Mount and Blade

"That... Green, I like you."

A message from a good brother who had played together for a long time popped up on the chat box.

Green had just finished taking a shower. He just wrapped himself in a towel and wiped his hair. Then he walked out of the bathroom. His phone, which was playing a song, dinged. He wiped the phone, cleaned up the bathroom, and sat on the bed in his bedroom to look at the phone.

"Do you like me, Green?"

Another message popped up on the other end of the phone.

Seeing these two messages, Green's pupils shrank, and his heart was somehow flustered.

Please, buddy, don't do this. I treat you as a brother. How can we still be brothers after this is over?

Or just pretend that I didn't understand. Maybe it was just a prank or something.

Green: "Of course, good brother." The keyboard was finalized, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. For an old straight man like him, he really took the trouble to make his brothers get along well.

"..."

"Brother, I don't mean that...I mean, can we date?"

Green's brain froze, and he suddenly remembered that when he was playing games with this guy, he always called him brother behind him. At that time, he had just broken up with his girlfriend and it was very useful to have such a person to accompany him. When playing games, he always stood in front of him to protect him, the mage ADC. Over time, the two became good friends. Although they met online, life was not too boring.

Green is an orphan. He was taken care of by an orphanage since he was a child. He went to a public high school, but after entering college, he had to pay for many expenses by himself. He was frugal since he was a child and often went to the cafeteria to help. When he graduated from high school, other peers were enjoying graduation trips while he was moving bricks at the construction site. When he went to college, he usually went to the cafeteria to get snacks. He had a big appetite and could save money for a meal. He went to work outside during holidays. Although it was hard, he could still support himself. Life had already turned him into a real man. Just last month, his girlfriend of three years said that she already had someone else she liked and that they were not suitable.

Green knew that even if he tried harder, he would not have better living conditions for a while, so what could he do to keep her? It was fine. Although Green was a strong man, he would also be vulnerable. He cried all night in his small low-rent apartment under the quilt, and slowly closed his red and swollen eyes at dawn under the influence of alcohol.

She had helped the most helpless and confused self in high school. Perhaps it was the influence of the family's preference for boys over girls, or perhaps they were equally unfortunate people. They secretly dated in their senior year of high school and went through that difficult period together.

He had no way to blame her, but could only blame himself for being incompetent. He could only hug his knees and cry like he did in the welfare home before, licking his wounds alone, and no one was with him anymore, because he even took the effort to take care of himself.

Then he met him in the game, and Green thought they were just ordinary encounters.

Then he thought of the situation where he rushed back after dinner to log in with him, took the initiative to chat with him, and liked to call him brother.

Sure enough, there is no one in the world who treats you well for nothing, it turns out that it is because of love.

Green fell into deep thought and did not reply for a long time.

"Brother?"

Green: "You look like a friend of mine."

The mood on the other end of the phone seemed to be depressed.

"I know, I won't bother you anymore."

Green felt complicated when he saw this message. He didn't want to lose this friendship, and he didn't want to hurt him in the end because he didn't know whether he could accept his homosexuality.

Green looked at the chat box again and again with mixed feelings. He wanted to say something else to ease his mood, but he saw the other party's avatar darken. When he opened the chat record again, it showed: The other party is not your friend.

Thunderstorm suddenly sounded outside the window. I don't know if it was because of my mood. Green suddenly wanted to see the thunder and lightning outside and the sound of heavy rain washing the streets, so he opened the curtains.

Lightning broke through the sky, illuminating the entire street for a moment like daylight, followed by rolling thunder, and the roar of nature also had a deafening power over the modern city.

The other party is not your friend.

Looking at the prompt quietly, Green felt bad. The guy who would follow him and call him brother was gone.

"Play a game with me again, Jiang Yue." Submitted a friend request.

The friend was accepted.

Green: "Log in."

Jiang Yue: "Yes."

Green took the jungler, which he was not good at, and he still took the mage, which he was good at.

I don't know if it was because of his emotions, but Guo Shi Wushuang, who was not good at playing normally, got a record of 11-0, and it was no problem to save him several times.

Jiang Yue: "Why add me?"

Green: "... Can I play with you?"

Jiang Yue didn't reply.

Green: "No matter what, I still hope you can be happy."

Green was entangled because he didn't know what he was thinking.

Jiang Yue: "It's okay, I should have thought of it earlier."

Green: "I thought you were joking."

Jiang Yue: "..."

Jiang Yue: "I never like to joke."

Green was speechless and didn't know how to continue. In a panic, he thought of his ex-girlfriend again, and maybe he didn't know how to find a topic to talk about.

Green: "You look a lot like my ex-girlfriend."

This brainless straight man's opening remark put an end to this story without a beginning or an end.

When I was about to say something, the other party had deleted me again.

"Alas."

When Green said this, he already felt the awkwardness of the atmosphere, but it was too late. His entanglement and clever behavior could no longer save him.

He was really a big fool. Fortunately, he couldn't sleep. He opened his laptop, which he bought when he went out to work in his freshman year. He clicked on the Mount and Blade mod Pende, skipped the beginning, and didn't know why it was loading so slowly today. He played with the Overlord Egg on the table.

He lay on the table and clicked on the website on his mobile phone to play Berserk again.

"The remake animation has been released." Green muttered and clicked in.

At this time, Mount and Blade was also loaded. Green casually loaded the character he had just opened a file not long ago. The game music came to Green with a thunder. After a dazzling moment, Green lost consciousness.

And the Overlord Egg in the real world also disappeared.

…………

Please choose your gender: "Male/handsome male, female/beautiful female."

Subconsciously, Green still thought that he was playing the game as usual.

After a while of hesitation, I decided to play the male profile. I haven't used the handsome skin yet, so I chose a handsome male. (Strength +1, Charm +2, Domination +2)

Then the face-pinching adjustment window popped up. Green, who was a little obsessive-compulsive, pinched a face that he thought was handsome, chose a wheat-colored skin and clicked the next step.

Please choose your origin. Your father is:

"A down-and-out nobleman."

"A captain of a noble merchant ship."

"A knight of the Knights."

"A retired noble explorer."

"The son of an exiled leader of the Kusha grassland."

"A mysterious person, no one knows his past."

A mysterious person. (Agility +2, Strong Throw +2, Running +3, Looting +2, Tactics +2, Item Management +2, Surgery +1, First Aid +2, Prisoner Management +2, Trading +1, Persuasion +2)

After making a confused choice, a heavy dizziness descended again, as if dragging Green down madly, and then as if falling into a vast ocean, with the sound of seawater rushing into his ears, and the feeling of curling up in the embrace of his limbs made Green feel particularly at ease, as if he had returned to his mother's belly, and he fell into a deep sleep.