When Taro had nothing else to do, he spent his time studying. He technically had plenty to do, but in regards to things he [i]could[/i] do, he couldn’t do much. So Taro spent time studying uselessly. He was never good at studying, however. Today was not an exception.
‘I’m not getting this at all.’ Taro sighed.
He got very low grades normally and most people would probably give up at this stage. In fact, Taro himself knew that he was extremely unlikely to get smart enough to be able to create space travel and become a space pirate. Hell, it was probably near impossible for him to be smart enough to be a normal pirate, much less a space pirate. Even so, Taro was determined. It was a promise he made to his childhood friend when she left and he intended to keep it.

He looked down at the myriad letters covering his books and he was once again swallowed by despair. He closed his books and leaned back in the library chair, fruitless studying wisely given up on for the moment. Normally, he could barely get it and he couldn’t concentrate right now at all.

Part of the reason was his recent experience with Deep Ground, and all the stuff that had happened to him today. It started off as a regular day, running away from a fight. Running from another fight. Running from the 3rd fight, and then meeting Solitary Watcher. Then meeting the Red King. And then a rainbow princess grabbing him out of nowhere, getting knocked out and ending up on a building in a crater full of dissolutions. The rainbow princess’s run had given him a lot of head trauma, so when he awoke, he was disoriented. And then he was confused as he looked out and saw a massive crater with a ton of weird black things in it. And then a note from the rainbow princess, telling him to meet her in the library in an hour.

Who was rainbow princess? She sounded familiar, though he wasn’t sure from when. And he had no idea where he recognised it. He’d headed over to the library early and tried to put in some studying, but that fell through.

He started to think about his avatar. Grim Buccaneer. It was almost a joke because the only skill he had was an escape skill. He’d managed to use it to great effect running away, but he couldn’t kill anyone. But he needed kills. He needed money to discover space travel.

Taro had no idea why he was so fixated on becoming a space pirate, but he had no other plans in life. And all he really had to do to live comfortably was be good at Deep Ground so even if he didn’t discover space travel, he could still live comfortably. That said, it meant that he needed to be good at the game and Taro wasn’t good at the game. Also, a pirate wasn’t as cowardly as Taro, more physically fit, more vicious and uncompromising… The list went on and on. But these thoughts weren’t foreign to Taro, he’d thought about it more than he liked. But he couldn’t do anything about it. At least, he thought he couldn’t do anything about it.

He had to change, somehow.

It was almost time for Princess Rainbow to arrive and he looked to the library doorway in anticipation.