Realizing the problem he was in, he rushed to unpack the VR SET and get into action as soon as possible... he was too late! Too late for the game's launch.
The scalers launch!
Soon... in fact, too soon, he prepared everything, as well as installing the game in the VR SET. He cursed so much that he was feeling dizzy from anger and moved so fast here and there. Finally, he grabbed the VR SET and tried to put it on.
At first, he had a hard time putting it on his head or his hair. A giant forest full of curled leaves was in the way he even groaned in pain as the straps he was trying to attach with each other collided with his hair... pulling them so hard. A state of nature's punishment.
"Not the right time for this. Pain? Let it be."
Attaching the straps once more his hair was pulling apart but he didn't flinch. Laying on his back after putting the VR SET on his eyes and and also turning off the lights, saying two words:
"Full Dive!"
In a couple of seconds, something unreal happened! he didn't see it but he felt it as well as hearing it.
A sound of an engine started rolling mad with a soft sound. He even questioned himself, from where does this sound come from? He didn't know, is it from the physical VR SET that's making this noise? Or if so, how? Or is it just the game's first thing to deliver that it could start as an engine? Simply, he couldn't comprehend.
'Sighs! Let it be. Let's see what awaits me. I am coming, Scalers!'
***
"And with that, we can say, jugyou owarimasu." the young man was enrolled in a language course and not only a normal language... Japanese Language.
He just finished a session in that course and was preparing his backpack to return home the term "jugyou owarimasu" means the class had finished so the young man was leaving, not alone... but with his friend... one of his best friends to be exact.
"Sayoonara, sensei."
The young man and his friend said in one tone which means "goodbye, teacher" and they both left right after. The sensei drew a calm smile yet its deep meaning was sorrow and the reason behind that was the session had finished and by that, they left. Yes, they... the young man and his friend.
They left their own marks already on every ones heart present in the course. They were the best among them all, their pronunciation was nearly like that of the Japanese people. The teacher was enlightened by their performance while the others admired them and it reached to the point that they even started learning and improving with the help of their impact.
They were the aces of the Japanese course.
Both of them slowly walked out of the room in which the session took place. So many people were standing out of the room and once they saw them crossing, they stepped aside immediately out of honor. They were respected! As they walked nonchalantly between them, the others felt a cold aura surrounding them.
Those two were menace!
"So... what do you think about today's session, Shema?"
The young man asked with his lips curled upward a bit, calling his friend "Shema". It wasn't his real name, in fact, the young man's closest group of friends seldom-called themselves with their real name but with nicknames that somehow fitted each of their personalities.
"It was as amazing as always, Silent."
His friends smiled and called the young man "Silent". That was the nickname that fitted him so well with his persona.
"The best thing about today's session was kanji, I always thought that hiragana and katakana were words but how low informative I was till today."
"Yeah, totally agree with that."
Being the aces of the group's session and still identifying that kanji resembled the words of the Japanese language not hiragana or even katakana shows how Japanese was hard. Hiragana and Katakana were alphabets of the Japanese culture, the first was used for the original names and other things while the second, the katakana was for any foreign words.
The young man took one of his phones out of his pocket to check the time as he had an important... meeting, let's say, with his mother.
"Shema, I have to go home before 4 pm. It's 3:43 now"
The young man, Silent, proceeded to walk faster than usual but he was accustomed to it because of his habit of walking and also because his legs were the strongest or one of the strongest muscles in his young body.
"No objections, Silent."
Shema didn't only walk faster like Silent but also faster than him. Shema had the ability to be fast impulsively which made him always the fastest at first but in a race between him and Silent, Shema would still win. Although Silent would be able to decrease the gap that Shema made out of his impulsive speed, in the end, Shema was still faster than Silent.
"Get here, you dumb! Don't fly away"
Silent said in a mix of anger and wholesome tone. The one in a hurry was Silent, not Shema yet he walked faster than him.
Silent:" Yep, that's him. I know him very well."
In the middle of their fast-paced walk, they stumbled upon someone whom they knew very well.
"Shiro? Hey!" Silent called out loud, a young man about their age stopped amidst his route and glanced at them until he walked to them instantaneously.
"Oh! Silent, how was your day, man?"
"Am good, bro. How is yours?"
"Not bad, not good either."
The man called Shiro took a moment with Silent as it seemed that they hadn't seen each other in a while. He was one of Silent's closest friends and as always his nickname was Shiro, a Japanese word that resembled the color white. They talked with each other, not giving Shema any attention and soon he broke his own silence.
"Continue, continue. I'm listening."
Frustration was drawn on his face and also carved in his words yet it was in a funny tone as they were friends and Shiro intended to focus on Silent only, but Shema understood very well what he was doing.
Silent:" Best friends. What do you expect other than that"
"Oh! Shema! I didn't realize you were here till you spoke."
"you shit, Shiro."
"hahahaha" Silent burst into laughing along with Shiro. And Shema joined them after a moment. Their wholesome reunite in a while finally occurred.
Shiro took the same route as their friends and they all walked together. Their homes were relatively close to each other. Shiro was the farthest to them. Silent and Shema were lucky, only one crossroad and they were in front of each other. Shiro too was the same but the crossroad that separates them was just too long.
***
Moments later, they were still walking towards their homes when some chat stumbled between Shiro and Shema, talking about something that Silent wasn't interested in, still, they talked low about him for having this opinion of his.
That was when they started arguing and became heated between them. Amidst their heated conversation, Silent fell Silent! and just as he was like that, he glanced to his left only to see:
"Ehm… ehm, Welcome... Earth, to the brand new MMORPG full-dive virtual reality game where training techniques, boss fights, collecting resources and many more await you… (Glitch Sounds!) wake up, wake up... wake up... wake up... wake up... wake up... wake u... Wake… wa…(Siren Sounds!)"