Oi oi chapter 19 of 26 here. Enjoy.

Jugatsu was spaced out laying in the boat, he had completely memorized the plan and was just letting his mind wander. A few moments later he came to when someone pounced on his stomach. He saw Momiri and looked over at Venus who was laughing. Skyld walked over a few minutes moments later.

"Seems Remial has permission, I'm free at any time tomorrow,"Skyld said.

So far everyone was available all day tomorrow, he hoped it would keep up like that.

"In the morning I would think would be best cause we'd have all day then,"Venus said.

They were around in the boat now. Jugatsu took his usual spot and lets his hand fall into the water.

"Anakin is busy today, but he'll have all tomorrow as well, same goes for Erica,"Skyld said after it was quiet for so long.

"This means everyone will be able to fight, this works out well,"Jugatsu replied seemingly half in thought.
"What's wrong? Are you okay Ju-kun?"Momiri asked.

That brought more giggles from Venus.

"Nothing just thinking about all that's happened so far since I've been playing the world, and how eventful this last week or so has been,"Jugatsu answered.

"Hey remember when we first met?"Skyld asked.

Jugatsu was still a newbie but managed to pick up pretty fast how "The World" worked. He was in a dungeon and just help defeated a group monsters who were attacking a blademaster. After the monster died they both looked at each other and started laughing, they were both almost half dead, so they decided to finish the dungeon together. They came back to the present.

"That's kind of the way I met Momiri,"Venus said,"Momiri was still a newbie, I had been playing for awhile and just got out of the newbie phase. I saw her in town, she looked kind of sad so I began to talk to her."

"Mmhmm, Venus was my first friend here, I've made a bunch since then but I mostly hang around you guys,"Momiri said with a smile.

"Yeah first starting out is rough, I mean I only played a few days before I actually found someone who knew about Austin,"Erica said walking into the boat."I had trouble just getting the game to work. I had trouble with the headset and my computer was taking forever to install it. After I got on though it seemed pretty easy, I met a few people but I guess I wouldn't call them a friend exactly,"AnakinseZ also walked over by now and was joining everyone.

"Yeah meeting Anakin was a complete disaster at first, but I'm glad it happened anyways,"Jugatsu said,"After Skyld and I finally finished the dungeon we warped out. We saw him trying to fight some other players. Needless to say he was a newbie too and not doing very well. We decided to try and help but we all were killed badly. The worst part is we didn't save after the dungeon either so we lost like three levels."

Even AnakinseZ laughed at this.

"I always find it the funniest when newbies go around acting like they know the game well,"AnakinseZ said,"We were like idiots back then. Remember the time we were trying to ask for some tips for the game? Pretty much everyone was ignoring us,but when that one guy stopped to help us, he started by telling us the basics. We thought he was a newbie also and after he gave up and left we found out he was like an uber player afterwards."

"Oh yeah I remember, we screwed up big time,"Skyld agreed.

"Hey Venus, remember the one player who would always hit on you?"Momiri asked.

"I'd rather not, that guy was a pain,"Venus replied,"Whenever I was in town he'd follow me everywhere. Whether I was saving, shopping, or anything else. Eventually I got tired and went to fight him. He always talked like he was big shot and said I 'needed' him, but when I fought him he died in only a few hits. A complete moron."

"Hey Skyld didn't you follow a girl around once?"Jugatsu asked after hearing what Venus said.

"Don't tell me your like that low-life,"Venus said starting to get angry.

"I wouldn't, trust me. Don't hurt me,"Skyld was saying getting scared.

"Don't worry Venus I was just kidding,"Jugatsu replied.

Venus stopped looking evil at Skyld and sat back down.

"Yeah Jugatsu had the ability to get everyone he knew in trouble. Glad he never tried it on me,"AnakinseZ said with a sigh of relief.

"Sorry guys, but I got to go,"Erica said logging out.

"Yeah, same here I wasn't supposed to be on and don't want to get in trouble before tomorrow,"AnakinseZ responded. Momiri, Venus, Skyld, and Jugatsu remained.

"Oh yeah I remember the first time I saw Ju-kun,"Momiri said with a smile,"He was talking to Skyld and Anakin on the bridge. They logged out and he began to talk to himself. The other two wavemasters were girls from my school, they thought you were cute, 'til I reminded them it's just a character."

"Wow I don't know whether to feel insulted or complimented. I did look like this in the real world except not so much with the cloths. But now...It's like this is the real me,"Jugatsu replied.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said anything. I mean with the way things are for you,"Momiri began to ramble.

"Don't worry about it, I like this place. It's better then the real world. In here you have no problems unlike in that world.,"Jugatsu said starting to lay down and look at the sky."

"Still, I wouldn't think that the real world is that bad,"Skyld replied.

Venus had to log out now and didn't want to disturb Jugatsu so she waved and logged out.

"You want my honest opinion?"Jugatsu asked, his eyes showed slight sorrow but no one was able to see it behind the sunglasses.

Skyld nodded a smile thinking he was right about it.

"I hate it,"Jugatsu said bluntly,"This place is so much better, between the natural disasters, economic problems, the boring day to day life. I don't like any of it, plus in the other world, my weaknesses were more evident,"

"But didn't you have some friends, won't they be sad?"Momiri tried to get Jugatsu to see the bright side.

"Friends? I guess you could call them that. My emotions are mostly gone now I lack the ability to care for others to an extent, it's a defense you build it as people around who you cared about die,"Jugatsu began,"You may try to talk me out of it like a counselor or something, but the truth is I like it better this way. I wish "The World" truly was the world."

A long silence followed.

"But anyways let's go to a dungeon, this is getting boring,"Jugatsu said getting up.

"You were just sad and how are you..."Momiri was confused.

"Told you lost my emotions, I can make light of many a situation,"Jugatsu said inviting them to a party.

He laughed and began to walk out of the spot. They spent a good amount of time training until they decided to call it a night. It was still early but they figured it would be better be rested for the final showdown.

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Part 2 info:The main character of part two will be roughly the some age as Jugatsu, however he's not as bright you could say.