Ichinose Kaoru had always been shy. Had always been the weird kid, both in real life and online. Real life because he was so shy, so different. Didn't play sports like all the other boys, didn't join any clubs like all the other kids. No, he was always on the computer playing The World.
And even in The World he was different, because his best friend was a character that shouldn't exist. Or, rather, her design shouldn't have. She looked like a cross between a cat and a rabit; while her body and facial features were definitely cat-like, her ears were not. Rumored to be an NPC, it seemed as though only Elk knew the truth about Mia. Mia was real. She had to have been real. No NPC could act the way Mia did.
and they all said she didn't exist, but she existed. she did exist, she does exist, even now. mia's always with me, always...
But then she started.. glitching. But it wasn't because she was an NPC, it wasn't! It was her headset. Mia just had a bad headset, that was all! And even when she... transformed. It was still Mia. And when she attacked hi-
When The World was destroyed, Kaoru was lost. To be separated from Mia was painful, to say the least. But then The World came back, and Kaoru was reborn as Endrance.
And things were fine. They really were. He was reunited with Mia, and he entertained himself by fighting in the Arena. Somewhere along the line he became obsessed with beauty, and it seemed fighting that someone like him should be Emperor.
But then Haseo...
killed her, he killed Mia, and probably didn't feel an ounce of guilt. and endrance locked himself away, because a life without Mia, a world without mia, wasn't worth it.
Haseo came to find him, though. Because he needed Endrance. Someone needed him.
For once, he was needed.
