Oh the rush of watching your opponent get crushed. What a great feeling! Every day people came up and put down two tokens on the machine to challenge your mad skills. Everyday, you would walk away with a massive win versus loss ratio. After all losing to some random guy or a regular wasn't so bad, you would learn from their combos and flip the game to your advantage. Being this good at every installment of the Street Fighter franchise was a gift from the digital gods.
That was up until that last set of matches yesterday... You had never seen her before. Some petite Asian girl from out of town. She was quiet and focused on brutalizing you in front of the whole arcade. Really she didn't look like much, short black hair, rail thin, and dressed in the most disgustingly cute outfit of dark clothes highlighted in pink and white. The Hello Kitty hair clips were the final cherry on top.
Like everyone else, she came up to the machine with two tokens to challenge you. At first you thought she might be a scene girl jumping into gaming to impress her boyfriend or something. Soon you found, she is a hardcore gamer, and she earned those calloused thumbs.
The first loss you took with your usual stoic mannerisms, lesson learned. But she just whipped on you, and each time she chose a new female character to do it with. Finally with the losses racking up she plainly asked you the question that changed your life.
"Why you only play men?"
In your brashness, and being sore to losing to a girl, you answered. "Girls are weak, even in fighting games! A real fight, guys always win!" The small Asian girl walked away smiling at your answer to her inquiry. Her reply, made you uneasy.
"Okay then, I'll see ya round... Chun Li." The name Chun Li, she said with just a hint of venom.
The rest of the day was the usual thing, beating everyone else at the arcade until the shop closed for the evening. When you awoke the next day and rolled out of bed, hit the shower, and while checking out your manliness in the mirror the oddest urge hit you.
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