nothing has changed in the end.

Both people sleeping in the alley remained immobile as if there were no life in their bodies.

"Hello?"

as I stood up and decided to go over to see if both people were okay, but I got a lump in my throat when I found that these people were pale, dead and abandoned in a dirty, wet alley.

My forehead began to sweat and my hands began to shake. It was the first time in my life that I had encountered dead bodies.

"Calm down, calm down."

I tried to calm down and think with a cold head, but a sound distracted me, footsteps. On both sides of the alley, I could see people walking around as if nothing was happening, or possibly no one knew two dead people were lying around.

I slowly stepped back, step by step, away from the bodies and out of the alley, only to be blinded by the sunlight which shone on my bare face.

"Damn, that's brilliant."

I covered my face with my forearm trying to regain my vision.

"Look, mother. A jester."

The voice of a child suddenly made me freeze, time stopped and when I removed my forearm from my face I could see it. A chubby child with extremely ridiculous clothes and a woman with an umbrella and exotic clothes.

[Young Nobleman Level 11]

"L-Level?"

My voice mumbled unintentionally and I felt a sudden pain in my leg, the boy had kicked me with the tip of his shoe and after that, another little message appeared.

[You have been attacked by young nobleman]

[You have suffered 3 points of damage]

"au... what the hell is going on?"

I continued to mumble, but again I had forgotten about the boy who brazenly kicked my leg again.

[You have been attacked by young nobleman]

[You have suffered 2 points of damage]

"Hey. Stupid jester, dance for me and my mother."

Without warning, I hit the child with the back of my palm, pushing him aside and placing my mask on my face.

"You fucking brat, you're pissing me off."

My old self had come to the fore. I knew it, nothing had changed.

I took the child from his clothes and from my back, I pulled out a dagger that looked horrible, the curved edge was broken and the blade emanated a strange red cloud.

"Kick me again and I'll be sure to draw you a permanent smile, you little piece of shit."

I thought I had changed, but I was still the same, easy to provoke, and even easier to blow up.

"Let go of my child, you cheap son of a whore!"

The child's mother insulted me and in a vain attempt she came at me and took my arm trying to force me to let go, but it was no use. my strength was greater and she could do nothing.

At the same time, a crowd of people was gathering to watch what was happening until someone finally used his head.

"Guards, an assault, a woman and her child are being assaulted!"

The crowd of people quickly dispersed and others approached, wearing metal armor. Carrying shields and swords, one of them stood out above the others, wearing a blue feather on his helmet.

"Release the child and we will show mercy to you."

The guy in the armor said, assuring me that they would be merciful to me, I was always difficult to calm down, and to top it off the situation was getting worse every second.

[You have been attacked by young nobleman]

[You have suffered 13 points of damage]

The fatty in my momentary distraction kicked me in the stomach causing a small amount of damage, the damage value was small, but my mood finally reached its limit.

"You fucking midget, I'll gut you like a fucking pig."

My patience had run out with that last kick and for a second, I was blindly about to put the knife into the boy's stomach, but I was stopped in time.

an arrow suddenly pierced my shoulder and stuck in the ground behind me, which indicated that the arrow came from someone who was on the rooftops.

[You've received 899 damage]

"What the hell?"

I looked at the roofs. I looked for the person in charge and I saw him, a girl, but he was different from the others.

[Sarah_Lionhearth Level 791]

One player's name and even worse, her level was high.

"Everyone stay away, I'm afraid that person is not someone you can handle."

The soldiers retreated slowly, but without breaking the formation of shields that they had made. The girl, or in this case "Player", disappeared from the roofs and appeared in front of me, pointing her sword in my face.

" Release the child and throw your weapon, you have no chance of escaping, let alone fighting everyone here."

His voice sounded confident, his level was high, but mine was much more. I blatantly pointed my dagger upwards.

"Take a good look, honey, do I look weak to you?"

The girl moved her eyes following the dagger and they opened in surprise and her face changed its expression.

"You're ART The Jester!?"

She said my name, my character's name. The soldiers at the same time dropped their weapons and shields and ran away.

"Run!"

"I don't want to die, not like this!"

Let's get out of here, I don't get paid enough for this!"

Soldiers flew from the scene, forgetting the idea of saving the child, the mother on the other hand. Now she was on the ground kneeling, hanging on my leg, crying, and begging for her son's life to be spared.

"I surrender, please don't kill me."

The girl who was so confident of catching me a few seconds ago and right now she was standing in front of me with both hands up and her weapons on the ground, begging me not to kill her.

"What kind of stupid trick is this?"

I asked. I didn't know what was going on, but I wouldn't let a spoiled dwarf kick me around.

I pointed my dagger at the girl and threw the boy aside, the mother and boy took advantage of that moment to run away.

"Explain to me what the hell is going on. Now, where are we, what is all this and why do these NPCs look so real?!"

she looked me in the eye.

"A month ago everyone who was playing DragonArcus, disappeared one after another and then we found ourselves here, in DragonArcus, but real."

I kept pointing my dagger at her so she wouldn't try anything funny or give herself an idea to try and stop me.

"I don't believe you for shit, that's impossible."

I didn't want to believe it, but everything was real, the people, she and I. Everything was real, but even my head couldn't take it in.

"You'd better go, before you're forced to shed innocent blood, the royal guards are fighting to the death and are level 800."

She told me with the intention of helping me, or rather with the intention of preventing me from killing innocent people.

"Use a wild stone and go, I know you must have many of those."

A savage rock. A rock infused with magic which could teleport you to a random place or a place that was in your mind, many used them to try to transport their character to certain meeting places.

"and if I don't want to, what will they do?"

I couldn't control myself, my anger was enough and I let the fat boy escape, but I also couldn't risk being killed by soldiers from an unknown kingdom in an unknown world.

"You saved yourself this time, next time you won't be so lucky."

At that moment I realized that nothing had changed in me, absolutely nothing, I thought I had, but it wasn't like that.

I lowered my head, I was disappointed to discover that and I used one of the wild stones to escape, to escape to the only place I considered home in DragonArcus.