There was a man in a house of the district watering peaceably the plants in a garden, he was old enough to be called an old man but has aroun 50 years old in appearance. Despite the fact that the androids were used for such tasks in the district, the man in the topic was not an android, but human, a player of the district who decided to retire, like many other players around the world, only that the majority of players do not retire to live in the district.

The man, despite to be able to pay the district to have androids doing his house chores, he would rather doing that by himself with his wife, even for heavy task, after all players weren't common people; and in his days he was an elite player, not enough to be called genius or legend, but to be in top of the elite. The 'retirement' was a word to refer to retired players, those who stopped their progress in the district to live their lives, either in the earth or the distrcit zero, a retired couple was not a rare occurrence, and although both were around 50 years old in appearance, they were almost 70.

*WHISTLE* the man having an unwavering serenity, like if he met all his goals in life and only enjoying his last time on life, although talking about a 'retired' player in the district, there is many years left for his death. However, his look sometimes had doubts, or maybe just curiosity, some hours ago he heard about an announcement from the personal assistant, a supposed update to be implemented in a few weeks, that made him curious, although as a retired player it wouldn't really matter to him or his wife.

The man, whose the name is Nolan, thought about reading the update details to kill time while his wife was doing her exercise routine outside the house.

-Update, details: massive updates (to all divisions) with the purpose of restarting the current district by implementing a new way of administration. More specific details coming soon.

Nolan stared into space, stunned by what his personal assistant had just read, so decided to read the news with his own eyes that had not yet lost any quality, rather he had better eyesight than normal humans. However, nothing changed, the text was exactly what his personal assistant had told him.

The district always provided details about each update, but this time not only didn't with the first announcement, even it was his first time reading about the 'district restart' and he had decades in the district, the only time he heard about something like that was something about an event that happened a few years before he was invited to the district.

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Meanwhile in diferent divisions of the district, the players was stunned when watching the news, even those who like most did not normally enter the district and remain on earth, or those 'retired' players, everyone got the news sooner or later. There were 3 groups according to the reactions of the players, those who were afraid that something would change for them and those who were nervous about the update were the two smallest, these two groups were commonly made up of people with little experience in the district or novice players., but the third group, the most numerous, who do not care and decided to wait in silence for the details of the update, they were the longest surviving in the district, namely, most of modern players and all players in 'retirement', of course this doesn't mean they weren't tense. However, there was one last group that didn't fit in with any of them, that weren't tense but rather preparing for it.

"For now keep an eye on him, with the update it is not known if they are going to sacrifice him prematurely" says sasha sitting at a desk in an office, despite seems to speak to the pc screen as if she is on a video call, the screen did not actually have any calls in progress.

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"Understood, don't worry boss, we'll keep you up to date on everything" says a subject with some european accent, however, only sasha could hear the voice.

"Needless to say, if his head flies off yours too"

"..."

"We'll talk later, for now take care of transmitting the first and second message to the other members of the group" says and hangs up the call, of course, it was a call made through the district system, using each player's personal assistant. The district's technology was very convenient, but one couldn't use these kinds of features without everyone involved being a player.

"(Now I'm in America again, but I have nothing to do...)" Sasha thinks as she leans back on the couch. Had traveled to America with the intention of getting the information about the update, thought that after talking with Daniel, she would have to secretly investigate the actions of the group he led to understand what the update was about, although after the conversation it was not necessary, Daniel literally told her almost everything he knew.

"(In fact, the update is so big that not even Dani himself knows all the details even if he used his 'right', what a news)"

Now there was only one thing left to do, find the information about the details that Daniel did not tell her. Because Daniel is very sarcastic, many times he does not give a direct answer, and her ability to tell what he said was whether or not a lie only worked when he answered it directly.

"His face when I told him that I could tell if he was lying or not... priceless" Mutters, of course, it wasn't like Daniel easily revealed his thoughts in his facial expressions, actually the opposite, but they had spent a lot of time in the district before, so she knews slightly what his (few and non-sarcastic) facial expressions meant.

When Sasha asked if that was all, Daniel easily dodged the question, though she wasn't entirely sure, because sometimes he did it by accident. So she had an extra plan, one that she wouldn't risk facing Daniel's wrath, and that plan was just coming through the office door.

"I was hoping the boys were playing a prank on me, but were right, you are really here..." Says Samuel after entering his own office

"Hello Daniel's lazy dog" Says Sasha with a smile.

"(Sasha... White, I think it was?, I always wanted to know why she doesn't have a british accent, I would say she has a strong... American accent.)"

"Can't you talk if your owner doesn't let you?"

"I'm nobody's dog!" a direct answer from Samuel, that was why she had come, Samuel wouldn't do anything to her, and there were some places like this where Daniel's employees knew Sasha, so could get by without getting into trouble, but above all...

"Don't be mad, it was just a joke, I just wanted to know how you're doing?"

"Bad now that you are here, whatever you want, Daniel is not going to leave you alone if you do something" and that was what Sasha was looking for, Samuel used to respond to everything in almost every situation, although her ability to know when is a lie or truth only worked on Daniel, reading someone like Samuel didn't require any supernatural ability.

"I have not come to do anything bad, even Daniel already knows that I am here (probably). I just want to ask a couple of questions while I wait for him, yesterday I told him for lunch today" Of course, the things about questions were true, that's why she had come. The thing about staying for lunch with Daniel was a lie, yesterday they had their briefing after watching the debut of a newbie, and they didn't agree on any activities today.

While Sasha was talking, there was an announcement from her assistant which she listened to intently even while in another conversation.

-User, the tracking function installed has been activated, the player Steve White has entered the district.