Prologue II
(June 2026)
Part 1
While taking a gulp of iced milk coffee and enjoying the mellow fragrance as she slowly swallowed, Asada Shino let out a long sigh.
She was watching a vague scene of colorful umbrellas passing by through the old-fashioned glass window. She disliked rain, but sitting on the table seat in this coffee shop, which was like a back alley hideout, and watching the grey view of the damp street couldn’t get her into a bad mood. The furniture in the shop had no indication of technology, and a nostalgic scent from the kitchen inside the counter gave her an illusion, like falling into a border between the real world and virtual world. It was as if the school class just an hour ago was an event from a different world.
“It falls quite a lot, doesn’t it.”
It took a little while before she realized the baritone voice coming from over the counter was directed at her. Of course that was certain, as there was no other customer. Directing her gaze toward the café au lait colored master, who was carefully polishing a glass, Shino answered:
“Yes, it’s the rainy season after all. It seems it will continue to rain until tomorrow.”
“I’m certain that this is the Undine mages’ actions.”
The scary faced giant issued the words with a red face, before inadvertently making a bitter smile.
“……When you tell a joke, it will lose its effect if you make a face like that, Agil-san.”
“Mu……”
The scene of the coffee shop and bar, «Dicey Café»’s shopkeeper Agil groping his brows and mouth for ‘a face like that’, seemed like it could make children immediately start to cry, Shino who was watching it let out a slight laugh. She then quickly brought the glass to her mouth and gulped down some coffee.
How would he interpret Shino’s reaction? Right after Agil made an intense frightful face in a satisfying manner, the doorbell rang. The new customer stopped moving just as he walked one step into the shop and saw the master’s face, then shook his head before saying,
“……Hey Agil, if you greet the customers with that face every time, surely this shop will go out of business very soon.”
“I-It’s not. That was a special favor used for jokes.”
“……No, that’s also wrong.”
As he was disproving Agil, he put his umbrella into the whiskey barrel near the door before looking at Shino and raising his right hand.
“Otsu.”
“You’re late.”
She frowned a little as she responded, the person she was expecting —— Kirigaya Kazuto shrank his neck before making an excuse,
“Sorry, I haven’t taken a train for quite some time now……”
He sat on the opposite side of Shino, then undid a button of his open-collared shirt.
“You didn’t come on your bike today?”
“I don’t want to ride it through the rain…… Agil, Caffè Shakerato for me.”
Shino looked at the relaxed Kazuto who had ordered an unfamiliar drink, his neck was as thin as his avatar in the virtual world, his face also couldn’t be said to be healthy.
“……Aren’t you too thin? You should eat more.”
Shino said frowning, but Kazuto just waved his hand.
“From here on it would go back to my standard body weight anyway. But from Friday until Sunday, it would drop again……”
“Training on the mountain?”
“No, nothing but sleep.”
“Then why did you get thinner?”
“Not drinking and eating at all.”
“……Hah? Are you aiming for enlightenment?”
Shino tilted her head as she was unable to understand the meaning of his words, at that moment, a light click-clack sound could be heard from the counter. What she saw was the master who handled the silvery shaker with an elegance mismatched with his big frame —— but saying it that way might be rude. As Shino watched while thinking that, Agil gently poured the contents of the shaker into a wide coupe glass, before putting it on a tray and carrying it out.
The glass which was placed in front of Kazuto contained a light brown liquid topped with smooth brown foam.
“This is the Caffè…… something or other you ordered just now?”
Shino asked, Kazuto then slid the glass with his fingertips toward her. ‘Itadakimasu,’ she lifted up the glass as she muttered, and put it at her lips. The texture of the thick creamy foam, the refreshing chill, and the coffee aroma visiting in turn, after swallowing, the magnificent sweet aftertaste still softly persisted. It was worlds different from the iced café au lait that could be bought at the school’s vending machine.
“…………It’s very good.”
As Shino muttered, Agil made a satisfied look before hitting his thick upper arm.
“Without these fantastic bartender arms, it wouldn’t be that creamy.”
“Can’t stop boasting about your skill level ever since coming back to reality, huh. Leaving that aside, Agil, what’s this smell?”
Kazuto asked as the smell stimulated his nose, the shopkeeper cleared his throat and answered,
“Boston-style baked beans. These fantastic arms of rock……”
“Heh?, a taste of your wife’s hometown, huh? Then I’ll take that.”
Agil, who was interrupted mid-speech, walked away with his lips in a ? shape; Kazuto recovered the glass in front of Shino, then took a gulp. He exhaled, corrected his posture on the chair, before looking straight ahead.
“…………How is he now?”
She understood the meaning of the sudden question right away. However, Shino didn’t reply immediately, she seized the glass from Kazuto’s hand again, this time she took a bigger gulp. As the smooth cream passed down her throat, the rich fragrance escaped to her nose. That stimulus reconnected the fragmented thoughts in her mind, changed them into a short words,
“Yeah…… He seemed to have calmed down quite a lot.”
Half a year ago, in 2025, the «Death Gun» incident occurred.
One of the three perpetrators at that time was also Shino’s only friend, Shinkawa Kyouji, had received an exception after the lengthy trial of the juvenile case, he was transferred to be imprisoned at a juvenile rehabilitation facility last month.
During the trial, he had remained stubbornly silent, even the psychiatric examination performed by an expert couldn’t make him open his mouth; however, a day about six months after the incident, he started to agree to the counselor’s queries, bit by bit. Shino could vaguely guess the reason for that. Six months —— or one hundred and eighty days, was the retention period of the unpaid fee in the VRMMO game «Gun Gale Online». Once that period had passed, Shinkawa Kyouji’s other self, or it could be said his true self «Spiegel» would disappear from the GGO server, which led Kyouji to be prepared to finally face reality.
“I planned to visit him once he improves a little. I think this time he’ll let me meet him.”
“I see.”
As he gave a short response to Shino’s answer, Kazuto looked toward the pouring rain. After several seconds of silence, Shino intentionally broke it as she made a dissatisfied face.
“——Hey, normally at that point, you should be asking if I’m alright, shouldn’t you?”
“Eh, ah, I-I see. ——Erm, then what about Sinon?”
After a rare success at making Kazuto panic, Shino grinned as she embraced the sense of satisfaction.
“I’ve already watched all the collection of old action movies you’ve lent me. The one I like most is probably the guy avoiding handgun bullets by rolling toward cover. If you ever think of going back to GGO, I’ll show it in our next practicing meet.”
“I-Is that so? Then it’s great…… please be gentle……”
To the slightly twisted smiling face of Kazuto, Shino had to suppress her laughter.
The fear of guns that Shino had suffered from for more than five years, even now still can’t considered to have completely vanished yet. Even though she seemed to be enjoying the gun action movies, it would still make her heart jump when she unexpectedly saw the guns in the town corner’s posters, or the toy store’s show window. When she thought about it now, it seemed to be just a normal cautious reaction. Since she couldn’t be certain that she wouldn’t meet a real criminal possessing firearms in the real world some day.
In addition, Shino thought that the disappearance of the intense reactions of denial upon seeing images and photos of guns, such as fainting and vomiting, was already more than enough. She also no longer felt alienated at school. She was now able to eat lunch with several friends. However, it put Shino in a slightly complicated situation as the topic they always talked about concerned the boy sitting in front of her waiting at the school gate to take her on his bike.
As Shino was unawarely thinking about that, Kazuto noticed her mild expression, and nodded,
“Then, everything from the Death Gun incident is already over, right?”
“Yeah…… That’s… right.”
Shino also nodded slightly, before shutting her mouth. There was something, she seemed to recall something from the corner of her mind and tried to pull it out, but before she could do so, the shopkeeper appeared from the kitchen before placing two steamy plates on the table.
The scene of glossy amber colored kidney beans with cube-cut bacon placed in the middle caused an outbreak of hunger from the stomach, which had already digested that day’s lunch. Shino grabbed the spoon as if she was pulled towards it. At that point, she returned to her senses and quickly pulled her hand back before speaking,
“Ah, I-I didn’t order this.”
Then, a faint mischievous expression floated on the rugged face of the big framed master.
“That’s fine, it’s a treat… from Kirito.”
By the time Kazuto who had heard it opened his mouth wide to protest, the shopkeeper had already went back to the counter calmly. As Shino tried to suppress her laughter within her throat, she grabbed the spoon again before slightly waving it at Kazuto.
“Thanks for the treat.”
“……Well, it’s alright. I just finished my part-time job, my wallet is still warm anyway.”
“Heh, you’re taking a part-time job? What kind is it?”
“The one I mentioned earlier about neither eating nor drinking for three days. Well, we can talk about that after clearing today’s main topic. For now let’s eat while it’s still hot.”
Kazuto grabbed the small bottle of mustard and dropped a lot of it at the edge of the plate, before passing it to Shino. She did the same then used the spoon to scoop a heap of beans into her mouth.
A nostalgic and simple western style taste could be felt from the cooked beans, which was fluffy to the core and released a lot of soft sweetness. The thick bacon which had no excessive fat, broke down into pieces on her tongue.
“This is also…… very delicious.”
As she muttered, she looked at Kazuto who was eating greedily before asking,
“He said Boston style right? What kind of seasoning does it use?”
“Hmm…… I forgot its name but, it seems to be a crudely produced syrup. What is it again, Agil?”
The shopkeeper, who went back to polishing the glass, glanced toward them with his face lifted before replying,
“Molasses.”
“Yeah, that’s it.”
“Heh…… of American cuisine, I thought you only knew hamburger and fried chicken.”
The latter part of her words was reduced to a whisper, Kazuto gave a bitter smile,
“That’s prejudice. I have talked to quite a few good guys from over there too.”
“Yeah, definitely. Just the other day, I was deep in talk about sniping with a girl from Seattle over the GGO international server for three hours. Ah?, but…… it’s just him that I can’t understand……”
“Him?”
Kazuto, who had already emptied more than half of his plate, repeated the word while still chewing.
“That’s today’s topic anyway. You knew about last week’s fourth Bullet of Bullets individual final already, right?”
Abbreviated to «BoB», it was the name of the battle royale tournament to decide the strongest in Gun Gale Online, Kazuto immediately nodded.
“Yeah, I watched the broadcast with everyone. Oh, I still haven’t congratulated you yet. ……Well, it might be a regrettable result to Sinon though. Anyway, congratulations for the second place.”
“T……Thank you.”
She wore a serious face while saying that so as to hide her embarrassment, then quickly continued,
“If you’ve already watched the broadcast then it’s quicker. Even though the winner is the player named «Satrizer»…… He, it was his second time being the champion.”
Kazuto who heard that blinked a few times, his consciousness seemed to follow his gaze upward.
“Come to think of it…… In the field of the third BoB I participated, you told me about the US player who only had a knife and a handgun but managed to win the first tournament…… ——Eh, but I’m certain that since the second tournament, the server was divided into US and JP, it was no longer possible to connect from America, isn’t it?”
“It’s supposed to be like that…… Actually, there was no US entry in the second and third tournaments. But this time he somehow managed to avoid the block, or there was a connection to the management team…… Well, either way he was accepted. But you would realize the legend of «Satrizer» just by watching his fights once.”
“Yeah. Even though it was from the broadcast screen, I noticed that Sinon was fired up”
Kazuto grinned as he said that. Shino pouted before replying.
“I-It wasn’t just me. All thirty finalists…… no, since he is not included, all twenty-nine finalists were fired up too. And there were even some among us who had lost to him in the first tournament. Even though America is the home of FPS, but breaking into the battle royale stage of Japanese’s GGO, which is the origin of «The Seed» engine…… but, when the lid is opened……”
“A repetition of the first tournament…… right?”
Shino nodded with her lips protruded and bent into a ? shape. The spoon in her right hand carried the last thick cube of bacon into her mouth, savoring the simple yet rich taste of the food had reset her thought, and last week’s memories resurfaced.
“……Even though the result was like that, the topic went circles around his complete victory. Because that guy, at the start, didn’t have any weapon.”
“Eh……bare hands?”
“Yeah. Well, instead of weapons, he had the «Army Combative» skill. He defeated his first target just by grappling, robbed the weapon from his target, then used it on the next target….. he just repeated this. The scene of him using just his bare hands to defeat other players while they were reloading didn’t only occur two or three times. It can be said that…… the battle was in a different dimension……”
Shino muttered while letting off a sigh, Kazuto folded his arms before shaking his head,
“But…… In short, Satrizer’s build was the close combat type, right? If so, he shouldn’t be able to retaliate a mid-ranged or long-ranged attack, should he? Rather, more than half of all GGO players are of those build too……”
“You… you actually saw the scene when I lost to him, didn’t you?”
“Yeah, in ALO. When Satrizer was approaching your hiding place in a straight line and was less than three minutes distance away, everyone was like?Not that way?!?or?Sinon, behind you?!?together.”
“Yeah, that.”
Shino let out a big sigh as the amazing and at the same time disgracing scene revived in her mind, before saying in the calmest tone she could muster.
“I heard from eleven people who had been defeated directly by him after the tournament, almost every one was defeated using the same method. He shouldn’t have had any data about them, yet he was able to clearly read their movements, as he ambushed them at an extremely close range, killing them without giving them any time to use their weapons. I don’t know about America, but far from grappling fights in the JP server, even using knives to fight with is unheard of……”
“……Eh, I heard that after the third tournament, the number of players using light saber had increased though……”
To Kazuto who faintly said so, Shino inadvertently gave a bitter smile.
“That’s…just trying to imitate your showy performance. It’s true that early in this year, there were players practicing to cut bullets with the light saber, but it seemed no one could actually accomplish it.”
——Even though she said that as if it was about other people, Shino herself had purchased a small sized light saber and practiced in secret with the soldier mobs as well. As a result of one month’s struggle, aside from the initial shot from the rapid-fire assault rifle, she still couldn’t reach the level required to defend herself from successive bullets, and without at least defending against all three shot burst, it couldn’t be used in real combat. The dream of reaching Kazuto’s level, who could defend himself from more than ten shots of rapid-fire, remained a dream, and she eventually gave up. The light saber was currently acting as a charm inside her storage.
However, if that time, she took it out of storage and equipped it on her waist, she wondered if she could be able to wound Satrizer at all. Shino immediately shook her head. This isn’t the time for that. Switch thoughts, return to the topic.
“……Anyway, there was not a single JP players who could even aim their rifle at him, let alone shoot him. What was really terrifying about Satrizer wasn’t his close combat technique, but his ability to predict the battle situation.”
“Yeah…… I see…… But, is something like that possible……? It might be possible against beginners, but those participating in BoB’s main battle are veterans, the chance of predicting their actions at a hundred percent shouldn’t even exist……”
To Kazuto’s words, whose expression was still in doubt, Shino shrugged lightly as she replied,
“He defeated more than ten people the same way, so it’s already can’t be considered a fluke. Well…… even though they’re veterans, there might still be patterns in their actions. For this terrain, they should take this position, or using this route for their movement, there might be a hole in those veterans’ theory.”
As she spoke, Shino felt she realized a certain fact too late and gave a small sigh.
At that time, just before the conclusion of the fourth BoB tournament.
Shino, who was the last person left against Satrizer, was at her sniping point with her beloved Hecate II on the top floor of the partially collapsed building. Her prediction was, from the window of that floor she should be able to confirm Satrizer position, as he must cross the road below.
However, the enemy had read her prediction and hid near the sniping point in the same building ahead of her. Waiting until she had set up her rifle on bipod and laid in a prone position…… approaching her from behind, like a cat attacking its prey.
However, Shino didn’t really want to be on the top floor, but a floor below, as its height was still able to provide enough angle to fire. The reason she didn’t do so was because there was a library on the floor below. The reawakened memory of her sole relaxing spot in her middle school self had disturbed her concentration, by the time Shino realized that she was lost in thought for a few seconds, she was already on the top floor. And in the shadow of that floor, was the enemy who was waiting for her with a sneak attack……
In other words, Satrizer could predict Shino wouldn’t be on the floor with the library but would set up her sniping position on the floor above. However, the reason she changed her sniping point wasn’t a rational decision made by a sniper, but an entirely personal reason. Being able to read Sinon the sniper’s actions was one thing, but he shouldn’t be able to see through the real world bookworm Asada Shino. Could it be just a coincidence that Satrizer decided to pick a hiding location on the top floor of the same building? Or had he seen the library and was confident that Shino wouldn’t choose that place for some reason……?
If the latter was the case, he didn’t base his prediction on data or experience. But on something beyond the skill category of VRMMO game players…… which was reading the minds of other people……
“……non. Oi, Sinon.”
With the fingertips of her right hand stretched out and fixed in mid air, Shino winced and lifted her face. As her eyes met Kazuto’s worried face, she quickly said,
“Ah…… S-Sorry. Where were we again?”
“The patterns of veteran players, and the theory.”
“O-Oh. Well…..yeah, for that reason…… I think the player who didn’t use those patterns, whose actions aren’t based on the theory, should be able to take up a position behind Satrizer……”
She said that half automatically, as she finally understood the core of the reason she had called Kazuto out today. She switched her mood, and drank the cold water from her glass, of which the ice had almost completely melted, but the chill sticking to her back didn’t leave so easily.
Yes…… he crept and captured Shino from behind, defeating her in just a few seconds, as Satrizer stopped her from breathing and she was on the verge of losing the last bit of her HP gauge, he whispered in a low voice. Back then, she couldn’t understand the meaning of the almost silent, English whisper, and it now came back to her ears as she thought about it,
?Your soul will be so sweet.?
It has an unusual meaning. In a net game PvP, it would be the speech said at the end of the battle, or just a sharp parting remark said by many players. Just roleplaying, it was just that.
After hearing herself saying so, Shino deliberately reopened the discussion with a cheerful tone.
“……So, talking about a person who defies theory, «No reason-no sense-no care», didn’t a single person’s name floated up? It maybe a little too early, but I’m thinking of reserving a spot in the fifth BoB for that person——“
She then made her right hand into a hand gun shape, and pointed it to Kazuto who sat in front of her.
“Thus, my invitation to you.”
“E……Ehhh, Me?”
As she gave a smile to her companion who was taken aback, she gave her prepared speech at the same time,
“About that, I’m not saying an unreasonable thing like asking you to convert from ALO to GGO again, I’m just certain that you were indebted to me a little. Hey, after that, is the legendary weapon comfortable to use?”
“Uu.”
Kazuto —— Kirito’s golden long sword, «Excaliber» that he possessed in «ALfheim Online» was what Shino had collected just before it would have been lost in a bottomless pit. As she had awarded him the extremely rare item, of which only one existed in the server, she had the right to say something with such self-indulgence. Also, it would be attractive to Kazuto to be able to fight against a strong opponent.
As he didn’t want to betray Shino’s expectations, Kazuto cleared his throat before saying,
“I do have a feeling of wanting to fight that Satrizer too…… But, I think the main reason I, who was a gun novice, stood a chance in the last tournament, was because the other participants were inexperienced with fighting against a sword user. However, after listening to your story so far, Satrizer seems to be a close combat expert in addition to a gun master, doesn’t he? I wonder if I have a chance of winning……”
“What’s with that weak comment, it’s very unlike you. It’s true that he’s strong, but he’s still a VRMMO player, speaking like it’s pro vs amateur is just……”
“Yeah, that.”
Kazuto leaned his back against the old-fashioned wooden chair, his hands behind the back of his head.
“Is Satrizer really an amateur…… really just a VRMMO player?”
“……What do you mean? If he’s not a player then what could he be?”
“A professional. Whose objective is not to play, but to practice in gun fights. Like a soldier…… or a member of the police’s special force.”
“Eh?!? You can’t just say something like that.”
To Shino who gave a bitter smile as she was certain it was a joke, Kazuto kept his serious expression as he continued,
“I read it from news sites so I still don’t know full details…… but, it seems that the army and police of several countries, as well as private defense companies and such have already incorporated FullDive technology into their training. After polishing the skill in the virtual environment, don’t you think it’s possible for the so-called professional to test it by participating in BoB?”
“…………That, can’t be……”
As Shino was about to say Kazuto was reading too much into it, she recalled the sharpness of Satrizer’s supernatural readings and the smoothness of his movements. The way of he fought could be described as a battle machine, thinking about it, it was certainly beyond the level of an amateur gamer.
However, if that man was really a professional soldier or police, would he spit out that speech just before he brought down his target? The soul is sweet, for something like that…… he was a real «Professional» but rather than a soldier, it was an assassin…………
At that point, Shino had to forcibly stop her thoughts. All virtual worlds including GGO existed for enjoyment. It had nothing to do with what kind of a person Satrizer was in the real world. The next time she met him in the battlefield, she would blow him apart using her fifty caliber. As she was satisfied with her decision, she gave a clear call,
“No matter who he is, in GGO our conditions are even! I won’t lose to the same opponent twice, I will absolutely win next time, I’ll use all methods to achieve it!”
“……That «Method» is me, right?”
“One of the methods, to be exact.”
Well? As Kazuto made a face saying so, Shino wore a grinning smile as she gave additional explanation,
“It’ll be anxious for you alone against a close combat expert, so I actually called another person here. But mainly acting as a brake, preventing you from running wild, a controller in a sense.”
“C-Controller?”
Kazuto, who repeated the word, seemed to be able to sense something from it, Gatan, his chair made a sound as he corrected his posture. He took out a thin mobile terminal from his pocket, ran his finger on its screen. He then lifted his face and said to Shino with a bitter smile,
“I see.”
“……What do you see?”
This time Shino tilted her head. Kazuto then placed the terminal on the table, and slid it slightly toward Shino. Looking into the high-precision four inch monitor, she saw the map of the Okachimachi neighborhood with this coffee shop in the center. There was a blue light dot blinking along the route from the station to the shop.
“What is this light dot?”
“The person Sinon is waiting for is coming. About a hundred meters more.”
It was just as Kazuto said, the light dot was moving toward this shop. Crossing the intersection, entering the alley, arriving at the center of the map, and at that moment,
Kararan, the doorbell rang, Shino lifted up her face. The person who had entered the shop folded the umbrella, her long chestnut hair swung around as she turned toward Shino. From there, a bright smile floated as if the rainy season had ended a little early.
“Yaho?, Sinonon!”
Part 2
To the nickname she hadn’t been called by for more than five years, Shino inadvertently stood up as she gave a broad smile.
“Asuna, hello.”
Yuuki Asuna made a lively sound from the natural wood floorboards as she walked along, the two girls then joined their fingertips to each other in a pleasant reunion. As they sat down on the chairs side by side, Kazuto, who had a slight expression of amazement asked,
“You two…… when did you become this close?”
“Huh? Last month I even spent a night over at Asuna’s.”
“W-What!? And I haven’t even been to her house yet.”
“Wasn’t Kirito-kun the one who said ‘I need to be mentally prepared’ and escaped?”
As Asuna gave a little scowl, Kazuto sipped from his Caffè Shakerato in an embarrassed manner. To that state, Asuna couldn’t help but smile as she thought ‘It can’t be helped’ then she noticed Agil, who offered her some cold water and a towel, so she stood, getting off the chair before giving a bow.
“Excuse me for my long silence, Agil-san.”
“Welcome. ——This really reminds me of the time when you two were lodging at the second floor of my shop.”
“Even though you’re saying so, but we’re still freeloading at your shop in Yggdrasil City at the moment…… Hmm, what should I order today……”
As Asuna, who seemed to be an old friend of the giant shopkeeper, viewed the cork-bound menu, Shino took another peek at Kazuto’s mobile terminal placed on the table. The blue blip stood still on the spot, perfectly overlapping the location of the coffee shop.
“……Then, I’ll get ginger ale please. The spicy one.”
After Asuna finished ordering and Agil had returned to the counter, Shino said while grinning,
“Hey, are you two monitoring each other’s GPS coordinates? It seems you’re getting along very well.”
Kazuto then gave a serious look as he waved his right hand while saying ‘No no no.’
“It may seem to display the exact coordinates of Asuna’s terminal, and also seem to not require any operations from Asuna, but mine isn’t that simple. Asuna, show it to her.”
“OK.”
Asuna nodded and brought out her mobile terminal from the bag hung on the back of the chair, before forwarding it in its standby screen to Shino. As she received it and took a look, the monitor was set up with a cute animated wallpaper.
At the center of the screen was a pink heart tied in a red ribbon, which was throbbing at an interval about one second long. Beneath the heart were two lines of several figures, whose meaning Shino didn’t understand. A [63] figure on the left side was displayed in a big font, and a smaller [36.2] was on the right side. As Shino tilted her head, the left figure ascended to 64.
“What is……”
As Shino was about to ask ‘What is this,’ Kazuto seemed embarrassed and saying ‘Don’t stare like that.’ At that point, Shino finally realized the meaning of this standby screen.
“Ehh…… this… could it be… the heart rate and temperature of Kirito?”
“That’s correct? As expected from Sinonon, you have good intuition.”
Asuna said as she clapped her hands. After Shino rotated her gaze between the mobile terminal and Kazuto’s face several times, she asked the first question floating in her mind,
“B-But…… what kind of mechanism……?”
“It’s here under my skin……”
Kazuto poked at almost the middle of his chest with his right thumb. He then extended his hand toward Shino, and made a crack of about five millimeters using two fingers.
“It is a very small implanted sensor. It monitors the heart rate and temperature, and sends the data to my mobile terminal via radio. From that, the almost real time information is then passed to Asuna’s terminal through the network.”
“Ehhh? Vitality sensor?”
This time Shino was greatly surprised, as she became speechless for about two seconds before beginning to speak,
“W-Why are you doing something like that…… Ah, could it possibly be a cheating prevention system?”
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