The Isekai Game

Recruiting

Logan ran from a bridge over the waters. He reached a food court where he planned on meeting Iku and Chad. Instead, a pebble struck his head.

"Watcha doin Logan?" asked Andres.

"Waiting for your ex," he answered throwing a pebble back.

"Mmcht, yo, we don't need her".

"We aren't gonna make it to the pro leagues without a stacked team".

"If your little scrawny a*s would just chill out, we can kill it".

"Or if we had a decent leader we wouldn't need an overly stacked team".

"Well... stop running from puppets".

"That was only once and logical. Let it go".

Tired from their growing bickering, Hakim spoke up, "Yall are both acting like a bunch of children. Just grow up, get over it, let's move on to making it to the pro leagues".

Logan instantly snapped back, "Nobody asked you Kerpal, Mr. E-girl foot licker".

Andres added after a sip of his drink, "Like seriously, no one asked you. And who the f**k likes feet? You're not even going to the pro leagues any Mr. whatever it is you want to be. What does it even matter"?

Before Hakim spoke, Logan stated, "Damn that was harsh. At least he's honest about himself and what he wants to do".

"True," admitted Andres, "That's why you don't play with him anymore".

After a second of silence, Logan snapped, "Imma do what I need to to get to pro"!

"Whatever," answered Andres sipping his drink.

"Hey Logan," said Iku strolling up wearing club-like attire, "What's up"?

"We already handled it," said Andres.

Iku paid no mind and listened to Logan.

"We need you on the team," he said. He pitched the idea that with Chad's team now dissolved it was only logical for her to come. Unfortunately, he was having a hard time shutting up Andres.

"Haaaay Logaaan," said a black girl in a black & white tuxedo and Green hair. She smothered Logan with a hug he couldn't get away from.

"Oh my god, please get off of me," he begged as the Andres continued stressing out Iku.

Hakim announced the s**t show was arriving when he saw Alicia sit on Andres' lap. Alicia drew his attention with a firm grip to give her a kiss. A peck was returned before he stood up to yell at Iku.

"Baby," cried Alicia pulling on his arm.

Meanwhile, the girl holding onto Logan asked, "Logan, do you even remember my name"?

"No," he answered.

Rubbing her lips against his ear she said, "It's Anuli. It means joy".

Though Logan struggled to unwrap her legs from his waist, she kissed his ear, "Will you let me bring you joy".

Disgusted by her seductive voice, Logan flung her off. Hakim was dying of laughter watching as Logan was being sexually harassed. A gentle touch came to Hakim's shoulder.

"Faith, get your friends out of here! I'm trying to take care of business!" yelled Logan.

Anuli dusted herself off while walking away, "I can't believe he just knocked me off like that".

"Everybody so wild today," said Faith in her usual soft tone. "What are you guys doing anyway"?

Hakim answered, "Logan's trying to recruit people to help us make it to pro".

"Awe, can I join Logan?" she asked politely.

He took a second from arguing with Andres to deny her. Faith was saddened, but not surprised. Logan was always stingy regarding who he was on a team with and deemed them all to be too weak.

A man with shiny hair tucked on his glasses. Wind blew his freshly cleaned suit. Eyes couldn't resist his stunning appearance. Even the self-declared straightest of men admitted he was beautiful. Hakim and Logan both locked their eyes on the dashing fellow wondering if it was a boy or girl. In all the years of knowing it, they could never tell.

"Hey, Hakken," greeted Faith, "Logan won't recruit me".

"What about as a group?" asked Hakken.

Hakken's voice felt perfectly balanced between a man's and a woman's voice. It further the confusion which always stunned the two boys. Despite the confusion, Logan made it very clear that he couldn't have them on the team due to their low skill level.

"We can fight," declared Hakken.

Logan easily dismissed the notion.

Hakken pushed his glasses back, "How about this then? Challenge us to a trial of your choosing. If we pass, we can join The Wild Bunch".

Though he wanted to shut Andres up and win over Iku, Logan couldn't resist being called out. Hakim, on the other hand, couldn't help but feel a little aroused by Faith leaning on his shoulder. Her hair was straightened today. Its red hue worked well with her black and red trickster outfit. Best was her thin eyes. They resembled a cat which was apparently rare for black girls such as herself. She cheered watching as she believed both she and Hakken could impress him.

"My cards against your shuriken in a range fight," said Logan.

"There's no way," said Faith, "Cards are good for magic, nor a physical fight".

"Well, the cards you use for the game are kinda harder than normal," said Hakim resisting a hold of her waist.

While they were talking, Hakken took a sneak approach of throwing his shuriken at Logan.

The shuriken flew only to be instantly countered by Logan's card. It was an easy one to one for him. The thrown shurikens were so week that he predicted their flight pattern and threw his cards right.

Gloating his win, Logan crossed his arms forward, bouncing his front leg to mock Hakken. He gave it props for the sneak attack. Unfortunately, Hakken was too weak to impress him. Hakken immediately declared another challenge, but Logan rejected him to try to convince Iku to join despite Andres' pointless arguing.

"Why do you guys want to join us so badly?" asked Hakim looking into Faith's eyes.

She explained that it was a good opportunity for Hakken to boost her model career. For her, it would be a fun way to pay off her college. As for Anuli, she just wanted to play in the pro leagues for fun.

It was nice that they wanted to go pro. Unfortunately, they weren't suited by Logan's standards. Even Hakim admitted to himself that they weren't the kind of people to actually make it.

Logan was already arguing against Andres. Nobody even knew why he was so angry when he was the one who cheated.

Iku herself didn't know why she even stayed to put up with the mess. She was interested in Logan's proposition, but the drama wasn't worth it. To Logan's aid came Lea looking for Andres.

"Lea, come get your man!" yelled Logan.

"Who man?" asked Alicia.

Oh my God," said Andres rolling his eyes at Logan.