The Earth After Rebirth

As they agreed, they didn't dare log in. They enjoyed the time away from that hell, people call a game.

Kiro knocked on Hiro's door, this was now their signal that breakfast or dinner was ready. They had slept for 13 hours straight and woke up the next morning. They were rested but not quite ready to dive into Asgard just yet.

They quickly walked down to breakfast, when they entered the hall, it smelled great as always. Hiro thought he'd faint, he ran out without a word, Kiro quickly followed him.

He entered the toilet, after 5 minutes Kiro entered as well. He had vomited everything out, at this point he was puking out a translucent liquid.

"What's the matter?"

"The smell of meat."

Kiro didn't have to think too much, he knew what had caused it. Just a few days ago, Hiro was someone who could eat a whole bucket of meat.

"Its about what you experienced huh? I understand." He sighed and sat beside his friend, whose head was in the toilet.

"It was a nightmare Kiro, it was all great at first then everything changed when dad disappeared. Mum even cooked my dog and—" At that thought, his head quickly went back to the toilet, but nothing came out.

"I also saw something terrible. My family died right in front of my eyes and I couldn't do anything. I tried but I couldn't save any of them." Kiro said with a heavy heart.

It was as if a faucet had been opened, they started opening up about their fears and nightmares. It surprisingly made them feel better.

"You saved me you know." Hiro said abruptly.

"What do you mean?"

"I was ready to blow my brains out when I heard 'You're stronger than you think'."

"You may have had to do the thing all over again. Lucky you, that you have me." He attempted to flip his hair in an arrogant manner.

They looked at each other and chuckled, just then the door burst open. Isaac and his goons walked in with the biggest grins both of them had ever seen.

"You should've blown your brains out." He said thinking he was being clever.

Kiro stood between them and Hiro, he hadn't stopped smiling from feeling confident about what Hiro had said.

"What do you want? What was your name again?"

Hiro laughed and stood up to stand beside his friend. Isaac was visibly fuming.

"You think you're hot sh*t now that you're popular in-game? You're still poor, matter of fact I challenge you to a PvP, I don't think you're all that strong, you must've cheated somehow."

"Can't you see I'm busy? I'm having a heart to heart with my buddy here. Besides, get to the capital first then you can have the balls to challenge me."

"Aren't you the best player? scared of a noob like me?"

"I never proclaimed myself as the best, though its good that you realise you're a mere noob. Nonetheless thanks for naming me the best in Asgard, I'll wear this badge of honour."

"Well you heard it here folks," he looked around with his arms opened wide, "he's scared of me. Got a little popular and now you're acting like you own the place. Pathetic!" Isaac sneered. His goons laughed.

Kiro got closer to Isaac. But this time he talked, while he was face to face with him. "Unlike you, the money I will make will be mine, if I run out, I will make more. I won't run to daddy.

"Keep making a fool of yourself and we will see just who will have the last laughed in the end." He said in a whisper, ensuring nobody but him heard it.

Kiro had his hands in his pockets, he didn't want anybody to see that they were slightly shaking.

He had originally thought the stare he gave Isaac in the cafeteria had broken him, it was now apparent that it would take more than that to beat the arrogance out of him.

"From now on, if I ever see you in-game, ever. I'll activate PvP and beat you to a pulp. I'll make you lose levels faster than an SSS ranked quest ever will. And when I'm done with you, you'll fear even logging into the game." This time he said it loudly that anybody who was walking outside could've heard him.

He noticed that Isaac was taken aback. But he quickly recovered and sneered, he snapped his fingers and his goons held him down.

Isaac planted his fist right on his solar plexus. That drained all the air in his lungs, he struggled to do anything as he couldn't breathe. He wanted to kneel down, but they held him up.

Then they started beating them up. They tried fighting back, but there were just too many of them.

Kiro and Hiro were both beaten down, they were on the floor trying to catch their breaths. Isaac walked over and knelt besides Kiro, and held him by the hair.

"We will see who has the last laugh? You pathetic arrogant little slum rat. I'll show you real power."

Kiro chuckled, he hated physical pain but he had went through a lot that he was almost numb to it.

"You're kneeling right now to your King, sucker." He said mockingly and spat a mouthful of blood on Isaac's face.

Isaac was shaking with anger, he smashed Kiro's head on the toilet seat hard and broke his nose. He immediately lost consciousness but weirdly enough, he was still smirking.

When he came to, Hiro was visibly concerned and panicking. He had tried to get up but his ribs had broken, so he stayed seated while occasionally kicking his friend to wake up.

"You look like sh*t." Kiro said in a kind of a whisper.

Hiro's face relaxed a bit, "have you looked in the mirror."

They both laughed, but it was so painful that they had to stop. They were pretty banged up, Hiro had a black eye, a few broken ribs. Kiro's lip was busted with a few broken ribs and a broken nose.

"Man, who angered them at 7 in the morning."

"Your mouth." Hiro said, narrowing his eyes. "But I'm not complaining." He smiled.

He was happy he had a friend that could take a beating together with him. If he had been alone, they may have killed him, he was sure of that.