Chapter 29 [ Part 3 ]

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===== Chapter 29 [ Part 3 ] =====

Bright blue eyes slightly squinting in concentration as she makes sure that her character Lumine doesn't fall over the borders while carefully going through the rings of wind in sequence. But just as she's about to attain her victory, her finger suddenly makes a slip, and her poor Lumine goes tumbling down the edge.

She can only gape at it.

Ridiculous; this is ridiculous?!

Wanting to punch herself for her stupid mistake as she might have repeat the task again. A game character with the name Childe suddenly pops out in her phone screen, gliding towards her figure at first before slamming himself to the ground with a beautiful 5 star harp-like bow in hand.

A red exclaimation on the message bubble; Peach groans while she begins to curse to her playmate for falling stupidly again for the 19th time.

Although her message only went censored due to the profanity it contains, which only makes the white haired girl more furious for not being able to vent properly.

peachmangopie
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**** this censorship .
━━━━━━━━━
peachmangopie
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*foook this censorhsip .
━━━━━━━━━

andershongeraldjr
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         haha thats why we should

         have used discord
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peachmangopie
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   i dont want to hear ur ***** voice   .
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andershongeraldjr
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      oh bby <3
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peachmangopie
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   oh **** the **** up  .

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andershongeraldjr
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         wut?
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peachmangopie
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   fooook u  .
╰━━━

andershongeraldjr
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   luv u too <3
━━━

Peach just stares at the phone, disgusted by the playboy's cringey affections.

Well sure she might have softened up towards him a little bit due to him being clingy to her for the past few months but still, this flirty behavior of his...

Peach would never be okay with it as it only plainly reminds her that he's a true playboy at heart.

This dude's only acting so sweet towards her because he just wants to get inside her.

And of course, she would never allow that.

Yes, they can be "friends." But she'll never allow him to take a piece of her— not when he doesn't love her truly and not when she doesn't love him too.

Closing the message with the rolling of her eyes, Peach continues with her gameplay.

With a soft exhale leaving her lips, she makes Lumine quickly climb over the wall then dash towards the starting point.

Gerald's Childe follows after.

andershongeraldjr
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         u can do it, girlie!
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Gerald sent a cheer, trying to be in line with the character he was using in the game, but Peach never get to read it as she had already closed the chatbox.

The young man has a doting grin on his face as he stares hard at the screen, paying close attention to the game character of his girl who is dashing right now towards the wind rings with ace.

Unconsciously— when the blonde girl is about to go through the last ring, he holds his breath in fear and anticipation.

He blinks his brown eyes.

Opening it again, the next thing his brown eyes is seeing is Lumine standing by the luxurious chest.

The sigh that he has been holding is let go. A laugh escapes his mouth, and he's suddenly screaming in happiness.

"Bro, what's wrong with you?! Why are you acting like this?"

Dereek, his brother, is quite startled when Gerald was suddenly tugging his arm like an excited little boy. Judging by the reaction on his face and the background music of the game, Dereek can only assume that his lil brother got lucky today and received 2 five stars on the featured banner.

"So what did you get? You got Zhongli?"

"No! But—" Gerald excitedly shows his ipad screen to Dereek's face, revealing Lumine who's taking the drops from the luxurious chest.

"Peachie! She's so good! She is finally able to beat the challenge and get the luxurious chest! I— I really love her!" Gerald exclaims.

"... uh what?" Dereek gapes at him.

"BRO! She kept falling from the edge for 19 times, but she did not give up! And now she beat it! I— I— I am just so happy for her," Gerald tries to explain.

His stupid brother doesn't seem to understand what he is saying though with his blank expression plastered on his face. From that reaction, the black-haired man can't help but get very offended.

"What the fuck! What's wrong with you?!! I'm trying to share you good news, but there is not even a single look of happiness on your face?! Are you slow or what?" the man glares at him.

"... What?" Dereek dumbly questions, still staring at the screen.

Peach, who is now done taking the rewards from the luxurious chess, is just making her blondie character lazily swing her sword all around while Gerald's Childe stays still before her.

Gerald roughly shoves his brother's face away, forcing him to look away from the screen.

He felt angry towards his brother for even daring to look at Peach's game character despite displaying rude manners and indifference towards her achievement earlier.

Dereek falls from the chair in the process.

"Bro! Are you crazy?! Do you need a doctor or something"

The fallen man gapes at his little brother who just scowls at him. The ipad's tightly pressed on his chest in an almost possessive manner.

"Tsk..." Gerald just says before leaving the room all alone to his still speechless brother

Okay he's really whipped, or crazy.

Dereek lets out a huff of disbelief as he stares at the door that was open.

Ever since Gerald met whoever Peachie is that, his younger brother who was known to be a notorious playboy suddenly became a dog. Before he would occasionally invite him to go to a bar and find some flings, but now it's like this...

The man shakes his head to himself. Love really messes up people in the head.

When Gerald returns to his room and takes a seat on his bed, he immediately opens his ipad to check over what's happening on the game.

The loading screen first appears before revealing his Childe alone on the world— no little blonde haired lady running around.

His face that appears to be excited... goes glum.

He sighs.

He should have known she'll leave him again without a word.

Oh Peach... he longs.

With her gone, he loses his interest in the game. Gerald closes his ipad, placing it beside him, before letting his body fall to the bed.

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Meanwhile, on the other perspective of the story, we have Peach pulling Dante's arm as she aggressively forces him to tag alone with her, wanting his assistance and for him to give her a drive to the mall for some reason.

Of course, Dante isn't willing. Instead he is terribly angry at Peach for his rest to be casually disturbed.

He was still in a bad mood from yesterday.

Right after that encounter from that crazy bitch, he just wants to forget everything that had happened yesterday. Have a moment of peace. But then someone just has to ruin it and rudely barge inside his bedroom as if she's the one who's the actual owner.

"Oh, come on! Please!"

"You're not my boss, nor do I owe you a favor Why the heck would I listen to your order?" He scoffs as he slaps her hands off his arm.

"Well—" Peach bites her lips. Her fingers unconsciously tighten its grip on her phone.

The white-haired woman was just playing Genshin Impact earlier when a notification pop-out appeared on her screen; and when she checked it out— her mind zones out, and she's suddenly here trying to persuade Dante to drive her to the mall.

She can't tell the truth.

Peach does not want him to know that she wanted to see (Y/N) because knowing Dante, he'll probably snitch her on Alessio. And if Alessio finds out, she might be forced to leave this place or worse...

"It's not an order, Dante. I'm asking you," Peach asks as she finally stops being aggressive with her manner. The man raises a brow, wondering why she's so desperate to go to the mall.

"You can just ask Chaos, you know..."

"Are you an idiot?!"

Peach scowls at the man, somehow having an urge to knock him on the head. Of course she can't do that though. Not when she's asking a favor from him. "Chaos is scared of girls! He'll probably be so busy trembling that he might not even get to start the car!"

Dante clicks his tongue.

"Oh yeah... right," he says, almost sarcastically. "Scared, huh?" His mind flies back to when he would see Chaos and (Y/N) enjoying their talk with one another.

His facial expression turns ugly.

"What's in it for me if I drive you there."

Peach beams. "Food?"

I mean, who would say no to food. Peach will gladly treat him anything, just so she can see (Y/N). Dante does not say anything. He just stares at her, wondering if there is anything she can do for him.

Maybe she can help with the other bitch; but he doesn't really want her to know that he likes (Y/N) (L/N).

He runs a hand across his blonde hair.

"No. I don't like food. I don't need you anything for now but you can repay me with a favor in the future.." Dante stands up, almost lazily, from his chair.

"Oh?"

Peach blinks her eyes at him, surprised by what he said.

When did this idiot become calculative? Dante's usually reckless. If this had occurred in the past, he would have used this opportunity to make her buy a lot of expensive food and empty her wallet.

But now...

he is being more careful...

"What?" Dante eyes her. "Is there a problem?"

"Oh no no no! Not at all!" Peach fakes a smile. "I accept the deal." Her sky blue eyes slightly narrow though as if she's still skeptic with his words.

"I hope you won't make me do something that crossses my boundaries."

Dante does not answer, only grabbing the car keys from the table, as he heads outside. Actually maybe going to the mall isn't meaningless for him at all, he can also try retrieving something that he should have retrieved awhile back.


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