Chapter 1: Prologue: The Girl Who Died Twice

“A world watched her climb to the top. But no one saw the quiet fall.”

Tokyo, Japan – Year 2030

Room 406, Saitama Metropolitan Hospital

The soft hum of fluorescent lighting barely masked the rhythmic hiss of the ventilator. A machine breathed for her. Monitors pulsed. IV lines hung from steel hooks. A pale-blue blanket covered a girl who barely stirred.

Ruki Yusato had spent nearly her entire life in this room.

She was born with an aggressive autoimmune lung disease — a rare condition that destroyed her ability to breathe unassisted. By age six, she needed a breathing machine full-time. By eight, she forgot what outside air even felt like.

Despite being the daughter of M that's crazy buddy no timeoku Yusato, one of Japan’s most influential tech moguls, and Riumi Yusato, a renowned model turned businesswoman, Ruki had become an invisible shadow to her own parents. They visited a few times a year — usually on her birthday — and always with cameras in tow.

One evening, when they thought she was asleep, Ruki heard it all.

“We can’t keep dragging this on,” her mother’s voice snapped coldly.

“If she wasn’t useful, we wouldn’t even be here.”

Her father replied, flat and emotionless:

“Let the doctors do what they can. When the media forgets, we stop.”

That was the moment she realized: Her life only mattered if the world was watching.

The Gift

At ten years old, Ruki asked for one thing: a full-dive VR headset. Not to escape — but to move. To feel.

Her father approved it instantly, turning the moment into a PR stunt.

“Tech Pioneer’s Daughter Enters Virtual World for Therapy and Hope!”

He never once logged into the game with her. His company had helped develop the headset. That was all that mattered to him. The story made headlines. Behind the camera flashes, Ruki made herself a promise: If this world’s the only one I’ll ever know… then I’ll conquer it.

It was Nurse Misaki who helped her install the headset. Misaki was the only constant in her life. She adjusted her ventilator every morning. Hummed softly while changing her IV. Brought manga from her own collection. They never talked much — but Ruki never missed the lullaby Misaki hummed.

She never asked the name of the song. It belonged to them — a silent ritual in a life built on machines and silence.

The World of Untold Eternity

The game that would become her legacy was known as Untold Eternity — a full-dive MMORPG where magic, skill, and tactics shaped destiny. Most players never looked past the surface, but Ruki studied everything.

Character creation was rich and layered — with dozens of races and hundreds of classes, each with branching evolutions based on player choices and hidden quests. Ruki chose Beast kin, a low-tier race with no fame or stat advantages. Most considered them a joke.

But after 100 hours of grind, side quests, and patience —

she unlocked a secret evolution: Beast Lord — a rare royal bloodline class tied to ancient myths.

She also acquired a class-specific ability that no one else in the game had seen before:

Copy: Magic Mastery

A rare Beast Lord-exclusive skill that allowed her to replicate any non-divine spell she had seen or been hit by, with a two-minute delay unless trained.

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Only Beast kin who completed a secret royal quest line could unlock it. Most players never touched the race, let alone the lineage.

Her mastery of this ability would change the entire PvP meta.

The Arena: Rise of a Legend

PvP in Untold Eternity was broken down into:

1v1 Duels – Raw skill and reads

5v5 Tactical Combat – Balanced skirmishes

10v10 Castle Sieges – Complex team wars

World Sieges – Massive guild-vs-guild warfare involving alliances, NPC cities, and territory control

10v10 was the top of the Arena food chain.

But the real fame came from World Sieges, where guilds partnered with in-game NPC factions to conquer territories. Owning a city meant control over taxes, economy, and fame. Players earned real-world income from in-game power.

Ruki avoided that world.

She hated politics. Hated the pressure. She preferred the purity of 1v1s and small-team PvP.

Her name — KirinRai — first entered legend after an event known simply as:“The 2v7.”

Arena Broadcast – March 6, 2028

Mode: 10v10 – Ranked Qualifiers

Ruki queued solo. No guild. No friends. Just her. She got matched with one other solo player against a full seven-stack team — one of the top-ranked PvP units in the world.

Commentators laughed.

Fans expected a quick defeat.

They were wrong.

Ruki opened with a Tier 3 lightning burst spell she’d copied weeks ago — one her opponents never expected her to know. She used her Beastkin agility to reposition and bait attacks, letting her partner draw aggro. Then came the moment that shattered the arena:

She cast a Tier 6 wind spell she had never been seen using before.

Commentators froze.

“WAIT — is that Copy: Magic Mastery?! That skill’s real?!”

As damage poured in, she stood still. Calm.

Aegis Code activated.

A forgotten Beta-tester-exclusive shield barrier.

Blocked all frontal damage for 10 seconds. But the caster couldn’t move or cast afterward for 30 seconds.

She earned it by defeating a world-ranked bounty using only traps and terrain manipulation. Survived with 1 HP. No one had seen that skill in years.

As the seven opponents collapsed on her, Ruki triggered her final gambit.

Durecast Earrings — a Legacy Relic.

Once per day, cast a Tier 6+ spell instantly with no charge time.

She whispered:

“Crest Dualcast: Stormveil Howl.”

A massive lightning dragon roared from her staff, tearing through the arena.

The commentators screamed.

Her opponents were wiped out in seconds.

She fell to her knees from the recoil.

But she had won.

The Seguri Alliance

After the 2v7 match, everything changed. Offers flooded in. Guilds begged her to join. She ignored them all — until four randoms from her solo queue days reached out.

They were: Sae – Elven Enchanter, calm and precise, mastered support weaving

Valen – Human Blade Dancer, cocky but fiercely loyal

Kite – Dwarven Duelist, loudmouth with a golden heart

Deadbolt – Undead Necromancer, dry humor, genius strategist

Together, they formed the Seguri Alliance.

They never reached the top of the world sieges — but in the arena, their synergy was unmatched. Ruki’s tactics and Copy ability elevated them far beyond what their classes should’ve allowed.

They became streamers, unofficial ambassadors, and — for a brief moment — legends.

Burnout and Silence

As sponsors came pouring in, her parents returned —

with contracts, media deals, and branding campaigns.

Her face was everywhere.

Her disease? Rebranded as “The girl who overcame.”

They forced her into longer sessions.

She often played over 12 hours per day to meet sponsorship obligations.

Misaki grew concerned.

Her health was slipping — and Ruki knew it.

She stopped responding to her guild’s messages.

Stopped bantering in chat.

She only logged in to play.

Inside, she felt trapped all over again.

The Storm

Tokyo, 2030. July.

A typhoon swept across the city — strong enough to trigger widespread blackouts in northern Saitama. The hospital’s generators kicked in. But something went wrong.

Room 406 lost power.

Her machines shut off.

Nurse Misaki raced up the stairwell, rainwater soaking her shoes. The elevator was out. Her lungs burned as she reached the floor.

Too late.

Ruki had written a message to her co-leader Sae hours before:

“I don’t know how long I have left.

But I wanted to thank you — for being my first real friends.

I didn’t know how to say it before, but I was never strong.

You made me feel like I was.”

“If I ever disappear… don’t believe what they say on TV.”

The message hit them like a bomb.

The Ceremony

The Yusato family held a public memorial, livestreamed across major networks. They cried for the cameras. Dressed in pure white. Called her a hero.

But the Seguri Alliance showed up.

Sae read the final message aloud.

Valen cursed on live broadcast.

Kite threw her signed sponsor gear into the crowd.

Deadbolt pulled no punches.

“They never loved her. They sold her.”

“We were her only real family.”

The Yusato PR empire was tainted overnight. Sponsors pulled deals. Protests hit their doorstep. Their empire didn’t fall, but the cracks were permanent.

The Goddess

Somewhere, far from the noise…

Ruki awoke in a temple of light and silence.

A voice, both ancient and playful, greeted her:

“So… the girl who died twice finally made it.”

“You were never supposed to be born in that world, Ruki Yusato.”

The woman who stood before her was radiant —. cloaked in shimmering fabrics of shifting constellations. Liia, Goddess of Recreation.

Ruki blinked in confusion.

“Where am I?”

Liia smiled, offering a hand.

“You’re going home.”

As she stepped forward, Ruki caught one final glimpse of Earth — her parents, their lies crumbling in the public eye.

She closed her eyes.

And left that world behind.

End of the Prologue

Next Volume 1 “She died as a legend. She wakes as a slave.”