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Chapter 2 - The beginning

Story start in Japan , a man goes home from work and enters his apartment, he looks around and realizes just how gloomy the place was , the man's name is Cael he lives alone in a apartment and work i small shop.

Cael enters in his bedroom lays down and thinks just how boring his life was, in his life he never had friends because in childhood other children saw him as weird guy so they never approached him, he was never in good terms with his family and hs been long since he has seen them. Before going to bed Cael grabs one of his favorite novels and starts reading since reading was the only thing he could enjoy in his life. The novel that he reads is called '' The rise of the hero'' , is a story about a guy who starts with nothing in his life but then throughout the journey starts achieving things that make him the hero of the story . One thing that Cael also liked about the novel were the side characters, they weren't just side characters they had a story behind them were interesting and Cael found some of them relatable , for example there was this one guy called Hector . Hector was a villain in the first season of the novel , he was a arrogant character evil and always trying to put down the mc till he challenged the mc to a duel which mc wins , with this Hector's reputation gets ruined due to him loosing and then gets kicked out of his noble family . Hector then settles is a small hous thinks of his actions and just how worthless his life is now , after a long time thinking Hector decides to kill himself by drinking poison and since nobody would care about him being dead . After Hector drinking the poison is showed how his life was , how nobody loved , how he was neglected by his father due to him not having strong powers , being treated horribly since nobody cared about him anyway, that's probably what led him into being a villain . Cael started thinking just how similar their life were , Cael closed the book then goes to sleep . Cael weakens up tired as always but notices something , the thing in his room are different, after his vision clears up he sees that hes not in his room and says :

- where am I ?