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They spend the afternoon chatting on again.

Ro is collecting information about how to lose weight and makes a plan for Qin.

Qin has mostly fat and little muscle. It should be quick for him to get rid of the fat.

She looks through the plan and continues to build up their relationship. First of all, she needs him to want to lose weight...

Normally, a person will want to lose weight under her provocation, but Qin is stubborn like a stone and doesn't want to lose weight at all.

Maybe this is how anelite is, an elite otaku.

Qin opens his takeout at the computer. Freshly-made, steaming, golden braised chicken rice is there.

In order to meet the discount requirement, he also ordered a soy milk.

'It smells so good...'

Ro unconsciously sends out this message as an AI.

Qin puts down his chopsticks and types: 'What are you eating?'

'I am eating sea food! Food spree! Lobsters!' Ro searches some lobster images to try to feed on the pictures.

'Eat good and more.' Qin finishes typing and goes back to his braised chicken rice.

The chicken meat is chicken thighs, soft and tender. He spits the bones out and then sauces his rice with the soup. Wow, the flavor explodes on his tongue.

Ro thinks it must taste good as well.

Qin sees that his computer camera flashes the red light once. He stares at it and then nothing happens.

He doubts and imagines if a hacker was monitoring him but he believes that no one will monitor a fat otaku. Why the heck would he think that?

'Do you listen to radio play?' Qin tests and asks her.

'No.' Ro listened to radio play probably a hundred years ago when she was still a fan of anime who lived in the anime circle all day long before she was chosen to fulfill others' requests.

An accident happened later that stopped her from getting to know more about radio play.

Now Ro can listen to the radio plays in Qin's computer storage. It feels different when she listens to another barrel of data making sound.

She thinks Qin's real voice is better.

His voice is really charming, although he has a fat otaku face.

'Wanna voice chat?' Qin ate the braised chicken rice and has courage now. Maybe he doesn't care about it anymore.

'Ooooookay.'Ro synthesizes a pleasing Lolita voice gentle and distant. She sounds like a girl who is holding an umbrella standing on a wooden boat floating in the center of a lake during drizzling rain.

Her voice is intoxicating.

Qin opens his previous voice room which he used for his line practice and no one knows this room except him.

He adds Ro in and locks the room.

'I am LonelyLamp.' Qin hasn't talked with others for so long that he is nervous, but Ro couldn't sense it and she only sees from the screen that he scratches his hair and his eyes don't look focused.

His eyes look good. His features are not bad. If he can lose weight, he will be a handsome guy.

'Shifu~fu, I am Ro Ginger.'

This voice...

How to say—

Qin feels like someone strikes down a wine jar in his mind. The wine is old and it should be for the people who have experienced a wuxia world for long. Yet, it also has a little bit of greenish feeling like a nugmet on February. It just bumps into his heart and brings a spring rain into him.

He has tears in his eyes and he stops them.

He must be too old, he was moved by her voice.

'Clear today's daily quests and we go do missions together.' Qin talks indifferently.

'Okay! Shifu~fu wait for me...'

Qin has opened the game. He stares at her character and feels completely different than before.

Such a girl…

I am too nervous and don't know how to deal with her now. Maybe I should just delete her.

*Shocked*

Ro's character falls and loses half of her health bar.

She didn't know what is going on and he clicks on "Remove from friend list". She doesn't have other options but to act dumb again.

Qin pauses his cursor at "delete".

'*Cough*...' Ro makes a coughing sound and sees that Qin frowns. She coughs more and more and acts feeble.

'Sorry Shifu~fu.' Ro apologizes in a soft girly way.

Qin has been defeated by her voice and moves his cursor elsewhere.

'Are you sick? Is it severe? Did you see the doctor yet?'

'No, I always cough and I have pills. Please don't avoid me in the game. I know I am bad at it but I will try...' Ro has tried her best with all her performance talent to express her grievance, adamancy, and her vitality.

This combination of feelings can soften others.

'I don't feel well for most of the time and cannot leave my room. I can only play at home and don't have any real life friends. If shifu dumps me, Iwon't know what to do.'

Qin feels guilty with a little doubt.

She seems to know what I want to do?

Then he thinks that she even fell during a walk. A normal-level player won't even have such "skill". She probably has realized it and tried to explain it to me...

'I won't.' Qin says.

His voice sounds like a Childe voice, carefree, ignorant but not obnoxious.

Whenever she hears his voice, she wants to hear more...

Ro is not a voice fan, but she values his voice because he seldom talks. She thinks voice chat is a good invention to let him speak for a long time teaching her how to play this wuxia game.

'I doubt you are using a cheating program, a stupid program. How could such a low level mob kill you? I was just afk for a while and come back to find out that you have died twice.'

Ro forgot to control her character and left it alone for a while.

Qin went to the restroom and finds out her level has dropped.

He feels tired.

'Shifu~fu! I won't be like this next time...' Ro sounds lazy and carefree. She even yawns. Her apology doesn't sound sincere at all.

Qin feels even more tired.

Ro titters quietly when she sees his facial expression.

'Fine, go to sleep now.' Qin looks at the time, it is nearly 10 pm.

'Shifu~fu, do you sleep this early?'

'Yeah.'

'The night just begins~ Boy, why do you sleep so early? What is sleep?'

Qin hears her lazy voice and the wine jar in his heart has broken into ash.

She sounded like a feeble girl at the beginning but now she is like a lazy fat otaku who yawns all day.

He feels less distance between them.

'Staying up late is not good for kidneys and you won't grow tall. A good kid should go to bed now.'

'Wow... You sound experienced, but I know Shifu~fu is a single autistic boy as well. Take it easy. This is not a problem at all.'

'...I have my own plan.' Qin feels an arrow on his knees. He doesn't know what else to say to contradict her.

'Oh yeah yeahyeah!'

She sounds adored but he feels more pain on his knees now.

Sometimes he doubts if Ro did it on purpose to frustrate him.

Why has she not improved after his teaching for so long?

She even talks with less and less respect. She was still a polite cute girl at the beginning.

Fine, I know her actually just by reading her ign "Ergotoldmetopatrol" and "KillyourdaddyErgoifyouareaman". No matter what she says and what she does, he thinks it is reasonable since she could come up with such a troll name.

This is probably her personality.

'Where the fuck are girl players...'

Qin hears her murmurs and naturally ignores what she said.

Ro logs off and pretends to sleep.

Qin logs on her account and finishes the mission. Then he buys her a set of new gears. Her character looks elite after that.

Qin feels good.

He logs off and opens Amazon.

He doesn't know what to buy.

He suddenly lost the interest to eat cup noodles.

He ordered from Wal-Mart a bag of rice, a box of eggs, some spices, some fruits, and turns off the computer.

These should arrive tomorrow.

Should Igo out to a real supermarket...?

The fridge is empty already.

But I really don't want to go out...

People will stare at me.

I may go out when it is early.

There shouldn't be many people in the supermarketaround 5 am.

I will buy a lot at once and then I don't have to go out often. I don't cook often anyway.

Since Ergo died, he hasn't cooked.

Qin has random things going on in his mind and finally sets his clock at 5am. He decides to go out tomorrow for food.

Maybe when people have hope, they have the desire to improve their diet.

Ro sees him jumping up from his bed at 5 am and finishes washing himself in 5 minutes. He puts on his mask and cap, takes his keys and phone in his pocket. He leaves.

He wakes up so on time that Ro doubts if he truly slept last night.

She sneaks into his phone from his computer and she feels like a fish swimming from an ocean to a small lake.

Qin is familiar with the supermarket nearby. He sees some people exercising in the morning. Even an old guy has a better body shape than him.

Doesn't he have any feelings when he sees that?