[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-black-online":3,"chapter-black-online-black-online-chapter-145":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Black Online",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1462688,1913,"Chapter 145: I Dedicate To You","black-online-chapter-145",145,"\u003Cp>Fang Raon sat across from Lock and then pulled out his phone from his pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you a phone kid?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lock asked with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not really. Why?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon asked as he opened the phone and looked for things to do with the phone to pass the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see all my classmates always take their phones out during break time and will have their eyes glued to the screen till the bell rings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can’t even talk to the guys!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you immediately pulled out your phone when your match ended, so I just assumed that you were like them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lock said with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon wryly smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t use his phone much, but now that he had his vision back, of course he liked to use his eyes now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, he just liked to open his phone every now and then and check out some pictures from faraway places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The waterfalls. The beautiful landscape. The breathtaking sunsets. Even some celebrities, as he had always wondered how they would look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’No one would understand how I feel. Everything that I see from my phone is a thing I have never seen before. It’s... an amazing feeling.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, he went to the messaging app and pressed on Chaewon’s name, and her profile opened up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her profile picture was her smiling with her friends. It looked like the picture was a couple of years old, since she took the picture in her school uniform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’She was very beautiful even then.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon, out of curiosity, checked other social media platforms and searched for her profiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had a pretty thin social media presence, with about two dozen pictures in total uploaded to the websites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The comments on her pictures were either from her friends or from her male classmates—everyone calling her beautiful and complimenting her style.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What am I doing? I feel like a stalker.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon closed his phone and smiled wryly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were still couple hours till she would call him, and he was quite confident that he would be done with the tournament by then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Whether I lose or win the next match, I will only have two matches left in the tournament. I doubt it’ll take long.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, the rest of the matches concluded, and two girls sat down alongside them—only four of them remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest left the store—looking dejected—as they were so close to the prize money only to lose in the last match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’She must be Anselma Rocha.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon thought as he looked at the woman sitting across from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had black hair. Normal features. Nothing about her stood out. There weren’t any distinctive markings or accessories that would make her memorable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a normal girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’And she is Lourdes Quintana...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon glanced beside him and saw a hazel-brown-haired woman with a kind face—she was a woman in her late thirties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like she was most likely a mother already as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I guess all kinds of people play Black Online. Even mothers like Lourdes Quintana.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time around, it didn’t take long for the next match-ups to be decided, as the firm-sounding man updated the tournament bracket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mmh~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lock giggled at the sight of the whitebeard, and the two women exchanged glances before also standing up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>***\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Semifinals]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Anselma Rocha vs. Lourdes Quintana]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Fang Raon vs. Lock Manchester]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>***\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I am going against him?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon looked at the giggling young man and thought that he probably got the worst opponent possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I have a bad feeling...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quickly, the young woman went to the two rooms—to update the Virtual Reality Pods for their new users—and a short while later, the doors opened again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You may enter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anselma and Lourdes entered the first room. Fang Raon and Lock stepped into the second room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They all climbed inside their Virtual Reality Pods. The man and the young woman fiddled with the control panel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good luck out there, you hear me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lock said with a giggle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Same to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehe, I don’t need luck. You do. You’re going against me, after all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lock said with a confident smirk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That guy’s confidence is off the charts. I am not surprised. It looks like he crushed his first opponents pretty handily, so he must have strength to back it up.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, both of them turned limp inside the pods as their consciousness got transferred to the virtual world of the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Splash! Splash! Splash!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the sound, Fang Raon frowned and opened his eyes to a shocking sight that took his breath away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was standing on a platform—a circular platform the size of a small hall—and it was surrounded by a seemingly endless ocean of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, his opponent—Lock Manchester—appeared on the other side of the platform with a smile on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh? No more forests? This is good. I was wondering why those tournament organizers fiddled with that control panel for so long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They wanted to give us a proper stage to fight, I see!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lock said with a laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was wearing black leather armor that looked like something an assassin would wear, and it especially contrasted his pale skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Assassin?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon immediately thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just like he expected, Lock pulled out a pair of daggers from his inventory and twirled them expertly in his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like he wasn’t afraid at all to accidentally cut off his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re Warrior?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lock asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I didn’t even take out my weapons yet, and he already knows.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Raon thought, and then he pulled out the sword and shield from his inventory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t twirl them around or show off any of his skills. He simply held them in a tight grip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, Lock put his weapons down, pressed his forehead against the ground, and closed his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This fight I dedicate to you, Mother, and this victory I dedicate to you, Father.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his eyes, picked up the daggers, and stood back up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There wasn’t a smile left in his face anymore. Only coldness. It was obvious that he was not joking around anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>",1049,"2026-06-06T02:35:08.437Z",1,"novelbin.me","ee1f8890fc94baa6fba7efe59306fffa32b06656926b042a3eb000f3ed935dc7","black-online-chapter-146","black-online-chapter-144",270,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fblack-online-cover.jpg"]