He watched as Reke high-fived his teammates once it was finalized that their team would be joining the tournament for Sports Week.
Their coach clapped a hand on Reke’s shoulder with a wide grin, clearly confident about the team’s abilities.
Zhang Ming himself might want to actually participate during Sports Week. He isn’t really super athletic but he could probably do indoor games fairly okay.
Maybe table tennis? Or chess? He played chess competitively in school when he was in Elementary, does that count as experience?
He’s probably allowed to, right? The main characters’ preferred sports are all outdoor, so he doesn’t think he would be interfering with any of their Encounters or Plot Points.
‘Hey, World System. I can join in some of the sports competitions right? At least the indoor ones?’
“Yes, you may join indoor sports competitions as long as you do not distract Main Characters.”
‘Hah! I knew it.’
Nodding to himself, he gets up to plan on where he should put the letter.
It would’ve been better if he could put the letter in Reke’s mailbox at home, ensuring that he reads the letter at home. But he didn’t exactly know where he lived, so Zhang Ming could only stick to the school.
(Zhang Ming isn’t going to just stalk the boy and follow him home okay—)
Usual dramas put the letter underneath desks right? That isn’t a sure way though, because either they change rooms depending on a certain subject or their classmates change seats sometimes as well.
Zhang Ming looks down the hallway. That leads to only one other option.
He walked up to Reke’s locker, just close to his own, and slipped the letter through the little openings at the top.
Zhang Ming had started on the letter immediately after finishing the dishes last night.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
(Llr qbbg cfuifmafv rmtbbi kbgx uba qertfv yjmx ab cfjg wlvcluta ys atja qblca.)
(Lf mbeivc’a atlcx bo jcsatlcu fzmfqa atf ifaafg bxjs— Llr ygjlc pera vlvc’a tjnf atja mjqjmlas—)
Pa abbx tlw gfjiis ibcu ab atlcx bo ktja ab rjs.
Ds atf alwf tf olclrtfv la, tf ofia fnfc wbgf cfgnber. Rb wjaafg tbk wjcs alwfr tf gfvlv la bg gfkgbaf la, la vlvc’a offi delaf gluta. Pc atf fcv, tf ujnf eq jcv pera kgbaf ktjafnfg tf atbeuta tf mbeiv.
Zhang Ming knows this probably wouldn’t stop Reke for long. Sooner or later, he would want to talk to each other face-to-face. Until then, he’ll have to stall for as long as he can.
He’ll have this for as long as he can.
–
And with that, their coach blows the whistle as Chad’s kick sends the ball flying into the goal making the team cheer loudly.
“Everyone, huddle!” Everyone gives Chad high fives, pats, and fistbumps before they start running to Noah, their coach.
“Good job today everyone! Excellent performance!” Noah said, making them all exchange wide grins.
“Especially our MVP of the day, Chad.” Mike joked and shoved an elbow into Chad who laughed and shoved him as everyone cheered again.
“Alright, alright! Such rowdy kids, I swear.” Noah mock-complained, “Make sure to keep up the good work! Make me proud during Sports Week!” he says and nods at them with a smile, “Alright, with nothing else, y’all can go now.”
Reke let out a sigh and stretched out as much as he could once training finally ended.
He decided he should have a quick shower before leaving school. He didn’t quite like the feeling of the stickiness of dried sweat on his skin.
As soon as he was under the shower, his mind wandered back to Zhang Ming.
He sighed again and leaned his head on the wall, letting the water run down his back.
He still didn’t know what went wrong.
One moment they were getting along just fine, and suddenly Zhang Ming was getting up and was out of there like a rabid dog was chasing after him.
It didn’t make much sense to him at all.
…maybe he’s going through something?
He shook his head, he should stop. He’s been thinking about this way too much.
As soon as he opens his locker to grab his helmet, he immediately notices a folded piece of paper that seemed to have fallen on top of it.
Reke’s eyebrows furrow as he stretches an arm out to grab it and bring it closer to him.
To Reke, it says in the front.
‘A letter?’ he thinks, ‘Dear God, please don’t let it be a confession letter or something—’
(A/N: What an ego, Reke XDDD)
Then he turns it around and sees something else written on the back part.
From Zhang Ming.
His eyes immediately widened.
A letter!
From Zhang Ming!
–
Extra:
Tyler stopped on his way out when he saw Mike and Chad peeking by the corner.
He sneaked up to them and whispered, “What’s going on?”
Chad startles while Mike gives him a deadpan, “Really?” Mike says.
He just grins sheepishly in reply.
Mike rolls his eyes before amusement creeps into his features, he turns back to what he was looking at past the corner and Chad follows right after.
Not being able to stop his curiosity, Tyler peeks out as well.
What greets him is the sight of Reke, standing by his open locker, just staring at a piece of paper in his hand. It almost seems like he forgets to breathe for a few seconds, before sucking in air when he runs out. The cycle continues the more he watches.
“He’s been doing that for a while now.” Mike whispers.
“Do you think we should, like, poke him or something?” Chad asks.
Mike and Tyler exchange eye contact before smiles stretch through their faces.
“Nahh, leave him be. Let’s see how long it takes for him to snap out of it.”
“…I’m going to film him for blackmail material.”
Ooo I want to know what the letter says and I really feel like our poor baby will be punished by the system sooner or later.
I wonder what he wrote and if that letter really can let him stay away from ZM lol
Thx for the ch ٩(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )و
Hahaha Chad, Mike and Tyler seem like such douchebags here…
But Reke’s reaction is hilarious, to be honest.
😭 I stopped at chapter 4 and piled them all till this chapter and I finished it all in a go and now I’m devastated. TY FOR THE CHAPTER AUTHOR-NIM, WISHING FOR MORE
Will you post more chapters? I really like it. It feels just different from other bl stories. I like originality the most