"Taro, get your ass down here! It's already three in the afternoon!"
A woman's voice shattered the quiet house, echoing down the hallway and yanking a boy from his sleep. Taro, no older than sixteen, groaned as he forced his eyes open. His dark, messy hair stuck out in every direction, and his brown skin was creased with pillow marks.
He rubbed his eyes and scowled. "Ugh… what a hag," he muttered under his breath. "I can't believe I'm stuck living with this witch."
Taro's parents had died when he was only five years old. Since then, the only family he had left was his older sister, Mirae. She was eight years older than him, and the gap between their ages caused their interests to differ greatly. She was also the woman currently yelling at him from downstairs.
Taro eventually went down and helped his sister with their restaurant. The restaurant was small—an average, run-of-the-mill place you'd see in any neighborhood. It had been given to them by the mother of one of Mirae's friends.
As the two waited for the next rush hour, a boy around Taro's age entered the restaurant with a bright smile on his face.
"Taro! Have you beaten the game yet?!" the boy yelled.
Taro grumbled, "Urgh, why are you so loud this early?!"
"What are you talking about?" the boy replied. "It's four in the afternoon, you dumbass!"
The boy was Darius, Taro's childhood friend. He had moved to Japan when he was three years old and had been living there ever since.
"Yeah, yeah," Taro muttered. "Anyway, I haven't beaten Minecraft yet. I wanna build an XP farm first and get full gear before beating the game. It's kinda boring when your only goal is killing the dragon."
Darius nodded. "Yeah. I recently installed a mod. I didn't even know you could download mods in the game."
Taro raised an eyebrow. "Mods? You could do that? What mod did you download?"
Darius smirked. "I downloaded an action-packed mod called Jenny's Mod."
"Sounds like a fantasy mod…"
"Oh, it's a fantasy, alright…"
As the two talked, customers began entering one by one, forcing them to end the conversation.
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Time passed, and midnight eventually struck. After cleaning the dishes, Taro went up to his bedroom and turned on his PC.
Still thinking about his conversation with Darius, he searched for Minecraft mods. Many caught his interest, but one in particular stood out: a mod called "Truck-kun."
Taro clicked on it and chuckled. "What the fuck is this? Does it just add a truck to Minecraft?"
He pressed the download button.
Suddenly, his screen went black. At the same time, bright lights shone through his window.
"What…?"
Curious, Taro stood up and pulled aside the blinds. What he saw made his blood run cold.
In his backyard stood a towering robot with the head of a truck. Its massive fist clenched slowly before lifting into the air. Moments later, the truck slammed its arm forward, punching straight through the house.
"What the fuck?!" Taro yelled—
—and then everything went dark, his life ending at the hands of a truck.