The Rise of Otaku

Chapter 1 Hopeless Otaku

Chapter 1 Hopeless OtakuChapter 1 Hopeless Otaku

Zhou Yu was not a good son. After graduation, he just stayed inside the house every day and refused to go out. He didn't want to look for a job nor did he want to look for a girlfriend. He was just as hopeless as could be. This gave Zhou Yu's parents a lot of headaches. They had used all kinds of methods they could think of, however, even the relationship between them had reached the breaking point, Zhou Yu still didn't want to move an inch.

It was not that Zhou Yu didn't know any better, he just didn't like to work outside of his house. If he ran out of money, he would simply write some novels online. Although it never made him rich, only a few bucks that could almost count as none, he was not drinker or smoker, plus he never went out, he didn't really need money. In terms of the rest of his time, he mostly spent on animes, comics and games(ACG).

Therefore, saying Zhou Yu was an otaku, there would not be any objections.

There was a famous short story writer in the Zhou family once said, "Secluded in my small attic, I'll enjoy my solitary state. Who cares if it's winter or summer? Who cares if it's autumn or spring?" This was the phrase, that Zhou Yu liked the most. Since that famous senior also didn't object this kind of lifestyle, as a junior, if he didn't properly carry on this fine tradition, it simply couldn't be justified.

However, if he carried on living like this, in the house that his parents also lived in, it would only make the relationship between them even worse. So in order to avoid making things worse, Zhou Yu decided to move to his hometown.

After all, since his grandparents were moved to the city, there wasn't anyone living in his old house. It was exactly the peaceful environment he wanted.

Although this method was exactly like something that an ostrich would think of, as long as he didn't need to give in and his relationship with his family didn't get worse, it was fine with him.

Far away from the noisy city and having no one come to annoy him, the village life was truly peaceful. Sleeping till noon, writing some chapters, and playing some games, one day just passed away like that. The only problem was that during summertime, there would be power cuts occasionally. This made the internet-addict Zhou Yu very angry.

...Time flies, Zhou Yu already stayed in the village for a year...

Even Zhou Yu himself also found it kind of funny, that he had been living in the village for a year now, however, he still didn't get to know all of his neighbors. The only few people that he was kind of familiar with were those aunties that were selling the braised meat on the street. After all, he could stop talking to anyone, but he couldn't stop eating.

His everyday meals weren't that great, just some simple dishes, but it was enough for him. Just when he thought that he might live like this for the rest of his life, something unexpected happened in his life.

Waking up having the bright sunlight outside his window, it was going to be another wonderful day. Groping his glasses on the nightstand next to his bed, he was thinking about carrying on the unfinished in-game mission that he had left yesterday - leveling up his rank.

'If I try harder, I might be able to reach the golden rank today,' he thought.

However, what he didn't expect was that after he put his glasses on, the drawing style of his world suddenly changed(1).

Yes. That's right, the drawing style was changed. What originally the full 3D real world now changed to the realistic-ish anime. To put it this way, the world was still the same, but everything looked two dimensional.