Service Termination Notice

Synopsis

A place to belong on the internet back then. A friend of the opposite sex I met through an online game. Anxiety about the future, impatience, yet a feeling I couldn’t quite let go of. What if my own youth, filled with these tangled emotions, led to an unexpected reunion?

Would I be able to face the person on the other side of the screen who I had subtle feelings for?

I was a school refuser, spending my days shut away in my room and immersed in games. I was connected with a boy my age, but when entrance exams came, I logged out of both the calling app and the game. I sent him the lewd selfies I posted on “Goddess Thread” (my dark history) when he asked for them, and that was supposed to be the end of my pale youth.

About 10 years later. The calling app I used to frequent back then was announced to be shutting down, and it became a hot topic online. When I opened it after so long, there were messages that had come in from time to time.

“We never met, but… I think I liked you.”

“I jerked off so hard to your lewd selfies.”

When I replied to someone who confessed in the chaos of the service termination, it led to us deciding to meet up.

I bet he’s just some nerdy otaku… Probably…