Their first reaction after hearing this from Shema that it would take "Him" 2 hours, their eyes widened, and fell into a state of shock.
They knew very well what he meant and that revelation was so heavy on them that the most logical thing is they get shocked.
Shema was the fastest among them, Saying with his own mouth "2 hours", it simply means it will take him that duration at his full speed of walking to reach the game store (Silent Killers).
"Oh! I get it now. If I were in your place, it would be much worse than you." Silent said.
"Wait! There is a simple solution for that. Just take a taxi."
Shema stared at Shiro and locked his stare at him, Shiro questioned himself. What did he say! he didn't say anything wrong. In fact, it was the best way for Shema, until he realized why Shema stared so long.
"you... don't have money left, right!"
"Finally, you dumb. I have exactly enough for the game."
Silent stepped into the conversation with another solution to that problem.
"I can just give you, bro. It's nothing."
"ha! Problem solved." Shiro laughed yet he was happy because he couldn't give Shema yet Silent was able to. Shema stared at Silent and almost smirked as he lowered his hand, smiling with his stare now locked on Silent.
"Ho! A burglar always has money, did your millionaire friend give you out of pity?"
Silent laughed and couldn't control his laugh one bit, once it went off... he made a smirk on his face opposite to Shema's... he raised his head, still his stare was locked too on Shema.
"you know, Hehe... I can simply don't give you anything."
"just dare to do that, Hehe."
Shiro laughed maniacally and soon they joined him in a wholesome laughter.
"Oh! Our assassin is back on the field! Are you really going to play with us?!"
Silent with his smirk said in a relatively low tone:
"you bastards! First, I didn't say I would play it, Shiro. I'm just a bit interested in it and that... uh! Never mind."
Shiro paused his laughter and looked at Silent in suspension.
"That what?"
"I just said nothing... Ah, Shit! I'm too late!"
Silent's meeting in his home has been a benefit to him at the exact right moment... his mouth slipped and it almost ruined that he alone saw that part of the trailer, perhaps, it's a deleted part and he was so lucky to see it in the right time without anyone else to witness... even those in the game store didn't see even a glimpse about that ominous part.
"Well, anyway, I will go with Shema to see something there too and arrange what we will do for the release, Hehe."
"go and discuss about that stupid game of yours."
"Stupid, you say. You showed interest in that "Stupid game" within you, remember?"
"It really got a bit of my interest, perhaps, I will check the updates about it."
"Ok, we will take our leave, fly away, Silent."
"Fly away!" Shema from afar who was about to take a seat in the taxi said and then Shiro walked towards him.
"Fly away, bastards." Silent gave them his back and continued his walk towards his home.
"Sighs! A save at the right time. Well, I didn't lie either."
Checking the time on his phone didn't help him with anything except he started to move faster. It was 4:23 Pm almost half an hour late for his meeting with his mother.
The deleted part of the trailer or.... that voice rang again in the young man's ears. He couldn't help but think about it more as he was finally alone again with his thoughts and the power of overthinking. Still, nothing new he could solve, that part he saw was a mystery... an ominous, dark mystery that needs so much time to solve.
'I will think about it later, let's get this quick.'
with that, the young man "flew away" at a higher speed to reach his home in time as much as he could at least.
<15 minutes later>
Inserting a key inside the lock hole of the door, the young man twisted it several times until the door was pushed open. Entering the living room Silent saw his mother still unchanged meaning that she got here a while ago, to his relief, it was not long.
"Oh! You finally came."
"Sorry, mom. My friends pulled me into some stupid trailer about a stupid game." his mother smiled calmly.
"you mean... the scalers, right?" Silent froze in his place yet he didn't flinch and only widened... dumbfounded! How did his mother know about that name?
"How? How did you know?!"
"Why are you surprised? Aren't you a former rank gamer? You should have known that it's spread worldwide by now."
Slowly, Silent became more normal. His mother was right, the crowd he saw, numerous of people gathered even children, excited for just the trailer... not only that, his friends too. In the end, his mother interrupted his thoughts.
"Speaking of gaming, I want to talk with you."
Confused, Silent just stared at her for a few seconds until he sat beside her on the couch.
"I understand why you stopped gaming... but, seeing you like this for the past few months made me worry about you. I thought you would gain control over yourself by the time but turns out you just can't forget and think that you were the problem. "
Silent just stared in silence... not able to slide any words out of his mouth.
"For the first time in my life, I will say it... play the Scalers!"