The World of Masks

"Interesting."

It was a brief glimpse of Chloe as she listened closely to Callie. She turns to Jack, too.

"Don't you have any storytelling?"

He seemed to expect a similar story from Jack as Callie's. Jack shakes his head in excitement.

"I'm a normal person in reality. Rather, it's known around here as a good lad."

"Oh, is that a lie?"

I haven't been through much yet, but the actions I've seen and the words I've heard, a great madman, a demon drunk on slaughter, were Jack. In reality, even a serial killer who carries a knife and sprinkles blood drops can be trusted. No, it's more than that. It's weird. Besides, I heard the name of the famous killer, Jack the Reaper, even when he was given the Dark Knight's armor.

When Chloe doesn't believe, Jack shrugs. Callie explained instead.

"I'm telling you, you're a thoroughly good human cosplay in real life. I volunteer once a month."

"Foot, hahahahahaha!"

Chloe bursts into laughter. I grabbed the belly and bent my waist. I laughed so much that I could make tears in my eyes.

"Hahaha, I'm sorry. But you're a volunteer, hehehehe!"

I closed my mouth with my hands to stop laughing, thinking it was an excuse, but the smile finally squeezed my hand and leaked out. I punched my stomach several times to stop laughing, trembling, but the smile did not stop.

"Well, it's a habit to try to avoid the urge to kill in real life."

Jack shrugged, making excuses, not excuses.

"Cook, did that work for you?"

"Never."

Jack replied with just the right cut.

"I see. But you're the type to hide yourself in real life."

"Yes, but I was in danger too. If I hadn't discovered this game, I would have gone to jail or a mental hospital."

In that regard, Jack was very grateful for the game.

"How's Callie?"

Chloe's question now leads to Callie.

"What?"

"Normal life."

"I'm like everyone else. I'm not the kind of person who feels pleasure or pleasure in murder, like you or the owner."

Callie, who was acquired by Jack's efforts, was not a violent killer like Jack or Chloe. The refusal to commit murder disappeared completely, but unlike the two, there was nothing wrong with it.

"That's right. He's an apprentice in real life."

"Ugh, do I have to go to college?"

"Yes."

Callie shrugs. Once more, I learned to grow up and poke my head. I watched them both with a soft smile on their cloaks.

"Then again · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·."

Jack brings out a new topic as if it were a flashback.

"How do you relate to the Dark Wizard? Did you get a bead of life from a novice village that absorbs human life?"

"Huh?"

Chloe tilts her head.

"What do you mean you got a bead that absorbs human life? Isn't that all the beads of life you get in a novice village?"

I thought all the players got those beads, but they didn't? Since he had been working under the Dark Wizard for almost the first time, he didn't know that the beads from the beginner's village were different for Chloe, who had not met other players well.

"No, it's different. Most of them just get Ordinary Life Orbs, and sometimes they come out with certain abilities for their livers. A bead of life that absorbs human life is one of a kind."

Jack showed me the beads of life with multiple auxiliary abilities, which he had previously stolen from the bracelet. Chloe looks at the beads with curious eyes. Jack pulled out the bracelet, even the emotion card, and handed it to me. Chloe's eyes widen as she sees the ability to attach to the orb of life.

"Oh, I didn't know there were these items."

"They're rare."

It was a privilege only players could get. The beads of life that wandered among the NPCs were certainly expensive and rare items, but they were even more special.

"But they all have different abilities. Why?"

Chloe asks as she rolls around the beads of life that give her a bonus to her stat point when she levels up, taken from Galik. Jack shrugs.

"I don't know exactly. I'm merely guessing that the stats of the orb of life will vary depending on how you help Ranpral."

I suddenly remembered the ugly umbrella I met in the village of a beginner. I remembered him slowly dying in horror, and I smiled.

"Lanpral? How to help?"

Chloe tilts her head as if questioning. Jack questionably glowed at Chloe's reaction. There's no way you wouldn't know if you got the Beads of Life in a Beginner's Village. To get the Orb of Life, you must help or take it from him. If you don't know how to help, you've taken it. ', but Chloe doesn't even know the name Lanpral. It was strange to think that the origin of the beads of life was Lanpral.

"Don't you know Lanpral, a novice village?"

Callie said as if it was weird.

"Oh, the centipede?"

Chloe claws her palms as if she finally knew.

"I didn't know you had that name. And it came out of his belly button, the bead of life."

You don't seem to have helped Lanpral with the speaking form. He was most likely killed as soon as I saw him.

"But did I have to help the centipede? I killed him as soon as I saw him."

I knew it.

It was as expected, and not unusual at all. Among the beads of life that Jack stole, 'Ranpral was killed and robbed. There were those who were described as'. It wasn't just Chloe. There was something difficult about the quest to make him make friends in the first place.

If you had an emotion card, you might have been able to read the information on the item and find out the name of Ranpral, but since the beginning, there were very few items available in the Holy Neutral City from Cloah, which operated under the Dark Wizard, away from normal NPCs. Then it would be enough not knowing the name of the Lanpral.

"Huh?

Then I tilted my head to the thought of rushing past. Apparently, he killed Ranpral and robbed him. 'I know that a special wealth stat is not attached to the one described as'. However, Chloe was given a bead of life that absorbs human life. I tilted my head around, realized something, and soon I laughed.

If you say so, you killed me, too. '

If you think so, it's not that weird. The quests in this game seemed to solve the quests no matter how well they wrapped them up. Then I wondered how he managed to defeat Langpral.

"So you killed Ranpral and got it, and then you found the orb of life?"

"Yes. But it's not just the Lanpral that killed him."

"Then?"

"I killed all the humans in the beginner's village."

I thought the code matched her well. Jack genuinely thought so.

"That's like me. I got the Orb of Life after I killed all the novice villagers."

"Oh, really?"

Chloe grins. When I found a human or someone who was coded to me, it felt good.

"So, how did you kill it?"

Jack asks, did he get them all drunk like himself and then kill them? Or did he poison her? They may have set a trap and taken care of it. But the answer that came back was beyond Jack's imagination.

"How? I just killed him."

"Just?"

"Yes. As soon as I got there, I gave him a rusty dagger, and as soon as I got out, I stuck it in a human being I'd never seen before."

It's not a cop, it's just a game. I had no reason to hesitate.

"It was so much fun to see NPC dying with blood on it. And then it's obvious. I've been killing seen tribesmen."

You carry a bloody dagger, cut through the people, and you blow up the mineshaft. A man who starved for days slaughtered a man brutally, as if he were eating crazily.

It seems odd that Jack's face doesn't understand.

"Is that possible? Even the NPCs in there couldn't have been that bad."

Players' abilities are first built entirely on reality. In other words, they are no different from ordinary people in the beginning. There was also a woman in Chloe. Even with his weapon, he was not able to kill all the villagers with only a few dozen adult men. Hans, the blacksmith he remembers there, was an impossible match for a novice to deal with. The strength of the blacksmith emanating from the trained thick muscles was somewhat difficult for ordinary people to handle. The forge is equipped with weapons, so Merritt who holds the dagger disappears. On the contrary, there is even a disadvantage of Chloe with a rusted dagger.

"Of course he's dead."

He said as if it was obvious to Chloe.

"But just because you die in a game doesn't mean you die in real life, right?"

"You, probably · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·."

I didn't know what to expect from the back. Jack looks at Chloe with tired eyes this time.

"Isn't there a soft rule in this game like no access for hours after you die anyway? And then, of course, I immediately reconnected and started killing again."

Since then it's been a repeat of it.

The restart point in the beginner's village was the old hut that first woke up. NPCs didn't make it to the cabin. It did no harm to the hut. After I found out about it, I made the hut a fortress. When I die, I reconnect and swing my sword, and when I die again, I reconnect and repeat myself.

"Excellent! Killing as you please, dying worry-free! Maybe the most exciting day of my life."

"You didn't die."

Jack kicks his tongue. That much of Chloe's behavior was insane.

"Well, now I think it might be a little bit worse."

It was not a reflection at all when I saw the gesture of lifting my fingertips, emphasizing the word a little.

"Even so, it couldn't have been easy."

"I did everything I could. They took them hostage. They fled right into the woods. They ambushed them one by one. They set fires. They dug traps. I've adjusted the time of connection, and I've timed out my attacks. Later on, they wouldn't even let me come out to surround the cabin."

"So?"

"I had no choice then. If I wanted to stay dead and lose my edge a little bit, I ran out and hid in the grass forest and hunted again. It took me a while to kill them all."

Chloe smiled brightly and said.

"You could have died. NPCs know how to end a player completely in real life."

"I didn't know there was such a way. If he had known that, he wouldn't have gone crazy like that. Fortunately, because it's a novice village, they don't seem to know how to end the player completely."

"Still, you'd think it'd be better to keep an eye on him as long as he keeps resurrecting." "

"Of course, if I wanted to be disadvantaged, I would kill myself neatly."

Chloe said cheerfully, drawing the V with her hands. Jack shakes his head. This was a crazy bitch Jack himself couldn't even touch.