It was nighttime in Tokyo. A mid-aged man, with black eyes, glasses, and black short straight hair, was sitting in a seat in his office. The lights were turned off and the man was typing on a laptop. He seemed rather exhausted with dark circles under his eyes.

"Finally, it's over"

The man stretched his hands and yawned. He saw the time on the laptop and it said 11:00 pm.

"What? 11 pm? When did it get that late?"

The man seemed surprised. He got up, took his phone that was next to his laptop and his bag that was hanging on the chair he was sitting. While he was putting his phone inside his pocket, the man felt it vibrating. He raised his hand, that was holding the phone with, in the height of his chest and saw the name "Mrs. Amaya" written on it. He slid the green button, with his thumb. He put his phone next to his left ear and started walking towards the door.

"Good evening, Mr. Fujimura"

A young female voice said.

"Good evening to you too, Mrs. Amaya"

"Are you done with your project?"

Fujimura grabbed the door handle and pushed the door.

"I've just finished the last bit of coding. The game should be ready for launching by tomorrow"

"Glad to know that we are finally ready to launch it"

Fujimura walked outside of his office and closed the door behind him. He ended up in a big room with many desks inside it. The desks were full of untidied papers and each desk had a computer on it. No one was there and all the lights were turned off.

"The hard thing will be maintaining the ga—"

Suddenly, Fujimura saw a dazzling white lighting in the wall in front of him. He turned around and saw the door, that was leading to his office, shining.

'It can't be from my office light or from someone who broke in. It's too bright"

"Yes, I know that the maintenance will be hard, bu—"

The light stopped. The phone slipped from his hand and fell on the floor. Fujimura started running towards the door. The door hit the floor with Amaya was talking.

"Hello?... Mr. Fujimura are you there?... Is everything alright?"

Fujimura opened the door slowly, he saw inside it and got shocked. Next night the live servers of the game "Legend of Ragnarok Online" were launched.

'It's finally here'

A teenager with short straight black hair and blue eyes was sitting in front of a computer's monitor. The room was dirty, with many clothes on the floor. His bed's blanket was a mess and there were many empty cans around the room. He was sucking at a straw that was inside a can. He clicked on the download button on the browser.

"Sora, go to sleep already"

An old girly voice shouted.

"Tsk…"

It was morning and Fujimura was sitting in his office. He was typing on his laptop when suddenly he stopped and relaxed a bit on his chair.

'Two years have passed since the official launching of the game huh…'

Fujimura stood up and walked to a wall made of glass he had next to his new office. He saw outside the sun slowly rising.

'It's time…"

In a dark room, a teenager with short brown hair, glasses, and green eyes was sitting with his phone on a black colored sofa. He took a message saying "You are one of the top five players in the game Legend of Ragnarok Online (LRO), so we, the creators of the game, are inviting you to a special tour to our building and there, you will be given a special award for your high ranking place".

'Special award huh?'

The next morning Sora was walking on a pavement while wearing a school uniform. A black suit with a white T-shirt from inside and a red tie, a pair of black trousers with a brown belt and a pair of black shoes. He was holding a bag with his arm above his shoulder. He had a tired look on his face with black circles underneath his eyes.

"Yo Sora, wait up!"

Sora stopped and looked behind him. He saw the boy that took the mail last night, running his way with the same uniform while holding a school bag on. The boy caught up to Sora, stood next to him and started panting.

"Glad you did your morning exercise, Tadashi"

Tadashi slowly raised his back. He saw Sora and smiled. He slightly punched him in shoulder.

"Come on, is that a way to greet a friend?"

"Judging by your reaction, I guess not"

They continued walking on the pavement.

"So, yesterday, I took a weird mail from the creators of the LRO saying that they want to give me a free tour to their building today. Unfortunately…"

"You promised your sister to visit her to the hospital and you want me to go there pretending I am you and claim the mysterious award for you"

Tadashi looked to Sora surprised.

"Wow, how did you—"

"Come on, I've known you for five years already. You wouldn't ask me to go there if it wasn't for an award. Also, the only excuse you use is that you have to visit your sister"

Tadashi laughed.

"You always end up surprising me with remembering so many unnecessary details "

Sora smiled and turned his look to Tadashi.

"You never know when those details will come in handy. I'll go to claim the award, but you owe me one for that"

"Alright"

After some time, Sora was sitting on the last seat next to the window inside a class. The teacher was writing on the board. Sora was looking outside of the window.

'My name is Murakami Sora. I am a second-year student in high school. Two years ago, I started playing LRO with my best friend Tadashi. I've known him since middle school started. I am not that good in that game, but my friend Tadashi is the fifth best player in our Japanese server. We started together, but he spends more time on the game in one day than I do in a week'

A girl, with black straight long hair, stood up to answer the teacher's question. Sora turned his look inside the classroom and saw the girl that was talking.

"Well done Airi"

The teacher praised the girl, and she sat down.

Some hours later, Sora was in front of Ace's building. He was wearing a blue T-shirt with black short sleeves and a pair of black trousers. Sora was looking at the building thrilled.

'Wow'

Sora looked at a paper he was holding with his right hand. He saw a sign next to the door that it was having the same location written on it.

'Yes, that's the right place'

Sora walked inside and the doors automatically opened to the sides. He walked to the first floor where no one was in. The floor had nothing on it, only some doors to move to other rooms and some seats, in Sora's right side, with a table, that had magazines on it.

'Seems I am the first one arriving here'

Sora sat in a seat and took a magazine to read from the table. Several minutes passed when someone was opening the door. Airi walked inside the waiting room and saw Sora reading a magazine. Sora surprised looked to Airi

"A-A-Airi?"

"Wait"

Airi seemed excited and her purple eyes shined

"You are a classmate of mine, right? Mura—"

Sora stood up, run next towards her, and closed her mouth with his right hand. Airi was shocked while Sora seemed serious. He put his left index in front of his mouth.

"Shh! I came in place of Nagai Tadashi, my friend, to claim his prize and get out of here"

Airi raised her right hand and thumped up. Sora closed his eyes and sighed.

"Glad you understand"

Sora left her mouth and walked behind. He showed the seats with his right hand.

"Here, take a seat"

They sat on two seats around the table. Airi smiled warmly.

"So, Nagai, my name is Kamiyaki Airi and I am the fourth-best player of LRO. Nickname Angel. I am the best healer in the whole game and usually play with other people since you know, the healer role isn't the best role to play solo"

Airi offered her hand for a handshake. Sora accepted the offer and shaken hands.

'Wow, her skin is so warm and soft…'

"Nice to meet you too"

Later, two boys walked inside the waiting room. The one had red short straight hair pulled back and red eyes, wearing a red suit, a pair of black trousers, and black shoes. The other one had blue long straight hair tied up and sky-blue eyes. He was wearing a blue suit, a pair of black trousers and black shoes. They walked and stood on the other side of the table. The boy with blue hair put his right thumb to his chest.

"My name is Iwasaki Ken, I am 18 years old and my nickname is Red. I am the first best player in LRO. My class is Tank, and…"

Ken sounded energetic and started wondering.

"I think that's about it"

'Wait… your nickname is red and yet your hair is blue and…'

Sora was confused.

"My name is Asatoga Riku, 18 years old, AKA Blue. I am the second-best player of LRO and my class is Archer"

Riku sounded more serious and he had his hand crossed.

'I can't believe those guys...'

"You won't believe it, but we are friends from a young age!"

"Woah, got to be great being the two best players in a game with a childhood friend"

Sora sounded surprised.

"My name is Kamiyaki Airi, I am 17 years old and my nickname is Angel. I am the fourth-best player of LRO. My class is a healer"

Airi smiled warmly.

"My name is Nagai Tadashi, I am 17 years old and my nickname is… is… Sora. I am the fifth-best player of LRO. My class is Magician"

"Oh, by the way, Blue and Red"

Airi hugged Sora from his left side, he wide opened his eyes blushed slightly.

"Y-Yes"

"Oh, I see, so the only one left in the third. She is kinda late…"

"She?"

Airi started wondering.

"So this means, there will be other girls in this place?"

Airi seemed and sounded enthusiastic.

"I am already here"

Everyone turned their look on a voice they heard from the opposite side of the door. Ken and Sora seemed frightened, Airi seemed enthusiastic and Riku was serious. The lights turned off and on quick. When they turned the lights back on, a girl was standing from the place, they heard the voice. She had short silver hair and red shining eyes.

"My name is Hara Izanami, I go by the name Black reaper. I am 16 years old. I am the third-best player of LRO and my class is Assassin"

'We got that much by ourselves'

Izanami had a dead look in her eyes. Fujimura walked next to her and poked her forehead. Izanami dropped the dead look walked a bit behind and she pouted.

"Why did you do that for chief?"

"Chief?"

Sora sounded confused. Fujimura turned to the players.

"Sorry for her manners, she is just too addicted to the game"

"I am not!"

Izanami shouted.

"Since you are all here, we might as well start the game"

Fujimura used his hand to fix his glasses.

"Follow me"

Fujimura passed a door that was behind him. The players started walking behind him.