@kittymatsv
There were very few things in life Shintarou actually took pleasure in, and as time passed, they became less and less. He enjoyed songwriting. He liked composing music. He took pleasure in a good game every once in a while. Although he didn’t like setting foot outside of his apartment there were two places he didn’t mind as much. The local net café and the arcade. The café had everything he had at hope, so it was very rare that he found himself there, but when he was outside and not going shopping, he found his feet dragging him to the arcade.
After a few games though, even this pleasure would just become a repetitive endeavour: Shintarou’s gaming skill was so high that he had already made the high score lists on most of the machines save for a few games that were completely out of his league of expertise (mainly those that involved moving the whole body and not just the fingers), and boredom would take over instead.
He was sitting at a fighting game machine for one last round when suddenly six words popped up on his screen.
-- ‘ Player two has joined the game ’
