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

<p>Literature is often a reflection of society as seen through the writer's eyes. In his works, the author usually tries to convey an idea, his understanding of a particular problem, or the entire worldview. Sometimes, the path of fiction leads the author far back reassessing all his life experience and creating a long narration full of drama, humor, controversy, and philosophy. The same path carried Milton Murayama as it led Tolstoy, Bradbury, Hemingway, and many others before him. The novel Plantation Boy continues the author's book cycle about the hardships of a Japanese family in Hawaii focusing on Toshio, an ambitious young man, who resents the life conditions he happened to be born into and tries to force his way into the brighter future. His path and the misfortunes he and his kin experience mirror the similar tensions that are happening across the globe, which is why it is crucial to make sense of every piece of knowledge on the topic.</p>