The Ancient Hero

A prologue

In this fine new day, I woke up and got ready for school today. Today is not like any other day, today will be the turning point of me and that moody girl's relationship. I'm a loner much like Hiiro, walk alone to my classroom next to hers. I stop for a moment and look at my childhood friend reading a book. I just smiled, mesmerising her beauty. The sun rays hit just the right angle to make her black hair looks shiny and her black eyes is as uncaring as ever other than the manga she currently read.

I'm planning to confess to her today after school. Being a second year, We're already friend for 6 Years and I realise my feeling for her last winter.
We already knew eachother for so long now, it is time to take a step in our relationship.

She saw me staring at her, our eyes met eachother for a second. I smiled at her and continue my walk toward my class.

After I sat down on my chair, I put my head on the table and think of what to do if she say yes or no. If the answer is yes, I'm going to ask her when she's free for a date. Thinking about it make my face feels hot, if she say no, I'm going to treat her to some restaurant as a compensation. It's going to be okay.

well.... It's supposed to be.

I didn't realise what just happen, I suddenly felt uneasy and decide to checked on her. The teacher did not enter the class yet, I stood up and walk through the back door and suddenly an explosion happened.

the shockwave of the explosion hit me hard and threw me into the concrete wall. My ears is ringing, my head is spinning, my body aches cause of the hit. I shook my head and look at the class Hiiro was in.

It's just a hole.

The whole classroom is not there anymore. It just a hole. One massive hole.

I'm just sitting there.....

I can't process what just happened.

Hiiro Wakaba, the first and ever my friend... my crush, is gone. I sat there, brought my knee closer to my chest. I didn't cry but my eyes is wide open.

after that, School end early that day. Teachers say I should go to the hospital for full check-up but I refuses and head straight back home. My dad greet me and ask why I'm back early but I just ignore him and went straight to my bedroom, collapse on my bed. My dad should knows something is wrong with his only son and I need time to process this... event inside my head, so he just leave me alone.

While laying on my cosmos pattern bed, I recalled all my time with her.

when we're just an elementary school, I saw her getting bullied in front yard of school by several boys. I try to be a  hero and rescued her, but I got beat up instead. It was a funny memory but worth it. After that, she offered her hand to get me up with a smile. There's where everything started. We coincidentally got the same class and our seat is next to each other.

Remembering that, I close my eyes, tears welled up and I cry myself to sleep, to wake up from this nightmare and realise today is just a dream.

...

I woke up from sleep and from my window, it look like the sun already been replaced by the moon. I realise I was under my blanket, probably dad tug me in. My eyes is puffy and my throat is dry. So I walk down the stair to the kitchen, wash my face and drink some water.
after I calm down, I remember about our 5 years long project, The VR RPG Game we're working on. It still need the final touch but considering the situation, it will never be finished.

Tears welled up in my eyes again.

I washed my face again and head to my bedroom.

The custom made VR headset is just sitting on the floor, infront of the tv. Last time I used it is when we try to play test as a moderator for online multiplayer last week. The project we're working on is called The Future VR RPG Fantasy. I know the name suck. we plan to come up with a new name when it finished. The headset is a custom made from scratch just for one game where you can become anything with a leveling system, even a rock has one. It basically Isekai genre game at this point.

Most of the coding is made by Hiiro or her username called D while me and my father made the headset. Hiiro is a coding witch is what I like to called her. After the headset is finished, Hiiro finished the basic player creation and NPC in a week.

While it still in early stages, she told me to play test it.

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