A way to survive [ORV Fanfic]

Chapter 1

"I'm [y/n]."

That's how I'd usually introduce myself to people. This would be the usual response:

"Oh. So you're not Korean?"

"No, I am-"

"Huh? Then?"

"... My nationality is Korean."

My name was a hot topic amongst people. Hell, some people could barely pronounce it properly. However, thanks to my parents, I turned out to be pretty popular because of my unpronounceable name.

In short, I'm your average high schooler studying at Chungil.

"I'm gonna be late for tutoring..."

In a noisy subway, I looked up from my phone before noticing someone in the corner of my eye. The head of white hair and red eyes were unmistakable, those features sent a small shiver down my spine. It was that one guy in my class who carried a Swiss knife everywhere- Kim Namwoon. He was infamous for being held back a few years due to his 'inappropriate' behaviour at school.

I swallowed and quickly diverted my attention back to my phone. It's fine... He won't bother me as long as I don't admit to recognizing him.

Despite me telling myself not to gawk, I couldn't help but give him a few sneaky glances.

Namwoon was staring at his phone with his head lowered. I craned my neck to peer at what he was looking at- It seemed to be an online group chat. Well, it's not like that has anything to do with my business. I really shouldn't bother worrying too much about Namwoon.

I went back to texting with my friends. One of them took awful photos of me today and I was determined to enact my revenge on them tomorrow. I gave a soft groan when the photos were sent to our largest group chat. I'm sure as hell going to be a laughingstock tomorrow...

I leaned against the railing and reached into my pocket to pull out my earphones. I plugged my earphones in and opened my Spotify app to kill some time with some of my favourite songs. I'm still a lot of stations away from the station closest to my tutorial centre so I should enjoy myself while I can.

After I selected my playlist, I looked at the top left corner of my screen to check the time. 6:55. Ah... I'm extremely late for tutoring: I was supposed to get there at 7...

I kinda regret forgetting to hand in my homework and receiving after school detention, but it's not like I wanted to forget that the piece of homework existed.

At that moment, the subway lights turned off and the inside of the train became eerily dark.

Kiiiiiiiik-

The subway train shook loudly and let out a metallic groan. It surprised me how loud the noise was considering I had my earphones plugged in, and the noise managed to pierce past the music playing in my earphones.

I heard someone give out a small scream when I pulled my earphones out. It didn't take long before the jumpscare caused a lot of commotion from the passengers. A few more seconds passed before I felt the train come to a halt on the tracks.

"Uh. What?"

"W-What's this?"

Amidst the darkness, a few phone flashlights popped up. I, too, did the same. I furrowed my eyebrows slightly as my mind thought of a few reasons as to why the train suddenly stopped:

First, there has been a terrorist attack.

Second, the system had experienced a malfunction and needed the driver to quickly steer the subway train manually.

Third, someone tried to committ suicide by jumping in front of the tracks and the subway staff need to either find a way to coax them away from the train tracks or remove the body.

There's actually quite a few possibilities, but those were the ones I'd summed up.

'Telling all passengers on the train. Telling all passengers on the train.' The engineer's announcement came. I held in my breath as I awaited their speculations on the situation. A hushed silence came over nearly everyone.

'E-Everyone run away... Run...!'

Huh?? That's not a very professional analysis of the current situation. I should've at least been able to know what the problem was... Wait- What could've made the engineer panic?? It's not like the reasons I came up with were news to people.

A bright light came from the front of the subway train. It seemed like something was coming our way, and it didn't seem to be stopping. A voice sounded out of nowhere:

[The free service of planetary system 8612 has been terminated.]

[The main scenario has started.]