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At the end, we ended spending three hours inside the gym with Rita. We used almost every machine there was. Trying out what was better for us. We ended liking the most traditional things, and we decided to stick to less complicated stuff. The instructor said that if we wanted to lose weight, running was the best. But he also said that there was nothing wrong with building muscle as ladies.
Many girls we saw here were super built and had beautiful muscles. Thinking about having a body like that excited me a little bit. I always thought of myself as weak and small, through my entire life, I was always protected by others close to me… Maybe getting a bit of muscle could increase my self-confidence…
After we took a nice bath in the showers. Both Rita and I were super hungry. Three hours of doing exercise was no joke at all. I decided to quickly run back to my home, and she went off to hers so we could cook for our families. More than anything, I didn’t wanted Elena to order food.
However, I ended stopping midway through when I saw my garden. Looking at it all dry, it made me felt slightly sad. Remembering the big farm I got in the game, it felt quite ironic that my front yard and back yard looked this dead. Not even grass was growing properly anymore, and it was just dry dirt with some dying tree.
Maybe I should try to get something here… Some grass, and perhaps some new flowers and plants. Even cactuses could work, as well, maybe? I don’t know why but I felt like I really had to do it… Perhaps being so obsessed with plants in the game is messing my head.
Suddenly, I saw a tiny grass growing at the corner of the front yard. I slowly walked towards it and touched it gently.
“You poor thing… Sorry for not taking care of you.”
FLASH!
“HUH?!”
Suddenly, I don’t know if it was just the sunlight coming out from the moving clouds that were blocking the sun, or just a hallucination, but I felt as if something weird, a bright light came out of the tip of my finger.
It was so fast I could just think it was just the sunlight, which was hitting me strongly from atop the clear sky. But I was left so much in surprise that I ended falling over my butt.
“W-What the heck was that?!”
I looked everywhere, and then at my hands. Nothing was out of the ordinary, and the people walking through the streets that saw me approached, asking me if I was okay.
“Lady is everything alright?”
“A-Ah… Yes, thank you for worrying. I just saw a bug…”
My neighbors were surprisingly nice, this neighborhood has always been pretty good, so a response like this from them was normal.
After they walked away, I looked around, and then, back at the weed growing from the dry dirt… Hm, I could swear this weed wasn’t as big… and it hasn’t expanded so much over the dirt before.
Maybe I looked wrongly? Or something came out of my finger?
…Magic?
No, that’s just impossible, magic doesn’t exist in real life.
…
“Plant Manipulation!”
I pointed my finger at the weed trying to manipulate it like in the game.
…
Nothing happened.
Yeah, it is just my imagination, maybe I am too tired from the gym.
I walked back home and then looked one last time at the weed. There was a flower there.
Wait, a flower?!
That wasn’t there when I inspected it before.
Did it just bloom while I walked to my house’s door?
Wow, that’s… interesting. I never thought that weed flowers could grow so fast.
Surely, it must be a strange species of weed.
Yeah… magic doesn’t exist after all.
“Maybe I should just not play the game for a week or something, so I can stop having thoughts about it.” I sighed, blaming the game overly realistic world to all of these delusions I am currently having. 𝚍ｏ𝚟𝚕.ｏｒｇ
When I entered my home, I found Elena and Anna playing Mario Kart in the living room. They were having a blast and… there was a medium-sized pizza box in the floor.
“I am back! And… you brought pizza.” I sighed.
“Anna brought it.” Elena said.
“GAH…! I didn’t! We agreed on buying it half and half!” Anna said. “S-Sorry Miss Elayne, did you wanted to make lunch? I am pretty hungry still. I ate it cuz I had no breakfast.”
“Oh, so Elena didn’t ate that much?” I asked.
“Just one slice.” Elena said while sipping some juice.
“Anna, did you just ate a whole medium-sized pizza?! That’s a bombshell of calories!” I exclaimed.
“Hahahah… Y-Yes. I was really hungry…” She sighed.
Looking at her again, she’s really thin, so I guess eating all of that won’t really make her fatter right away. But still… I suppose I’ll have to make some tasty lunch so she can have her fill and eat something healthier as well. There’s no way I am letting her fill herself with just pizza.
“You poor soul, doesn’t your mother not cook for you? Or you don’t know how to cook?” I asked. I had heard that she lived alone with her mother in a small department.
“My mom doesn’t even know how to cook; she always buys pre-made food or maruchan. She’s always busy at her job so I can’t see her all the time, there’s no way she’ll have energy to cook for me… Oh! I got ahead! I am first place again! Hehehe, hurry or I am leaving you behind!” Said Anna while concentrating into the game. It seems she was getting first place in the race.
“Hoh~? Is that so?” Elena said with a smirk, suddenly, she threw a red shell at Anna and ruined her first place, overrunning her. The other NPC players hit her several times as well, leaving her at seventh place out of the blue…
“Uugh…” Anna sighed.
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