1 Chapter 0: Prolouge
After a long day of horrendous work at the bepsi headquartes, Bepsi-man decides to skip out on drinking with his closest friends Ichiban and Cristopher. A little dissapointed they go drinking without Bepsi-man. Bepsi-man decides to go straight home and sleep, for he feels very tired.
Bepsi-man half awake strolls on home through the neon lit streets of Bepsi city. The narrow streets , towering office buldings, apartment complexes and the tight winding corridors of bepsi city is almost like a maze, a maze of criminals and tired people much like bepsi-man. He walks through one corridor to the next and eventually reaches his apartment.
The towering apartment complexes block the sky and only the richest have the luxury of living at the top, near the sky. Wich bepsi-man likes to think is because of the difference in social rank.
Bepsi-man enters the main hall of the apartment complex b-78 in wich he lives. The rugged reception filled with trash and grafitti wich has now long been abandonded controls the elevators. Bepsi-man swipes some dust and trash away from behind the reception and presses a button. The elevator makes a cheerfull noise and slowly opens as Bepsi-man steps inside.
The almost hauntingly cheerfull music of the elevator in stark contrast with the destroyed and graffiti filled interiour of the elevator. Bepsi-man thinks to himself how he should move to a nicer place.
A bell sound can be heard.
"Floor 35"
a robotic almost female voice comes out of one of the speakers as the elevator door slowly opens and bepsi-man steps outside and walks toward his door.
He passes many of his neighbours and laments the terrible smell that exudes from most of their apartments. A smell that can even be felt outside in the corridor. Bepsi-man figures half of them are dead anyways, nothing can be done about it.
Some mail lays before him on the floor right at his door. He picks it up and unlocks the door. As he walks inside, he remembers the terrible smell that his neighbours apartment has, wich seemingly seeps through to his. He throws the mail on his dining table and starts the pre filled water boiler. He sits on his brown dirty couch and awaits the boiling water. He turns on the tv to check the news as he laments how long it takes to boil some water.
"Yet another magic related terrorist attack this morning, ten injured and two dead. the police are already searching for the terrorist" a female announcer on the tv says. Bepsi-man ponders on what the terrorists are trying to acomplish.
20 minutes have now passed and finally it seems bepsi-man will get his boiled water. He scavenges his cupboards in search of instant noodles. He finds some dulbak 3x spicy noodles and despairs at the thought of having to eat it, but he musters up the courage required and prepares a bowl. He sits down at the dining table with his bowl of instant noodles and remembers the mail he had recieved. He opens it and it seems to be a letter, directed to him. Bepsi-man feels surprised as he unfolds the unnaturaly chalk white paper and reads the text.
"Do YOU want to do something important with your life? Do YOU want to be a hero? If YOU want to be a hero just call this number: 1 555 HERO"
Bepsi-man felt a slight hope as he read through the letter. As long as he can remember he has always wanted to be a hero. He decided it best to dial the number. His hands were shacking as he typed the number in his cellphone, he thought to himself "what if this is true?" as he presses call.
Someone picks up and a woman says "hello, welcome to hero inc"
Bepsi-man feels surprised and answers.
"Yes, hello. I would like to become a hero."
"ah, i assume you recieved the letter"
"Yes, i did, i have it right here even"
"okay then, but to be sure tell us what code is in the right left corner of the letter."
"yes of course"
Bepsi-man's eyes quickly focus in on the code, IT-390 it says in very small writing.
"IT-390"
"Okay, one second. Yes, it seems you are one of our selected candidates. Would you like to start tommorow?"
Bepsi-man with no hesitation answers; "Yes!"
"Great, our headquarters are at south little seoul, near the movie theater. It is very hard to miss"
"Okay, thanks"
The woman hangs up and Bepsi-man filled with a passion and excitement he hasn't felt since childhood when watching cartoons, goes to the bathroom to piss. He looks himself in the mirror and sees a pale face with the bepsi logo on his forehead. He starts feeling even more tired on decided to go sleep, it is his big day tommorow after all. A warm cozy feeling surrounds him as he drifts into sleep.
