Chapter 2: The High and Lows of a Leveling Game (2/2)
After long years of arduously leveling up, even when he started a new game he would soon find some sort of leveling loophole whereby he would find and defeat the monster that gave the most experience.
Even now, he found himself the perfect hunting grounds. Which gave him the highest amount of experience points, and he would focus all his efforts on grinding out his levels.
Right after school, the amount of experience he accumulated in his character finally exceeded 99%. He calculated that he could level up every 30 minutes following his crazy methods.
For him clearing a game doesn’t entail achieving a completed story or by defeating the final boss, it was about achieving the highest level possible.
In other words, because he was so close to clearing the game in his eyes, his tension naturally rose to the limits.
Just like how he went to school, he took the same path on his way home, he was walking as usual whilst playing on his smart phone.
(Just a bit more……….99.51, 99.52, 99.53……..)
With each monster he defeated he gained 0.01% EXP, in the beginning this piled up very quickly, however, now that he is so close to his goals, every percent was counted down. His heartbeat began to quicken, and he did something he normally wouldn’t do, which is confirm each time he gained an experience point.
He became excited, and it became all that could fill his head.
Because of this, the things he would normally do coincidentally slipped from his mind, and he ended up not doing them.
The thing he was doing until just recently was completely neglected.
That is watching where he was going.
——-DONN! (Crash sound effect)
Suddenly his vision darkens/blurred out, he bumped into something right in front of him, and at the same time a small shriek was heard.
In that moment of excitement, his smart phone slipped from his sweaty hands and vanished.
「ahh……」
His smart phone flew away like a parabola flying through space and he saw all this happening in slow motion.
It’s almost as if his world had stopped and a feeling that something bad was about to happen.
He understood that with his intuition, he desperately reached out towards his phone strap with futility.
However, His body could not keep up. Although his brain was in an accelerated state, he was nothing more than a human being.
Slowly his phone strap left his fingers. His intention is to grab his phone, but his body won’t react.
Only in his mind was he able to grab his phone. Before long, the smart phone which has exceeded its trajectory, begins to fall down—-
——–DOKA ! BAKI BAKI BAKI! (Sound effects of phone tumbling)
The phone which fell into the road, was run over by a truck and smashed into small little pieces, he couldn’t believe his eyes nor process the information, so all he could do was stare dumbfounded at the broken pieces.
He did not have a recollection of how he returned to his own room. Before he realized it he was in his own 6 squared one room complex, and the shattered pieces of his smart phone was left on his desk whilst he blankly stared at the pieces.
His most prized possession moved no longer, it was because the damage the phone received was nothing like a cracked glass which resembled a spider’s web, it was fatally and thoroughly grind to dust.
Suddenly, something entered his field of vision.
It was the thing that existed on the other side of this table, inside his wooden bookshelf. In that shelf there was a large quantity of games and save data’s memory, not only that there was also the previous generation of smart phones which he had used.
All the things had one thing in common, that was, it contained all the data that he had accumulated, and every single smart phone device had a character which was max level in it.
Seeing his prized treasures, the feeling of depression which dropped him to the bottom was replaced with a burning motivation.
He stared intently at his shattered smart phone.
「This time round, I won’t fail to raise to the highest level alright! 」
This, he pledged. Thereupon, as if was responding to his oath.
「Do you want to increase? 」
「Eh? 」
「Do you want to increase in level? 」
As if he misheard, he was hearing an echo of a woman’s voice inside his head.
「Wh, who is it? Who’s talking to me? 」
「Its’ me, It’s me, Hey over here〜」
It was as if someone was playing tricks on him.
「Where are you, show your form! 」
Taiyou rapidly stood up and dashed towards the broom which was nearby in his room, he proceeded to take a vigilant stance with it in hand.
「Okay, Please wait a minute〜」
Immediately after, the shattered pieces of phone which were on his table began to glitter/shine. After that, shattered pieces gathered together and spun around in high velocity like a tornado, before long it changed into particles of light. The particle of light continuously merges into a solid like shape………it was turning into something very human like.
If one were to describe it, it was like one of those fantastical beings, the being called a fairy.
Taiyou was completely bewildered and he lost his words. What used to be before his eyes was a real smart phone, but unbelievably it turned into a real living fairy!