1 Chapter 1 : I am alive

In a subway in the big city of Yukyo a young man of about nineteen years old with short hair and black eyes, one of about 185cm tall, dressed in a short-sleeved shirt with red floral motifs, black jeans and black leather moccasins, suddenly got up from his seat, with a terrified facial expression, then, little to little recovery his mind, before laughing with a voice that only people who had known a great despair could understand.

His face was shaking, his muscles were constantly contracting

"Smell.... taste... hear... I can.... I feel my legs, my arms...light! Light!...i see!...i see!" Says the young man in a hoarse, trembling and incredulous voice.

"I am alive! I'm alive! I'm alive! I'm alive!" Did he scream with his eyes full of tears.

The passengers close to him began to move away gradually as if they feared being bitten by the young man who had just lost his mind.

"What a shame, such a handsome boy." Murmured two young high school students as they stared at him.

"It's probably the illicit subsistence effect! Young people these days." Says an old woman shaking her head.

"Should we call the police?" Asked a old man while backing away

Hearing this, the young man quickly calmed down, wiping his tears, before sitting down again under the watchful eyes of the other passengers, while looking at his reflection on the window behind him.

His name was James Anderson and his story was quite simple but also sad, since his teenage years he was a pure and hard otaku, he loved manga, lights novels, anime, comics and video games, so after high school against the advice of all his relatives started studying computer programming and after 6 years of hard work, he was hired by a computer programming company specializing in video game creation.

He wanted fulfilled his dream of always creating his own video game, but unfortunately for him fate is quite cruel, from his first day, he poured his coffee by accident on the keyboard of his computer and was electrocuted to death.

After his death, his soul left his body, floating in a dark space where he could neither see nor speak nor even move, the worst thing was that every time he was about to go mad, a kind of mysterious force enveloped him and made him regain his mental health.

Finally, in the depths of despair, he could only count every passing second to avoid falling deeper into suffering.

"5 283 648 295 s!"

"That is about 168 years old..."

"But it's not my original body and I don't even know where I am." He says with a nostalgic expression while fixing his reflections on the glass.

But as if to get him out of his mind, the subway stopped and the doors opened, the old passengers left and new ones entered.

James slowly got up and walked to the doors, but as he only had one more step to take to get out of the subway, time suddenly froze, the passengers were on a stop, all sound are disappeared.

But unlike the others, only James could move.

[Congratulations to the host for being chosen by "One"]

[Welcome to the game "Supernatural simulator"]

[Loading in progress...1%...5%...5%...10%...]

Says a cold, mechanical voice in James' mind.

"What's going on? Who are you? It's you who saved me?" shouted James

But he received no answer until, a loading bar transparent with a rectangular shape and a blood red colour appeared in front of him.

[100% Full Loading...]

[Into darkness and living in the perpetual shadow of death, only a brave heart whose blade will never dull in the face of the extraordinary can win in Supernatural Simulator.]

[Good luck to you NG-741]

"Who are you and where am I?" James asked as the voice faded from his mind, but once again he received none answer, but differently from the last time, several lines of text appeared before him.

◇ [Start] ◇

◇ [Save] ◇

◇ [Load] ◇

◇ Stats] ◇

◇ [Bag] ◇

{Time : 5 Years} {Point : 0} {Danger value : 0}

After carefully examining the lines of text, James took a deep breath.

How could he not understand this situation?

He is not one of those stupid protagonists in webnovels.

First of all the voice had told him that he had been chosen by a certain "One", "One" must be the one that had sent him here, secondly, the voice welcoming him with words "Supernatural simulator" , these two words made him think strongly of Japanese dating or slice of life games, these supposition can be confirmed by the game interface that is currently in front him, thirdly he was appointed by the voice NG-741 which was to be a kind of number even if he did not know for the moment what it can mean.

"So to make it simple, I'm currently in a game and probably in a Japanese dating game, The so called "One" probably resurrected me... no, I can't go ahead with this think and maybe he's the one who killed me, so far I can't be sure of anything." Says James with a low voice while staring at the game interface in front of him.

"I don't know what's going on, but I would never go back into the dark space."said he, clenching his teeth, he slowly raised his arm and pressed [Start]