"Hey... are you okay?" a young man's voice asked the young woman sitting with her knees hugged.
She was slightly startled when she saw him. In front of her was a young man wearing a rookie shirt. He extended his hand towards her, and their eyes met again.
"N-Nothing. I was just a little lost." She avoided his gaze and wiped her tears away so he wouldn't see.
"What do you want? Why are you following me? I already apologized to you."
"No, I just wanted to apologize to you for running into you earlier."
"I didn't see where I was going. I'll be going now. Sorry to bother you."
"Wait a minute. Did you come to this event to find a friend or a group?"
"No, I just…" Before she could answer, he spoke first.
"I'm looking for someone to teach and train me on how to use weapons. Our group is new, so I don't know much about the game. Even though I've tried learning from YouTube, I still don't understand it." He just realized he forgot to introduce himself.
"I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Moon. Nice to meet you. And you?" The young man in a new boy's outfit, with neat hair, his brown eyes sparkled as he talked to her.
"I… seriously, I think you should go find someone else. I'm not that good enough to teach you. I'll be logged out of the game now. Goodbye." She avoided his gaze and immediately logged out of the game.
"Then I'll send you a friend request. I'll message you when I'm ready if you want to..." Before he could finish his sentence, she had already left the game.
At the real world
At 9:50 p.m.
She woke up in bed. She took off her VR Headsets Virtual Gear and sat on the bed. Without delay, she opened her phone and clicked on the message box. There was one message sent to her. It said:
"Dear Ares, we would like to ask you to leave our group as we believe you are not ready to join our group…" Before she could finish reading, she immediately deleted the message.
"shit!!! I did my best, what more do you want?" She started to think to herself.
My name is Ares, I'm 23 years old, and I'm a Contestants in the finals' first beta code. I'm a medium, mostly support class. I used to have a group in-game, but now I don't, both in-game and out-of-game. I'm all alone, with no family, no friends, nothing, except this house my parents left me before they died of a terrible illness in the past.
Before she turned off her phone and went to sleep, she noticed a friend request sent to her. She remembered that a guy had messaged her and talked to her, but she could barely remember anything he said.
"Who the hell is this guy?" She sighed deeply and was about to delete it, but...
"Ha….Ha….Hachoo!!!!!!!!" She sneezed loudly throughout the room. She looked at her phone and was shocked. When she sneezed, she accidentally accepted his friend request. A few seconds later, he texted her.