Leo stared at the blinking cursor on his Xbox screen. Enter Gamertag.
He’d been here for forty-five minutes. Every idea, every joke, every obscure reference from his favorite anime had been rejected. Already taken. Already taken. Contains prohibited words.
“A promise of what?”
A message popped up: “Nice tag, kid. Too slow.”
Chaos, indeed.
He bypassed the claim timer. He overrode the sniper’s priority. And in the last second before the server crashed for good, he hit .
All dead. All about to be reborn.
NameSniper99 replied: “LOL. Watch me.”