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Chapter 9-Secret Admirer
As much as I wanted to interrogated him about the 'crimes' that he had committed, I simply could not do it. I meant, not with my best friend and my worst enemy around, right? Needless to say, we had bumped into each other at the wrong place at the wrong time. I silently cursed at the cute little girl, who had left with her two 'mystical creatures'. I would have definitely bowed to her and kissed her feet like a princess, if only she had jailed this pervert in a different room.
Like what they always say, it's a small world after all…even in an endless virtual world as large as 'Second Life'…
"Psycho, that's your secret admirer?" Suai pointed at the handsome elf, with a conspicuous disgusted look on his distorted face.
"Ah," The weirdo gave a chuckle, which sounded to me like a flirtatious purr, "I see you have been telling your friends about me."
"I don't know you at all," I said coyly.
He slowly moved closer to me, "Aren't you a naughty one? How can you not know me after all the things that we've done that moment?"
As it became harder to breathe, I made a few steps back, "Did we do something? I can't remember."
"Want me to refresh your mind by demonstrating everything to you?"
To my wildest shock, that elf grabbed my war tunic and pulled my face close towards his. He planted a wet kiss full on my lips. My heart jolted out. It took me a few painful seconds to register the weird sensation into my numb brain. This kind of feeling was entirely foreign to me, because I had never dated anyone before.
Who would have thought that I would have to share my first kiss with a sick gay?
I gave him a hasty punch before a few miserable seconds turned into a full tragic minute.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I'M A BOY?"
The elf was not taken aback by the fact. He merely showed me a somewhat satisfied smile.
"Why wouldn't I see that you're a boy?" he grinned slyly, "There's nothing I didn't see when we were doing it."
Suddenly I had goose bumps all over my body. Each strand of my hair stood straight on my frozen skin. Did he just make a confession that he had truly 'raped' my avatar?
"I don't get this conversation at all," Abyss's cold voice broke the awkward silence, "but can you lovebirds leave this for later? Let's think of a way to escape this horrid place."
"Yeah…" Suai's face was so sour that his teary eyes were almost peeled off, "At least go book a hotel room or jump into the bushes. I seriously feel like puking…"
"Hey, come on, dudes!" I laughed nervously, "You can't seriously be thinking that me and him are a-"
Abyss went to kick the metallic door a multiple times, without giving any hoots to me. I gave up. As I dropped my weary buttocks onto the floor, I literally let myself sinking into the burning core of the earth. There wasn't even a war yet, but I already felt so tired and defeated.
My reputation in 'Second Life' was officially tarnished. Even if I revealed my secret identity with all my personal details to Abyss, I doubted that he would ever train me.
There is one thing that he hates besides losing his face: homosexuals.
"Eunuch! Any buffs that can increase my strength?"
"If you stop calling me by that insulting label, I might reconsider," Suai ignored me too, as expected.
"In your dreams, eunuch!"
Abyss gave the door a last golden kick, before shifting his stabbing stare at the sick pervert, who had been standing idly at the centre of the prison since he first arrived here. The equally-handsome elf stared back at him.
I thanked Buddha so much that he did not make any more sexual attempts to harass me. I was making a prayer to the heaven and sky above piously that Abyss's masculine beauty managed to divert the pervert's attention away from me, forever.
"I never imagined we would meet in a place like this, mosquito," Abyss seethed.
"You got that right," Suai scratched his itchy arms, "This place has a lot of annoying damn blood-suckers!"
Abyss gritted his fangs, "That's not it, Eunuch! That warlock's name is Mosquito!"
Suai and I both exchanged awkward glances.
"Don't tell me that the elfish gay attacked Zheng too?" Suai sent me a party message.
I shrugged, "How should I know? Why don't you ask him yourself?"
"Ni men xi peng you ma? (Are you two friends?)" Suai opened the question to Abyss, who did not do much except snorting.
"Far from it."
As I was watching at Abyss from far, a fair palm magically appeared in front of me. I stared blankly at its owner, who as always, flashing a bewitching smile at me.
"Wen Zi (Mosquito), at your service. You are?"
"Hei_Psycho," I looked at his hand but was too afraid to touch it, "Not nice to meet you."
"The name's Fei Chang Suai, but let me get straight to the point," Suai held his hand up as one of his 'gentleman-like' gestures, "My heart is only reserved for the ladies."
Much to Suai's great disgust, Wen Zi held his hand and shook it, "Very glad to know that. Then I can be assured that you won't disturb my Psycho."
"Listen here!" I stood up and pointed at the pervert, "I don't care what you've done to me in that inn! Can you just please leave me alone? There are other drop-dead gorgeous boys that might suit your taste, like Prince!"
Wen Zi shook his head imperceptibly, "He's not my type. Besides, he's taken."
Opps, I forgot about it. Being the spokesman, mascot and face of 'Second Life', Prince must have lots of beautiful girls waiting and hoping to be his bride. He wouldn't want a sissy to be his Queen. That would be too weird, not to mention that it would be so wrong.
"Talking about Prince," Suai scratched his chin, "Isn't this prison in his castle? Perhaps we can negotiate with him, and he'll release us."
"Tch!" Abyss finally made his 'evil' presence felt.
"I can guarantee you that won't work. I've seen his fighting techniques in all the tournaments. That man is capable of killing people without blinking an eye. Even when blood splashes all over his body, he can smile like it was a bloody Pantene shampoo advertisement. Why would you think he would let us out so easily?"
"Because he's our only last hope?" Suai squeaked.
"Hope all you want," Abyss grabbed the steel doorknob and gave it a hard shake, "I'm out of here while you all rot here waiting for the arrival of 'His Bloody Royal Highness'."
I had a gut feeling that Abyss was having some kind of jealousy for the Prince. That was understandable, since Prince seemed to be having the whole virtual world beneath his feet. However, someone who can smile at the sight of people moaning and dying in pain…
Doesn't that simply make him the bad guy?
"Save your energy. I just have what we need," Wen Zi snapped his fingers.
A gleaming light twinkled on his palm. It instantly sparked into a bright flame. The warlock closed his palm into a tight fist and opened it again to reveal a small key. He inserted the mysterious key into the stubborn doorknob.
Like a magic show of David Copperfield, the door opened. What a smooth operator.
"What type of magic is that?" Suai gushed out with amazement, "I'd never seen that kind of skill before!"
"'Copy and paste'. It's a Level One spell," Wen Zi smiled, "People say it's a useless spell, but I knew that it would come in handy one of these days."
Abyss slammed the door hard, "Why didn't you tell me earlier, shithead? I've wasted my mana for nothing!"
"You never asked," Wen Zi's tongue cheekily slipped out between his lips.
"Why you-"
"Can we please go out now?" I didn't think that I could bear it much longer, "I know this is not the right time, but…I kind of need the toilet urgently."
O O O
"They stored our weapons just in front of our prison," Suai opened the chest, which was strangely not locked, "What a brilliantly clumsy idea."
"Xue-chang, do you know where the heck is the Gents?"
My shaky hands were grabbing onto my ticking-time bomb, my crotch. If I was not resilient enough, my over-full bladder was going to explode at any moment. Never slightest in my mind that we need to virtually pee in a game.
Unconcerned with the gravity of my problem, Suai was grabbing his noodle cups from the fancy-looking box and dumped it, one by one, back into his backpack. He answered sheepishly,
"I wouldn't know. You think I'm the owner of this place? I'm sure it must be somewhere nearby…eh, this noodle has expired…oh well, I won't die eating it…"
"I passed by the restroom before," Wen Zi gently held my arm, "I can bring you there."
"NO!" I slapped his hand away, "It's all right. I think…I still can manage…"
That was what I thought. But I knew very well that if I let my urine slip out even a tiny drop, the other would follow out as well…
I felt slightly relieved when Abyss came dashing out from the corridor. With such speed and dexterity, he was the perfect guy to scout around the castle and create an imaginary map for us.
"There are two guards in the north, five in the south, four in the west and another five in the east. We can take the north, but there's no doubt more people would be coming at the first sound of the alarm."
"Did you see any toilet nearby?" I asked, slightly jumpy.
"There is one," Abyss spoke with an irritated expression, "But it's guarded by one of Prince's bodyguards. I would be very delighted to obliterate him for you, if he's not Kenshin."
"I don't care if he's Kenshin or Doraemon! I need to ease myself right now!"
Before I could race towards my haven, someone caught my arm.
"You can't fight him," Wen Zi looked down at me, his soulful blue eyes somewhat full of care and concern, "Let me fight him for you."
I was not the type of person who would easily fall for any guy. But his words somehow pierced straight into my vulnerable heart and melted it away...
"Can you stop staring at each other like that? It scares the shit out of me!" Suai's shrilling voice shattered my dreamy thoughts, "Here, each of you takes this."
The elf-priest helpfully handed me a clean piece of tissue paper. Strangely enough, my heart was deeply touched by this simple act.
"Xie xie ni (Thank you), Xue-chang," I smelled the tissue to my heart's content, "I'll use it wisely when I go to the toilet later."
"It's not for cleaning your ass, Psycho," Suai shot me a disgusted look, "This is a teleportation scroll. Write the place that you want to travel to, and it shall bring you anywhere you wish for."
"Pretty neat! This is way better than a piece of tissue paper!" I scribbled hastily on the paper with a feather pen provided by Suai, who added tiredly,
"Please don't write 'Toilet' on it. Our destination is 'Outside of Prince's Castle'."
How did he know that? That was exactly what I had written. I quickly cancelled off the word.
"This scroll looks ancient," Wen Zi studied the magical scroll, "When did you purchase it?"
"One week ago, so it can't be that ancient. Believe it or not, I paid big bucks for these!" Suai bragged.
"This better be good," Abyss sent a deadly glare at the mousy elf-priest, "If not…"
"Are you gentlemen ready?" Suai interrupted, "Close your eyes and relax! See you on the other side!"
Adhering to Suai's instructions, I shut my eyes as tight as possible. I didn't want to open my eyes and find myself being at the same old place again.
I waited and waited. I waited patiently for Suai or Abyss's voice to reach my ears. I wouldn't mind if Wen Zi spoke mushy garbage to me. I just wanted to get out from the castle, log out from this game, and finish up my Chinese Literature homework, which was already waiting for me on my writing desk.
"Hey there, that stupid dumbass who's standing near Gui! Get back to where you came from! You're ruining our whole performance!"
Performance? What performance?
I opened my eyes.
A purple-clothed man was just right in front of me, his beautiful feminine face totally pale and worried. His dark hair was so silken and long that I could have easily mistaken him as a girl. Yet his eyes were still the same, the same concerned eyes that looked at me when he patiently explained about the 'Unification of the Three Kingdoms' to me during his consultation hours.
It is definitely him. It has to be.
"Professor?"