Chapter. 23. Heir of Gedreuz, Field (1)
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Beep- Beep-
A regular, sharp mechanical sound welcomes me.
Craddangtangtang!
There was also a sound like a metal chair falling backwards,
“…Professor Sue!” Can you hear me? Here it is?”
A familiar voice is vaguely heard
: boom
!
The sound of the owner of that voice clumsily hitting the metal block between her and me with what was presumed to be the chair from before.
Nope – Gigigigeek!
The dry light of the LED seeping in, along with the sound of metal being twisted, stung my eyes.
Beep— Beep—
A woman holding a crowbar and holding a crowbar was seen next to the screen that expressed her heartbeat as a pulse.
Skin so white that it appears transparent. His long, shiny black hair contrasted with his white patient gown that looked like skin thanks to his slightly thin build due to his long stay in the hospital.
“All….a-”
“Don’t talk, just focus on breathing.”
Dana Elisha Hyacinth. Or a woman named Speed Wagon. One of my oldest internet friends.
“It’s been 9 hours and 38 minutes since you went in. 37 minutes ago, all connectors connected to GG started beeping, 20 minutes ago, the active transport drone and GG bulletin board went down at the same time, and 3 minutes ago, a large amount of data was dumped on the press/broadcasting department of the dome linked to your account. A DDoS attack using was confirmed, so everyone fell for it. Two minutes ago, your body moved and ‘logged out’ was confirmed in the player log. At that moment, the connector overloaded and stopped working, so I forced it. “If there’s anything else you want to ask, I’ll tell you everything, so you can focus entirely on ‘coming back.’”
“Breath, consciously feel your heartbeat, and focus on the sensations in your fingertips and toes.”
So, my lover knows very well what kind of person I am and makes me understand the situation before even asking how I am.
Of course, I felt like I needed to know right away why she was the only one in the lab I was in, what was overloading, what was down, and what was DDoS talking about.
Tuk.
“….sorry.”
This was all I could think of right now.
9 hours 38 minutes.
The connection time, which should have been a split second, stretched out like a stick of taffy.
The guy who boasted that he would get up as soon as he lay down was unable to get up until Dana smashed the broken connector with her delicate hands.
To her, who had only been logged out a week ago after clearing World 3, how did she feel about me entering the fucking virtual world again after a week and not being able to get out on time?
“It’s late.”
The feeling was probably the small iron chair thrown behind me and the crowbar in Dana’s blistered hands. It can be expressed as a trembling arm that has not yet let go and eyes that are even more trembling than the arm.
Even if you can’t recognize the warning sounds going on all over the place, it’s clear that something is going wrong. Dana, who was probably an excellent hacker and programmer just a moment ago, was tapping on her keyboard in front of those complicated screens.
The moment I was about to force myself to stay out of my daze and tell you what happened inside, how much I missed you, how much my memories with you helped me, why I was late, etc. “…I’m sorry
… are you sorry?”
She suddenly stopped, muttering in a voice as loud as a mosquito… slowly lifting the crowbar in her hand like a broken wooden doll.
“Uh…”
For some reason, my senses, trained at the countless boundaries of life and death, were sounding an alarm.
Crack, crack, crack!
I pulled my arm very carefully, but as expected, the thick chain held onto my wrist and would not let go. Since the body is a body, it must have been restrained in preparation for an emergency. Mmmmm. It was like that last time too.
“I said I’d come back right away…”
Ouch!
“The system is down, petabytes of compressed data are pouring into your account every second, an overload warning sounds, and you are among them…” “Is
it all over?”
The crowbar, raised high, flashed in the light of the blinking warning lights.
hmm. My connector has been sufficiently removed and I have sufficiently expressed my sanity, so I don’t think there is any sound reason for that crowbar to be lifted.
“How worried I have been for the past nine hours and forty minutes…”
“Just calm down for now. I know my body is strong, but if I get hit with it now, I will never be able to return-”
“….one week. He makes people wait like that, then dies, comes back to life, crawls back in just a week later… and even before that, in such a meaningful way…. hugs me… like someone who will never come back…! ”
“Dana! “Now wait a minute!”
“Hey, you irresponsible man!!!”
Squirt-!
Cough!
In the end, the crowbar that was swung was trembling right next to my head, making a clear and beautiful sound.
“Please fix it, mama….”
“I won’t. “No, I can’t.”
“yep.”
and. Dana is so angry.
Come to think of it, Dana was a soft and gentle girl, but Speed Wagon was a rather cynical user.
Be cute. I would have enjoyed it more leisurely if I hadn’t been holding the crowbar stuck in the connector right now. It’s not that I missed it, it’s that I missed it. but. There’s no way Dana would have the strength to swing a fairly heavy crowbar at full swing and drive it into my ear.
Anyway, I couldn’t come back like this and get beaten to death by Dana’s angry palu, so I desperately made up an excuse.
“Um… Dana. In fact, this is a serious problem that depends on the fate of the world-”
“It must have been a mixed death. Right now, everything is down to drones, servers, and bulletin boards. “I know at least that there are major changes related to GG.”
“Ah… And actually, in there-”
“The lives of tens of thousands of unrelated people are at stake, and of course, it’s so close that we can’t put it off, and there must have been something ridiculous that no one but you can solve. If it weren’t for that, Professor, there’s no way you would have broken a promise you made so seriously and put yourself through so much trouble.”
“yep. you’re right.”
And they were all shot down. It’s been so long that I’ve forgotten about it, but Dana is a famous informant, and of course, she knows how to process given information just as much as I do.
“You are reckless. As affectionate as it is reckless, as affectionate as it is, it doesn’t sacrifice itself. Not taking care of yourself. “There are no brakes, which is a good thing.”
Tang- Tang Lang!
Dana slowly pulled out the crowbar, but her grip became weak and she lost it.
“I won’t tell you to take care of yourself. “I liked him even though I knew he was that kind of person, and I liked him because I knew it.”
Dana’s bloody hand cups my cheek.
“still. “If there is no place for Professor Park in your actions, please put me in that place.”
“I’ll try harder. “I will try to settle within you that much so that when you try to throw yourself away for everyone again, I can stop you instead.”
“So please… don’t leave me alone.”
Tuduk tuk.
The tears that flowed down my face.
Dana. You may not know this, but you have already been that person to me for 28 years.
The reason I was able to not get lost in the pain of losing my memory and deteriorating my existence from the roots was because there was a signpost that shines as unchangingly as the North Star.
[Come back.]
Only the words ‘come back’ became my guide as I was lost in the vast ocean, so I was able to reach the end without getting lost, and that’s how I came back here.
“okay.”
There was no need for long words from Dana.
Nod!
Sigh! Great!
The arm that broke the chain carefully wrapped around her waist.
Wow-! Wow-!
Crack, clap, clap!
[Professor Park in charge! Where is the person in charge!]
[The connection signal was cut off a few minutes ago, so where are you and what are you doing? Who else is left in that room?]
[Dana is left alone…]
[There was a loud noise! Hurry up!]
As hearing slowly begins to return, announcing the appearance of an uninvited guest.
“…I missed you Dana. “More than you can imagine.”
As I held her in my arms as she dug into the connector, I quietly lifted the lid that had fallen off and adjusted it to the broken part.
OffProfitProfit-!
Then he twisted the connection part mercilessly with his fingertips and crushed it.
Jump up!
Quick and easy!
“Enter the variant suppression team!”
So that no one can disturb us at this moment.
“Miss Dana’s identity has not been confirmed!”
“Check Professor Park’s biological response on the connector! “There is no special movement yet.”
“Report it straight away! “There is no movement!”
“There are… two biological reactions in the connector!”
“….hmm?”
And so that the person in my arms who is somewhat shy does not run away out of shyness.
“Professor, wait a minute…. Sigh! People outside… You need to see a doctor and get an expert opinion from GG… Argh!”
“Well. “I think I know what I need most for my health at this moment.”
As a person who has endured anxiety that cannot be compared to 9 hours and 40 minutes, I held tightly to the happiness that had finally come into my arms, as if I would never let it go.
『….This is Professor Park. “If you don’t want to be fooled, get out.”
Don’t make the mood worse and just leave quickly.
The people clamoring at the door are torn between following the crisis response manual as the Dome’s elite, or following the murderous warnings of Professor Park, a continental massacrer, coming through the distorted connector.
bang! Taang!
“Now, as you can see, a very in-depth and dynamic meeting related to the future of BDSM is being prepared inside there… Considering this is a serious situation, we will only fire two warning shots. I still have a lot of bullets left and I have no intention of making any more holes in the ceiling. “Don’t waste a second and get out.”
“Hey Ian! However, if the professor’s condition is not good, it may cause problems for Miss Dana-” ”
Those two… if you interfere… they will be considered as having killed my nephew who will be born in the future… ! Kihihi!”
“Wow! “I have a wife and daughter in District 47!”
Two familiar voices that seemed to have come running in a huff were driving away the uninvited guests with gunshots and screams.
….Whoa.
“Good.”
“….transformation.”
“Not that. evil! No Dana! That… I’m definitely not saying it’s not good…!”
The people I love, the friends I love, the dry air of the wasteland that I can’t help but love.
From experience, I’ve lived there for a longer time, but I couldn’t do anything about this.
My world is in the midst of destruction, overflowing with blood, gunpowder, death, and monsters.
It’s not really much better than the other side, but there are definitely a lot of relationships and good memories in GG, but…
“Really. “I thought I was back in my hometown.”
Still, it was my hometown. I have to come back. my place
“…Welcome back.”
“okay.”
To my home where my people are waiting.
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