Chapter 3

Rojan should have feel better when the road is as spacious as the life alone in the world. 

But not having people around weirded him out. He keep shoving away what appear in front of him, a nasty beep of notifications. Text appear, stated, that vehicle become a useless transportation. 

“What the!” referring to the creep sight that keep appearing in his line of vision, he thought of his mustang. He glared at it when his mustang stop functioning, and he feel his head heated up. 

“What is this, FTS?” The voice have gone for good, only silence and the echoing of his voice what appear to be exist in this spacious road. 

No one can answer him even when he's gonna die in confussion. Even refusing to believe wouldn't a help as it only waste his precious time. He just have to keep walking, to obtain knowledge about what he can do to this 'Fought The System' thing. 

“Where I have to go? What I have to do?” assume that those notification can be a help to navigate where everyone else, he ask. He glance at his left side when totally ignore, try his hope to be enlighten by some strange bug-like thing which was the FTS as it call itself.

“Can't you tell me what's your use, what you can do to help me, FTS?”

Since he left home, the object have been following him. At first he thought it is the source of the voice he heard but he revise his assumption. It's undeniably amazing but he can't help but ignore its presence until this moment of need.

Though he may say it is some kind of weird technology and be annoyed by how it blink and rotate restlessly, but the silence killing him. 

“Just tell me-” before he could finish, he hear chattering in the distant. Face brightened, eyes twinkling, he gasped to realization, “People!” 

He run towards the direction of the chattering he hear. After some time, he finally feel the excitement of hearing some noise coming from peers. Weird, and he realize he really needs people when they are gone for good.

“I'm sure that nothing's going on that didn't makes sense at all,” he says, “I knew it! This may be not the real world that I knew of! I just have to log out...of some sort?” He felt it didn't makes sense, though there's no bad of thinking it was just a trick of some sort of a game. And who knows that he just unfortunate enough to be one of been trick, right?

He smirk, glance the weird-muted technology that now blinking thrice as before. 

“What-” it blazing in red and was stating something bizzare. “Danger?”

He answered by the chattering that now fill with terro. “W-why I can't put damage to this thing?” It was shaky and filled with confusion. “It says...error? But no...that can't be happening!” 

“Keep going!” Demanded with a weak cry. “Let's put more strength! It's just an error...”

“That's weak of its kind...” Terrored and disturbed, worry for something that keep in way, they become deadly confuse. “W-why...why that thing can't be killed!” 

“I'm...d-drained-” te voice shut as crack of flesh and splush of blood filled the area. The scream of despair accompanied, “N-no... Ahh!” 

Rojan put his everything to understand what's the commotion all about. As if time slow down, his gaze turn to the right side. And his world shake to destroyed and flickered to dark when a man who barely manage to hit some unlikely being was smash in the face and bloasted right away like a balloon that couldn't stand the weigh of the pressure...and boom into pieces of gore!

Ground stained in red as his lifeless body bang and drench to flooded the area in color.

The unlikely being turned to Rojan who barely understand what happen. 

He thought, 'Is it what the game is all about?'

He has no idea, he waited for those blood and lifeless body to disappear or be resurrected just like the game that his eldest brother once played. But the silence goes forever and the unsightly being move to the direction where Rojan stood in wary. Added the unusual blink of redness of the weird-muted technology beside him, as if his life is at risk and that is a warning to move his body for once!

And for once, he did, try all of his might to stop the tremble of his leg! He turn his back to the unsighty being that face couldn't be observe, wretched and only the blady teeth can be analyze. 

“What is that thing?!”

He run for his might. He even flooded by notification that he should face the unsighty being that the system called as a Disastor. 

“No!”

But he couldn't forget the chattering of those people who bath on their own blood while body couldn't be describe. 

“There's no way I'll let myself do that bloody thing!”

Rojan knows that he, alone, cannot do different. If those group of people defeated, what's more to those who is alone but has a shameful weaknesses? 

Like him?

Much to his despair, the unsighty being which was a Disastor run as fast like he can do. The breeze becomes chilly as he chose to track the trail that lead to nowhere. More trees that he thought will stop the unsighty being on aftering him. 

He shrudded ablaze when trees cutted half and panted the ground. The unsighty being has a bladed skin, groving everything that block the way to its prey. And he is its prey!

“Please,” he pleaded with his trembled voice. “I'm not tasty! Don't after me!”

It only groaned excitedly and cutted more trees that one almost hit Rojan. But the impact crawl him down to the dusty ground. He cough and opt the pressure and anxious heart. 

“I...I will fought the system!” he tried his luck to the muted object that floating beside him in redness but doing nothing. 

“J-just lend me your strength!” He curse to the heaven above while tears fell down to his cheeks. But then a shiver of electricifying burst of energy floating and growing at the deepest of himn surrounded him with hair-raising feeling of strength.

The unlikely being smash more trees before flew above, making the dust to rise and surround the place. As it getting down to where he's helplessly roited, its bladed hand pointed directly to his heart. 

Rojan felt his body paralyze to the thought of defeat, the defeat where his blood sprouted to the root of the messy wood as a pay for his intrusion. Who would ever thought of this unlikely being to almost wipe out the wood anyway?

For the last moment, Rojan reminded by his eldest brother. How he feel flawlessly as he receive more than the world can offer. The support and care his brother show to him everytime he fell to the ground. 

“It's okay to lose balance once,” he said, “Just always find strength to get up.”

As if realized what he have to do, Rojan dodge the bladed hand. With his hand hold something that he never thought he have, he smash and holed its bladed face. 

“Woah!” the feeling of success when he felt the cut of that thing flesh was heaven!

Panting, he rash to get up when darkest blood sprouted to his face. The unlikely being such resilience though, it try to bang his head directly to his face. He was distracted to the success that he lose the chance to even thought of dodging.

Before it wretched his face into pieces of gore, its head flew away, leaving its shrudding body to evaporize.

A satisfying statement then filled the place, left Rojan to feel the kind of amazement he didn't felt before. “I levels up to 9!”