Chapter 54 - SOMETHING UNKNOWN (1/2)
HEARING his confirmation, Luo Yan suddenly had a moment of enlightenment. The reason why he felt a familiar feeling when he saw his blue eyes, even that part when he said that stupid moniker, it suddenly all became clear to him. That day they met during his older brother's graduation just immediately flashed inside his head.
This guy saved him from that dude who was harrassing him and then he accompanied him to the auditorium where the graduation ceremony was taking place. He introduced himself as Shen Ji Yun and that he was there because his uncle was the guest speaker. Then before he left, he called him 'silly rabbit'. He remembered being temporary annoyed by that. Because, first of all, he's not in any way silly and which part of him resembled a rabbit?
But after that, he readily put that encounter at the very back of his head. It's not that Luo Yan had forgotten it. He probably just thought that they wouldn't cross paths again. Who would have thought that they would meet here? Or that Shen Ji Yun would actually still remember him? He even recognized him despite looking more mature than his real face.
”Do you need something, Brother Ji Yun?” he asked.
”Survey questions, do you mind answering them?”
Shen Ji Yun almost punched himself the moment he said that. Survey questions, really? It's like he was some salesman trying to ask if the product he was selling was good or not. And a rather bad salesman at that. Even if it was true that he originally came to Olkdale Town to ask some questions regarding their game experience so far. But surely, he could have phrased that better. Or better yet, he should have not started with that.
There were a lot of better ways to start a normal conversation. He could only blame himself for being rather bad at socializing. He usually didn't care. Most of the times he didn't really need to talk to people. He only talked and gave proper response to those who mattered to him. That might make him too cold, but for him, that's more than enough.
But for some reason, Shen Ji Yun wanted to be close to this rabbit. He already had that feeling ever since they met. It was the first time he felt like that towards anyone. He couldn't even properly explain it. The only answer he could think of was that he wanted to be friends with him. As absurd as that sounded. Because if not, then why would he feel this way?
No matter the answer was, right now, he's just thankful that he had this perpetual cold face. A face that had always been devoid of any emotion. If not, his embarrassment would surely show on his face right now.
Luo Jin snorted. ”Survey questions, couldn't you even think of a less lame excuse? Just admit that you have ulterior motives towards my brother!”
Of course, Luo Jin also remembered this guy. How could he not? When he first saw him with his brother, his gaze was so focus that it felt like Luo Yan was the only person he could see. It gave Luo Jin a bad feeling. That's why he couldn't help but be antagonistic towards him. Even now, he still wanted to beat the crap out of him. Because the way he looked at his second brother was still the same.
Shen Ji Yun wrinkled his brows after hearing what the annoying gnome said. Ulterior motives? Could wanting to be friends be considered as ulterior motives?
Luo Yan amusedly held back his younger brother once more before he could attack Shen Ji Yun again. ”Ah Jin, don't be like that. It's insulting to Brother Ji Yun.” He looked up at Shen Ji Yun. What ulterior motive? Just look at that cold handsome face that seemed to be carved out of jade. If anything, he'd be the one people wanted to take advantage of. ”Sorry, Brother Ji Yun. Please don't mind Ah Jin. What do you mean by survey questions?”
Shen Ji Yun composed himself so as not to make any embarrassing mistake again. ”I sometimes do beta testing for Arcadia. The head of the programming team asked me if I could ask one of the players who was given a special race if they had any problems while playing at his Origin Village. Just to check if there's a bug that the programming team was unaware of. That player's game name is Noctis. I accidentaly watched your fight at the Arena yesterday. I didn't expect that the player I was looking for turned out to be you,” he said. That was probably the most number of sentence he had said in years.
When Shen Ji Yun said this, Luo Yan also suddenly remembered that he was the nephew of Shen Yi Mu - the founder and CEO of Moonlight Media. How could he just forget that information? Now he understood why he felt that the Gamekeeper NPC looked oddly familiar. Because he resembled a mini-version of Shen Ji Yun.