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

When trying to deal with unsavory rumors, it was best not to address them directly yourself. Making an apology, saying that you were wrong, and that you were going to change. That was only going to make others remember your fuckups.

The best thing to do was to just appear as someone completely different from their expectations. Someone capable and confident.

Lorn didn't know why, but people were unable to see the people not as close to them as complex beings with positive and negative sides. They either thought they were the best person to bless this Earth and idolized them to their utmost limits, or the worst person alive to ever be born and that they needed to die obediently as soon as possible.

In the former case, as long as their idols didn't do anything too messed up, they were unlikely to judge them too harshly. They might even think of their rude assholey behavior as cool and isn't-bound-by-the-world.

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