In a time where VR-FPS gaming ruled the digital world, War Zone Bang Bang! stood at the top. With millions of players and a fiercely competitive global tournament, names were made and legends forgotten just as fast.
Among the elite, one name still sent shivers through old veterans: "Ghost."Undefeated. Unmatched.Then — gone.
No one ever saw his face. No one knew where he came from. Only that when he played, the battlefield felt smaller… colder. The "Ghost Medal" was named in his honor, but the man behind the legend? Lost to time.
Meanwhile, in Japan...
At a quiet university tucked between the city and the coast, a young teacher named Kagawa Yukio had become something of a campus favorite. He was the kind of instructor who showed up ten minutes late with coffee in one hand. His lesson plans were messy, his desk cluttered with games, and his style — black hair falling lazily across his eyes, headphones dangling from his collar — was just unkempt enough to be cool.
He had this way of dodging responsibility just until the very last second… and somehow still got everything done.
"MC Gamers? Sounds like a cult, not a club. You sure you're not summoning demons in there?"
He teased, joked, and never seemed to take anything too seriously — except for Nico, the bright-eyed four-year-old who followed him like a shadow. Since his brother and sister-in-law passed away, Kagawa had quietly dropped any plans that didn't involve her. Being a good teacher? That was a side quest. Raising Nico? That was the final boss.
So when his students started dragging him into their War Zone Bang Bang! club, he acted clueless.
"VR? Nah. Makes me dizzy. Too many buttons. And those super capsules, they are too expensive, for someone with a teacher allowance."
They didn't believe him — he was too good at watching their replays and pointing out flaws like he'd lived inside the game.
"Don't camp in corners. That's how cowards die twice."
Still, he smiled it off, as if he was just guessing.
But the club had just qualified for regional prelims — and by rule, they needed an adult representative to register the team. No teacher wanted to sign off. No one but Kagawa had even heard of WZBB.
After days of begging, pranks, and maybe one cleverly set "accidental match" in VR class, he caved.
"Okay, okay. I'll go sign the forms. But I'm not holding your hands when the bullets start flying."
He said it with that usual lazy grin, pretending to be clueless — never once letting slip that the headset in his closet still remembered his stats, or that when he was 15, the world called him Ghost.
Kagawa Yukio, the carefree teacher with faint violet eyes and a coffee addiction, is about to walk his students straight into global competition…
And none of them have any idea they're being led by the deadliest player the world has ever seen.
"You know...I used to rock the night world, when I was young. I may have grown, but still, I'm a Gamer at heart."