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

Finished whispering to Pavel, Yara smashed her foot on his hands. It was no different than a metal hydraulic pump smashing onto flesh. Once again, the screaming ensued and once again, Yara needed to coerce him to shutting up.

Seeing Yara getting into the situation, letting go of most of her common sense, Lorn had to speak up.

Pavel looked at him pleadingly, but Lorn pretended to not see it.

"Ah, you're right. You're definitely right. Why don't you use Sense of Normalcy on him? That way, we can do much more to him."

"Never thought you to be such a sadist."

Lorn sighed and forced Pavel to feel normal. The grimace on his face was gone, but there was a deep look of confusion and indignation. Lorn was somewhat surprised he could still have such emotions. Shouldn't one be feeling worried about oneself instead of being angry here?

Lightening up