9:00 am, Thursday.

As the sun shines over Central City. Michael, can be seen jogging around park circling it along with people who also had the same thought as him, taking a jog, near his apartment.

"I want to see Amanda so bad but sadly she will only open her restaurant next month after moving here, in Central City… Instead of thinking about her, I think i should worry about what I'm gonna do from now on as I don't really wanna go back to being an assassin. It's not like we'll go back to the way it was, fortunately though, I already know a lot about her." Michael said confidently before he came to a halt and looked at the thing being broadcasted early in the morning.

"On March 22 of 2030, Mine Technology has announced that they will be releasing the Virtual Reality Fate Online with 90% realism beating all other virtual games out there. You can purchase a virtual helmet at your nearby game station for only $1000 with a monthly subscription $300 at exactly 12 noon"

"Yes, that's it! That's the game that I was hearing a lot before. It was said that a lot people of got rich overnight from selling equipments" said Michael overjoyed as he rushed back home and took a shower. He then wore a red t-shirt and pants before rushing out of his apartment headed towards the nearest game station along with a $1000 he took from his piggybank.

Michael increased his speed when he saw that there isn't a line yet.

"Nice! I got here first!" said Michael excitedly, acting like his past life never happened. Probably comforted at the thought that he can now at least prevent some bad things from happening.

Michael waited as time tickled by with people arriving in groups, couples or alone like Michael.

11:50 am, a sudden commotion happened.

A burly man came beside Michael as he heavily tapped his shoulders.

"Boy, scram. Your line is now mine" he said with an intimidating tone.

"No" Michael said flatly without even looking at him.

"Why yo- *urff* " the guy was not able to finished what he was about to say when he suddenly got elbowed on his chest followed by a kick on the side of his neck, immediately falling unconscious.

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"Shit" cursed Michael as his body instinctively reacted, the moment he felt a killing intent directed at him.

"Yo-you do you know who we are?" said the other guy in stutter while pointing at him.

Michael didn't say anything but just glared at him.

"Heok! I-I'm So-sorry, please" the guy suddenly started apologising as his sweat started falling on the concrete ground and immediately ran away with his companion in tow.

"Wow, that was awesome!"

"Did you see how he beat that guy? It was so fast that he already kicked him just after elbowing him."

"That's awesome, is he martial artist or something?"

A commotion started around Michael but he just ignored it as he fell into a deep thought.

"That's weird, I shouldn't have my killing intent now as I haven't even killed anyone but the guy got scared so bad that he even started sweating from only a glare. Does that mean that I managed to retain my killing intent?" he thought and smiled when he realized how great that is.

...…

"Heok! Wh-what happened?" the burly man suddenly yelled as he jolted awake.

"Senior, you're finally awake" the other burly dude said in relief.

"Was I - ohh I just felt it" he scowled in pain while clutching both his chest and neck.

After a few seconds.

"So Jack, what happened when I fell unconscious?" he said calmly but his eyebrows are twitching from embarrassment, beaten unconscious in front of his junior.

"I ran away while I carried you to the car senior and escaped" Jacks said ashamed.

"You escaped?" this time, his voice became stern.

"Yes, I-It wa-was because I saw the shadow of a terrifying demon when he glared at me, so I run away in fear" Jack said trembling still remembering how scary it was.

"Yo-you really saw a shadow from his glare?" he asked trembling.

"Yes Senior! I really saw it, you know I almost shit my pants...." Jack started rumbling about how scary it was or whatnot.

But his Senior just ignored him, "If what Jack said is real...holy crap. Only someone who had been to numerous life and death battles with his hands soaked with the blood of his enemies would someone had that kind of intense killing intent, even our boss's killing intent doesn't come close to that. Only now do I realized that I actually survived a calamity, we would have been killed if that we weren't in a public place but if we were in a secluded area *gulp*. I need to tell Boss about this later so that we won't invite a calamity in ourselves" Jack's senior shivered in fear when he thought that today would have been his death anniversary while also planning on how to avoid this walking disaster.

"Senior, are you alright?" Jack stopped his rumbling when he noticed that his senior was covered in sweat.

"Ye-yeah, I'm okay but did you manage to purchase the game helmets?" he embarrassed and tried to shift it to another topic.

Jack hastily shook his head while looking down.

His senior just sighed because he can't really blame him, he just silently wore his shirt and stood up as headed at the door.

"Come on! We'll go back and hopefully there are still game helmets left" he said and stepped outside without looking back before getting on a car.

"Coming!" Jack hastily ran and opened the car door before closing it as the car drove off towards the direction of another game station.

While on the other hand.

Michael didn't even think much of what happened earlier, maybe even forgetting it.

"I'm already an old soul but I still can't help but feel excited at the thought of playing a virtual game" said Michael as he held the virtual helmet in front of him while he smiled happily.

Not even knowing that he was already labeled as a "disaster" by one of the senior members from one of the largest gang in Central City.

Finally arriving home, he excitedly rushed inside his room and plug the connector before lying on his bed and wore the helmet over his head.

It was dark at first, when a sudden flash of light along with a system prompt appeared in front of his eyes.

Dive into the world of Fate Online?

"Dive!"