Welcomed by the sweet little girl, Ren and I entered the cabin. The scent of freshly cooked stew roams around. Layla took plates from the cabinet and goes to start preparing the table for dinner.“It's been a long time.” A young-looking woman bowed her head to me. “I’m so happy to see you again Miss Kaede. Thanks a lot for the help that you did for me. Without you, I might still be in my bed being a burden to my sweet daughter.”“It's nothing… I’m happy that I’m able to help people in need.” I said.To make things easy for Ren to follow. I explain small details about how I met Layla and her mother while we were on our way here. Ren simply nodded and I guess he have a grasp on what was going on already.Layla holds her mother's hand with eyebrows connecting. She protested.“My mom is not a burden to me… I’ll do anything for you.”Her mom crouched down and kiss her on her cheeks.“I’m so blessed that you’re my child.”Layla is really a good girl. Seeing Layla and her mother get along we
August 19th, Harusaki Company underground facility. “Everything is working as we expected. A new world is working like how we intentionally wanted it to be. Expected from Master, Alice Harusaki.” An old man named Coco stated and his eyes were fixated on the huge monitor viewing random parts of the world they created in a simulated universe machine. The Simulated universe machine size was massive. In comparison, the machine is as tall as the Tokyo Tower. And to make it work, Alice needs a massive amount of energy. But it's none of their worries since Alice already created energy resources like nuclear power plants, solar panels, wind, and water. The machine was hidden in public, and constructed by the most trusted engineers and scientists. Located at the Hanrusaki building underground. The Virtual reality machine that almost achieves godlike… No, it’s an understatement for Alice's achievements. The simulated universe system does achieve the impossible. The machine itself could create
There was a time that I dreamed. A transfer student is coming. That child is a wonderful child who can almost do anything. Realized that I was among my classmates. With a smile like a bright sun “Kaede, it’s been a long time” and comes straight to me. Everyone takes their breath away. I hope such a thing happened. I know that such a thing will never happen. Such thoughts like this gist my mind sometimes. Probably it's because of my overwhelming loneliness. I’m lonely very lonely. I’m self-aware and it hurts so much. Waking up at seven in the morning. I go straight to the bath to have a cold bath to wake up my cells. Afterward, I go make some sandwiches. When I’m not in the mood to make breakfast. I simply go down to the street convenience store and buy a sandwich. Sometimes riceballs. Today's breakfast was cereal and milk. I like living my life like people from the West despite being Japanese. All of my things are very Western, I don’t hate being Japanese. I just think sometimes tha
Ren brings me to a research institute. The building was huge and all people working there looks super nerdy. Groups of people in white coats and as I walk on the corridor. I’m seeing robots that seem to be under experiments. There is a robot that seems to be teaching toddlers. Robots that do the heavy lifting and more. I shed tears for our residents. So this is what the future looks like. All jobs will be replaced by robots. That sounds very awesome, but what will happen in the future if people stop working hard? Is everyone going to be a researcher and started making more complicated robots? The answer is I don’t know. “Everyone here looks amazing,” I say. “They are.” “You look bored when you answer. Don’t you want to be called a researcher? I’m imagining you in your younger days. Could it be you’re a total nerdy boy in high school that no one likes?” “Not at all… I don’t take my class seriously and I stay in the middle of my class in rankings. I don’t get working so hard in my
Ren goes into further explanation about what’s going on in the Fantasy World online case. I don’t catch everything he said, but long story short his basically saying that the Artificial intelligence created in the game was dangerous. Artificial intelligence that could think like a human and moves like a human was considered a threat to humanity. As for right now, Ren’s job is basically to gather evidence and eventually confront the parent company owning the game. Harusaki company. “Is there any question, Kaede?” Ren asked. After not understanding 90 percent of all you say. I deemed your question far too advanced. I’m not stupid or anything, I’m racking at the upper half of the class. Ren just explained everything in an overly complicated way. Like the acronyms that he saying and the scientific explanations. Machine learning? Language? Database? And many more. All nonsense! But I don’t want to look stupid. Especially in front of this beauty, who seems to be looking down on me whil
Winter months are also known as the months when couples walk around with their body in the heat. I’m not kidding around here, winter months is when couple mostly cuddle each other. It's not December yet but the plaza was already packed with these normies. I breathe on my palm to create heat. Afterward, rub them together and press them on my cheeks. “This is not enough.” Everyone is having a good time, but why am I in the plaza? Why Kaede Kishimoto is alone in the plaza? Well, I was riding the train to visit a bookstore in another town, but then my head flies away while imagining what kind of exciting thing Ren and I would do. And then… Umm… How can I say this? The train forgot to drop me off. Now I’m in the next town of the next town. I’m very unfamiliar with the town. The next train going back will take about an hour so I decided to stroll around and get familiar. There is a plaza near the station and I alone sat down on the bench. But if this keeps on going the coldness will su
Ren told me that he will contact me when we were going to start the mission. Another week has passed and Im not hearing anything from him. What the hell is happening with them? Looking at what’s going on, seems like the case has gotten worst. Surfing in the Fantasy World online community page. I read an unusual thread about the players that died in the game. Fantasy World online developer made a letter saying that it's none of the game's fault. The game has a build feature that logged out the player when something wrong is happening within their body. “Emergency logged out.” This could be triggered by hard breathing, intense fear, high heartbeat, high blood pressure, etc. The list goes on but you get the point. Ren and Noah were busy investigating the matter and conducting countermeasures. That’s what they said. It is so complicated I don't want to ask too much about it. I'll only do what I must do. No need for extra effort. Right now, I’m simply farming monsters on the second flo
What is she doing here? She’s supposed to be in the recovery stage. It's been a while since she woke up, probably she’s just out playing. In the first place, playing “Fantasy World online” Doesn’t really require physical strength. She’s all safe. Anyways, this is killing me. I got carried away in my fantasies and I drop my mask. Can I still deny that I wasn’t Kaede? “Kaede is that you?” She asked. There is a chance. “I’m sorry, but I don’t know you at all. My name in real life was Kaede so my head turned around on its own.” I said casually and scart my head. After a few laughs, I turned around and get away from this scene. “I’d been an actress for some years now. I could tell when someone is acting in front of me. You’re hair and eyes color changed but your face was the same. You can fool, the others, but not me.” Clover said. “I don’t know…” “Don’t play dumb. I already heard everything from Saya. You got angry with Yuki and Ronie for taking bribes from Senna in the Summer Cu