Reasons

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I logged out quickly as soon as I got a notification... or else, my NerveGear will be confiscated, and worst, dispatched. I felt shivers at my back as the thought entered my mind while I'm heading outside of the room because Mom was actually calling me.

"Dairin?", Mom calls me while knocking from outside the door, loud enough to make the NerveGear send out a notification to me earlier inside the full-dive VR world. She's already well aware of every functions of our NerveGears and the other gadgets attached to it since my brother already told them about it.

I gently took off everything that is attached to me and put everything on the bed for a while. I went to the door and opened it and peek outside.

"Yes, Mom?"

"You're already playing, Dairin? Are you done with your researches?", Mom asked me.

I nodded as a reply. "And I already saved those in my phone", I added.

"Is there anything more you need to do?", she asked more.

I shook my head, "I'm done".

"Are you sure?". I nodded. "Prioritize study first before gaming, okay?", Mom warned me.

"Yes Mom", I reply back with a smile.

Holding her Instructional Materials, Mom started to walk going in front of her pupils to start another lesson as they've just done doing their seatwork.

Actually, right now we're not at home. We're still in the elementary school where Mom works. She's a special education teacher that handles deaf or pupils with hearing impairment. Her classroom is designed like a simple house, with other rooms than the main resource room like a kitchen, a dining room, and a bedroom. In the bedroom is where I am earlier, with my laptop, I connected there my NerveGear and entered the world of Iruna.

It's my first time doing a full-dive that's why it excites me and finished all my school works and assignments as soon as Mom received the package we've ordered at our birthday, the NerveGear package with all of the needed gadgets for a full-dive environment.

Luckily, our classes today was just for a half-day and the teachers just gave us lots of works to compensate for the loss of time for classroom discussion.

"Geez"

But since I've already finished everything I need to do, I can play with the remaining time I got until Mom's class already finished and dad fetch us and drive us home. Yey~

"Mom", I call back Mom before I went back inside the bedroom. "Just send me a notification if we're going home already, if just fine. I'm going full-dive."

Mom nods while and said 'Okay' before getting the attention of her pupils to go back to their discussion. Mom understands clearly what I've asked since she's been doing it a year already to my brother, Darwin because he's playing full-dive for a year already.

There are other systems the developers of the real world's NerveGear added. One of those is the «Spectator's View» where the persons outside can ask for permission from the player to view in the computer, or in my case a laptop, what the player see inside the game. Except for the chat system between players inside the game, for privacy maybe.

The persons outside can send a «Request Logout» to a player while in a full-dive and can also send a short mail through the computer or laptop but the player can't send a message nor to the outside world except an «SOS signal» that will only be released from the NerveGear if something happened to the player and can't use the proper log out, sending a message to the mobile of a trusted person set by the player before first using the NerveGear, and asking the entrusted person for an emergency log out.

This another one of the new systems is the «Emergency Logout». It is when someone from the outside world entered the correct password in the computer or laptop that the player set. It will automatically log out the player after 30 seconds, giving only enough time for the player to save everything and log out properly to avoid losing any progress. But if the emergency logout was first triggered by the SOS signal, there will be only five seconds to force log out a player safely.

I didn't told anyone yet about my password, the request logout is already enough to call me back.

So, wondered why I pick Iruna Online as my first full-dive VRMMORPG?

Because I did a lot of research for a good game that would suit me better? Amm, actually not. I just saw my brother trying it out the other day. He let me peek in the game through the spectator's view system. And I just decided to beat him up in this game, hehehe.

To explain it more properly, brother and I have always this friendly rivalry. For him, I'm someone he always looks up at, even though I'm just some minutes older than him.

He thinks that I'm smarter and talented than him, that's why he's always saying something like "Sugoi nee~chan" on everything I do and my every achievement, even though it's not much better than his works. He never realizes he's stronger and more skillful than me, especially in games, which I envy a lot.

My brother is almost like a game genius in my perspective. He beats me in every game we play together and he still can beat me in a game where I already took a headstart and almost focus my extra time in that game. Its kinda frustrates me. I want to win even just once in the same game he plays.

That's why, since Bro plays this game, Iruna Online, I'm thinking I should too, to attain my goal to defeat him one day.

"It has been some months already though since I saw him playing Iruna, I wonder how far Bro already reached in that world", I thought while remembering he never allows me to enter easily his bedroom anymore. Buh.

"Oh well", I hurriedly went back to the bed but this time I decided to lie down. I wear back my NerveGear and the special glove accessory connected to the helm-like device, adjust the headphones piece to my ears and the glass-framed goggles automatically fitted to my face.

I closed my eyes.

"Game Start!", I chanted clearly to completely start the NerveGear and connecting the brain pulses of my senses, transmitting it into the virtual artificial world of Iruna Online.

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