BXBX NOVEL Chapter 98 Playing Arcade Games
"Olivia, which game would you like to pick?" We had enough time to do what we wanted. I was patient and let Olivia pick a game she was interested in.
Olivia had pointed in the direction of a game she wanted. The game she picked was something that I didn\'t expect from her.
Not surprisingly, there was a fighting game with some joysticks on the machine. This game brought back many of my old memories.
Because Olivia wanted to play this game doesn\'t mean I would go easy on her. I was very competitive in games like these. While I may not be the best, I could say I was, at the very least, decent.
There were five characters to choose from, four female and one male. Before we played against each other, we had picked all five characters testing out the moves of each of them.
With the both of us having time to figure out who we wanted to play with, we began our match. Olivia had chosen a girl with revealing clothes that had blue clothes and primarily used a kick.
And I have chosen the only male character. He was a big buff dude with too much muscle for his own good.
Having to start the match, Olivia and I began our battle. The fight was brutal. Was this really Olivia\'s first time playing?
The match had already started, and I was already losing. Olivia was doing perfect combos, making it hard for me to fight back. I had a few hits and many blocks, but in the end, she demolished me.
"DEFEAT!" That was what the screen had shown me. There was a bit of anger within me seeing this screen. I have seen this word many times in my days.
"Again." I had demanded, thinking that she was just lucky.
Olivia didn\'t object and stared at the screen, picking the same character. I did so with mine, and we played our second match.
This time I couldn\'t even land a hit. Olivia had done an extended combo on me, and right when my character got back up and had done a combo again. The screen repeated "DEFEAT!" was shown again.
"Olivia, are you sure this is your first time?" With how she played, I was pretty sure this wasn\'t her first time playing this game.
She had done a perfect on me without me landing a hit. I felt highly demotivated seeing that. Unlike when I thought she was lucky, I knew she was someone I couldn\'t even come close to.
"This really is my first time. It was better than what I expected." She gave me confirmation that this was her first time playing.
"Why don\'t we play a different game?" I don\'t think watching me lose all day here would be entertaining.
"Then could we try that." Going to the next game was a racing game. The last time I played these kinds of games was when I was a kid.
Racing games weren\'t for me, so I never decided to pick them up as a hobby. Since racing games were self-explanatory, I decided to win this back from my previous loss.
"Olivia, this time, I won\'t lose!" I told her and myself this.
The course of this race was pretty simple. All we needed to do was a race in a circle with three laps. With ten computers adding places to the race, twelve cars pitted against one another.
With the beeping noise coming, the race was about to start. Counting down, we hit the drive button, starting the race.
Starting with the first lap, I was in the lead with Olivia in the middle of the pack. I had been cutting it close to the corners making my tracking speed more optimal.
In the second lap, Olivia was close behind me. I don\'t know what she did, but she was on my tail.
It was scary how good she was. One mistake and I would lose my lead. Trying to outpace her, Olivia rammed into the back of my car.
OLIVIA!!! STOP!!! I spun out of the track with Olivia ramming my car on the back. Olivia had passed by me and finished the race without making a mistake.
I had wanted to smash the wheel but didn\'t want to cause trouble. "Charlie, good game!" Did she just use gamer lingo on me? I was devastated and unable to reply to that.
I refuse to believe that she could beat me in everything. There was a shooter game that we could do to compete with who would kill the most monsters.
Surely I wouldn\'t lose in a game like that, right? "Olivia, why don\'t we try the shooting game." Watching Olivia race, I knew my chances of beating her were zero. I will beat her somewhere else if I can\'t beat her there.
My soul was crushed. Olivia somehow had perfect aim when we were playing the shooting game. She just doesn\'t miss.
Olivia, you were truly born in the wrong world. If you were born into my old world, your dream of a peaceful life would happen.
It was indeed a pity that had happened. In the midst of all things, my respect for you has grown tremendously.
I have decided, let\'s not play a game that would pit us together. "Olivia, could we please play a game that requires us to play together?" I\'m not a masochist, so losing every time wasn\'t something I wanted to do.
With her agreeing we left and played some games together. I wasn\'t going to lie, but the games that didn\'t require us to compete was kind of refreshing from the times she destroyed me.
Looking at Olivia, she seem to enjoy playing these kind of games. It was good that she she was having fun, that was what we were here for anyways.
Some time had passed and lunch was approaching Olivia seemed a bit sad that we were going to leave but I had told her we could always come back on a later date.