( Emilia's POV )
I always thought that there is nothing special about me, my life was plain and simple, and that was fine with me, going to school, and spending time with my friends, I thought that my life would not change much over the years but on a day like any other my life changed and it would never return to normal.
Yoshioka is someone who lived in the same apartment building as me when we were kids and at that time I was always following him around everywhere, When he grew up he formed a pretty famous band and my friends practically begged me to introduce him to them.
At first, I didn't want to do it, we weren't that close anymore and that sounded like a bother but in the end I gave in, my friends accompanied Yoshioka to his apartment without me because I had to go home first but when I met up with them I was horrified, my friends were drugged and raped by Yoshioka and the other members of his band, he wanted to do the same to me but I hit him in the face and I managed to escape, I called the police and Yoshioka and his companions were arrested but after that, I didn't have any friends, they moved to other schools and everyone around me treated me as if I was responsible for all that and they even said that I had taken them there for that, I rarely went to school anymore and since that incident, I always carried a stun gun with me.
Being all day in my room I didn't know what to do and one day I remembered something that I had talked about with old friends before the incident, BTOOOM is an online game that was becoming quite popular and I thought it would be fun to play together, but when I started playing they weren't there, I was alone even here.
???: hi there, are you busy?
While I was feeling sorry for myself a player approached me, when I looked at him a transparent plate appeared next to his head showing the name he was using in the game, Yuuki.
Emilia: excuse me? Are you talking to me?
Yuuki: Yes, I need one more person for my team, are you interested?
Emilia: sorry I'm new to this game I don't think I'll be much help
Yuuki: So do we, I think you'll fit right in.
He extends his hand to me and I take it almost instinctively but I stop myself at the last second, while his hand was still outstretched two other players named Matsu and Chiho appeared behind him and I momentarily remembered my old friends and I took his hand.
Yuuki: Welcome to the team, Himiko.
Himiko was the name I was using in the game, my real name is Emilia and Himiko was the nickname my friends used to call me.
Yuuki: Matsu, did you find him?
Matsu: Yes, he is online right now.
In this game, you can play against a team through a challenge and although they said they were new players, they already had a specific team they wanted to play against.
Our team was the Sekirei team and we were going to compete against the team Sakamoto, the name seemed familiar to me so I asked why they chose to play against that team.
Yuuki: huh? Because they are the best team in Japan, we have to play against them.
I looked at him for several seconds and I knew he wasn't kidding.
Emilia: No, please don't answer as if that makes sense.
Matsu: Yuu-tan likes to go at her own pace, don't worry you get used to it quickly.
We played many games against them and after each game, I was less surprised with the result each time, we won again and again, and quickly my image of Yuuki was that of someone who could not lose.
As fast as he appeared and he was gone, that day I kept thinking about the strange but interesting meeting with Yuuki, and the next day I logged in at the same time, in the same place, I was receiving several looks for what had happened the day before and after a few minutes, Yuuki appeared again.
How the day before we played several games together and Yuuki never lost, but this time we had more chances to talk, that became my routine and every day I felt closer to them, I had friends again and in this world, I was not afraid of losing them.
One day an event occurred that caught Yuuki's attention and he wanted to try it, Yuuki is like that, when he thinks of something new or he finds it interesting, he immediately wants to do it, that's a bit childish of him but I can't help but smile every time he does something like that, the event in question was a wedding, in the game of BTOOOM two players can participate in a marriage ceremony you just need a ring, that doesn't change anything in the game but still Yuuki wanted to try it, that day Matsu was not with us but still Yuuki got two rings, I sometimes suspected that the three of them were dating in real life but since we don't talk much about that kind of thing I wasn't sure, I thought that he would give them to Matsu and Chiho but no, one was for Chiho and the other was for me, Yuuki asked me to marry him and I felt happy, as I said that didn't change anything in the game and Yuuki didn't think much of it but for me that meant so much, since I entered this world I was recovering what had been taken from me and a thought was growing little by little inside my head.
' maybe we could meet in real life '
But before that thought can go anywhere, everything was taken from me again, One day I met one of my old friends and she told me that I should disappear, Before the accident, she had received a letter that said that if you wrote the name of someone who bothers you, he would disappear and you would even receive money, she spoke to me again only to tell me that she had written my name in it.
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I don't remember how it happened but after what my old friend told me I woke up on a cargo plane with other people where a strange guy explained that we were about to participate in a death game, I checked my body and at least I still had my stun gun and cell phone and that gave me some comfort.
We all got a parachute and bombs to kill each other and everyone was scared or confused by the situation except for one person, A boy with long silver hair walked up to the open hatch of the plane and jumped like it was nothing, his face showing only determination and purpose.
Shortly after all the other participants were forcibly pushed out of the plane and I closed my eyes until I landed on a beach.
I did not know what to do and I felt quite tired, I leaned against a palm tree to rest a little and without realizing it I fell asleep only to be woken up by a group of three men,
I was on guard but they said that we should work together to escape from the island and it didn't take long for them to realize that there was a way to escape and the tension between them grew, almost immediately a fight broke out between two of them with me caught in the crossfire when the guy wearing a bandana took me hostage, I used my stun gun to defend myself and I managed to escape his grip, the three of us were in a stalemate ready to attack until the last member of our impromptu team threw his backpack on the ground and yelled at us to stop, he said that we should put all the bombs in one place and he nominated me to watch them, the others agreed and I immediately knew why they chose me, It was because I am a woman, because they considered me the weakest.