Side Story 1 In only one day.
*Crack*
It was presently 6:30 AM of the morning.
For over the past countless days he has been continuously playing the game, the school term already started and it was autumn.
It was 'almost' impossible to play for so long without eating, sleeping and moving, if we had to put in terms, it was more like he was a zombie.
Now, it was the first time that he got out of his capsule, regardless of the new record he has established for the longest playthrough, he got up.
A strange factor is the fact that his family did not check him up, not one single time, a bizarre thing due to their attraction to him.
Nevertheless he slowly walked inside the huge deserted building, where was his family? He could simply interpret that they took a vacation without him knowing, or was it something else? Most likely impossible due to the 'existence' of his family.
And so he continued walking until he saw a shadow.
"Did you have fun Myriad?"
It was a tall woman, with long dark blue hair and wearing black all over, she had a hourglass body in which most men would be captivated in, her face was oval and her features were incredibly beautiful… An interesting aspect of her is her never ending smile.
If one could describe her, she would be a joyful interactive friend in which you would be shy sometimes due to her physical contacts.
However, she had another feature, a feature recognized by few but still recognized by Myriad…
In her deep deep black eyes, a darkness in which even the abyss could not replicate, something that is normal in this 'family'.
She was also the 'Model' in which he copied, a unusual fact due to her 'seemingly' cheerful tone.
"…Good morning Ling Li."
"Yeah, come here and give me a hug."
She smiled and he proceeded to give her a hug, though Myriad couldn't even reach her waist so she lifted him up.
When he was in close proximities to her, he smelled something strange, closely tied to blood.
"So, who did you kill?"
"No one who was important, you don't have to worry about it you know."
She took a few minutes and kept hugging him.
"You didn't quite answer my question, how was the game? Maybe I should give it a try hah."
"I don't know..."
She released him as he replied.
"I see, by the way, our family are going to a family vacation and the rest of us are outside presently, so only you, me and 'they' are here."
"What should I do then?"
Ling Li put her hand under her jaw and thought for a while.
"Hmm, you wanna kill someone with me?"
He looked at her for a while, if she ordered it, he would do it, simple as that.
He had the
"…"
"I was just fooling around, you can't take a joke!"
She said as he was preparing to enter his room.
"Well, why don't you go to Ren's dojo, he's currently practicing his fist technique."
She then gave him 100 000 000 won
"And go get some grub."
That was way too much for simple grub, but she gave it to him anyway, it was just like that with this family.
"Okay."
He took a shower, wore sport's clothes and went out, he wore a half zipped black and red checkered jacket, a white t-shirt and a ordinary black short trimmed with red lines reaching his knee.
"Goodbye."
"Bye bye~."
As soon as Myriad went outside she looked backwards.
"Well then, time to clean this up."
It was a hoard of bodies scattered on the ground, blood was assembled together towards the corpses, they all wore the same black tights, in other words, they were assassins.
"Have fun… Myriad."
He started by walking, then he quickened his pace, increased the distance of his steps and started running.
He didn't have much time to just walk around, Ren had school and he had to hurry up to at least talk to him.
At first the streets were deserted but little by little the amount of people increased.
The time past, and he ran for already 30 minutes and yet he still had the same usual face and wasn't even sweating.
Since Myriad's appearance was strange, the people had curious looks but dismissed it quickly and thus he finally reached Ren's School.
He climbed up the cage and kept walking towards Ren's Dojo.
He quickly entered and gazed at Ren who was alone punching a sandbag.
"Is that you Myriad?"
He relentlessly struck the poor battered sandbag which was this close to falling down.
He hit it one last time before it finally fell, a glorious sandbag it was.
He faced Myriad and before Myriad even said a word, suggested something.
"You wanna spar? It's been such a long time you were inside that thing that I would had thought that you already died."
He snickered as he said it jokingly.
Ren was a handsome guy, not only did he have the ideal body for males, his masculine face and yet elegant features with his medium length grey messy yet cool looking hair were the envy of the youths residing in this school, it was no wonder that girls always flocked around him added with his natural gigolo attitude.
"Yeah."
"Don't worry I won't use any weapons, look, I'll even use this glove, you should wear that helmet."
He followed his pointed fingers and picked up the red helmet in which he immediately wore, he also took a wooden spear.
"Hey, hey no fair right?"
If Myriad had no weapon he would had definitely be downed in a matter of seconds, the only way he could live long enough in this fight was making sure he took his distance, so he took a weapon best suited for such situations.
If he could, he would even take a bow but then the moment he would had nocked the arrow Ren would had already been next to him.
Myriad took a stance and thus he thought of his battle plan, he already knew that it was impossible to beat him so naturally he thought of delaying this battle long enough to make it so that he can upgrade his chances of winning at 0 percent to 0.00000000000001 percent, or even less, that's how strong he was.
Menacing as it was, Ren took no stances, that's just how he is.
"At the set of three, ready?
"One."
Myriad took a step backwards.
"Two"
He placed himself sideways to him.
"Three."
Immediately when he said three he turned backwards and ran the farthest away from him possible and when he felt a little safer he turned around.
"Hey, where you going?"
The moment he turned, he saw Ren on his face, he quickly he tried to kick him away but he blocked it with his arm and while he was a little distracted Myriad jumped away, this time looking at him without blinking his eyes even once.
"Tsk tsk it's no fun if you keep running you know, you gotta do it like this!!!"
He rushed forward and Myriad took an appropriate position, slightly crouching and keeping his spear in face of him, the moment he was a little more to being next to the spear he brandished it onto his face.
"It's useless!"
He rapidly spun and jumped kicked Myriad's face using a roundhouse kick on the head.
*boom* *clack* *clack* *clack*.
Myriad kept spinning on the ground until he hit a wall, still having his hand on his spear he quickly got up and prepared his stance while still keeping his deadpan expression.
"It has to be like this right!?"
He said as he dashed forward, with a wall behind Myriad back he kept staring at him.
'Think, think, where will he be attacking me?'
In the face of dead adrenaline, he kept thinking.
'Every possibilities exists, where will he feint?'
"What are you thinking of?"
He already caught up, it was now or never, Ren quickly took the initiative and gave a right punch right on his face.
Myriad tried to block it but then the fist stopped and he kicked his ribs making him spin once more.
Even if Myriad had a superb dynamic vision he could still not see Ren's movements, it was simply too swift.
"Hey hey you have to be kidding me, with a weak defence like that I could just break the spear and you too?"
He said derisively but at the same time he was really right, he was holding back against Myriad, though he was still rather merciless for a twelve years old.
Once again, he got up and readied his spear, this time he planned on doing what he thought of doing at the very beginning.
"That's the spirit! HAHA!"
The same as usual, except this time Myriad relaxed himself.
"Feel the movement of the water huh."
it was easily explained that he 'simply' felt the flow of the water but it was nonetheless extremely difficult to effectively do it correctly, the water element was actually the hardest thing to have affinity in in his opinion compared to the other two.
The instructor discard it saying it was easy but he hid his true feelings, he was actually quite sure that Myriad would 'fail' this time.
In other words it was no easy feat to 'feel the water's movement' but he still learnt it, due to his
He looked at him charging in at superhuman speed, until he finally reached the tip of the spear.
'Left'.
Ren tried to punch him on his right side however he only used it as a momentum to grip the ground and kick him on his left side.
Myriad swished it away and tried to stab him with the spear.
"Ooh?"
Quickly he made a back flip and returned backwards.
"Not bad."
However, Myriad did not even touch him, forget hitting him.
"I guess I can get a little bit more serious?"
In a fraction of a second, he got next to Myriad and approached his punch next to his face.
*Ding, dong*.
"Oh? I have to go, it was fun Myriad, see you later."
He turned his back on him as he went to the changing room.
*Hooo*
Myriad did one last breath signalling the end of the fierce battle.
Result? He was no match to Ren.
Myriad immediately cleaned up the place and went out once more.
Meanwhile… Ren.
We could see Ren in a class using his palm as a support to lift his face.
'Tsk, that guy's no fun… Even if I beat him up, he won't even wince.. Should I had went a little harder?'
"Good morning Ren-ssi!"
A group of girls flocked around him.
"Good morning my cuties."
And thus his bad mood completely disappeared.
Myriad
'What should I do..'
Myriad pondered as he walked around the streets.
He looked at people, each were different but yet were the same at one point.
One was busily tending to her child's need, since he was crying.
One was walking sleazily, yawning in front of his friends.
One was laughing with her high school boyfriend.
They all had emotions, and then he met someone, sitting on a swing gazing at nowhere.
Having dead eyes, while only being 14 years old at most.
Myriad walked up to him, stood there for 5 minutes and finally the child reacted.
"W-who are you?"
"..."
When he finally spotted him he simply sat next to the boy.
"S-such smooth skin and glossy hair, you're a rich kid ain't ya."
The boy was incredibly skinny, he barely had any muscles and reeked of poverty, he had such dry lips that it looked like he didn't eat for weeks, and worst of all, his dead eyes.
He gave up in life.
"Y-you know, w-why are you sitting next to me?"
"…"
"Are ya mute or somethin? Well whatever.."
The boy looked upwards in the sky.
"If you don't mind… Can I say my life story to you?"
Myriad simply nodded.
"Hehe, you ain't deaf that's for sure."
He then took a pause and while having a dead smile that seemed to say 'whatever' he started speaking.
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"Ya know… My family was poor, we had no money, we barely fed ourselves anything, we were begging for money. sleeping outside and yet we were still happy, even through the most gruesome of winter and summer."
Confirming his attention he continued.
"B-but just because of one thing, one small thing our family separated, one got ran over by a truck because of his anger and the other died of a sickness that suddenly appeared…"
He then began to laugh and have tears on his eyes.
"Just because I asked for that VRMMORPG that everyone were speaking about my dad got mad and my mom protected me telling him that I was still immature.."
He wiped his tears and resumed.
"I guess since I kept demanding for stuffs he finally snapped… Damn it it's all my fault.. Everything is my fault."
The very fact that he demanded something, even if it was simply a phrase.
"Daddy I want that VRMMORPG that everyone talks about!!"
Even though he knew he was too poor to afford it, he just wanted to let it out and yet.
"You… DON'T YOU KNOW OUR SITUATION DAMN IT!"
The father who was drunk. the mother who was sick.
Even though the father usually never gets mad, his lack of money, his wife sudden sickness, the never ending hunger and now the son who kept nagging at him.
"Dear *cough*! Calm down!"
"You too! Damn it all I'm never coming back again in this shithole!"
He started running away from them.
"Dear *cough* *cough* BEHIND YOU!"
"I'm not listening… Hehe. I'm finally free!"
*Whoosh*.
In an instant a truck ran over him
A pathetic death.
"I guess we were really just a burden… No… I was just a burden."
And then Myriad finally got up and faced him, the boy who was crying finally took a time to look at his face, his expressionless face.
"Yeah it's your fault."
Not expecting this answer he looked even more surprised.
"However it's not only your fault, it's also the fault of your parents."
The boy then began looking confused.
"You should had abstained yourself, the father should had abstained himself, the mother should had abstained herself, it was as simple as that but no one did it, so it's all your faults."
"W-whaddya mean! Y-you don't know anything, you damn rich boy!"
He grabbed him by his collar and pushed him to the ground.
"Damn itttt!!!!!!!!"
He started punching him in a mounted position.
"And you… Especially you should had abstained yourself."
Myriad quickly escaped from his mount and started beating him up.
The boy kept trying to defend himself but to no avail, Myriad was stronger than him.
He finally fell to the ground and stopped crying.
"Y-you… ah, whatever…. I should just die."
"Then why did you punch me?"
"Eh?"
"If you didn't want to die, then you should just kill yourself, why didn't you do that?"
"A-ah.."
"See, you do want to keep on living"
Then Myriad threw him something.
"?"
It was a stack of wons.
"If you truly want to keep on living, use that money to good use, learn, adapt and if you can, go to school, go work, just live."
These words were strange to be used for a 12 years old, but Myriad was anything but normal, his maturity was incredibly high.
The boy started crying once again.
He was filled with the surprises that came from today.
A boy sat next to him, listened to his story, criticized his family and him, hit him and then gave him money, he could only reply in stupefaction.
"Thank you… W-what's your name?"
He clenched on the stack of wons like it was his very life.
"Myriad."
Myriad then walked away from him, he who no longer had dead eyes.
"I'll remember about you forever!!! And I'll definitely repay this debt, no… I'll treat you as my very lord!"
"First, think of living then think about your future."
"I will!"
He let out a final scream as Myriad departed.
"…"
Later on he was still walking around wandering aimlessly.
While looking at the place filled with people, he kept walking.
And he suddenly met a girl who was hit on by a few gangsters, three of them to be precise...
He could just beat them up but maybe they weren't that aggressive so he just waited at a reasonable distance.
"Hey, you have such a pretty face, do you want to hang out?"
"No thank you."
It was quite a pretty girl, she had long black hair and her uniform suited her well, she was barely 14 years old.
"Oh comon, you won't regret it!"
"No.. Please I just want to go home."
"Tsk, when I say you're going with me, you're going with me!"
"Ky-"
Just when she was going to scream he muffled her.
"Can't just go and warn every good folks out there eh!?"
He started dragging her to a dark alleyway.
Even if there were people watching, no one intervened, maybe some called the police out of responsibility, but no one else tried to do something.
As she kept getting dragged to the dark alleyway a poor boy came out and tackled one of the men.
It was so sudden one of the men even let out a.
"Eh?"
It was the very same boy that had the dead eyes, now his eyes were brilliant, the moment he saw him he got close to a mask shop and bought a mask for 10 000 won, even though he had no reason to do so, it was to keep it as a 'memory, even while the boy was getting beat up, he still calmly bought it.
It was a grey faceless chrome mask.
The moment he came back he saw the boy getting beat up by them.
"That's… What… You… Get for getting in our way you shitty brat."
He said while kicking him, and yet compared to when Myriad beat him his eyes still radiated that light.
Myriad immediately came in and jumped kicked one of the guy's head, he had a concussion and lost consciousness.
"W-what the fu."
A second later he punched the other in his balls and for the third one he grabbed his leg and made him fall, he mounted him and kept punching his face.
The boy looked up and stared at his long white hair.
"Y-you are you Myr-?"
Immediately after making sure that they couldn't fight anymore he asked the question before he finished speaking.
"Why did you help that girl?"
He asked behind his chrome mask.
The boy looked shocked at first but then smiled.
"Because I don't ever want someone to have my eyes."
In other words, he believed that it would change that girl's life completely.
Not only that, he firmly believed it, in his times he saw numerous times people getting robbed, attacked or raped on the streets without anyone intervening, it was the authority of the gangsters.
He could never help them because his parents forbid him to telling him it's dangerous.
Even afterwards his parents died he never saved them, but his meeting with Myriad changed everything.
While this quickly happened, people around the street were shocked, everyone couldn't move except for the boy because he physically felt Myriad's skills, even the girl was confused and couldn't send her gratitudes properly.
"What's your name?"
"Sung Hyo Soo"
"Tomorrow, go to Amagasaki High School at 6:00 AM and ask to meet for Ren, tell him Myriad sent me."
"Okay."
"Bye."
He quickly departed and went to his mansion.
Sung Hyo Soo.
'99 000 000 won, 100 000 000 won, this was 100 000 000 won!'
He couldn't believe it, a random stranger opened his eyes in a span of a few minutes, and gave him 100 000 000 won just like that.
He ran to his hideout the fastest way possible, he hated himself for never exercising and finally reached there.
He quickly put his money into a box and hid it.
"Phew…"
He finally reached here, he was at the utmost vigilant, he never knew if there were robbers, he also kept in check to see if there were anyone in his hideout.
It was a battered abandoned house where no one ever entered due to its creepiness.
For Sung Hyo Soo, it was his ultimate haven.
And now after making sure everything was in place he wondered what to do.
"Hmm, I should buy myself food."
He took a small amount of won and went to town, he went to a fruit market and said hi to the owner.
"What's wrong little guy, i hope you won't steal again!"
He quickly shook his head to say no and then ordered.
"I want the cheapest fruit available."
He looked at him suspiciously but then relented.
"Well… There's this basket of fruit in which if you buy now it only costs 8000 won."
There were a variety of fruits, most were rotten but still good to eat.
"I'll buy it now."
He gave him 10 000 won and received 2000 won of change.
"You seriously got money!? Well, I guess even pigs can fly now."
The owner truly looked surprised, sometimes he gave him a freebie but to see him buy his own stuffs was something incredible for him, Sung Hyo Soo quickly left and went to his haven once more.
He ate the rotten fruit on the way and was truly happy, even if it tasted bad, just the feeling of being alive was enough for him until…
He saw a group of men forcing their way to a girl.
'That's… The rapist gang.'
He recognized them by their usual acts, the him from before would let it go but the him now could never let it pass, especially after what that kind boy did for him.
He quickly put down the basket and rushed forwards.
He tackled one of the guy but with his poor muscles but he could only do as much as to push him a little further a.way.
The other gangsters reacted quickly and pushed him down, he fell without any resistance or to be more precise, he couldn't resist.
They started punching and kicking him.
The one he tackled started talking.
"You shouldn't had done that buddy, do you have a death wish?"
"RUN AWAY! NOW!"
Using the last of his forces he screamed out with all the forces his lung could offer him.
The girl couldn't react and could only watch in horror.
'Damn it… if only I was stronger….'
He could only think about that word, to get stronger in no matter what aspect.
"That's… What… You… Get for getting in our way you shitty brat."
One of the guy brought a knife and then his hero, no his lord finally arrived.
He came flying with a mask, but there was no way he couldn't recognize him with his clothing and his long long white hair.
He quickly beat them up, gave him a goal and asked for his name.
Every time he met with him, he was like a lighthouse, guiding him from his worries.
After he left he grabbed his fruit basket and prepared to leave before the girl they saved stopped him.
"Wait!"
"What's wrong?"
She looked at him while blushing.
"Thank you for saving me!"
The boy scratched his cheek and smiled.
"I didn't do anything, Myriad saved you."
But the girl contradicted that.
"No, I was saved by you and him, no, especially you."
The boy widened his eyes but then smiled once more.
"No problem."
"Um, what's your name?"
"Sung Hyo Soon."
"I see, my name is Bae Myung-Hee, I don't know how I could show you my appreciation, also for that other hero..."
The boy once again scratched his cheek and simply replied.
"Then, do you want to be my friend?"
The girl was incredibly happy.
"Sure!"
The boy was also happy.
"T-then do you want to see my secret haven?"
"Sure!!"
And thus started the long relationship between Sung Hyo Soon and Bae Myung-Hee.