The moment a person is born, there is a certain status attached to them.
A roulette determining what kind of life they will live.
Are they born from a wealthy family?
Are they conventionally beautiful?
Are they intelligent or creative?
It is a game of chance.
You cannot change the way you are, it is something forced upon you.
There are others stronger, faster, more attractive, and others with a bigger dick than yours just because that is the way it is.
In life, we simply have to come to terms with that fact.
...
Julian was a shut-in who spent his life on a computer screen.
He used all his time playing games as an escape from reality.
The real world was unforgiving and refused to accept people like him.
That was until he met one person.
While playing a game of ranked Underwatch, he met a girl named "cuteanimelover69."
They hit it off and she would provide support for him in every match.
Her real name was Yuki and their time together seemed to fly by, resulting in countless games played.
They talked about unimportant things: Their favorite anime, how Ichika is best girl, how Itsuki is worst girl...
And to Julian's suprise, she held the same ideology as him.
"I can't stand people treating me differently for things I can't change. Do you feel the same way Julian-kun?"
In one sentence, Yuki had solidified herself in Julian's heart as the one person who could connect with him on a deeper level.
"I know exactly how you feel."
After that, he willed up the courage to ask her to be his e-girlfriend.
To which she agreed.
...
One day Julian booted up League of Heroes, another game him and Yuki played.
As he checked Disscord to join a call with her...
He saw that she was already in a voice chat.
And another user was in the call with her.
"Tyrone."
Julian immediately clicked on the "join" button.
"Yuki-san?" He asked into his headset.
"What's up, n***a," A deep voice came from the other side.
The sound of muffled moans died down from Yuki's microphone.
"What's going on here..."
Tyrone chuckled, "We're having some unprotected e-sex, would you mind leaving?"
Julian's hand quaked as he hovered over his mouse.
"Yuki... you're joking right..?"
"Julian-kun, I'm sorry... I just really needed to get to platinum and Tyrone-san said he could help me even if I was low ranked... He is in diamond and you're in silver..."
Julian slammed his fist down on his desk.
"WHY?! HOW IS THAT MONKEY ANY BETTER THAN I AM?!
YOU SELFISH PIECES OF SHIT! I'LL SHOW YOU..."
"Calm down, n***a. It's not that serious," Tyrone muttered.
Julian furiously laid his fingers upon his keyboard as he scanned the screen rapidly.
"Oh... so you live in Beaumont... Huh, Tyrone?"
"Woah n***a, did you just dox me?"
Julian laughed maniacally, "HAHAHA, you're so right!"
Tyrone sighed as he sent a screenshot in the chat, "Well that's not gonna un-fuck your e-girlfriend."
Julian looked down upon the message as it sent.
Within the image, he witnessed every message between Yuki and Tyrone while in the call.
The descriptive words that reflected upon their sexual acts rippled within Julian's eyes like a lake.
...
At this moment, Julian felt as if there was an ocean of despair cascading atop him.
There was no longer a path for his life to take, and now that the one person that acted as a place of solace was dead to him...
It was as if his life had ended.
...
Akashic powers manifest within Limbo, and then they are sent back to the real world.
The conditions for being transported to Limbo are simple:
Death.
And the inability to go to heaven or hell because of how a person has lived their life.
...
Julian fulfilled both of these conditions in this moment.
...
Outside of Limbo.
"Hey," Matthew said in the midst of a blood-striken Beaumont.
"Who are you?" Julian asked.
"A lone survivor."
...
"Sanskrit of Equilibrium: Game."
Each Akashic power reflects their users ideologies and destiny.
For Julian, that was to have a perfectly balanced world where no one has an innate advantage over one another.
By warping the enemy's cognition, an imaginary space is created where all parties are forced to play a game of Julian's choice.
Being a place that doesn't truly exist,
any strength or power is eliminated from the game and the only thing that can be used is purely skill and knowledge.
...
"Let's change that quickly. I have an important meeting with a man named Tyrone," Julian said as a room filled with countless monitors and assorted computing equipment materialized around him.