Sakura said all he wanted, but truthfully, he wasn't aware of what sort of game Super Smash Bros: Universes would become.
After all, he quit the game three days after touching it. He couldn't stop himself from falling off the stage, which infuriated him.
Unaware of what was going to happen to him, Roja rotated his chair to face the monitor.
[Initializing Biometric Scanner… Target identified to be Homo sapiens.]
[Scanning for augmentations…]
Neural Implants: None.
Cybernetic Enchantments: None.
Genetic Modifications: None.
[The target has been identified to be: The Untainted. I advise the shop owner to quickly inform the government.]
"What is this, hey system can you do something about this? The computer is acting weird," Sakura murmured in a voice Roja won't hear.
[…Modified the appliances. I apologize for the minor inconvenience. This won't happen in the again.]
'How doomed is the world this stuff came from, to call the human without cyborg modification the untainted one,' Sakura thought to himself.
[New User has been detected. Registering would be required. Please set your Username.]
"Username?" Roja asked confused.
"It's a name you want to be called. For your information, I advise against setting your real name just in case," Sakura answered his question.
'Maybe I should write this on a board so that I won't have to answer newbie's question, yup let's do that.'
"Then… [Roger], it sounds similar to my name, right?" Roja typed very slowly as he wasn't used to the keyboard.
"Uh…. Oh…" Sakura reacted in surprise.
Naming yourself 'Roger' in this world was like naming yourself 'Hitler.' Sakura hadn't expected Roja to be so… 'revolutionary.'
[Welcome Aboard Mr. Roger. From here on, the computer will automatically log in your account upon next access.]
[I wish you a great time.]
The message disappeared, bringing Roja's avatar—now just a white creature due to the lack of customization—to the world of nothingness.
There, appeared a fairy, or rather, a guide.
"Howdy, humans! I am Frill! I am your guide! You can customize me for $499!" The cute fairy whose voice could belong to a male or female danced in the sky.
Frill's sentence caused an unpleasant expression to surface on Sakura's face. 'I'm removing that sentence later.'
"Now on to the point, this space here is called the 'Playground!' You can think of it as an amusement park!… Oya? From what I see, this world is rather empty! The shop owner must've been too poor to purchase a game license! Gyagyagya," Frill burst into laughter holding its stomach.
Then, Frill looked to the world outside the monitor, its eyesight lining up with Sakura's. He had a devilish smile.
Feeling awkward, Frill started explaining. "O-, On to the point, this place is the connecting point of worlds! Similar to amusement park attractions, if you want to play a game, in this instance Super Smash Bros: Universes, you just go over there and enter it!"
"Usually, this place would be bustling but it's you alone… that's strange, even if the world had been destroyed, the digital data would remain, and digital codes would wander around the world but it's empty…"
Feeling the shop owner's (Sakura) intense eyes, Frill wiped off their sweat and hurriedly said. "A-anyway, my job here is done! If you have any questions, call me! Have fun!"
The fairy disappeared leaving Roja's avatar all alone. The sense of solitude in this overwhelming world could cause anxiety to some people, and such a person was Roja.
Hurriedly, he controlled his avatar after being taught of the AWSD keys by Sakura.
Upon approaching, the avatar was sucked into the world of Smash Bros and a new notification popped on the screen.
[Welcome to Super Smash Bros: Universes. Please choose your playstyle.]
[Retro]
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[Full-Dive]
"If Full Dive mode is about entering inside the game and controlling your body like in real life, Retro should mean using keyboards to control the body," Sakura answered next to him.
Sakura knew about this part as it was in the Super Smash Bros: Universes' instruction page.
"Choose the Full Dive mode,"
Roja nodded at Sakura's words without questioning. After choosing this option, Roja's body stopped moving as if his soul left.
Seeing this, Sakura threw the pen with all his might.
The pen flew straight toward Roja before suddenly being reflected off by an invisible holographic wall.
'A force field.'
Just as he was testing the safety of leaving one's consciousness behind the real world, Roja's body jolted in surprise.
'Roja's consciousness had returned to the real world without much delay upon sensing danger. Not bad,' Sakura nodded in satisfaction.
"Sorry, was just testing the safety of my equipment. Can't have customers dying while playing in my internet cafe."
'So I could have died there…?' Roja thought to himself but decided against saying it.
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Back to the virtual world, Roja was falling.
His head facing land, the air resistance caused his hair to flutter. Once, he submerges into the clouds. Twice, he pierces through the cloud.
It was the first free-falling experience he ever had, he thought he was going to die here hopeless, and from the bottom of his heart, he screamed in fear.
He hadn't the leisure to look at his surroundings.
That's why, he didn't notice the scenery not far ahead from him.
Not far ahead, countless hands filled the sky. Turning into a white light, it gathered in one spot, fusing with the entity in the middle of everything.
The entity was enshrouded with wings. Across the wings spanned innumerable eyes looking everywhere. The sight of eyes moving at uncoordinated speed invited one's anxiety.
At the middle of everything, at its core was a 'black square' as if to conceal everything. Molded through numerous transformations in the hand of innumerable gods, the entity had transformed into something 'indescribable.'
It had 'aged.'
Facing the eldritch were countless warriors stationed at the mountain.
Standing at the front line was Kirby, the adorable pink black hole. Behind him, were countless famous Nintendo characters.
Mario, Shulk, Inking, Isabelle, Link, Ness, Red, Donkey Kong, Fox, Samus, Captain Falcon, Wii Fit, etc…
Off-franchise characters even existed, standing by.
Clive, Donald Duck, Ryu, Son Goku, Yurnero, Amamiya Ren, Saitama, V1, Trevor, Isagi Yoichi, Dante, Naruto, and so on…
Some characters' purpose of being there may be questionable, but even if those almighty warriors teamed up, they hadn't yet to beat the 'black square', Evnything.
Evnything, after absorbing the white light, began charging up, illuminating the world.
Some characters with the ability to see the future tried warning everyone but to futile, as it launched an attack traveling at the speed of light.
Corruptions trailed the path of attack splitting into millions, covering the whole sky with purple lights. Some couldn't even react before the blast of corruption engulf them.
Some use teleportation to escape. Some use clones to escape. Some even tried parrying the purple light. Yet, nothing worked.
"Kirby, you run away from this place! I…, don't feel so good," Goku said, his arm gone.
He was barely able to dodge the purple light after finding out that Instant Transmission didn't work for some reason, and as a price, he had to pay his arm away.
From the lost limb, violet illumination started spreading through his vein, indicating Goku was done for.
Even Goku was done this badly. No other warriors were any better than him and Kirby was the only lucky one who was yet to be hit by the purple light.
"Kamehameha...!" In his final act, Goku tapped onto his Super Saiyan transformation and fired a blast toward the sky, barely piercing a hole into the barrier entrapping the world.
"Poyo…!" Kirby nodded its head.
Carrying the will of its fallen comrade, Kirby shamefully ran away from the world with its Warp Star, escaping into another universe where the source of corruption hadn't extended its hands yet.
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"I get the gist of the story. Nintendo really put their all into this work. The scale size of the story has certainly increased and the characters' variations can't be compared with Ultimate. I can't believe they managed to hook in anime characters."
Sakura mentioned nothing about the existence of Blue Lock characters in the intro. They're probably just a fan service anyway.
…
"I'm not dead!?" Roja's speech rang at the same time his free fall halted.
Just when Roja thought he was saved from dying, the once-normal world transformed into a terror-inducing violet, announcing the end of the world.
Roj was too late. By the time he finally noticed Evnything, it had already annihilated the warriors.
Their eyes meet. No precisely, the black square had no eyes but Roja certainly felt it. The gaze was more terrifying than a death reaper.
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It let out a cry.
[Stress level has reached to 90%. Resting the player]
Roja's consciousness was ejected away from the game.