Later the same day of the release of IO, I was watching the news when a courier arrived. It was a parcel, kinda big. After signing the courier off, I opened the letter that came with it.

'Thanks for always agreeing to be a guinea pig for my experiments.

Your best friend.'

(Well. Well. Well. Somebody's getting cocky calling himself my best friend. And who's a guinea pig!?)

Was there a need a open the parsel anymore? I knew what it was and I'm sure you guys have also realised.

(But who am I kidding? Even if I know what it is, still it's awesome as hell! Can't wait to try it out. But.......)

No one was home other than me. If I dived in, and mom or sis were to be back, I wouldn't know. They'd have to wait outside till I logged out.

(Well, let's open it atleast.)

I took the parsel to my room and opened it. In it was the 'headgear'. But this time it had a single cord, a power cord attached, unlike the one at Yuko's lab which had wires connecting to all sorts of machines. With it, was also an instruction manual.

(Well, now I know what to do to pass the time.)

I opened the instruction manual and it rolled down to atleast 20 PAGES!! Damn, it was long. I skimmed through it reading only the more important parts, like how to connect or troubleshoot. Mainly, you just had to connect it to the power socket and it'll do the rest on its own. It connects to the server and scans for any problems. There were lights on the side of it which would light up for different problems, but I wont go into such detail. If all clear, you'd automatically dive in. There were also some precautions and such, but nothing too important.

*ding dong*

(Ah finally. Someone's back. Most probably mom.)

I went to open the door and it was indeed my mother.

"Mom, I'll be busy for a while so please dont disturb me. Also, put my part of the dinner in the fridge, I'll eat it later."

"Okay. But dont stay up too late, alright?" She said with a gentle tone.

"Sure mom." I replied and went to my room.

"Now to get started." I said to no one in particular(well not that there was anybody here).

I connected the headgear and put it on and lay on my bed. After a few seconds, it made a *beep* sound and my consciousness started faded.

(Been a while since I had this feeling.)

Everything went dark.

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Last chapter was the most comments I received in any chapter. (A thing of pride for any author?)

Don't know about the pride, but I was delighted to see people trynna' predict what happens next. Though I was surprised to see people hate Pauli that much. xD

I wont reveal anything about the future but I'll atleast tell you that 'originally', Pauli was going to be a heroine. (Now I'm not so sure). xD