Online Buddies For Life

Chapter 1: The Lucky Trip

"-and then Ibuki started running as she heard weird gurgling sounds!" Yelled the girl with the weird hair, making sound effects as she was telling her story.

Some people in the cafe looked at her strangely, but considering the last 30 minutes had consisted of this, they seemed to get more and more indifferent by the second.

Even so, Hajime was seriously regretting his life choices. Namely, the one where he agreed to hang out with 3 ultimates. He tried refusing, he really did, but puppy eyes were strong and dangerous weapons. Especially when used by a certain gamer.

So, try as he might, he ended up agreeing to hanging out with them. And now he was subjected to Ibuki's strange and bizarre stories, not to mention the embarrassment of being stared at by every person in the cafe at one point or another.

The person that got him into this wasn't even paying attention to the loud girl, tapping away on their phone with a small smile on their face. Hajime thought that it would be only fair if Chiaki was put through the same grueling situation he was in, but it seems that would not be the case.

The albino sitting next to him and listening to Ibuki's stories with attentiveness wasn't helping either. Hajime wasn't sure if anything embarrassed Nagito, and he also wasn't sure if he wanted to know what those things could be.

What he did know very well, however, was that the boy was not embarrassed of making weird comments on hope and luck, while also complimenting the other ultimates at every opportunity. Like now.

"As expected of the Ultimate Musician, you heard the sound of danger and evacuated before anything could happen!" Said Nagito with an amazed look on his face, beaming at Ibuki who grinned back.

Hajime could say that the luckster might've had good intentions, but Nagito was undeniably weird. He was an okay guy though, (at least, when he started to not insult Hajime every 2 seconds. The first time they met was rough...) so Hajime shrugged it off, like always.

The comment only got more looks from everyone, and it didn't even stop the girl from continuing. Hajime could only sigh in misery.

"Ibuki ran into the hallway, and as she looked back to the toilet- BOOM!" She raised her volume suddenly, making Hajime and some of the surrounding people flinch. He shrunk back as the customers glared at his group, but the trio didn't seem effected in the slightest.

Nagito's cheerful expression was still in place and Chiaki glanced up for a moment, but her eyes fell back on her phone soon enough.

Hajime's eyebrows furrowed at the sight, and he unconsciously blocked out the continuation of Ibuki's story.

Chiaki was the Ultimate Gamer, so it should have been normal for her to look at her phone all the time, right?

Well, that's what Hajime and (unknown to him) the entirety of class 77-B had been telling themselves these last 4 weeks. And whenever they asked, she did say she was playing video games.

But that didn't really sit right with Hajime. He was no Ultimate Detective (or any ultimate) but the expression she had when she'd play games was different than the one she had while looking at her phone. She seemed less focused and intense, and more...

"Whatchu smiling at, Chiaki?!" Apparently done with her story, Ibuki leaned in close to Chiaki's face, asking the million dollar question.

Chiaki, who had been staring at her phone since the beginning of their little get-together, jumped at Ibuki's loud voice and looked at her in confusion.

"Helloooooo?! Don't tell me you're going to ditch my fantabulous stories to talk with your boyfriend?!" Ibuki said with a scandalized gasp. It was obviously exaggerated so they all knew she wasn't serious (when was she, really?) and the gamer only looked at her blankly before looking back at her phone.