“Hey man, isn’t that girl pretty cute?”
“I would totally try to meet her in real life.”
“Let’s try and get her to join our party.”
“This bitch, who does she think she is?!”
“She’s acting like she owns this place. I think it’s time to put her in her place.”
All around Yuki, quiet murmurs from the masses could be heard. Of course Yuki paid no mind to these silent conversations. He’s more excited about how real everything felt. The air freely flowing, gently caressing his shoulder length hair. Carrying a variety of different smells such as: freshly baked pastries, open roasted meat, even the scent of sweat that came from merchants can sometimes be picked up once he got close enough to someone.
That wasn’t all, Yuki could also feel the hard ground under his worn down leather sandals. Everything felt more real, almost as if, he wasn’t in a game but- “A whole new world…” without noticing, he muttered out those words and continued roaming the commercial district.
*growl~* “I even get hungry in here, just like in reality…” while patting his stomach. Around him, a few more people that were looking fell down.
Charm +1
Because Yuki wasn’t paying attention, he never really noticed how many eyes were occasionally stealing glances at him. This continued on for a while until, Yuki sat down to rest for a bit.
“Etoo…are you hungry?” a fragile hand suddenly shoved a small loaf of bread at Yuki. Surprised by this, Yuki looked up at the person before flinching a bit and move a bit down the bench.
“Ano, can you please not get so close to me Miss.” While avoiding eye contact, Yuki barely managed to squeak out this line.
Sitting next to Yuki the girl tries once more.
“Aww…Don’t be like that, it’ll ruin your good looks. Here, just take it, hehe. My name is Laura, what’s yours?”
Flushing red, “Um thank you, I’m Yuki, can I ask why you are so nice to me?” he managed to get out while the bread lays idly in his hands.
Yuki takes another look at the pretty girl that sat next to him. She had jet black hair that falls all the way down to the center of her back. Her height seemed about 5’8” a bit taller than Yuki. She had a nice face that emits a feeling of maturity and sexuality, this along with her curvaceous body makes her draw the attention of both men and women. She also has a sword, not one of those rusty looking ones, but an actual iron sword hanging from her belt, she must be skilled.
“You remind me of someone I used to know, and seeing how hungry you are I couldn’t help but give you this bread I just bought.” She explained all the while giving her brightest smile.
‘This is the first time a girl outside Aka-nee and her mother was nice to me’ he thought, as he bit into the soft bread.
“So Yuki, did you hear about the launch event?” She asked with a questioning glance.
“Eh? Launch event? I don’t think I have. You see, I was kinda sleeping before the launch, so I can play for as long as I can before I become sleepy again…” he answered.
“Haha, don’t mind it, MT only announced it an hour before the actual launch. I’m not surprised that you don’t know about it. Let me tell you about it.
About one hour before the game was actually launched, I was still searching the website for as much information as I can. After going back to the homepage, I saw a new entry. Well…it was to thank everyone that bought the game, and because MT achieved their goal in sales, they decided to hold an event. The event was, for 24 hours there will be an ‘unlimited town revival’ event going on. So no matter how many times you died, you will not have to wait 24 hours outside of the Dive Pod to get back in!”
“Really?! That’s amazing! But I don’t see any point in this event though…I mean we can die as many times as we want, but we’ll always revive in a town right? That’s all right, we can’t really go far from the city anyways, since the monsters get stronger near the forests’ edge.”
“Exactly, that’s why I’m thinking this event has a deeper meaning. I mean do you think the developers will hold an event as pointless like this for no reason?”
“Well, they did make this game. I’m sure they aren’t as stupid as to make something pointless…so…y-y-you don’t mean…”
“Ding Ding! You guessed it, there’s a hidden event, probably something to do with dying.” Laura animatedly interjected. “I’m positive that if we die enough times, we’ll receive a special title or skill or something like that. Aren’t you interested?”
‘That got me interested, I mean, I’m already a broken character. I can knock out people with just a look, if I was to also get this special power…hahaha! I will rule this game!!! An ability given through death, sounds pretty broken to me!’
“Ok Laura, how do you think we should um, go about this event?” Yuki questioned excitedly.
“I have an idea, but we can’t talk about this here. Follow me, we’ll talk in a better location.” With that, Laura started heading down a street, while with an excited Yuki close behind.
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“Ok here’s the idea I though up. You see, after thinking about this event for a while, now I’ve come to only two possible theories one could take. Theory A: you die a specific amount of time before earning it. Theory B: you kill a player a certain amount of time to earn the secret skill, because of the unlimited revival, isn’t this the perfect opportunity to test out both of these theories?”
*Gulp* “So you want me to be the one that will get killed, and you are the one doing the killing?” Yuki asked, while moving a bit away from her.
“No Yuki, I’m not doing the killing, I’m doing the experimenting, and you are also doing the experimenting. You see, we will be doing both, first I will be the one doing the ‘killing’ but after that and we get our respective title/skill, then we switch.”
“How do I trust you? How do I know that you won’t kill me and take my…Oh wait I don’t much compared to you...” Yuki concluded.
“Exactly, I have everything to lose here. You can just take me stuff and leave once I die and try to make it back here. It would only take about five minutes to run from the city square to here, but you’ll be long gone by then. While if I kill you then there isn’t much to lose. Of course, our current relationship is built on trust. Once we both get our titles and switch, I think I’ll be able to trust you more, and the same for you trusting me right?”
‘What she said makes sense, she still doesn’t know me that well, and the same for me not knowing her. However, she’s kind, she even gave me something to eat when I was hungry…’
“Alright, let’s start then Laura and..Please go easy on me!”
“I plan to. Yuki, don’t worry.”
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‘What am I doing here again? Oh yea that’s right, I’m here in an abandoned shed waiting to get killed by a very pretty Onee-san named Laura. *Sigh* The things I’ll do in order to obtain power.’
Staring at the sword gleaming with the light from the windows I started shaking uncontrollably. This situation felt so real, it’s as if my real body is here, getting ready to be killed. ‘Ah yea…I forgot to ask her how she’s going to kill me…’
“Etoo…Laura how are you going to ki-“
Darkness
When I opened my eyes again I was back in the city square the eyes are back to staring at me, but I ignore them. Right now I have better things to do.
I spent about five minutes to run back to where Laura was, the run was uneventful aside from the occasional stares.
“Ready for round two?” Laura questioned while giving a slight smirk.
“*haa*haa* Hold on…*haa* let me catch my breath first.” I managed to reply while struggling for a breath.
“You know, the longer we wait, the more likely the event will end before we get the titles…”
‘I don’t want to die tired…but I can’t risk the event ending before this.’
“Alright alright, just get it over with already.” I said as I faced the other way.
While waiting for her to kill me again, I began to wonder why I felt no pain at all earlier. ‘Well at least it’s painless.’
*Shwipp*’Areh?!’ looking at my chest, I saw a scarlet sword protruding me my chest. As if a dam breaking open, a huge torrent of pain explodes from my chest enveloping all my senses in both pain the pleasure. In my mouth I could taste something blood, my nose was assaulted by the metallic smell of the thick red liquid. All I could hear was the constant thumping of my heart as it tries to pump blood to the injured parts of my body, ironically bringing me closer to death. Behind my closed eyelids, my eyes were seeing huge amounts of exploding fireworks. All of this was happening at the same time for what seemed like an eternity, before I blacked out.
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‘…’
I once again am back in the city square. Knowing that the same thing is going to happen to me, I’m filled with dread. I still head back towards Laura though, because I know she will be waiting for me. It took me about six minutes to get back ‘why did it take longer for me to get back? Am I still tired from the run from earlier?’
“Ready?” There stood Laura this time with a bloody red blade in her hand.
“Y-y-yes, please, do whatever you did to kill me the first time.”
‘I don’t think that’s possible, you see that an item skill I used to put you to sleep before killing you. After thinking about it, I don’t think it will be cost efficient to use that every time. So please, just bear with me ok?” She answered while flashing a smile and a look of pity.
“…ok…”
I once again turn around.
*Swish* “Arghh!” I couldn’t help but give a small scream. It didn’t hurt as much as the one from earlier, but it was more gruesome. I couldn’t feel my right arm anymore, noticing that weird feeling, I opened my eyes to look at my right shoulder.
Where my right shoulder is there was a sword, the same sword that killed me earlier, the sword was fixed into my arm, right where my bicep is. The most painful part was that it didn’t perfect chopped through, my arm was still hanging by a bit of flesh. Honestly speaking, it looked worse than it felt. Compared to my second death, this just looked worse.
Before I can protest, the same thing happens to my left arm. Now in a state of pain and vomiting acid from my empty stomach, I looked up at Laura from my kneeling position. For some reason, she ended up in front of me after I turned around. On her face she wore a mask, a mask that showed that she felt no remorse for killing me. I blacked out.
‘…’
I once again opened my eyes in the now familiar city square, the sun was starting to go down. What felt like an eternity in actuality was just a couple hours. Visibly shivering now, I start heading back to Laura. ‘I wanna ask her why she had that face…’ The run to Laura took about seven minutes.
‘Why is it harder to get back here?’
“Yuki! Are you alright? I’m sorry about earlier. I was trying to see if I can cut through bone. It seems I’m not strong enough yet. Again I’m really sorry!” she screamed out while bowing and tears forming at the corners of her eyes.
*Sigh* ‘How could I blame someone who felt so bad for what she did? I’ll let it go.’
“Alright alright, please don’t cry.”
After that, the same hell happened over and over again. Each time, leaving me more and more visibly shaken. By the 20th death, I was so tired already, I felt as if the road to where Laura was, was a pilgrimage. It’s currently taking me 15 minutes to traverse the same distance. I’ve noticed that Laura also started showing signs of a more scornful face, she would sometimes sneer at me before killing me. Of course she doesn’t notice me peeking at her.
*Ding*
Because of your recent actions, a new stat has been unlocked.
Willpower +20
Points cannot be allocated to the stat ‘Willpower’.
After receiving that pop-up, I couldn’t help but smile to myself. I just unlocked another stat and it’s only been a day. Around this time, I was about to quit trying to get a special title, but earning this stat brought back my desire for more power. Gritting my teeth, I started, once again, towards Laura.
After around my 70th or so death, my journey back to Laura is taking 20 minutes. On the plus side though, it stayed at 20 minutes and for some reason started lowering again. By this time Laura has already lost her mature and seductive looking face, ‘she looks…like…the devil…’ She was starting to really scare me, right now I’m tired, I just want to quit, I don’t want to play anymore. Seeing her bloodthirsty face smiling while she’s killing me isn’t the most enjoyable thing either.
By this time, I should already have over 100 points in Willpower, I mean it was like hell on earth or in this case…what planet is SSO located on again? Whatever, I just want to get that title.
*Ding*
Because of your recent actions, a new stat has been unlocked.
Endurance +10
Points cannot be allocated to the stat ‘Endurance’.
*Ding*
Repeated actions have created the skill ‘Physical Resistance’.
Seeing these two windows pop up, I couldn’t help to feel re-energized albeit not showing it visibly. ‘I wonder how I can check my stats? I’ll ask Laura after we’re done.’
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“This is it! Yuki-chan~! After this, it’ll be the 100th death! Aren’t you excited?” She cackled out loud while I was struggling not to fall down from exhaustion.
“So after this it’s my turn to start killing you right?” I weakly replied.
“You really are a gullible idiot aren’t you? Did you really believe all that stuff I told you about special skills and titles? It was all a lie, you fool! Hahaha! Baka! I've planned this from the start, seeing your carefree face and attitude drawing in all the men's gaze! Blame yourself for how you look fool!”
‘No…way…you mean all this was for nothing?!’ Feeling true despair at being fooled and betrayed I couldn’t hold back the tears, the frustration, and the pain that had built up over all 99 deaths. I cried like a little girl.
“Say hello to the people at the city square for me! Hahahahaha!” She cackled.
*Shwipp* She once again plunged the now blood coated sword into me. Unlike what happened during the second death, the blade was duller. Making it harder for the sword to pierce my soft flesh, ‘was it the physical resistance skill I got that’s coming into play here?’. Although there was exponentially more pain, I felt none of it. All that I longed for was to see that Bitches’ face in pain just like mine.
‘Killing me was fun was it?! Fooling me was fun was it?! I’m an idiot am I?! Let it be known, that on this day, you didn’t destroy a fool, but gave birth to a god, a God of Vengeance!’
“I…WILL…GET…MY…REVENGE!” was all I could scream out before it all turned back.
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God of Vengeance
‘…’
Once again I’m back at the city square, I slowly walked to the fountain and took a seat. My eyes were empty, I was still thinking about the betrayal. Five minutes later, a man came and sat next to me. It was that Riajuu from earlier…
“I saw everything…” He managed to make out before I started crying into his shoulder.
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(A/N : Please tell me how this chapter went, I'm trying to create a reason for the MC to get stronger, and thought that I could incorporate his past with his present.)
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