A different Alpha

Chapter 42: The desire of victory

Momentarily things had calmed down, and lunch had ended with an absurd silence between the Alpha and Omega who had escaped from the kitchen and a boisterous speech from the other family members and Sana's two friends. Not that the two minded that kind of atmosphere that was also automatically brought back to the living room while the others settled comfortably on the sofa or on the floor, like Jihyo and Nayeon who lay down on the carpet laughing and joking with Sana's grandmother. Instead, Tzuyu was in the only armchair: she had insisted on making Mr. Minatozaki sit down, but he said it was better to distance himself from solitude and get a little closer to her wife than her; in truth it was all a lie in order not to seat Tzuyu next to Sana and, of course, her wife. He patted the arm of the chair hysterically as he watched Sana talk to her mother. "Oh this girl it wouldn't surprise me if I find her still single after some years" said the old woman with a playful smile towards Nayeon who had told of her episode of a suitor of the one she had immediately rejected, "Other people in this room will be busy in some days with love" said Jihyo shrugging Nayeon's shoulders who had comfortably placed his head on Jihyo's legs, "I bet twenty euros by the end of the trip" said Sana's grandmother rolling an eyes mischievous wink making the two girls in front of him understand. Mr. Minatozaki got up from his chair pointing fingers at everyone and then defiantly said "Let's play a game!". The wife was frightened by the sudden action of the elder Alpha while the mother of the Alpha laughed softly at her son's stupidity. "Ah, no gentlemen! I will never play a game again, here mister know-it-all doesn't even allow a win" said the wife getting up from the inn and making a big speech they raise her voice almost as if she were making a warning. "And what do you want to do then? Look at your hands!" Mr. Minatozaki said with an air of triumph and optimism, wanting at all costs to challenge Tzuyu in a quiz battle, as he did every year with his family. Being the smartest in the family, due to his wisdom and his expansive work, it was more than easy to defeat the opposing team in less than two minutes. But as he understood from Sana's flattering chatter, Tzuyu was a born genius. "I dare you! The winning team will get the chance to make any wish, any and when I say any is any" said Mr. Minatozaki in his convincing manner, "Then I'm in!" Nayeon answered after Jihyo's prodding and a handshake from Sana's grandmother. Tzuyu continued to stare at Sana not even knowing what they were talking about. She smiled innocently making Tzuyu's heart flutter as Sana's mother and father looked at her for an answer, "Tzuyu? Are you okay?" asked the elderly lady with a mischievous smile as she saw her niece accept the game offer. "Do you want to participate or not? You're too scared aren't you?" asked Mr. Minatozaki making Tzuyu unconsciously enter true reality again. "It's fine with me" the Alpha answered without thinking about it, making the woman who was next to the man even more confused, by now, happy and satisfied. "Then let's form teams! Who wants to come to my team," said Mr. Minatozaki euphorically, immediately having the support of the two friends and Sana's grandmother. He smiled satisfied again, meanwhile watching Tzuyu sitting still on the armchair "Your team Tzuyu?" asked Mr. Minatozaki immediately making us understand that the two teams had been formed but immediately he noticed that Sana wasn't in his team "Why aren't you here Sana dear?" the man asked confused, tapping his foot on the floor furiously, "I want to be in Tzuyu's team" the Omega answered sincerely making the Alpha warm his heart who immediately got up from the armchair automatically, "Pfft, the love team" said Nayeon putting himself behind Mr. Minatozaki and Jihyo who laughed at her friend's joke, "You darling?" the husband asked his wife positioned on the side of Tzuyu and Sana, "It's more than obvious that I'm in the same team as my daughter and sweet Tzuyu" replied Mrs. Minatozaki making the Omega smile for the compliments given to Tzuyu: he was pleased that at least one of the two family members loved Tzuyu's company. "Then you'll lose," the man replied with a grin as he opened a drawer where several game boxes were placed inside.

Mr. Minatozaki had chosen a trivia game, it was called Super Trivia. It was a game that mainly required the number of two participants per team and the latter had to be able to know anything concerning the main subject that had been fished. This game worked like this: the team must roll the dice of which they have a number greater than six, i.e. the one with twelve, you have to make as many jumps as the dice says. Each box contains a material that is all different from each other and selected on the basis of a colour. The boxes were infinite and there is neither a start nor an end, it was a kind of spiral in which the chosen pawn was placed after answering the main question that let you enter the game. You end up in two different ways: the first method is that the opposing team must be wrong at least ten times, ten since you have ten lives within the game of which they fall as soon as you get the question asked wrong; the second method is the simplest and most common that occurs: whoever scores the most points wins, whoever reaches a thousand points first wins; in fact, each card has its own level of difficulty ranging from one star to three, the more stars there are, the more points increase by ten. The team has only one pawn and it is decided who goes first by rolling the die and seeing which of the two, at this moment, has the greater number. To their misfortune, Mr. Minatozaki's team won the dice game and asked to elect someone to read the opponent's questions every time. The three made up their minds, mostly Sana and her mother, believing and thinking that the best person who could read the opposing questions was Mrs. Minatozaki, as she is an expert in the game. Tzuyu was on the left side, sitting on the floor with the others, next to Sana who was sitting between her and laughing in front of her friends for some jokes. Sana's perfume extended until it reached Tzuyu's nostrils making her relax quietly under that air so tense and ruined by Mr. Minatozaki's gaze. "Read the opening question," Sana's grandmother said in a friendly way and slapped her hand on the table making Tzuyu wake up from her fervent imagination. Having read the question they immediately found the answer, being the starting question the latter was simple so that everyone could at least enter the game. Mr. Minatozaki smiled victoriously for the second time then took a card from the deck of starting cards and asked the question. Something about the movies came up and the two Omegas were quick to guess. Luckily, Tzuyu had someone on the team who knew movies and the show better than anyone else, hers was her only weakness. The man got a little grumpy making Nayeon roll the dice who was slowly collapsing on Jihyo's shoulder, who was counting uninterestedly on Mr. Minatozaki. "Good Art. Difficulty one," Mrs. Minatozaki said with a presumptuous grin, "Who is the Monalisa painter?" she asked with a pretentious air while her husband smiled mockingly "Obviously it's Leonardo da Vinci. Roll that die" the man finally said making his mother score a point while making fun of the team still in place of the square chosen by the last question. "Sciences," Sana said moving the pawn rapidly. Tzuyu understood that this was the moment to reveal her cultural gifts, there was nothing she didn't know: her private professors had spent more than eight hours passing everything through the Alpha's brain. But knowing that Sana too was a genius in some fields, gave her a little displeasure but at the same time happiness that that pretty Omega was also so very intelligent. "Difficulty two. Who invented the invented electric current?" he asked throwing the paper on the ground making the answers invisible by putting his hand on it, "It's electricity very different from Thomas Edison's" "Indeed it's Nikola Tesla" Tzuyu interrupted with a pedantic air making Mr. Minatozaki amaze knowing the answer correctly. The man announced that it was the correct answer and Sana smiled confidently at the Alpha who now with a serious and detached air was dying inside of herself for that sweet little face. "Logic" the man said again after making the mother roll the dice who immediately snorted for the outgoing category. "Difficulty three. Mario bought 60 shirts of which 1/3 are long sleeves. However, only half of the short sleeve shirts have embroidery. How many are there without embroidery?" the wife asked slowly knowing that the husband would answer immediately, they were questions that he could simply answer, "40, because through..." "We don't care" the wife quickly interrupted as the husband began to explain his hypothesis making the correct answer more than obvious from the woman now disappointed by her husband's triumphant victory. The category was again chosen: Tzuyu's team was forced to answer a history question, "It is of difficulty two. In what historical period can we place the French Revolution?" "1789-1799" Tzuyu replied instantly without even making the two think. "Just the start was enough for you" Nayeon replied sniffling and then resting her head again on Jihyo's shoulder who was calmly waiting for his team's turn. In the end it was a war between Tzuyu and Mr. Minatozaki, the teams weren't even participating anymore after hearing the profusion of answers from the two, they decided to give up realizing that the two knew a lot more things than everyone put together. "You never get tired, do you, Tzuyu?" asked Mr. Minatozaki, "Never, in fact the result is fifteen times the root of two" replied the Alpha having a grim but at the same time challenging look, "You have to use the applications of the Pythagorean theorem to find the diagonal of a square easily" replied the Alpha again "Good, but you won't last much longer" continued the man throwing the die and announcing the next category. There were second discouragements between the two teams thinking that one of them would fail to finish this very heartbreaking and tense scene. "Astronomy is my forte" commented the man turning the pawn on the announced category, "Does the Moon rotate on itself in about 27 days? True or false?" Mrs. Minatozaki asked looking tired and bored placing the card in her deck knowing that the man would answer the question correctly since it was of difficulty one. "What stupid questions" Tzuyu whispered, "true, every twenty-seven days it turns" replied the man watching as the die rolled again showing the geography on the square, "Difficulty three, if I'm in Antwerp I'm..." the man asked hesitantly "in Belgium. It's located on the Belgian river Scheldt, it's a medieval-style port city" Tzuyu said closing his eyes in an intellectual and knowing way. "Are you done smartass?!" said Mrs. Minatozaki getting up from the carpet looking tired and whipped. She stood up together with Sana's grandmother and the two girls who were fed up and had lost interest in the game. "You lost. You have fewer players than my team" Tzuyu said pointing to Sana who was still close to her. "Curse!" the man said furiously and then regained his tranquility "What do you want? You can want anything" the man said gritting his teeth and pounding his hands on the table. Tzuyu hadn't even thought about it, he didn't even know there was anything at stake. She looked at Sana and then said making her hand snake on the Omega's shoulder, by now, embarrassed by the action, "I would like to watch another movie with Sana, alone" she said smelling a little the perfume in the air that had expanded due to the embarrassing tension from the Omega. The man could only nod furiously and get up nervously from the carpet. The Alpha simply looked at the roasted Omega and said "I hope your wish is the same, Sana", "Of course. Only if we stay at home. I'd rather stay at home in the movie room above" the Omega said shyly slowly approaching Tzuyu's body, covered in sweet coffee. The two remained like this for a while, with the flame in their hearts warming between them, while their own perfume acted as a tranquilizer for the loving couple.