Fantasy Star Online's

Prologues

"It's gonna be our last fight, huh?"

"...."

"Well, don't you want to talk? All right, I think it's gonna end pretty quickly."

On a mountain peak, were standing two people with complete fighting equipment; one was using a spear, the other was using a broadsword. The person carrying the sword raised his sword stuck on the ground and held it on his shoulder by one hand, while the other hand strolled forward to provoke his opponent.

"Come, forward!"

"Yeah!"

The man raised his spear and dashed towards the man with the broadsword. He swung his spear diagonally, and his opponent held back his attack with that broadsword with just a single hand. Their weapons met each other, there was a sound of metal rubbing against each other as well as sparks resulting from the friction.

"Is this all you're capable of, Gloofy?" the man armed with a sword.

"This is just the beginning, don't get big head first, Emperos," replied the man with a spear.

Emperoros gave a slight thrust to his sword and repelled Gloofy a few meters away, which was greatly affected because Emperoros had great power when viewed from his body. In contrast to Gloofy who has a smaller body than him, because he is someone with a type that relies more on agility and speed than sheer strength.

Gloofy stood up with both feet, held his spear behind his back, then carried it forward while giving it a bit of his spear play.

"Haha! You want to fight or contest?" emperor asked with a mocking face.

"Aren't those two things the same?"

"I mean—forget! I'm coming!" exciting Emperos.

Emperor with his sword advanced and attacked Gloofy with brutal force, with just one swing, Emperor could throw Gloofy with his spear, all the way to the edge. Gloofy balanced his body so as not to fall down and lose instantly.

"Hows it? You surprised?" emperor said while laughing loudly.

"Lumayan, but, you're too slow so I can still hold it."

"God! All of that should be balanced, if I focus on strength, my speed must be very slow. So do you, who focus on speed and make your attack power weak!"

"So rare, you can think like that" Gloofy sneered.

"What did you say?!" emperor cried out furiously, he attacked Gloofy without thinking.

Gloofy smiled cunningly as he saw Emperoros move to attack him when lured by his words.

"The winner is determined!!" shouted Emperos.

Emperoros jumped up with a huge sword grasped above his head, ready to swing and split the opponent in half at any moment. But, it's all useless!

"You're right, the winner has been decided" said Gloofy with a faint smile.

Gloofy moved to the side and dodged the Emperor who jumped towards him. Emperoros who saw it immediately forced his body to land before falling down—they were on a steep cliff top.

"I'm the winner" said Gloofy with a wide smile that adorned his face.

"Damn, tengu–"

Not yet able to complete his sentence, Gloofy kicked the butt of Emperoros so that he fell down and lost the fight.

"Cursed you, GLOOOOFFFFY!" shouted Emperor who was now falling.

[YOU WIN!]

***

In a small room, where the light comes from a computer screen. A man with black eye bags, tired face and pale skin was stretching after finishing his favorite game. Yes, it's done, which means the game will be closed.

"Hoaahh."

"Gig!"

He coughed, then rolled his body until his position changed to supine staring at the ceiling of his room, there was a hanging lamp but no light came out of the lamp. He daydreamed for some time until finally, his smartphone rang and the screen lit up making the dark room get a new light source after the computer screen died.

The person immediately regained consciousness from the daydream and picked up his smartphone, turned it on and saw the message received from someone's number, the message read, "Okay, I know I lost because of careless but, uh, it was a fun game for a while, haha!"

The man replied to the message, "*Yes, you are a fool, as always."

"What does that mean?! Haaa, by the way, I've transferred some money to your account, as promised... Bye, yeah, I have a little business, see you, dude*!"

The person did not reply again to the message, but he immediately rushed up from his sleep and opened a banking application to ascertain the amount of money contained in his account. After looking at it directly with his own eyes, he was so shocked that his heart was about to be dislodged and come out through his mouth, the money in his account which was originally only a few hundred thousand rupiahs, he said, now it has turned into hundreds of millions of rupiah, exactly 160 million rupiah.

His body trembled violently, his teeth shivering and clashing, then he exclaimed loudly in the dark, narrow room.

"Yahoooo!!!"

He instantly stopped exclaiming instantly and went out of his room after a long time of confinement, it had probably been about two years that he had not come out of his room, visible from his current condition. She ran down the stairs, standing in the middle of the living room while circling looking for someone, she did not dare to shout, so she decided to return to her room feeling gloomy.

When he was about to climb the stairs, suddenly there was the sound of the door opening and also the soft voice of a girl who was about a dozen years old.

"I'm home."

The man stopped his steps and looked towards the exit where there was now a girl wearing her school uniform, their eyes met each other and the man immediately hid.

"Sister? That's you, right? Sis?"

The voice of the girl was increasingly trembling in every word that was spoken, she slowly walked up to her brother who was hiding.

"Ja-don't come here" said the man in fear.

"That's right, brother! Thank goodness" said the girl.

The girl was already in front of the man called big brother while smiling widely and eyes were glazed as she looked at her brother, while the man hid his face behind his hands.

"Sister...."

The girl hugged her frightened older brother, after being hugged, slowly the man's fear disappeared and got his courage to move his mouth and other limbs, she hugged her sister who was crying in her arms.

"I'm sorry, it's been a bad brother" said the man, stroking his sister's head.

Some time has passed since the incident, the pair of sisters are now talking while enjoying snacks in the family room, there are only the two of them there. The brother told about him getting hundreds of millions of money to treat their mother, the sister was surprised to hear it, feeling disbelief with the words of her brother. However, after seeing her brother's expression, there was no way she was lying about it, the sister confirmed all the words from her brother while smiling.

"Sister, tomorrow we're going to the hospital, see mom, okay? So, prepare yourself!"

The older brother nodded a few times and it made his younger brother laugh, the pair regained their harmony after two years.

The next day, the sisters were in the hospital, and were on their way to their mother's room on the third floor. It was the best hospital in the city, having five floors as well as complete equipment. On the way, the brother continued to try to cover his face despite wearing the hood of his jacket, his sister laughed a little at the behavior of his brother.

"It's okay, brother. No one will try to hurt us here" said the girl trying to calm her brother down.

The sister then held her brother's hand and finally the brother felt a little calmer. Some time later, they arrived at the room where her mother was being cared for. Seeing his mother looking at the window with a calm expression like water, made their hearts slightly healed.

"Mom" said the girl.

Hearing a familiar voice in her ear, the woman turned her gaze toward the source of the voice, finding the two people who made her smile warmly.

"Ah, Nina, and...." The woman glanced at the man standing beside the girl named Nina, "Ryuei."

Hearing his name being mentioned by the person he loved the most, his heart felt happy, but he was unable to show it.

"Both of you, welcome" said the woman, then smiled.