Chapter 58 - Manipulating Time? (1/2)

Ginro seemed to have lost all motivation to work while Gray seemed to be extraordinarily motivated.

"I have… important things to do… just do what you want…" Ginro said lifelessly to Gray.

Feeling a little bad about Ginro's complete personality change, Felicia actually walked over to him for once and whispered something to him. Suddenly Ginro's eyes lit up and he let out his usual haughty laugh and was suddenly in good spirits again.

"Ok Gray-san! Let's get to work! No time like the present! I shall personally go over the data with you, you should be honored!"

"Now he's calling me Gray-san instead of Gray-kun? All of that sub-titled anime watching came in handy!" Gray thought to himself.

(-san is a common formal honorofic, -kun is meant to show endearment but more so for children, essentially Ginro is insinuating Gray is a little boy.)

Gray felt very curious about what Felicia said to him so he asked "What did you say to him?"

"I mentioned that I'm probably going to dump you… and that I have an older sister whom I live with so she sometimes comes to pick me up." Felicia said while wrapping her arm around Gray's arm.

"I didn't know you had an older sister." Gray replied, ignoring the first part.

"Aren't you supposed to get upset that I will be dumping you?" asked Felicia with a curious expression.

"Nah, you already gave me more than I thought you would earlier!" Gray said recalling her grabbing and kissing him roughly.

Felicia blushed slightly then added teasingly "Oh, well if you consider that enough, then I guess I don't need to do any more then!"

Gray opened his mouth to retort but couldn't think of anything, instead he thought to himself "Well, looks like I just shot myself in the foot…"

"Ok, fun stuff aside, we need to actually get this taken care of as soon as possible, we've disabled the troubled maps for the time being, but that means we've also disabled 50 vs. 50 matchmaking." Felicia stated.

"I still don't know what exactly you want me to do here, but I'll help wherever I can" Gray said.

"Just read through the feedback that I'll provide you with about the different maps, Ginro will provide you unlimited virtual access to all of the trouble maps and you can use your own virtual body inside a scaled down version of each map and help us redesign them."

"Ok, ummm, what if I want to use a mech on the maps, is that possible?" Gray asked.

"You'll have to talk to Ginro about that, I'm only able to provide the player feedback."

"Ok, get me the feedback then, separate it by maps, and then separate each map section by attacking and defending complaints. Any aesthetic complaints, filter out and put in one file for now. I'll look over that later if there is time."

"Oh? Now you're ordering me around? I outrank you remember." Felicia said while smiling innocently

"Uhmmm… please could you?" said Gray.

"Much better, but I do admit you are a lot more attractive when you're confident like that! Being nice will only work on good girls." Felicia said smiling.

"Are you saying you're not?" Gray said teasingly.

Felicia smiled and walked away without answering. She then turned around and said to Gray "I'll get that data for you… SIR!" she emphasized the sir while giving a salute to Gray.

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Gray went over to his new desk to see what he had to work with. He was expecting a generic computer terminal, maybe some folders, a desk phone, and maybe some pens, pencils or markers even. What greeted Gray was a nearly empty desk. The only things on it were a silver halo with a glass like panel, a pen that looked like a stylus, and a small bank of slots for data chips.

"I don't get it, this is the virtual world, why would we need these slots for data chips?" Gray thought.