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[quote]As though being held in a transparent balloon, the children were throwing water at each other.  The small group of five laughed together whenever they managed to splash their water on someone else.  Kids playing with water was not something out of the ordinary according to Jun Long, however, this situation had him double-taking at the scene.

Though it was just some children playing with water, what made this scene feel out of place was that there was no physical source of water to be seen anywhere around them.  Watching intently at one child, Jun Long observed that the water was actually being produced out of thin air!  The water would take the shape of a small ball, not unlike that of a water balloon.  The child would then take aim and throw it at one of their friends.

It was like... magic!

Filled with curiosity, Jun Long kept watching for a little while longer.  There were points where the children would have to take a break for a while, but they would start again not too long after.

"[i]H-hey![/i]"

Jun Long cried out to the kids, when he saw them taking another break.  He had to find out just what was going on - where was all this water coming from?

"[i]What are you guys doing?[/i]"

"[i]What are you talkin' about, Xiao Fang?[/i]"

One of the kids called back to him.  The name 'Xiao Fang' rang a bell, however, as Jun Long's IMC automatically activated and notified Jun Long that 'Xiao Fang' was actually him!  His name was Lo Bei Fang.

"[i]Come out and play, Xiao Fang![/i]"

"[i]Yeah, Fang-ge!  Come play![/i]"

The other kids now took note of Jun Long, who was still watching them through that window.  They all wanted him to go join them in their game.

"[i]A... alright!  I'm coming![/i]"

"[i]Hurry up, then!  The sun's nearly going down![/i]"

"[i]Guys... I'm feeling kinda hungry, already![/i]"

"[i]Shut up, Fatty Long!  You're always hungry![/i]"

The children all laughed, again.  SPLASH!  Jun Long could see that Fatty Long had thrown a big amount of water at the other kid that made fun of him.

Jun Long turned around, and walked out the only door in the room.  His body's movements betrayed the feelings that he was used to, prior to coming to this new place.  He didn't notice it as he walked towards the window, before, but his steps were lighter, and there was nearly no strain to walk.  His usual waddling had now become normal walking!  As his mind was racing in the realisation of this, he had already found his way out to the courtyard where the children were playing.

It all felt like a cutscene from his game.

"[i]Xiao Fang!  You're finally here![/i]"

"[i]You take so long!  Even Fatty Long is faster than you![/i]"

"[i]Ugh!  Why d'ya gotta be like that, Xiao Yun?[/i]"

"[i]Because you're just a fatty, Fatty Long!![/i]"

SPLASH!  Another ball of water was thrown, but it was dodged in time.

Jun Long arrived, but he was still charmed by how this water was just appearing out of thin air!  He felt like asking these children how they were doing it, but his IMC was triggered, and the memories of the 'other' person who was named Wei Hung Fang surfaced into his vision, and he quickly learned that he could also do the same thing.

Jun Long's eyes widened slightly, as he realised that this was as he initially thought - it was magic!  He raised his hand to eye-level and applied the theory that was being played in his memory thanks to the IMC, and he started to feel a vaguely familiar tingle run through his body and finally out of the raised hand.

Water had started to appear, just like it did for the kids, out of thin air, and had begun forming the shape of a ball.  For Jun Long, however, the ball of water had become a size at least double that of the other children's balls of water!

"[i]Hey, Xiao Fang!  What are you trying to do?  Drown us?![/i]"

One of the kids called out to him.  Snapping back to reality, Jun Long lost focus of what he was doing, and all the water that was being suspended in the air fell to the ground and wet his feet.

"[i]S-sorry!  I'm not myself, today![/i]"

"[i]I still can't believe it, though, Fang-ge!  You have such a high af-af-affunity with magic![/i]"

"[i]It's 'affinity,' Xiao Mei...  I bet you  haven't been doing your homework![/i]"

"[i]You're so smart, Fatty Long-ge!  Haha!  You see right through me.[/i]"

Jun Long started to feel more relaxed and familiar with these kids as he watched them making fun of and laughing at each other.  It was foreign to him, but also very heart warmingly close-to-home.

Why he was feeling this way, considering how he had lived his life until now, was very confusing to Jun Long when he tried to think about it.  Instead of hurting his head, Jun Long decided to just 'not think about it.'

Jun Long went back to trying out magic, at the same time he ran his IMC to replay the scene of the kids throwing their water balls at each other.  Doing this was a most basic application of the IMC, as it allowed users of the IMC to use both visual and aural learning styles to quickly boost one's knowledge of the subject at hand.  For Jun Long, there was a sensation of already knowing it without actively knowing it.  It was weird!

As the kids continued to bicker cheerfully, Jun Long started juggling a few water balls that he had just created.  'Juggling' is used loosely, here, as he was actually just controlling the water balls to move in a circular path without touching each other.  He didn't even need to touch the water balls to keep them moving!

Xiao Mei and Fatty Long stopped bickering when they noticed Jun Long and his water balls.  Following their line of sight, the other kids, Fan Wei and Fan Ming stood in awe as they watched Jun Long manipulating the water balls to continously float in a circle.

"[i]Ming-ge!  Are you seeing this?  What is Xiao Fang doing with his water?[/i]"

"[i]I don't know, Xiao Wei...  It's like he's throwing the water balls at himself?[/i]"

"[i]Haha!  Fang-ge!  It's so pretty![/i]"

Compared to Fan Wei and Fan Ming's confusion, Yu Xiao Mei was enjoying this new way to use magic.  Yu Fei Long and the more quiet Lu Chen were somewhere in between.  Yu Xiao Mei rushed to Jun Long to get a closer look and asked if he could do other things with the water balls.

"[i]Fang-ge!  What else can you do with your water balls?[/i]"

"[i]Uhh...  Maybe... this?[/i]"

After saying that, Jun Long tried to change the way the water balls were moving.  Instead of just going round and round in a continuous circle, he made the water balls criss-cross each other to look like a nucleus.  It made the rest of the kids go 'Ooh!'

The kids reacting this way to Jun Long's display of water magic slightly confused Jun Long.  He didn't know why they were like this, as the way that Jun Long was using his water ball magic was not all that different in the application.  The feel of a normal water ball magic could be described as [i]plucking, like you'd do with a flower[/i].  The more you [i]pluck[/i], the bigger the water ball would become.  After, the feeling of 'throwing' the water ball could be described as [i]flicking, where one would first create tension and then release that tension quickly[/i].  The stronger the tension, and the faster that tension is released, the stronger and/or further the water ball would be thrown.  To Jun Long, this was all quite easy to understand and to put into practice.

With his main focus being the [i]feel[/i] of the magic, Jun Long was able to create different forms of the same water ball magic.

The temperature in the air had already started to drop, as the sun was quickly setting and night was creeping its way across the sky.  The kids were all called back into their own homes, and they all left Jun Long to return to his.  It seems that this small group of friends would meet up at this courtyard of the Lo family to play when they weren't doing chores for their parents.

After all the kids had finally left, Jun Long returned to the room that he had woken up in, and activated his IMC to go through the memories of this Lo Bei Fang.  Though he was certain that he had died, Jun Long still felt alive.  He was alive as Lo Bei Fang, and it seemed that he had come to a different era; a different world.

Jun Long, though generally not an ambitious person, had an amazing TPM and this allowed him, when he was still alive, to play his virtual reality games at championship levels.  If he had actually wanted to become famous, he could've easily joined an active Team, and he would've taken them all the way to the top.  Pushing his TPM to the limit, Jun Long used his IMC to learn about Lo Bei Fang, and who he was before Lau Jun Long took over.

Opening his eyes, Jun Long had already learned all there was to know about this Lo Bei Fang.  He had come to realise that, instead of dying and going to Heaven, Jun Long had actually been reincarnated and took over the poor soul that was once Lo Bei Fang.  There was only one thing that Jun Long didn't know about Lo Bei Fang...  How he looked.

In this world, there was no such thing as a mirror.  Jun Long sat on his bed, and wondered how he was going to find out what he looked like.  He just couldn't figure out a way to do it!  With his current resources - nothing - he was unable to create a mirror to look at himself.

Giving up, Jun Long started playing his his magic water ball, again.  His eyes slowly widened as he thought of a way to see what he looked like!

"[i]Water magic!![/i]"

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