Recognized

Loading in the Virtual world, a familiar character caught the attention of Jihoon.

"You're Keeho?" Jihoon said out loud, making Jay take off his VR Headset and look at Jihoon.

"Do you know my character?" Jay asked, taken aback by his question, Jihoon immediately thought of an excuse. Quickly examining the television, he saw his tag in the upper right of the screen saying 'Keeho01'

"You-You're tag! It says Keeho01!" Jihoon gulped. Getting a doubting look from Jay, he just nod his head. "Sure" Jay was suspicious of him but then he wore his VR Headset again.

Jihoon heaved a sigh of relief, slapping his self mentally because of what he said. He looked at the television and saw the Giant Tree, which he clearly remembers.

"Would you believe if I said I helped and talked with 000?" Jay asked out of nowhere.

"Yeah" Jihoon answered him.

"Really?" Jay was stunned with his best friend's answer.

"Well I really did help him! We got to battle this strange looking character in the game, he also blasted this white light beam and then he levitated then he fainted so I helped him." Jay explained, getting a faint chuckle from Jihoon since he remembered the events clearly since it happened yesterday.

"Woahh! That's so cool!" Jihoon giggled.

"I'm serious!" Jay laughed, making Jihoon laugh as well.

"I believe you"

They made each other laugh for what felt like hours, countless nonsense joke as well as laughing without breathing, they miss this feeling since Jihoon hasn't been able to hang out with Jay.

Now that they're hanging out together, they both hoped that this wouldn't end.

"Jay it's almost 4, we still need to work remember" Jihoon tried waking up the half-sleeping Jay. They got tired of playing The Loop a while ago and they decided to just play around, but eventually Jay got tired and was resting.

"Let's go now" Jihoon tried pulling Jay but he didn't budge. Putting his hand to his hips, he was thinking of a plan to make Jay stand up. Eventually, a great plan came to his mind.

"Are you really not waking up?"

There was no answer.

"Well then." Jihoon said as he exited Jay's room. He quickly ran to the Worker's area, where he asked the other workers if they had seen Mark, which they did and he was staying in the garden. Jihoon thanked the workers and he ran to the garden to find Mark, where he easily found him watering the plants.

"Mark!" Jihoon called him.

"Do you have any feathers?" Jihoon asked.

"Is master late for his work again?" Mark asked. Jihon nodded making Mark sigh.

"Follow me."

They both went to the garage and searched for the box of feathers they usually use to wake up Jay. They eventually found it and Mark gave Jihoon two feathers.

"Thanks Mark!" Jihoon thanked the butler as he ran back to Jay's room, laughing.

Quietly opening the door, he slowly went to Jay's bed. Upon uncovering the blanket, Jay was nowhere to be found.

"You thought!" Jay hugged Jihoon from the back and both of them fell to the bed. Jay now tickling Jihoon, which Jihoon laughed uncontrollably.

"Wait! Stop!" Jihoon barely said this as he kept laughing. Jay still kept going, laughing as well.

"You're going to be late!" Jihoon still kept laughing, Jay slowed down his tickles and he eventually stopped. Jihoon was now busy panting as he was trying to catch his breath.

"Go and change now! I'll be waiting in the living room." Jihoon stood up and he left Jay's room to go down in the living room.

Sitting on one of the sofas, a maid offered him Cookies and Boba Tea.

"Thank you" Jihoon thanked the maid and started munching on one of the cookies. "Chocolate, my favorite" He thought to himself. enjoying his favorite food.

"Let's go?" Jay asked loudly as he was going down the stairs.

"Let me eat this first." Jihoon continued munching on the cookies.

"Don't talk while your mouth is full" Jay giggled.

Finally finishing his food, Jihoon and Jay went to the convenience store. Since it's Jay's shift, Jihoon was just sitting there to accompany him. Jay was suppose to take out the trash buy Jihoon volunteered.

"Let me take that." Jihoon said as he went out of the back door to throw the trash. Upon throwing away the garbage bag, he sensed a familiar aura behind him. Turning around, a dark figured appeared out of nowhere.

"We meet again Jihoon" Said the dark figure.

"Who are you?! How do you know me?!" Jihoon yelled.

Jay was mopping the floor and he heard Jihoon yell. His instincts kicked in and he ran to where Jihoon was. Opening the back door, his best friend was looking at a dark figure.

"Jihoon!" Jay shouted and went in front of Jihoon.

"Who are you?!" Jay asked angrily. He received a creepy laugh from the figure.

"Did you forget about me already?" The figure snapped, creating a protective bubble, the same bubble that appeared during the first battle.

"How is this even possible?" Jay looked around.

"Your world is already starting to overlap with ours. In a matter of time, we will eliminate all of you!" The figure laughed.

Jihoon and Jay was frozen in their place, they both didn't know what to do.

"Your world is already starting to overlap with ours" Jihoon muttered, realizing what the figure said, he reached out his hand, the same as what he did when wielding a weapon on the game.

Unexpectedly, his flaming sword appeared. Without any hesitation, he started attacking the figure. The figure noticed this and it started dodging his attacks.

Jihoon saw what Jay was doing. He was protecting him, touched by his friends action he started to move away.

"Not on my watch!" The figure shouted and started running towards Jihoon.

"Jihoon!" Jay shouted and ran as fast as possible towards Jihoon. The figure preparing themselves to attack Jihoon was immediately stopped by Jay's sword.

"You brat!" The figure shouted and hit Jay on his right shoulder. Jay now wounded, he held his wounded area but was obvious he was weakened by the attack.

"How dare you!" Jay yelled so loud that the whole city would've heard it.