Gutted for a Silver Ring

The protagonist of this story is a 30-year-old virgin. Yep, you read it right, A thirty-year-old introvert weeb virgin. His name was "John Smith". A generic name for a mob I suppose.

You see he was Gutted. When he was playing. Now many of you might be wondering how could that be possible? Well you see, the reason was that he was not Gutted in the real world. No, he was Gutted by his fiancee in the game called "INOX".

Somewhere around the early 3000s when the Modern soviet union decided to invade America the world war 3 started. Oh and let me tell you "it was horrible". The living conditions of people were worst than the cockroaches. The government was filled with corrupt officials who decided that it was better for the rations to rot in the storage than to give them to the people.

And the cherry on top was the North Korean republic who spammed nuke upon nuke as if it were an emoji.

This might feel like an Apocalypse story but bear with me. It gets interesting from here.

Some 200 years later when the stability returned to an extent, people didn't have work to do. All the infrastructure was now manufactured by the 'Bots'.

No matter how cliche, the name sounds 'Bots' were an important invention in the history of humankind. 'Bots' were programmed to serve the humans and see them as family. So no chance for Terminator. Or was it?

Anyway, as I was saying that the humans didn't have much to do. And in Indians, there is a saying "Idle brain is a house for Evil". And right it was as people now turned to mugging and rapes. Gangs were now found in every corner of the streets. It was as if this was a game for them.

"Wait a game!"

"What?"

"You are an angel bro, Rest assured, I will name a boss on you".

Whelp. And you just witnessed the birth of INOX.

(Dramatic Entrance beat)

"Hey! a voice shouted. "I found it!" The voice excitedly said.

"Really!" The Voice of a girl is heard.

"Yep, at last, I can pay my mortgage" The male voice sounded relieved. He looked at the Silver ring and then at the girl and smiled.

The girl's heart fluttered at the innocent and happy smile of the male. But in response, she could only give a sad smile.

Just as the male was about to collect the reward he was pierced by a dagger.

He turned to look at the girl in shock and said "Why".

Hearing the sadness in his voice she cracked up and let out a sob. Then she reached for his hand, but he moved his hand away.

The girl said "Sorry, it was Jian sempai. I had to do this,"

Then she raged and said, "Only if you had decided to give the map to him, it wouldn't have happened."

Her rage seemed to vanish and she sobbed "I am sorry".

was the only thing the man heard before his vision went dark and he was logged out by the system.

The girl didn't knew that she was seeing her fiancee for the last time. As the man was dead. From the heart as well as the body. No, it was not the betrayal. It was a cockroach.