1 1. your usual tragic backstory.

hello I'm Manny your friendly neighborhood introvert next door, well this is weird isn't it... so let me tell you how I even got here in the first place.

I live in a good and nice family, I was ten at the time and suddenly both my parent decided to sent me to my aunt which is in America.

my aunt however at the prospect of taking care another children doesn't want anything to do with me anymore rented an apartment next door and just hand me all of the monthly money my parents gave me which is about 5000-ish? I don't know why my parent even bothered to sent me ALONE ON ANOTHER COUNTRY I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT, needless to say I PISSED my pants... because I'm really scared at the time and with my aunt essentially abandoning me on a country alone... you could say it did a lot of thing to a child.

thankfully my faith in god still prevailed... mostly, as the landlady is a 'kind' old woman who would gush over me like a newborn baby, she is what I would call an 'accidental parents' which gives me an actual direction on how to live like school, I even as to write her as my guardian and she obliged so it's all good in the end, she can't adopt me per se as my parent is still alive... it's been seven years and they still hasn't visited me or answer my call.

oh well at least they gave me money so I don't have to scrounge my lives in the dumpster for my whole lives, my aunt however also gone radio silent as she's moved to another place, thankfully my aunt still has the moral to redirect the mail boxes to me... I don't know how she done that but at least my parent could send me money without a middle man, it isn't like she took my money anyway... just abandoned me.

oh well, sorry for the long winded monologue, it has to be done sooner or later... anyway for now I'm working a side job in a cafe near my home, just about 15 minutes of walking.

the cafe is... weird, it's an all female cafe and somehow I was able to get in because they mistake me for a girl... yeah it's that kind of wacky story.

honestly I don't want to live my life under a lie so I immediately said that I'm male and which they respond "well you're feminine enough so that's okay. " needless to say I just realized that I look like that character which everyone got confused by their gender... a trap.

the day I realized that, is the day I lost my faith completely.

anyway you're asking what did I do now? well I'm going to school like everyone else would, it's just that I worked at an cafe to ensure my economy stability, wouldn't it be bad if my parents suddenly stopped sending me money? yeah thought so, although I worked on a night shift rather than the morning one, mostly because I'm just an errand boy and I don't like socializing that much.

"MAnnY! " the shrill voice of my grandma reverberate through the apartment I live in.

I immediately stopped daydreaming and rushes up to her "what's wrong grandma? "then she hold up a gun?!!! "can you clean up this baby right here? " then she holds the gun on her hand and waved it near my direction.

"grandma!! put the gun down, very slowly put the gun down. " I instructed her, my mind screaming at me while she hold it like a toy.

"HAHAHA!! ohhhh... Manny you sweet Summer child, you just got pranked! " THAT! IS DEFINITELY A GUN!

"grandma! that's a gun!! " I said, in attempt to disarm her I slowly got near her away from the direction of the gun.

"could you do the chores in here Manny? this room stinks like chicken nuggets. "she said while holding up the gun near her face and waving it around her nose.

"YES! could you go to the umm antique shop nearby! grandma! if you want to I can accompany you to the antique shop nearby! " I said whatever in my mind to get out of this predicament, if even the gun is fake I DEFINITELY didn't want to take chances.

"oh yes! the annntique shope, let's go treasure hunting then Manny! " she finally put down the gun as she skips to the door, surprisingly agile of her age.

I carefully hold the gun in my hand and got rid of any ammo inside, then a bullet came out of the chamber and fall onto the floor.

my eyebrow twitches... this woman is going to be the death of me.

where the hell does that gun even coming from?!!!! did someone forgets their guns? or its her gun... knowing her it's probably the latter.

"MaNnY! "a shrill voice came out from the doorway

"yes... grandma. "I let out an exasperated sigh, not wanting to think of anything that just happened.

I walked through the door seeing my grandma using a cane while walking to the lift, while walking she talked about a whole lot of thing about daily lives like how there is that one very handsome guy down the street selling some kind of fruit and how I should be like him.

"you know Manny, the big paper that people hang onto the building around the city? " you mean banner grandma? well she probably mean it like that, I lived with her long enough to know what is she talking about.

"what banner? is it the game capsule one? " currently the whole world is going insane about the video game that's going to be released onto the public using unconventional method... a capsule, you know the thing SAO and stuff like that, kind of surprised when it's not a scam as my friend from school got an early access, though his word are very questionable he got an actual one from his house no doubt.

"Yes! they say I could be young again! " poor grandma getting scammed.

"uhh, I don't think that's how it works grandma. " I said with concern in my voice, I don't think old people could play this, especially with some of the weird stuff shown on the trailer, of course I was excited about this but I kept my hype to a limit... I didn't want this to be the fifth time I got disappointed by another game.

"oF cOurse that'S how it works! I got to try it myself and it's magnificent! " grandma said in a praising tone... i think she got scammed? I don't even sure anymore.

"uhhh, that's... great grandma! what do you did in there? " of course I also am very excited about this game and very curious about it.

"I fuck! " what?

"what??? grandma what are you say-" my words are cut short as I noticed that around me there are GIANT banner EVERYWHERE, this is getting ridiculous isn't it.

"ahh, we Finally aRrived at old shop. " pretty sure the name isn't old shop, but the banner is obstructing the building name.

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update will be unfrequent, and there will be grammar mistake... lots of it.