"Ahhhh!!!"
The young man got up from his bed, then he sighed heavily. Beside him was a girl who was sleeping to wait for him faithfully, his sister.
"... Kiara." The young man called to the girl who still had her eyes closed near him.
The girl slowly opened her eyes slowly, her eyes widened immediately when she realized her sister was fine. She immediately lunged, hugging her brother tightly.
"I'm thankful that you're okay." The girl said in a broken voice because of her sobs.
The young man fell silent, then his hand rose to stroke his sister head, trying to calm her down.
"I'm fine, what's wrong with me?" The young man asked, his voice almost like a direct request.
The sister pondered and calmed her heart slowly, then she began to open her mouth to speak. "I found you in the old house behind our house."
"What? Why am I there?" Confused wrinkles were visible and intersecting on the young man's forehead, he was clearly confused and perhaps had forgotten something.
The sister pinched his cheek hard, making the young man wince in pain, her tone coming with a complaint. "If you don't know? How can I? I was so panicked, you know? I thought you were being bullied again."
One word made the silence, the young man lowered his head after there was a word that offended his heart. He had always been the subject of bullying, no matter where it was, it was like fate made him.
The sister noticed her brother's mood and expression. She sighed and then patted her brother's shoulder hard.
"Ouch!" The older brother winced, then turned to his younger brother who had a mischievous expression on his face.
"Come on, bro, no need to think about it, you better take a shower, gosh, your body really smells, you know." He waved his hands to support the appropriate gesture. The young man smelled himself, his sister was right, he did smell a bit.
He stood up from his bed, stretching his body some. "Okay, I'm going to take a shower."
He took a towel from its place, then started walking to the bathroom.
"Wait a moment." His sister had just stopped in his tracks, he turned his head, and found his sister putting her hand on her chin, watching him intently.
"Is it just me, or do you look a little taller?" His sister got up from the bed, then started looking at him from top to bottom. She started to walk closer, and occasionally held his brother's shoulders and hands.
"Why are your shoulders a bit... A bit wider than usual? And you look more muscular too."
The young man growled, then raised his hand and folded his fingers to flick his chatty sister's forehead. His sister pursed her lips in annoyance, while her forehead turned red.
"Never mind, I'm going to take a shower, you make dinner." His feet stepped into the bathroom, then he started to take off his clothes, he stared closely at the mirror, his hand reached out to turn on a shower.
He raised an eyebrow, he turned around, looking at his body in the mirror, just like his sister said, his body was a bit different today. His shoulders somehow looked wider, his chest more defined, and more than that, what he felt should never have been there, his perfectly protruding abdominal muscles
"Maybe... Because of too many sports hours at school, I became like this, well... Maybe." He thought simply.
He came out of the bathroom a few moments ago, wearing black trousers, wiping his head with a towel, while his body was still freely exposed.
"Seriously, this is my brother, right?" His younger sister stood on the other side, looking from afar at his older brother who had finished bathing.
"Is the food finished?" He quickly changed the subject. The sister sighed, then nodded.
"Yes... Eat at the dining table, I will wait for you."
***
The young man was pensive at the dining table, eating his food in silence, his eyes glazed over, as if trying to remember something he might have missed.
"After eating, go straight to sleep, sis, you look a bit pale. Besides, I don't want you to get sick." His sister spoke beside him, looking worried about him.
He nodded in agreement with his sister's words. "Okay, I'm also feeling a bit tired today, I'll just go to bed okay."
Silence returned, replaced by the soft clinking of spoons and the almost faint sound of chewing.
"Brother... I want to ask you something." His sister tried to start a conversation, while he started to turn his head with a curious expression.
He was silent, waiting for his brother to continue his words. "Actually... What happened to you this afternoon? I felt... There was something strange about you."
"I don't know... I don't remember myself, I just... I think I forgot something that should be important to me." He stirred his neglected food with a spoon, lost in thought in silence.
He devoured his food even more, then finished in an instant, he rose from his seat. "I'm done, then I'm going to sleep."
He walked to his room quickly, as soon as he arrived he immediately closed it. He dropped his body on the bed, lying down just like that.
Staring at the ceiling, his hands raised and his fingers flexing, he saw his hand so intently. "What happened to me, as I recall at that time I—"
[Greetings user, my name is Besto Friendo, the system that will guide you from now]
His body jerked in shock when he heard the voice that suddenly came to his mind, he quickly got down and hid under his mattress.
[What are you doing user?]
He jerked his head up and stupidly hit the bottom of his bed hard, his head throbbed hard, and the pain spread.
[User is physically injured: Start to recover and stop the spread of pain.]
His head cooled down, the place where he had hit it hard slowly returned to normal, he was lost in thought, he couldn't do anything.
[Try not to panic, come on out there and talk to me, you probably have a lot of questions for me.]
Slowly but surely, he began to rise from under his bed. His eyes widened when he saw the blue hologram screen floating in his room.
[Sorry to surprise you earlier, greetings user, my name is Besto Friendo, a system that will accompany you to get many friends, I named it: Tomodachi System]
A screen appeared in front of him, and there he was faced with a choice that would determine his future.
[User please make your choice]
[Do you want to make lots of friends? And be a center?]
[YES/NO]
"Wait, what's the meaning of this, why are you in my room? Who are you? And what's all this? Making lots of friends?"
[Maybe we should go back to the beginning, where this all started, user? Do you want to know?]
"Please tell me, I don't know what this means!" He raised his voice, his hands clenched tightly, staring at the hologram screen in front of him.
[Okay, I'll do it, just be prepared to feel a jolt in the brain for a moment.]
"Wait, what—"
His body convulsed, he fell to the floor hard, his eyes rolled upwards feeling a strong shock in his brain, and his consciousness was lost.