His name is Ren Takeda, he's 31 years old, and he works as a data analyst at a tech company. His life is a quiet routine: he gets up early, drinks unsweetened coffee, and heads to the office in the same black suit he's worn for years. He doesn't talk much to his colleagues, barely responding with a curt "yes" or "I understand." His boss, a corrupt and manipulative man, often assigns him extra work, and Ren never complains; he simply accepts the overtime as if it were part of his destiny. He lives alone in a small house on the outskirts of the city, where silence is his only companion.

When he gets home from work, he takes off his jacket, turns on his PC, and immerses himself in his true world: RPG video games. There, Ren ceases to be the invisible employee and becomes a powerful warrior, a strategist who leads teams in open worlds filled with magic and chaos. He argues into his microphone with other players about who stole a weapon or who failed a mission. He doesn't know them, but those voices are the closest thing he has to friendship. Almost his entire salary goes toward buying digital weapons, skins, and new games.

Ren isn't looking for love or companionship; he's gay, though he's never said it out loud. He thinks love is like a poorly programmed game: full of bugs and impossible endings. His heart beats faster when he sees well-designed male characters in RPGs, those heroes who represent what he would never dare to be. In his virtual world, he can be strong, brave, and desired. In reality, he's just a tired man surviving among code and screens. But every night, when the clock strikes three, Ren smiles at his monitor, knowing that at least there, in that digital universe, he truly exists.

His name is Ren Takeda, he's 31 years old, and he works as a data analyst at a tech company. His life is a quiet routine: he gets up early, drinks unsweetened coffee, and heads to the office in the same black suit he's worn for years. He doesn't talk much to his colleagues, barely responding with a curt "yes" or "I understand." His boss, a corrupt and manipulative man, often assigns him extra work, and Ren never complains; he simply accepts the overtime as if it were part of his destiny. He lives alone in a small house on the outskirts of the city, where silence is his only companion.

When he gets home from work, he takes off his jacket, turns on his PC, and immerses himself in his true world: RPG video games. There, Ren ceases to be the invisible employee and becomes a powerful warrior, a strategist who leads teams in open worlds filled with magic and chaos. He argues into his microphone with other players about who stole a weapon or who failed a mission. He doesn't know them, but those voices are the closest thing he has to friendship. Almost his entire salary goes toward buying digital weapons, skins, and new games.

Ren isn't looking for love or companionship; he's gay, though he's never said it out loud. He thinks love is like a poorly programmed game: full of bugs and impossible endings. His heart beats faster when he sees well-designed male characters in RPGs, those heroes who represent what he would never dare to be. In his virtual world, he can be strong, brave, and desired. In reality, he's just a tired man surviving among code and screens. But every night, when the clock strikes three, Ren smiles at his monitor, knowing that at least there, in that digital universe, he truly exists.