Da ding' the doors to the gas station automatically open and a Tall and skinny man walks in. The man's name is Ark. He is tall and very skinny due to malnutrition because of his father. When his father passed away, Ark's father's debt was all handed down to him to pay off. Ark walks to the back of the store and grabs a pack of ramen that is labeled "$1.49 NaruChan soup, Ramen Noodle chicken flavor 4 pack." Ark also grabs a bottle of water for around one dollar. As Ark walks up to the cashier to pay a faint angelic voice in the back of his head whispers to him, "๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฃ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ต." ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต? ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐บ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ต ๐'๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ.. ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ธ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ?.... ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ-๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ?... Ark proceeds to grab a lottery ticket and place it along with the rest of his items on the counter where the cashier is. "Okay sir, your total will be 2.64 and yes that does include tax" Ark reaches for his back pocket and grabs his wallet. He grabs two one-dollar bills along with 2 quarters, a dime, and four pennies, "here.." Ark says while placing the money down on the counter. "Will that be all for you today?" the cashier asks. "No this will be all, have a good day" ark repeats while grabbing his items and leaving.
As Ark walks out of the store he grabs a penny and begins to scratch off the lottery ticket. "Jackpot: $3,765,630โฆ numbers needed to win, 12, 17, 36, and 94" as Ark scratches the ticket the first number is revealedโฆ. 36. Ark begins to frantically scratch the next numbersโฆ. 94....17โฆ...12. Ark begins to check the lottery ticket again with a huge grin on his face he finally confirms that he won the jackpot. Ark then falls to his knees sobbing tears of joy. He looks at the lottery ticket again and it says "If you won have any prize of 1 thousand or more please contact your state's "lottery of public relations office at xxx-xxx-xxxx" Ark then reaches for his pocket and grabs his phone the date on his phone says July 10th, 2021. He taps the phone button and dials the number on the lottery ticket ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ง๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ! ๐ช๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ข๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐บ'๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐บ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ด๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ข๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ข๐ด๐ต๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ! "Hey kid I hope you haven't forgotten about that debt that your scrawny little shit of a father handed down to you" Ark suddenly turns around only to find 3 huge buff men holding baseball bats and are riddled with tattoos behind him. "N-no sir I haven't I was going to give you guys my money I collected this week but I had to spend it to help pay for my grandma's hospital billโฆ" the men then proceed to walk up to Arkโฆ once they got around 2 feet from ark one of the men swing the bat at ark.. ๐ง๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฉ' the bat hits Ark right in the rib ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ' the sound of Ark's ribs breaking echo through the streets. Ark falls to the floor in agony, he begins to cough up blood. Ark's phone has dropped to the floor and shattered. The voice of an office worker from the lottery ticket company can barely be heard from the speaker of the phone.
One of the men spit on Ark and continues to kick and hit Ark with a bat. "Yeah you little bitch when we kill you make sure to say hello to your old pops for us in hell and be sure to tell him that you paid the debt because when we kill you we will be sure to sell your body parts for a hefty price on the black market" the men continue to kick and hit Ark. "p-please s-sto" as Ark tries to blurt out that one sentence but he coughs blood everywhere and passes out. " hey this little shit passed out! Waitโฆ.. what the hell is that? " the man points to the ground where the lottery ticket is. "This little shit just paid off his debt! He won the jackpot!" the man grabs the ticket and shows it to the other two men who were beating Ark." hell yeah! Let's take that ticket and get the fuck out of here" before leaving one of the men leave a sticky note in his pocket.
Ark slowly opens his eyes only to find himself inside of this room. His room has a bed and a desk with a laptop on it. Ark reaches for his phone that is laying on his bed plugged into a charger. But when he reaches for his phone his entire body aches with pain from head to toe. Ark eventually grabs his phone and notices it is cracked. "Dammit, I can't afford a new phone, I will just have to stick with this one." Ark turns his phone on only to find one new message from his little sister that was sent a few hours ago that says " by the time you are reading this I'm probably at school. You have been knocked out cold on sleeping pills from the hospital and have been asleep for a few days. The doctors say you should wake up today, oh and by the way I heard about that vrmmo game you are always telling me about called what was it?... oh yeah "God's Gate" I heard that the headsets are only 200 dollars now because of a summer deal that they are doing! Oh and also I heard that in God's gate you can sell your items for real-life money!" ๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ฉ, ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ 200 ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ด! ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ! ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ง๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ด ๐ข๐จ๐ฐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต "๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ง๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ด! ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด!. Ark writes a short message back to his sister about how he is awake and much better and he is going to see if he has enough money to order a headset to be able to play. Ark then goes to the official God's gate website on his phone and checks the price of the headsets ๐๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ 269 ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ด! ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ป๐บ! He then presses the home screen on his phone and goes to his banking app and checks his balanceโฆ. "721 dollars" ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ? Ark then has a flashback to when he was visiting his grandmother and she said that she was going to give him some money because he needed it. Ark then goes back to the God's gate website and orders 2 headsets. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด, ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ข ๐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ!
Several days later~ DaTing' a notification suddenly popped up on Ark's phone that says, "God's gate VRMMO head x2 has arrived" ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ! ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ! Ark rushes to the front door and swings the door open! As soon as ark opens the door right next to his feet are 2 packages. Ark then sets one package in his sister's room and unboxes his then he heads back to his room. ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฉ! Ark then lays on his bed, puts the headset on, and blurts out "God's gate open!" A series of calibration checks happen first, The calibration checks ask simple questions like "language" and "date of birth" then once that is done Ark gets teleported to a Room With a huge mirror. Suddenly a menu pops up in front of ark saying "character customization" the menu then blurts out a series of questions "hair color?" ๐๐ข๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต? ๐๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฆโฆ.? ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ช๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ? ๐๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎโฆ. ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ตโฆ.. 'Blackish greyโฆ..." the character customization then goes on and asks more questions regarding Ark "can I just leave everything else like it is in real life?" The character customization then asks one simple question: "Username?" Ark then goes to answer Ark! "character customization completed now entering god's gate"