Chapter 2
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“This might just be temporary or some sort of strange phenomenon. Let’s all take a moment to clear our thoughts and figure out why we’ve turned out like this, okay?”
A soft, delicate voice pulled us back to reality. It was faint and gentle, like a kitten’s paw tickling your ear, making you feel slightly itchy.
It belonged to a sweet and innocent-looking girl with an elegant and composed demeanor. Needless to say, it was definitely our dorm’s top student—Su Guo.
Last semester, she scored over 95 on every exam, with a GPA of 4.0, making her the best of the best.
Most of the time, you’d either find her in the library or on her way there.
Because of her calm and kind personality, combined with her delicate, girlish appearance, she was quite popular among everyone.
We all turned to look at her. Su Guo seemed a bit shy about everyone seeing her in this feminine appearance, and a light blush appeared on her pale cheeks.
“D-don’t look at me like that,” she coughed, her face flushed.
“Yesterday, didn’t we go to the internet café to play games? We didn’t get back until one or two in the morning.”
“Now that you mention it, yeah, but we didn’t run into anything weird,” Qian Zexing said.
I thought for a moment and corrected her.
“If you want to talk about weird, I did think that girl we encountered in the game was a bit strange. Didn’t she get really mad and say she was going to curse us?”
Qian Zexing shrugged it off.
“That little brat? Come on, she was terrible at the game, kept trying to play mid-lane and went 0/whatever every match. When I called her out, she challenged me to a 1v1, then refused to admit defeat when she lost. Classic brat behavior. What’s so weird about that?”
Yesterday, the four of us had just finished our exams and wanted to relax at the internet café. Su Guo didn’t really want to go, preferring to stay in the dorm and study for the next set of exams, but we dragged her along anyway.
We played as a flexible team of four and got matched with a pretty terrible teammate. Qian Zexing, true to her brash, trash-talking style, absolutely roasted the player, leaving them stammering and unable to respond.
That player was so mad they tried to get into a voice chat to challenge Qian Zexing one-on-one.
When Qian Zexing heard the voice was a little Loli on the other end, she got even more fired up and went full throttle with the banter.
The little Loli, furious, ended up challenging Su Guo to a 1v1 instead. Qian Zexing laughed and threw in a bet.
The deal was that if Qian Zexing won, the little Loli would have to call Qian Zexing, “Onii-chan” 100 times.
If the little Loli won, Qian Zexing would call her “Onee-chan” 100 times.
No matter how you looked at it, it was a win-win for Qian Zexing, who had no shame.
The little Loli, blinded by rage, didn’t think it through and just wanted to redeem herself.
Of course, she ended up getting completely wrecked by Qian Zexing in over a dozen matches, without even putting up a fight.
The girl was probably silver rank at best, while Qian Zexing was a high-level master in the top region. It was a total stomp.
The most frustrating part was that after each kill, Qian Zexing would type a “?” in the all-chat, rubbing salt into the wound.
Even through the screen, I could feel the rage building up on the other side.
In the end, Qian Zexing tried to force the girl to pay up and start calling her “Onii-chan” a thousand times over.
But instead, the girl refused, turned off her voice chat, and typed in the public chat.
“You’re making me so mad! Just wait, I’ll curse all four of you!”
“Heh, who are you trying to scare, you noob?” Qian Zexing typed back, mocking her.
“You’ll see by tomorrow morning! Don’t regret it then!”
After typing that, the girl’s avatar went dark as she logged off.
We didn’t think much of it at the time, just chalked it up to childish frustration and laughed about it on our way back to the dorm.
But now, something truly bizarre had happened.
No way… Could that little girl’s curse have been real?
The four of us all came to the same realization, who on earth was this little Loli? How could she actually curse people over the internet!?
Come on, it’s the 21st century! Where’s the scientific explanation for this?
“F***ing hell, she’s not only a noob but also petty as hell! What the hell, %@#%&!”
Qian Zexing launched into her usual tirade, letting her fury take over.
“But she cursed all four of us! Why didn’t just you get cursed? You’re the one who trash-talked her!” Shuo Yan pointed out.
“She specifically said she was cursing all four of us,” I added, feeling helpless.
The three of us all turned to glare at Qian Zexing. One person’s mistake, and all of us were paying the price. This is what teammates are for, huh?
Seeing our unfriendly gazes, Qian Zexing’s blonde hair trembled slightly.
Her bright blue eyes were filled with innocence as she pouted.
“How was I supposed to know that little brat could actually do this? She’s a noob who can’t take criticism! I’m going to report her.”
“You really think reporting this to the game’s support team will do anything?” Shuo Yan asked sarcastically.
“Heh, maybe we should log back in and see if that little brat is online. I’ll apologize, and maybe we can go back to normal,” Qian Zexing laughed awkwardly.
“That sounds like a plan!”
We all agreed this was the best course of action for now.
Qian Zexing quickly pulled out her laptop, opened the game, and logged into her account.
Before long, she found the player’s username in her friend list—still offline.
Her in-game name was “Great Devil of the Canyon.”
Hard to imagine someone with that name was actually a cute little Loli.
“She’s not online right now. Maybe she hasn’t woken up yet? Check her match history, see what time she usually plays,” I urged.
“On it!”
“Looks like she usually plays on Friday nights around nine, and usually logs off by midnight.”
“Just Friday nights? Check if she’s ever queued with anyone in a duo,” I asked.
“Seems like she only plays solo,” Qian Zexing said after scrolling through the records.
“She only plays on Friday nights? What kind of person has such a regular gaming schedule? Well, it’s Saturday now, so she probably won’t log in today,” Shuo Yan commented.
“What do we do if she doesn’t come online? Just wait it out?” Qian Zexing sighed, sounding defeated.
“Don’t worry, we can leave her a message. When she logs in next Friday, she’ll see it and hopefully reply. If she doesn’t respond this week, we’ll just have to wait until next Friday to catch her online. Sound good?” I suggested.
“So, if all goes well, we could be back to normal within a week,” Su Guo, who had been silent until now, finally spoke up.
Once again, we all turned to Qian Zexing.
“Okay, okay, I’ll draft a message and send it to her. Trust me a little more, will you?”
After some discussion, we composed the message. It was basically a groveling apology for what happened during the game, phrased as humbly as possible. At the end, we also pleaded with her to undo the curse, offering anything in return.
Spacebar, enter.
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