Being Sent to the Shadow Realm and Forced to Experience the Multiverse

"...And now, AA-Zeus attacks you directly." My opponent declares.

Luckily, I managed to negate his Zeus effects, meaning he is just a 3000 attack beat-stick, however I also only have 5000 life points left, so that will still hurt, but I do have enough steam to turn this around.

While thinking that maybe there was a chance for me to make a comeback, I noticed the small smile on my opponent's face.

'He has something, huh.' I start thinking about what kind of card he has in his hand, but I immediately give up. I don't even know what he is playing; all the cards he played until now felt like a completely random assortment of cards that somehow worked.

It doesn't help that it also stopped my board from developing; even if all I'm playing is a non-meta Aromage deck, it doesn't feel good to lose to something like this. As my thoughts go that way, the person in front of me plays his card on the table.

"On the damage step, I activate Limiter Removal, and that's game."

. Yeah, that's game.

.. I don't have anything to stop it.

... But a single question remains.

Closing my eyes, I scream (in my mind).

'WHY DO YOU PLAY THAT?!?!'

Limiter Removal is completely a fine card to be played IF you play any machine deck, and a machine deck is not what he played; in fact, the only machine he summoned was Zeus, which means that card is a brick 98% of the time!

'And I obviously hit the 2% on the nail, seriously, today is just not my day; maybe I should just cut my losses and go back now; this is my only day off in forever, and using it to get my ass kicked is not the good time I wanted; maybe watch some anime even if I will definitely not have the time to finish it.'

The place I work is what one would call a black company. The fact I even got this time off for myself is already a miracle, but anyone who can escape through a day off, the moment they come back, will be expected to work twice as hard and twice as fast as normal. I definitely am not looking forward to that.

While contemplating my life, I hear someone asking, "Are you okay?"...Oh yeah, I was playing.

"Sorry about that; I was... thinking."

"No worries, do you have a response to Limiter Removal?"

"...No, I don't, and also no to the attack." I sigh. Well, let's just end this and go back home.

But I never did.

And no one remembers.

because the moment my next words are said, 'I' stopped existing.

"I lost."

And the world goes black.

There's no pain. No noise. No sense of self.

Just a quiet pressure in my chest where something used to be.

My name? Gone. My memories? Gone.

I try to scream, but there's no mouth to scream from.

Then—

DING.

A floating window appears in front of me. The words are calm. Too calm.

[Welcome, traveler. You are between worl----. Please remain still while your soul stabilizes.]

'What the hell is this? Who's talking to me?'

I try to talk, but no voice comes out. What is going on?!

[Your current state is a result of erasure protocol----. You are now unlinked from your native reality.]

'It heard me..? Hey, tell me what is going on?'

[Your current state is a result of a erasure protocol pre-reincarnation that went wrong... You are now unlinked from your native reality.]

'I don't understand. Am I dead?'

[No. You are now a Variab--- A displaced node within multiversal continuity.]

Words that are hard to understand stay written in front of me, without even knowing why, I knew this wasn't an end, but a beginning.

[Full syncronization complete. Initialization complete. Orientation begins now.]

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A/N: Rewrote the ending of the chapter lol