He had a premonition of danger coming.

But they fell into an even more difficult puzzle.

Forced by the general trend, how should he deal with himself?

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Koichiro Sakamoto is a first-year student at the University of Tokyo, and this year marks his fourth year in Tokyo.

Since he came into contact with games and otaku culture after college, he has become a serious scholar on the surface, a heavy lover of back-to-back games, and a secondary two otaku.

But it doesn't matter, because after he went to college, his parents turned to train his younger brother and sent him to a high-cost cram school, hoping that his younger brother would get ahead in the future.

Recently, my younger brother is in the period of adolescent rebellion, dyed an exaggerated golden retriever and thinks that this is cool and unconventional, and even makes disrespectful remarks at home, and his parents have a headache for this, and the family atmosphere has become very tense.

At this time, Sakamoto became a bridge between his parents and his younger brother.

How to ease family ties?

Oh no, in fact, Koichiro-kun has always been a relatively taciturn person, and he is not very good and muddy in terms of interpersonal relationships.

Seeing that my younger brother has been in a bad mood and is listless every day and doesn't want to study, this is probably the effect of the hormones that are about to move in adolescence.

Well, someone silently shared a link to a famous beautiful girl love game with his brother.

"Huh? I...... That's not what I meant", the younger brother glanced at the link, hesitated, and refused in a stiff tone.

Actually, the eyes are very honest.

"The game is also an alternative learning, try it?"

This is what you want, accept this kind love, the corners of Hanichiro's mouth rose, and he thought to himself.

In fact, why did my younger brother suddenly become a bad teenager, the reason is obvious, and the game is a good way to decompress.

In this family, the attitude of his parents is basically free-range, because he grew up carefree at his grandparents' house, and it was not until his grandfather died in high school that he was taken back to his parents' house to work as a borrower at a good high school in Tokyo.

However, the younger brother's education was a completely different kind of education, and his parents were very strict with his younger brother.

Of course, the younger brother also wants to be as relaxed and free as the eldest brother.

My brother's room is now full of peripherals about this beautiful girl's love game, and there is one more person in the world who holds high the banner of otaku culture.

Xu was released due to the pressure of the exam, and his younger brother was no longer so rebellious, and he also began to study books again, and later was incredibly admitted to a satisfactory polytechnic university, and in the future, he will also embark on the road of Zhuang Kang, the elite of the upper class of society.

Of course, that's all for later.

After college, my parents decided to separate from the brothers on the pretext that you were old enough to stand on your own. In fact, the fact is that the two parents want to fulfill their dreams when they were young and travel the world together, of course, the romantic world of two people does not need these two oil bottles.

At first, it was easy to live with my younger brother, who had a serious obsessive-compulsive disorder of cleanliness, so the house was always cleaned by him, and naturally he didn't have to worry too much about housework and other things.

However, the younger brother is currently tired of his little girlfriend every day, and the two have simply lived together recently, so now the home has become the base of Hangichiro, a single otaku.

In fact, it's not a big deal to live alone, and Hangichiro, an irregular scheduler, can also do all kinds of games and other strategies more freely, but the pocket money every month is more tight.

Since the establishment of the portal, the parents only give part of the living expenses every month, and it is not easy for ordinary families to ask for more living expenses, plus they are keen to buy all kinds of two-dimensional peripherals, and Sakamoto-kun's living expenses are even more stretched.

Although there are some subsidies for part-time jobs every month, they still can't make ends meet.

When Koichiro watched the news in the morning, he reported that Tokyo has not been very peaceful recently, and judging from the traces at the scene, it was determined that there had been several attacks, but the surveillance cameras were also inexplicably blocked at the time of the crime, which made it impossible to show the modus operandi, and the detectives naturally could not trace the exact location according to their movements.

There was a lot of panic in the neighborhood, rumors that it was because of the sacrifice of the gods, or something that did not make sense like a black hole in space.

Koichiro disagreed, believing that the attack was just a matter of probability.

Today is the weekend, which happens to be the usual discount day of the market, and taking this opportunity, Hanichiro took back a paper bag full of bread, instant noodles, and snacks, and then walked home alone.

By the way, he went to a second-hand bookstore to buy a few second-hand games, which is a good way to save some of his living expenses without losing the pastime of life.

There are not many people on the street home from the city center, and it is because Koichiro prefers a quiet residential environment and moves to a more remote place.

Today, his right eyelid has been jumping, as if it was an ominous sign, Koichiro took out a free hand and rubbed his eyes, looking around.

Today is the night of the ash trees, and the temperature is not low in early autumn, and the Setagaya area is surrounded by warm air, and the purple sunset in the sky is intertwined with the fiery clouds, creating a beautiful evening view.

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Back home.

He changed his shoes at the door, and after entering, he casually put the things he bought on the coffee table, and took off his coat and put it on the sofa.

"It's so troublesome to go out, I've been out for four hours and I'm so hungry......"

He picked out a piece of bread that looked appetizing, then picked up one of the game discs and went into the study.

Pull out a chair and sit down, pick up the glass of water on the table and take a sip.

"Well, today's Klimt bread is okay, and the red bean paste tastes so good!"

Koichiro took a bite of the bread, which was unexpectedly delicious, and he couldn't help but chew it a few more times.

Then, he took the piece of warm bread in his mouth, clapped his hands, and rubbed the cover of the game card.

The cover is black brown paper, with a book-shaped packaging with silver-black chains on it, and an eye half the size of a palm in the center of the cover, which looks like a game like a Crusu-style.

"Strange packaging, what type?"

Koichiro pinched the bread with his fingertips, and with his other hand tried to pick at the cover's eyeballs with interest, but unfortunately he didn't move.

"Huh? Original Fate? Is it of a European background? He pronounced the name word by word, even though the English was not very standard.

'Who has played so many times, the lacquer words are almost unreadable! I complained in my heart.

There is no indication of the release date on it.,The words on the cover are blurry to the extent that you can barely see clearly.,I thought it was a game similar to the style of Greek mythology.,But after unboxing, I looked at the game introduction.,The content inside looks like a European fantasy adventure.。

A climt bread with sweet red bean filling.

With a click, the game card is loaded onto a game console that fully simulates virtual reality.

Wearing opaque goggles and plugging in the matching headphones, once connected to the power supply and turning on the command to read data, he will enter a virtual game world completely isolated from the real world.

This is the year 2030, the video game industry is highly developed, and the development of game devices that can be directly connected to the brains of gamers, unlike the old game consoles that require electronic screen devices and controllers to operate, gamers do not need to use their actual eyes and ears, but the game devices directly give the brain imaginary five emotional retribution, stimulate the visual cortex area of the brain and the auditory cortical area, and the player can realize free movement in the virtual reality.

It can be said that now only players who play games with their brains do not exist in this world anymore.

Properly enable the Read Data command......

There is only the sound of the willow forest wind when you enter the game, and the sight is surrounded by darkness, and then you are about to enter the strange game world.

Suddenly!

There was a crushing pain in the area of Koichiro's chest, and his neck seemed to be strangled, and he covered his chest, and his hands seemed to be wet.

"Huh? Blood? ”

Koichiro ripped off his goggles and looked back at the real world, his hands were a wet bright red, and the water glass on the table reflected a human face behind him.

'Who is this!' When did you come into my house! ’

The man smiled sadly and said, "You are dead again, and you will repeat the fate of being killed, and hide everywhere until you can defeat me." ”

'Keep being killed repeatedly?' ’

However, he had no impression of it.

A sentence from Keigo Higashino's book that Hanichiro had read before was fleeting in his mind, "All the accidents in life are actually fate, and they are fate."

Before he could look back at that face, his eyes were dark.

In the dark, the gray shadow eroded the home floor completely collapsed, and the game device scattered thousands of colorful fiber-like lines quickly converged, guiding the direction of the road ahead, and the body was generally falling rapidly uncontrollably, and the weightlessness of falling rapidly from the sky was directly filled.

Day 2, 7 a.m.

Morning news: Yesterday, December 31, 2030 at 7 p.m., a student at the University of Tokyo fell unconscious after being violently attacked in Setagaya Ward. This is the sixth assault this month. Depending on the victim's condition, the modus operandi is a violent attack on the victim's head and physical persecution. At present, the police are making every effort to investigate the suspects, and we hope that you will try to go out at night as much as possible.

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I don't know how long it took.

Sakamoto felt that his mind was in a state of confusion, and he felt that there was someone next to him shaking his arm, and the uncontrollable cry was mixed with the sound of messy footsteps, the sound of torches burning, and the roar of guards.

'I'm so dizzy......

His fingers trembled slightly.

Just this time, he was discovered by the girl who was holding his corpse tightly and not letting go, and kneeling on the ground.

She cried so much that she almost lost her voice, and her originally sweet voice was hoarse.

"Ernest Court, Your Excellency, whoa——, don't die."

"Please, wake up."

The scruffy girl who didn't look like royalty tugged at the Marquis Ernist's hand and cried heartbreakingly.

Hanichiro struggled to open his eyes, his gaze slowly focused, and he glanced around, the guards in matte silver armor with torches? Dressed in medieval dresses, the woman seems to be in a place like a royal court garden, with a huge carved fountain in front of it.

'Am I in virtual reality?' ’

"But the game I just bought doesn't seem to be a post-apocalyptic survival genre, right?" ’