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Level 20:\Heal over Time -Operation Bread Raid-

When you forgive, you in no way change the past—but you sure do change the future.

~Bernard Meltzer

 

OFFLINE:\Philippines\Makati City\Tejeros BLISS Garden>

May 09, 2014: Four days after forgiveness, Ren stepped out from his tenement block and gazed at the early daybreak sky. He took a deep breath, as he noticed the swirls of dark, cottony, night skies hovered on their way to the rising sun.He'd want to sprout glowing angel wings from the online game anytime soon as he woke up without his 5 months worth of concealed burden.

He closed his eyes, and let the cool breeze caressed his oily face. I can't believe that I held my rage over four months. Seems that I sinned further than him.

Ynes, his neighborly girl friend, approached him from behind. In spite of donning large t-shirts and knee-length leggings, and her tough manners, Ynes donned an allure of a caring, ideal girlfriend. She gave him a quick and playful squish on his shoulders. “Ren, you okay now?”

He nodded fast and sent her a slow grin. “My chest felt light today, Ynes.”

“See? I told you, we can't change what happened in the past, Ren.” Ynes embraced him with a warmth worth of a true lover. From a distance, their neighbors, Roy and Ann saw them.

“Ren! Ynes! You guys won't be selling bread today?” Ann asked as she stroked her silky black long hair straight down-ward.

Ynes scratched her head, “We're waiting for someone to wake up, Ann.” she wore a wide smile.

He noticed Derek stepped downstairs fluidly fast. Derek came near him and slapped their palms. “Ren, from now on, I'll be working with you guys!” the two online gaming friendly rivals exchanged smiles.

“Seriously? Why only now, Derek?” Ynes and Ren asked in chorus.

Roy and Ann glanced at the two boys. “C'mon, let's all go to the bakery!” Ynes led them to Manang Abe's bakery.

 

As they traversed the busy streets of Tejeros BLISS Garden compound to the bakery, they saw Manang Abe, and her bald assistant opened the bakery's maroon metal grille sliding doors.

“There they are, Atong!” the stubby bakery owner pointed them. “Ren brought in new friends, and they're willing to learn to make and sell breads!”

Atong, the muscular assistant, led Ren's group inside the bakery and taught them about the bakery's equipment.

 

OFFLINE:\Philippines\Quezon City\Kanlaon Mansion>

Henry heard the penguin noises from his cellphone. He lied down, and dreamed of his avatar, Hatsya stabbed by another character covered in black smoke. “Who's that guy behind the shadow?” Henry whispered as he squirmed on his bed, as a dying fencer in his dream.

His cellphone honked for the second time, and a choir of roosters outside crowed altogether. The morning sun shone warm rays of light onto him.

“Hatsya, wake up! Don't fantasize yourself as a wounded Akatsuna or as your avatar!” his family's AI assistant, Eden, yelled at him.

“Are you NSA, Big Brother?” he murmured and rolled off the bed with his magician-themed hug pillow in hand. “I don't think we programmed you to peep on our dreams, bud.”

Eden reprogrammed his phone's alarm, and it spoke like the character in his hug pillow. “Get up! Get up, you sleepyhead!”

He got up from the cooled & smoothed hardwood floor, then he grabbed his smartphone, and his pair of eyeglasses from his night table. “Eden, where and how did you do that?”