Assault Game!

What is going on?

“Neh, Kiragi... Have you seen this new game? It's killer!”

“Oi Oi, who says that nowadays? ‘killer'. What's the name of the game?”

“huh? Hehe, so that you can go and play it when I leave? Am not telling!”

“Pei! I won't bother wasting my precious time to play your f*****g offline game.

Assassin shooter? Flying Boy? Light fight? ( names made out of my imagination, not related to any game in real life)

They're all second-rated. Why would I waste my time with them.”

“You, how can you hurt someone with that straight face of yours. jeez. Both of us are in the same boat, if not because we can't get enough money to play those killer VR games in those killer Arcades, we would've been known worldwide as the Killer brothers. Every boy 12 to 27 years out there would even become slaves to get our tools.”

“... Get off your horse. we don't have that money. Dreaming about it won't fix that. And are you going to tell me the name of the game?”

“Nah, are you going to strangle it out from my voice box? You can't be that killer”

“J-Just say anything else, than Killer. Sick, damned, bleh... All can work. Hell, even f**k! can be the better exclamation. Don't you get it, killer is old school—”

“As if I care about those sick fuckers. I f*****g say what I want”

‘You changed your wordings quickly.’

“Kiragi, what would you do if you wake one morning, and see hundreds of millions of dollars. T-the papers w-would be so much they'll be everywhere!”

“I don't know... I'll live better I guess?”

“Just that? Pei! If I have that much money, I'll live life, I'll f*****g be a killer!

Boy, don't you dream?”

‘Dream, pei! Dreams don't add s**t to reality.

What do I want?’

“Kiragi, what do you want?”

‘What do I want?'

“I want... I don't know what I f*****g want!”

My blurry eyes sharpened up in a flash.

The letter was in my hand, but because I had unconsciously clenched my hands recalling old times, it was folded to a crumb.

‘If there's a well that can grant one wish, I don't know what I would choose.

Money, eternity, power, women?... Lacking, these are all lacking.

Haha! It'll be a contradiction, but if I have one wish,

Then it'll be to tell me what I want. What I can really die to get, what I would find the perfect satisfaction as I reach the peak... And it stays.

That's what I f*****g want!

I raise my eyes to the digital watch.

My next choice would decide my fate. But even as I stared at the watch, my mind was made up. I fight off the feeling of unease by listening to the reasons perking up in my head.

‘I don't know what it's like outside. The board would've shared my entire fortune as they would a birthday cake.

Although I can get it back, at least 40% of the company would be gone by then. They could sell off the shares and give up the most stupidest reason like funding the authorities to look for me.

And in the end, am all alone. I can easily cut off my previous life and start a new one... And no one would care.’

The letter did not start a new conversation. Could it be because I folded it?

I grab the wristwatch and unceremoniously wear it.

Am not a pessimist. But at least I'll try not to regret my decisions.

Besides, the first level of the game was intense. My blood boiled just recalling the simulation in my head. Along with creating new scenarios.

My cold feeling washed over me when I drape the watch over my wrist.

It was cold to touch. And it looked ancient, yet more intricate than any modern technology as if it was created for the far multiverse.

Something was on the watch, it was another paper, it was folded till it took the length of a child's toe and it was stamped on the watch, like the tag of a new product.

I was curious about this. As soon as I brought the paper out, a feeling of anticipation, at the same time anxiety shook me to my core.

The same with a student walking to check his results on the exam board.

Somehow I knew what was written on the paper.

“Now, now. Do not forget what you are. Jailbirds, Convicts... Slaves. A chance is before you, grasp it and you can change your eternity, fail... Don't fail, you can not afford to fail.

...

You'll be told what your special abilities are,

Use the next hour after you wake to familiarise yourself with your abilities... Your Admin would take his leave.”

“After we wake? What is the meaning of this—”

This was obviously it. Having a good ability is like being born with a golden spoon in your mouth. It was great to have a good head start.

I wonder what my ability is, high, of low...

I flipped open the slip and see my name written with red dripping ink, followed with four words.

I flipped open the slip and see my name written with red dripping ink, followed by Six words.

[ Kiragi Tetta Lancet

Ability: Perfect Energy Blackbody

Class: A+

]

“f**k!”

Disappointment flashed on my face and stayed for an entire minute. Could it be that I would have to latch me on people like real parasites? to gain energy?

Or their innards?

I shake visibly.

A blackbody is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence. The name "black body" is given to it because it absorbs all colors of light. { Full meaning from Wiki.]

But if this is my special power, then this isn't all there is to it.

For one, the additional ‘Energy’ added there makes it open for discussion. What should I be absorbing, and what should I be emitting?

“Aish, all these questions would not be answered by mulling about it this way. f*****g Dorian says we have less than an hour to familiarise ourselves with our powers. That on its own, is a test. And sure, there will be someone willing to talk to me if I ask?

So everyone is left on his own here.

I rack my brains, but only hypothetical knowledge grows in my mind. I had no experience with any of these. ‘The game begins... How far can you go this time huh?’

I caught these words in the previous letter from the corner of my eyes. The letter turned into ash the next instant, making me doubt what I saw. But I was sure it drew a laughing emoji in that split second.

“ Every man for himself and let the devil take the hindmost.

This time, the devil is real. It just smiled at me”

I fail to hide my anticipating smile. In this game, two can play!

I sit with my legs crossed and my arms placed on my legs. My fingers were entwined with those of the other hand while I close my eyes and try to enter ‘the flow’

First, my chaotic mind must know peace.

This sitting meditation was a type of asana, the Siddh—asana.

There were different types of Asana, with multiple effects;

. Paschimottanasana stokes up the digestive fire, slims the belly and gives good health"; Shavasana "takes away fatigue and relaxes the mind" while Padmasana "destroys all diseases"

But the Siddhasana "bursts open the door to liberation” It was for mental and spiritual growth.

I found myself interested in calm and serenity a while ago and took up this study.

Though most of their benefits were said to be the hypothesis of the old. This was the only thing I could think of, that is of course, apart from drugs.

I sit like this for minutes. I've managed to clear my mind to turn it too murky darkness, yet I don't know what kind of enlightenment I could get, I stay that way for some minutes, singing 'Blackbody,' and not 'normal energy’

At last! Several insights were flawed in my mind.

I seemed to be very close to grasping the meaning, but my quiet abode suddenly turned noisy.

I look as the door is opened.