"Stop! Please stand up! Haha!" I said, laughing as I tried to make Mayumi stand up.
"Alindog already prepared the tools for your tattoo, Anito," Mayumi said to me while trembling a little.
To make her calm, I held her hands and said, "I am not an Anito or any kind of deity, okay? Please treat me as an ordinary human, okay?"
"But... but you are talking to spirits in another world!" Mayumi replied.
"Nah! He is not a spirit. He is just a man like us. So do not worry, okay?" I said to Mayumi.
"Okay," she replied.
"Before we go to Alindog for my tattoo, let me finish my important task with my friend Lucio first. The one I am talking to with this gadget device," I said to Mayumi while holding the tablet gadget.
"One more thing, can we keep what you witnessed with this device a secret?" I added.
"Sure, no problem," Mayumi replied.
After a few minutes, Lucio called back and started a video chat.
"Hey! What is up, Pat? How are you doing? You have a cute cosplayer over there. What is her name? Please tell her that I love her," Lucio said, trying to flirt with Mayumi.
"Do not be such an ass, Lucio. Just go inside our house!" I seriously replied to him.
"Knock! Knock! Well, as expected, there is no one here. See?" said Lucio as he opened the house's main door.
"Let us take a look now inside my room, Lucio," I replied.
"Whaaaaaat?!!!" Lucio said, shocked by what he saw.
"Hey! What is that? Let me see!" I said to Lucio, wanting to know what was happening.
The anonymous girl in a blue hoodie was there inside my room, standing with a baseball bat. All of my crypto mining rigs and desktop computers were already destroyed, as shown in Lucio's camera. When the girl in the blue hoodie turned around, she quickly approached Lucio to hit him with her baseball bat.
"No!!!!" screamed Lucio, then he dropped his smartphone on the ground.
"Bam! Bam!" A sound followed while the screen went black.
"What is happening?!" Mayumi unconsciously shouted.
Then Lucio picked up his smartphone again to show what was currently happening in my room. There was another girl with glossy fuchsia pink hair who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, defending Lucio's life.
"Do not worry, my baby boy. I got you," said the girl with fuchsia pink colored hair, winking her right eye at Lucio.
"Never ever hurt my baby boy, you fraud!" the girl with fuchsia pink hair screamed at the girl in the blue hoodie.
"Uy!" Mayumi and I unconsciously said at the same time, thrilled by Lucio's new romance.
The two girls continued fighting, then suddenly the girl in the blue hoodie escaped by jumping out the window.
"You are fine now. I have to leave. See you soon, always be safe!" said the girl with fuchsia pink colored hair, then she jumped to the window to follow the girl in the blue hoodie.
"Hey! Wait! I need your name! My heroine!" Lucio screamed, begging.
"What a romantic scene! But what about my crypto mining rigs?! Forget about it.
You can go home now. I am very sorry. I put your life in danger," I said to Lucio in our video call.
"No, it is nothing. It is all fine for me," Lucio replied.
"Okay, I will give you your Bitcoin then," I said to Lucio.
After our crypto transaction was done, Mayumi and I went back to her home to start my tattoo painting with Alindog. When we arrived at Mayumi's home, I sat down in the chair, and Alindog immediately got to work with his tools.
It was only after he finished inking me that I realized his mistake: he had flattened my complex geometric lines of a merkaba into a simple, two-dimensional Star of David. I felt a sharp pang of disappointment staring at the incorrect symbol on my skin. But as I looked up into Alindog's incredibly handsome face, all my annoyance completely melted away. He was far too attractive for me to stay mad at, so I just smiled, swallowed my regret, and accepted the flawed masterpiece anyway.