FVN Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 1【 Possession in a Game 】
[Proof that I cleared Speculum on Hard Mode.]
After posting that on my favorite gaming community, it didn’t take long for the comments to start flooding in.
[Wow, he actually did it.]
[Fr, how did you even pull that off?]
[I told you, this guy’s not human lol.oo…”
I explored the mansion for nearly thirty minutes, completely absorbed and in high spirits.
But then, something unexpected happened.
“Huh? Is this… a bug?”
In the basement of the mansion—
a restricted area that players weren’t supposed to access—there was no guard or barrier of any kind.
Curious, I snuck down there, and a huge library came into view.
I was wandering around, excited by the discovery, when suddenly, my character slipped through the back of the library wall.
“…So it is a bug.”
A typical case of map clipping.
Still, I wasn’t all that surprised.
I’d played countless games and had seen all kinds of bugs—some were ridiculously convenient exploits, and others were completely pointless glitches that made no sense.
Compared to those, a little map bug like this was nothing.
“Actually, this is great. Stuff like this keeps the game fun.”
I took a screenshot.
I planned to send a bug report to the developers later, and of course, post it on the community.
Normally, I would’ve just played around with the bug for a bit and then moved on.
Yeah—normally, that’s what would’ve happened.
“…Wait, what’s this? Maybe it’s not a bug?”
At first glance, it definitely looked like a map glitch.
But strangely enough, there was an item sitting in the area I’d fallen into.
“If there’s an item here, then maybe it’s not a bug after all…”
If this had been a genuine glitch, there’s no way there’d be an item.
Curious, I picked it up and examined it.
It was an ancient document.
The contents read—
“‘A family sentenced to Record Erasure?’”
A family… sentenced to what?
Even as a long-time veteran who’d been playing since launch day, I’d never heard of anything like that.
Sure, there were all sorts of bizarre punishments mentioned in the game’s lore, but Record Erasure? That was new.
“…Could this be part of some hidden story?”
My heart began to race.
If the devs had gone to the trouble of hiding something like this, there had to be a fascinating secret behind it.
So, filled with anticipation, I tried to keep reading the document.
But then—
“Wha—? Huh? What the—?!”
Suddenly, a blinding light burst out from my monitor.
Before I could react, the light swallowed me whole.
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“…Ah.”
A moment later, I opened my eyes, blinking against the afterimage.
And instantly, I knew—something was very, very wrong.
I looked around.
This wasn’t my room anymore.
No—this wasn’t even a room you’d find in twenty-first-century Korea.
“…No way.”
With a growing sense of dread, I slowly approached the mirror in front of me.
And when I saw the reflection staring back—
It wasn’t me.
A tall, muscular man with white hair and blue eyes.
Not the face of my real self, nor even the avatar I’d been playing as.
Someone entirely different.
And then—though I didn’t know how—
I understood, instinctively.
“Gideon… Kyrgram.”
Gideon Kyrgram.
That was the man’s name.
No—that was my name.
And somehow, I knew it as naturally as if I’d borne it my whole life.