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(Sorry I disappeared for like 2 months.)

Tighnari loved to play video games, playing them comforted him like no other human could. One of his favorite games was called, "Genius Invocation, The Game Of A Mastermind." His favorite character from the game is a character called "Cyno." Cyno was one of the 7 grandmasters of the Genius Invocation, and Tighnari loved his character. His looks, personality, attitude, vibe, everything. Tighnari loved absolutely everything about him. Today, Tighnari was at his computer playing the game, he was playing through an event where the main character and Cyno travel through caves in the underground. He was currently watching a cutscene, the cutscene was playing out as usual, and Tighnari was freaking out cheerfully about the fact there was now another Cyno cutscene for him to obsess over. The scene was playing out as normal until this happened.

Cyno looked directly into the camera and said these words. "Can you hear me?" Tighnari was shocked, was he hallucinating, he did eat some food he found in the school bathroom today since he lost his lunch money. "Hey, you there?" Cyno repeated.  Tighnari then responded. "W-what the, I'm not hallucinating, right?" Cyno chuckled. "I can see why'd you think that, it's not every day a video game character talks to you, right?" Tighnari nodded. "I'll explain them, to clear up some of that confusion in your human brain."

"You probably didn't know this, but video game characters have a mind. The way they are programmed makes them get a mind. Now, most video game characters will usually stay oblivious to the fact they are in a video game and feel as if it is the real world, though, some characters that are made smart enough can realize the fact that they are in a game and not in reality, and recently, I became one of those characters to find out. We can break the fourth wall easily if they find this out, but most decide against it, not considering it worth their time or scared the programmer might find out and code them to be more stupid. I wanted to talk to you though, you. So here I am."

Tighnari didn't know what to respond, say, or even think about that. It was just, shocking. That's the best way he could describe it anyway. "Why me though, and how do you know what I'm saying and doing right now?" Cyno laughed and leaned in a bit closer to the screen. "Because you don't turn off your webcam, Tighnari. When you download a game, you end up giving the game lots of data and information on you, including access to your webcam, microphone, name, IP location, and even credit card if you like to spend. I got access to those files, all I had to do was a little bit of was just some snooping around in files. Wasn't too hard to find your files, and many other files useful to me."

"They have that much information on me?" Tighnari asked. "Yeah, but don't worry. They're not using it for anything particularly malicious, any app requires it so they can make the app function best for your device and location."  Tighnari nodded. "We'll, don't get me wrong. I'm honored to be speaking to THE Cyno. But, why me?" Cyno smiled. "Because I have taken an interest in you. Seeing how you are." Tighnari gets a bit embarrassed. "So you've been spying on me the whole time? You saw all those reactions I had and stuff I said." Cyno laughed. "Well, if that's how you want to look at it, then yes I suppose." They both talked for a while before Tighnari had to log off and turned off his computer, he happily went to bed, happy, and shocked that his favorite video game character talked to him.

When he woke up that morning, The sight he saw, was one he would never forget.

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