PROLOGUE — "The Rift"
> What would you do if one day... someone told you that this world you cherish so much… this world you idolize...
...was just an illusion.
A facade.
A lie... made to hide the truth from you.
The truth?
It's just a pretty story we tell ourselves... so we don't break.
Yeah. I used to think this world was real.
The streets. The people. The dreams. The laughs, the tears, the hopes...
Yeah. All of it felt real.
But everything shattered… the day I got sucked into that puddle, right there in the middle of the street.
I remembered his words.
Words he always said, with that stupid smile of his.
> — "When something's too much… count to five. Then do it again. And again… and again... until it passes."
That was my big brother.
The night he gave me this necklace... he was drunk, laughing his ass off.
Three days later... he was dead.
I thought this necklace was just a keepsake.
I was wrong.
The world trembled.
The sky turned pitch black.
The shadows... ripped open. Twisted. Deformed.
When I opened my eyes…
It wasn't the world I knew anymore.
> — "One... two... three... four... five..."
— "Again... Again..."
— "Fuck... Again..."
My hands are shaking.
My veins feel like they're about to explode.
My skin's burning. Something's crawling under it.
Eating me alive from the inside.
The chains burst out.
Black. Sharp. Alive.
They wrap around me. Crush me.
It burns. It tears. It slices.
> — "Fuck this..."
The necklace cracks.
A black light bursts out of it.
The chains whip, coil, smash the ground.
Something's being born.
A halo of shadows. Of chains. Of blades.
Humans... with their bullshit philosophies.
> — "Fuck it... THIS IS GONNA BLEED!!"
...
— Who the hell is this guy?!
A voice. A stranger. Someone I didn't know.
> — "Welcome to the UNDERWORLD, kid..."
— The place where everything is real.
⚠️ End of Prologue.