The Newbie Is Too Strong's
138. Announcement of Luca's Determination
“Ah, it doesn't feel like a two-week trip to America just finished.”
Luca half-screamed as he laid his body on the second-floor terrace bench connected to the hotel lobby, letting go of any fatigue he felt during the two weeks.
Watching the vrmmorpg e-sport match live is a very valuable experience for him.
“But why does my chest taste like this? I think something is stuck. Is there anything that makes me unhappy?” Luca questions his own feelings.
“Tak no.”
Suddenly the sound of footsteps ripped Luca in his daydream. Luca looked towards the source of the voice.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the beautiful man from the Lost Child Team who topped the highest in the prestigious event he had just witnessed.
“Luca? What are you doing here?” Ecila asked Luca who was lying on a public bench on the porch without protection.
Luca also rose from his sleep while wiping his tears that accidentally came out because of the drowsiness.
“Ah, Eccila. I'm the one who should ask. What does the champion do in the guest hotel these nights.”
“Of course yes to look for fresh air after meeting with family. Tomorrow they will return to Kansas. I also plan to take about two weeks off to accompany them home for a moment to gather with the family. Well, but say family, they're just a couple of good-natured grandparents who've been taking care of me since I arrived in the world.ah, I mean in this city.”.
“Your biological parents how?”
“Since the first time considering I don't know who my biological parents are.”
“Then, my fate is a little luckier than yours huh. At least I have precious memories with my parents for five years.”
Hearing that, the beautiful man looked at the tiny, handsome face.
“So, Luca's parents are also no?”
“That's.”
“Then you must have been sadder than me because from the beginning I had no parents so I never felt any loss at all. Unlike you, I've heard from my seniors that it hurts more when we lose someone we know than when we didn't know him from the beginning. Know that the terms are better not to know each other than the edges must hurt with separation.”
“Stay what is it, so stupid.”
“Hahahahaha.”
Accidentally, Luca turned to the side without realizing that Ekila's face was in a position very close to his face when the beautiful man was about to sit beside him.
Ekila's face immediately reddened so the distance with the handsome man Luca was only less than a moment.
“Waaaaaaah!” Ekila also shouted that unconsciously let out the original voice of his woman while immediately distancing her distance from the face full of temptations of the world.
Yes, Ecila is actually a woman who somehow disguised herself as a man.
“Gedubrak.”
Ekila also fell with his butt landed first on the floor.
“Ecila, are you okay?”
Ekila panicked, but swiftly, he immediately corrected his expression back then suddenly became formal to Luca.
“It's okay. I'm doing fine. Ah, by the way, will you continue to hide your great ability to play that vrmmorpg to the world? Are you not interested in the same competition as me? Doesn't a strong person like you feel annoyed after watching that game because they feel they can do better?”
To Ekila's question, suddenly something akin to a lightning strike flashed through Luca's mind. Finally, Luca realized what a disturbing feeling he had been feeling.
Oversight.
Luca envied the vrmmorpg e-sport participants he had just watched for being able to freely express their competitive feelings and youthful spirit through gaming.
And Luca wants to do the same.
He also wants to join the community and wants to see where he will grow.
“That's right, apparently I'm envious huh, Ecila.”
“Eh, what are you talking about?”
“Next year! Next year I will also be competing in this competition! I'll pick my best team and then beat you and your Lost Child Team. So you prepare yourself well with your team next year because it is me and my team that will beat you then!”
Ekila also smiled at Luca's honest expression of determination that he said with a loud voice and full of enthusiasm.
‘Goodbye, Luca.” Said the woman disguised as the man with a gentle expression on her face.
A few moments later, they started chatting until late at night.
At that time, Luca did not know the meaning of the word cheating. Cheating can start from the eyes that continue to the mouth, then fall into the heart.
Or can we not call it cheating because in principle Luca at that time did not know the actual gender of Ecila.
***
In the room, a young man was crying, letting out all the fatigue in his heart. Another young man tried to comfort the young man.
“Relax, Asario. The rest, let's just pray that the results can be good.”
“How can the result be good, Glen?! This year was my last chance, but I screwed things up. From the beginning you knew that they didn't want to see me. And now I have made it worse by reinforcing their argument of rejection through my humiliating defeat. Just look at the commenters!”
“But not only you, Photio also can not do anything against that player.”
“Why should I compare myself to others?! If I lose, it just means I'm not okay!”
“Asario, relax.”
That angry expression also turned into an idle. With a deep expression, Asario continued to say,
“Glen, you are indeed a very good person. And I as a friend just take advantage of your kindness and bring you along to fall with me. I am a bad friend.”
“What are you talking about, Asario. If it's about me refusing to enter the Hero Academy of Eden, it's because my mentality alone is less powerful to sacrifice myself against the monsters in the crack of the world. My decision has nothing to do with you.”
“Lantas, if I graduated and was chosen to be a student of Eden Academy three years ago, would you still refuse to register?”
“Why are you silent?! So right, right?! Basically, I'm the one who plunged you into a failure like me! Hiks hiks..”.
Suddenly the anger was raised again. But over time, rather than a feeling of anger, a sense of uselessness further shackled the young man's heart. He also came back crying.
“Asario.”
Glen couldn't say anything more. He then just hugged the fragile young man tightly allowing him to spill all his sadness through crying.
***
In a silent atmosphere that night, a middle-aged man stepped foot into a room.
Apparently, she is the boss of the beautiful female secretary who has been watching the game from behind the scenes.
And the person she met in the room, apparently was a very classy old grandmother. Millie is Luca's biological older sister, and the grandmother of player Leo of Tim Max Squeeze.
The middle-aged man bowed politely before the old grandmother. After the old grandmother gestured, the man woke up from his bow.
“I have received data from the higher-ups. Ten participants have been selected as prospective new students at the University-level Eden Hero Academy. I myself have agreed with the decision, but what this is really is okay, Chairman, it is, we excluded Asario from that list when many from the academy who were present at the game gave him support?”
Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Millie who had been at her old age laid her body on the back of the sofa with a tired expression on her face.
“What can I do. No matter how good a person is in the game, everything will be free if the synchronization rate to the original body is low. The skills they apply in the game, will not be able to practice in the real world.”
“That, I also agree, Chairman. What about Photio, Carlsen and Wu Heitian? Their performance was bad during the game, but they have potential and this year is the peak period of their age.
Millie immediately raised her hand as a gesture for the middle-aged man to shut up immediately.
Millie spoke, too,
“They still have a year, moreover, they will be more mentally burdened if we choose them in this year when their performance is bad. Let them develop even more next year.”
The old grandmother then fell silent for a moment while re-enforcing her sitting position.
“More, as you said, we must not ignore the potential participants who have been on the occasion of their last year of the year. It feels, this has been the right decision to pass these ten candidates.”
Millie then dumped documents on his desk containing a list of names, names that escaped as prospective new students of the University Eden Academy.
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Goruth (United States, 17 years old)
Kalora (United States, 17 years old)
Pei Yu (China, 18 years old)
Omiros (Prussia Atlantic, 18 years old)
Dennis (Prussia Atlantic, 17)
Park Moontae (Korean Peninsula, 18 years old)
Toni (Indonesian, 17 years old)
Austin (English, 18 years old)
Sergei (New Zealand, 18 years old)
Leo (United States, 17 years old)
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“More important than that, what about the two top eight participants who are over 18 years old? Do they want to exercise their right to apply as a candidate through the gold card line?” The old grandmother asked the middle-aged man again.
“Unfortunately, our influence has not penetrated to the south of the continent including Brazil so Ethan is an outsider who does not understand anything about it. So he didn't apply himself at all.”
“Oh, that's a pity. Because of our laziness developed our wings, a rough diamond in the south of the continent was forced to be buried for good.”
Millie said it solemnly.
“It's the task of the developer to further expand our influence so that more and more in finding rough diamonds right in the peak times of their gold growth.”
There was a moment of silence in the room, before Millie finally reopened her voice.
“So, how about the other participants.”
“Oh, Raihan, 25 years old. This means his last chance of the year follows an e-sport match. The man was already currently temporarily challenging the third year high school level academy student who was ranked last to seize his place of entering the university level academy.”
“And the result?”
“Yeah, that's for sure right.”
***
In that arena, Raihan seemed to be fighting against a young man who looked very young. But it looks strange, both Raihan and the young man are not fighting in the game, but through their real bodies.
He is the opponent who is currently ranked 90th, aka the last rank of high school academy students who will soon switch to university status. No, that's not necessarily. It only happened, if he could successfully defend his place that Raihan wanted to take.
A young student seems to be a fighter. It would seem that at first glance it would be difficult for a fighter to fight against a shield whose defense was solid.
However, everything was answered instantly. It only took 10 seconds with eight combo moves for the young student to defeat Raihan.
Such is the striking difference in strength between trained students and ordinary people who only develop self-taught through games. Even the worst students in the academy were able to beat the 3rd champion of the international e-sport vrmmorpg competition.
Thus, extinctlah Raihan's dream to become one of the students of the prestigious hero academy. He has failed to take advantage of his last chance and there will be no more opportunities in the coming years since he has had to retire at the vrmmorpg e-sport event regarding age.
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