*Soft Door SLAM*
Looking at the new place he rented, he couldn't help but sigh in relief "Finally arrived, it's been hours of sitting in that tin can. I should probably make something to eat and hit the sack after checking the new Servant that should be dropping today."
Remembering the new saber class version of Medusa, he couldn't help but hurry to make his dinner.
"Come to think of it, wasn't there also new 4-star Stheno as well, wonder what class she is?" humming some tunes while making his dinner, he thought about how many rolls it's gonna take to get these 2 Gorgon sisters in his repertoire of Servants. In fact, his repertoire was stacked, after all, he spent about 70 percent of his total income in gacha, not yet reaching the certain Chaotic Evil Gacha Beast, but still a staggering amount of money considering he actually had a pretty good job with a good salary.
Ardan wasn't always this much of a bum that spent his entire salary on games, looking back, he was actually a happy young. Despite not having a father, he was always disciplined, determined and after hearing accounts of his father from his mother, he actually genuinely respected the man due to the fact that he had actually saved Ardan from a near-death incident which costed his own life, a heartwarming yet wrenching sacrifice indeed. Speaking of his mother, she had actually sadly passed away recently, about 2 years ago, after giving him his coming of age gift left by the father, she had a heart attack during her sleep, ultimately leaving him alone in the cold world.
*Munching* "Hmm...I've rolled about 200 times now, still haven't gotten shit, only those god damn mapo tofu and sakura's bentos, haa~. Truly my luck isn't something to envy upon." Eating in misery, he eventually turned to go to his bed and pump some funds to get quartz until suddenly...
*BOOM*
"Agh! Fuck. What in the fuck was that?" Hearing a deafening sound, he winced like Akira before hurrying to the window to see what was going on.
There he saw in the sky, trails that were clearly left from a plane that was already gone and a single black dot in the sky that was gradually dropping at terminal velocity. "Was that an Airstrike or something? Huh, what the hell is that?"
Slowly but surely, the figure of the black dot dropping right on top of him began to reveal some distinguishable features, severely intensifying his panic. "WHAT THE FUCK? IS THAT A FUCKING NUKE???"
'Is World War 3 happening or something, why is that thing getting dropped, not to mention WHY WAS IT LITERALLY ON TOP OF ME?'
*Sigh* "The land of the rising sun is about to get it's third one huh...GG I guess." Yes, his new place was located in Japan, the place where it pretty much marked the end for World War 2 after the dropping of 2 devastating nuclear bombs, one intentional and the other 'accidental'. It was quite the coincidence to be honest, who would've thought the moment he went to his favourite country to travel to, he would be courting the 3rd one with the Japanese folks. But then again, coming to Japan combined with his hopeless luck...perhaps it did make sense.
"Haha...You told me to make most of my life. I guess I'm not gonna get the chance to do that much, sorry mom... But then again, I probably already lost everything after you left me." Laughing weakly, he remembered his mother's last words and wishes that she left for him, making him feel the deep sadness that always gnawed at him until he stood face to face with the looming doom.
Turning to his phone, he looked at Medusa one last time before pressing to roll 11 times. "Final roll of my life. Medusa you better be in it."
Skipping through the rolls, golden sparks suddenly lit from his phone, uplifting his mood a little bit. However just as Medusa's figure popped on the screen, everything suddenly went dark for him and an ungodly amount of pain swept over him.
'AGHHHH!!'
'Can't think'
'It hurts so much'
'Can't see'
'Can't hear'
The searing pain left him senseless as he struggled to even think of anything. It felt as if his body was placed inside the core of the hot blazing sun, burning endlessly from the inside out, slowly but surely destroying his mind, body and soul to absolute cinders.
This lasted until a sudden light broke through the nothingness, enveloping him in a soothing embrace of a mother. "My son. You must live" The voice tore through the endless flames of pain, pulling him from the hell to a silent dark environment, oddly peaceful.
'Mom?'
'Can't feel'
'The pain... it's gone?'
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"Akjsdae wejlsa fwwfs?" A manic, indistinguishable sound echoed throughout the demolished lands. Buildings, forests, animals and people all gone, disintegrated due to the sheer power of the nuke. Massive crater, spanning a size of a whole city was introduced in the land of the rising sun, forever imprinting it with a irreversible scar.
At the heart of the imposing crater lie a figure so disfigured, it looked as if it had been through hell itself and came to tell a tale about it only for it to become unable to do anything but spew indiscernible groanings and hang on the thin line between life and death, slowly tipping over to the latter.
'It's peaceful but... scary. I really can't do anything. Can't move, feel, speak, see at all.'
'Am I dead? No, why else would be able to think like this, but then does that mean I survived a nuke point blank? And that voice was mom's...'
*Sigh* 'What a cool on the surface, yet shitty in reality thing to achieve. Really, just my luck to pull a bullshit plot armour on the worst timings. Now I can't do shit but wait for the slow death.'
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[Eyes open, master.]