I bet my life on it.

　I've learned that it's very hard to do.
　Work, sports, hobbies, gambling.
　It doesn't matter what it is, it's difficult in today's Japan to achieve anything by throwing everything at it.
　Life, money, society, other people, and the body all get in the way.

　I didn't go to school and didn't work until I was an adult.
　I just kept aiming for the "top".
　Literally, I put everything on the line.
　He devoted everything but the bare minimum, such as food, sleep and elimination, to it.

"World number one.
　The result is this.
　The pinnacle of millions of human beings.
　Truly, truly exhilarating!
　What a delight!
　I felt like all the hard work I'd done, all my life, had paid off.
　Everyone in the world recognizes him as the best in the world. A truly godlike being revered by all. I am the strongest in the history of the world, and the only one to be defeated. That's who I am.

　The result of my life.
　My entire life.


　The VRMMORPGMMORPG『Mevious Online』was ranked number one by a landslide.

　That's all until today.




............

　I guess that's exactly what it means to be stunned.
　The other day, my main character "seven" was cracked.
　Not only my personal data, but everything from backups to everything else.

　I wasn't the only one affected. I've heard that as many as 3,000 people were affected.
　That's the top 3,000 players.
　They've already caught the guy. He was one of the top players, and it seems that he was jealous of them, which led him to commit the crime lightly. It was supposed to be an act of vindictive persistence that was not done lightly, but the media and the general public didn't seem to understand that.

　But the media and the general public didn't seem to understand that.
　Then the Mövius Online management announced the following.
　According to them, it's impossible to recover all affected characters. The only way to make up for this is by paying for the privilege of creating a new character.

........................
　I was trembling with rage and emptiness, and vomiting up stomach juices over and over again along with hatred, but what about the other players, other than me?
　Public opinion was that Mevion's management was a victim too, and a certain board said it was a reasonable response.
　On Twitter, a famous distributor whose character had been deleted went crazy and rampaged through the forums, even making a bomb threat at the game's headquarters, which led to a police report.
　However, by the time the commotion died down, the Mevion crack incident had been completely extinguished.
　Screw that.

'...... is-......'
　I don't feel like doing anything.
　I can't think of anything.
　All I can do is sigh.
　I've had nothing but water on my tongue for three days now.

　My world number one is never going to come back.


............ Okay!

　This isn't going to last forever.

　I slapped my knees with a slap and stood up to get back on my feet.



'Let's die!'