Prologue

[Today's Dreams are Tomorrow's Reality.]

[When humans dreamed about crossing the sea, caravels were created.]

[When humans dreamed about flying in the sky, planes were created.]

[When humans dreamed about exploring space, rockets were created.]

[When humans dreamed about conquering new worlds, spacestations were created.]

[In a World dominated by Science and Steel a new dream is brought to the drawing board.]

[Legend of the Star's Hero II, release this Winter holyday!]

The outdoor above the game's store showed repeatedly advertises of the games in pre-release atracting the attention of the gamers passing by.

Legend of the Star's Hero.

A strategy game with dating sim elements that was popular since it's release 5 years ago.

The game's story followed the life of a nameless teenager who would became Humanity's strongest Hero and led the Humanity forces to defeat the Allien threats and unite the galaxy as one.

The game has multiple paths and each choice the player made would heavily influence the story's progression, changing who lived, who died, what happened and even the final boss. The player could also date eight beautiful girls, marry them and make a family, build an army of customizable mechs, research new equipments, discover secrets and lore in each battle map that would unlock new options on the dialogues enabling new routes in the story and pet the head of the protagonist's little kitty in the end of the day.

Due to all this and more Marcos Bosano, a.k.a. Mark, loved this game so much and had played it for more than two thousands hours.

Today Mark was excited! Not only the sequel that had been announced a year ago had finally entered pre-release stage and would soon be released but a secret path no one had taken before was also leaked by the dev team on the official forum! This meant not only he had something to wait in the near future, he also had something to do right now!

"This must be a dream!!! Who would have thought!? After 2000 hours of gameplay this game still had secrets to be found!!! I can't wait to get home and play! But I have to admit, the developers are quite sadists to make a secret route where you got to put all characters in a predetermined formation and pass 5 turns waiting right before the Final Boss! How the hell would anyone guess this at all!?"

As Mark walked at a fast speed, exiting the highschool and heading home, he crossed the street and after passing by the liquor store he suddenly dumped into a drunk guy who was exiting the alley. The collision made the old man's vodka spill all over his pants, making it look like he pissed himself.

"F**** brat! Look at what you have done! How are you going to pay for this!?"

Mark wished to laugh but couldn't help but frown a bit feeling the smelly vodka breath coming out of the guy's mouth, and because he wanted to go home as fast as possible he decided it was better to just honestly apologized and get over with this.

"I am terribly sorry sir. Please accept this money as compensation."

Taking out his wallet, Mark took out all his money and offered the drunk man. Because Mark was a student, he didn't have a lot of money, so all his money added together were merely twenty bucks, which may have contributed in angering the man even more.

"You think I'm a homeless!? You dare to look down on me!?"

The smelly truck driver didn't hold back and punched Mark on the face with all his strength.

(What the hell!? This guy actually punched me!?)

Felling the punch on his face, Mark's mind dazed a little and he was unable to defend himself as the drunk guy started attacking again!

"Just because a little shit like you jumped in front of my truck now I lost my job!"

Holding Mark's shirt to not allow him to get away, the drunk guy punched Mark on the face one more time.

"Not only that but my truck is also damaged, I have to pay restitution to the boy's family and I have no way to make money anymore!"

And as if confirming his phrases, another punch followed after each phrase he said.

"But this is not the worst of all! No, not even close! Yeah, the worst of all is this!"

Finally Mark's shirt couldn't resist any longer and was teared appart making Mark fall against the wall.

"Look! Everybody look at me with these eyes! As if I'm crazy!!!"

But the drunk guy didn't stop and started kicking Mark's head against the wall.

"I am not crazy! I AM NOT CRAZY! IT'S THIS WORLD THAT IS CRAZY!!!"

By this time the people who were walking by had already called the police but no one dared to put themselves in the way to defend the boy being beaten up by the crazy drunkard. They just watched with terrified eyes as blood was spread all around the place.

"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO JUDGE ME!? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?"

Mark couldn't answer. No, he couldn't even understand. One second he was happily walking home to have fun, on the next punches and kicks were raining on him for reasons he still didn't know why, and finally when the police sirens appeared the drunk guy stopped beating him, but then it was too late, the world that was covered in red started turning black and all sound and pain disappeared until nothing was left.

At that night the incident was quickly announced as a single phrase among many other news. Being no one important nor known in the society, the incident didn't have big repercussions and Mark was soon forgotten by everybody but his family and close friends.

And so the World continued, time kept flowing, and humanity continued to advance without a single change.