296 Ive Already Stayed Here for More Than Five Months (1/2)

After the jacketed man left, Seiji attempted to interact with other humans as well as non-humans.

No matter what he did or said in front of everything and everyone, they all had zero reaction and continued to do whatever they were doing.

Seiji was now certain that all of them were similar to NPCs!

NPC stood for non-player character. These characters were common in just about every game.

Seiji had played various open-world RPG games in his past life, such as Assassin's Creed, The Witcher, and so on. There were large amounts of realistic NPCs in those games that walked, talked, and performed various actions.

But no matter how realistic they were, they were still only fake humans that would act according to their programmed actions, just like puppets or humanoid androids that were capable of moving on their own.

All the living creatures in this city were like NPCs… although Seiji hadn't explored the entire city, he believed that this was likely to be the case.

He didn't try anything too extreme as a test, for example breaking the scenery, because he didn't know what would happen. If he was viewed as an enemy invader and every creature here ganged up on him, that would be bad.

This wasn't a game, after all.

He couldn't find out any information… so how was he supposed to find Sensei's consciousness?

Seiji thought about it, and tried imagining a dog that would be able to track Sensei down!

This tactic failed.

He tried imagining being able to cast a spell that would directly help him see Sensei's location.

This also failed.

He tried to imagine a spell that would allow him to view the entire city!

Another failure.

Everything he tried ended up failing.

Was he really going to have to search through this entire city by himself?

He wracked his brains for a solution. If Sensei's consciousness was still awake, then…

Seiji thought of another method, so he decided to fly into the sky and imagine a large cannon.

'Fire!'

The cannon shot out a burst of light that exploded into brilliant, long-lasting fireworks!

Seiji observed all the living creatures' reactions. There was no reaction from anything, which was very good for him.

He continued flying above the city and shot fireworks everywhere.

If Mayuzumi's consciousness was still awake, then she would surely notice him upon seeing these fireworks!

Seiji also imagined a holographic projector and made it continuously project his image in the sky. The enormous hologram version of himself flew back and forth above the city, and it caused Seiji to feel rather embarrassed.

After doing this for a while, he suddenly saw a small firework shoot up from a part of the city!

Seiji instantly flew in that direction.

He arrived at an apartment.

”Sensei!”

Seiji flew in Mayuzumi's direction.

The manga author stood there dazed as she watched the golden-red iron-armored figure descend from the sky and land next to her.

Seiji opened up the mask to reveal his face.

”I finally found you, Sensei!”

”Harano-kun, how did you…”

”I imagined this iron suit of armor. How is it? Pretty cool, right?” Seiji made what he imagined to be a cool-looking pose.

”…It is pretty cool.” Mayuzumi blinked. ”But what I wanted to ask was…”

”Why I'm here, right?” Seiji chuckled. ”Of course, I'm here to find you!”

”Harano-kun…” Mayuzumi's eyes sparkled.

”We can't waste any time here; you'll learn the situation anyways once you wake up in real life. We should leave this place immediately.” Seiji paused here for a moment. ”President, did you hear me earlier? I found Sensei!”

There was no response.

”President!?”

Seiji felt an ominous premonition. He shouted for Natsuya several more times, but received no response at all!

'Did something happen? Is it that my voice can't reach her? Or did something happen in the outside world!?'