Chapter 124: System Update and Surprise Present (1/2)
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A sudden announcement as usual.
They could just tell us in written format, and yet, God is telling us with their voice like this. It might be because there might be people who wouldn’t read it if it is only in the Status Board…
I put the fishing rod in the Shadow Storage, and headed to the end of the wharf without any real reason.
Anyways, system update…?
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Camera filming mode?
When I check the Status Board, there certainly is an option for camera photo mode added.
I tapped it, and it seems like I can choose from Manual and Auto. Current mode is Auto.
Is the automatic translation mode off option in order to enjoy the isekai language?
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“Temporary filming stop ticket…” (Hikaru)
That’s something I wished for.
If it had been the past me, I would have jumped at the opportunity and thrown all of my remaining Points into it.
But 1 Crystal for 10 minutes is expensive. Way too expensive.
Even if I were to use enough for 1 Point, it would only be 5 hours. There would only be limited scenarios to use them.
Or more like, even if you create a period of time you are not being seen, what would you be doing? It says there were a lot of requests for this, but how were those requests sent?
If the Chosen say something, God would hear it, and would whimsically decide if to implement it or not?
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(Present…?) (Hikaru)
We are talking about something that God would do. I instead had a bad feeling about this, but I opened it.
Does everyone get the same thing?
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I listened to that announcement half dumbfounded.
Video call with a relative.
By relative, does it mean my parents…and Celica and Karen?
The video call would…connect…?
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God gave this announcement with an irresponsible cheerful voice, the Status Board text disappeared, and blacked out.
*Turururu Turururu*
The sound of a telephone rang.
It really isn’t even giving me a chance to prepare myself mentally, and will just connect all of a sudden.
“Y-You are kidding me, right?” (Hikaru)
I am scared.
A call with my family? My heart is not ready yet.
My heart was racing and sweat was covering my back.
If it were Nanami, she would have definitely been sad for me. She would be angry that I pushed myself. Would be happy that I survived and that she managed to contact me.
But I don’t know what will happen with my family.
What would it be for my parents?
The two were indifferent towards me, but with me being a suspect for killing Nanami, they had to leave the house, so there’s a high chance they hate me -especially mother.
(No…in the first place, it is a relative. Who will it be connecting to…?) (Hikaru)
Celica and Karen have moved from Japan to overseas.
The two won’t be troubled with language barriers, so they won’t be having that many issues no matter the country they go to, but this and that are two different things.
They must have separated from their friends, abandoned everything and moved away.
Cause I got that message just 10 days after coming to this world.
The two are intelligent, so they most likely already have an idea that I was sent to the parallel world against my will and that someone else is the true culprit.
The two were pretty attached to me, but since entering middle school, they have been acting differently from when they were in elementary.
It is said that when you are extremely intelligent, it is hard to converse with normal people.
Since elementary school, it was widely known that my little sisters were geniuses, so my mother had bought all of those kinds of books and had me read them.
Those two might have entered that stage.
(Even so, it would be best if the call were to connect to Celica. If it is my mother, it would be the worst.) (Hikaru)
It is fine if it is Karen too, but she doesn’t speak to me much, so there’s the chance I wouldn’t be able to get the information I need in 20 minutes.
On the other hand, Celica should be able to tell me what I need to know in that span of time.
My father normally doesn’t say anything, but there’s days when he would suddenly begin talking as if a spark had been lit, and in the first place, he rarely is even at home, so there’s only a low chance it will connect to my dad.
Though it could instead connect to dad who is going around alone; if it happens, it happens.
The problem would be if it were to connect when my mother is alone.
After the sound continued for a while, the status screen connected to somewhere with a puuuh sound.
In the screen there’s the face of my surprised mother, and the background of a hotel room I haven’t seen before.
“Eh, what’s going on here? Huh? Is that Onii-chan?”
“…Mother.” (Hikaru)
Yeah, there’s no allies for me.
The one it connected to was my mother.
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Mother, who was displayed on the screen, was showing exhaustion.
For her, a screen must have suddenly appeared in midair, and her son that had gone to a parallel world was shown there.
(…She looks fine.) (Hikaru)
She has gotten fancier than the mother I know.
Blonde hair all over, dense foundation, deep crimson lipstick.