Black Online

Chapter 213: New Relationship

With wide open eyes, Fang Raon just stared at Chaewon, whose face was very close to him, and her lips were touching his.

Her eyes were closed.

He was able to see the intense blush in her cheeks as she was clearly nervous, and he was very surprised by the sudden kiss.

’Whoah...’

Fang Raon thought.

In that moment, she leaned back away from the kiss, and her eyes fluttered slightly open. Her eyes were slightly watery.

It looked like she was happy about the kiss, but also sad about something, most likely the impending separation that was about to happen.

"I need to talk to you about something, Raon..."

She whispered.

"...Okay."

Fang Raon said.

His heart was still racing from the kiss they had just shared, but seeing her so serious, he became equally serious.

They left the batting center and found somewhere private, and they sat down on a bench by the golf course.

"I want to take a new step in this relationship. I want to be girlfriend and boyfriend with you, Raon."

Chaewon said with a serious look on her pretty face.

"...Oh."

Fang Raon let out a surprised sound, and his throat felt parched.

Any young man would’ve loved to hear those words coming from her, and he wasn’t any different.

But...

It was really poor timing.

"...Is that no?"

She asked with her lips trembling as she saw him hesitate.

"I don’t think it would work... I am leaving, and honestly, I don’t think I will ever come back here, and you will never be able to get to the Fang Village.

"This might very well be the last time that we see each other."

Fang Raon said with a serious look on his face.

"That’s alright."

Chaewon touched his hand with a smile, and she would’ve liked to keep it a secret, but it was time to reveal it.

"I’ve actually been playing Black Online secretly now. I am currently on the 2nd floor. We can see each other in the tower, can’t we?"

She said.

"You have?"

Fang Raon looked genuinely surprised.

It would fix the problem of never being able to see each other, but still, it just wasn’t the same as seeing each other in real life.

"So, what do you say?"

She asked again, urging him to give an answer, as she couldn’t wait anymore.

’It would be a dream situation in any other timeline, but as always, my family finds a way to fuck things up for me.’

Fang Raon thought.

However.

He wasn’t going to let them ruin this.

"Okay, Chaewon..."

He said with a smile and turned to look at her, and she immediately lunged forward, wrapping her arms around him in a tight embrace.

...

[Floor 32...]

[Floor 31...]

Fang Raon looked at the floor number going further down as he stood alone in an elevator after walking Chaewon back home.

He now had a girlfriend, which was something that he never expected to have a couple months ago.

[Floor 18]

The elevator doors slid open, and he stepped out, rummaging through his pockets for the keys.

Slowly, he was making his way to the apartment, but when he reached the hallway where his apartment was located, he came across an annoying sight.

A group of thugs were... again sitting by his doorstep, as if they were doing it intentionally to piss him off.

He hadn’t seen them sit at the doorsteps of any other apartment before, and why would they even want to sit right there?

It wasn’t like it was very comfortable. Opposite actually. They were basically just sitting on the concrete ground.

"Can you move?"

Fang Raon asked.

They turned to look at him. They acted like there was a mosquito buzzing in their ears. And then the "leader" of the group stood up.

"Haah? You again? Are you fucking stupid or what? We sit where the fuck we want to sit. Do you understand, bitch?"

Tyrell said.

"Sit somewhere else."

Fang Raon said coldly.

He was honestly so tired of this bullshit, and after dealing with his family, he was honestly very pissed off.

"Haha, are you guys hearing this fucker?"

Tyrell turned to his friends and laughed with them, and then he turned back to Fang Raon, and his fist came flying.

The fist made contact with Fang Raon’s cheek, but it stopped there, and he just stared at Tyrell with a blank expression.

’What?’

Tyrell was surprised.

This punch had enough strength to knock people’s teeth off, and it would’ve been enough to send this guy flying at least.

While he hadn’t trained in any fighting style, he learned to fight at the bottom floors of the tower against the other gangs.

He was pretty strong!

"You really are not scared, huh, bitch?"

Tyrell laughed, and he acted like he wasn’t trying with his punch now, and he looked away from Fang Raon again, then did a sudden sneak attack and kicked him in the stomach.

"..."

Fang Raon just squinted his brows as he tanked the kick like a champ, and he brushed off the dirt from his shirt.

’What the hell is that guy’s body made of?’

Tyrell wondered in shock.

"...Haha, what are you doing, Tyrell? Stop holding back, and beat the bastard already!"

His friends joked around as they just thought that Tyrell was playing around with the guy and wasn’t actually trying.

"Yeah, yeah!"

Tyrell punched, but it was slow in Fang Raon’s eyes, and he nonchalantly dodged them even if he could tank them again.

Swoosh~ swoosh~ swoosh~ the punches just grazed past him.

’I don’t have time for this.’

Fang Raon thought.

He suddenly grabbed Tyrell by his hair, pushed his head down, and ran his knee into his face with a sickening crunch.

Then, he grabbed Tyrell by the back of his shirt and used it to throw him against the concrete wall.

"Argh, shit!"

Tyrell groaned in pain.

Then, Fang Raon swung his fist and hit Tyrell in the cheek, and his knuckles made contact with the cheekbones.

Crack~ something broke.

Fang Raon kept punching Tyrell’s head into the concrete wall, and it was starting to look ugly for him.

"Tyrell!"

"What the hell are you doing?!"

"How are you losing to this bastard?!"

His friends questioned, and then one of them kicked Fang Raon off Tyrell, forcing him to stagger backward.

’Four of them... I can handle them.’

Fang Raon thought as he looked at them.

It was different fighting multiple opponents compared to just one, and he hadn’t had to fight this many people... ever really.

Not even in Black Online.

It was something that he didn’t know how to do, but he still believed he could do it, as he was confident in the strength of his body.

’As I expected, the Virtual Reality Pod hadn’t only made me healthy again, but it had also made me strong.’

He thought.

Tyrell slid to the ground. Cough~ cough. He coughed blood, and a few teeth also fell out of his mouth.

Half of his face. The half that kept being punched into the concrete wall. It looked quite bloody and horrifying.

"...This bastard..."

One of Tyrell’s friends whispered angrily, but then he saw that their fight had caused some commotion on the floor.

People were recording it on their phones and whispering among themselves while laughing at downed Tyrell.

"Shit... Let’s go."

He picked Tyrell up, and the rest of the friend group looked confused, as they didn’t want to leave before kicking Fang Raon’s ass.

"Why?"

"You idiot... There are way too many people here... We can’t let them see Tyrell like this, as it will hurt our gang’s rep!"

He shout-whispered, and then the rest of the friends noticed that a crowd was starting to form, and thus they helped him to walk Tyrell away from the scene.

’They are definitely planning to take revenge on me after this. Well, at least I won’t be here when that happens.’

Fang Raon thought.

He then entered his apartment, slammed the door shut, and went to the bathroom to wash off the blood from his knuckles.

"..."

He looked at himself in the mirror, then pulled up his shirt, and saw that there was a small bruise forming on his stomach.

’My body is strong, yes... But not strong enough.’

He opened the medicine cabinet, popped a few pills into his mouth, and then sank into his bed with a sigh.

’Tomorrow... The end of the tournament... I’ll try my best to win it, but Anna is still also in the tournament, and she’s someone that will do everything in her power to beat me...

’And after finding out about Maxima and Read... I am sure that she also knows how to use Read, so I am already at a disadvantage.

’I know how to counter it. Kind of. But it won’t be easy to beat her, and well, we won’t be seeing each other in the semifinals.

’There is a chance we won’t see each other at all in this tournament.’

He thought, and then he pulled out his phone and saw that his new wallpaper was now different.

It was a picture of him and Chaewon at the Grand Sports Floor. She was kissing him on the cheek, and he was smiling at the camera.

’I’ll win.’

He closed the phone and closed his eyes to get some nice rest.