Reborn Online

Is It Right?

While Naoki is resting, Natael is awake, when Natael rests, Naoki is awake. This is the state that he has achieved, this is the way of living his mind chose. But the more he is Naoki, he forgets what it's like to be Natael. Days go forth and so do weeks, even months, and slowly, Natael will eventually be replaced by Naoki. Because Natael is a mistake. Natael was always a mistake.

Now as he lies awake in the pod, he wonders if it's right for him to merge the two like he has been doing. Will he be hated for it. He is scared of the idea.

Recently, he came across group of players with double accounts. His fellow Japanese man Tetsuya from Varia's third troop had recently had them infultrate his team and he was infuriated by this.
It was actually a near miracle that the Varia had accepted another sky in, especially with the said Japanese man having similar flame cocktail to the feared leader (who was still Xancicle) though it wasn't called Wrath (Ira) like his superior's. Due to his newly made alliance with the Vongola, Naoki had been called in to help them weed out the trash, that's when he'd met Tetsu.

Naoki had pretended to fall for the faked personality trick, and it made him cry how easily the people were fooled. He then moved them into a secluded room to "cool down" while he and few other squad leaders were observing them through hidden cameras. And sure enough the group dropped their chaotic actions immediately, calming down enough to make it obvious that they had been faking it the whole time. Tetsuya had then grudgingly admitted that Naoki may not have been trash after all while Naoki had bowed out of force of habit. Of course, Efa wasn't pleased with the idea of his boss bowing down to someone else, but Naoki explained him that it was a custom and as part of Vongola, Varia was technically higher ranking group than Paravento.

Now that Natael was thinking back to it, he felt sick to his stomach. Those people weren't classy at all, lacked manners, were rude and broke each and every single rule there was. And one of them was slippery like snake, he'd almost managed to fool him. Almost.

The Varia would apparently weed them out and knowing how the game worked, it'd mean that the characters were completely disposed of. Maybe even completely blocked from the game.

The last addition was something that made Natael's stomach tie itself to a knot. He didn't really want anyone to be banned from the game, he was the type to give second chances, but he also understood that there were guidelines that had to be followed. It was the modern world after all and with it came things like cultural competence and Internet etiquette. One couldn't just act overly rudely even if it was in their character and once you'd have been reported enough, a ban would be placed. The red head had only once come across a case that was banned during his hitman days.

The green hazel eyes narrowed as he remembered his former partner. The man who'd called himself Angelo. He'd been improper, he'd had horrible sense of humour, he was abusive, he never cared of anyone's boundaries and he was always whining over nobody wanting to date him. He had become the reason why as a Naoki, Natael had made sure to never sleep during stakeouts. He just couldn't trust the other man. The storm had felt disgusting and horrible and soon enough Naoki had been traded to another team with Morticia. It hadn't been much after that Angelo had been found dead, presumably shot by his partner, who soon became fast friends with Naoki. The trio had then become their own little team, having their own meetings in their favourite bar, planning hits together. But that was in the past. The two had gone to their own separate ways, last time Naoki saw Morticia, she was pregnant with her first child.

The third person, Caleb, had disappeared somewhere, but rumour had it that he was being taught by the infamous ringmaker himself.

The two had vouched to be with him and come to him if he ever needed, and Naoki knew that he could put faith on them. Natael closed his eyes inside the pod, starting the game. And so Natael once again became less and Naoki was more.