Chapter 6: The Theory
“Ah, here it is”, I found the door to the gamers club. I kind of disappointed because I thought it would be some kind of magic door but instead it is just a normal door.
Then the eye level slot on the door opened, “Whats the password”, a male voice came from other side of the door.
“uhm, I am yukie fan?”, I whispered to the panel slot.
Clack, then the door opened, there stand a chubby guy with a glasses holding the door.
“Welcome to gamers club, hey guys! We got new member”, he shouted excitedly.
I stepped inside and the interior is like a small library but it is full of board games and figurines.
There are 2 other members are at the back of the room playing something that look like a card game.
“I cast 'Fireball', its 3 damage, you die, tee hee hee”, a girl with green hair and glasses she flick her finger and a small ball of fire burn the other member card that he was holding.
“OUCH, that burns!”, the freckles guy groaned then he noticed me.
“Oh hey welcome, I am Sam and this is Amanda, and that fat guy over there is Winston”, he explained.
“Im not fat! Just a little bit chubby”, he corrected Sam.
“Take a seat, I want to ask your opinion”, he gesturing to the sofa in the middle of the room.
“Oh great, here we go again”, said Sam.
I sat on the sofa and took a bit of snacks from the table.
“Okay, first of all, what do you think about this world, I need your honest opinion”, said Winston.
I gather my thoughts for a while, “This world looks like a game but at the same time its not, how do I explain”.
“There are monsters here and magic, but its real, people die, people lose limbs, you feel pain, et cetera”.
“Or maybe this is in the future”, Amanda cut in the conversation.
“Maybe this is the future, after nuclear war, people mutated so they cannot have children, their genes destroyed so now human can develop what we call 'magic' in this world”.
“Animals mutated into monsters, the giant 'gods' maybe they are just the result of human mutation.”, she added.
“That doesnt explained the limit number of human in this world, Amanda”, Winston said.
“Limited number of humans?”, I asked curiously.
“Yes, you dont know? There was a researcher who did population survey”, Winston explained.
“He found out that every time a thousand people dies in this world, the portal open and accept a thousand people to go through”.
“So the number of human in this world always the same”.
“Approximately 2,000,000 people in this world at all times”.
“Never more than 2 million, so I have another theory”.
“This world is a simulation”, he said proudly.
“We never age, cannot have kids, have limited number of humans, its because probably the server limit”.
“So basically a video game, you just repeating my words”, I protested.
“No no no no, what I meant is this is like one of those Augmented Reality games, where you can touch, feel, but this is much more sophisticated than those games”, he explained.
Then suddenly the door opened and Yukie stepped inside.
“Winston did it again huh? How many potential members already ran away because of you”, Yukie sounds mad.
“Nah, its actually fun, we all have different theory here, no worries”, I assured her.
“I wish this is really a video game though, I can just save and load any...time.. I.. want...”, sudden headache rushed into my head, its spinning uncontrollably just like the first time I stepped into the portal.
“Hey are you okay??! You suddenly lagged out like 3 seconds there”, Winston and Yukie rushed to me.
“I, I dont know, im suddenly feeling dizzy, maybe its because someone trashed my lunch”, I looked at Yukie's direction.
“I helped you, you know!”, she shouted.
“Anyway I brought you something to eat, so lets eat together”.
“Not you Winston, buy your own food, you always took our portion as well”.
We ended up eating together and then play around with the board games, until its almost dinner time.
“Okay guys, its dinner time, lets walk together to the dining hall”, said Yukie.
As we walk through the hallway, I can see it is already dark outside. I felt like this kind of life not bad, but then I started thinking about my family.
Mother, Father, sis, how are they doing right now, I wondered. I wished I could sent some kind of message to let them know that I am all right now.
We walked across the courtyard, we can see the dining hall lights from afar. But there is something weird in the middle of the courtyard.
“Hey is that armored statue new? I never seen it before”, said Sam.
Then another group of students came near the armored statue.
“Hey, this is cool, did the headmaster bought it? Look at the size of the sword and shield!”, said one of the student.
“Lets tag it, use fire to mark it”, he then lit his finger with fire, the fire sharpen into pencil like shape.
“This is the property of …”, before he finished his sentence, the large sword swung fast and slice the guy into 2 parts.
“HIIIIIII, Help! Help!”, the other 2 students tried to ran away, but the sword reach is very far and it slashed the 2 students like a pancake.
“URGHH” Slice, Slice.
“Sh*t, its Durandal, A-Rank Demon, what it is doing here???”, said Yukie.
“Sam! Winston! Amanda! Go find the Teachers! NOW!”
She unsheathed her long katana.
“Marad! Stay close with me, my teacher asked me to protect you, you understand me?”
“Yes, got it”, I agreed straight away.
The commotion make the student from dining hall wondering whats happening out there.
A few students came out from the dining hall.
“What the hell is that?”, then suddenly a big shield crashed the door to the dining hall and injured a few students.
Then the demon pulled the shield back to its arm, there was a chain attached to the shield.
“This is going to get ugly”, Yukie looked concerned.
“Why?”, I asked.
“Because that demon is immune to magic”, told Yukie.
TO BE CONTINUED
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