Inside a small room, there was a handsome young man with white hair, about 178 cm tall, who could be seen sleeping on a small, worn-out bed.
The young man suddenly opened his eyes and sat up straight, gasping haggardly as if he had just had a nightmare.
His golden eyes immediately swept around the surroundings as his hand unconsciously reached out to his waist, trying to reach out for his sword.
'This… Isn't this my old room?' Kai thought to himself as he felt a little bit nostalgic when he looked around his room.
He then suddenly remembered something and threw off his blanket, jumped up and hurried to the door.
When Kai opened the door, tears streamed down his cheeks as he saw his little sister sitting on the sofa, watching TV and eating a snack.
"Huh? Big Brother Kai, why are you crying?" A cute little girl asked with a puzzled and worried expression. The little girl was about five years old, dressed in simple white clothes with a twin-tail hairstyle and a chubby face.
"Nana!" Kai immediately ran and hugged his little sister tightly, suffocating her so much that she bit him because she couldn't breathe.
"Hmmph! Why are you crying and suddenly hugging Nana so hard?!" Nana pouted, puffing out her cheek as she tilted her head a little bit while looking at her big brother unhappily.
'Is this real?' Kai thought to himself, feeling disbelief about the fact that he had just returned in time.
He then reached out his hand and pinched her little sister's chubby cheek to see if she felt it, as he didn't want to pinch himself like an idiot.
"Ouch!" Nana slapped his hand angrily before tilting her head completely and puffing out her cheeks. "I'm definitely telling this to Mom later that you bullied Nana while crying!"
"Okay, okay… I'm sorry." Kai chuckled and gently patted her head.
"Hmmph!" Nana snorted, moving her head aggressively as she didn't want to be petted.
"How about this? I'll buy you ice cream later, but you have to forgive me." Kai smiled, remembering how much Nana enjoyed ice cream.
When Nana heard it, she immediately looked at her brother excitedly, her eyes filled with pure excitement. "Really?"
"Of course!" Kai smiled as he patted her head softly, feeling extremely happy and relieved that this might be that old man's method of helping him in resurrecting his family.
"Yeay! Thank you!" Nana immediately hugged her brother happily.
After a while of having their own moments, Kai finally realized what was going on.
He had returned a full month before the world plunged into chaos, when dungeons first began to descend.
When the dungeons started to descend, people immediately connected to Worldbreaker Online, the world's most popular VRMMORPG, linking their accounts instantly made them stronger in reality.
However, anyone logged in when the dungeons descended was trapped in-game for an hour before they could log out.
That was how Kai lost his family because when he finally logged out, he found his little sister's body in her wheelchair beside his capsule.
At that time, he was furious with himself because he assumed his little sister had attempted to protect him since his family must have assumed he was unaware of the chaos in the outside world.
The reason why he guessed that her little sister had tried to protect him was because her hand was still gripping firmly on a broom, facing the door, while behind her was the capsule containing his body.
Looking at his family's dead bodies was the most horrifying experience he had ever had, as she had a few stab wounds in her body and his parents' bodies were in worse condition, laying in the living room near the front door.
Why had he survived? Apparently, anyone still inside a capsule and logged in was undetectable to monsters for an unknown reason. However, this only lasted for a week.
Now, with a month to prepare, he felt relief as he could prepare a lot of things in advance.
He also decided not to log into Worldbreaker Online and use the time to level up while waiting for the dungeons.
Kai refused to risk a repeat of the past by grinding in-game while chaos erupted outside.
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After waiting half an hour with no sign of his parents, Kai decided to head out, bringing Nana along for the promised ice cream.
As he opened the door, a strange feeling stole over him as he glanced toward the kitchen, eyeing the knife hanging on the wall.
Clenching his hands repeatedly, Kai realized that the sensation of not having a weapon in his body was what made him feel strange.
"Brother Kai! Why are you staring at the kitchen so long?" Nana looked at her brother weirdly, as she noticed that the wheelchair hadn't moved a bit after he opened the door.
Snapping back to himself, Kai said, "Wait a second," and hurried to his room.
After searching for a while, he finally found something he was looking for.
It was a military knife that he had bought for the purpose of unboxing his package whenever he ordered something online.
It had also been his first weapon in his previous life, serving him until it wore out after many fights.
'Hopefully, it's just my feelings.' Kai thought to himself as he slipped the knife behind his back, tucking it between his pants and body.
Subsequently, they went to a bank that was quite far away since Kai wanted to withdraw a lot of money for his preparation, and it was also very close to Nana's favorite ice cream shop.
As Kai pushed the wheelchair by the side of the road, he petted his little sister, who was sitting on the wheelchair happily as she was enjoying her ice cream. "Is it good?"
However, before he could hear her little sister's response, Kai was shocked when he heard familiar system notifications that he really didn't want to hear at the moment.
Not only that, at the same time when he saw the translucent display appear before him as it displayed his status, he heard people scream loudly from behind.
"HELP!"
"What are those little green monsters?!"
"N-No! Someone help!"
Kai immediately tilted his head and noticed a dungeon break, as goblins began to appear in large numbers and slaughter people left and right.
'Fuck! How can this happen right now!' Kai cursed in his heart, gritting his teeth in anger.
He then used every brain cell that he had to think about his current situation and find a solution.