Free End Online: Volume 6 by D. Wolfin Page B

how much I like her.” Markus
gives me a glare that is full of enmity.
    Getting a little angry at
his stubbornness, I coldly respond, “If you care for her so much, why don’t you
stop flirting with every girl you see? Of course she ignores you.”
    “Hmph, have you even had a
girlfriend before? No? How unsurprising. I have had plenty and it is because I
treat all women equally. How can I be nice to one and not another?”
    “So why don’t you have a
girlfriend now?” I glare at him and he awkwardly turns his head to look
elsewhere. “No way… You’re unbelievable. You treat all of them equally, meaning
you treat other girls just like your girlfriend, don’t you?”
    Markus remains silent and
avoids discussing the topic any further. My anger dissipates with the sense of
victory, and I am in a good mood by the time we arrive at my house.
    Markus helps me out, also
having forgotten about the discussion earlier. We bid each other farewell, and
he says he will pick me up Wednesday around the same time as today before
leaving for his house.
    Once he is gone, I send a
message to Mason and CaptainGordon, letting them know I will be logging on now
and that Sir Laurence and Verde will do the same within the hour. Without
waiting for a reply, I lie down on my bed with the V-Link on my head and log
into End Online.
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    -Sydney Lee-
    “Dear, Verity needs her
own personal space. This is going too far,” my wife, Sarah, says to me
disapprovingly.
    “She is my daughter. This
sort of measure is absolutely necessary. If she wants to keep playing her game
with her friends, this is needed.”
    This discussion concerns a
certain electronic microchip I had installed into my daughter’s V-Link while
she was attending the first day of university. I had some specialists look at a
duplicate of the device some time ago and design this chip. My daughter lost
her memory from a malfunction of this device, and even if those memories have
returned, I will not allow her to continue using it if there is even an inkling
of danger.
    I don’t want to force her,
so instead I had this unique chip designed. It is a sort of physical limiter on
the device. My wife doesn’t disapprove of that part, and in fact strongly
supports it. I learned the benefits of her approval through her affection late
last night.
    What she does not like is
the second feature of this chip. Not only does it protect her as a limiter, it
replicates and transmits exactly what she is seeing to any mobile device I link
it to. Call it fatherly instinct, but I want to watch over her and see her being
happy. Sarah is extremely angry about this, the proof displayed in the form of
the broken phone on the table in front of me.
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    -Lost-
    Arriving on top of the
Forgotten Ruminu Temple’s roof where I logged off, I find that it is currently
night time in the game. CaptainGordon, Mason and Matrix are lying down
stargazing while Fen is quietly standing near me. To this day, I can’t figure
out how she logs in faster than I do. I saw her in my locker mere moments ago,
yet here she is waiting.
    It will still be about
half an hour before the final two people log in, so I join the others in star
gazing. In real life the sky is full of light pollution, so only the most
prominent stars can be seen shining in the sky. Above this temple however, the
sky is an ocean of stars, each one vibrantly full of life.
    By the time Sir Laurence
and Verde log in, the sun is beginning to rise over the eastern horizon and the
night sky is rapidly being overtaken by dawn.
    “I have been doing some
thinking recently,” I say to everyone on top of the temple, scratching the side
of my head awkwardly. “Now that three of us are attending university, we will
have a little less time to play End Online. I plan to