IT STARTED AS A GAME

IT ALL STARTED WITH A GAME

TO BEGIN THIS STORY WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE INTENTIONS OF THE PEOPLE WHOM WE WALK AMONG. WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT SOME SERVE TO SURVIVE IN THIS WORLD AND SOME DRAG THEMSELVES ALONG IN A GREAT DEPRESSION. WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, SLAVE AND OWNER, GOD AND SATAN, AND THE MEANING OF PERSEVERANCE.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

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KIRITO POV

...It...it was like any other day. I woke up around noon, I can hear my sister rummaging around getting ready to leave to who knows where. I forgot where she goes.

It's not my problem.

I make it my mission to do as little of anything possible. As I drag myself out of bed I can see my reflection in the glass mirror by my bed. I see my white sheets draped across my back still sheltering me. I wore an old t-shirt and some comfy pants. I wore these as my bed wear. I rarely wore regular day clothes these days. My black hair stuck out off my head in awkward angles.In my reflection I saw nothing more than a sad, ugly teenager. I rarely ever left my room. Only to eat. My uncle calls me a disgrace to my family. Daily. A waste of space.

As I leave my room to grab a bowl of cereal, I hear from down the hall my sister running to the door. " BYE OPPA", she calls. "B-bye!" I call back. I feel embarrassed to see her dressed up nice, while I'm still in my pjs. As she closes the door behind her I feel myself blush. "Idiot" ,I thought, " always getting boners for anything with boobs and a vagina". I brush off the feeling as I walk to the kitchen to eat.

When I return from eating, I set up my nerve gear. I loved it. Being in a simulation game was amazing. I could be anyone I want and meet whoever I want. I clear off the sheets on my bed and prepare for starting a game. I look though a couple of games I have. Some are old and some are new. When I remember the recent one I was bought. I was apart of the Beta testing for it and decided to buy it to see the final product.

I decided to try it out because I had nothing else to do.

As I put on the nerve gear I see the screen blink. I close my eyes. I could see everything. I typed in my information, like the gear instructed. When I was done, I was enabled to to start. So I said the words that would forever start the beginning of my future.

" LINK START"

I was in a new world. A new planet. I was older. I was better looking. It was amazing. There... I was finally living.

I met new friends,(one friend anyway)

I was alive.

I was confident.

But... it wouldn't last long.

Nothing ever did.

After I was done training with my friend Klein, was when I noticed something... wrong. Klein... he couldn't log out. I thought he was stupid for a moment...but then I couldn't log out...

We figured it was a programming problem. Klein was freaking out about his dumb pizza or whatever.

That's when we had a mandatory teleportation. Which was weird. Because it seemed like everyone was there too. Everyone in the game had been teleported to the same place ,so I figured it was part of the "first day of the game grand opening ceremony"

But, it only got weirder. Like for example, the sky started bleeding.
I kid you not.

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K, well I gotta sleep an will try to edit this later. I'm going to publish this today and edit it later. I'll continue this in the next chapter. Thx for reading this far. And thx for tolerating my dorky/cringy intro.