Chapter 5 (1/2)
Then I started to play The World
More accurately, I did start to play online gao very well
Starting anything new is fairly difficult
First I had to persuade my parents After all, they have to sponsor me
“Yeah, it's fine,” my father said flatly
“I think it's useful to experience new technologies early on”
“Will you do it froh school entrance exah I showed reed
“Well, it's fine as long as you study properly”
Yasuhiko lent aot a whole set of new ite up the coht and downloaded the software of The World with my mother present, but for some reason the installer did not boot up nor my time in vain for three days, I finally decided to call in reinforcements
I asked Yasuhiko
I introduced Yasuhiko to ht him to my room
Yasuhiko started upthe keyboard a few times
“There, you handle it like that,” Yasuhiko said as he lifted his eyes froe bar
“During the download a few strange behaviors happen that beginners typically get stuck on”
“Thanks, you saved ht s were piled up around my room School textbooks, personal books and other personal itehout the room
Yasuhiko looked around the rooanized”
“The stuff keeps piling up, but it's relaxing”
Just then, there was vibration rushed up the stairs The vibration came in front of my room and without a knock, the door opened and and my sister came in
“Hmph…”
She noticed Yasuhiko, boith a smiley face and said hello
She had without a doubt co like that Awful false accusations
“Hi, welco myself, so my sister silently shut the door and retreated to her room
“You little sister?”
“Yeah”
“What a polite kid”
“I'll be glad when I hear it”
The coed and a notice that the installation had finished was displayed
“Okay, we're ready now After you answer a few questions, you can play the game,” said Yasuhiko with a tone of satisfaction
“Let's play today”
“Today?”
“Do you have so else to do?”
I did not need to think, but I thought for a moment anyway
“No, not at the ht o'clock this evening Get soame”
After that, we chatted for about an hour and then Yasuhiko went home
My sister passed by and caers now, so I think you should knock”
“That guy froo home?”
“Yeah”
“What's his name?”
“Hmm,” I said
“What's ‘hmm'?”
My sister turned a little red as she said this
“H of hry and left without closing the door
An email arrived from Yasuhiko before dinner
This was the content The energy I usually sensed froister?
Froister?
Which kind of player-character did you pick? I'ht I said at school that you will regret
it after a while if you pick a weird name
In The World I am
Orca, so you'll meet
him soon
So don't call me by my real name
In that world I can be a different person
Well, the person I want to be… (_;)
I'll be waiting at the Root Town
I wondered if this was the first crossroads
The choice may be unrelated to the events that happened later
The choice of whether to get involved in the game or not
However, whichever I chose, it may have turned out the same in the end
Even if I spent that day without any problems, Yasuhiko would undoubtedly have been involved anyway
The difference would be how much of it would happen in front ofhappened, I was there I couldn't do anything I couldn't help Yasuhiko and I couldn't protect myself
Because I did not have a hammer in my hand Not yet anyway
I wasn't troubled at all while creating a player-character
I chose a suitable naht
A Twin Blade reen color palette
It was completed with a few taps of the controller buttons
Then I switched the screen to the FMD and put it onlessons fro bustling crowds in a congested town
I looked around restlessly and someone talked to me from behind
“Yo, you came Is that your PC?”
It was a deep adult voice I looked at hi back at me
“Ummm”
“It's me ME”
“Yasuhiko?”
“Here I'm Orca, a Blademaster”
I stared at a ht of almost two meters in line with reality? His upper body was uncovered and from the chest to his face there was a complex pattern, perhaps a tattoo or paint The more I looked at him, the more he looked like a barbarian than a Blade I'ined So, this is Yasuhiko”
“I told you, I go by Orca here,” said Yasuhiko When he said that, I realized that that way of talking was definitely how Yasuhiko would talk
“How did you change your voice?”
“A voice changer Is my voice harsh?”
Yasuhiko wrote in the e-mail that he would become who he wanted to be
In other words, did he mean he wanted to be this muscular man? It was unexpected