[VRMMO] Dead One

"…"

"You really can't relax, can't you?" – asked the short girl with long black hair as the man with a scar was driving a normal looking car.

"…Is it really that easy to tell?" – asked the man with the scar.

"Pretty much." – said the short girl.

"You were pretty much scaring off the amusement park employes left and right."

"You were straight up giving off the same aura you did in the game."

"As if you were to murder everybody around you."

"…"

"Shit… Sorry…. I know…..." – said the man with worried expression.

"…Are you really worried about justice that much?" – asked the worried girl.

"Justice? Fuck it." – said the man.

"…"

"What I'm really worried about is you, that annoying tomboy…. And the entire Purple Hyena." – said the man with the sad expression.

"This is mine problem."

"And I really don't want any of you involved in this."

"Hell. I'm just using you for my own goals."

"If I want to completely destroy these bastards in every single way possible, I would need to put every single one of those bastards in the grave both in real life and in the game."

"However…. The problem is that you, and everybody else in the guild uses the guild as our main source of income of REAL money."

"If the Garog empire were to fall and our guild were to collapse, then everybody would lose their main source of income."

"And this is something I want to avoid at all cost." – said the man as he parked up his car.

"…"

"So why did you told us the truth?" – asked the girl.

"Eh?" – the man's expression suddenly changed.

"If you really didn't wanted us to get involved in that personal matter, why the hell did you told us about the 'truth'?"

"Honestly, back then when we met face to face, you could just told us no…. Hell."

"Back then you were the one who revealed yourself to us."

"You could just… Walked away, yet you didn't do that."

"I at least had suspicious who you were, since like I've said before, I was once your fan."

"But I didn't knew at the time that you were ClownFrog."

"You could had easily hidden who you were… Hell! Why would you even tell the rest of the group?"

"I know her and her close friends knew about you….Since because of the situation."

"And they decided to get involved before you would say anything."

"But what about us? The core members?"

"Back then, during the meeting, you could had just said you just wanted to win, nothing else, nothing more."

"So why did you went out of your way to tell us the truth?"

"…"

"Don't know." – said the man with the scar.

"I really don't know…."

"I don't know how to answer that nor I know why I did that."

"…"

"I just…. Felt I should tell you that?"

"…Now that I look at it again, it does seems quiet stupid."

"…"

(Yes…. It was foolish…. It was indeed foolish.) – thought the man as he just stared at the wheel.

(Why did I do that?)

(Before I've met them.)

(Before when it was just me, GreyHunt, Shri and Oron… We decided to be the bad guys.)

(So why?)

"…."

"Sorry…. I know you are worried about me and everything…. But I think I need to spend few days in…. Silence." – said the man with the scar.

"…"

"I see." – said the worried short girl as she then left the car.

"If you change your mind, don't hesitate to call either me or her, we are here for you." – said the girl before then leaving the man's car behind.

"…Bye…" – said the man before then he started up his car and started driving away, while watching the young girl heading back home.

"…"

(Why?) – thought the man to himself as he drove through the streets and watching as the sun was setting in the distance.

(When we met Rampage, we planned on betraying her…. But then we decided to recruit her instead.)

(After that, we met her "friend"… Who turned out to be Blueberry.)

(Even knowing that we are planning on becoming the "bad guys", they decided to join our guild.)

(We played the roles of both the heroes and villains, based on what would benefit us.)

(But most of the time we ended up being hailed as "heroes", even though we didn't planned on doing that.)

(We were one of the first players to brough down an already existing kingdom of Adernul.)

(An "EVIL" kingdom…. But not exactly.)

(Adernul kingdom wasn't evil.)

(No.)

(The only ones evil were those in power.)

(The kingdom and nobility.)

(But beside that? That kingdom was "good".)

(They could be called neutral.)

(Yet, when we awaken the Umil kingdom and resurrected their queen, we ended up slaughtering them.)

(In her rage and vengeance, Arrianhi Umil wishes to destroy completely the kingdom of Adernul for what they had done to her people.)

(We slaughtered everybody, be it sinners or innocent…. Yet we were called heroes.)

(Then came the kingdom of the demons, the kingdom of Liefay, ruled by the queen and the demon lord by the name of Abigail Neverend.)

(She seems like a "good" person on the surface…. But yet, she was nothing but "good".)

(She was "evil".)

(She slaughtered countless of her civilians, played both sides of the war like puppets… All in order to get rid of those who sought out the power.)

(She slaughtered countless people…. Yet, with her "evil", she destroyed "evil".)

(I've realized what she was, yet still chose her.)

(All because I've wanted to use her.)

(I've was "evil" back then…. Yet I was also at the same time "good".)

(This was stupid.) – thought the man as he arrived at his apartment parking space.

(We were really working for somebody "evil" back then…. Yet again, we did "good" things… And became "heroes".) – thought the man as he parked his car and turned it off.

(That doesn't make a sense….)

(That game….)

"…"

"No."

"That world."

"It doesn't fallow the 'normal' game logic."

"A real world."

"Yet a one of a fantasy."

(This world maybe be inside of the game…. Yet the more I've played it… The more I interacted with the people of that world….)

(The more I've realized that this world of codes and pixels… It wasn't the "fake".)

(But instead a reality of its own.)

(O'a, Hera and Zod.)

(Even though they are my servants… They have their own personalities, needs and…. Their own stories.)

(NPCs.)

(Kingdoms.)

(Empires.)

(Continents.)

(Realm.)

(Each story… Detailed and yet unreal…. While being real at the same time.) – thought the man as he gets off his car and started heading towards his apartment.

(I've asked myself about that world many times….)

(Is it truly "REAL"? Or is it nothing more than simple "LIE"?)

(I've tried asking myself this question many times already in the past, but I've always came up with the same answer.)

(It is both FAKE and REAL at the same time.) – thought the man as he reached his apartment door and started opening it.

"…"

"Yet now…. This answer by itself, feels both FAKE and REAL."

(I've only stared playing this game to satisfy myself.)

(I've wanted to escape the reality.)

(I've wanted to just…. Runaway….)

(But now?)

(This doesn't feels like…. Running anymore.) -thought the man as he stopped in tracks for a moment.

"…"

"…"

"A story…. Huh?" - said the man to himself with a faint smile, before then unlocking the door.

"Stupid…. Truly… Stupid." – said the man as he entered his apartment.

"…"

"…"

"Yet at the same time… Truly…"

"…"

"Real."

(Avriones.)

(My escape from reality and now my tool to earn money… And possible tool to earn my revenge.)

(Yet at the same time…. It truly feels like I'm living two different lives.)

(The ex-esport player who just enjoys his life after stepping down…. And the emperor of one of most powerful nations in the entire game.)

(No matter how I look at it, these two lives are nothing alike…. Yet, I've chosen to walk with both of them on the very same path.) – thought the man as he put down his phone and wallet down on the table.

"…"

"…"

"Ah… Shit."

"It feels way too fucking weird."

"I've never acted this way or thought this way."

"At this bloody fucking rate I think I will start writing poems and stuff."

"YET AND YET."

"What the fuck is this?" – said the man as he chuckled a bit at himself.

"…"

"Still, I do think that world… Is fake and real at the same time… While for some reason also thinking that this statement itself is at the same time fake and real at the same time…. Which is quiet-"

*PEEP*

"…"

"…"

"?"

(What was that?) – thought the man as he looked towards the capsule device that was standing right in the middle of the room.

The man noticed a light being emitted from the capsule, causing the man to slowly approach the machine, before then leaning forward to the screen that was located on the side of the machine.

[Game selected: Avriones]

[Status: Ready to launch]