My Daily Life In Magic Academy's

Chapter 09 Game Center's

Walking up to the elevator, we immediately boarded her. Mia, my sister immediately pressed the button that showed the number 3 next to the elevator door. As Mia finished pressing the button, the elevator door closed, then the elevator shook slightly, before the end I felt the elevator move up.

"For a fairly well-maintained building, the condition of the elevators here is quite concerning." The small vibration of the elevator is not normal. It can be said that the vibration before it shows that this elevator is not treated properly.

"It's only natural that this elevator isn't maintained. All mall facility maintenance money in corruption by the owner of this mall. The reason why this mall is quiet, because soon this mall will be closed. because the owner of this mall is wrapped in a lot of debt and forced to sell this mall. " Natasha says important information that no one in the media knows. Where did he get this information? As if knowing what I was thinking, Natasha answered the question I had in my head. "The owner of this mall is a friend of my father's."

When our light talk was over, the elevator shook a little as before, until it completely stopped moving up. Then the elevator door opened. We finally reached the third floor.

Out of the elevator, we went to the gamecenter, which was not far from the elevator.

When we got to the gamecenter, Mia immediately moved quickly, went to the cashier, bought a card to operate the machine, after which she returned to us.

Let me explain how the game engine works in this gamecenter. The operation of the machine here uses a card like an ATM card swiped in a place that has been provided. The purpose of the card is to save the point used to pay for the operating costs of the machine. The points used to operate the machine vary, but most are 100 points, and the card purchased by Mia stores 25,000 points. So we can play 250 times in this gamecenter.

When Mia came back from buying cards, she drew our hands both to one of the gaming machines.

"Let's play this game! This game has its co-op mode."

The game that Mia means is an FPS game. There were four toy guns connected to the wires, how to play them, we just needed to point the gun at the sail and pull the trigger from the toy gun. That way, the characters in the game will shoot following the trigger we press.

Natasha and I followed Mia who picked up the toy gun, after she swiped the card three times at the card swipe.

As soon as Mia swiped her cards, the game began. At once the three of us pointed our toy gun towards the screen.

I saw the enemy on the screen, pointing in the direction it was heading, I pressed the trigger on my toy gun. Huh...? There was a three-second delay when I pressed the trigger with my character shooting the enemy, I glanced at the screen belonging to Natasha and Mia, after which I glanced towards the two of them. They didn't experience any delay like I did, their characters shooting along with them pulling the trigger on their toy gun.

"Haw..." I breathed a tired breath. Just the first game, I've lost the mood to continue playing.

Despite the annoying delay, I kept playing... Until his end, this annoying delay finally showed his loss. There was an enemy who did a surprise attack, I hit the trigger of a toy gun, but because of delay, the enemy was not shot, and instead managed to shoot me in the head, make an instant death for the characters I use.

"Damn it!" My scorn, while turning the toy gun in the original place violently until it makes a loud noise.

"If you lose don't be Mira's emotion." My sister advised me with a mocking smile.

"Yes, yeah..." I replied to his taunts with indifference, then left Natasha and Mia who were playing.

Not so far away I walked, I found a resting place, which was a long chair. In the long chair there was already someone sitting with his back on the backrest, his head looked up, with his face covered with a hat. Like he was asleep. I didn't want to bother the guy, but my legs ached from standing up while playing the game before him, I decided to ignore the guy and sit in the long chair, too, it was a little far from the sleeping man.

"Emotion won't solve the problem. You have to be calm, analyze every incident. That way the flaws that should be detrimental, you can make it your flagship card."

"Eh...?"

As I sat on the bench, the person who was asleep next to me suddenly spoke. I don't know who he's talking to, but from what he's saying, I think he's talking to me.

I let out a surprised voice when I was suddenly invited to speak, but that person ignored me and continued to say his words.

"You were calm when you found out there was a delay when you used your gun. But his next move was wrong! You're acting stupid and indifferent to that obstacle. You assume it's just a game so you don't analyze the situation."

"Ummm... You see me play?"

"Yes. I saw her."

"so yeah... Can I ask you something?"

"Please."

"Why is your voice so hoarse?"

I was not bothered by her suddenly being so pretentious to patronize me even though she was a stranger, I was even grateful that she was giving me advice. But I can't take his words as something serious because of his strange voice.

"Ehem... Yep. I have a fever again. Because it's my voice hoarse."

"That's it...."

"..."

"..."

The same incident as Natasha is repeated. Our conversation stopped and the atmosphere became awkward. What can one expect from me who is so not good at talking to strangers?

Perhaps unable to bear with the awkward atmosphere that was happening, she justified her position, took out a hat that covered her face then put her on her head properly.

"How does little brother want to see me play?"

"No need."

Since her face is now not covered, I can see her face. He was a man with an androgynous face, his long black hair tied to fit his hat, giving the impression that he was a girl dressed as a man. But I could tell that he was a man of his body shape, and his voice was big. From her young-looking face, I could tell that her age was more or less the same as mine.

Even though his face shows no signs of depraved people, I still have to be careful. With my childlike appearance, I will follow the advice of Mia and my parents not to go with strangers. In this day and age, there are many child abductors who are underage. Or so I read in various media.

"Ah. Don't you think I'm the bad guy? Take it easy I won't do anything to you." All the average crook would say that. I thought while ignoring the stranger who kept talking to me.

"Alright if you don't want to come, you can see me playing from here."

"aaah... I'm losing..." I heard Natasha's disappointed voice from far away.

"Damn it!" A few seconds later I heard Mia's upset voice.

Like they're done. I glanced over to where Natasha and Mia were playing, but they showed no sign of going away from where they were playing, instead they were focused onto the screen where the stranger before her sat with me.

"Crazy! He made it to stage three in this short amount of time."

"eeeeehs... How can..."

Like her they both completely forgot about me and focused on the stranger's game.

Out of curiosity, I decided to come to them.

"Haha... I can read your movements!"

As I arrived at the game venue, I saw the stranger shooting at the enemy on the screen before they actually appeared. He could actually predict where the enemy would appear, even he managed to get past where I failed before him!

Natasha and Mia didn't realize I was coming, they were too focused on the screen... A few minutes later... The stranger managed to complete all the available stages.

Natasha and Mia looked at the person with a look of disbelief. Even without me noticing, there were already many people who had come to see the stranger playing! I have to admit, her ability to predict the movements of the opponent is so great, even I can't take my eyes off the screen.

As he managed to complete all the stages several people who were watching clapped for him. She timidly thanked me.

"Hows it? Did you learn anything from my game?" Seeing that I was in one of the crowd, he asked with an arrogant smile on his face.

The one who responded to her question was not me, but my sister Mia. "Yes. You're so great! Do you play this game often? You can even guess where his enemies came out!"

"No. I just saw the three of you playing from afar."

"He-great... Oh yeah, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Mia, this midget is my sister Mira, and this is my sister Natasha's friend."

"I'm Alex."

"Alexes... Can we play a game together sometime?"

Huh...? Why is my sister suddenly so excited to invite a stranger she just met to go both ways? Don't-don't...

"Can... If you can tell, what time is it?"

"A hour and a half twelve." Answer me.

"Great, I'm late! Sorry, I have to go!"

"Ah. Wait for... At least you can give me your IG.." Before my sister could ask for her insta, the stranger named Alex was gone.

"Why did you suddenly take her down the street like that?" Ask me.

"eeehs... When else can I meet a handsome man like him."

I guessed it... My sister tried to get close to him.

"Haha... There's no point in staying here all the time, let's go around." Natasha laughed wryly upon hearing my sister's answer. He then proposed to continue touring.

Since my sister was also satisfied to see the stranger play, we decided to follow Natasha's advice.

***

"Haaaah... Tired..."

Those were the words that came out of my mouth when we got in front of my house. It was late afternoon, the clock on my smartphone showed at 17:00. We drove around the mall all day. When in the mall we buy a lot of food, clothing, cosmetic tools, and accessories. The result of all that is, the out of my pocket money that I have saved from three months ago. There was a feeling of regret I spent that money, but it wasn't bad spending time with Mia and Natasha. Although the impact of my energy and money is completely drained.

"See you tomorrow Natasha." I said to Natasha who bothered to drive me and Mia home to the front of the house.

"Yes. I'll see you tomorrow."

After saying goodbye to today, I saw Natasha walking out of the housing complex. I kept looking at him, until his figure was not seen again.

When Natasha was gone, I went inside the house. By the way Mia went straight into the house as soon as we got to the front of the house.

"Ah. Mira, there's a package for you. The sender from the magic academy." My sister said as soon as I entered the house.

"Okay. Where did you put the package?"

"In the room."

Going to my room on the second floor, I saw a box as I entered the room. I unsealed the box, and looked at the contents inside of it.

Inside the box were three uniforms, a backpack and some stationery.