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He claimed that he was innocent. 

Grayson L. Riego, a man convicted for the murder he vowed he didn't commit is now sentenced to death.

With the world getting more united and closer than ever, technology flourished.
And with the boom of technology came the age of Deep Dive Virtual Reality (DDVR/VR).

Introduced in the year 2057, VR's popularity and importance were quickly realized by many.

From games where people could earn a living and mostly spend their time, to applications used for meetings instead of physically going to your office. Some even say that only one's imagination is the limitation of VR.

And it was because of one's imagination that even the execution of death row convicts has also transcended reality.

Hopeful Homicide. Introduced in the year 2058, is a Virtual Reality death game where death row convicts around the world are forced to play with the promise of freedom and help of giving the winners a fresh start. As well as "cleansing" their soul.

Now in its ninth year, Grayson L. Riego has no choice but to participate in this brutal death game.

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*Warning: This story includes extreme violence and gore. Proceed at your discretion.

*Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, events, and incidents are all fictional.

Hopeful Homicide

Once again, the area in front of us started to darken. This time, we knew that what was causing it was thousands, maybe millions of monsters preparing their attack. They're kilometers away from where we stood. Some of us thought that it might be those mosquitoes again.

Since it seems to be right to assume that the next horde is quite similar to the previous one, I told Siti to prepare a poison gas bomb for us to use. She replied with a nod.

Curious to know how the other groups of players did, I looked around to check on them. No one perished at the hands of the huge mosquitoes from earlier. Although it wasn't much of a surprise since just by hiding inside a poison gas area, the lethality rate of those mosquitoes goes down to zero.

"Will it be the same?" Karen asked.

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