Tormented by loan sharks, Lorn had lived the life of an 'ascetic'. He would willingly become homeless and live the life of a beggar (and only sometimes a pickpocket), so his hard-earned money wouldn't fall into his debtors' hands. Hopefully, they would finally leave him alone after realizing he's worth nothing anymore.

But realizing his plans, the debtors decide to sell him as a guinea pig! 

The One Country's grand experiment attempting to copy a human's consciousness and put it inside the digital space! The only catch is, 80% of the test subjects are expected to receive lasting damages to their brain. 

However, Lorn finds a once-in-a-lifetime chance. The researchers were creating a virtual world using the digital space. And to create profits from it, instead of simply creating boring-old Virtual Earth (and calling it the Metaverse), they were making a game out of it!

The first fully immersive VRMMORPG in the world!

As the first tester of this game, Lorn would be a disgrace if he couldn't make money off of it!

Falling Cosmos

Wavy dark blue lines flashed through Esther's emotions before disappearing without a trace. He was shakily acknowledging Lorn's reply, but something in him refused to believe the answer, immediately getting rid of this acknowledgement.

"I am confident the Premier wrote that part when she was sound of mind. You can see from the way she praises the scarlet moon. Later on, she could only mindlessly describe its beauty and grace, but in the passage you've read, she clearly acknowledges 'Her' deeds. It's different."

Lorn wondered how he should reply. Although Esther said that he wasn't going to fail him no matter what, it wasn't like Lorn was losing anything important by standing on the old cat's side. A little white lie never hurt anyone.

He paused for a moment, preparing his words.

"In that case… why not take her words as truth?" Lorn asked. "Perhaps the being on the moon, whoever 'Her' was, maybe she was genuinely trying to save the world."

A different perspective