Arc 3 Chapter 3.2 ( Boundary Between Virtual and Reality )

The boy suddenly stopped crying and a confused look surfaced upon his face . He suddenly remembered that his name is Zone but he couldn't confirm wether it is really his name .

However , even if the name is not his real name. He still like the name Zone , it sounded territorial and possessive . Zone smiled and stood up to sit in the bed .

Suddenly , a transparent rectangular blue light flashed in front of him .

[ Congratulations , your waiting time has finally ended . ]

[ Your master has finally arrived to take good care of you . Please do your best to maintain his attendance and raise his favorability towards you . ]

[ Good luck - Uno ]

" Master? "

Jiro who was about to poke the screen suddenly jumped up in fright . He almost threw the phone towards the cold ground .

The game character's voice sounded similar to his wife's voice . Jiro pouted his mouth in sadness , in seems that he's hallucinating because of his yearning for his wife's presence .

Jiro wondered wether the cub could hear him .

" Hello? "

Zone sat on the bed and walked to the door , but the door was still locked and there's no sign of his master's presence around the room . Is the system kidding him? Where's his master?

Jiro sighed , it seems that there's no function at the start . Maybe it would activate once he met the requirements to unseal the function?

Jiro felt a little excited and poked the pale skin of the youth on the screen who is currently touching the surface of the locked door .

Zone paused and looked behind him . Yet there's nobody behind him .

Zone felt that someone is poking him at his shoulders but he was unable to see who was touching him .

" Hah! " Zone almost jumped up in fright when he saw glass of water floating in front of him .

[ Your master wants you to drink water to stay hydrated . ]

The transparent rectangular interface flashed in front again . Zone stared at the glass floating in front of him and slowly reached out to drink it .

Jiro smiled in satisfaction and clicked the favorability measurement of the youth.  Then he suddenly froze in shock .

[ Cub favorability : -35 ]

Why is it negative!!!!?

Jiro opened his mouth wide in disbelief . How did the cub's favorability measurement turned negative without his notice?

The interface suddenly flashed .

[ For some unknown reason , the cub hates his master . Please find out why did the cub hated his master.  ]

[ Coaxing is recommended . ]

Zone let go of the glass and it automatically went back to the kitchen where the glasswares are kept . Zone looked around then pouted . It seems that his master was an invisible man .

And from the text he have read before , it seems that these masters that we , the members of the lesser race served on are an extraterrestrial beings with powerful ability .

Do they really have the ability to monitor us from afar? That is really ... Unimaginable . They must be as powerful as a god to possess that kind of stalking ability .

" Are you there? " Zone tried asking through the air. 

But no one answered , Zone hung his head down . It seems that he is unqualified to talk to the god .

Zone stood up and looked through the window . But as usual , he couldn't see through it . He suddenly have a longing feeling within his heart.  He wants to go out , what does the world looked like outside?

Is it big? Is is beautiful? Is it crowdy? Will he meet someone like him there?

Suddenly , a warm sensation covered his left shoulder . As if someone is patting him to comfort his lonesome heart .

[ Cub favorability : -10 ]

Jiro smiled thinking that the game character was so easy to coaxe .

Zone smiled with a hint of sadness and went to the mini kitchen to eat some snacks . Then he suddenly realized that his refrigerator doesn't have any stocks anymore .

" ... " Zone knelt down and wanted to cry again . It seems that he would have to go into slumber to preserve his energy .

What should he do?

[ The cub was saddened by the lack of groceries in the refrigerator . The cub wants to eat , please refill the stocks immediately . ]

Jiro clicked confirm and a pop up flashed . Jiro immediately choose the option to exchange dollars to gold coins .

1 dollar is equal to 50 gold coins and he can totally afford it .

The transaction was immediately completed . Jiro clicked the shopping mall and bought dozens of snacks and groceries for the cub .

Zone suddenly saw the refrigerator glowing in golden light . Then it became big! , The closet also became big! The bed also became big! Everything small became big! Except for him who still did not grow grow up .

Zone stood up and opened the refrigerator . His eyes was immediately blinded by the multiple snacks that looked delicious to the eyes .

Chocolates , Biscuits , junk foods , energy drinks , eggs , milk , soda , ice cream .

At the upper part , there's a lot of meat stocked inside frozen . Zone immediately opened the cabinet from the mini kitchen and saw that it was full of supplies . Quaker Oats , cereal meal , seasonings , fruits , jams , tea , coffee , milk powder and etc .

Zone's eyes sparkled and he suddenly loved his master for the food .

[ Cub favorability : +5 ]

Watching the cute child jumping from delightment seeing varieties of food . Jiro's stressed mind turned light and his mood also became better .

Zone smiled and was about to cook when he suddenly remembered that he doesn't know how to cook . And how did he recognized these things? No one thought him about it though?

Another tutorial notified Jiro about the child's inexperience when it comes to cooking . The child has always been eating instant foods and cans , and he would even sometimes eat his meal with only small snacks before going back to slumber . The system was also unaware that Zone only ate small snacks since Zone never drained the food that would notify the system to restock .

Fortunately , Zone was an abnormal existence and could live without regular food intake .

Zone watched as the invisible master that the system told him cooked in the mini kitchen . Despite not seeing any body that mobilized the things from the cabinet and ref , Zone was still fascinated seeing several floating foods in the air .

A minute later , dishes were laid on the circular table looking so drool inducing . An invisible force pushed Zone's body forward and made him sit on one of the chairs .

Zone felt that he is really being taken good care by his master . Zone nodded in satisfaction and watched the spoon flying everywhere feeding him whenever he lands his eyes on a certain plate .

[ Cub's favorability: +6 ]

After finishing all the meal his master had cooked for him . Zone sighed in disbelief that his master could cook such wonderful food . He had never eaten such good food in his whole life .

Zone felt gratified by the care , but he is still grieving about the fact that he was locked in captivity in this small room . Zone put down his napkin and looked around the every corner of the room , wondering what might be the thing that mediums the god to be able to watch him . He wants to ask wether is there a way to go out of the prison .

But he is afraid , he is afraid of things that he could not comprehend but at the same time curious .

" Thank you , master " Zone stood up and bowed to air .

Jiro outside the screen smiled and rubbed the screen where the youth's hair was located.  He couldn't help , the anime character just looked so cute .

Zone felt air messing with his hair , he lifted his head and tried catching the thing that was ruffling his head but he could only feel a faint sensation of warm air that brushed upon his hands .

Zone blinked and felt annoyed but didn't showed it to his face .

[ Cub's favorability : 5 ]

" Eh! " Jiro sat up properly and sighed in regret . He immediately stopped rubbing the guy .

[ Cub's favorability : 4 ]

" Just what is wrong with this guy? " Jiro massaged his temple and drink the remaining coffee on the papercup .

Zone felt empty when the warm air disappeared , he immediately hung his head down lost in thought .

Rub me more , don't stop ...

Zone looked at the air and decided to sleep for now . Yet before he could go back to his bed . An invisible forced him to enter the bathroom .

' does the master want me to take a bath? , Do i smell bad? '

Zone tried smelling his armpit but he doesn't smell bad at all .  Zone's eyes widened when he felt a force trying to remove his clothes from his body .

" Ah! No ! Don't! "

[ Cub's favorability : 3 ]

[ Cub's favorability : 2 ]

Jiro immediately stopped and blinked his eyes in confusion . Why doesn't he want to take a bath?

" I-i can bath myself . Thank you " Zone locked the bathroom and exhaled .

What a freak! Is his master a pervert? How can he casually remove someone's clothes without permission?

Jiro who was door slammed by his own cub blinked . " What the? This cub really thought he's already old huh , i tell you little one . Even if you are 30 years old and above . You still have the body of a boy , I'm you daddy why do you not want me to wash you up! "

Jiro huffed in anger and bit his lips in unvented anger . How he wished he could spank the cub's buttocks .

Three minutes later , a cute boy exited the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his lower part.  His skin glistened like a glass and it was red because of the hot bath . One would wonder wether water would come out once it was pinched . It looked so soft and squishy , Jiro was tempted to touch but he suddenly remembered that the favorability may drop down again .

When Zone opened the closet , it is now filled with variety of clothes . He was about to choose the normal pajama , when a onesie was suddenly shoved to his arms .

" Huh? "

A fox onesie ...

Zone was dumbfounded and suddenly thought that his master might be a perverted old man . How could he give someone who's already old to wear this kind of thing?

Zone hesitated a little but then he felt a light condensed air poking his waist as if pushing him to wear what they want .

He blushed in shame and decided to wear this onesie .

An anime character wearing a fox onesie with sky blue bangs and red iris stood in front of the screen checking himself on the room's mirror with flushed face .

" M-master .. i think i should just wear a normal pajama this night . "

Jiro screenshotted the scenario and made it his phone's wallpaper . He tapped the screen stopping the character from removing the onesie and rubbed his head .

" Oh , if that is what master wants , then I'll oblige . "

Jiro slapped the table in high satisfaction . Such master servant role play , this game company is really interesting . Was the game character equipped with an artificial intelligence? It even has human shame .

After Jiro pushed the character to the bed , the office door was suddenly pushed open and Doze entered .

" Master , it's already late at night. Let's go back home . "

Jiro closed the phone and pulled his coat at the backrest before following Doze out of the office .

Zone stared at the ceiling and covered himself with quilt . Although his life had always been silent , it was still worse than when he could feel that someone was present . Just like how Zone could feel his master's attendance whenever a condensed warm air poked or rubbed his body .

What would happen if he will have the permission to gaze at his master's holy body? Will ... Will his master ignore him? After all , they might just be playing with us lesser race out of boredom and they would discard us if they run out of interest .

A sense of crisis loomed over his heart.  Zone doesn't want to be alone anymore . Although Zone only met his master today , he knows that his master isn't an evil god . As long as he's obedient , his master would take good care of him .

Zone put his arm at his backhead and stared at the ceiling with serious expression . " I don't want to wait for another man to take care of me for another 20 years . "

Zone closed his eyes and sleep .

Jiro woke up early and started doing his daily excercises . The door to the gym room suddenly opened and a cute head peeked inside .

" Brother~ "

Jiro was doing push ups and paused after hearing a familiar call . He sighed and stood up before wiping his face and looked at the kid standing at the doorstep .

" What? You're gonna ask for money again? " Jiro teased and beckoned to the little boy to come to him .

The 12 years old boy pouted and trotted with light step to his cousin's direction . He directly pounced and pouted his small mouth . " Brother! Can you attend the parent's meeting for me tomorrow? Mom has been very busy these days shooting abroad while dad had a business trip to france last week . No one's around the home to attend the meeting~ "

Jiro sighed and nodded . " Well ... I'll make sure to free up my schedule tomorrow for you . What time is the homeroom meeting? "

" As usual , 3 pm after class "

" Ok ok , go back to your room and study . " Jiro pushed the boy outside the gym room .

The boy suddenly turned his body and smiled . " Brother! Buy me the limited edition of XXX after this . It's been a long time since you bought me a pair of shoe ."

" Alright alright , I'll buy it for you . "

" Really!!! "

" Yup yup! "

The kid immediately got excited and hugged his cousin's waist before running out of the room .

Doze saw the little kid jumping up and down outside of the gym room .

" What's up Xiaojian? "

Li Xiaojian looked excitedly at his brother's personal assistant and hold Doze's hands excitedly . " Haha nothing nothing , I'm just happy that Cousin will buy me the limited edition shoe from XXX . "

Doze nodded and ruffled Li Xiaojian's head . " Then go ahead , i have something to discuss with your cousin now . Have you eaten already "

Li Xiaojian nodded and run away to brag his new shoes tomorrow .