Still, Wait For Me - Chapter 103: Returning home to usher in the new year

Good news: You've transmigrated! And you have a phenomenally powerful master!Bad news: When you were ten, your master ran off and left his wife behind, leaving you to prop up the crumbling sect all by yourself.Good news: An uninvited junior sister shows up, claiming to be the number one beauty in the world!Bad news: You were born blind.Good news: Suddenly, one day, you realize you have regained your sight!Bad news: Something is wrong with your junior sister… Something is wrong with your master's wife… Something is wrong with all of them!…You Su , who had always been a blind man, wakes up one day to see giant tentacles dripping with copper-green slime writhing restlessly all around him. He traces the tentacles back to their source—the entity wearing that snow-white, celestial dress is no holy fairy maiden, but a shifting grotesque mass of filthy flesh.…“You can see?”“Don't be afraid, Fairy. I'm blind.”

Madeline Celeste d'Aumont is the first daughter of Duke Aumont and Duchess Louise-Marie d'Aumont who has been engaged to the Second Prince of Pays Des Abrutis since she was a child. The Second Prince decided to marry a woman closer to his own age and broke off the engagement to Madeline who was left with a broken heart and a reputation as being an unwanted woman even before she was an adult. The Duke decided to help his daughter regain her confidence and reputation by sending her to the Academy de L'échec.

Ito Aoi was the son of a Kendo master who ran a dojo in downtown Tokyo. One day while crossing the street to get some Yakitori, Aoi was hit by a delivery truck and woke up as the trash first son of Duke Montfort, Guy de Montfort. Duke Montfort also sent his son to Academy de L'échec only Aoi instantly recognized that he was now living in the world of an Otome Game that his sister loved to play and talk about all the time. Aoi recognizes that Madeline is the villain from the game. Aoi also recalled his sister saying that Madeline was terrible in the game, but is she really?

After getting beat within an inch of his life, Yu Tian can only blame himself for committing the ultimate sin of being weak. Lying on the cold ground, he wonders if he should just give up—after all, he was just a servant in a small time sect, even if he managed to drag himself back to the sect, the sect wouldn't waste medicine on a talentless loser like him.But just as he was about to give up, strange numbers started floating in his vision.“This is...” Yu Tian discovers he can suddenly calculate probabilities!“So what if I don't have a Divine grade spiritual root and a Saint Body? So what if my enlightenment is only basic? I’ll calculate my way to immortality!”

In 2173, the world’s first Full-World Virtual MMORPG game ‘Astral Online’ went on sale globally, forever changing the blue planet Asteria!

With its revolutionary Digital Capture System, astonishing graphics and ability to scan yourself into the game with up to 20% beautification, countless defenders rallied to play the game.

Fifty million players logged in on launch. There were no queues or lag on launch, leaving countless critics impressed and willing to try the game. Because the game used a 6-hour play limit a day, it allowed even working adults to keep up with young students and the unemployed.

A resounding success, as more people poured onto the game servers, families and friends alike. Astra Online became a household name overnight.

One month later, the game opened its first RMT system, which made earning a living from the game easier... Thus began the Astral rush!

Professional players formed guilds and factions to increase their profits, but nobody could know this prosperity was a mere joke.

One year later, players fused with their avatars, gaining powerful abilities in the real world, which tipped the power and caused chaos.

Two years later, demons and monsters from inside the game invaded the real world.

Three years later, over 90% of humanity perished, leaving the rest to hide like rats, unable to fight back in fear.

Four years later, this world is no longer ours. The demons march on our last bastions, one by one. They exterminated us.

Zell was an average player who liked to collect beasts in the game and evolve them into humanoids, as they were primarily females.

He spent most of his life working two jobs to make ends meet.

Thanks to the excellent healthcare of his country, there were no crippling debts. There was only emptiness.

When the end came, he was powerless and alone. His only companions were his cute pets and Rika, his cherished Flame Rabbit.

She was the only beast he evolved to a humanoid form after his late start to the game.

He died saving the life of a strange girl with white wings and his pet Rika, the sad eyes of Rika and the girl’s sorrow floating through the air as he slowly passed away.

However, instead of dying, he awoke inside an empty white room with a single computer and a strange, game-like screen that allowed him to edit his IRL avatar and persona.

Who offered him this second chance?

For what reason did they help him?

Can he meet Rika again?

Zell could never know; he only knew his second life’s goal.

Survive!