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"Sh*t get the car ready we've to go apologize Rexur Family as fast as possible."

"But sir it's 5 in the morning we sat 5 hours watching their gameplay. We can't just barge into their house and wake them."

'I know that but this time it's urgent'

"Okay clear any meetings which were scheduled for this morning and schedule a driver for me."

"Yes , sir."

'I didn't think of this outcome , if his son's trauma resurfaces and causes him any kind of problem then-'

Just thinking about it increased my stress , I started rubbing my fore head and hoped that everything worked out.

After few hours I reached the location Order#1 , Sector#1 the best Order you could ask for on the whole continent. The house before me was of my old friend 'Harold Rexur' , the house itself wasn't that big but still was eye-catching.

My assistant went ahead and told the maids about my arrival , the maids escorted me in the house. I saw Harold's wife playing with her daughter and waved my left hand saying hi.

"Oh Rick you should've told me you were coming I would've told the maids to prepare breakfast for you too."

"I'm sorry for coming unannounced but I've some important things to talk with you both , is Harold awake yet?"

"You know how his ridiculous routine is , he woke up 3 hours ago. What did you wanted to talk about is it something important?"

"Umm yes if possible can we talk about it in private with Harold."

I could see the look on her face her normal smiling face turned serious , Harold's wife Rena was intelligent women both Harold and Rena were Top class in their Medical fields. Both were one of a kind geniuses.

"Ok let's go in Harold's study he was in a meeting few minutes but it must be over now."

I nodded my head and followed her behind to Harold's study on our way there she asked ,

"By the way what is it related to?"

"I'm sorry for bothering you again , but this was about your son."

Just as I mentioned that it was about her son , I could feel her twitch infront of me. She quickly regained her composure and asked me ,

"Does is it have something to do with the game you're testing?"

'She guessed it right. This makes it kind of hard to talk about it.'

"Ah yes , something happ-"

"We will continue this in the study."

I kept quite and followed her , we reached the study on the first floor Harold was sitting there on the chair his black hair same as his son's and somewhat wrinkled face.

"It's been a while Rick , I heard you were busy with some kind of project at your company? that's why I didn't bother you to come to our place sometimes."

Harold was a good friend of mine who saved my a** many times the only way I could repay was by being his friend. We met during our university day's he was in Medical campus while I was in Technology campus. I also met Rena there and now we are here after 20 years.

I sat on the couch opposite to the table he was sitting on he switched off his PC and turned his attention towards me. Rena also sat on the chair on the left side of the table.

"I will be more than happy to visit you , you know how we are don't care about my work next time and just invite me."

"Sure , so how's your son doing I heard he made some new records in gaming industry again. As expected of your son he's enhanced version of you."

While Me and Harold were laughing Rena interrupted ,

"Dear he wanted to have a talk with us regarding Axel"

"Oh what did you wanted to talk about him? His university day's will be soon over he should think about the future now."

"Axel is reason I came here."

I stood up from the couch and bowed my head infront of Harold and Rena and said ,

"I'm sorry I made a mistake which may have a bad influence on your son."

I took out my phone out and played a video for them. Showing what happened yesterday , sitting down on the couch with my head down I thought

'I really did it this time we shouldn't have accepted his application form without asking Harold.'

After watching the video Harold opened his mouth ,

"Rick this is-"

"I'm sorry for making your son go through this."

I said interrupting Harold but he continued with a smile on his face ,

"Do you even know how happy we are? Never in these past 10 years have I seen his this side. Rena show him Axel's pictures please."

'Huh!? Happy!? I was ready to get slapped cause of this but why are they this happy?'

Rena brought a photo book which looked like contained Axel photo's , Rena flipped through the book showing me Axel's photo's after few minutes I was able to see why they were happy.

The photo book had 237 random picture's of Axel and out of 237 pictures he didn't even smile once , all the photo's had his emotionless face with no happiness , sorrow , excitement just a

"Empty shell. Sorry I didn't mean to say that."

"No you're right ever since he entered the middle school he didn't have any hobbies , amy friends or any feelings. Seeing him getting exhausted in a game gave us hope that he's trying to give new options chances."

After hearing Harold's words I felt bad for him to have a worthless son like Axel. Rena picked up from where Harold left and said ,

"We were not good enough and only paid attention to his good points while missing out his weaknesses and at one point he just broke and gave up. We really appreciate your game which is helping our son."

Saying that Rena broke into tears , out of curiosity I asked them about Axel's past ,

"Just what happened in Axel's past? He didn't looked good at the end if the video and who is Sera?"

"I'm sorry Rick but we can't tell you , it's not that we don't trust you it's a story for Axel himself to tell you. Even in this video he just recalled his past that's why he called her name out. But with his mental power I don't think this is going to cause him much of a problem."

Of course who am I to ask them about their son's past without his permission. I thought Axel as a ungrateful son who only knew how to laze around and I still somewhat thought that seeing his parents cry infront of me.

After few minutes the mood settled and Harold asked me ,

"Rick why don't you come visit us with your family just a nice catch up with our families."

"Sure , how about end of the month? Right now our beta testers are reporting some balance issues and bug so we will be preparing for the next update in these few days and also because of the teaser release things are pretty hectic."

"End of the month works for us too. I guess we will see you in 9 days. Take care."

with that I left Harold with a promise of having a small family gathering. Sitting in the car I was sweating hard and thought ,

'What the f*ck just happened!?"

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I got up from the bed I was lying on playing 'Infinite' , I looked at the time. It looked like I was going to miss my first lecture , I filled some milk in the bowl and added cereals to it. Eating my breakfast I sat on a table with phone in my hands browsing through the gaming news.

Infinite was getting popular because of its teaser release but with its beta testing closed many gamers were jealous of the beta testers. After browsing for few minutes I got ready for the university.

On my way to university I couldn't think of anything other than my incompetence that I showed yesterday.

'I couldn't help anyone I was just watching them struggle and couldn't do anything , wasn't I suppose to be a pro?'

Looking towards the sky I said ,

"So lame"

After few minutes I reached my university it looked like Axel didn't come today. After attending my lectures for 4 hours , I left to meet Axel to talk about an important matter.

On my way to my apartment which was same apartment as Axel's I got a call from him. Without wasting a second I picked up his call his next words were unexpected ,

"Rin , bet on my scores going up on the next test."