Chapter 03: Opportunity

A week has passed since i went into the city. I stayed in the forest most of the time. But that day i decided to move forward, onto a new floor. Floor 38, the endless mountainrange.

Author Note: Floor 38 doesn't appear in the original story

I was being stalked now for a while, but the person didn't show themselve yet. I was always wondering who it was, but i didn't really care. In this mountainrange i could just live peacfull until the game's over. That's what i thought. But soon after i came to this floor, the person finally revealed themselve. It was a young boy, around 14 i guessed. He told me, that the higher ups of his guild heared my story, and wanted to hire me for a job.

They played like every normal player, but since they were attacked by an Player Killer a few times the past few days, they wanted someone to find, and kill, or imprison him.

I really didn't want to be involved there, and i was kind of pissed off by this little guy, so i decided to go back to the first floor. There was a restaurant i liked when i first came here. Or rather then the restaurant, i liked one of the waitress. I didn't even now her name, but i really liked her, although i can now say, i didn't love her.

She was always smilling, and was kind to everyone, but she was also not holding back when you did somehing bad. She was always so lovely.

"Hey there Mahoi! You haven't been here in a long time. How are you doing?" Yes. I came here often back before i became a red player. And thanks to these potions, i can come here sometimes. "Hi. I'm fine, i'm fine. How are you?" it was always the same. She saw me, came to me, greeted me, and asked me how i'm doing. Of course my answer was always the same. Everytime i saw her, i forgot all my worries.

She always treated me nicer then anyone else, but i didn't notice. That day, she asked me to go eat with her someday. I happy as i was, of course accepted.

A few days later, we decided to go on a date. "Hey Mahoi! Over here!" There she was. She stood there, waiting for me. She was cute in her waitress outfit, but she looked even cuter in her normal clothes. "Hey... uhhhm. I just realized that you never told me your name..." Yes. It was really emberassing to not know her name, but there was just no way of finding out her name unless the other person tells you.

"Ahaha. Right, i completly forgot." "Oh god she's so cute when she's clumsy..." is what i thought. She said her name was Mara. She was 17 years old, and went to highschool before this deathgame started.

We went to a lot of different places. We went shopping for clothes, accesories, and a small weapon for selfdefense. We had a lot of fun. So much fun that i almost forgot about the potion duration.

It was luckily already evening so i said that i have to go now, and that it was a lot of fun, and we parted ways.

The next morning i went back to the city because i wanted to say thanks for the date the day before, but when i came there. "Mara? She hasn't been here all day. I don't know where she is, she also didn't call the day off. Sorry i can't help you" I expected the worst, and sadly, it was true. I ran through the city, searching for her, but i couldn't finde her anywhere.

When i ran out of the city, i saw her standing on the grass. She talked with a man that covered his face, and had a cape on. I slowly walked to them, when i saw the man pulling out a dagger stabing Mara right in the stomach.

"MARA!" I screamed out. The man, who just stood there before, ran away as i came closer to Mara. She couldn't have bleed out, since that feature didn't exist in the game, but the dagger had a strong poison imbued in it, that my antidotes couldn't do anything about.

She died in my arms. Her last words weren't meant for her parents, or her little brother, nor her friends, but to me. She said "I... I'm sorry. I put my trust in the wrong one. He said he would help me. But i was betrayed." She explained to me that she tried to find her sister that was trapped in this game too, and that this man wanted to help her. But he just used her.

Her very last words were. "I love you Mahoi. I loved you for a long time. So... I'm sorry." Her HP hit zero, and she disappeared. I just... I just kept sitting there... When i woke up from my dreamland, my potion duration already expired long time ago, and i was surrounded by players.

I don't know much of what happened after that, my memory is still a bit hazy, but i remember clearly, that when i came to to my senses, out of 13 perople, only 4 remainend and i stood there with my sword in my hand.

The others were terrefird, and ran for it, as i just collapsed to the ground again.

A few days later, the boy from before came back to me. When he saw my face, he started shaking, and i said "I'm in. Tell me what to do..."