
The night before on match day round when individual.
Lia and Medina who happened to be rooming and preparing to rest, were suddenly startled by the arrival of someone dressed in all-black from behind the window of their room which was located on the 4th floor of the dorm building.
But before Medina could shout, Lia deftly stopped her by smothering the woman's mouth.
Lia also said,
“Luca? Is that you?”
A black-clothed figure with her golden hair mixed in black and with that below-average height began to open the cloth covering her face.
“Lia, sorry to bother you at night. I was just worried after reading your message just now.”
Lia just bowed hearing that.
“Are you very worried about your opponent tomorrow?”
Again, Lia was silent.
“Then, come with me. Let's play a game tonight.”
“Eh, it can't be, little sister. By the way, who is he, Lia? Is he not an SD child? SMP? Is he your sister? Didn't your father have a secret son with a western woman?”
Luca who was upset by Medina's disrespectful question also replied firmly, “I'm her boyfriend Lia and I'm Lia's age. After all, I'm not just taking Lia to play around. I can copy the fighting style of the person Lia will be facing tomorrow so that Lia can strategize to deal with it tomorrow.”
“Eh, it can not be Sister Kec... Her boyfriend Lia?” Medina immediately turned her words around as soon as she saw the change in expression on Luca's face which immediately showed annoyance.
“Lagian Lia tomorrow's opponent is a veteran assassin who has 3 times entered this international level competition, especially he entered the last eight last year in the individual match round. An amateur like you can probably imitate his movements.. Aaaaaaakh!”.
Medina was stunned for a moment as Luca quickly got behind her while holding a knife to her neck.
“How can you move like that?! We're not in the game anyway?! What... Who exactly are you?!”
“I'm a nobody, Brother Medina. I'm just someone who worries about his girlfriend. How is Lia, willing to train a match with me in the game?”
“Hmm.” Lia just nodded in silence.
No, the woman blushed in shame. He was happy because he actually considered this as a date invitation of a girlfriend at an unexpected time.
Lia didn't know that Luca was serious about what he said, when he himself has resigned to the results of the match tomorrow because his management team has decided that there is no way for Lia to win against Goruth tomorrow.
His own management team had already ignored Lia and focused one hundred percent on Asario's victory.
“Tok tock tock.”
Suddenly the loud bang of the door startled them.
“Hey, Medina, what's up?! Why are you screaming?! Are you all right?!
“Senior Medina, Senior is fine right? Toni said she felt an intruder in the dormitory.”
It was the voice of Asario and Mark. They were worried about the state of their two female core players after listening to Medina's shouting voice from outside.
“Ah, I'm fine. I was just surprised to see a big rat.”
“What? How can there be a large mouse in the dorm room that should be clean.”.
Luca took Lia out through the window in the middle of the commotion.
***
Their training begins.
“Slash.” In an instant, Luca had been behind Lia while pointing his knife.
The movement was exactly like what was done with Luca's original body to Medina just now.
“Luca? How can you move that fast? Not only that, you are also that agile with your real body.”
“There are times when humans can apply the movements that are in the game with their real body.”
“Ah, synchronization concept yes. I've heard that too. But I still can't believe that there are people who can actually make moves inside such games in the real world.”
“But my management team alone has said that there is no chance for me to win.”
“Is Lia okay with that?”
Lia long silent before she finally replied, “I want to show my best ability.” The woman replied with a gentle smile towards Luca.
“But I can't believe my boyfriend is even better than me.”
Hearing the cute woman's words, Luca just smiled back and said, “Excite Lia. I'm sure you have a chance of beating Goruth as long as you learn well what I taught you tonight. It is related to the fatal habit of Goruth..”
“Dor dor.”
“Slash, trang trang.”
Then the match practice between the lovers continued.
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“Unfortunately we can only play games until 12 hours only. Really a ban on game time for minors is quite troublesome.”
“Hehehehehehehehe.” Lia just laughed while listening sincerely to the complaints of her boyfriend.
As soon as they were about to leave the game center at the family guest hotel, they met an unexpected figure.
“Kak Leo?”
“Yo, Luca. Actually, tonight I just want to say goodbye to you before I go home. I asked and Nina said you were here, which is why I came here. I didn't expect you guys to be dating.”
“What date? We are training to tackle.”
Leo simply ignored Luca's words and looked straight at Lia.
“Lia, if it's not your name, right?”
“Iya.”
“Tomorrow, your opponent is Goruth. You have to be careful. He was not only great in the art of assasination, but also his mouth was good at making people upset and then using it to his advantage of fighting. Whatever happens, don't be consumed by the provocation tomorrow.”
Lia simply stared silently at Leo who gave her the advice.
“Actually, I myself want to teach him a lesson for what he did to my teammate last year. But now I have lost. Therefore my determination will be left to you, player Lia.”
Lia nodded confidently as if accepting the strong determination of Leo.
“But isn't there still next year, Brother Leo? Leo can still try next year?”
To Luca's question, Leo simply smiled wryly.
“Unfortunately, neither me nor him will probably be there again in this arena next year.”
“Eh, why? Isn't the age limit for this race 25 years right, Brother Leo? Brother and Goruth are both 17 years old? Why can't you run the race again?”
This time, Leo simply chose silence in a wry smile at Luca's question.
“Most importantly, cheer up, Player Lia!” Leo turned to look at Lia.
There was no other expression behind the female player's face other than an expression of solemnity.
***
And this is where this time, the female player faces an extremely formidable enemy, an assassin from Team Lost Child named Goruth.
In the blink of an eye, Goruth had disappeared from before Lia and was behind her, preparing to slit her throat.
But swiftly, Lia ensnared the assassin with thin threads made from her holy magic before she could get closer to him.
That's Lia's new style.