บท 127: Ch 113 – A Chuuni?
(A Few Hours Later)
"Finally got a house for free!" Rintarou says as he looks around his new house which he got through… some unethical and illegal means.
"Now all I want is to take a break! I'll leave the science stuff and modifications to the house later, I'm too tired to bother with that stuff," Rintarou mutters while rubbing his head, and with him scratching his chin, he looks around his current room which was a bit barren.
"There's nothing to do right now! I don't even have a computer to play games with!" Rintarou sighs, lamenting his current situation and how difficult some stuff would be to get like a computer due to him being a minor but nothing will stop him from simply stealing… or just using his alternate identity by putting on some "magical" makeup.
"Hmm, you know what, I haven't gone to the arcade for a few months already, why don't I just go there for nostalgias' sake?" Rintarou mutters as his eyes light up.
'The arcade, there's some fun rhythm games over there, I should be able to beat my previous high scores by a landslide!' Rintarou thought, clearly amuse at the prospect of what his new scores might be.
"Why not, I have a few hundred thousand yen lying around already after some quick stealing in parallel realities so a few thousand wouldn't hurt for my enjoyment," Rintarou finally convinces himself on going to the arcade, so with a new goal set in mind, he gets out of his house through jumping out of the window and walks towards the arcade set inside the mall in Kuoh.
As Rintarou slowly walks through the area around him, he takes in a breath of fresh air as his current life is going well and he can purely focus now on his science without having to balance his progress on magic and science at the same time.
Maybe he can even make Mechanical God v5 better than it already is.
After a while, Rintarou finally sets foot in the mall located in Kuoh, and inside it is a small little section that holds some arcade games where he usually goes to play at, he finds that place better due to the lack of people that will disturb him there but its pretty jam pack in noon so that's pretty unfortunate for him, especially when it's the weekends.
After dispensing a thousand yen on the machine, out came many coins that he can use and he instantly went to the drum game which is one of his favorites in the arcade, and luckily, he was able to take the last vacant seat and have it all to himself.
"Hmm, Nonsense it is," RIntarou mutters while picking the song he finds enjoyable to play, and with the music loudly playing in front of him, he picks the two drum sticks and bangs on the drum in front of him.
"Ratata," Rintarou hums along with the song while nodding his head and lightly tapping the ground with his feet, following the music that plays in front of him while playing the game at the same time.
'How nostalgic, back in the good old arcade and not all holed up in my room,' Rintarou thought, rapidly banging the two drumsticks while waving his head around to the beat.
And as the final tap was banged, Rintarou looks at the perfect score that flashes on the screen in front of him as he lets out a light chuckle, satisfied with the score he got, he looks through the selection of songs he wants to play next.
'Hmm?' Rintarou suddenly thought, feeling a hand grabbing his shoulder from nowhere.
"How can I help you?" Rintarou says while turning around to make eye contact with the man behind him, and as he gazes into the eyes that look pretty weird even when it was covered in shadows due to the lack of light as his hair was blocking most of his face.
"Hey, you mind getting out of that chair and let me play the game instead?" asks the man with a commanding tone as if it wasn't a request but instead, an order.
"… No," Rintarou responds with a blank stare and put back his gaze on the screen, clearly shocking the man from Rintarou's sudden rebuttal as if he didn't expect that answer.
With Rintarou's gaze focused on the game, he saw the other player beside him getting out and giving the seat to the man who was rude to him a few moments ago, it seems like the man successfully intimidated a different guy to giving him the seat.
How rude, even I'm not that in a rush to get a seat, even I have a semblance of patience to wait for my turn.
Oh well, I'll just ignore him.
But soon, he heard the man suddenly speaking beside him.
"Hey," the man said, so with a mental sigh, I look towards him in the eye where it was covered in shadows by his hoodie.
"What?" I respond, showing a clear disinterest in talking to him.
"Punch yourself," says the man in the same commanding tone.
"What? Are you insane? Why would I punch myself? Ugh, you're a chuuni aren't you? Sigh, I hope your situation gets better, even I was a chuuni when I was young," I said, sigh, a chuuni in his emo phase, how heartbreaking to see.
But unexpectedly, the man in front of me looks at me with dilating eyes as if he couldn't believe that I was able to see through his edgy appearance and know that he is a chuuni, that's the power of a fellow chuuni, we can sense when another person is a chuuni!
But I quickly went to completely ignore his existence and continue my game, I still have enough coins to play a few more times and I'll take a quick lunch in Wacdonalds later.
(A Few Minutes Later)
"Yawn, so many high scores!" Rintarou says while rubbing his head, satisfied with his progress, he stands up from the seat and sees that the man has already disappeared.
"Oh well, I guess I'll meet some bad apples here and there from time to time," Rintarou mutters, with nothing else to do inside the arcade, he walks out of the room to get a quick lunch and go back home and build the IVR Bed.
But as he was walking through the mall with a bored gaze, a certain person was tailing him all around the mall that Rintarou doesn't notice due to his weakened body.
'Hmm? I'll just buy two burgers, some fries, and a drink. Do I need more? Hmm… eh, I'll just buy a third chicken sandwich,' Rintarou thought.
"I would like two cheeseburgers, 1 chicken sandwich, and a medium drink," Rintraou said to the lady over the counter as she quickly notes down his order.
After a good while, she walks back holding his order which he grabs and gives back the appropriate pay.
"Thank you for ordering sir!" the lady said, Rintarou nods in response and gets out of the store to head back home.
As he gets out of the store, a guy wearing a hoodie heads out at the same time, following Rintarou like a suspicious spy.
'Hmm, I'll just stop time and teleport to the ground floor,' Rintarou thinks in his mind, so without a second thought, Rintarou suddenly disappears from where he was standing as the guy following Rintarou was clearly shocked by his sudden disappearance.
'Where is he?!' he thought.
He quickly runs towards the railings to get a glimpse of the other floors and there he finds him, Rintarou just walking on the ground floor as if he simply teleported there within an instant.
'T- teleportation?!' he thought. Shocked at how Rintarou was able to disappear and reappear in a different place altogether.
With haste, the guy runs down the stairs to catch up with Rintarou and as he watches him walk through the mall's entrance, he quickened his pace and manages to get out of the mall just as Rintarou enters a dark alley in the distance.
But as he reaches the dark alley where Rintaru went to, he saw… nobody in there. "H- huh?"
(Rintarou POV)
"Finally back home!" I let out of my mouth as I went to lie down the plastic bag on the table in the living room, and went to grab the remote prop down on the couch.
With a click of a button, the TV lights up and a show plays out in front of me but I didn't find it enjoyable so as I take out my phone and open an illegal streaming website, I connect it to the TV as pirated anime plays out in front of me.
With everything now set, I went to grab the plastic bag and take out the drink along with the 3 burgers, going into a long marathon of watching an anime about war, sci-fi, and magic.
While watching the anime and munching on some fries, I wonder if I should join Kuoh Academy? It doesn't really bring me any benefits if my goal is to just develop my science and tech so maybe I'll leave that one out and become a full-fledged shut-in.
But I do wonder, why do I correlate a shut-in with a spider?
(A Few Hours Later)
"Shiitttt, I'll need some gold to make the IVR Bed," I said while glancing at the pile of metal in front of me, I tried to find some gold all around the house already but sadly, it seems like I'll have to resort to using my secret trump card once more…
With a snap, I find myself in another parallel reality and went to teleport myself to the nearest bank in Kuoh, and with Yamato appearing in my right hand, I prepared to commit another crime once more.
With a swish, I find myself directly inside the bank where gold bars upon gold bars were stored, and with haste, I stored tons of them into a sack and appear back home without a hitch.
"Another successful operation done!" I said out loud with a victorious laugh, and with the gold now mine, I took one gold bar out and plop it down on a certain part that is suspiciously fitting for the gold bar to be put into.
And as the gold was inserted into the container… nothing else happened as if the gold bar doesn't have a real purpose.
"Oh yeah, now that's what I call aesthetics!" I let out with a grin, clearly enjoying the view of my now finish IVR Bed.
"Now I'll only need to flick this, connect these wires, create the mind neural network, and bam, we're done!" with a flick of a switch, the IVR Bed is done and fully functioning.
"Whew, finally finished with the bed!" I let out a satisfied sigh from my mouth, it finally means I could play in my sleep whenever I want and for how long I want.
Without having to worry about school, family, or being interrupted, I can now play without care and perhaps even finish creating IVR Craftmine.
So with a groan, I went downstairs while rubbing my messy hair, go towards the kitchen, grab a cup and pour in some water from the sink and gulp it all down.
In a single day, I've managed to achieve immortality, beat all of my previous high scores, and make an IVR Bed, now that's a lot with the meager tools I have.
I really should have brought some tools, now it would be a pain in the ass when making nanomachines without my very precise equipment and resizing ray.
Oh well, I can make do with what I have for now.
With quick steps on the stairs, I reach my room once more holding a cup of water and plopping it down on the bed beside me while I lie down on the bed.
"It's gaming time!" Rintarou says with a grin.
AN: This is 2022 words, you're welcome.
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(May 8, 2022 – 165th day of writing)
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