To Live Again, For the First Time!

Emilin hurriedly dropped the call and stuffed her phone in her pocket in a rush.

But it wasn't even a second before she took it right back out so that she could remove the platinum privilege for Grace.

Then, she shoved it right back in.

When Emilin was done, she left the bathroom.

When she first left, she was still feeling quite guilty and bad for her two friend's predicament.

After all, this was all due to her blunder and miscalculations, she had been careless.

But then... she wasn't all that guilty anymore.

At least not after watching Grace and Noah intimately bickering.

Haha.

What's with all this dog food?

So much PDA…

If this isn't animal abuse, what is? :)

All her guilt vanished into thin air.

It had to be said that Emilin in fact was actually a little jealous of how well they got along, even if they didn't admit it out loud.

To Emilin, they didn't have to admit it out loud.

The two of them just had this particular chemistry that one couldn't help but admire.

Emilin took her seat and watched the two of them playing and arguing passionately together.

Then, her jealousy also vanished into thin air.

She wasn't capable of letting such a feeling cloud her view of such a cute interaction.

After all, she found the two quite adorable when they were like this.

Especially when they weren't arguing seriously.

They were like bickering children.

They only fought over the small things.

It was all just for show, as in the end, they would always end up being on the same side.

When it came to the big matters, they would still be there to support each other, and that's what Emilin admired the most in the duo.

It was also why she was so willing to be their friend.

Though it often seemed like Emilin was desperate for friends as she was often stopped from making them due to some psychological trauma, she too had standards.

She wouldn't lower herself to make friends with people she didn't want to as that would be beside the whole point of having any friends.

In fact, if she found out that the people, she approached were no good characters, she wouldn't hesitate to drift away from them.

For people unworthy, there was no point in bothering with them in the first place, as for those who were both worthy and willing, she would give this friendship her all.

That was why she didn't hesitate to open the back door for her friends when they were having trouble with the game they were playing, even if this may affect the whole company if found out.

Though the results were less than satisfactory.

As for the issue about the platinum privilege that had led to this whole thing, Emilin had determined that she was going to take this matter to her grave!

***

As for what was really happening on Grace and Noah's side when Emilin came back from the bathroom... well, let's just say that the situation was not exactly as it seemed.

Grace and Noah had each been battling for the duration in which Emilin was in the bathroom, but the final victor had yet to be decided, after all, these two would not easily settle for defeat.

When Emilin came into this equation, things had only gotten more heated.

These two got serious, sleeves rolled up and all.

Seriously fierce.

Neither Grace nor Noah was willing to look bad at such a critical moment, after all, this was a battle that had been fought for a week with no clear winner.

This game could be considered a deciding moment.

While Noah was determined not to make himself look bad when he had more experience than Grace, especially not wanting to lose to her, Grace wanted to show how unreliable this guy was.

Proving a point to Emilin, who didn't even know that Grace had such thoughts in her mind.

Or something like that... to be honest, no one can really be sure what was going through her mind for certain.

Anyways, because of this critical moment, they had gotten particularly serious during the game.

Not minding using unscrupulous methods for the win.

This resulted in the two of them having one hand on the controls while their other three limbs were used to mess with the other party.

Which to others looked particularly intimate... or not.

It was probably just Emilin, who already looked at these two's interactions through a pink filter.

Well, it depends if you think having one's foot on the other's face in an attempt to block their view is particularly romantic.

I guess everyone has different definitions of romantic.

Some were more normal than others, while some were more… quirky and eccentric.

As for who ended up winning in the end, it was as a matter of fact Grace's team who won.

Something she was going to gloat about for the following week.

Truth be told, this had absolutely nothing to do with Grace's and Noah's skill level.

When it came to that, it was pretty evenly matched.

It just happened to be that Grace's teammates were slightly better than Noah's this time.

But when it came to the final results, Grace would never admit that she had only won due to external variables.

All she could see was the Victory on her screen followed by her username.

And of course, she didn't forget to take a screenshot to remember this moment for the years to come.

She had even tried to take a photo of Noah's screen, displaying his loss on this very same day, but that ended up as a failure as Noah had quickly exited the screen.

But even then, this wouldn't prevent Grace from gloating at every and any suitable and unsuitable occasion. :)

That was, after all, one of her only joys in life.

***

"You know, after I beat you, I feel like the game got a whole lot easier," Grace gloated for the nth time.

Noah rolled his eyes in disgust, but she did have a point there.

Both of their win-loss and tie records were no longer as mundane as they were previously.

Now there was a mix of data.

"I don't know if the game got easier, but I do think our opponents got worse," Noah pointed out.

That was indeed the case.

This point was further mentioned on multiple occasions in the following days, but in the end, neither Grace nor Noah was able to figure it out.

As for Emilin, all she could say in moments like these was, "Yeah, that's quite curious."

"Cough, cough."

"Quite curious indeed."

"I wonder how that happened."

"Anyways, what were we talking about again?"

Well, she didn't blow her cover, so all was well.

Grace and Noah had also taken this opportunity where they finally had a few wins under their belt to invite Emilin to join in the fun.

They hadn't done so previously as it would be quite embarrassing to ask her to join in just to lose at every and any turn.

Now that they could win at the game, they could finally carry Emilin in their team.

Sadly, their dreams of carrying this little cutie were crushed as quickly as Emilin rejected their offer.

She didn't want to lie to them saying that she had never played before and pretend to be bad as she feared being exposed, but Emilin also didn't want to suddenly come out as a veteran at the game and expose herself as that would be even more embarrassing.

It would probably be more fun if they developed their own play style and play through the ranks before she joined them, right?

Not to mention, if they lost interest in the game, she didn't want to impose.

If she didn't get too involved, then she wouldn't be as sad if that happened, right?

After all, Mobba was still a game that she and her two older brothers developed together, if she gave it her all and her friends ended up not liking it, she felt like she would also be a little hurt.

Other people's opinions didn't matter, but theirs did.

Emilin decided that she would prefer giving the two some time to develop their own thoughts on the game, or else in the future, she might think that they only liked it because she instilled such an idea in them and not because the game was actually enjoyable.

In the end, she just admitted that she had tried the game before and wasn't too interested in playing for fun as of right now.

This made it sound like she didn't quite enjoy the game when she played, when in fact what she meant was that she had been playing professionally for too long and she would probably spoil the game if she were to go and crush new players.

Grace and Noah could only give in when they heard her answer, but what Emilin didn't know was that that was only on the surface.

Emilin didn't know that her worries were in fact quite superfluous as the two had fallen in love with the game so much that they were already ready to recommend it to everyone they knew, even the people they didn't quite get along with.

In the future, they were still going to continuously persuade Emilin into playing with them but as for now, Emilin was happy just watching the two having fun with the game that meant a whole lot to her.

Mobba.

This game made up so many memorable memories in her childhood, and this very same game would make up so many more in the future.

The game that she and Theo had programmed together and developed together under Nathen's supervision.

And now, this was the very same game that she watched her friends play together.

Emilin had come so far, yet there were still so many things that she could hold close.

How gratifying!