Black Online

Black Online Company.

In a gym room, Izan stood before a heavy-looking punching bag, starting at it like it was owing him money.

In that moment, he pulled back his fist and threw a powerful punch that sent the bag flying across the room.

A hole appeared on the punching bag with its contents spilling out on the floor.

"...Not bad."

Izan looked at his fist.

Unclenching and clenching.

At that moment, the gym’s door opened and his personal secretary walked in with a phone in her hand.

She bowed in a ladylike manner and then said.

"Experiment No. 001 is trying to reach you. It looks like there is something that he wants to talk to you about."

The secretary said.

"...Is that so?"

Izan turned around and put his hand forward, as if he was saying, "Put that phone in my hand," and the secretary did just that.

He then sat down on the bench, opened the phone, and the phone number was already readily dialed in.

’What does the little guinea pig possibly want?’

Izan wondered, and then he called the number and put the phone into his ear.

...

Smog Region, Megaworld Apartments, Fang Raon’s apartment.

Buzz~! Buzz~! Buzz~!

The phone vibrated on top of the table, and Fang Raon immediately snatched his phone and saw that he was receiving a call from an unknown number.

’It must be him!’

He answered the call, put it on the speaker, and put the phone down on the table.

"...Hello, this is Kuroganehara Izan."

The voice said, and Fang Raon’s heart skipped a beat, as a legendary figure was currently talking on the phone.

Izan was a hero to many gamers because he single-handedly created the greatest video game in history.

A game that shaped the whole world!

"Hello, my name is Fang Raon. I’d like to speak with you about the Virtual Reality Pod X."

Fang Raon said.

He believed that by mentioning the "Virtual Reality Pod X" he would immediately get Izan’s full attention.

"..."

It turned quiet on the other side for a moment, as it seemed like Izan was gathering his thoughts, and then, he responded.

"May I ask how you know about it?"

"Shiryuu approached me today and told me about it."

Fang Raon said.

"...Why would he do that?"

Izan asked.

"He told me he got fired from Black Online Company and thought that I should know that I was just an experiment."

Fang Raon said.

He still felt mixed about the whole experiment thing, as some people would get really angry if they found out that they were tricked into becoming an experiment like that.

If Raon wasn’t already dying, he would also be furious, but the fact still stood that the Virtual Reality Pod saved him.

"He isn’t fired."

Izan suddenly said.

"...It then sounds like he wasn’t fully truthful to me."

Fang Raon said with a twitching lip.

He had a feeling that everything that Shiryuu told him was bullshit except the part about the experiment and Virtual Reality Pod X.

"What else did he do?"

Izan asked.

"...He modified my Virtual Reality Pod slightly to remove the vital tracking. Let me guess, he didn’t actually remove it and instead installed a virus."

Fang Raon said.

It turned quiet on the other side of the phone as Izan quickly checked it out, and soon, he said.

"We can still track your vitals. He wanted to kill you, huh, and he wanted us to think that the Virtual Reality Pod killed you."

Izan huh’ed at the other side of the line, as if he didn’t expect Shiryuu to go that far.

"Thank you for telling me about it. If you had died, the world wouldn’t experience the great evolution that is about to happen."

Izan said.

"...The great evolution? It’s dangerous, no? There are people that do not deserve this kind of power."

Fang Raon said with a frown.

"It’s the same with guns. It changed how the world worked, and eventually, those who shouldn’t have them got their hands on them.

"Bloodshed ensued, but eventually, the world kept spinning, and life moved on. Humans are meant to evolve.

"This will not only make humans stronger. It will increase their lifespan. It will increase their durability. It will increase their health.

"Your father died because of an illness, did he not? With Virtual Reality Pod X, he would’ve never gotten that illness to begin with.

"The humanity would be freed of all the sickness. No more cancer. No more diseases. It will be utopia."

Izan said fervently.

Fang Raon listened to him speak, and it all sounded great, but he lacked the trust in people in general.

There were simply people who couldn’t be trusted with power.

"...Either way, I called you here because I need your help."

Fang Raon said.

"And why would I help you?"

Izan asked.

"...Consider it as a reward for my success in the experiment. I think I at least deserve that much for being the last one to survive."

Fang Raon said.

"What do you want?"

Izan asked.

"I want one of those Virtual Reality Pod X. Three of them. I cannot use my Virtual Reality Pod anymore because of what Shiryuu did with that."

Fang Raon said.

"...I can do that."

Izan said.

"And... I know you know about my stunt at Zodiac City. The police department is looking into my involvement with the whole thing.

"I want you to remove the CCTV footage of me being there, and also add into Black Online logs that I was logged into the game during that day."

Fang Raon said.

"...Done."

Izan said.

’That easily?’

Fang Raon was surprised, but he shouldn’t be surprised about Izan’s power, as he was the head of the world’s strongest company.

"That’s all."

Fang Raon said.

"My men will bring you the pods tomorrow."

Ixan said, and at that moment, the phone call ended, and Fang Raon kept looking at the phone with a thoughtful look.

’Can I trust him?’

Fang Raon wondered, and then he looked towards the Virtual Reality Pod in his bedroom and rubbed his chin.

’I should try to learn everything I can about those Virtual Reality Pods. It’s way too easy for someone to mess with it and even kill me.’

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