Eara sat on the toilet seat cover while trying to wipe her moist eyes, she recalled the sad memories of her desperately trying to hold her tears while watching her sister's back slowly disappearing.
Yulis.... big sister.... sis.... don't go! don't leave me alone..... please... please.... please..... im...
lonely....
From the past years every summer, her older sister would alway leave her alone to go and work every day she would be left alone in the small house.
She tried her best to try and dissuade her older sister from working without showing her emotions, she didn't need those delicious food, she didn't need those toys, she didn't need new clothes, she just wanted to be with her older sister.
Earlier when she saw the food she wasn't delighted, instead she felt like someone is gripping tightly on her chesy and almost cried, she was gonna be left alone again this entire summer, and once the summer vacation is over, she'll just go back to her aunt once again she'll be alone.
But the sudden revelation when her sister said those words, the hand that was tightly gripping her heart slowly eased the grip and disappeared entirely. Her heart that laid dormant for long suddenly start beating wildly, she felt excited, relieved, and she suddenly felt like crying, she didn't want her sister to see her like this. All of the sudden the door of the bathroom opened and yulis walked in.
"Eara" Yulis whispered while smiling at eara, "please don't cry, i will never leave you alone again" Yulis fell on her knees and hugged her little sister tightly, Eara finally burst into tears, the dam that held her tears broke, eara wailed her heart out.
"Eara im sorry that i left you alone every summer! , im sorry that i didn't noticed that you were getting lonely! Eara im sorry that i failed to be big sister that you deserved eara im-"
"no! i was just selfish that i didn't tell you anything, it's me who should be sorry, i thought i have growned up enough to- i thought i was matured enough to endure lon-"
"no human could endure loneliness, im the selfish one, i tried to replace our parents that -" Eara suddenly held her sister face and knocked their foreheads together.
"i!-" yulis was stunned but eara interrupted. "silly older sister of mine, you didn't have to replace our parents, i don't need them, i only need you, and i was so happy when you said that you will no longer leave me.... is that true?"
"yes, i just... don't deserve forgiveness that-"
"it's okay big sister, i forgive you... atleast im matured enough to do that. But..."
"But?"
"will forgive me? i should've told you that i was getting lonely, i wasn't matured enough to-"
"enough being selfish will you?"
"huh?"
"mature this, mature that... your still a kid, kids don't have to think about that kind of thoughts, kids should just eat delicious food, play with toys, smile like idiots and receive plenty of love."
".... Im not a KID!"
"hehehehe!" yulis suddenly broke the atmosphere by suddenly giggling.
"why are you laug- gahahaha" eara couldn't keep a straight face and finally laughed.
Once the pair of sisters left the bathroom, the food was already cold.
"Dang, our drama took too long" Yulis scratched her head.
"it's okay!" eara took a wing and bit into it. "im used to eating cold foods.
The surroundings suddenly turn cold as yulis said with a cold voice." unacceptable! you will never ever eat cold foods ever again! let me reheat it. "
Eara frowed and said with a whimpering voice." but i want to eat ice cream too...."
"....."
"....."
Both sisters suddenly burst into laughter that took a while before yulis said." but seriously, i'll be cooking you hot delicious food that you deserve everyday, i'll make it up to you to those days that i left you. "
"it doesn't have to be everyday you know, you might run out of money."
"nah, i told you i got a high paying job on VR"
Eara eyed her sister suspiciously "are you, doing something illegal, like selling your VR body?"
"wha?! - no do i look like someone who would.... wait where did you learn something like that?! night hotels and now this!?
"there are things that you learn while browsing the net, things that would take your innocence...."
Yulis widened her eyes. "eara.... noooooo! your innocence!, whyy!?" yulis hugged her sister while tears flowed out of her eyes.
"im just kidding, haven't you watched the news lately? and stop pulling me down dangit! im short enough as it is!
"you mean you haven't lost your innocence? your still pure?"
"maybe...."
"Nyoooo!!" Yulis wailed her heart out.
"okay! okay! im still pure!"
Night time finally arrived and yulis have finished setting up the VR Gaming Helmet set. A black box is placed on top of a table near the bed side with several blinking lights and a wire connected to the wall and another on a black helmet placed on the bed. Tonight is the night when the Game Eve of Reincarnation is finally launching, The full dive VRMMORPG has caught atleast a small portion of the world's attention.
Yulis sat on her bed as she puts on the helmet, laying down and closing her eyes, she then pressed a button on the side of the helmet. A cold mechanical female voice suddenly spoke inside of her head.
[Do you wish to initiate a dive into the network?]
"yes"
Blinding lights filled her eyes and information began travelling on her brain.
[Notice, the device will check for any available updates, please wait for a moment.... Checking updates.... Updating security data... Update complete]
[Notice, the device will now scan your body please avoid erratic movements and stay still for accurate measurements...]
[Measures completed]
status
gender : female
height : approx (intentionally hidden by the author)
weight : approx (intentionally hidden by the author)
[please confirm]
"yes"
[confirming]
[Notice, the system will now design a base body template for you, the similarity is only 60% - 70% please edit your body as you like, note that this avatar will be used as your general avatar when accessing public servers and other services]
A nude body that looked similar to yulis appeared in front of her not only that it looked straight to yulis which creeped her out for a moment.
"i wonder what eara would look like... ehehe ehehehehe." after a moment of fantasy yulis started her design.
It took yulis only 10 minutes to learn the mechanics since she already did so in her previous life, and after another 30 minutes or so she have finally designed a public avatar to use.
[Integrating avatar..... Completed]
[Welcome!]
Yulis appeared on a blank room, devoid of anything else but air.
"access network, Game Store"
[ping]
A whole plethora of games suddenly appeared floating in the empty space, ranging from solo, to MMO games.
"Search for Eve of Reincarnation"
[ping]
Information entered her head once more.
[Do you wish to install the game?]
"Yes"
[Installing....... Installed!]
[Do you wish to proceed to the game? ]
"yes"
[Notice, entering the game will require you to enter full dive mode, do you wish to proceed?]
"yes"
This time all the light suddenly disappeared, and yulis felt the urge to sleep, she didn't fight it instead she breathed calmly and fell asleep.
Yulis appeared on a dark place, the surrounding completely dark while yulis felt like she was falling. Then slowly light began to appear and finally she could see her arms and her body, a small floating light flew towards her face and started blinking.
When yulis touched the blinking light, an interface appeared and the blinking light flew on top of her head and transformed into a white ball of light.
The interface covered atleast half of her view, next she mover her right hand and stretched it out to touch one pannel and suddenly a countdown appeared.
[ 03: 12 : 52 remaining time before reincarnation begins]
Maneuvering around the interface, yulis opened the net and checked the official page of the game where a large countdown greeted her. Scrolling down and opening another panel caused an explosion of thousands of chats of excited players chats.
In one swipe she returned to the dark place, but this time a small ball of light floats on top of her head. She's currently on a dilemma, she felt like she was selfishly enjoying herself when she uses the helmet.
Earlier she impulsively bought two helmet because she wanted to play with eara, but is it right? i have resolved myself to stop going to school and earn money in game but what about my sister... what if she gets addicted, what if she stops focusing in her studies, what if she stops going to school entirely... what if she turns into one of those people who works as a money farming team on large guilds!.....
"Am i overreacting... *sigh* am i stupid or something."
Yulis disconnected and walked towards her sister's room, she was currently laying down on her stomach while browsing the net on her phone. "hey eara?"
"hmm?"
"what do usually do when your bored?"
"erm... browsing the net? watching some cute videos of cat?, why do you ask?"
"how mature are you on the rating of 1 to 10"
"8.… wait why are you asking me these questions?" Eara rolled over and sat on her bed.
"nothing much, it's just that i have a gift for you" yulis placed a bag on floor.
"is that... a nerve gea- a VR Helmet?!" eara suddenly jumped of the bed rushed towards the bag and opened it revealing a box.
"Osense... aren't these types of helmet expensive?!" eara widened her eyes in surprise!
"oh they're not that expensive" yulis said while smiling, "a friend of mine owed me a favor so she repayed me with that"
eara once again eyed yulis with suspicion
"oh how many time do you have to show me that cute face!" yulis giggled as she hugged herself.
"hmph! i just wanna make sure your not lying, but is this really mine?
" yup! "
" but your work helmet is... "
" it's company issued, i can't just change helmet "
".... "
"you don't like it?"
"n-no i actually love it! thanks sis!" eara jumped up and hugged yulis tightly.
"oh it's nothing, anyways let's set it up, i still have time before going to work!"
"okay!" eara excitedly opened the box.
kyaaaa! my cute little sister's expression! it's shoo cute! i might just melt! yulis shouted in her head as she inwardly salivated.
"uhm... yulis?"
"oh! im here! uh let's go set it up!"
"oh and be careful while diving! never ever reveal your age!"
"okay!
" and never disclose our adress! "
" okay.... "
" and stay away from creeps, especially old fat bald men! "
" okay okay i get it already, im not so gullible as to do such things " eara sighed
Once set up eara excitedly jumped on her bed and wore the helmet.
"goodnight eara" yulis smiled, this is how a kid is supposed to act yulis inwardly said.
"goodnight sis!" eara couldn't wait anymore and activated the helmet.
Yulis shaked her head and dimmed the light before leaving.
Back in her room, the countdown is about to end, the server chat began to go wild, some even started chanting the count down. Once there's only 60 seconds remaining, yulis accessed the voice chat and all of the sudden thousands of voices are chanting along the counter.
60!
.
59!
.
58!
.
57!
.
56!
.
55!
Yulis closed the chat at the same time closed here eyes, and after a few moments...
[ding!]
whooosh! the scenario suddenly changed
Yulis felt tingles on her body as a loud cheerful female voice boomed on her head.
[At this very moment you'll be reincarnated into another world! you'll experience something that is completely brand new! you will live a new life in a new place! make new friends and new enemies! and it is up to you! is this a new game? no! is this your new life? maybe? or maybe not! your choices will lead to a new story that will change the history of this new world! prepare yourself for a new life changing story that has never before seen by anyone else but you! it is your story, everyone's story and my story.....]
Yulis was startled after hearing the last part, she didn't remember hearing it before, or did she forgot about it? Yulis didn't have time to think as her vision blurred and darkened, when she opened her eyes she found herself in front of a village.
[Let your name be etched at the books of history!]
Yulis though for a second before entering a set of words as her name.
[World's sexiest big sister]
[error, name already exist]
"Damnit!"
Yulis pondered for a while, unknowingly she started whispering names.
"hmmm, i need to think of a cool edgy name, like black fire or something, the color black seems edgy enough but what else? black ghost? black sun? black star?" Yulis crossed her legs before slowly floating around like she's in space.
"maybe a flower? black rose? black poppy?" slowly her whisper became louder and louder.
"Lotus!" Yulis exclaimed
[error, name already exists]
"I shall be known as Black Lotus! The exiled princess of an advanced civilization who betrayed her family because of their corrupt deeds! she who ripped the head of the Dark Emperor was casted aside and thrown away after the queen took the seat!"
While Yulis was busy regaling the origin of her name the system spoke once.
[Black Lotus]
[Please confirm your name]
" Yes! i am the Exiled Princess who lurks in the abyss, watching, waiting for the right moment to strike back and reclaim what's rightfully hers... er, nah too cringey, maybe I'll think of something
normal." Yulis said as she floated downward and bonking her head on the foor.
[Black Lotus]
[Name Registered]
" Wait wut? "Yulis said in confusion but was interrupted. A bright light blinded her before finding herself in a village.
The white ball above her head slowly turned into a green diamond crystal, soon hundreds of little white balls began slowly manifesting in thin air and followed suite by thousands of tiny white lights slowly forming a body under the white ball, once the body fully appeared the white balls above them turned into a green diamond crystal.
The players that appeared all wore old tattered robes, and the quite village suddenly became noisy as the players began moving around and hundreds of players began talking.
"Whoah! this game feels different!"
"i know right it feels much more realistic!"
"hey! i can't remove my clothes!"
"kyaaa! someone touched my butt!"
"use your stick, beat the pervert to death!"
Old stick
Atk: 1-3
Atk spd: 1
durability: 5/5
=an old stick found everywhere
Yulis chuckled as she swung the stick around, all of a sudden she felt someone gazing at her, and after a few moments someone tried to brush their hand on her. Yulis swiftly sidestepped and stroked her stick to her left and suddenly she hit something, not wasting any more time she sweeped her foot and caught the assailant off guard. A man fell face down and smacked his face on the ground.
"a pervert! there's a pervert over here!" yulis screamed while pointing at the dude on the ground.
"where! lemme beat his ass up!" a muscular man ran towards yulis.
"no i'm gonna beat that punk!" another guy followed.
"that's my prey!" another one went.
"someone dared to think they could touch someone and get away with it? move aside! my name is Astra from the Bloody Justice Guild!"
"oh shit, that guy is doomed!"
"Astra?! the famous Commander Astra from the justice guild?!"
Astra's appearance alone scared anyone who have unscrupulous thoughts into hiding, they don't dare do anything, the presence of the justice guild completely shattered any ill thoughts.
Incidents like this happened around the starting points, fortunately people around ganged up on anyone caught doing ill actions, they were beaten black and blue before dying.
Anti harassment system began working, any person that was detected, reported, or suspicious would get a warning, any further actions would result in a permanent ban meaning that you have to buy a new helmet and buy the game again before you could play again, who would wanna spend money just to touch someone virtually?.
Unfortunately these types of systems aren't perfect, someone rich enough and crazy enough would just keep on repeating it. Resulting in more systems and precautions being set in place, once the system finds a repeated offender they would be marked and is officially booted off VR entirely.
"Astra.... i guess i don't have to do anything else" Yulis murmured and left.