MTL NOVEL Chapter 1160: Leaps (Part 1)
There were also many aborigines who were unused to such festivities and felt incredibly overwhelmed— but in a good way.
Shinho and the others were like this. This was their first big event in Alterra—ever, really. 1
Primarily, they had been busy working, hunting, and gaining contribution points the past months. Among the newcomers, people like them—refugees from aborigine villages—were among the least advantaged people.
They weren't strong enough like those people from Towns, and they weren't smart, innovative, and creative enough like those from Terran villages.
Alterra was rising quickly—everyone felt it—and they had to catch up before it became a Town.
As such, they hadn't been to the activity areas like arcades and stadiums at all. Their leisure time was in parks and treating themselves in some restaurants. So one could imagine how wide their eyes were the entire night.
While there was also a minor '6 month celebration' back then, it was only a small performance as well as discounts on the stores. This anniversary event made sure every inch of public space in the territory had activity.
To be honest, such a big celebration, in their minds, were only seen in Cities, and it was amazing they could experience it now.
The twins Ferra and Fona were holding hands as they perused the place with their families. They just watched at first, a bit shy about joining in. They were girls, after all. 1
On the other hand, their families were enjoying things unabashedly, after seeing everyone else. It was as if the atmosphere of Alterra inclined people to do so—and they were carried along with it.
Then soon even the twins started joining the games and the next moment they were yelling with everyone else.
It was like their whole souls were set free, and they could just express themselves without having to care about proper feminine behavior.
They had never had so much fun in their lives.
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Most of the stalls were particularly competitive, but there were some more than others.
For instance, in another park, there was a Skee-ball game, wherein the contestants would roll balls up a ramp to score points assigned to different holes.
With the hard-mode levels of arcade games here, this required very high coordination and accuracy.
The ball was not only a little heavy, the incline was harsher and more varied. The holes were also much narrower than the ones in Terran, and it was incredibly easy to miss.
Anyway, a certain chubby soldier was actually losing to a quirky nurse.
The current score was 18-19, with Mao on the losing side.
It started out relatively innocently, the competitors were just passing acquaintances and hadn't even exchanged more than 2 words in the past few months.
The girl's name was Lea, the nurse who was apprenticing under Dr. Cynthia in the Ob-gyn and Pediatrics department.
Their games had just happened to be side-by-side with each other. However, when the girl made an impressive shot, Mao ended up missing the same shot, the nurse coughed, covering her mouth to stop a giggle from coming out.
She didn't laugh out loud, but it offended Mao very much. When the girl would miss and he would hit his shot, he'd laugh, shaking his head, and muttering commentaries like 'tsk tsk, should've rolled harder' or 'Tsktsk, should've gone to a different angle' and so on.
This irked the girl very much and started being more expressive with her commentaries as well.
It went on until the current scene, with increasing anger and annoyance on their faces, and more and more words exchanged until they were no longer veiled—just direct insults to the other. The friends who were there with them could only cover their faces in embarrassment. Find adventures on My Virtual Library Empire
They didn't even remember what the prize was at this point.
Flop!
"Missed another one? HAHAHHAHA—are you really a soldier? Every one of them are cool, what are you?"
Mao's chubby face whipped to give her a bad look. "You distracted me!"
Lea shook her head. She indeed made some comments while he was making a shot, but that was no excuse. "Shame… such a shame…" was all she said, not even directly calling him out but it made Mao very embarrassed.
Then it was Lea's turn and Mao placed his hand on his mouth and—just as Lea was about to make a shot—made a fart noise with it.
Lea missed the shot and she whipped her head to look at Mao. "You're an idiot!"
Then when it was Mao's turn, Lea made an even louder sound.
Mao missed so badly that it made several people laugh. He gritted his teeth and glared at Lea. "You—"
Such a petite girl acting like a tomboy! TSK! What a shame!
Leia, sensing the sexist thoughts, was very much irked and tapped into her hidden potential.
After a couple of minutes, they went hard and she actually won the game in the end, taking the drink-all-you-can voucher price for the tavern!
"Heh. A soldier. Shame," she said, just as she dragged her friends out of there.
Mao's eyes widened when he saw her walking away, feeling very much annoyed. Without knowing, he ended up running after her.
"GRRR—I demand a rematch!"
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Anyway, while adults were playing like kids, the actual kids naturally were having a blast as well.
Except for the really small ones, the children grouped together to go around on their own. They would patronize stall after stall, using their hard-saved allowance to experience as much as they could.
There were also good-hearted, very kind, and very awesome adults who would occasionally sponsor a stall for them as well.
For instance, there was Bianca, who not only treated her own adoptive sons to some ice cream, but also their friends. Right now, the small group of children happily ate different-colored ice creams with wide smiles on their faces.
"THANK YOU AUNTIE BIANCA!" they said as they exited the Ice Cream shop. They looked very cute and some already had ice cream on their cheeks.
She giggled, taking out a clean handkerchief to clean their faces.
There was also a man next to her who leaned down a bit, acting sad.
This was Eloi, one of Bart's right-hand men.
"What about me?" he said and the children shifted to look at him, a big man.
They blinked and nodded. He sponsored them popcorn! Of course they were thankful!
"THANK YOU UNCLE ELOI!" they said. "May you have a wonderful date with Auntie Bianca~"
Bianca blushed a bit and scratched her cheek, while Eloi laughed out loud. Good kids!
"Okay, buy cotton candy this time—it's on me!"
"YAYYYY!"
Suffice to say, he got many more votes as a suitor that day.
Shinho was one of the refugees from the Heat wave. (from the territory that let monsters in to deal with them using the terrain of their village)
Both refugees from Heat wave but they arrived with different teams. Ferra is Shinho's lover, while Fona is Fossu's lover (an earth user aborigine from another village)