Chapter 85: The Fallen Kevin
Yaqing returned to his bedroom without looking back, locked the door, changed into his favorite dinosaur onesie, and collapsed onto the large, soft bed. Just as he was about to take a little nap, his phone beeped a few times.
Yaqing picked up his phone and saw that Welt Yang had sent over the character designs for the new tokusatsu IP that Anti-Entropy was preparing. He felt a headache coming on again. Where was he supposed to find so many male actors?
Yaqing covered his eyes with his arm and drowsily fell asleep.
The sun set in the west. It was five in the afternoon.
Yaqing woke up, scratched his messy hair, and yawned.
Yaqing left the bedroom.
"YA! QING!"
A familiar roar. Yaqing was instantly wide awake. Seeing the furious Kalpas walking towards him, he remembered deliberately eating instant noodles in front of him and hastily tried to explain, "Kal... Kalpas, I... I..."
Kalpas grabbed him by the shoulders, his eyes under the mask burning with rage. "Yaqing Schariac! I will not allow you to eat instant noodles! From now on, you must eat what I make!"
Shaken by Kalpas until his brain was about to turn into a uniform mush, Yaqing could only agree.
Only then did Kalpas relent.
Slightly more awake now, Yaqing looked at Kalpas's muscular physique, and a spark of inspiration flashed through his mind. An actor? Isn't this a qualified tokusatsu actor!
"Kalpas, have you ever thought about becoming an actor?" Yaqing's eyes shone.
"No." Kalpas went straight back to his room, which was two doors down from Yaqing's.
Rejected once again, Yaqing was not discouraged, because he remembered there was one more person in the Courtyard who would absolutely not refuse him.
...
"Pfft." Kevin spat out the juice he had just drunk.
He successfully earned a glare from Himeko, who had just finished mopping the floor.
Kevin looked at Yaqing with disbelief. "What did you say? An actor? Me? And a tokusatsu actor at that."
"What's wrong with being a tokusatsu actor? It's not like you have to wear the suit yourself. Believe in yourself, Kevin!" Yaqing made a cheering gesture.
"Can I do it?"
MEI, holding a freshly made cup of black coffee, sat down next to Kevin. "What are you talking about?"
"MEI, Yaqing wants me to be an actor," Kevin answered truthfully.
"What?" MEI looked at Kevin and Yaqing strangely.
"It's not like you have to go right now. It'll probably take about a year of preparation. You can use this time to get in shape. Kevin, how long has it been since you've been to the gym?" Yaqing said.
Hearing this, Kevin thought for a moment. It seemed that since graduating and starting work, he had never stepped into a gym again. He pinched the fat on his stomach and said angrily, "It's none of your business! Besides, you're not much better!"
Kevin looked at Yaqing's oversized dinosaur onesie and posed a soul-searching question.
"Is that so?" Yaqing raised an eyebrow, glanced at MEI, and said, "MEI, could you please leave for a moment?"
MEI nodded and stood up to leave.
Only Himeko, Kevin, and Yaqing were left in the living room.
Yaqing unzipped his dinosaur onesie.
After a long while, MEI returned and saw Kevin, so dejected he was silent. She asked with confusion, "What's wrong with Kevin? Yaqing, what did you do to him now?"
Yaqing leaned back against the soft padding of the sofa and said helplessly, "I just made him face reality."
Kevin hugged his legs and curled up into a ball on the sofa.
MEI had already guessed what had happened. She stroked Kevin's white hair like one would a small dog and comforted him, "Don't be sad, Kevin. You don't have to compare yourself to Yaqing. There's at least one thing you're better at."
Kevin silently lifted his head.
"You have a perfect girlfriend," MEI said, blushing herself.
The smile on Yaqing's face slowly vanished.
The smile didn't disappear; it just moved to Kevin's face. He was revitalized.
"No, I have to start working out!"
Kevin rushed upstairs full of excitement.
"Why did you have to provoke him like that?" MEI said helplessly.
And on the other side of the sofa, Yaqing had become the Kevin from just now, hugging his legs and curled up on the sofa.
"Another one," MEI facepalmed.
"What do you mean, another one?" Mobius, who had just returned, took off her high heels, changed into slippers, and sat on the sofa.
MEI pointed at Yaqing on the sofa.
"What's wrong with him?" Mobius asked with confusion.
"I'm thinking about something," Yaqing suddenly spoke up.
"You're not sulking?" MEI said.
"Of course not. If I didn't do this, how would Kevin have gone straight upstairs?" Yaqing stretched his long legs.
"What's wrong with that little follower now?" Mobius leaned against the soft padding of the sofa wall.
"I estimate that tomorrow, you'll see his hands trembling when he types code," Yaqing said with a playful smile.
"Is that so? Then I'm looking forward to it," Mobius picked up the sunflower seeds on the coffee table, found the remote, and turned on the TV to continue watching the cartoon.
Looking at the two, who were even lazy in the same posture, MEI sighed in her heart. As expected, they have a couple's chemistry.
Elysia, coming down from upstairs, asked with confusion, "Professor Mobius, you're back? I just saw Kevin rush into the gym. Why did he suddenly think of working out?"
"He was provoked by someone."
MEI looked at the two seriously watching the cartoon and pinched the bridge of her nose.
The gym was on the second floor, opposite Yaqing and Kevin's rooms.
Kevin rushed back to his room, changed into a tank top, and immediately headed to the gym.
And in the gym, Kalpas, who was doing bench presses, was also a little confused to see that the person who came in was Kevin. Since he had moved in, he had never seen Kevin enter the gym.
"Hey, Kalpas!"
Kevin said hello, lay down on the bench next to Kalpas, and looked at the barbell. His passionate heart had already cooled by half. He somewhat regretted his impulsive decision.
Kevin gripped the barbell with both hands, every muscle in his body straining. He made a sound like he was constipated, but the barbell on the rack didn't move an inch.
Kevin was so anxious his legs were almost lifting off the ground.
Beside him, Kalpas's barbell went up and down extremely fast, a sharp contrast to Kevin.
Seeing the Kevin next to him, Kalpas lifted the barbell back onto the rack and secured it. He stood up and said, "So annoying. You're so weak!"
Kevin's heart was stabbed with another knife by Kalpas.
Kalpas gripped Kevin's barbell with one hand and placed it on the rack.
Kevin was dumbfounded.
Was he confused because the barbell he couldn't lift with all his strength was lifted by Kalpas with one hand?
Or was he confused because Kalpas had suddenly lifted his barbell?
Perhaps, both.
Kalpas pointed to a barbell on the floor on the side.
"Now get the hell over there and start from the basics. Right now! Immediately!"
Kevin climbed off the bench.
Seeing Kevin leave, Kalpas silently lay back down on the bench and continued his bench presses.
Kevin resentfully picked up a 1kg dumbbell and started doing arm exercises.
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