I looked at the slightly familiar face of my former fiancé, and I was confused. It had been more than three years since I had seen him again.
For some time I could not understand and continued to stare at him blankly. Soon he introduced himself and a familiar name sounded, after which he began his lesson.
Just the first question put almost everyone in a stupor, although it was a simple question, but it was also very difficult.
During the lesson I met his eyes for a moment. He seemed to recognize me, but there was no emotion in his eyes.
His appearance made me feel bad, although he was excluded from the family, but on paper he is my fiancé. So I have to do something about it.
.....
Finally reaching instead, where there is a virtual reality station, I didn't hesitate to go in.
There are many places for students and, of course, for teachers. I chose one of them and entered using the device on my wrist.
Inside were several things and a huge capsule. Lying in the capsule the connection was soon completed and a selection screen appeared before my eyes. Selecting a ranking match another prompt appeared.
It said if I wanted to enter the match anonymously. This was to protect the information, but if you really want some people can still find details about everything.
{Connect}
{Please choose an alias}
I thought for a moment and wrote 'DARK', at the same time I felt ashamed. This is the nickname I gave myself in every game I played.
{Name already taken, please try again}
As expected if it's an online game these nicknames are always busy. After almost 8 tries I finally got the nickname 'DARKWITE'. Yes a silly nickname, but the important thing is that it worked.
{Addressing}
{Will now be matched by your strength grades}
The images distorted slightly in front of my eyes, and I found myself in a simple arena. Opposite me stood a teenager looking about 17 or 18 years old.
In front of me appeared a hint window and a report back. The hint said that I could mentally present the weapon that I needed, after the report could not be returned.
And now I suddenly wondered if the equipment works in the virtual world. Well, there is no other way but to check it.
And so presenting the dagger, it immediately appeared in my hand I lightly swung my hand and it turned out to be easy.
Once again I looked at my opponent and noticed the countdown report. With five seconds left, I braced myself. As soon as the countdown was over, the 3-second countdown to the start appeared.
Opposite me my opponent was holding a sword and I also got ready. Judging by the scoring system we should be close in strength, that is a sign of level 1.
And so the match began, the opponent nimbly jumped towards me raising the sword, but as soon as I concentrated everything slowed down, just like that time.
It's confirmation, I bounced to the side and he missed. Seeing that he didn't have much experience either, I quickly tried to get close, but he stepped back.
Honestly it was an awkward battle. Another swing and another miss.
After several attempts, I jumped up and approached him, causing him to raise his sword in a defensive stance. As I approached, I swung my dagger, but surprisingly he blocked. Swung it again, and it was blocked.
Suddenly he counterattacked, but because he was too close I could not bounce, and turning my waist to the side I dodged.
And that's when I had an epiphany, even though our speeds and strengths were equal, but the reaction was completely different.
Realizing this I stopped running and aggressively attacked, immediately dodging another counterattack I swung my dagger in the direction of his chest.
Before hi could react the blow went straight into his chest. Soon his body turned into a particle and disappeared, at the same time there was a sound of congratulations and the menu of choices opened again.
With the suggestion to exit or continue, I didn't feel exhausted so I continued on.
The battles after that were the same. So I built a series of 3 victories. But after that there was a woman standing in front of me. She too must have had a personality lock because I couldn't see her face, but she looked young.
But what was even more interesting was that she had two daggers instead of one.
After thinking about it for a while I wanted two daggers too, but then I changed my mind. With two daggers, the special effect might not work, so I braced myself for the match.
I looked intently at the woman and concentrated, and things began to slow down. But what happened next sent shivers down my spine.
What I saw was how the girl wasn't affected by slowing down. Rather, she was so fast that in states of concentration I could see as if she were running normally.
That was a problem, although concentration does increase the speed of my reflexes. But here my body can't move that fast. When she ran halfway I forced myself to move backwards as fast as I could.
But I couldn't keep up with the girl, and that's when I knew I was going to lose this battle. This would be my first loss.
When I came to terms with that the girl swung one of her daggers, watching as the dagger gradually approached me. I wanted to take one last swing at her, too.
And then a bizarre thing happened, a hand that could barely move. At this point, very quickly intercepted the opponent's dagger. The girl immediately pointed the other dagger in my direction.
But just as I thought it was the girl turned around and wanted to kick me, but the dagger blocked my leg again. Thereby damaging her .
The special effect worked very well. But the girl did not stop what she was doing, so she finally kicked me in the side. From which I leaned back, as if finally having waited for that she began to wave her daggers furiously again.
I wanted to say to myself that it's impossible to be so lucky with the special effects as suddenly I noticed that everything around slowed down even more, but at the same time I felt lightness, just like that time, in that building.
Looking at the girl it was no longer so fast rather, it was when I was concentrating then that simple people looked like that.
Knowing that the effect did not last long I quickly kicked the girl in the stomach. I also noticed that she wanted to block the blow, but she was slow.
As soon as she leaned back I moved closer and stabbed at her side, simultaneously reaching for her hand and snatching the dagger.
Repeating this motion once more her second dagger stabbed her right in the neck, at the same time the special effects ended.
I watched as the girl looked at me turned into particles and disappeared.
When I heard the congratulations, I decided to pass out and go to rest since the last fight was very tiring for me.
Still have to get ready for class.....
