1 Prologue: "Tired of Life"

Riku woke up to his alarm, groaning a bit as he turned it off. He sat up in his bed and stretched, yawning. He went through his everyday routine as he got ready for school; he ate breakfast, brushed his teeth, fixed his hair, applying deodorant, and changing into his school uniform. He then left and headed to school. Riku was your average, everyday, introverted loner; pale, skinny, and bags under his eyes. He had messy dark brown hair and deep green eyes. Riku lived in a studio apartment that had an otakuish vibe to it. He had a couple posters, a PC, and a small bookshelf with some manga in it, but nothing too crazy to signify his love for anime and video games.

Nothing too interesting happened at school; just another boring day of learning before he returned home and took his shoes off, setting them aside on the floor by the door neatly. He then did a few chores; laundry, vacuuming, etc. Afterwards, he walked into the bathroom and took a shower. He changed into a white t-shirt and basketball shorts after he finished drying off and whatnot, which is what he usually wore at home. After he finished getting dressed, he made dinner in his small kitchen. The meal was small; a homemade cheeseburger with a side of vegetables and rice so he wasn't too unhealthy, and bottled tea to drink.

After that, he walked over to his "bedroom area" to play video games and watch anime. Several hours passed and he soon turned off his PC as he saw how late it was getting. Afterward, he plopped down onto his bed, grabbing his phone and just messing around on it for a few minutes before setting it aside on his bedside drawer. He sighed softly, staring at the ceiling. Suddenly, he let out a heavily annoyed groan and began rolling around repeatedly on his bed until his blanket wrapped around him like a burrito. "Every day is the same here... It's so boring and uneventful. Nothing interesting ever happens. I'm so tired of having to go through the same shit every single damn day..."

He unwrapped himself and stood up, going to turn off the lights in his studio apartment. "It's just...so boring and troublesome..." He then flipped the light switches on the wall by the door, turning off the lights, and walked back to his bed, covering himself with his sheets and blankets and going to sleep.

The next morning, Riku woke up the same way as before. However, he was wearing a white sleeveless shirt now and his body was more muscular. Riku blinked a few times and rubbed his eyes, looking around the room "...Huh..?" He sat in bed, confused as he looked around, his vision slowly clearing. He realized he was in a room that looked nothing like his. Sure, the setup was the same, but there were a few weapons on the walls and the posters were holographic. His bed looked completely different, not to mention it was floating and the outline of the bed was metallic instead of just wooden, having a light blue glow under it. He assumed the light blue glow was from the power source of whatever was making the bed float. Lastly, all of his technology looked much more advanced, including the entire room itself, though it had a sort of cabin-like vibe to it. There were goggles on the bedside drawer where his phone should've been as well, and he looked outside the window of the room to see he was in the middle of a thick forest. He pinched himself, rubbing his eyes and blinking a few times to see if this was reality. "Well...if I'm not dreaming...then where the hell am I?!"