I see this guy. He has messy brown hair and some furious looking eyes. He is wearing a little silver earring in his left ear and armor that looks quite heavy. He looks sad and stressed. I’ll try to obtain some information from him and in the meanwhile, I’ll help him if I can.

“Hey, can I sit here?”

“Yeah.”

How should I start the conversation? I’ll go straight to the point.

“Do you have some time to explain me about the game?”

“uhm... yeah.”

“I got beaten up by some people with good equipment earlier, is equipment that important?”

“haha, yeah. it is, In fact, along with abilities, extremely important. You could say this game is built around getting equipment and abilities.”

“So, equipment and abilities are everything?”

“No, you can do a lot more, you can put magic jewels in equipment to give it big improvements, you can enchant equipment too, there are a lot of ways to get stronger without equipment too, like food or some other subclass related things.”

“Wow...”

“You can do a lot more than that, you can change your race with blood from a monster for example.”

“Why would anyone change their race?”

“It gives you innate abilities and some stat improvements.”

“That sound good but how do you know the quality of anything you get?”

“There is a system, things are classified by common, uncommon, rare, very rare, masterpiece, unique and legendary. Unique and legendary are different from the other ones, they are game changing but there is only one piece of each thing”

“Do you know someone who has a legendary or unique thing?”

“There is no one known for having something legendary or unique but there has to be some people with them hidden at least.”

I asked him a lot of things after that, he seemed very knowledgeable about the game, even about some obscure things. I wonder why does he have so much information? I think it’s enough information for now though, I’ll investigate more later on the internet.

“Thank you very much for the information, if you need anything, just ask.”

“It’s nothing, I don’t need anything now though but if I need anything in the future, I’ll make sure to tell you.”

“Well, you say that but your face tells me you’re very troubled.”

“It’s nothing, it’s about my life in the other side but you don’t have to worry.”

I shouldn’t force it too much, it’ll take some time for him to open, I could have gotten some information through his heart but I don’t like using that kind of forceful things to make friends.

“If you say so.”

“Let’s talk about something more interesting, like... did you see “Raincoat”?”

“What’s that?”

“You don’t know!! She is a celebrity who plays this game, her name on the other side is “Michelle Rodes”, and she has done a lot of movies and music.”

“That sounds like the standard celebrity for me...”

“She’s not the standard celebrity!! Even though lots of celebrities play this game, there is no other who is as good and beautiful as her! Imagine being her boyfriend and playing along such a beautiful woman... well any woman would be good for me if you ask me”

He seems a little desperate for a girlfriend...

“That would be nice indeed but it’s getting late so we have to stop it for now.”

“you’re right.”

“well, I’m Chrys, it was nice to meet you”

“I’m Deadly, let’s become friends in the system.”

An invitation appears in front of me, I accept it. If you have any friends registered you can contact them with a system similar to phones.

“See you later.”

“see ya.”

He is a good guy. I’ll do my best to help him. Thanks to him, I know what to do next, I have to gear up. I walk around town waiting for the disconnection. I hear a bell sound and suddenly a timer appears in the sky, when it goes down to zero, we all get disconnected.

…

I wake up to the sound of my alarm. I prepare for my job; Lynda should be cooking breakfast already. Something feels weird, I feel like everything that happened in the game was just a dream but I remember everything clearly unlike dreams.

“Chrys, breakfast is ready!”

“I’m going.”

There is a nice smell throughout all the house, I don’t know why but Lynda’s food is my favorite, I think that the food from the restaurant I work at is tastier but Lynda’s food just makes my body happy. It’s a magical feeling.

“Thanks for the food.”

“You’re welcome.”

I see Lynda smiling at me, I think I begin to understand what Lynda meant when she told me that people who have a good personality become beautiful. She has a light coming from her, it’s almost angelic.

“Hey Lynda, I think I made a friend.”

“That’s good, is it a man or a woman?”

All her light becomes darkness for a moment, I wonder why? Is she jealous about me having a new friend? I’m not sure but that makes me feel a shiver in my back.

“It’s a man.”

“That’s good... I mean!! how was he?”

Now she looks quite relieved...

“He’s a good person, I was trying to help him a little. He had a strange attraction to celebrities though.”

“It’s quite normal for anyone to be attracted to a celebrity but it is not the attraction you think.”

“How?”

“Well, they feel attracted to them but they know that it’s almost impossible to be reciprocated.”

“Why would they feel attracted to someone they can’t reach?”

“I don’t know either, sometimes humans are bizarre so just get used to it.”

“Fine but... Do you happen to like any celebrity?”

I feel somewhat nervous. Why would I be nervous?

“No, I don’t but I used to like one when I was little.”

I feel relieved... It feels like some weight was lifted from me. Why?

“Well, I’m done, I’m going ahead.”

“Good luck.”

“You too.”

She exits the apartment, I feel confused. What was that feeling earlier? I wonder for a moment but I don’t get any answers.

Anyway, I have to investigate a lot about the game, my plans begin tonight.