In a square-shaped compartment which was painted all white, an unconscious young and good-looking man of about twenty years old rested his back on a bed which was adorned with dark green folds of clothing.

On his hand was an extended, narrow rubber pipe that connected him to a drip. On his head was a wireless electric helmet that connected him to the virtual reality capsule.

This young handsome man is Andrew smith. The last surviving pro player among thousands of dead’s in the final level of the well-known virtual reality game, Curia online. although he was still alive, he remained in this inanimate state and refuse to either die or come back to reality, even after two years. From his arrangement in the room, it is easily recognizable that he is in a hospital.

“swish” “swish” “swish” “swish”

Right beside his bed, a woman dressed in a blue cardigan, scrubbing the floor, she was, of course, the janitor in the hospital who tidies his room regularly every day and dusk.

Today, just like every other day, she mopes the tiles gently without disruption but something that will blow her mind is about to arise.

“Ahhhhhh”

Purple electricity suddenly sparked on the helmet of the lifeless Andrew smith whom everyone thinks have been waiting for demise. He unexpectedly jolted his upper torso from the bed and let out a furious roar, as if loathing to accept something.

To this cleaner, who has seen him in this state for two years as she cleans, his sudden litigation was like a mummy suddenly waking up from his coffin. Articulating a surprised yelp, she hurriedly dashed out of the room to call for help.

After awakening, Azraf studied his body and the room he was in with wonder. Everything looked so varied from his former world.

“This must be another world, what am I doing here, did I not die after being stabbed by the blue lightning dragon, why am I in this body that is not mine?.”

As if to answer his question, random information about what transpired suddenly flooded his sanity.

“so I reincarnated in the body of Adam Smith who died just after my soul entered his body then my soul coalesced with his dying soul and gained his memories?.”

“ just as I died, I reincarnated into the body of someone who also died in that time, this is too much of a coincidence, there must be a reason for this.”

“ I remember my demise but why don’t I seem to remember that of Andrew's, something is not right.”

In his absentminded state, the creaking sound of opening a door entered his ears, storing up his awareness.

Shortly after, a gorgeous and blond female doctor in white gently trudged into the room and addressed Andrew, smith.

“mister Smith, how are you feeling” she placed a stethoscope on his chest to perceive his condition then she asked with a gentle voice that can soot the hearts of people.

Azraf gaped at her gorgeous face for some time before he responded.

“Who are you?.”

“am Samantha, your doctor, I have been monitoring your health condition for the past two years that you’ve been unconscious.”

“now can you tell me how you are feeling? so I can understand whether you are alright.”

“am feeling normal, nothing out of the ordinary.”

“Are you sure?” Samantha asked while gazing at Azraf with skepticism. For someone who has been in trance for two years then suddenly woke up, it is unusual for that person to feel normal on that day.

“looks like you won’t believe me until I prove it to you, so I will just come clean”

Azraf furiously nodded his body and flapped his hand, trying to indicate that he was ok.

A bright smile blossomed on Samantha’s face watching him do that. His activity looked very funny to her.

Samantha bent over Azraf and examined his whole body with a torch before withdrawing. “did you see any light after you awoke, the cleaner mentioned a light of some sort”

“not clear” Azraf asserted, now trying to disembark the bed.

“you can’t go anywhere until I finish running medical tests on you”

Azraf turned to her.

The door suddenly unwrapped again and this time, a curvy middle-aged woman in her late thirties who was dressed in a black suit stormed inside in an emotional state and fondled Azraf. She practically started weeping as she squeezed his arms as if afraid that he will run away if she let go.

“my boy, finally, you have come back to me”

“thank goodness you didn’t die”

“thank God you didn’t leave me alone in this world.”

“I was so worried.”

“Are you alright?” “I thought I was going to lose you forever.”

From Andrew's memories, Azraf recognized this woman as Andrew’s paternal aunty, and only remaining family, Yvonne Smith. Andrew's other family members died in a plane crash when he was five so he was raised by his aunt who took over the family's business.

“it's ok aunt, everything is alright.”

Azraf patted her back. Being hugged and worried for by this woman made Azraf feel a sense of warmth even if he was not really her nephew. However, he understands that this woman treated him like her one and only child.

After comforting her a little, Yvonne finally calmed her emotions and let go of Azraf.

“doctor, so when are you going to discharge my boy?.” Cleaning her tears, Yvonne inquired.

“It will take one day at most, after I run a series of tests on him, he will go home with you.” S

Samantha conveyed with her gentle voice.

________one day later__________

“ mister smith, you are officially discharged.” Samantha’s sweet voice whistled, lightning the moods of Azraf and Yvonne.

Soon, the two stepped out from the entrance of the hospital.

“hi mister Smith, am Sharlet Jean, a reporter from the EV cooperation. Mister Smith, do you mind telling us about your experience in the final stage of the Curia online?. people are dying to know about this news”

A lanky and glamorous reporter together with her cameraman entered their direction and tried to interview Adam smith but he and his aunt promptly shun them and boarded a flying car, their destination was their home, the house of smiths located in the south roenifa district.

After two minutes, they have reached their location. The aunt and nephew dropped out of the flying car and went towards their apartment. A tall story building which was decorated with carvings and painted white.

“ Congratulations!!, welcome back friend, welcome back.” the moment they appeared at the front of the residence, two figures greeted them with cheerful voices. Azraf turned to address the two figures with a smile.

These two were Andrew smith's only friends since childhood. Andrew did not have a lot of friends except for these two because he spends most of his time playing games rather than making friends.

To the right was his friend Jenifer, a petit nerd who was wearing eyeglass and a blue gown. Jenifer has been very caring to Smith as a childhood friend even though she mostly disagrees with his views of life.

To her side was Jackson, Jackson was black and bold with toned muscles. Jackson and Andrew used to hang around like palls whenever they have free time, Andrew gets along very well with Jackson due to the straightforward personality of Jackson.

Azraf soon entered into a chatter with Jackson and Jenifer as his aunt went to prepare a delicious dinner for them.

The four enjoyed the meal after as celebration for Andrew's return then Azraf later escorted his friends out of the house.

After that, Azraf went back to the house and started residing.

He dwelled in the house for six days, doing nothing but blending into the foreign world by replicating what he remembered in Andrew smiths memory.

He did a lot of fun things that amazed him about this world. Things like spending time with his aunt, going out with his friends, watching movies, and above all, playing games.

However, he soon got tired of this life, although life is kind of amazing, it is boring to someone like him who used to live in a world where he hunts powerful creatures and even fought wars.

Losing interest in everything he did all this while, Azraf directed his attention to something he had excluded all this while.

He commenced research on the incidences that occurred while he was in a coma two years ago, he aims to find out any clue about the rationale for his reincarnation.

He turned on the recent records of the news station in his projection TV and countless news enter his lookout from time to time however, he couldn’t find anything useful despite searching for an extended time, the news on TV was just about random things on earth which did not interest him or have anything to do with his research.

Just when he assumed giving up, a piece of particularly interesting news caught his attention.

“breaking news. Timmy stark, the president of the Glorious Virtual Cooperation who is the mastermind behind the creation of the virtual reality game, Curia Online committed suicide after the incident in the game which leads to the death of thousand players.”

“The society carries different opinions on why he committed suicide. some speculated that he felt guilty for the deaths of the players and wished to atone for them while some think that it had something to do with the mysterious dimensional space crack which popped up in space a year before, because the scientists have researched and proven that there is a vast world behind the dimensional space crack which led to a world that looks the same as the one in the virtual reality game…….”

Azraf suddenly paused the show.

“what space crack? I need to find information on the dimensional space crack.”

He checked the date of the report.

“November seventeen, of 2050, this is one month ago, I need to find the corresponding time of the dimensional space crack”

Tracing the time, Azraf finally found the report on the dimensional space crack, his eyes widened in shock from what he saw.

“is that not a space gate?”