Chapter 0:

A simple error; Going from a Angel to a Gamer.

I accidentally trapped a human in his game, and now I have to get him out!


“The world is mysterious and heartless, from goblins to dragons, war, and deprivation. Humans are tormented with inhumane and mortal terrors, though have no fear! For it is a hero’s position that helps mend the world of these banes. Our party may be smallish, and we are but one of numerous; we must stand together and fight for the people! And with my blade.”

Ok, I will pause from whatever he’s blabbing about to explain what’s happening. Good evening; my name is Kami-chan. But don’t get confused. I’m not God; that would be way beyond my pay grade. It’s just a nickname my coworkers gave me. But again, don’t get confused; my coworkers and I are angels from heaven. You see, heaven used to be this mystical, relaxing place humans only dreamed of coming to, and to run things on earth only took a few minutes a week to check in on the infrequent animal creation and on-and-off disaster-making. However, God and his pal Lucifer argued in a late-night game of blackjack, and humans were created. This was also the blackjack game God found out Lucifer was counting cards and banished him to the earth’s center. At first, humans were manageable, but around the 1800s, humans figured out “electricity.” (He was just as confused when we asked God what was happening), and things only worsened. First, it was electricity, but then the radio was invented, and finally, for some reason, a “rocket” with a dog comes crashing through your living room and costs a fortune to fix!

Sorry…Back on track, after moving heaven to Mars, God realized that all this new tech was disrupting the universe since humans weren’t part of the original plan. So taking a piece out of their book, God rearranged heaven into more of a corporate style. This is where I come in. I’m a middle manager for the “Photon and Atomic management division.” My job is to make sure when you flick a light or rarely slap a table, The light turns on, and you don’t phase through the table. Unfortunately, our paradise went from drinking wine and playing ping-pong to late hours and only two-week vacations every year. This wouldn’t be so bad if a year on Mars wasn’t 687 days.

This is where the man rambling comes back into the picture. He’s jobless, so I call him Joless. Joless is a foreigner who moved to my section, Japan, when he was in middle school and has lived there since and despite knowing two languages. Could never land a job or get good enough grades for any decent college. So alas, he spends his days in his gross room filled with “Anime” merchandise, from figures to posters to even a rug. Seriously, you can’t afford your rent and decide to spend it all on plastic junk. You aren’t even taking good care of it with all these trash bags on the ground, and if I have to smell...sorry, It’s been a long day. You see, on my “work feather”, which is like a laptop in basic terms, managing the Photons in his rooms, I accidentally added one. Now this might not seem bad, but that one photon caused the electricity in his keyboard to mix with his electromagnetic field, causing his photons, the keyboard, and anything connected to it, his PC, to mix. To sum everything up. He’s now inside his PC.

Of course, I didn’t freak out too much when I released this. This kind of thing happens all the time. All you need to do is safely unmix the fields and erase the victim’s memories. So by total accident... I might have left him there for a few days; I’m busy with stuff, ok! You couldn’t even comprehend all the photons you humans have accidentally created in 2,000 years. So when I finally got around to help, I noticed a few things. One, his room and hobbies are gross; Two, he had a game called “The forgotten legacy of the Hero’s Tale 3: Deluxe Edition” opened on his pc. Three, I couldn’t find his electromagnetic field!

After pacing around his room and cleaning it up because the smell was distracting, I concluded that he was trapped in the game, and the only way to get him out was to close it. However, Joless isn’t an honest man. He’s the type to say, “yea, I beat that black spirit 3 boss on my first try,” But then uses a leveling glitch to level up before facing the boss. So, of course, he downloaded cheating software on the web to level up faster. But because of my little tiny slip-up, the software bugged out. And because he downloaded software from a sketchy site (I went to the said site to see if the forums could fix my problem.) I learned that the cheating software makes it so you can’t exit the game without turning off the power, Which would turn off the electricity to the pc…which would kill Joless. Now you’re probably wondering why I would be checking forums when human life is on the line. Because Jolesss soul didn’t transfer into the main character, But instead into the game’s sidekick. So for the last few days, he’s been stuck in the same area, unable to progress because the main character wasn’t moving. And despite my cruel tone the last few minutes, I am an angel, so I went into the game to try and calm him down as he was crying in a puddle of his own tears. And after much “PLEASE HELP ME” and screaming, I explained everything to him as I did you. And he said, “Well, why don’t we just crash the game?” So I exited the game and back into his room (much to my dismay) and went to a fan site to see if I could find a glitch strong enough to crash the game.… I can go in and out of the game if you’re wondering. I’m made of photons, and I can control mine, unlike Joless, who’s made of photons and atoms. If Joless had been surfing the web or writing a resume, his photons would be scattered around the electricity of the PC. However, it all condensed into the sidekick character. Imagine if his photon were spread out; it would be like collecting dust off a rock; all you would need to do is vacuum it up. However, since it all condenses, it would be like trying to split a piece of rock.

Now let’s replace dust with photons and rocks with atoms. If you try to split an atom, the whole place goes boom. And I might live, but everyone in a 50-mile radius would not. After hours of searching, I discovered a quest in the game called “Taking care of the dragon!” I couldn’t figure out much about the quest since it’s only in the deluxe version. The walkthroughs haven’t been released because the game only came out a few days ago. However, people are talking about the glitch at the end of the quest, where the game can’t load all the assists and crashes the whole game. “Oh, that’s perfect,” Joless said after I came back, he then started this huge boring, drawn-out monologue that explained the whole plot of the game like it was his own. (however, it was on the back of the case; I literally saw it under cans when I was cleaning his room) and now I’m stuck with three goals: Reach the end of the quest, Collect his photons and place them back into his body, and try not to abandon him. “-and no matter what, my lady from the heavens, I, shall shield you and perhaps afterward, I shall acquire a kiss from those holy lips from you?”...Yea, I’ll probably unplug the PC and go home.