Did I just die?

7th July, 2020.

03:45 A.M, Rawson, Chubut.

It was a cold and rainy night today, like one of those nights that I often love to just lay on my bed and read some novels or mangas. It was one of my most loved hobby's, as the peaceful atmosphere alongside the slight sound of rain outside was enough to make me find tranquility and peace.

However, today was slightly different, I've been playing six hours straight ranked games on my PC. Just yesterday I finally reached Diamond I in soloQ and in three hours I finalized my last promo game and reached Master rank.

"Good, what now?" I asked myself as I read 'Victory' in gold letters on my screen.

Since I started playing League of Legends, 4 years ago, I had proposed to reach the so-called High Elo. Reason? Nothing beyond self-satisfaction, just a need to fill my own vanity.

My life is not interesting, I can even find something worthy that can be highlighted, in many ways it can only be described as mediocre.

However, as mediocre as I could be, there's two things that I can at least salvage from all of this; the first one could be my physical appearance. In today's society many could say that this is a great virtue, or advantage, however you want to see it. But in my eighteen years of life, the only thing that It managed to give myself was more easiness when it comes to approaching to the opposite gender, and the occasional advantage when it comes to socializing.

But there's where the advantages end, while there is certain amount of people who exploit their physical appearance, in my opinion they do it in exchange for peace of mind and stability in their lives. Something that I personally would not be able to give up.

Here is my second quality, my philosophy of life. Yes, I have a mediocre life, yet I take pride in it. Without riches or extravagances I have peace and tranquility. Something that I very much consider is too preciated commodity in today's world.

While many are stressed about what to do with their lives, I am here enjoying every moment while listening to my favorite piece of music in the background while I finish reading a saga, novel or simply enjoying a game.

Thus, in a world where chaos and disorder reign, I found stability and calm.

Stability and tranquility, two things that I lacked throughout my life.

Because my parents both had me very young, one of them, my father, had to give up pursuing his university career to face his new challenge, being a father and supporting the three of us. While my mother could focus on pursue her college career so that she, at least, has the opportunity to improve our lives.

However, due to things in life, or unprotected relationships and youthful irresponsibility in my opinion, just two years after I was born, my family welcomed my little sister.

From then on, it was a constant struggle of my father and mother to be able to support us. Because my father didn't want us to be missing anything, we had to move through various cities during my childhood and early teenage years.

Because of this, I never had the stability to form friendly relationships with other children at my age.

Since I can remember, I became aware that everything around me was fleeting and I should take advantage of every moment, without having to become too fond of my surroundings.

As you might already imagine, this affected my ability to form deep and healthy social relationships. Although I was always interested in meeting people, since I was little, I began to prefer to focus on my own world, and if someone were interested in it, let them come in and enjoy it by my side.

This led to several difficult situations during my adolescence, in the school and family environment. Being so focused on my own person and world, many times I overlooked things that might not have complicated my life during that stage.

Misunderstandings and lack of interest, in that my life could be summarized until the end of last year.

Where after finishing high school and enjoying my last salary (without me knowing it) I decided to focus on what I like and let myself be carried away by life.

This led me to this point, where in the midst of a global pandemic I was able to find my rhythm of life, where I can finally be a little more satisfied with what I am doing, or so I've thinked.

Although at times it may seem empty, due to the lack of people with whom to enjoy small moments, I managed to be well.

However, now that I find myself in the middle of the night, staring at my screen monitor after finishing my last game, I have had a brief epiphany. A slip where I appreciated my life.

'Is this really what I want?' I couldn't help but wonder.

Life goes by, while I watch it go and do nothing to prevent it.

Young people at my age are heading towards bright futures, some succeeding in work, others in academics, more others in love and social.

Meanwhile, I'm sitting in my room. Alone. Playing LoL and with my last human interaction in real life being months ago (putting my family aside).

And although this does not bother me, since I feel calm with the life that I lead, I cannot help but think that it should not be like that. That my life shouldn't be so simple, empty and dull.

I'm supposed to be at the peak of my youth, that I should be partying, adventuring and enjoying love.

My goodness! At my age there it is already people starting families, being millionaires, changing the world. While the only thing I have achieved has been to get at Master rank with a Teemo troll with ignite, finish high school, and have part-time jobs.

As for love? My last relationship was a year ago, and although there were frictions and adventures in between, nothing was significant.

I couldn't help but feel that I am wasting my physical appearance. Although I am not an otherworldly handsome dude, with my sharp face, added to my icy blue eyes, sharp eyebrows, straight nose and full lips it is enough to have been considered for a couple of years, a very attractive young man. Even more so that I recently hit my last stretch, reaching 1.86 M.

As for my physical condition, in the last 3 years I did boxing and went to the gym, which gave me some muscle. Nothing out of this world, but that was enough to achieve a rather athletic and intimidating appearance.

All in all, I was quite the stud if you ask me, but my looks are wasted on me, as my personality make it hard for some people to bear with it.

Am I doing something wrong? Is the thing that I've been wondering.

Anyways, all this rumbling in my head has made me forget to introduce myself correctly, my name is Renzo, Renzo Berduc.

*ZING*

Oops, i guess the rest of my presentation has to wait, as I noticed that I found a match. I quickly pressed into accept button as I waited for the champ selection, quickly opening a tab into the navigator my op.gg page.

Minutes passed by as the match was about to start after finishing the champion selection and choosing the bans. Quickly I accommodate myself into a comfortable position. For this match I was going to play with Kayn in the jungle position. Although it was kinda boring for me to play this champ, I wasn't going to let an op champ to go into the enemy's hand.

As I was waiting for the game get loaded completely while humming a song in my head and cleaning my nails, I couldn't help but notice that it was taking it's time.

Raising my eyebrow I tried to click and open the administrator tab to see if the game froze or something, only to find that my computer wasn't responding and the loading screen was still on screen.

Now worried about if something happened with my PC, I tried to press some commands with my keyboard, without any result.

Frustrated, I pressed Ctrl + Alt + Tab quite hard once more, to continue without getting a response. Angry, I let out a sigh as I pushed the keyboard away with my left hand.

I closed my eyes briefly as I tried to calm myself by sighing and exhaling.

However once I opened my eyes I noticed that something was wrong. Instead of seeing my room in the dark and my PC, what was around me was lush vegetation and trees with vibrant colors.

In fact, instead of the rainy night outside of my room I noticed how there was a bright daylight while a blue sky is glimpsed between the lush treetops around me.

Holding my breath, I quickly looked around me again, 'What the ...' everywhere my eyes laid, all I could see was dense vegetation, bushes, flowers and a range of colors that I've never seen previously in my life. I quickly shook my head as I closed my eyes again and took a deep breath.

"Shit, I didn't think it would affect me so much being in front of the PC playing LoL. It's even making me hallucinate." I couldn't help but mutter under my breath as I let out a chuckle, I promised myself that after passing through this shit I would start a warning thread on Reddit about the dangers of playing LoL.

'It wasn't enough with destroying my social life and make me stressful, that now is sucking my soul and making me see things' I amused to myself.

However, after repeating the cycle of inhaling and exhaling several times, when I opened my eyes again, the scene around me was the same.

Frowning rapidly, I cautiously glanced at my surroundings as various theories of what was happening ran through my head.

The first one being that maybe I fell asleep trying to calm myself down. Although rare, it could have happened.

The second, that something throughout the night affected my senses, perhaps it was something that I have eaten or drunk, but that undoubtedly reduced my rational capacity, causing me to be hallucinating in the present.

The third, and last that I would like to take into account among other crazy things that go through my head, perhaps I died and this is the representation of paradise said by religions.

'If the latter is correct, it's a shame that I've died while the game started, I suppose that not even Riot will take into account that one player died while playing a ranked game, sorry pals, i didn't wanted to go afk' I thought to myself while I glanced at my surrounding.

To be completely honest, I was at lost in what to do. Just before closing my eyes I was in my room and now I am supposed to be in a forest?

Thinking until this, I shook my head and decided to enjoy the views. Walking around a little bit I stumbled a couple of times around various vines, bushes and other plants. I was just wearing sockets so, the slightly humid grass filled with rotten leaves and other fungus was starting to wet the fabrics and dirt them. Disgusted by the feeling on my feets I started to search for an open place.

'I hope I'm not hallucinating and waking around in a wet place outside our house, it would be a mess if I left prints on Mom's carpet when I return there. She would surely kill me' I couldn't help but think to myself as I was trying to locate a place or direct myself into a opening since the dense vegetation was making imposible for me to guide myself into a direction.

To be completely honest, I've never took survival clases or something like that, so I was completely lost in this forest. So yup, I spend what I thought it would be around thirty minutes walking around, maybe passing into some places that I've been previously, to be honest I couldn't even distinguish where I was, everything was the same and different at the same time so yup, I was lost.

Luckily for myself, I could still see the sun in the sky, so probably it was midday currently. In what place? I like to think about that maybe outside my house.

'I don't think that a joint could cause me this livid hallucination.' I thought, as I glanced around all over the place. 'I mean it was just some flowers, although they were a few months old since I buyed them, there's nothing wrong with it.'

I was starting to get tired for walking around and evading painful bushes and plants. Luckily I wasn't sweating too much or it would have been worse to myself.

After all, I hate heat.

Still, my mouth and throat started to feel dry after all this movement. Taking a few glances around me I was able to see various fruits from the various trees.

Quicky glancing around for a stick or branch long enough to reach them, I was able to found one and started the job of taking down a few for myself.

Although these fruits seemed a bit weird, I only thought to myself that maybe they were wild fruits.

Although some part of my was doubting about it.

*Thud* *Thud*

Two fruits fell to the ground as I quickly went over them and throw the large stick aside.

"What the hell?"I couldn't help but mutter to myself as I glanced over the fruits.

The two fruits that resembled somewhat with pears, although much bigger, were a light blue color. Not only that, but they have a S like pattern all around, with said pattern having being palpable due to its texture.

However, the surprise lasted just a fraction of a seconds as just one though came to my mind as I watched with open eyes the fruits in my hand.

"No way..." I muttered, while in my head just one word came to me 'Devil fruit'.

That's right, the two pears in my head were identical to the devil fruits from One Piece.

I closed my eyes and quickly breathed in.

'Okay, this gets weirder and weirder, it's almost like those dreams that are so random and so fro.' I thought to myself as I tried to cope with what was going on.

Opening my eyes, now a little bit more calm, I brought the fruit in my left hand near to my nose to smell it.

'Smells like pear and water' Though to myself.

Now with the fruit more close to my hand, I couldn't help but remember that in the manga and show was said that the taste of the fruit was terrible.

And you may be saying, 'hey man, you may have,not one, but two devil fruit in your hands, and the first thing going around your head is how it taste?'

Yes, because I'm thirsty and a little bit hungry at the moment, it may be a devil fruit but God damn knows that I took them down to quench my thirst and have something to eat for the moment.

But I'm not going to lie and say that I didn't though which kind of fruit it might be. To be honest I don't remember most fruits description from the manga nor how they look like from the show. The only one that I might remember would be the Mera Mera no mi, which have a weird shape and fire color.

However, the two in my hand not only have a pear shape, but a light blue colour with nothing that could give off what they might be. It could be a lightning one, water one, ice even. I don't, there's a lot of probabilities. Or maybe not, since I'm sure some idiot out there would be stupidly good enough with his memory to be able to tell which one these two baby's are.

"Well, without eating them I can't even know if they are actual devil fruits..." I said to myself as I quickly took a bite from one.

However, the next second I regretted said actions as a horrendous taste engulfed my mouth and throat.

Muffled sounds of disgust escaped from my lips, however I endured as the liquid from the fruit was able to quench the thirst. Even if it tasted like trash mixed liquid.

However the hardest part without a doubt was gulping down the fruit itself. Although it had a sandy texture like an actual pear, the taste and then the mass of bitten fruit was unbearable to gulp down.

Still, I was able to persevere and gulp down the entire thing, however I wasn't able to muster up my courage for the second one. 'This shit is horrible, damn man.' I thought to myself as I looked over the other fruit in my left hand, however I quickly frowned up and couldn't help but mutter "What the fuck?"

In my left hand, a white color pear was resting over, with light blue colour and S shapes around with nowhere to be found.

I quickly glanced over the tree I took them, only to find out that the entire tree, with the fruits and the leaves was quickly changing over a white colour. With questions marks over my head I was dumbfound watching over the whole tree changing it's colour.

"This is the weirdest dream I've ever had man..." I couldn't help but say under my breath.

However, quickly I frowned again as something new implanted over my head.

Gura Gura No Mi.

'No way!! There's no way man!!' Quickly my whole face changed as I thought over those words.

"Hahahaha I can't believe this! The freaking devil fruit of White Beard!" I laughed out loud while with both hands grabbed my head. Joy engulfing myself.

Even if this was a dream, wouldn't you be glad over eating White Beard devil's fruit?

It is said that this fruit enable it's user to be the human tremor, vibration, earthquake and the likes.

It wasn't clearly knowed, as detailed information was never given to the audience as what exactly the user capabilities reach off. However, everyone that watched the show knew one thing, this thing could create earthquakes in the air.

The science behind it was that the user was able to vibrate the air enough to be able to grasp it with it's hand. And then, with sheer strength move said vibrations to create violent rumbles in the user desired direction, creating pure destruction on its way.

Why the espectators were able to see the air shattering around the punches of Edward Newgate? I personally assume that the man was strong enough to vibrate so fast the air that it really solidified itself at such lengths.

If one thing I learned from One Piece, is that creativity is the only barrier that someone who ate a devil fruit could hold him off.

And luckily for me, I ate the strongest paramecia fruit

Quickly trying to copy the same white ball in my hand that White Beard used, I discovered something.

Not only the moment that I wanted to touch the air I was able to, but there wasn't any kind of light in it.

'So it must have been a practical visual work to make the viewers understand it's use.' I quickly though to myself.

With my hand still vibrating and touching the air, I tried to move a little bit.

*BRRMN*

A sudden pain quickly took over my whole hand, wrist and shoulder "AGH SHIT" With a groan I cursed to the air, as I felt like I tried to move something extremely heavy with brute force.

The unpleasant feeling didn't dissipate quickly after stopping using the devil fruit power.

Grabbing my hand and holding it tight, I sat on the grass to think carefully of my situation.

'To begin with, that amount of pain should have been enough to wake me up. Instead, I'm still here which means I have to face two probabilities.' I thought with a grim expression to myself.

'I ended up dying and reincarnating like those novels and animes, or worse, some kind of alien force have abducted me and put me into a shitty situation.'

Thinking more further into these options, I quickly tried to rationalize both options.

'For the first one, I haven't many any kind of God or something among those lines nor do I have some kind of power putting into my consciousness. Still, a strong argument at this one favor is the devil fruit I just ate, and the pain in my hand from trying to use it.' I carefully analyzed.

"The second one, there wasn't anything crazy in the recent days that wasn't the pandemic issue, still, since I was so absorbed during the days I couldn't really tell if something happened during the day that I probably missed, although the event with the computer is strongly probing this option to be possible.' Finally realizing that I didn't have anything to really further prove if any of the two was the right one, i decided to further investigate my surroundings.

As without to little information that I was currently with, I couldn't decide my course of action.

'My only hope is that I didn't end in some shitty world like those cultivation novel, I'm sure I'll die in those places.' I quickly though to myself.

Raising again on both feet's, I tried to look around in search for something.

'If there was this devil fruit, maybe around here should be more. Although unlikely, I won't hurt making sure of it' With that though in my head, I quickly started to look around for more strange looking fruits, with a few suspecting ones quickly falling to the ground after laying my eyes on them.

After a few minutes, under my feets there were at least, seven more highly suspecting devil fruits.

*Gulp*

With a heavy gulp and a knot on my stomach, I thought carefully in the implications of having seven devil fruits within my reach.

'This... is incredible, but still, why there's so many around here? I haven't heard of any island in one piece to have such amount of devil fruit reunited in one place, what's more, that after having eat them, their mother trees quickly showing such phenomena.' I rationalize.

Then something stuck in my head.

'I didn't search around where I first appear, what if the entire place is also filled with such amount of fruits?' I shuddered at the possibility.

With a heavy chance and possibility of being in One Piece world, if I take for granted that I'm currently there and I actually somehow ended up there, then this whole place could end up as my base.

'I could raise a crew or group strong enough with everyone being devil fruits user, this...' While thinking of this something quicky took my attention.

*Swoosh* *Swoosh*

Suddenly I heard a few sound around me, quickly taking glances at the side I heard the sounds. But I wasn't seeing anything. However my whole body tensed as it was ready to flee at the sight of a danger in front of me.

*THUD* *THUD* *THUD* the footsteps followed by the sound of branches and leaves crushing under it quickly approached to my position.

'Shit, shit, shit, shit' I cursed in my head as my whole body tensed up.

Unknown to me, at the moment my whole body was vibrating intensely, and it wasn't out of fear.

My heart was beating so fast and hard that I was able to hear it. Gulping down, I felt my lips drying as my eyes moved fast trying to catch a glimpse of whatever was lurking around.

"Huff... huff... huff.." With a ragged breath, the cause of such noises appeared in front of me.

Ragged clothes with a weird style that I've never seen before that were ruined due to the amount of grime, filth and fresh blood everywhere. There in front of me was an asian looking young man, a light brown hood was covering his hair while his face was stained with blood while a deep gushing cut could be seen around his left eye. His sullen lips were broken as he opened his mouth with his breath ragging.

However, something quickly took my attention around this man, his bloodshot eyes were wide open as a terrified expression was all over his face.

We both stayed paralyzed on our spots, as if the world was stopped at that moment.

As the second passed, I quickly recovered myself from the stun, however the moment I wanted to open my mouth and ask we both quickly looked over the same place, as the brushes moved aside and revealed five figures claved in heavy looking armor while grabbing axes, spears, and swords in their hands.

The moment I saw those figures I only thought one thing while a word escaped under my breath "...Shit..."

' I'm dead.'