『Virtual Rain』;「仮想雨˚」┇teru m. x reader. au

Chapter i : Controller

#1 : Controller
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"Well, that's it for the tour."

The male tour-guide announced while you were fixing your backpack.

"Everyone can now look around by their own. Thank you for visiting and well─ "

The guide continue to talk as you carefully positioned your bag on your back. Now properly carrying the bag, you switched your gaze back to the guide.

" ─checking out our greatly featured Project V : Recreate or what the main administrators called it, The Project VR."

Then tour-guide bowed politely to everyone and then left, like he was already used to doing the same routine every single day. After a few seconds, you switched your vision to the group of civilians laughing loudly as one of the males wore a black head set and his seemingly friends tried to prank him. He's probably wearing the Virtual Reality kind of head set.

It's cool. You thought.

"It's so amazing. Look!"

Out of curiosity, you looked at the group of girls a few meters away from you as one of them held the head set looking similar from the one earlier. As you gripped the handles of your backpack tightly, you couldn't stop yourself from listening to the group's conversation.

Since you couldn't talk to anyone because you don't know any of them and you were supposed to be with your cousin today, but something happened yet you still considered this trip despite being alone.

"I know, right?"

"Really cool. How in this Virtual Reality you can create a whole new world that can somehow. . .

exist."

Unknowingly as you listened to the girl talking, your [e/c] irises caught something connected to the head set. A black wire. About to follow where it leads, when you suddenly heard an announcement that the convention will be closed in a few minutes.

You stared back at the group of girls, mainly to the one holding the product being featured unaware that it is linked to something that she might not even know.

It is incredible. How you can create something in your mind and somehow made them exist even for just a short period of time but you were slightly anxious about the idea that there is possiblity that you might not just be the only. . .

controller.

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Switching your gaze back to the exquisite horizon, finely blending with the ambiance of the crepuscular setting ─that one specific sentence from the previous tour guide started playing in your mind again like a record.

"Virtual Reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore,

it exists."

Making you also slowly lose the opportunity of enjoying the beautiful view, unfolding right infront of your eyes.

You were about to sigh heavily, when you felt something crashed onto your right cheek. Now trailing down to your chin, as after a few seconds it finally lost contact with your skin,  only to be followed with another one.  Following the same movements and pace of the other, somehow like a cycle.

Those were the transparent droplets of the rain.

You looked up while squinting your eyes as everything started to blur because of the sudden change of mood in the surrounding.

No more sunlight visible from your range of vision. However, there were other kinds of lights stopping the dominance of the pitch-black darkness. The ones coming from the lamp posts located on the streets and the natural ones which were the glimmering stars and moon.

And also. . .

The sudden heavy precipitation that you guessed will be a storm soon, considering the thunder-roars you can slightly hear from the far distance was also definitely in charge of the sudden mood-change of the tranquil ambiance just a few seconds ago.

Amazing how nature itself can change quickly. Yet the most number of these beautiful creatures called humans who desired so badly. . .couldn't.