Prologue_Soar in the sky

"I'm back."

However, it's Monday, at 2:47 pm, the only person who might come here, my sister, is still in school. So, no one can answer my greeting. But, the habit that I have developed for many years since I can speak and walk is not so easy to change. What's more, there is no need to change this good habit in the eyes of the world, right? []

Speaking of which, I almost forgot to introduce myself.

Aoi Nakajima (にジぞあおい

nakajima_aoi) - It sounds like a very feminine name, right? Unfortunately, I am a completely male. I only have a "distant" attitude towards the "neutral" trend that suddenly began to rise on a large scale decades ago. After all, there are many beautiful things, and it is enough to just appreciate them.

Ah... By the way, the self-introduction is not over yet.

Aoi Nakajima, sixteen years old, has been graduating from high school for two years.

Speaking of this, probably many people will praise "genius" or "talented"? However, I have to let you down. Indeed, I had already graduated from high school at the age of fourteen, but graduating from high school does not mean that I can enter a higher education institution.

In simple terms, I failed the exam. Moreover, I still failed the college entrance examination last year.

Alas ~

If I take it again this year, it will be my third time to take the college entrance examination. However, I believe that after seeing my current life, I am afraid that you will no longer have any expectations for me?

After failing the exam again last year, I moved out of my home. On the other end of the city, I rented a small room on the highest floor of the elevator apartment now known as the "urban slum". Of course, thanks to these reasons, this room is really cheap and cheap. This has really helped me.

After all, I moved out of my house without authorization, and as a "child" who is still underage, I don't earn much money from working. The law also stipulates that working hours for children like me cannot exceed one limit per month. If the boss who hired me does not supervise well, he will be severely punished - since the existence of something like a personal terminal, it is almost a fantasy to hide such things.

In addition, my parents who have been working outside for many years, as well as my grandparents who still live in a big house in my hometown who are almost isolated from all modern equipment, don’t know the fact that I moved out of my home. At the beginning, I took a lot of effort to keep my sister confidential.

So, except for the pocket money my parents will give me through their personal terminals every month, I cannot get any living expenses from my parents or other relatives - this is probably a kind of self-inflicted oneself? Originally, my parents would have to pay a public user’s living expenses from my sister. However, since I decided to move out, the public user’s head was naturally completely left to my sister.

However, despite so many disadvantages, I always thought it was worth it.

Because, I can finally do what I want to do, instead of following the scheduled life trajectory, step by step.

Ah... I accidentally said so much.

However, maybe I am such a person. Apart from my own family, when I really talk to others face to face, I always have nothing to say, I look like a dull look. However, once I am left alone, or when talking to strangers through the Internet, although I will not become a talkative person immediately, I can at least have ordinary conversations like ordinary people.

In the past year, except for talking to my sister a few times and on the phone with my parents a few times, I have almost never talked to others again.

So, for me, the most important tool, and the only valuable thing in this hut, is that computer.

I have been saving money for this computer for a long time.

However, this computer did not disappoint my expectations for it at all. After a year of self-study and exploration, I obtained official recognition for a small plug-in made by an instant messaging software and entered the electronic supermarket. Although there are very few people who use it in a single way because of the simple function, it can at least solve the pressure of rent.

After putting the food I had been holding in my hand in the refrigerator, I came to the computer and pressed the power button to start the computer.

After booting up, I first turned on ue(um

ella_ente

tainments) company home page.

"The time for the official operation has finally been announced..."

After waiting for a month, ue company finally announced the official operation time! And it's tomorrow! This is really great!

Tomorrow will be a good day worth remembering!

I looked at the calendar on the computer desktop again, July 9, 2125 AD.

In other words, tomorrow, July 10, 2125 AD, human beings will usher in another world. A world that could only exist in people's imagination or cold words, a world full of fantasy.

Sky

im_a

ts_online—"Skyline".

"Another world" - this is not a metaphor, but as it literally means.

Through umlink - the thing in my hand that looks like a covered helmet worn by ancient soldiers, I can access a game operated by UE Company through the wireless network system that has covered the entire earth.

im_a

ts_online "Skyline". This game is a virtual reality game that humans have been looking forward to since at least a hundred years ago.

Multiple electric fields are generated by countless signal originals buried in the umlink machine, which are directly connected to the user's brain. It is not through sensory organs such as eyes or ears, but directly transmits virtual five-feeling information to the brain to generate virtual space. At the same time, by recycling electronic signals sent by the brain to the body, even if various movements are performed in the virtual space, the body in the real world will not make corresponding actions, which leads to some embarrassing problems.

However, perhaps in order to lose everyone's appetite, UE Company did not release any actual operational pictures inside the game, but only had one slogan - "Everything is up to you to choose."

So, in front of the expensive umlink - or just called the game helmet - some people chose to temporarily retreat and wait and see.

If I had not been lucky enough to become a member of the closed beta three months ago and felt the charm of another world a few months in advance, I would have chosen to wait and see for a while.

But now I can't wait for tomorrow to arrive.

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