Chapter 1: Absurd Reality (1)

[ "One Garden and one window, they're all B site." ]

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[ "FUCKING- Chamber has Ult on Garden, careful." ]

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[ "Oh shi-! There's one behind, one behind! Nice one! Two more left!" ]

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[ "Sheeeeeessshhhh!!! ACE!" ]

— "Me go Reyna, me swing..." —

[ "Fuck hahahaha! This bot shouldn't be allowed, he's too stronk! Wahahaha!" ]

Hearing the guy on the comms, I couldn't help but laugh out.

*Phone Rings "Yo phone linging, yo phone linging!*

I suppressed my laughter and took my phone from my pocket. Looking at the screen, I saw who was calling and immediately sighed.

"Hello?"

[ "Where are you?" ]

"I'm going home in a bit pops, I just-"

[ "If you won't go home tonight Drix, say so and I'll lock the door. If you wanna stay in wherever you are right now, do go on and humor me." ]

"I'll co-"

*Beep Beep*

I looked at the phone and sighed. He didn't even let me finish what I was saying. And based on his tone, it seemed like he'll have to spend the night awake.

Glancing at the screen that showed that we won the match, I felt empty even though I finally reached Platinum 3 after being stuck on Silver for a year.

I stretched my arms and yawned before looking around the shop. The VIP lounge, which is the place I'm currently at, is currently empty with only me here.

Looking at the time, I saw that it was still quite early and still an hour before midnight. Feeling a little hungry, I ordered three cans M*nster and some cup noodles from the counter using the shop's customer service on the PC.

Before long, my spicy beef flavored cup noodles and M*nster arrived. I opened the can of M*nster and took a swig of the drink, letting out a satisfied exhale after the drink.

Opening Youtube, I went to watch some Youtube Shorts while eating my meal. Not gonna lie though, it is pretty weird to watch shorts on a computer monitor.

After a bit of scrolling, I came across one of those JoeVite youtube shorts that asks people questions.

[ "While you were scrolling on Youtube shorts, you saw an ad pop up on your screen. It says that it can make the following come happen but as you know from my past vids, there's a catch. ]

[ "The first one is that you can reincarnate as any character in a world you choose be it game, anime, movie or books. You will still retain your memories. But the character you will be is random." ]

[ "The second one is that you will go a thousand years into the future. But you will come back to the present in 3 months." ]

[ "The third and last one is you will go back to the past. You can choose to go back anytime you choose but the time can't exceed the time when you were 1 year old." ]

[ "Now, which will you choose?" ]

"Welp, this is a no brainer. Of course most would choose to be reincarnated."

He looked at the comments and saw that it was indeed like that. Some of them even cleverly chose to go to the future with intention to steal tech of the future as their argument. Though oddly enough, she saw no one choose the third one.

He then whimsically typed what he thought about the advantages of option three and posted it in the comments. He kinda wanted to be unique so he wrote something different from the majority of the comments hence why he chose option three.

[ "Going back to the year 2015 would be damn good. With my future knowledge, I can write stories, songs and draw mangas that doesn't exist yet. At that time, there's also no COVID yet and I can profit off of my future knowledge of the COVID by leaking the COVID vaccine formula. I can also use recent research papers and discoveries and be hailed as a prodigious genius due to them. That'd be awesome as heck." ]

After posting his comment, he scrolled down and took a swig of his drink as he continued watching Youtube Shorts. Just as he scrolled to the third video, an ad popped up on the screen. Oddly enough, it looked exactly the same as what JoeVite talked about.

Passing it off as a Youtube promotion ad, he chose option three immediately and continued scrolling down.

A few hours of watching Youtube shorts and Millie playing Lethal Company, he let out a yawn as he looked at the time.

"Oh, its now 2 AM."

He then closed Youtube and opened Facebook to look at the Group Chat if anyone is awake.

[ Verz (The One Who Rots): Yo anyone awake? ]

[ Tycia (The One Who Grips) replied to The One Who Rots: Just me. ]

[ Verz (The One Who Rots): I see... you're currently grinding in the Minecraft Realm? ]

[ Tycia (The One Who Grips): Yeh, I'm at the nether. ]

[ Verz (The One Who Rots): My bad Atycia. I've not been able to join the realm for days now. I'm just a bit busy. ]

[ Tycia (The One Who Grips): Nah, its alr ]

[ Verz (The One Who Rots): I'll play with you later after I wake up. I need to sleep. I haven't been able to sleep for three days and my brain is rotting at an even faster pace. GN ]

[ Tycia (The One Who Grips): Night Verz ]

Closing the Facebook tab, he then opened his Spotify account and played his vocaloid playlist with Miku's song in the beginning.

[ Anamanaguchi — Miku ft. Hatsune Miku ]

With that, he slept. Not knowing that after opening his eyes again... his life will take a different turn.

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Author Notes: Hello everyone, I am Verz and has been on hiatus for over two months I think. I am writing all my ongoing works along with this novel which was supposed to have been released in January 10 but I refrained to do so because I thought I can do better. Now according to what I planned, I was supposed to release this chapter in summer month of April along with stable chapter upload. But I will release this first chapter in advance due to a friend who asked me so yeah, but I have to clarify that no I won't be posting any chapters aside from chapter 1 for this novel till April. That's all thank you nyahahaha.