2025. September 10th. 11:31PM
A boy– around 15 years old at best. Just lying there, in bed, staring at the ceiling.
"There are still around 6 days for the pre-test exam to end." He sighs.
"Well… let's just think of the concepts I can later use in my novel… since my mom isn't going to give me the phone during the exam anyway."
"And it's too late at night too."
He just lies there, staring at the ceiling and drowning in his delusions.
"Ugh… I can't think clearly right now… this is annoying, too annoying."
He flips to the side and closes his eyes, trying to sleep.
After half an hour. He still can't sleep.
"This is getting annoying now. And I even stubbed my toe when coming back from the exam."
"... I should just lie down until I fall asleep."
Then he had a thought.
"Ah! Right. The fanfic I planned on when coming back! But… I think I need to reread it. It's been a long time and I forgot a lot of things already."
After pondering for a while with his eyes closed. "Ugh. I feel like I hear something, is it raining? No… it feels… like… screams?!"
The moment he opens his eyes. He is not lying down on his bed anymore, but in another place. A convenience store.
He looks around hastily from the sudden change. "What the actual fuc–"
Before he could even finish his sentence, a person comes running towards him.
He grabs the boy's arm and starts to say something, panicking.
"Don't hate me boy, I-I j-just want to live. Y-yeah, I just want to live."
As that person grabs his arm more tightly and spins it round breaking it.
"Arghhh! What the fuck is happening?!"
He tries to break out from the person's grab but the grip is too strong and his arm is broken.
What do I do! What the fuck is happening, I don't understand shit!
Suddenly he gets something in his hold. As he stabs the person inside his ear. It's a pen.
He grabs the pen with his left arm, again and stabs the person in the eye making him blind.
As he keeps repeating this process, he finally breaks out of his trance and realises that he just killed that person.
His adrenaline gone, the pain from his broken arm finally kicks in.
"Arghh! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts like hell!"
Tears swell up his eyes. As he keeps on running and trying to hide.
Dead bodies everywhere, some people who are half-dead asking him to save them.
But he doesn't bat an eye at them and keeps on running. As he tries to get out, he can't and a blue screen pops up.
[Until the scenario ends, no is allowed to enter or exit this place]
"What the fuck is it saying?!" He says, still grabbing his arms tightly to relieve even a bit of the pain from his broken arm.
[Main scenario 1]
[Prove your value]
[Kill one or more living organisms]
[Time: 1 minute]
[Reward: 300 coins]
[Penalty for failure: Death]
After seeing this, he falls silent for a while. And realises something.
"Hey! Hey! It can't be it, can it?! I have dreamed about all these in my delusions. But it can't be real, it can't. It just can't be real in any freaking way!"
At that moment.
[You have exceeded the time limit]
[Every person who couldn't kill at least one living organism will be given the penalty]
He hears a sound, something that sounds like a balloon or a cracker popping.
He looks behind him and sees that every person that was half-dead, their heads popping like balloons.
"Ah… w-what i-is h-happening?! All these things… feel f-familiar? For some r-reason. There is no way this is what I think it is."
[Attribute Regeneration awakens]
[Personal skill: Regeneration activates]
He feels a sudden pain in his arm again.
"Arghh!"
It twists and gets back into its original place again.
"Fuck! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts so damn much!" After the pain ends, his arm is fully healed.
"What the fuck is happening right now?! All these… this… feels a lot like… Omniscient reader's viewpoint!"
He starts to panic "But how the fuck would I be here? It doesn't make sense at all. And all these are too real to be a lucid dream. There is no way that I'm inside ORV right now. There is just no way that is possible."
Then suddenly a small white furred creature appears, floating.
"Hoho. I just left this place for about a few minutes and here I see what you guys did… oh, sorry, you did." As the creature points toward the boy.
He is confused, but he recognizes.
This… it can't be it. Two horns, white furred small creature which is floating! There is no way! There is no way this is… a Dokaebi!
"Seems like only you survived in this place. You feel promising. There are few people who seem to be interested in you. You should do it quickly, or the time will run out."
As the blue screen pops up again, there are a few peculiar names.
[Choose your supporting constellation]
[The dead man who came back]
[The masochist of joseon]
[Merchant of venice]
Constellations?! Then that means… I really am inside ORV.
"But… these names… who even named these? And the masochist of Joseon? What the fuck!"
As time passes, he keeps on pondering and finally the time runs out and he is left without a supporting constellation.
[A few constellations are showing their dissatisfaction with you]
"Ha… seems like I have to do it the way dokja did… crap! Now I have to focus on surviving first."
"You know what? Dissatisfying them will bring disaster to you later on. You look promising, so I'm warning you."
"Yes… Thank you for the warning."
As he stepped out of the store, he saw the very scene he expected to see.
A disaster called the apocalypse.