Volume 1 - Chapter 1 – Part 1 (1/2)

The first thing he felt ind

shi+n's consciousness faintly grapshed the feeling of the ind blowing on his skin

What he felt next was a hard sensation on his back, and faintly, a sweet sht was dark because his eyes were closed?

"Mmn…"

shi+n opened his eyes as he sat up

What spread across his field of vision was a broad roves

White and pink flowers bloo It seems that what shi+n smelled earlier were these flowers

"This is…"

To solve the mystery of why he was here, shi+n worked his in, the boss monster at the Depths of the Gate to Another World, and won Right, I cleared THE NEW GATE Because of that, we could log out, everyone was released, and in the end it was just me…)

Gradually, his mind became clear

The scene shi+n had seen at the end; that was,

"The doors… opened?"

Right, after defeating the final bossout became possible, and just as he was about to do so himself, the closed doors had opened, and he lost his consciousness

"The heck was that? And this is…"

Even looking around again, what he say was a broadelse he could find

"Could it be, I'ame?"

shi+n wasn't sure whether or not he hadif only he hadn't logged out because of an event, heup the menu

"…Oi, oi"

Translucent screen behind his eyes, and the menu items lined up there; it was unmistakably the menu screen of THE NEW GATE

"What, I was still in the gaht shi+n, as he brought his gaze down theOut were――

"…Gone"

The words Log Out that should have been between 'Owned Gold' and 'Help', were nowhere to be seen The six letters that he had in, had disappeared

"Oioioi, this is a lie, right!?"

He opened up everyOut were nowhere to be found

It was like when it was a death gaht, what about everyone else!?"

Was there anyone else besides hi about that possibility, shi+n look out the Survivors List from his item box If there was any other player left behind, the list would show it

"What… the hell?"

The only one on the list was 【shi+n】, but below that in the white space,

――――『Cannot display due to lack of network connection』

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The Survivors List was a way of having the avatar that used the ite which players still survived, said his alche that, it meant that at present, shi+n's avatar was disconnected from THE NEW GATE's system

"Can't connect to the network Then why can Iout, he was connected to the syste like that possible?

In this situation, shi+n shouldn't have been able to h shi+n ell-versed with VR technology, but at any rate, that was how THE NEW GATE worked Thinking about it nor able to et it The heck is happening"

The feeling of relief he had up until a while ago had disappeared in one go, and shi+n once again lay down on the ground

He didn't feel like getting up, and he worked only his ht about it, he couldn't coood, huh In these situations, I should empty mydohen the inside of his head was ahe couldn't understand, he'd tehts

① He couldn't connect to the network

② It was possible to manipulate his avatar

③ The two points above were not reconcilable

① could be confire that appeared on the list

② was also confir hsi avatar

As for ③, it was a reality that a network connection was essential for the act ofones avatar There was no mistake that players who had lost connection to the network due to a bug found themselves unable to move their avatars

Then, ould have to happen to reconcile these two facts―――― what shi+n came up as this

There was the possibility that the Survivors List had malfunctioned, and there really was a network connection It wouldn't be strange for so like this to happen

The next possibility was that he couldn't connect to the network, but it was possible to ht ahve been developed

"The last possibility would be that… Fantasy"

shi+n sht that had by chance crossed hisseriously

shi+n was a pure net-gaame addict And at the saht novels and web novels

Stories where the protagonist ended up in a world exactly like the game had already become a staple for such fiction, and he had also read a number of these The reasons for this were varied, but shi+n had read ame with their menu intact

What had come to mind just noas exactly that He had suddenly wondered if the place he was in noasn't the ga his network connection, and being able to move his avatar; both of these could be explained by it

'As if', thought shi+n He decided to stop thinking for a while, and looked up at the sky The wide blue sky filled his vision, and sroves of trees in the corner of his eyes Turning his sight that way, he could clearly see each leaf

"…………"

He could see them He could see them clearly He could see them distinctly

He could see too a

With the development of VR, certainly they could create a world that was the spitting iht and sounds, but it was possible in touch, and taste as well

However… However possible it was to reproduce these things, technology still hadn't reached the level of the 'real thing' yet Technology was only at a level where if you'd seen it in reality before, you'd know for sure that these were affected fakes In the end, they were just pretty graphics