[VRMMO] Dead One

"Wow…. We are… Keep circling around this shit and still ending up here…" – said Mika as everybody stared at the piece of paper with only word or sentence not crossed being [Paranormal]

"….So…. Do we have anything else?" – asked Chiyo as she picked up a pen and started writing.

"I mean… I did thought about something… Well, cartoonish evil?"

["Brainwash the world".]

"If that was their goal, then it would instantly fail, because of the person behind the Sloth." – said the short girl as she already crossed her own theory.

"So… If it was really somebody trying to 'save the world', then they could had easily succeed by exposing the whole outside world influence thing."

"And this is just theory. We still don't know if that thing can brainwash people or not… Either way, that plan would end up being instantly destroyed."

"So yeah…. I'm out of ideas…. Anybody else?"

"…"

Nobody raised a question or a new theory…. Everybody just looked at the piece of paper… Just defeated.

There was no "logic" or "sense" in any manner… This did not looked normal at all.

They knew that the man wasn't lying… They knew the story must had been true…. But again, there is no "logic" or "sense" to be found.

They looked around, they brainstormed and thought of countless theories, but one after another they were being scrapped.

Nothing was making any solid sense.

The only theory that was always being left.

Is Paranormal.

Obviously, everybody gathered refused to take as the answer and began making new theories, new questions…. But it always ended up in ruins.

The Paranormal theory never dies.

And this began filling the gathered people with fear and confusion.

This was very obvious.

In the world of the game, "fantasy" is real.

But in the real world?

Only "realistic" is present.

So…. The current situation straight up defies the laws of this world.

How was able the capsule influences the real world?

Does the capsule posses a hidden ability that the company never mentioned? A secret ability?

…

But then again, what was that thing which almost caught ClownFrog?

This wasn't some fear implanted by the system… No. It is unknown if they can even do something like that.

But even if they could, it would not explain the man's body reaction.

The body itself knew it was in danger, a physical danger.

The man himself knew that it would end up badly if that thing were to catch him…. Or even worse.

He could imagine himself melting to death if he was caught.

…

The gathered people couldn't came up with a solid theory or anything like that… They obviously didn't gave up…. But again, and again they failed.

And like before, they once again stared down at the Paranormal theory.

"…"

"Hehe….Hehehehe…. Are you fucking with me right now?" – asked Luis.

"Believe me… I wish I was." – said Jarzyna as the group had visible fear and disturbed looks on all of their faces.

"But again… No….No… Fuck…. We used up everything… Everything we had…" – said scared Chiyo as she held Yosuke hand out of fear.

"That ain't right…. That can't be right." – said Mika while holding her head.

They understood that the common logic or sense isn't applying here anymore…. And one by one… They started accepting that this wasn't a realistic situation.

This was truly Paranormal situation.

"…."

"OKAY! REAL QUSTION FUCKING HERE!" – said Mika as she clapped her hands really loudly.

"I can freaking tell by now that all of us scared…. But I have a soldi question right now…

"…"

"Do we still play?"

"…"

"…"

"Yes…" – said Yosuke.

"I know! I freaking know now it is freaking risky! I know that there is some sort of bullshit going on that we don't fucking understand!"

"But think realistic from our perspective for a moment."

"We still use the game as source of income for us."

"We use it to earn real life money and shit."

"Not only us, me and her was still to take revenge on those fuckers."

"…"

"And not only… It doesn't looks like we were left with a choice here…"

"Yeah…" – said Miteki.

"Sloth straight up tells us to do it…. But there is also good chance that there is something 'BAD' going on that she didn't told you."

"Not only that, but if we want to find out anything, we need to play the game."

"…"

"But is it worth the risk?" – asked Luis.

"Well… That is the shitty problem." – said Yosuke.

"We don't know what risk exactly is, nor we know what kind of consequences we will taking by taking on her request or ignoring it."

"There could be a shit tons of stuff going on…."

"But considering how we always ended up Paranormal theory…. Yeah… I think some shit storm may really come down."

"So, unfortunately, if we wish to be safe and shit, we need to play a role of her little puppets."

"Until at least we obtain more information to understand the bigger picture better."

"Not only that… We also need to find the truth of Avriones, if we want to walk forward… If you get what I mean."

"…"

"I won't hold you."

"…"

"You say that…. But do you really think we can back away after what we just heard?" – asked Junko Ono.

"Yeb… We are bit fucked here mate… So, we kind of need to do it." – said Shoto Ono.

"Unfortunately… Yes." – agreed Shota Ito.

"…"

"What about you?" – asked Miteki in English as she turned towards Victoria.

"M-me?!" – replied surprised Victoria.

"Yeah… I mean… You only recently found out about ours, theirs and his situation." – said Miteki.

"Honestly, this must had been a lot of news for you to receive in all single day…. And now in the second day of the row, we are now part of some kind of weird conspiracy talk…. Which probably isn't logical and is very likely somewhat Paranormal…. So yeah…"

"…"

"We won't hold you back… You have all the rights here."

"And no."

"We won't kill you here and burry your body, so don't even think about some stupid shit like this."

"…"

"Em…. Honestly…. It is still too much for me…" – said Victoria as she fiddled her fingers.

"I mean… I wasn't expecting… You know…. *Uff*…. I…"

"…"

"I wasn't ready."

"I mean, I did got warning from you and everything and I did realized that something was off the moment I've realized that ClownFrog and Road were the same people."

"But…"

"…"

"Honestly… I'm scared… I'm really scared."

"But at the same time… I want to know…"

"I don't know…. I kind of…. I kind of want to now know the truth now… And I'm quiet scared what would happened if we didn't found out the truth as well."

"So…Yeah…. I think I will be staying?"

"…"

"Thank you." – said Miteki to Victoria.

"I probably don't have to ask you, since you already made up your mind." - said Yosuke while staring at Miteki.

"What about rest of you?"

"…"

"I'm in." – replied Kamil

"Huh? Instant answer?" – asked Jarzyna as she stared at the serious expression her brother was making… And realizing that there was some meaning behind his answer.

"…"

"Fuck it. Add me as well." – said Jarzyna.

"I'm already in that shit hole deep enough, so I doubt I can really walk away now." – said Luis.

"Besides, I do enjoy that game…. And I want to play as long as possible."

"…"

"You two are only ones left." – said Yosuke as he turned towards Chiyo and Mika.

"…"

"Em… What do we do?" – asked Mika as she whispered to Chiyo.

"Honestly… I don't know… This is different compare to the before…. But…"

"…"

".."

"I'm in." – said Chiyo.

"?!"

"H-hey! Wait?!" – said surprised Mika.

"Look… I can't say that I'm also scared… But logically speaking, we don't have much choice here but to find out the truth, don't we?" – replied Chiyo as she tomboy noticed her friend's hand still shaking from fear.

"…"

"Tch… I guess I can't leave you." – said Mika.

"I'm in as well."

"…"

"Well then… I guess we made… Ah, who the fuck am I kidding." – said Yosuke.

"This is still fucked no matter how I look at this."

"What? Are you one having a second guessing now?" – asked Miteki.

"Kind of?" – replied Yosuke.

"I mean, logic and shit…."

"…"

*Sigh*

"Still, I'm not backing down either."

"But the question how do we do things right now?"

"I mean…. I do know that we should aim to deal with the situation as soon as possible…. But at the same time, we may need the empire strength if we wish to succeed."

"And there is also fact that the 'benefactor' is all over the place AND the Forgotten Fragment dungeons will keep spawning in the future."

"…"

"I suggest we play it normally like before." – said Shota Ito.

"I mean, I know we have now some quests and shit, but as this bastard said, we may need the Garog empire to be sometimes directly involved."

"Meaning, we cannot just leave behind the empire on the whim… And in the first place, none of us really would do it, since it is our main source of income right now, isn't it?"

"Not only that, the protection is still in place… If I remember correctly, 3 in game years… That is one year in real life… Several months went by already… But based on what I've heard from our spies…. There may be good chance that other nations are maybe preparing for us either casting off protection on our own… Or waiting until full duration is up… Either way, the moment protections disappears, shit may go down."

"Ranging from possible invasion, to the whole war within dragon empire."

"…"

"Unfortunately this is our situation." – said Yosuke.

"…"

"Very well then, we will do this that way."

"We will start up our preparations in secret while we continue operating the empire normally."

"We will keep up the empire alive at any cost, since sooner or later we may needs its full power at our disposal."

"That bastards was already involved in wars, manipulating things behind the scenes and what not, so it wouldn't be surprised if we would have to fight a kingdom… Or even empire in a future."

"Grow stronger, explore, evolve and what not."

"Just like before."

"…"

"But this time, we have an end goal."

"And that is that bastard 'Benefactor's' head and the truth of Avriones."

"If we want to obtain the truth behind everything, we will need to be Sloth puppets… But if the things would change, we may even turn against her."

"…"

"In short."

"Be ready for anything."

"Since right now we have no fucking idea what the fuck is going on."