Hello there my beautiful readers! I am sorry for the shortness of this chapter, but it's the end of an arc, and I have also been writing and rewriting it, trying my best at a heartwarming family bonding scene. Fun fact about your little Hysteric author, I SUCK AT PSYCHOLOGICAL THINGS. For the most part. Anyway, I didn't run this chapter through a spell checker just yet, soooo, I hope you can forgive mistakes, and please do point them out!!

P.S.: Hype for next arc!

START OF CHAPTER 4

The workers are long gone, but none of us has entered the game yet.  It's been quite some time since the girls have read the letter.

 They've been talking a little, making sure I don't evasdrop, and they chose which room Lorena will sleep in. Selena had the most agressive reaction to this situation. She was jumpy most of the time, mostly towards me. She was visibly upset about something. 

Lorena was more relaxed about it. She took it quite good, but it was still a shock to her so most conversations would lead to an awkward silence since she doesn't know how to talk to me. Anyway, I also used this time to call up one of my old friends and ask her how to deal with this situation. Which is why we didn't enter the capsules yet. Her name is Amanda Roell, she's one of the best psychologist in the world. She's also a huge sadist in bed....

"So that's the situation?" She asks, her tone thoughtful. 

"Yes....is there any way you can help me?" I ask. I am getting nowhere by myself, so I might as well go along with her idea.

"Hmmm.....there are multiple ways in which this thing can develop, and most of them are not good....the easiest way I can help you would be...hehe.... dear, do you still have that headset I gave you?" Amanda asks me, in a too cheerful tone. I am getting a bad vibe from this, but I am desperate.

"Yes..." I say reluctantly.

"Oh come on, you want my help don't you?" She asks, with even more cheerfulness in her voice. I don't like where this is goin, but I am desperate.

====10 minutes later====

"Girls, I need to talk to you." I grunt as I sit down on the sofa. They've been watching some T.V., waiting for me since I told them to hold up from going inside the capsules just yet.

"Talk to us?" Lorena asks. She got used enough to this situation to talk.

"Yes, I...I didn't know how to ask you this before, but I decided to come clean to you." I repeat everything that Amanda tells me. You might be thinking that what I am doing right now is stupid. But, every one of my old friends are the people I trust most, and I would give my life to protect them. Same goes for them, so I don't have any problem with this situation.

"What is it old man?" Selena asks, audibly annoyed and confused. She must've been through a rollercoaster of emotions.

"First, I want to ask you some questions." I say, looking at both of them. They nod, urging me to continue. "First question, how do you feel about this situation?" 

They were quiet for a little bit, before Lorena started talking.

"W-well, my mother used to tell me stories about how great my dad was, how he was busy making the world a better place.....I just never even thought of imagining that it was you..." She says, while looking down. 

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Slowly she starts hugging herself. "I always imagined my father coming back home from the war, to take care of us....but he never came....YOU never came, you weren't there when my mom died, you weren't there when I enrolled in the army, you weren't there when I was training...you were never there....then I convinced myself that maybe you were dead, but now I found out it was you....." She starts crying now. "It's quite pathetic isn't it? All of this feels like a dream to me right now, it feels like if I try to relax right now everything will disappear..." She's now shouting, hugging herself even tighter. 

"You big dummy!" Selena shouts and hughs her. She starts crying even louder, latching herself onto Selena. What am I doing right now, you might ask? Well, I am standing above those two, with my arms open, about to give them a huge bear hug. I can feel both of them tense up, but they relax when I start talking.

"I'm sorry for not being there. For both of you. There's no excuse, but I hope you can forgive this old man." I say, Amanda only helping me a little at this point.

After a while Lorena calms down. I would ask about her mother, who she was, but I feel that it would most likely be a sore spot for her now. We all stay like this for some time, and finally Selena starts talking.

"Old man....u-uncle, why did my dad never come to visit me?" She asks with a trembling voice. 

"Oh, he did come to visit you. In fact, he was with you everyday. He just couldn't tell you because he blamed himself for your mother's death..." I tell her. 

"Why would he do that?" She asks, I could hear that she was confused and mad.

"You should talk to him about that....even I don't know his full reasoning." I tell her."Do you want me to arrange a meeting for you with him?" I ask her.

"No...I will go on my own.....when I'm ready.." Selena responds to me. Lorena has been awfully quiet, and when I look down I could see her sleeping peacefully leaned on my chest. Selena also notices it and we both start laughing. Quietly of course. 

"I think we can both agree that it won't hurt us to miss one day in that game?" I ask Selena. 

"Hah! You bet old man. But as a compensation, you will have to play 24 hours without break and power level us." Selena says in a haughty voice before audibly more happily trotting her way to her room. 

"But I didn't do anything wrong..." I sigh.

"Oh you old bear, don't let her hear that or you will make your relationship with her sour." Amanda teases me. " And you're going to try out that new game, eh? When were you planning to tell me!" Amanda asks me. I unconsciously shiver, I am getting a bad vibe from this.

After I lay Lorena in her bed, I respond to Amanda.

"You're playing it too?" I ask her.

"But of course! How can I let such a fine chance of observing humans reaction to unprecedent situations!" Amanda raises her voice while excitedly talking about that. I sigh, knowing that I may not have such a peacefull gaming life afterall.

And so, the day goes.

---END OF LIFE ARC-----