"Next in DZCH Morning News, sensational actor, Morgan Logo got caught red-handed in a..."

Muffled sounds coming from the television outside continue to poke into my ears as I intensely focused staring at the wall in front of me.

Not diminishing even an ounce of my concentration as I breathe in a mouthful of air inside my mouth and then holding it in inside.

Holding my breath as I grasp for the chance to take the sweet sweet victory in front of me when I heard a very loud shout coming out just right next to the door.

"Hey, you good for nothing brother who doesn't work and even a shitty shut-in! When are you going to get out of there? You shit!!"

Ignoring the morning barks of a certain someone who has anger issues, I continue to hold down my breath.

Finally grasping the chance I sought, focusing the air in my diaphragm, I tense all my muscles in my body as I pushed my 'sweet victory' down the glory hole made for kings and queens.

bang bang bang bang

"Noo! Unfair! Why are you taking a shit first before me? I won't let you get away with this later! You hear me okay?! Now that you're finally done, get outta there already! I'm already leaking!"

Banging the door with a loud sound, my sister urges me to get out of the bathroom faster.

But why should I?

You can't expect someone after a shit to just go on their day without cleaning their butt off.

While thinking that, I leisurely grab the bidet shower to spray myself and making sure that my sister hears me.

pshlok *aims and fires* psssshhhhh

"You! You really are taking your sweet time and letting me hear you clean huh?!"

As I listen to her shout, I put back the shower and get some tissues to wipe my wet ass as I get ready to take the 'sweet victory' flush down.

Saluting the treasured moments I've done through this room, I flushed down the 'sweet victory' along with the treasured moments inside my mind.

As I ready to head out in this room full of my experiences, I hear a click of a sound in the door I'm in.

"Wait... No no no no. You can't do this! I'm not ready yet. Stop!"

"Shaddap!"

As I beg my sister, failing to prevent the inevitable, my sister, seeing the door was wide open, chucked me out of the bathroom and banged the door closed.

"No... I can't get married anymore... Someone saw me naked. *fake cries*"

I cried in front of the bathroom door while holding my aching head from a collision with the wall.

Hearing our farce end in the bathroom, my mother calls out to me.

"Hey~ Are you two done? I'm already finished making breakfast and the news channel you're looking forward to is on tv. Are you still not gonna get up?"

Listening to her remarks, I clearly hear the word 'news' from her mouth and I jolted up to run to the dining room excitedly, after putting on my pajamas, to watch the news on tv.

"It's finally here huh?"

"What is the news you're looking forward to son?

"Uhhh... Nothing Ma."

"Hmm... I find it weird for you that for the past months you even started going outside! You, my son who has been a shut-in for 10 years, finally going outside!"

"T-that is..."

"Do you hear me?! You've gone outside?! Hahh! Don't tell me! You've been selling drugs?! And you are alert for news of you?! My God!"

"Nooo! Who in their right minds will want to fall on that road of life! Are you sane?!"

"Then! Did someone proposed to you and will announce it on tv?! Who is it?! Is it one of the daughters of our region's lord? Or the daughter of the richest company in this city?! Tell me! Tell me who is it!"

"Haa?! How did you go from drugs to weddings?!! Are you drunk or are you the one on drugs?!"

Retorting while looking agape at my mom, who was sitting in a chair at the dining table in front of the tv, saying those words and receiving them inside my mind shatters my fragile heart.

"Haahhh... Mom... I got a lot to say to you but first, it hurts. Can you stop smashing my fragile heart thoroughly?"

"No."

"Okay. So I want to sa-Ehhhhh?!..."

"Do you think we're not worried about your well-being? Who do you think we are for? Do you think parents are just for decorations?! Do you think we just decided to pop you out on a whim and let you go to your own ways to the world after you've become an adult?"

"N-no, what I mea-"

"Ahh my dear husband what should I do to our son? Wherever you are right now in heaven, please give me an answer may it be a sign I can understand."

"Uhh... Mother? Please don't kill dad too early. He is still alive kicking and well."

Seeing my mom in this pitiful state, I now feel guilty hiding things from her.

Just a bit.

"Fine fine, for the past months I've been busy going outside is due to matters related to work. Okay?"

"Un..."

"I can't say any specific details but I won't do any harm to myself or to our family. Also, I'm saying it again, I do work for a living."

"Again with that answer. Humph. What work is it? That 3d modeling? Humph! If I am still in my twenties or thirties, I can go be your model and ramp up the stage and beat those wusses!"

"Nooo. Not that..."

"Then what? Every time I look into your room you're just playing games on your computer. You are best off doing your father's job rather than stay cooped up inside your room. What's so good about that what you are doing. Humph!"

"Haaahhh... Whatever."

'It's as if she knows that 3d modeling is also related in architecture and engineering. Anyways, I'll just say nothing about that matter. Being a 3d modeler means that I know fairly some of the various things in architecture like making house designs in three dimensions and texturing it to have some realistic touch as if when it's finished. Or in engineering where I can build a structure of a car engine or the car itself. It's just that I mostly take commissions related to someone making games from their love of it and tests them. I rarely take commissions that involves real life projects, like commissions in simulating destruction of a structure, like a house, a vehicle, or even a building, in a specific scenario. And to do that, I must have a 3d file for that specific structure and adjust the specific weight on every particular material in that structure. And if there isn't, I'll have to make one from copying the blueprints of that structure and add the same things to every specific materials to successfully simulate what will happen to that structure. How will the whole structure affect its surrounding? Just how damage will this this structure make in this specific scenario? How will this structure affect the artificial floor in this particular and nearby cities? And many more questions, like that, needed to answer in just simulating a structure that has never even been built. So if no one knows what I'm doing and saw me testing, it just looks like as if I am playing a game.'

"..."

"See you're being silent. If you just take over Pappy's job, we can just rest in this house worrying about our future grandkids. Huhuhu...... *sounds of fake cries*"

"But isn't there a saying 'Unwillingness cannot produce desired results'? Just because nothing is going in what you want you'll nag us to do it. Also, don't mind my love life! I don't have that kind of time!"

"That again! How many times do I have to tell you that I am your parent?!"

Here we go again...

Letting words pass from one ear to another, I focused on the reason why I rushed here in the first place as I look towards the tv.

*sounds of music from a commercial*

*stops*

*sounds from DZCH Morning News intro*

"Now, as everybody knows the hottest gaming topic of the month, in a joint project of our generous Overlords they announced that they will develop the very first Deep Virtual Reality Mass Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game or DVRMMORPG. After introducing this project 7 years back, will today be the gateway to entering the new generation of RPG games?! I myself am excited for this to happen! As an avid gamer myself back when I'm in my teens, RPG games are the best game for fantasy genres to let me immerse in escapism. Will the team behind making this follow that unspoken rule? Or will they develop a world that suits the taste of our Overlords? For more information, Archie please explain us."

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"Thank you, James, now to give context to some of you, the traditional way of playing RPG games is to wear a helmet and the helmet emits light from inside that depicts the game you are playing. And much more way back, in the Murkh Era, it is said that RPG games are only played with low spec computers and cellphones. Imagine just how low the immersion we can have from playing with the technology in that era. Anyways, with that in mind, let us welcome the spokesperson for today's interview, Sir Elijah Abakumov."

"Thank you."

"So Sir Abakumov, before we get into today's latest hottest topic. How are you today?"

"Well, I am here preventing my excitement to show to our audience. I am excited as of today because I am here in front of the camera broadcasting a huge event haha."

"Ohh? Hahaha. Well, looks like our guest for today is also excited for today's interview. By the way, we really appreciate you Sir Abakumov for coming here today despite your busy schedule. It's an honor for us to work with you."

"Ahahaha. It's nothing. I am also happy to be here working with you guys."

"Whew~ Look at our guest for today. It is Sir Abakumov, mark your targets, single ladies. Here's a sneak peek of our wonderful and handsome Sir Abakumov."

"Ahahaha. You flatter me too much."

"Then going into today's topic. What should we be noting for the game everybody is waiting for the last seven years?"

"Yes. So first off is that I am excited to announce the name of the game that was stayed 'DVRMMORPG' even after the development was announced. After many debates, our Overlords decided that the name for this revolutionary game is..."

"Aw please don't tease us, Sir. What is it?"

"With the meaning of the 'very top galaxies in the universe', the name we came up for many years is called 'AcroUnilyxis'."

"Wow. What can I say, it's a novel word."

"Befitting of our large world measuring with a size of 43'495.984 miles (70'000 kilometers) which is much more huge than the largest planet in our Solar System, Jupiter. We proudly say that there is much more content packed in here than all of our world's history could come up with."

"Right right. It is so huge that if we placed the number of the highest total population of our world since ancient times. It would still not be considered overpopulated. But looking at just how many people will be able to play the game. It is so huge that it may take years to travel all around the world, heck maybe even decades."

"Ahh... For that, as we have taken years of planning. We also thought of that problem. In this new game that we are presenting, we proudly say that a player can have access to live magic. It is that magic as many fantasy readers thought of, yes. We designed a system that represents magic into the world the players will spawn into and let them experience the magical world inside this game."

"Ohhh! Can you tell us Sir Abakumov how our players will be able to experience this magic inside the game? Will players be able to wield it like said in the stories? 'Flowing like water in the air' or like 'I-I can feel something inside me? I-is this my magical power? It's overflowing?!' Is it? Is it?!"

"Huhuhu. You sure are imaginative Mr. Archie."

"Ah?! I'm sorry for the display."

"No no no. I'm just saying that since you look so excited when talking about magic."

"Ahahaha. The truth is I fantasize about wielding magic when I first read about fantasy books in my teens even now. It's a well-known story among my colleagues but, it looks like it's well known throughout the world starting today. I'm really sorry"

"Isn't that fine? Sticking to your hobbies at your age. It's commendable to have a hobby outside of work in this era of ours nowadays. At least one of your suitors will take an interest in what you are also interested in. You might discuss magic or even fight magic with her when you both play the game."

"Ahahaha. Is that a payback for earlier? I admit that I was a bit rash in what I said...... Ahahaha. Love advise with strings attached, ahahaha. Thanks for your wise words, Sir Abakumov. It's truly hard nowadays."

"Yeah... Well, just laugh, eat, drink, or just indulge in hobbies like what you are doing. Time will tell when will be our turn."

"Yeah... Woahhh!~ What a tangent there!"

*looks at the side for the time left*

"Going back to what I asked, Sir Abakumov..."

"Yeah. I did say that there is a system made for live magic, we will be, naturally, including teleportation devices in-game as it is a staple in fantasy genres. While it is up for the players themselves to learn what I'll be saying next, I'll be giving hints about things that were widely known in fantasy genre RPG games."

"Ohhh! Please do so, Sir."

"Well, like in old games there is a hero that is tasked to defeat an evil dragon, demon lord, or any powerful beings threatening the balance of the world. He seeks the sword that is said to be able to defeat the powerful enemy. Along the way, he seeks new friends and powerful allies to aid in his quest while also getting stronger. They may face trials and tribulations along the way but they will eventually pass anything that stands in their way. Finally reaching their enemy, they fought all their hardest, and with the final strike from the hero wielding the holy sword, the world was saved. That's it."

"That's it?"

"That's it."

"Ahahaha. Well moving on. Aside from speaking about what was inside the game. In terms of the device used to play the game, how will it be set up?"

"The device used to set up the game consists of a helmet used to send electric stimulations to the brain that is attached to a reclining chair that serves as a seat and a built-in quantum computer generator under the seat that creates and connects the human mind to a singular electronic space."

"Ohhh... Hearing it makes it expensive. From the description thus far, it's as if I'm buying a new set of complete quacom with an expensive reclining chair."

"It is as you say."

"Oh..."

"While I said that it's as you said earlier, the only expensive thing in the set is the helmet itself that sends electric stimulations to the brain. While quantum physics was solved way way back past our era, it is still a bit expensive applying it with specific functions like using it in making a game. The modern quantum computer was built with minimized functions, only tasked at supplying additional power to the helmet and, as I said earlier, connecting the human mind to a singular electronic space, making it much more smaller than the norm. Meaning the quacom built under the reclining chair and the chair itself is much cheaper than the helmet and the middle quacom versions released in the market."

"Makes sense. While we're now at it, is it possible to ask about the process the helmet is making when a player logs in the game? Of course, any specific and confidential information is off-limits."

"Sure. I did prepare for this question today as this game is one of a kind game just made to surpass the old generation of playing RPG games. Kuhum. In simpler terms without saying anything specific, since it'll be a breach of information, I'll just say it like this. The helmet is made to send 'something' inside your brain then reacts with 'something' inside that lets you experience 'something' like the 'sleepwalking phenomenon'. That 'something' is projecting your astral body outside your own physical body while at the same time 'retains the person's astral body' inside your own physical body. It is connected, if I would say. One that is inside the body and the other that was outside. Like the currency used in ancient times, a coin. There is a saying in the past called 'two sides of the same coin'. There are two faces in the coin called heads and tails. They are located in different places but, they are still in the same structure of the coin. No matter what process you did to make a coin, the end will still result in two faces combined together. This analogy applies to the physics behind the astral body located inside and projected outside after the helmet sent 'something' inside your brain and reacting to it. It's somewhat of a live application in quantum physics, like the famous Schroedinger's Cat thought experiment, but let's just leave it at that. Though this time we are the cat and instead of experiencing both alive and dead at the same, what we are experiencing is both located outside of our body and inside."

"True... True true true. While this is not an educational broadcast, it does give us a deeper insight into the most well-known hardest subject in high school. To give you kids more explanation in the subject, I'll let Sir Abakumov compare the application of quantum physics in Schroedinger's Cat between the set up for the game 'AcroUnilyxis'."

"Okay, then. I'll be skipping the experiment of Schroedinger's Cat because probably it is mentioned to you kids many many times by your teachers haha. To start off, the cat was placed inside a box. The cat is me or a person who wishes to play the game while the box is the reclining chair. Inside the box, there is a catalyst that may or may not decay when left inside exactly after one hour. Besides the catalyst, there is a sensor to know if the catalyst started to decay or not. And below the sensor was a poison bottle that will be broken by the hammer tied to the sensor and will only be released if the sensor detects something. The catalyst is the helmet while the sensor with a hammer tied is the specific built functioning quantum computer. The poison inside represents the connection of the quacom to the singular electronic space. Now, proceeding with the cat experiment, the cat is either dead or alive. On the first result, it is shown that the cat is alive while the second result is that the cat died. Now in the set-up for the game, as many people guessed, the results will be both of the two. One is that the player logged in the game exited his/her astral body to play the game inside the singular electronic space. The second is that the player didn't leave his/her body to play the game inside the singular electronic space. Either way, the player still managed to play the game without either being split into half right? Hahahahaha! Simple explanation right?"

"Yeah... While I am now a reporter on a news channel, hearing this takes me back into my high school days where we got amazed by that simple experiment with a simple explanation. Thanks to Sir Abakumov for that wonderful dissection of the game set-up with basic quantum physics in tow. Now, after hearing the process behind the helmet, I'll just go straight at the point. When will it be available on shops and have people contract ownership?"

"The set-ups are massed produced since last half of the year so you can expect that everyone will have a gamer set-up in stores nearby their cities in the next three months to buy for themselves. We will also accept specific requests at a later date. Probably after a year and a half. After this interview, we will be starting accepting pre-orders only one per person and for more other information, go check on our official site."

"Now before our excitement wanes away, I will ask Sir Abakumov our most requested question. When... will AcroUnilyxis will be online?"

"Huhu...*chuckles* Mark your calendars people. In the year 3000 A.D. 1st of the month of January, AcroUnilyxis will finally be Online!"

*loud background cheers*

Shaking hands, heavy ragged breathing, I firmly stare at the tv as if to bore a hole into it. I didn't mind my appearance as I keep replaying 'It's here. It's here.' inside my mind.

Finally snapping myself back to reality I rushed outside the dining room to go upstairs.

"Ah! Son? Son?! Loren!!"

Not noticing my mom's call, I went upstairs straight to my room to mark my calendar for me not to forget the date.

Though I didn't notice how excited I am as even thinking that I may forget the date of AcroUnilyxis going online, the game I waited for years to even know the name and its release date.

"He's gone nuts mom."

Entering the dining room with a satisfied expression on her face with a towel on her neck she said with a nonchalant tone.

"Ahh... Let him be. At least he's finally opening up to us Lina. Huhuhu *cries*. Did you remember when he is always bottling up his emotions when in front of u-shiik *sniff*. Also when the times wher-shiik*sniff* he wanted something, he will work without us knowing then buy it with his own money. Shiik*sniff*. Do you know how hard for me and your Pappy to bear it? Huhuhu*cries*"

"Yeah yeah, I get it, mom. Though he is still the same with buying things."

'But at least every day has been fun with him like that. Just a bit.'

Lina continued to remain nonchalant looking towards her mother but she is happy inside that she can call her brother a friend in this cruel world.

"Humph! Later when he goes down again I'll pay him back for what he did earlier. Humph!"

Meanwhile, in Loren's room

Jumping straight to my bed and fixing my position with my face facing the calendar.

I grabbed a marker placed on the top of the calendar and opened its lid.

[September 17, 2999]

I flipped the calendar after marking the date today and after reaching the year 3000 and month of January, I marked the number 1 on it.

"Heh... Hehehe... Hehehihiehe...... Hahahahaha! Hwahahahahahhhahaha!!! Hiehieheiheheheheahheaha!!! Hahahahahahahhhhahahaaak-kaaaah! Kehok, kohok...... Kohom! Kohom! Aaackkk!...... Kohom kohom...................................... I'm hungry..."