again that itch yo beaf down some people.
Xiao Qiangwei: 'Now I get why there aren't cultivators in Mortal Worlds..'
?: Kyaaaaa!
Xiao Qiangwei heard the scream and smirked, hoping for some challenge, he runned at a human speed to avoid suspicions, and turned around to find a woman that was surrounded from 6 men.
Man 1: Hehehe.. Hey woman, remove your clot-Guh!
He was interrupted when Xiao Qiangwei punched his cheek, making him fly against a wall and fall unconscious, he limited his strength because he didn't need to kill.
The other 5 men turned towards Xiao Qiangwei and got angry.
Man 2: This fucking kid..
Man 3: He wants to be a hero, let's make him see that life is tough.
The other 3 men nodded and picked up some weapons, 2 of them had tubes while one had a gun.
But Xiao Qiangwei didn't cared and immediately jumped at the one with the gun, and broke his arm.
Man 6: AAAAHHHHHHH! Y-YOU..!
*Crack*
Xiao Qiangwei broke another limb, the man's left leg, and pushed him in the ground while stomping over the gun, breaking it.
Then he turned towards the other two men and before they could move, he grabbed their neck and threw them at another man, taking down 4 in total, 5 if you include the first one that fell.
The remaining one got scared shitless and ran away.
Man 2: Fuck.. I'll leave from here..
Xiao Qiangwei watched the man leaving, while the woman smiled and looked at him with a grateful expression.
Like in every stories, the woman would thank the hero and maybe fall in love, while the hero would take the woman somewhere to help her.
But..
Woman: Thank you, young ma-Huh?
She noticed that Xiao Qiangwei was not there anymore, and loomed around, but she didn't found any trace of him, she shrugged and cleaned herself before leaving.
Xiao Qiangwei was somewhere else..
He was following the man who ran away towards his base, because he wanted to fight more people, he didn't give a fuck about the woman, he wanted only excitement..
[Back]
Xiao Qiangwei was smiling at that memory, it was one of the best ones about fights, with limited strength, he was able to take out an entire gang bare handed, and it was hard limiting his power since he almost reached the Golden Heaven 3rd Stage.
Suddenly, his phone ringed, he took it and looked at the message, it was his mother.
"Hello Little Wei, it's me, your mom, I wanted to tell you that today I'll come late at home, so you can order a pizza if you are hungry. Bye!"
Xiao Qiangwei smiled and put the phone in the pocket, but it rang again and he raised an eyebrow, then he took the phone again and looked at the other message, this time it was Sora and Shiro.
"Hey Qiangwei, there is an online event in that will come 3 days later, I prepared an account for you, do you want to join us?"
Xiao Qiangwei still smiled when he read the message
Xiao Qiangwei: Heh.. Obviously I will..
Then Xiao Qiangwei started to type something in the phone.
"I don't have jackshit to do everyday, I must be retarded if I chose to get bored to death"
After sending that, he walked at home to lay down his things while changing dress and then he walked out before closing the door with the keys, later, he reached Sora and Shiro's small apartment and knocked on the door, but no one opened it.
Sora: It's open.
Xiao Qiangwei shrugged and opened the door himself, then he closed it, after that, he walked towards the gaming room and found Sora and Shiro, Sora was playing with 4 different accounts like crazy while Shiro was sleeping using a game console as a pillow.
The two of them didn't changed much, one had still his black spiky hair while the other had long white hair, the only notable difference were their clothes.
Xiao Qiangwei: Yo.
Sora was too busy to turn away from the screen while Shiro slowly opened her eyes.
Shiro: Hello.. Wei.. Goodnight.
Then she fell back to sleep. Xiao Qiangwei smiled and walked to Sora while looking at the screens, he whistled in surprise from his capabilities.
Xiao Qiangwei: 4 controllers at once.. You are really good.
Sora: Hey Qiangwei.. Since you are here why not giving me an han-Nooooo! I've died!
Xiao Qiangwei chuckled and took a controller from Sora's foot, he is too lazy to control two of them, even if it was as easy as drinking water.
This continued for some minutes until two tones rang out, one came from Xiao Qiangwei's pocket while the other came somewhere in the middle of the stacks of eroge games..
Shiro: ...Nii, an e-mail.
Sora: Just what are you demanding from your brother, who's currently playing with 3 controllers in 3 different screens? I don't have any extra strength to look at it! I'm sure it is just another advertisement anyway, just ignore it-
Shiro: ...What if.. It came from a friend..?
Xiao Qiangwei almost picked up his phone when he started to laugh.
Xiao Qiangwei: Yeah, a friend.. Hahahaha, all we 3 know that I am your only friend..
Sora: Yeah, why not put more salt in the injury?
Shiro: ...Uu.. What a bother..
Shiro stood up and searched for the tablet where the notification came from, if it was an advertisement about a game, then it couldn't be ignored.
Shiro: ...Nii, where is the tablet PC..?
Sora: At 3 o'clock from there, in the second mountain of eroge from the left, and place around the third and fourth box..
Xiao Qiangwei turned towards Sora with a frown in his face, he noticed it and answered.
Sora: What? I have my needs too, we can't be like you, be able to get laid whenever he wants.
Xiao Qiangwei sighed and picked up his phone to check the message he received while Shiro did the same.
When they opened the message, they had a strange look, Shiro gave the tablet PC to Sora, while Xiao Qiangwei was concentrated in his message.
"Hey, have you and the siblings over there felt that you guys were born into the wrong world?"
Xiao Qiangwei: 'Wrong world.. He knows about me?'
Xiao Qiangwei narrowed his eyes and concentrated his Spiritual Senses on the message, trying to know where it came from..
...But it was too far..
Xiao Qiangwei: 'Either it's away from Japan.. Or another world..'