I feel like I haven't been home in a long time, but you haven't actually had that much time since you left home.

With that in mind, I waited on the doorstep of my house for a crow to come out. I have already said hello to my grandfather and grandmother.

Inside a house with an indescribable nostalgic smell. It's an old-fashioned house that still has tatami in wood, but the Japanese surprisingly still prefer to make it like this. It seems that many older people in particular live in houses like this. I feel like an indescribable piece of history, considering that the making of this house was normal at one time.

Even so, I like this house calmly, too.

"Brother, you're welcome!"

When I wondered if the door had opened with momentum from upstairs, I made a rattle noise and a rumble came down.

A beautiful woman stood there in white tights with a white lace unit with black high neck inner and a light peach chiffon skirt underneath with a black and only one point ribbon pattern. She seems to be wearing makeup and her cheeks are stained red with thin rashes.

"... I think I saw that outfit somewhere."

"Ugh, have you noticed?"

As if he had succeeded in flirting, he laughed niggardly, causing his own arm to tangle in my arms. And he tries to pull me off, "Come on, let's go," and he opens the front door and walks out.

Absolutely, this guy is no different.

Today is an off-duty day when the face we met in Blade Online gathers in real life. Individuals had quite a chance to meet each other in real life, but when we were all in place, the days didn't fit inside. Finally today, we can have an off-duty meeting.

It was about two years after I opened up from Blade Online.

A few days after the opening of Blade Online, television, newspapers, the web and radio around the world took it with them in the Blade Online case. It's an unprecedented big incident using Dream, it's weirder not to make a scene. Some of the players seemed to be big politicians and police people, well of all races, and the incidents caused by the warrior needles soon came to light.

Some 30,000 players trapped in that game were then forced to undergo various investigations a few days later. Naturally, so am I. It was pretty hard to be made to talk for hours or ask the same thing over and over again.

Players trapped inside the game were all released, including players who died during the game. After all, that word on the warrior needle seemed to be a lie to break our hearts.

Many of the freed players have become mentally unstable, and the government has struck a hand to keep players from doing weird things in the name of mental care for all players. I've been to the hospital many times, too, and they've made me get checked out. I went to the hospital for a year, and I was finally judged unusual and released.

Ten warrior needles who abused the Dream and caused the incident have not yet been captured by the police as one of them. By the time the incident came to light, he was dazzled. Probably had a lot of preparation for the escape originally. Urabe is missing, too, for helping us. There were no such people from the beginning, just to say, there is no evidence left as one.

But this incident led to the revelation of the fragility of The Dream, which even plunged into a recovery commotion. A new VR console has now been launched, turning into a Dream. It's a console called "New World" released by a major gaming company under the umbrella of a bourgeois called "Manage a Bourgeois". I also have New World because it came to me from the gaming company when I won the lottery that I didn't even send it to for some reason.

Well, then let's talk about my present.

Freed from the game, I took off my pull and embarked on a live one. The world is intelligent, of course, but I didn't have a very good place to work as a high school graduate. As a result, one person contacted me at a stage where the place of employment was a nursing home.

I was wondering if you'd like to come to my gaming company.

The name of the person who sent the communication is "Ogurasaki".

At first glance at the name, someone figured it out. Rugged.

Surprisingly, she was starting a gaming company. It's a small company, not even a few years after it was launched yet. They don't have that many people either.

Well, there was a twist, and I got to get a job at that gaming company. I was studying within my hobby, but not at a level that was very useful in action, and I was willing to die to study. Dead.

Well, I'm rugged at the company now... No, I'm allowed to work with Kozaki and the others. Rent an apartment and live alone. When I left the house, I was scared to cry so much.

Well, that's what happened, and it's happening now.

More than my status report.

Pretty fractured, but, well, the main thing today is off the hook. My real is second to none.

Aya Kurabashi (Kura Hayashi Ayashi) had already arrived at a large banquet hall, an off-duty venue. I got there earlier than I was supposed to, and I'm free outside.

Standing with his spine pinned and stretched, correctly positioned by the sliding down glasses. Looks like the surface is seeping out of the outside. The black hair stretched out to the back is perfectly neat.

"Hey."

She was approached by a boy who looked good in his expression, a refreshing boy. Years go from high school to college. I have a slight child-face, so it's hard to tell how old I am just because of my appearance.

"……… could you…"

"Yeah, yeah, it's me. Me."

"Again... was it you"

"Hey, it's me."

"Hmm..."

"No, you don't know who I am!?"

Kurashibashi laughed and said this where the boy blushed and penetrated.

"I know exactly what you mean, Mr. Sword Dog."

"Heh, heh."

Boy - Kiryu Kenichi (Sayagiri Kenichi) sighs in Kurashibashi's reply and arms together.

"Still, it's a lot of emotion to see in real life,"

"Right. There's a lot going on, and I didn't see you until today."

"Nevertheless, sworddog, you are real but refreshing"

………… You're too different in character. "

"What is (mystery)"

Aya Kurashibashi, named after her, leaned her neck strangely.

"No, it's normal for everyone to look at each other, but only today, it's kind of emotional."

Well, who were you at the place?

"Am I that shadowy?!?"

Four boys and girls were sitting in their seats opposite each other on the train to the off-duty venue.

The shadowy boy who attaches "soot" to the end of the story, the girl who gets the impression that the weather looks like an adult sitting in the seat across the street but looks like a poisonous tongue, puts a tear-eyed penetration into the words of the Seven Metropolitan Seas.

Next to those two,

"I knew you chose to go with Akatsuki."

"It's a perfect bracon, I can't help it. I can't see Mr. Akatsuki anymore, and it seems to be accumulating a lot of days."

The names of the two boys and girls with Nico and a gentle grin are called the Great Hundred Rukia and the Red Peak Apple. The two discuss in a relaxed atmosphere, without worrying about the noise next door.

The four of them are so-called rear friends who go to the same school. In the world of "Blade Online", he also belonged to an guild called "Illuminating Light" led by his rear friends.

"Or really, the weather is too shadowy. What were you doing while we were making the final decision?"

"I was fighting to protect everyone at Alliance Home!"

"But it's bad for the weather, but we kind of forgot you existed, too."

"He wasn't there."

"Cool!"

At the same time.

Heading to the off-duty venue, on another train.

"Um, maybe to an off-duty meeting?"

"Yeah. And you?"

A woman named Aoi Lian had a conversation with a man sitting in front of him about the middle of the twentieth.

Aoi wears a loose shirt printed 'Sleeping Boy', a beautiful woman who seems to notice somewhere, and the man, Toru Oshiba, is a beautiful young man with a floating away impression, wearing a Docromark shirt and a Docromark pirate hat.

"It's an odd encounter to get on the same train. Why don't you tell me your name?"

"Uh, it's not that famous, but it's called Lencia"

"Oh, I've heard of it. It was definitely a blacksmith dedicated to Red Flash (First-Thread)."

"Uh," Red Flash "was definitely his two names..."

"Exactly."

"Uh right. So, could you..."

"Oh, I am,"

Pirate King! said the youth.

Don't!

Yuichi Castle River (Shigeru itch) was hoping to take the bus to an off-duty venue.

Black hair stretched out to cover and conceal the eyes and a slender, elongated body. He has black earphones on his ears, meditating on his eyes and listening to music.

The castle river seems calm at first sight, but I can hear that my legs are moving from time to time with soy sauce, and I am actually nervous.

Yui Castle River, his first name is "Hero" Arthur.

Nowadays, Akatsuki is called "The Red Hero" or "The Brave Man of Black Silver," but the first generation of "Hero" is authentic him.

Yui, he cares about a name that sounds like a girl, and if he can, he doesn't want to be named in an off-duty meeting. I can't believe it, but I'll make sure of the time with my watch.

Until the off-duty meeting, a little more.

Daga Success (oh no) was heading off to the off-duty venue in a car driven by Sedo Mountain Hippocampus (Me and Yamakai).

"But there's been a lot since I died."

"I can tell you that now, but when Kaiba died, they all cried terribly."

"You can light something up."

Oga Success - - Gallon and, Seto Mountain Hippocampus - Nokaibar.

"I'll be there in a little while."

"Oh, I'm sorry you had to drive. And you're looking forward to it. Worship his face quickly."

And at the same time.

Nine men and women were walking in the city with Zorozolo. There's an off-duty venue ahead of them.

"Look, you guys, don't make passers-by annoying."

"That's right, don't get up there."

The two leading men and women, the Tenryu-yuen Hayato (Tenryu-yin Haya and), and Jiangoke Kaori (Sarashina Kaori) said so with a serious look to the seven behind them. The seven people behind him also give a serious look and nod at it, proceeding with their steps.

"... why is this happening?"

"I don't know."

When we try to calm down somehow, we realize how different we are. So embarrassed, Shoya Shingaki (oh Shigeya) and Anna Sato whisper.

"You don't really know who you are when you're alone."

Sato shrugs like that and sees the whole fellow walking around.

And raise each and every name to match his face.

Tenryu Yard Falcon - Nine Dragons.

Jiangoke incense - Luke.

Shoya Shingaki - - Guruara.

Akeshin Sakashita (Sakata Meishin) - - Utter limit.

Yuna Oyama. Yuna Oyama.

Takeshi Muto - sounds like it.

Windy Mountain South - - cold.

And Anna Sato - - Annelate.

Even if I try to put it up this way, I don't know a bit better.

All of Blade Online's top guilds, Indestructible Dragons, are in the process of entering the venue.

Six tennis lovers and six of the guild Advantage were also on their way to the venue.

"Are we treating each other badly?"

"I don't have a choice."

"It was shadowy."

"Yeah."

"Yes."

"It's delicious in a way."

At the same time, two men were meeting in a completely different place from the off-duty venue.

"You... it's been a long time, man, nice to meet you, man"

"Oh, oh. I miss you."

"Oh, that one."

"Oh, that's it"

"" Seriously. ""

Furthermore, at the same time, and where it had nothing to do with the off-duty venue, four men had met.

One dressed like a host, one in a white shirt on a jeep, and the other two dressed somewhat unobstructed.

"You're no different than in the game."

"Oh, some kind of glassy face on a human mushroom."

"Right."

"... what the hell you guys"

They paired each other in a glass of booze in an unspeakable atmosphere and said:

"It's great to be alive"

…………

"But you abandoned me and ran away, didn't you?"

"Right."

"What are you doing?"

"... excuse me"

――――――――――――――――――――

Me and you walking in the middle of a mess for an off-duty venue.

He was in a good mood earlier and put his arms around me, snuggling up like a lover. It smells fluffy and good, makes me want to stroke my head, but I'm brothers and sisters on boulders in a lot of people, and that doesn't taste good, and I'm walking straight forward. On second thought, I suck pretty bad, too. The degree of ciscosity.

Well, there are a lot of people, so if you put your arms around it, you don't have to get lost.

Quite a few people have been bumping into me for a while now. Ouch. We need to be careful not to get stuck in these things.

Look, someone hit me on the shoulder again and...

"It was fun, Akatsuki."

The voice I heard in my ear was something I had certainly heard.

Hurry up and look back, but there's no such thing as a figure. There are only people walking.

Just for a moment, I felt like I saw that gray hair in the corner of my vision.

"What's wrong, brother?"

Stopped looking at me with a strange peek. People walking away from me trying to get in my way.

"No, it's nothing. Shall we go?"

A little later to the off-duty venue.

When we meet in real life, don't get kind of nervous.

"Brother."

I was walking down because of nervousness. I raise my face and my gaze. He was looking forward, not at me. I look forward, too.

"Long time no see, Mr. Akatsuki"

It was two brothers and sisters standing there.

Is he about the age of a high school student?

They both smile at each other and run towards me.

"Guha!!"

She manages to embrace her strongly, screaming at the advance of her sister. Then I stroked my brother's head and said:

"Long time no see, Lew, Lynn"