Chapter 2: Memories and the girl in my dreams

(Yukio's memories)

The first memory that entered my mind is about a 17 year old teenage highschool boy named Himari Yukio.

At the young age of fifteen, he became one of the most famous top player and blogger of a romance fantasy rpg online game titled Ashen:The Shadow between light and darkness.In this game players can pick their game avatar on the many available game characters-and play the game as that character.

Yukio's game character on the game had an ultimate rare elemental class the Ice smith, it was a special blacksmith hybrid class.The main skill of this class is making bonded weapons (usable only for the holder of ice smith job class) by combining the ice elemental metal ore,beast soul and mana.

Well the kid is lucky enough to be carried by his older cousin in his early run of the game and obtained some legendary and divine beast soul to create overpowered mythical weapons for his game account making him one of the top players of Ashen in the present day.

Sadly his promising gamer life was cut short while trying to do a kinda stupid good deed.While Yukio is walking home after school he saw a little girl crying in the park. Being a good samaritan, he approach the girl and ask on why is she crying. The girl pointed her finger on a cute chubby black cat above the tree.Yukio with his sense of duty to do a good deed climbed the big tree without hesitation as he reach the top of the big tree the branch under his feet broke and he fall down and hit his head fatally on a rock.

Urgh.Am I dying?

As Yukio was on his last breath he saw the cat jump down above the big tree as it was startled by the shocked girl screaming for help.

Tsk, that darn unlucky cat.it rubbed it's bad luck on me..because of it I'm now slowly dying...then he died unpeacefully while sarcastically contemplating on his own stupidity.

(Hanz memories)

The second and last memory that entered my mind is about a commoner and the villainess.

Sophie Flamvell.

The daughter and sole heir of the Duke of Soltanis.

She was the villainess of Act 7 protecting the empire no.1 couple's love -it was a scenario of the romance fantasy rpg online game Ashen:the shadow between light and darkness.

She envied the attention the saintess received from her fiance the crowned prince.

She was engaged with the crowned prince and she was trained by the duchess and royal tutors from a young age to be the next queen.But when all her efforts failed to be noticed and appreciated by the prince,she took out her frustrations on the saintess- a typical villainess move.

That villainess was my childhood friend and my employer. Well as I died as Yukio of modern Earth, I reincarnated as a poor skinny almost dying abandoned boy from the slum and one day as Sophie is touring the marketplace of the dukedom she with her servants saw me and like an angel from the sky helped me and given me a shelter to be my home.

She was the perfect representation of beauty, elegance and nobility.

Well until the saintess appeared and mesmerized the heart of the crowned prince.

Sophie was revered as a high society darling , her exceptional magical talent and her prestigious noble family background made her quite sought after.

Despite her status as a heir of a high ranked noble she had a pure and kind heart-for it was she who saved me as a poor almost dying slum orphan.

I was her childhood friend and servant.

Indeed , I Hanz owned and had a life debt 13 years ago to Sophie.

When she saw me at the marketplace Sophie thought I was pitiful so she offered me a job and a home. She even befriended a poor slum boy like me.

So me knowing that she is predestined to suffer and have a tragic miserable gruesome end in the game,because of her kindness I had willingly involved myself in the game story but sadly, I had failed to reverse her fate and I and her ended up with a heart wrenching end.