chapter 7

3D girl looked at them. She thought that Calvin still has his humanity.

But then the trio started to laughed out louder than before. Okay, she took back her positive thought about Calvin. They are Band of Bastards!

"How could you do that! Don't you have a bit of humanity inside you? In front of dying man and all of you do are laughing like maniac!" (3D girl)

"I'm his enemy." (Calvin)

"I'm void god." (Bruce)

"I'm Abyss lord." (Astrid)

Ah… they are right for some reason.

"Well now, this is worst scenario for us. Since we can't do anything until he wakes up and leave, we're basically stuck at this world longer than before. Bruce! Logistic!" (Calvin)

"Yes, Master." (Bruce)

Bruce started to took out more things from his void space. A set pc gaming including table and chair, a military tent, and a bookcase with reading chair and tea table. The military tent was too big in the room so he set it up outside the building. Astrid was free enough to covering few hundreds meter around that place with her power.

"Everything is settled, master." (Bruce)

"All right all, do what you're usually do." (Calvin)

He then moved to the gaming chair and ready to play. Hundreds of games shortcut were on his 50 inch holographic monitors. They were his loots from his previous journey. Don't worry, they're all legally obtained. He was not cruel enough to pirate those games from the developers, since they need to feed their family. And for those bastards who made games for anything else than what gamers want and need, they don't deserve his money. he would pirate the games then deleted it. Again and again until he's satisfied.

*writer: stop the piracy whatever your excuse is! Please!*

Bruce took a book from the shelve then sat down at the chair. Occasionally he sipped on his tea cup.

Astrid went to her tent. But then she suddenly came out.

"Bruce! Where is my tv? There are only your books all over the place!"

"I told you to learn more, so that's your current task." (Bruce)

"You are not my father!" (Astrid)

"So go ahead ask your father for permission." (Bruce)

"DADDY!!" Astrid ran to Calvin like a kid being bullied. Bruce was chuckeld. 3D girl was dumbfounded with all of this scene. She grabbed another chair beside Bruce and lost on her thought.

"Master! Bruce took my tv!" She's tapping at Calvin whose busy creating character at the game interface.

"Huh? Why? Did he sale it for cash? I will scold him later. Drugs are dangerous."

"Eh?" Astrid was confused, what's wrong with his master? Why talking about drugs out of the blue?

"Ah, sorry, whenever I heard someone forced-sale something from others, my first thought is those druggies. So stay away from those things, kid. It didn't give you any good." (Calvin)

"…" (Bruce)

"No no no, he didn't sale it, probably, but he confiscated it! Then he's giving me some books to read! A lot of books!" (Astrid)

Calvin stared at Astrid. Books + Astrid = study. Astrid + study? The best result at the exams will be D. Pretty much pointless.

"He's right, you know, you should learn more. Just read those books." (Calvin)

"Master, I have helped you fixed that lady, right? It deserve some reward, right? Please?" (Astrid with puppy eyes)

Calvin thought for a moment.

"All right then, Bruce, give her tv back. Now go go go, I'm in the middle of the most hardest part in the gaming process." (Calvin)

He stared back at his monitor. On the screen there was a box with 'Please Enter Your Name' header.

Astrid walked back to her tent. While passing Bruce, she looked at him and then, "Bleeh…. , Hmph." She held her head high.

3D girl looked around her. This…. This is playing house!

"Mister Bruce, don't you forget something?" (3D girl)

"Hm, what is it Miss 3D?" (Bruce)

"The enemy! THAT enemy! Don't you have something to do with him while he's down?" (3D girl)

Calvin stopped his game, then slowly turning around to looked at her. He's staring at her like looking at rotten meat while he slowly walked to her. After standing in front of her.

"I am not into a man." (Calvin)

"Stop staring me like that, you pervert! Who told you to do that! What are you thinking?!" (3D girl)

"Then what are you thinking?" (Calvin)

"You know, looting, taking all valuables, take everything and leave him with just his underwear! That kind of thing!" (3D girl)

"*Gasp* Bruce, this girl has a black heart!" (Calvin)

"I have not! That's what winner usually do, right?" (3D girl)

"Wrong, at least we're not looting him." (Calvin)

"Why?" (3D girl)

"Because he doesn't have anything valuable to us. We're already tried that before. They were protected by the law of this universe while on mission. If we take anything from him, we'll be detected when he wakes up. They are all like tracking device." (Bruce) 

"What a shame though, that glowing glass is seems expensive." (3D girl)

"That's the most valuable part. It could access all information of this realm on administrator level. It even connected to other realm at same universe. That thing is priceless. Too bad that once it left administrator's hand it will automatically turned off. It became worthless glass." (Calvin)

"It is turned on." (3D girl)

"Huh?" (Calvin and Bruce)

They're running to the fainted salaryman and inspecting the tablet. This salaryman was very professional, even when he suddenly fell, he never let go his tab from his hand. Way to go salaryman!

"Bruce, if we can enter their network, doesn't mean that we can avoid their detection faster and easier?"

"More than that, Master, if I can access it, I can create false profiles for anyone, that is including us!" (Bruce)

"Or we can change anyone's profile, alternating their fate, raising the synchro rate!" (Calvin)

"If I can access it, we don't need to do that. We can change our profile as…"(Bruce)

"FAKE ADMINISTRATOR!" (Bruce and Calvin)

They started to laugh out loud again. One that looked like evil genius and the other looked like pure maniac. Take a guess which one has the laugh. 

"3D girl, do you know what this mean?" (Calvin)

"What? What? I don't understand any words you're all saying." (3D girl)

"You're giving us a check point for this realm. We can back to this realm anytime we want. We don't have to strand in void zone for long time anymore! You are our savior!" (Calvin)

He hold her hands tightly and swinging them up and down. Seeing his happy face at close range, 3D girl felt something warm inside of her chest. Her face turned red.

*writer: oh nononono! I don't want to write romance!*

Calvin saw her face turned red and realize what has happened. He suddenly retracted his hands while leaving 3D girls hands hanging on the air.

"AH, your face is turned red! You must get a motion sickness! Quick, sit down or you'll get vomit!" (Calvin)

Bruce was watching Calvin walked in a hurry to his direction. He looked at Calvin then at red face 3D girl.

"What is it, Master?" (Bruce)

"It was nothing. I was just too happy and suddenly hold her hands and moving them too fast. Seeing her face turned red, I thought that she would be throw up at any second. Within that range, my clothes will be ruined by her vomit, so I saved my own ass. I will called Astrid to come here."

3D girl heard that conversation, and she felt anger arose toward Calvin for no apparent reason.

After Calvin left, Bruce walked to 3D girl.

"Miss 3D, I, Bruce, offer you my gratitude for your help"

"No, no, no, please, it was just a small matter."

"To you, it might be a small thing, but for three of us, this is the biggest event of all our journey so far."

"Can you tell me all about this event?"

"I will tell you the most important part. We can not opening a teleportation gate without knowing where we want to go, yes?"

3D girl nodded.

"But again, we can not teleport to the place we know safely if there is no teleportation gate on the other side either, right? So we need both teleportation gate and teleportation coordinate to have a safe trip. By gaining access to their network, we can create a backdoor as teleportation gate and the coordinate. That's the way for us to enter this realm from anywhere safely and near undetected." (Bruce)

"But you are already here, you can create your own the system and mapping out the coordinate your self, right?" (3D girl)

"You are really smart, Miss 3D, sadly we can not do that. Let me give you an analogy. We are falling at some unknown sea without any star and object as a sign, and now we are entering a random ship to get a map of that ocean. The only one who has the map is…"

"The administrator." (3D girl)

"Correct, and the place he kept the map is…"

"The glowing glass." (3D girl)

Bruce smiled at 3D girl. So far he's satisfied with this girl's intellectual.

"When we failed to get even the glimpse of the map, We're forced to jump off the ship. Now this is the bad news, when we fall to the sea, it was another random sea. So the cycle was repeating until today." (Bruce)

"And what happened if you got caught? They tied all off you and let you sink in the sea?" (3D girl)

"Worst. They strap us on the cannon ball and shot us the sky. That's where the void zone lies"

"The sea water." (3D girl)

"Hm?" (Bruce)

"Is it cold?" (3D girl)

Bruce was speechless. 3D girl realized her mistake and blushed. She was so immersed with the story that she's forgot that it was just an analogy.