In a dingy room, where fout white walls stood to form an enclosed container, a dark door stood at the entrance while, a small window was aimed at the back of the room.
The room also contained a bed adorned with beautiful soft white blankets, a soft blue foam bed and equally a soft blue and white striped pillow which was placed on the bed which was in turn placed on the right side of the room's floor.
A figure sat on the bed staring blankly at the concrete floor trying to decipher how to lay so much as a crack on it, while drifting away into his thoughts.
You see a few painful hours earlier, Frank had discovered where the road to the mine was and how to get there when he glanced into Berry's room, but upon arriving at his room, Frank tried everything he could do to dig up the floor.
He tried, striking the floor with his fists, stumping on it with his legs, shouting the names of each of his skills, running around his room hoping he could get tired so as to activate his attribute which in turn would activate his SS ranked passive skill and a few dumb things up to no avail.
Tired of repeating the same things over and over again and watching as none of the skills he had so much pride on not work, Frank decided to sit on his bed to think about how life was before he stepped into the portal.
He thought about his childhood, how he had never known his parents and how his earliest memory about life was being punched in the face at around three years of age in a group home by his supposed foster brother. How at the age of five he finally found a way to escape the group home and then started fending for himself on the streets, he remembered how the police had caught him when his skinny hands had tried swapping a few apples from a fruit stall and how he had tried to escape the police with a weak, haggard, malnourished body.
He remembered being sent into an orphanage home and getting into trouble on the first day or better yet how someone caused trouble for him on the first day. He remembered meeting Kasim for the first time and how they had truly bonded like brothers.
Immediately, Frank thought about this a notification appeared on his face, Frank stared at it but could not see what the notification was saying. His body was seeing the notification but his mind was elsewhere.
Frank continued to think about the good times, he and Kasim had and how they both started middle school at the age of nine, how at first Kasim was a bright kid but after mixing with bad associations in the public school he quickly became a bad apple.
Frank thought about how he too was a bright kid but how having being mistreated and looked down upon by his classmates and teachers, he joined Kasim's gang.
He joined Kasim's gang after his middle school. At first he helped the gang in committing a few petty criminal offenses like counting the batches of cash stolen, stealing other people ID, lock picking a few bank officials doors.
After a while he owned his art and began opening office safes, P. O boxes and bank safes.
Frank remembered the accident that caused the gang to be dismissed and how a few gang members were lost in that accident. Frank also remembered feeling relieved that he was given a new start at life albeit as a young adult whose only job qualification was his testimonial of elementary school.
How he searched for jobs all around but could only get those which offered a few dollars which were barely enough for his rent not to talk of his feeding. How he was slowly rotting away until he met up with a friend online who showed him ways to borrow money from little microfinance banks and get away with the money.
The charade lasted for a while until the police and the law caught up with him, how he was sentenced to prison for a total of 10 years. How he calculated his age and then added to ten to it and came up with 28 years.
How he had wistfully believed he could survive in prison and how at the first week he had food poisoning, he continued suffering for a total of one year before he called upon his friend to bail him out of prison no matter the cost.
Surprisingly he was free, only to learn that his friend had freed him at a terrible cost, his friend borrowed money in his name from the worst organization to borrow money from.
As if that was all, he borrowed such a large amount of money to clear his other debts and finally spared a few change to spare him out of prison.
Young Frank looked at the huge mess and then decided to leave all his worries, he started partying with the remaining money he had and continued borrowing money from small finance companies the way he did before to support his lifestyle.
How he purchased a game at his 20th birthday and then decided to play games all day forever. He remembered how one fateful day he received a call from the Queen's corporation telling him how the debt he owed had gone up at a large amount and how he was required to pay up or he would be sued to court.
How he had remembered the terrible experience he witnessed in jail, causing him to call his old friend Kasim and asking him to borrow some money he could use to stall the corporation for about a day or two.
How Kasim had suggested a gig for him, and how he had found out that Kasim had not only started operating a new gang but that he was the boss of the gang.
How he participated in the robbery, how he had almost gotten shot, the sight he witnessed that day.
How he had returned to his house and prepared all the things he would need for what he deemed would be like a spa getaway.
How he crossed the portal with no second thoughts and how upon heading into the land of souls he was not himself anymore.
Frank woke up from his daze, entering into the present to witness a shocking scene.