SIXZEN'S / YRIEL EVIREZ' POV
"Wha!" I-I'm really scared here in the virtual world I entered. I hope- "Ah, Mommy!" I covered my ears while trying to bite my tongue so I wouldn't cry anymore.
"Sh*t! Would you please drop your childish acts? You're slowing us down."
"S-Sorry"
Alexus scolds me. I got partnered up with Ninth and his real name is Alexus. Aside from having a short temper, he really despises me. I can't blame him whenever he gets angry and yells at me because I'm really a coward. He is a good gamer but I'm the only one who really has a problem. He wanted to win the game, so I didn't want to be a burden to him.
"Enter that tunnel," he commanded me.
"W-What?"
"I said, now!"
I closed my eyes when he shouted at me. I can't even see his face, but I know he's mad at me and he's probably pressing the buttons down so hard because I made him angry.
Okay, Yriel, you should do this. I shivered as I entered the tunnel. It's dark here and watery.
"Duck!" I am shocked by what Alexus said. I heard an explosion. "Run and get out of there! You'll be covered in concrete!"
I instantly run because of great panic. I saw a light at the end of the tunnel and made it come out. The whole tunnel has collapsed because of the explosion. One second late, it can be the end of my fate. I may have escaped being trapped in that tunnel but now I'm facing an enemy.
"I'll use your trump card. You will now face that creep."
"Huh? But isn't the trump card important? Besides, I don't think I-"
"Shut up! You already did nothing for us to win. Now, fight!"
My body moved on its own and I was seen fighting a huge robot. He used electricity which is my power because the robot is made of steel, but it also looks powerful. He also tried using other natural elements, but nothing seems to stand out.
I didn't know that the game I chose, 'The Elemental Wielding', was dangerous. Not that I thought the other 5 would be easy but this is making my life hard. I saw Second when we are about to select which game, she was about to run to the door where I had already entered. I thought this was one of the easiest. I know nothing of this game's genre, but I'm glad that Alexus plays games.
I have a lot of things I hate about myself. If I could... I would take away all the ugly things in me and leave all the good, if any.
I am the only child of a happy and peaceful family. I will be in senior high school, and I will still go to my former private school. We are neither rich nor poor, to be exact. Mommy raised me to be modest. I'm an only child so I'm a bit spoiled. I don't have too many problems in life because my parents provide for my needs, especially love. I love going to school. I have friends to be with. Everything would have been happy and normal after a tragic accident had happened. Mom and Dad died in a fire that started in the neighborhood. Our little house burned down and worse, my parents were there. They were trapped and died. I was the only one who survived.
I became an orphan when I was 8 years old then. It was still heartbreaking to go back to that. A social welfare worker from the government took me in because we have no relatives to take care of me. I grew up until I left there when I was 12, when a relative took me. I didn't know that we still have one relative with a family of three, but they live in the province. I worked for them to compensate them for taking me in. I stopped studying to make a living for a while but my relatives insisted that they would support my education in exchange for working for them. I became a maid, a helper, and a farmer. I often look at my cousin because her parents provide for her needs and wants in ways they can.
I saved up my money so I can support myself when I enroll for the next academic year. I hope to get a financial grant again for college, just like I did in high school. I served in my high school to study in a private school.
My relative told me to move out after I graduated from high school. I have worked hard for the past four years. I am burnt out. How I wish I could see my family again.
When I reminisce about my past before I had my memories back on nth planet, I am surprised by my attitude and actions because I am more confident and braver. I easily made friends with them in the castle. I initiated some games to play with all of them. I played volleyball well in the last level. I even helped Sectwen's evil plan to ambush the silver team. I hurt Second and her team because I was so desperate to win yet the new and real me is not desperate after all. I would never hurt my friends as I did as Sixzen. To bring back time and avoid the deaths of my parents is a blessing but there's a reason why it happened. The lives of my 23 friends that I made here cannot be compared to the lives of my parents but it's not reasonable to sacrifice them over my parents.
Sixzen and Yriel Evirez are two completely different and incompatible individuals. It is like living in the real world and on nth planet. They may look similar, but the other one possesses some things that don't exist to the other.
"Hey, what are you crying about? Are you just going to stare?" I heard Alexus' irritated voice.
"S-Sorry, I'm not crying anymore."
When I'm weak, not only can't I survive, but I can also even affect other people. The nth planet's games have taught us to hurt and kill one another but the only thing I want to kill are the flaws in me and let alone the flawless things remain. I just want to end this. I've had enough.