„My lady, I have received the package.” As soon as I came back from school, the first person I met was Yamamoto-san, a butler of my household.

If I remember correctly, it’s today, huh… I was too busy and had forgotten about my long-awaited delivery. I concealed my inner excitement. „Understood, thank you very much” Yamamoto-san immediately left without saying another word…

Well then, I will go back to my room and prepare it!

I, Ichijou Reina, am the eldest daughter of the Duke Ichijou’s household which is one of Japanese aristocrat families. I’ve been raised in this difficult family environment and been taught since birth what it means to be a proper lady of this family. I hated this kind of life since I was a child, especially the eyes of those who merely saw me as tool to get close to my father. But despite all of my sacrifices and effort I put into this family I never got the recognition of my father. No, he hates me.

I have thought about it a lot, but I’m still not sure where it went wrong. I may have been crueler than many other children. Like for example I am sure children enjoy catching bugs or filling up anthills with water. Just because I didn’t feel it was wrong even after being scolded is no reason to hate me. I was a child so its fine right?

I liked my mother who always taught me to be how to act normal. She stopped me before I overdid it, she taught me righteous behavior and told me to consult with her if something happened. When I reflect about it now, my mother was probably worried about my future.

It was after I got into elementary school a lot changed. Children are cruel and sensitive to things that are not like them. Beautiful raven black hair like her mother. Not wearing common clothes or latest children’s clothes, but instead western clothes that were tailormade and proved to be expensive at a glance. At the beginning people are fascinated with new things but that mindset switches fast. And because I wasn’t like all the others the bullying started. But at the time, I did not realize that this was bullying and thought that it was just children having fun, like what I always have with my insects. Hiding people’s things and burning them it in front of them, pushing someone down until his/her front teeth are broken, and if they complained, I put insects inside their mouth and forced them to chew. I had so much fun with them. This continued on until no one wanted to get close to me.

Then one day, when I passed the staff room. I could hear my mother apologizing for my behavior… though, I did not know what she was apologizing for, but I realized that my playing with the other children is not what people consider normal. Even then I couldn’t fathom why my beloved mother would apologize. I got frustrated with myself and stood before the room, waiting.

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My mother, who after being done, came out of the staff room and got surprised after seeing me waiting in front of the door eventually smiled and said, „Wanna go home?”

And from then on, I stopped „playing”.

As I grew older, I noticed that I was strange. My father regards me with increasingly cold eyes and seems to always punish my mother harshly. But my mother endured and looked at me with warm eyes.

Not long after my mother passed away from a harsh battle against her cancer, my father immediately remarried with one of his affairs and brought in her children. My intuition told me if I would stay in his house there would be a big possibility, I would start to “play” with his new children. Thus, I moved away along with my mother’s furniture. Fortunately, my father didn’t care. My father only doted his stepdaughter (little sister) and son (little brother) and had already lost interest in me a long time ago. However, it was a big deal for me, because without my mother it was getting increasingly harder to understand what normal is.

One day while doing research on the internet to understand laws and morality I stumbled upon a game. This game intrigued me so much I immediately bought it. It was perfect to satisfy my urges to “play”.

And that is what was arrived today.

“It finally arrived, Karma Story Online! The service itself had just started yesterday but it’s still within the acceptable range.” Karma Story Online, commonly known as KSO, is a new VRMMORPG in which the players themselves are the ones who could change their karma value depending on their own actions. Then, they will eventually belong to one of the three factions, order, chaos and neutral. Although I said factions, there is nothing that you need to do, such as belonging to a specific organization or country. There are consequences for your decisions, such as restrictions on a certain facilities or classes that can be unlocked, etc. In this game, you cannot select the side you belong to from the beginning. The karma value changes while the players play the game as it relies on his/her attitude toward NPCs, conquest method, contribution to a specific countries or organizations, etc. Almost all players who are still unable to move from the first town will be neutral.

It’s been more than a day since the online service started, maybe some people are already out of the neutral faction …”

And above all, on the official website, it was written that the admins will tolerate any speech or behavior unless it violates the real laws such as sexual harassment in the game.

I think that this place is the best choice for „playing”. The fact that one’s Karma changes depending on one’s actions is contrary to my home, where as my existence is clearly frowned upon from the beginning, regardless of my own intention. Thus, it has drawn me in as it’s an extremely attractive offer for me. It seems that this game is a way to release all of the resentment and frustration which cannot be done in real life.

„Okay then, the installation has already finished, so let’s play right away!” As I already went to the toilet and am well hydrated, I lied down on the bed which has a faintly smelled like my mother, and excitedly put on the head monitor which similar to a thin halo. Selected the game icon with eye movement, and logged in.