Getting A System In A Modern World

Chapter 106: Alex

The next morning, Silas woke up with a bright smile on his face.

His smiles were as a result of the games he played last night, during his sleep.

The Gear's extremely enviable ability that allows one to sleep and game at the same time, making the gaming experience feel like a dream, is something that would make people, especially gamers go crazy for it.

The results from last night games had no surprises as Silas dominated each match and decimated every opponent and opponent teams he met.

The cause of the smile isn't the games' results but the comments from the players.

Due to the high popularity of Silas' game character, when he got into his first match, though his teammates were randomly selected by the game's matching mechanics, they all took camping positions and left Silas to do the heavy lifting, something that he wasn't against.

Silas took his role zealously, picking off his opponent in twos and threes, continuously sending them back to the spawn point.

He hoarded all the kills and points to himself, leaving even his teammates with nothing.

Well, it couldn't be helped. He was the one that did all the work, he felt that it would be very inappropriate to have them benefit from what they didn't work for, hence the comments.

This time around, it wasn't only the opponent and opponent teams that were banging their head against their monitor, but also the teams that had Silas as a team member.

Forum name: COD Maniacs.

Firestorm: "Who the hell is this guy?! (Inserts a highlight video of Silas' game character hunting down the opponent's team member.)"

ShadowSniper:" Lol. You had him as an opponent or as a team member?"

Firestorm: "An team member!"

PhantomThunderStrike: "Well, you had it easy. I had the bastard as an opponent and I swear, after the first death, I was unable to take one step out of the respawn point! It's like he's everywhere!"

SniperAsura: "The annoying part is that camping doesn't work! You think you can respawn and hid? Sorry but he will find you in less than five seconds! It like everyone has an homing beacon that he uses to track them."

WinterDragon: "Something's definitely wrong somewhere. Everyone mass report his account, the game developers will definitely look into it if they consistently receive multiple complaints from players."

UAVSpammer: "WinterDragon is right. Guys, let's mass report that mfer's account!"

The chat above is the reason for Silas' smiles.

Silas found it funny that they want to do him dirty by mass reporting his account but that was all to it, he just found it funny.

He wasn't bothered by their rants as he knew that his account would be safe as their reports and complaints will be sent to the void.

There's many benefits to having an AGI like LUNAR. Things are for one to control.

Putting the matter aside, Silas walked into the bathroom to freshen up and prepare for the day.

Today, he plans to go to Stanford University. It's been three month, if not more than three months since he got admission into the institution and he has never gone for classes once.

After he was done freshening up, he went downstairs for breakfast.

At the table, Kim and Alex were already seated and was about to eat when he arrived.

"Good morning, Kim," He greeted as he took his seat.

"Hi, Silas. How was your night?" Kim responsed with a smile, as she served Silas his food.

"Great," Silas replied and turned to Alex.

"How are you, champ? Did you sleep well?" Silas asked, as he ruffled his hair lightly.

Alex nodded and smiled in response to Silas' question, and started eating his food.

The family had a simple breakfast and when they were done, Kim cleared the dishes off the table, while Alex and Silas got ready to leave.

"Come on, champ. Let's go," Silas said, as he held Alex's hand and the both walked out of the house.

"Bye, mom!" Alex shouted before leaving the house.

Silas: "...."

Kim: "...."

Alex's action shocked Silas and Kim. They found it very unbelievable that Alex would actually call Kim, mom.

This is a first as both Silas and Kim has never heard Alex call Kim, mom, neither have they heard him call Chris, Dad.

Kim felt the impact more. It's been ten months since she started living with them and today is the first time that Alex would actually talk to her on his own accord.

Their previous conversations were always short and brief, with Kim always being the one to initates it, same as it was before with Silas.

If she's to be honest, the previous relationship between her and the two siblings before were at best like that of acquaintances.

It was of recent that she had a little progress with Silas, which made her very happy. But with Alex?... No progress.

"Alex,... Can you please say that again?" Kim asked, her voice quavering slightly voice and her eyes widened in shock.

"Bye, mom," Alex said, repeating what he said.

Hearing Alex repeat what he said, Kim rushed towards him and hugged him tightly, and started caressing his hair, softly.

As she hugged Alex, Kim felt the moment to be so surreal and she wanted it to last forever.

"Thank you, Alex," Kim said, as she continued to caress Alex's hair.

Her eyes was moist and it took all the willpower she had to not allow the tears to fall. Her voice trembled as she tried her best to control her emotion.

Doing her best to control her emotions, Kim took a deep breath and let it out slowly. After taking a series of deep breaths, she was finally able to control her emotions.

She released him from the hug, and looked at his face with a sweet smile, as she continued to caress his hair, lovingly.

She felt a sweet emotion in her heart. Though she didn't know what happened for Alex to change and start calling her mom, she was happy as it was a welcomed change.

She looked at Alex's face, one more time and smiled sweetly as she ruffled his hair.

"Mom is here, okay? You can talk to me anytime, okay?" Kim said, and Alex nodded.

"Yes, mom."

"Good. I'm sorry for keeping you waiting," Kim said, as she looked at Silas and smiled.

Silas saw Kim looking at him and gave a smile, back.

Honestly, the whole situation was equally shocking for him.

As Alex's brother and the person who had been taking care of him since he was a kid, Silas knew and understood the type of person that Alex is. This is the reason why he found the whole situation to be shocking.

Though he had his thoughts and questions, he knew that this wasn't the best time to ask.

"Bye, Kim," Silas said, and held Alex's hand as they left the house, and got into the car.

****

Few minutes later, on the way to Alex's school.

Whe driving, Silas remembered when Alex called Kim, mom, and he smiled as be shook his head, lightly.

Silas decided to ask the questions as he wanted to satiate his curiosity.

"Why did you do it? Others do not know you well but I do and I know that there's a reason for you to call Kim, mom.

You might try to act dumb sometimes but I know that you're smarter than that. Your position as a class topper proves that. So, why did you do it?"

Alex heard Silas' question and looked at him for a moment before he quietly turned to look at the road ahead.

Because of his age and height, he wasn't able to see much but he didn't mind.

"I wanted to know what it feels to call someone mom and what it feels to have someone called mom," Alex replied, as he continued looking at the road.

Silas was momentarily taken aback when he heard this.

It was then it struck him. Alex never really got to know his mom as she died when he was two years of age.

As someone who had also gone through very similar circumstances, Silas can understand how Alex feels.

It's hard seeing other kids holding their mom and dad, and you look by your side, only to find no one.

It's traumatic to say the least and Silas knew that he wouldn't had been able to survive if their dad hadn't married Alex's mother.

Silas knew that Alex has questions and that he need to have a conversation with Alex. Considering what the topic is going to be, he knew that the conversation is going to be a very long one, and he found somewhere appropriate and pulled up.

He knew that this would make Alex to be late for school but to him, that was far less important.

"Tell me, what do you want to know?" Silas asked.

Alex looked at Silas for a moment and turned to look at his clenched fist.

"Who's my mom?"