Love is War

Chapter 43

The fight ended for me miserably losing against him, that was expected, but when I told him to get serious. I almost can’t see him while moving around the ring, I am not really used to this distance when it comes to fighting. I am a sniper so I should be in the farthest location from him.

I take a sip on my water as my whole body is drenched with my own sweat and I can feel my muscles throbbing in pain. It’s been a long time since I pushed myself to the limit. Nab was careful not showing me blood, as he was aware about my trauma, but I am thankful for that because it is embarrassing to show him that side of mine.

“You got the groove kid,” he complimented me and I felt slightly flatter because the annoyed feeling from imagining his underestimating face earlier always gets the best of me. “Your style is a bit unusual but effective, I’ve never fought someone using that kind of moves on someone. Obviously, this is the first time that he will experience that because he did not meet a gamer before.

“Thanks,” I replied to him cheaply.

“Let’s call this a day and tomorrow I will train your body, sorry for my attitude earlier, it’s just my way on extracting your very best as of now,” he explained and he seems to be successful on extracting the very best on me. I applaud him for that. “I know now what fighting style suits you the best,” he said and I am surprised to hear that from him. I wonder what it is and I am ager to ask and know that from him. “For now, go and rest your body for tomorrow’s rigorous training, I’m out,” he said and I saw him get out of the where we entered earlier.

I wanted to ask him something but I cannot do since he is gone now and all I can do right now is sit here and take the rest as much as I can right now. I am almost out of breath and I inhaled and exhaled, just sitting here.

I closed my eyes and I imagined myself before Nab taking his offensive on me. I squinted my eyes when I imagined him pummeling me in the face whatever choice I take. If only I have a controller or a keyboard then that won’t be a problem anymore. I could just press multiple keys at the same time with precision and speed then I can utterly defeat him quickly.

If only this is really a game, maybe imagining that situation was all just in a game was the grave mistake that I make. I don’t know but thinking like that boosted my morale that I can win, but reality really slaps me in the face sometimes. As Nab just said that we should finish the match that we are fighting for over an hour.

I am really exhausted but my brain is telling me to persevere because a chance will open its way for me, the match ended without seeing that one path that will lead me to victory. This path is not as easy as I thought it to be.

Then that leaves me with no decision, and I will try my best to train hard and overcoming that trauma will come later as soon as I landed a clean hit on Nab’s face. I will never see Nab the way as before as the fear that I feel whenever I see him was replaced with annoyance.

Maybe he used that secret gym so that nobody can see that side on him. I don’t know if John and Kuro will believe me if tell them about this.

After thinking so much, I stood up and gathered my things, and I grabbed my towel once again so I can wipe off this sweat from my face. I can still feel the strain from his body lock earlier, and when he caught me with that, I imagined myself falling in a pitch-black hole. It’s like there is no hope for me anymore.

I mean, I am a total noob, maybe that’s why I felt that, but I can feel to myself that with enough experience, I will overcome that and I can defeat him. I cleaned the whole place as Nab left earlier with the equipment scattered all over the area.

After organizing everything, this is the time for me to leave, I turned off the lights and I opened the door and once again I am in this dome like underground gym. From afar I saw Kuro cleaning his things up and John drying himself up.

Just on time, they are finished with their training too. I took a sip again on my water tumbler that is always beside me whenever I am gaming, to make me hydrated every time. For gamer like me, this is a trusted buddy. I can’t always stand up when I feel thirsty especially when I am in the middle of an intense match.

I walked towards the elevator that will take us to the mansion, and when I reached there, I waited for the two to finish. Moments later, I spotted them walking towards me and this is when I grew impatient, and inside my mind I am telling them to walk faster.

“Yow,” Kuro greeted me smiling, oh good for him, it seems like the training favored him and John is usually blank. I can’t tell if he is miserably defeated by his mentor or not, but I ignored it. I waved my hand to greet him back.

“How’s your training?” I asked them.

“It’s great!” he answered cheerfully, he is on his usual self being loud.

“Same,” John answered cheaply. I noticed that he is always lost in reality. Thinking of something deep. He is not always like this when around us. I wonder what it is, but asking him questions about that will not take us to something. He likes to hide his personal matters away from us and I will respect him. So, I decided not to ask him and let him be.

On our way up, Kuro told us everything what happened to his training and I and John just listened to him quietly. I compliment or ask him sometimes so I can keep the conversation going, and Kuro seems to be okay to be the only one speaking as of this moment. Just to keep the silence away.

We reached the mansion and we said our regards to each other and it’s two weeks before the shipment arrives and within that short period of time, I wonder what will I learn from Nab. I went upstairs and entered my room.

Will I face that girl again?

She seems like to be hunting me, every time we are in the same battle field. Just like some kind of grudge on me. But I won’t lose to her, I don’t if he saw through my weakness when I saw a blood that time. If she underestimates me from that time and here on, then that will be her defeat.

I lied on my bed to rest my body and later on I will take a shower later. I unlocked my phone so I can a stroll on social media earlier. Just some memes will do.

My message box is filled with message requests, girls that hooks up on me but I ignore them.

I opened the GC with us three and the last message sent by there was 2 days ago with Kuro teasing John with something that I don’t know. I read all of the messages and I laugh on how these two are interacting with each other.

Just like a child.

I opened my notification box, but it’s usually filled with heart reacts because of the photo that I am using and laughing reacts because of the memes that I share that I find funny. I can safely say that I am a famous person in social media.

Yes, many people know me, and they are admiring me but I do not care. After that I scrolled on my news feed sharing some funny posts and ignoring the people that just posts their selfies. I don’t give heart reacts that easily. I have high standards too.

I am surprised when I stumbled upon a familiar face in my timeline and saw her profile picture. This is warfreak101, unbelievable! I can’t believe how small the world is. I didn’t expect that she is one of my friends in social media.

Her social media name is Nora Lyn, and that seems to be her first name split in two. I gave it a heart react. Damn, just by looking at her this closely made me admire her beauty, but bad for her she is too boyish and she defeated me in a brawl.

My pride, it hurts. Another motivation for me to train hard. I pressed add friend to her as I noticed that just followed her.

I scrawled down again and I got an immediate notification, that Nora Lyn accepted my friend request and saw a message from her.

“From Nora Lyn

Are you Anonymous? :/”

Woah, that’s a cute way to start the conversation. I replied back with.

“Yes, why? XD” it’s pathetic, isn’t it? I am not used talking to strangers online but I wished that I can. A quick reply was sent to me and she said congratulations to me and apologizing for what she did during the rig selection phase, along with her cute emojis.

I told her that it was no problem and she is so talkative which prolonged our conversation for an hour which is very good. I am starting to enjoy talking to her and I feel relaxed just by typing on my phone. She invited me to play a game with her.

I didn’t refuse to her invitation obviously. I rushed towards my computer as she invited me to play a battle royale game. It’s exciting and we can talk with voices. Just like a child that discovered a friend.