Vol 1 Prologue (1/2)
Prologue: 【hellish Overtieddon】
Star after star rushes by
Dozens upon dozens
Have you ever seen a shooting star?
Soht, while others would shout out their wishes I think everyone’s reaction would be different
However, the sight of a descendingyou’ve never seen, right?
With a thundering crack splitting the heavens, striking the earth with its overwhel mass and speed
Maybe so on television or a certain web animation site1 Still, I don’t think any of you would want to watch a downpour of meteors up close
Right now, raining hell on the land beforeone after another
Wait! I shouldn’t talk like it’s none of eddon is none other than yours truly
What was then a thoughtless action nostars that are carving out earth
Fro stars are striking this vast expanse, annihilating the “enemies” I assume are there
Though I do not know in detail, as dots on the radar display vanish like dust being wiping away in the corner ofwherever meteors make contact
Then, whenstars have sunk into the horizon, the sounds of those impacts finally arrive, and soon after, the impacts themselves come as tremors
I see the dust stor—
Suddenly, a searing pain assaults me as if by divine punishment
Likesawed open
Like being drawn and quartered
That pain knocks me out, and soon, my body is sed by the dust storm
Let’s go back a in time a bit
In order to rush the release of the later-than-late project, I orking overtiraae companies
No matter how heartless my company really is, it normally wouldn’t force two orstill soprogra!
Due to high workplace turnover, the only programmers employed at this company were Kouhai-shi+2 and me Unable to expect the company to find replace on my own project, I also had to pick up after my junior’s hack job of a project
“Alright, all the class specs and annotations are done, then after getting the docs and dependencies fro is officially fixed~”
I stretch a bit and twist my neck with a crack
Looking around, I see everyone here at work as if it’s not even the weekend Regrettably, that’s a coht at this workplace
On the seat next tohis hile gru him looks No time for that
The artists and designers nearby are also working silently, sporting dead fish-eyes
When I returned tocoffee, the co co
It was done without any of this data so no wonder it was a hack job
Kouhai-shi+ was thrown to the wolves without ti, is there? Half a year ago, there were once four programmers when my junior entered the company, and now I am the only one left, which makes me wonder about Corporate’s opinion on this
“Sa-…Suzuki-san, the client coinners and e it, what do”
Turning around, I see Metabo-shi+4, the supervisor and projectwith his usual baffled expression
That bastard almost called ive me that mix-up crap! 5
Also, despite the crisis at hand, he looks happy Why is it that most developers are masochists?
WW is the nicknaaa features
“If er the difficulty any roup won’t play, so didn’t I say no?”
That’s right, the current difficulty is a decisionall that wasted tiht cry
“The account creation ree didn’t use before, the set of one map exploration and threeexperienced players a title for clearing levels without using that, we can encourage the the rewards, no?”
“We have no time, so that’ll do~ Well, please implement that, Suzuki-san”
Metabo-shi+ orders me casually as he always does
“Wait afor the et peret vetoed, there won’t be time to fix it”
“OK, I’ll call to confirm~”
Waddling his wide torso, Metabo-shi+ disappears to the s area with his phone in hand
Fro to myself
As the night goes on, I get the go-ahead from Metabo-shi+, and fill my stomach with junk food
After fixing the numerous careless mistakes Kouhai-shi+team
Oh yeah, what’s the gaain?
I’ve always called it “MMO” or “Role Playing Game”, and can’t remember its official name
…Right, it’s “Freedom Fantasy World” Since that’s easy to confuse with WW’s old name “Fantasy War World”, no one referred it directly
I think old specifications used FFW as the abbreviation
After that, “Fantasy” was dropped fro Gaame is non as “Freedoer easy to confuse, but we had already gone through all that trouble
“Suzuki-san, the group testing Storage is reporting a bug!”
“What is it this ti for non-premium items, didn’t I just take care of that?”
“That’s the FFL inventory bug, you know? This is for WW, so Look at the attached file in the er for details”
“Okay da!”
Ugh, working on both at the sae isn’t soe, but the item inventory in WW
I proceed to edit WW on one hand, and deal with each entry in the report fro team on the other
Meanwhile, I get a e when beta testing WW
You bastard, trying to avoid a scolding by sending a e are you! I’ll make you pay for lunch later
Wanting to perfor team for FFL requests h that should be the server team’s job
I curse as I continue to ain?
When the tests finish in the , we miraculously send out the client-side application for FFL
There endary weapon passed down generations known as “Update Patches” over the Internet, so there is no need to worry
I can just hear the players raging, but I’m sleepy now
After sending an executable package of WW that Iteaet my first sleep in thirty hours inside the haven under my desk