Sacrifice: Time of Mine

The story of how Kalin Romen become known as the most mischievous boy in the whole Trading-Hills Capital or maybe even in the whole country of Haliviana was at the night when the Idiotic Rivals decided to compete on who can enjoy the most in the bar he was having.

Van who had the spiky hair chugged liters of alcohol right after he entered the bar and began to become wasted and partied wild at the bar. The musicians were barely keeping up with his vigor.

Meanwhile, Jhin with the long hair attracted the women and had fun with them. Laughing wildly while having a glass of wine in hand.

Seeing the handsome and talented Jhin, the women all flocked around him. Not only was he handsome, but he also has a high standing. If they were to have just a little bit of connection to him then it would boost their reputation. So coming late will become detrimental.

Almost all women went to him and some who were crazy enough to catch up with Van's dancing. Even the men who was following his moves were wheezing then.

Kalin looked with envy. The two women beside him went to Jhin and his male "friends" went to party with Van.

In the corner of the bar, he was there, all alone. People were looking at him with pity. In front of these two, even if they were called Idiotic Rivals, they had already proven themselves to be capable, and having fun like this once in a while wasn't bad at all.

He, on the other hand, was a normal useless customer who doesn't even spend that much even though he had a rich background. The women were getting tired of him and his "friends" were getting nothing, so when these two arrived, he was left alone.

Nobody even invited him and this made him frown. So, he joined their competition... sort of. More accurately to say, he interfered with them.

After he put down the wine glass on the table, he stood up and went to the dance floor. There was a heat that was covering the air with a strong smell of alcohol pervaded his nose and those came from just one man. The one who was dancing on the floor more vigorous than the music itself was Van.

The men and women who were wild together with him earlier were now wasted on the floor, their mouth strongly smelled alcohol too. However, Van on the middle was still flapping his elbow like a chicken. His eyes closed, concentrated on having "fun".

Kalin went a bit closer to him and help one girl stand up. The girl was surprised by Kalin. There were many girls other than her with the same situation but she was the one who he went to help first.

She blushed and thanked him.

Hearing this, Kalin smiled and "whispered" that could be clearly heard through the music, "Don't follow him. Look at him, he was just forcing it. He was not even having fun. If you follow him, you'll get his mood."

It sounded like Kalin whispered but since the music was loud, he had to be louder as well. it didn't sound too intentional and when Van heard this, he slowed down as he continues to hear.

"Let's just go to that guy, he seemed to be having a lot of fun."

"Eh? Why?"

"We are here to have fun since this is a bar. You shouldn't party as if you're desperate. Look, the women surrounding him were laughing too, meaning, he's the fun guy here."

"Um.. okay?"

When Van heard this and realized that this fellow picked his rival over him, it was the sign of defeat. In their battle, the crowds were the ones declaring who won. They can't just proclaim that they were the one at victory since it would be greatly biased. So if the crowd was already favoring the other side, then it was a sign of defeat for him.

A forceful breath came out of Van's nose. Noticing his surrounding, he realized that he was thinking about himself. This battle is about who can have the most fun but that would be impossible to measure. So the real objective would be, who looked like who was having the most fun.

However, that was not all. The winner was the crowd's favorite, meaning, if the crowd was having fun around them too, then they have a lot of chances of winning.

The Idiotic Rivals isn't named as such if they weren't so competitive. A simple battle was getting complicated in their heads.

When Kalin sat around Jhin's table together with the girl he brought, Jhin didn't get bothered by it. Although he was surrounded by women and didn't hear what Kalin "whispered", he knew the unspoken rules between him and Van. The more the merrier.

So he welcomed them with a smile.

"Then, hahaha! Here's the funny part that will kill you; when Van was about to win and take my hat away, I just ducked and he missed! Hahaha!" he loudly laughed like a maniac then the women followed.

Kalin clearly heard the women were laughing in a monotone as he laughed in a more natural way.

'What's funny about that?' the women curiously thought. Were they just dumb to get the joke?

"Then this one will totally kill you. Last year, when we were eating together with Memi, Van asked, 'What would you like to eat?' Hahahah! He acted like a servant!"

"Hahaha..." the women laughed monotonously again.

"Okay, okay, But this next one is the absolute killer,"

'You really want to kill us, huh' the women thought in synchronous.

"This one happened just last month, we were having a competition on how far we can throw a rock blindfolded. So we blindfolded ourselves but we forgot to pick a rock. Hahaha!"

"Hahaha...!" the women found it a bit funny this time.

"Eh?" Jhin then raised an eyebrow as he looked at them with a confused expression, "But that wasn't the punchline."

'It was not..!?'

"Okay, so what I did was take off my blindfold and ran to throw my rock as I put back my blindfold. When Van threw his, get this, mine was farther. Hahahaha!"

"Haha...?"

'Where's the joke?' Kalin thought and even the woman he brought had already left. He just realized that this Jhin with the long hair had no sense of humor.

"Ehem!" a cough was then heard as they all turned to look. After hearing lame jokes, although it was already an overstatement to call it a joke, their attention was easily taken away by the cough.

Watching Van cough with little balance on his footing since he was already drunk was funnier than hearing Jhin's jokes.

The women realized something that made them frozen.

Jhin had the power to lower the standard of their humor by just simple words.

Terrifying!

"I think you forgot to say that no one won that day. Because we were still blindfolded when the rocks landed so we didn't know where it went."

"HAHAHA!" the women laughed hard.