Another Frontier Online

"Can't you do this?"

"I'm sorry."

White, small room with killer views. The man in the white coat turned his gaze downward, but Lunaria apologized without turning to him.

"Look, you're one of the strengthening people..."

The man in the white coat says to Lunaria, "No, no, no, no, no, no."

This is a long time. That's something that has been known for the past few years, so Lunaria listened to the words from right to left. I've heard enough octopus in my ears in the first place. I was hoping you'd give up sooner.

Lunaria is a fortified human made for space development and planetary exploration. Reinforcement humans are human beings made from a combination of superior genes.

Regularly strengthens the body and activates the brain by medication, etc., and imitates it to fix, but it is still only within the scope of humans. Lunaria understood and began to pull out her hand.

No matter how good you are in the first place, what can you do on your own? There seem to be other strengthening people who are similar to themselves. If you want to cooperate with them, you know the story, but the man in front of you says something different.

"Look, if you do my curriculum, you're going to be the best. I can go higher than that No. 8."

Yes.

The men call the fortified people by their numbers. I also have the number # 14, and I have never been called by the name of Lunaria Freire. I didn't want to do anything for someone like that.

And no matter what I think, I just want to prove that my theory is the best. Lunaria heard the man's words with a cold feeling that she hadn't seen me at all.

With that in mind, Lunaria thought about the game she was going to play today with a silly reply that might not end sooner.

There is much to be done as a fortified person. You will be beaten from morning to evening with all kinds of skills and knowledge. Perhaps thanks to the medication, Lunaria could easily do without having to remember what she had been taught.

At first, I was happy to be praised, and I was doing a lot of things, but I thought that the researcher in charge didn't see me at all, so I got cold. From then on, it becomes a deliberate failure.

In doing so, you may be able to see yourself. I started to fail all kinds of experiments, like flirting with my kids because they wanted me to.

But it wasn't what Lunaria thought it was. It was just more screaming. Then, the time for study and experimentation increased, and it was only said that it would be possible to beat other strengthening humans.

If you say such a thing without thinking about it, you will want to rebel. Lunaria made the experiment worse than any other fortified human.

Still, the researcher in charge does not give up, but imposes his theory. At some point, Lunaria stopped listening to the person in charge. Don't you like it? Recently, I've only had eyes to catch a grunt.

With that in mind, the only pleasure was the game of free time. Favorite is the role-playing game. Heroes preferred to defeat the Demon King with their allies, and they did many of them.

Sometimes, the demon king was the main character who tried to play an unusual game.

I thought it was a game in which the hero would defeat me at the end of the day, as far as the brutality was concerned. The demon king was evil, but somehow he helped people.

And bring peace to the world by defeating the brave who drowned in power. Even though the rest of the world appreciated it, the Demon King was mistaken to the end that he only controlled the world with power and fear.

Lunaria came to Zukun's heart.

It must have been a comedic antithesis. But that's good. Even though it is bad, I am doing good things as a result. Besides, the Demon King cared about his companions.

Even though he was the strongest demon king, he understood what he could and could not do, and he treated those who could do what he could not do with respect. Even if that's the man to rule over.

I want to be like this myself. I thought so, and I played the game so many times.

Such a situation persisted for many years.

I wonder if the person in charge threw it away or stopped experimenting and testing on Lunaria. Rather, it was treated as a failed work without studying or experimenting from the beginning. The person in charge is only interested in reinforcing humans with high results.

Since then, the person in charge has changed several times, but at first, each person in charge tends to try to get Lunaria to do something, but gradually the attitude became arrogant, and finally, he shouted and threatened, and began to say that he should produce results.

Lunaria didn't want to see anyone anymore. You just have to play games every day alone in the room.

After that, I was left alone for a few years, but one day an old man came to Lunaria's room. That said, it was through the door and through the monitor to talk. I haven't spoken to anyone in years.

At first, I thought it was a new person in charge, but it wasn't. The old man said this without any greeting.

“Are you interested in a virtual reality unchanged from reality?”

It must have been a word that caught Lunaria's interest. I don't normally listen to it, but I decided to listen to it in detail.

The story was simple, and he wanted me to join him as a test player in a newly created virtual reality.

You can lock yourself in your room and play games, but you'll be kicked out sooner or later. I was asked if I'd come out before that. And in virtual reality, you can stay there as long as you want.

I think it's a great suggestion, but the question of why I am is boiling. As a reinforced human, I know your luggage. If it's a virtual reality with a lot of money invested in it, we should let a better person do it, even if it's a test play.

But the old man said with a smile.

Lunaria, you're just making me look bad, aren't you?

I don't know why it came out. I'm proud that my acting was perfect, and I don't think I'm good in the first place. However, anyway, I thought I could trust the old man who told me his name.

After that, it was early. After completing various procedures, I decided to leave the laboratory.

It's not the first time I've been outside, but it's the first time I've been out of a lab's premises. We boarded the arranged one-person autonomous taxi and headed for the station where the spaceship was located.

The view from the window was fresh. A group of buildings in a city that I've only seen in the video, a cloudy sky, a tired face with no dreams or hopes.

I looked at this as if it was a world awaiting destruction, like other personnel.

The "Frontier Plan" in search of a planet where humans can migrate. Originally, I was a member of the search for the planet, but I wasn't chosen because I played the fallen.

Now, there are already a few fortified humans on a journey into the universe. When I think about it, my chest hurts a little, but it really hurts a little.

I heard that Virtual Reality was created as the "Another Frontier Plan". An absurd plan to live in virtual reality until the Earth's resources are restored.

Nevertheless, I think that Lunaria is not much different from the "frontier plan". Searching for a human-inhabited planet is similar to the likelihood that a human species will survive thousands of years in virtual reality.

I couldn't be a member of Planet Exploration, but I was chosen as a virtual reality test player. Then we'll have no problem if we get the results. I watched the flowing landscape with that in mind.

When I got to the station in about an hour, there were a lot of people, so I stood up.

It's bad that I haven't met people in person for years, and I'm afraid of the people around me. I walked jumping and jumping without being able to hear the screams just because my eyes met.

Rotate your head fully and approach the boarding gate in a motion that prevents you from entering the other person's view. I showed them the necessary documents and boarded the spaceship with minimal contact.

Virtual reality that is not different from reality. Lunaria was looking forward to it, but her cold sleep pod on the spaceship raised her expectations.

Instead of seeing the video of virtual reality with your eyes, it is the type that shows the image directly to the brain through the optic nerve. Just looking at the pod shows that there are other state-of-the-art, or several generations of, technologies in use.

Lunaria was wandering around the pod to see what kind of technology was being used, and she felt the human signs behind her.

Are you from the same laboratory as me?

"Ah, ah..."

Lunaria turned around and suddenly spoke to her, but her words didn't come out. It's been a long time since I uttered a word in the first place.

"Amanda Stellart."

The woman, who called herself Amanda, held out her right hand with an invisible face.

It took me a while to realize that it was a handshake, but I held Amanda's hand in horror.

"Le, Lunaria Freire..."

Lunaria said that in a mosquito-like voice, and immediately turned away after looking into Amanda's eyes for a moment.

People with different hair colors and styles but the same face as me. Lunaria rarely met other strengthening people, and since she was new to conversation, she didn't know what to do.

Looking at the situation, Amanda narrowed her eyes a little.

"Lunaria...? Oh, I've heard of it." But, yes, you're with me. "

I heard that another Lunaria was coming from the lab. I heard you were the best of the Fortified, but I didn't even know your name. That's Amanda in front of me.

Have you heard about your work?

"About the test player...?"

Enter this virtual reality as a test player to make it better. That's all I'm asking.

Amanda frowned at the answer.

"... I didn't think so, but I'm the only one doing this job." Well, that's fine, it's easier to do that. "

"Eh, eh...?"

"It's nothing." It was Lunaria, right? Let's work together on virtual reality. ”

Amanda said that with a smile, but Lunaria seemed a little strange. It's like making a smile. However, I nodded that I could trust the person who called me by name.

Lunaria enjoyed the world of virtual reality.

Although there are restrictions on behavior compared to reality, the appearance is reproducible to the same extent as reality. The flowers smell good, the wind feels good, and the sun feels warm.

I couldn't move my body well for the first day, but now I can move more than I really can. It was a fantasy world view with monsters like my favorite RPGs, so I got used to it without any particular resistance.

It was nice to take the sword "Aron Dight" I received on the first day I logged in and kill the monster. I tried to defeat a stronger monster without logging out from the first day.

I was in the mountains for a while, but my armor was weak anyway. I thought I had to get new gear, but when I went down the mountain, there was something like a town on the plain.

Players gathered around the resurrection point when they were defeated to build a town, and they heard stories from various places.

The gold units found in the dungeons seem to be in circulation, and they are quite busy.

Lunaria doesn't have any money, but she has some materials for the monsters she defeated. I looked around to see if I could sell this. To find someone to talk to.

I approached a woman who seemed nice, and I said, "Can you buy this? When asked," Rare Materials! I was surprised, and I was able to sell it for quite a price.

After a few months of such exchanges, every time a woman came to the store, it grew. Many of the rare materials Lunaria brought were hard to find. It seems that the armor that used it is selling for a considerable price, and it seems to be making a lot of money.

(I raised this shop...!)

I'm not going to advertise that it's my fault, but I'm glad Lunaria thinks the materials she brought make this store bigger.

I am not powerful under the edge, but I am enjoying the behavior of supporting the store while shadowing, and I have come to the store many times to sell rare materials.

And now it's not just the store. Players have gathered around this shop, which sells rare gear, and there are more shops to appreciate it. In the beginning, it was a town of about a hundred people, but now it has more than a thousand players at all times.

It's difficult to get close to stores as a lunaria when there are more people, but it's also difficult to do business outside of here, so lately there are few people going to close the store.

Continuing to do so, I saw many suspicious women coming to the store just as I was closing. The other party also seemed to be aware of us, and when the eyes met, it was more likely to be interpreted by the board.

That said, we don't talk to each other. Simply sell rare materials by talking to the shopkeeper, and you won't have conversational conversations with anyone. The manager's lady also seems to understand Lunaria, and she only communicates with a smile.

As the days went on, the rare materials became less rare. The other players started to show their faces at the hunting grounds where Lunaria used to go, hunting down rare monsters.

Unlike Lunaria, it is efficient at hunting because it fights in parties of multiple people. Besides, Lunaria doesn't hunt near other people's places. Lunaria had no choice but to change the hunting ground and seek a stronger monster.

One day, Lunaria came to a certain volcano.

Recently, I heard in town that I had found something that looked like a dungeon. However, the monsters were strong, and even when they went in, they were quickly defeated.

For Lunaria, it is easy to cross the ship. I didn't know how strong the monsters were, but I was going to take a peek.

I'm glad I came, but I had an early customer. There was a woman peeking through the cave entrance by herself.

She is a woman who often joins us at that store.

The woman noticed Lunaria as she wondered if she should say hello.

As they were watching each other, they opened their mouths.

Ah, um, are you going into this dungeon?

"Oh, I'm going to."

"I-If you don't mind, why don't you come with me...?"

Huh?

It seemed dangerous to go alone, but I felt like I could go alone.

"Um, yeah, well, then together..."

Thus, Lunaria entered the dungeon as a party for the first time.

Since then, Lunaria has had a lot of party adventures with women.

The woman's name is Zenobia Beilot. It took us nearly two weeks just to ask each other our names, but now we're close enough to be friends.

Zenobia also seemed to be similar to Lunaria and she was not good at talking to men, which is why she often met around the end of the store.

Lunaria felt a sense of intimacy on one side, and after that, she began to talk a lot. The same goes for Zenobia, which invites Lunaria whenever she goes somewhere.

Lunaria is a swordsman, and Zenobia is a fighting style, so both of them are avant-garde, but they are strong solo, so there is no particular problem. In the first place, the two of them didn't need healing because they didn't hit the monster.

Additionally, Lunaria's Arondite has a Defense Ignored attack, so even if she has a strong physical opponent, she can't lose. Zenobia's Melee Weapon Ability also had many attribute attacks, and no enemies she couldn't defeat.

After finding gear in the dungeon and defeating the monster materials, I went to the usual shop, where Lunaria created the dishes with her culinary skills, and Zenobia maintained the weapons.

"Why would Lunaria wear a helm to hide her face?" Beauty, isn't it worth it? "

"Hmm, I told you before, but I'm afraid of others. I don't want to be seen as much as I can, so I'm going to live a discreet life. You can think of me as a rose blooming around here."

"Is the rose blooming around here...?" But I know. I can't talk to a man without goggles. ”

"To tell you the worst, Zenobia can't talk to a man even if she wears goggles." Just shake your head vertically or sideways. Or do you want to remove the rising uppers "

"That was suddenly spoken to." You just need to be prepared. "

“How long does it take to prepare?”

"... I want thirty cents"

“I don't think that's okay. I'll be there in twenty minutes...!"

Two people familiar enough to have such a conversation enjoyed virtual reality.

A few years later, there was an announcement in the game.

It was said that an event called the Clan War would be held. It is said that the top-performing clan will be rewarded with an event in which ten-to-ten PVP matches are played in a tournament style.

Lunaria, who was resting her body at the rest point in the dungeon, saw Zenobia.

Would you like to join just two clans?

"Isn't that reckless?" Unlike the monsters running in AI, they were human. I think we're strong, but I don't think the two of us can win against the ten of us. Besides, I may not like it very much when I'm fighting interpersonal battles. "

You don't like interpersonal combat? Why?

"Because I'm male phobic."

Zenobia said that, and continued further with a serious look at Lunaria.

I didn't say that, but I'm a world champion in fighting games.

"World champion...? You mean the best in the world?"

"Yes, but I didn't want to, and I retired because I was told something I didn't like." There are many other things, and since then, men have become scared. "

"That's what happened."

"Well, that's enough." Oh, I want to spend the rest of my life in this world. The reality is that there are a lot of things I don't like and it's hard to breathe. I want to be a member of the plan, not just a test play. ”

"Somehow, I know."

When Lunaria was in the lab, it was cramped. I spent the majority of my day studying or experimenting, and all I wanted to do was do it for a few years.

Even though he was guaranteed food and clothing, he could not go outside and was not free. I know what I was born for, but if you ask me why I need to do it, I want to twist my neck.

Does Lunaria also hate reality?

"I don't hate it enough, but the result is subtle." But even if it's real, it might be fun to be with Zenobia. "

"Ah, so am I." I think it's fun to be realistic with Lunaria. But I can't do anything but play games, so it's hard to live. I don't know if the depleted planet has any resources before that. "

Lunaria felt a little pain in her chest when she was told to do that. Your participation in space development and planetary exploration may have increased your chances. Now that we have abandoned it, the slightest possibility has fallen even further.

I never wanted to help anyone back then. Basically, the only people I know are the people who were in charge of me, not the people who knew what would happen. But if the Zenobia in front of me is in trouble, I want to help.

Lunaria-chan, what's wrong?

Zenobia looks at Lunaria strangely. I seemed to have thought about it before I knew it.

"No, it's nothing." But if you want to live in real life, leave it to me. Somehow, you just have to make money. How about a cookie shop or something? It's getting better lately. "

"It's a cooking skill."

"I feel like I can go even in real life...!"

"Sure enough, Lunaria-chan can do anything." It's very dexterous. But it seems difficult to procure ingredients. It's basically a nutritional supplement. I'm just playing a test play here and I'm gonna get some money, but can I just buy some ingredients? ”

"If it's not enough, we'll fight and take it."

"It's a robbery - fantasy is the best, after all." You can live by just defeating monsters. "

I see. It would be even better if you dropped the money like a regular game. - Ah, it's a sign of a rare monster.

Alright, let's sell some rare ingredients and eat some delicious food today!

"It's hard until I buy it first, but I got on with the proposal." Plus, let's eat five-star sweets. "

The two of them, already hungry and dominated by delicious food and sweets, quickly headed to the back of the dungeon to hunt down rare monsters.