I tried to move my hands and feet, but it hurt as if the bones were cracking.

I had to lie down and look at the bars in the dungeon, thinking about what to do.

Judging from the incident of returning from the bazaar in the evening, it should be early in the morning, after all, the broken princess herself said that she had been sentenced to death for several hours.

Damn, one day, I'll get it back!

As almost half of the night passed with the crying girl, I was so tired that I couldn't open my eyes, and I immediately fell asleep.

In a dream.

The light is bizarre, and the incomplete scenes make me wonder.

Are these dreams suggesting something to me?

In Act I.

The howling wind of late autumn blows the girl's long pale blonde hair, the girl folds her legs, and sits on the railing of the pavilion in the air very casually, the retro gorgeous black-colored dress shines with fine gilt brilliance in the moonlight, the black-colored half-thigh boots tightly wrap the slender straight legs, the girl stretches out a snow-white and thin lotus root, and then a black-colored eagle? Or maybe it was a crow or something, flying to her wrist, the bright moonlight shining on the beautiful and expensive emerald bracelet she wore.

"Ah, thank you, Yu-chan." She took off the creed tied with golden velvet thread from the blackbird's feet and read it.

These all show the noble status of the girl.

Well? Could this blackbird be a carrier pigeon? Is the name still called?

Is it this beast-eared girl? But looking at her like she has long brown hair, I probably can't see it well in the dungeon.

Is this the broken princess just now?

Why did I dream of that bad woman-man who was talking in a coquettish voice just now!

It's disgusting.

No, that's not the broken princess whose posture makes me sick, I know it from the color of my hair.

The fragments of the dream switch quickly.

The second act is completely different from the calm and beautiful scenery under the moon just now.

The girl in the dream, full of sorrow and panic, then leaps tragically from the window of the baroque palace, and behind her is a large number of pursuers, all of whom hold torches aloft and the light of the fire flickers faintly.

The wind howled in the middle of the night, pulling up the long pale blonde hair fiercely, and the white nightdress was tattered and embarrassed, which was cut by the sword, and there were faint blood stains oozing from the corners of the clothes.

The girl who had been falling in the air turned the emerald bracelet on her wrist, and the invisible energy seemed to constitute the flight power, buffering the speed of the fall. Green light flowed through the bracelet, gradually converging behind her to form something resembling a wing.

"Wow, flying?"

"It's ...... magic？ ”

The world is beyond my imagination, and I think I've only seen these things in fantasy games.

However, at this time, an indifferent eye appeared in the tower in the distance, "A bunch of waste, this can let her escape." ”

It's the red-haired princess! She stood on top of the tall tower and pulled down the crossbow with all her might, but there were no arrows on the huge, powerful crossbow.

The red-haired princess's fingertips condensed the dark red magic, and the dark red crossbow arrows were generated all the time, and they were aimed at the back of the white dress, "—-—

Right in the back!

"Ahh—-—h

And with that, the magic of the green light behind the back? For the time being, I defined that thing as a horse monkey, and it disappeared as well.

{Tip-s: Horse monkey, which is a homonym for magic in Japanese}

After a long while, the red-haired princess led a team of men and horses, handcuffed the unconscious girl, and dragged her down.

"Well, hehe~ It's really a nice thing."

The red-haired princess also picked up the emerald bracelet that had fallen on the ground.

Isn't that exactly what belongs to a girl with pale blonde hair?

What kind of world is this?

Why is there magic? It seems that there is also a strife.

But what does this have to do with me, I'm just an ordinary sophomore, and I'm still a house squatting at home for 10,000 years, and I can't say that I will be a NEET in the future.

The next dream just made me wonder.

I just slew a dragon?

And another gang recorded what award for me?

The villagers thanked me and gave me a lot of potatoes and vegetables?

Ah, forgot to mention, I even got a duke's seat to speak freely in the parliament of this country.

This......

I have to say that the brain hole in my dream is not at all inferior to the daydream that I usually have in class during the day.

In the early morning, the light through the bars was harsh.

"Hmm......" I reached out to block the sunlight that was shining directly into my eyes.

The light made me feel uncomfortable, not warm at all, but as glaring as the torches in the dungeon.

The injuries on his body seemed to be more serious, and it hurt fiercely.

And the blood stains from last night have coagulated and stuck to the clothes, as if there is still a smell of blood.

The beast-eared girl next to me had woken up, and she stared at the pendant around my neck without saying a word.

It's just an ordinary green amber pendant, but it has a little special meaning to me, and it's a gift to the top 10 record holders from the VRMMORPG (virtual large-scale online role-playing game) I played before, which is a benefit for closed beta players.

You may not know what this is, after all, only a small percentage of online gamers will know about it.

Well, the VRMMORPG I play is the KFO field, that is, KENDO FANTASY ONLINE (Sword Domain Fantasy), KFO is based on the growth of attributes between players, leveling as the basis, and then through the mode of clearing the level, and then unlock new stories, and unlock new skills and the like, and even have a management gameplay, you can also improve your daily skills, such as cooking, fishing, etc.

However, I'm not interested in these daily ways of playing, but I like to study strange equipment attributes or skill enhancements.

However, unlike PK (player-to-player) type players, I'm more interested in leveling up and discovering more fun skills so that I can make more money or something.

Overall, I'm a well-versed and shallow player.

HERE, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE TIME FIRST, IT'S 2030 A.D., VIDEO GAMES HAVE EXPERIENCED MORE THAN TEN YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT, VR TECHNOLOGY IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE MATURE, VIDEO GAME MANUFACTURER S HAVE DEVELOPED "STALKER GEAR", THAT IS, A COMPLETELY STEALTH DEVICE, WHICH CAN BE SIMPLY WORN ON THE HEAD, AND CAN CONTROL THE HUMAN BRAIN NERVES TO CONNECT TO THE VIRTUAL WORLD, SO HUMANS CAN ACHIEVE A COMPLETE VIRTUAL REALITY.

However, this development was opposed by many people who did not play games because it read too much information from the human brain and involved issues such as ethics and life safety, and the government was worried that such games would make people addicted to the virtual world and unwilling to work and waste their lives, so it did not take long to ban the development of "STALKER GEAR".

It is said that this research and development lasted for two years, and there were only 2,000 players in the closed beta, and there was no record of the game system prompting a complete clearance during the closed beta.

"STALKER GEAR" WAS COMPLETELY BANNED, PROBABLY 2 MONTHS AGO, AND THE VIDEO GAME MANUFACTURER S WENT BANKRUPT ALL OF A SUDDEN, SADDLED WITH TENS OF BILLIONS OF DEBTS, AND NOW THERE ARE VERY FEW NEWS MESSAGES THAT CAN BE SEARCHED.

I think it's a pity.,It's a very good game.。

Belch...... It's too far.

Now back to the point.

"Huh? Would you like to see this? ”

With difficulty, I reached down and took off the green amber stone pendant that hung around my neck and handed it to her.

The beast-eared girl took it silently with both hands, and then looked at it for a moment.

The dragon-shaped green amber pendant lay in her tiny palm, glowing a faint green light.

I saw her pale pink lips slightly open, "Synthesized attribute"

The green pendant burst with a strange light, and I seemed to see the same light as the emerald bracelet in my dream last night.

Then......

The green dragon-shaped amber refracted - a greater light.

"Nature's Force—-— Intermediate Healing Technique."

The green dragon-shaped amber swelled with healing energy like green points of light, and a steady stream of warm wind surrounded me.

I sat up and was amazed to see that all the skin injuries on my body had healed, and the position of my ribs that had been broken yesterday was miraculously painless.

Cure in seconds?

This is unscientific, it really violates the physiological structure of human beings.

According to human medical books, it takes at least two months for the meridians and bones to be injured.

It was only after a while that the light went out.

When I was shocked, the beast-eared girl turned her back and silently rubbed the blood from the corner of her mouth onto the haystack.

Although she thought she was doing something very stealthy, I caught her movements.

She must have been badly injured.

"Confirm it, ahem, the state."

"Huh?"

What does status mean?

"Well, how did you confirm that?"

I tentatively asked the girl with the ears of the beast.

"Can't you see the icon at the edge of your field of vision?"

"Huh?"

"When you come to this world, you can still see this, right?" She explained to me.

Or can you see it? It sounded like she knew I could see before.

I followed what she said, and when I vacated my gaze and didn't look at a certain characteristic point, I really saw a very present mark at the edge of the field of vision.

"Try...... Focus your consciousness there. She stretched my pendant out in front of me.

With a soft ding-dong sound, like the interface of a computer browser, a small window appeared in the field of vision.

Then, a diagram similar to the attributes of an item in an online game was displayed in front of my eyes.

Item Name: Paladin's Heart (Legendary Weapon)

Item attributed: Lisuka

Attribute: Unknown

Ability: Unknown

Magic: Force of Nature

Well......??

I was shocked to see this.

Isn't the same ID that Lisuka was used in the closed beta game KFO in the "STALKER GEAR" test that I was invited to develop with the participation of video game company S?

Then again, what's going on? It's too much like a game, isn't it?

But hasn't Company S already declared bankrupt? It's surprising that there would be a game like this VRMMORPG under a national ban.

Enduring a large number of unanswered mysteries, I then used the same method to check my own attributes.

Riji Matsukawa

Class: Lv 1 is not selected

Equipment: Paladin's Heart/Starter Costume

Skill: None

Magic: None

There are many other projects in the past, so I won't look at them for now. But that's what the beast-eared girl is talking about.

"It's only level 1, it's really unsettling."

I looked at the beast-eared girl, although there were many questions, but I intuitively felt that she was also one of the insiders, and this was not the novice village in KFO where Lv 1 newbies should stay. In this world, the physical body that exists in reality can be digitized, and it exists as a matter of course, and magic? I think it's something that everyone can use.

I tried to heal the girl as well, but it didn't work. Maybe it's because I haven't chosen a career yet? It's good to confirm these things for yourself later.

After healing me, she looked even more dying.

The top priority should be how to escape this damn dungeon!

For the rest of the day, the beast-eared girl and I sat far away from each other, trying not to be seen by the patrolling guards as having any connection to each other.

Luckily, the red-haired bad princess didn't bother us today, so only the guards brought us a taste of the stinking meal to see if we were still alive or not.

Because when the HP (HP) in this world drops to 0, it will determine the state of death, and the body will not be able to move, but my brain shows that I am alive in this world, how terrible it will be, and I don't know what will happen to me in the real world. I can only pluck a few bites of rancid food to maintain my HP level.

Seeing that I had eaten the spoiled meal, the beast-eared girl also had a bitter face and frowned and ate a little.

I took a closer look at the chains on my hands and the shackles on my feet.

Well, it's the same as the beast-eared girl.

From the small path of the last cell that had been dragged into the last cell last night, the dungeons here appeared to be vaulted prisons for the prisoners, each with a diesel torch on either side of the iron door.

Furthermore, the guards here seem to rotate every hour or so during the day and every two hours at night, which can be judged by the water droplets in the dungeon.

In other words, the water droplets in the dungeon are really regular as if they were written by a computer program, dripping no more and no less.

Suddenly a bold hypothesis exploded in my head, this is another branch of the KFO world?

If that's the case, then there's a trail to follow.

I was writing and drawing in the soil of the dungeon, a map of the lord's room from the closed beta period.

And, considering the time, I decided to choose to implement my plan in the early hours of the morning when the guard was changing.

It was another peaceful day.

"Whew, so the map is complete......"

"Well, I think this route is better."

I was still uneasy and thought about an alternate route to make sure it went as smoothly as possible.

"Do you want to go out with me?" I whispered to the beast-eared girl.

She must have seen the idea of me escaping from prison early in the morning, while I was writing and drawing on the ground.

In fact, I have always had uncertain conjectures about her identity, and I am not familiar with the world, so taking her out rashly could lead to even greater disaster.

However, it was cruel for me to escape alone, leaving her who had healed me.

Moreover, her magic can be very useful when escaping from prison at the moment.

"I'm ......," she motioned to me for her shackles, and shook her head, "I can't bother you anymore." ”

"We're all in this together!"

"Hmm...... But "the voice of hesitation.

"We're all in this together!" I repeat it again.

"I might want to borrow your magic."

"Hmm!" She gave me a grateful look.

"It's a deal!"

In order to be able to wait for the opportunity to move at night, I asked her to go to bed early to recuperate.

And I, studying the shackles on my hands.

The properties of the shackles were viewed in the same way.

Shackles of gravel

Ore Identification: Normal

Item Durability: 5000

Item-specific effects: Seek enemies/consume a lot

Specialized effects?

I clicked on the help instructions.

A dedicated effect is an effect that can only be applied when the item is in that form, and cannot be changed.

Other words......

Suddenly I had a plan.

Good guy, this is!

I'm used to the setting of this world unconsciously, and I don't know if I can escape smoothly, but the world outside the dungeon is like Kendo Fantasty Online?

I closed my eyes and waited for the right time......

Night.

The guards had just passed, and the next patrol was two hours later.

I opened my eyes and glanced around.

The dungeon was silent, except for the sound of torches burning, and it seemed to be just me and her.

Take a deep breath to keep your mind clear

OK, the time is basically the same as I expected, it's now!

I woke up the beast-eared girl and motioned for her to do what I had told her earlier.

I pulled up the chains that bound me, so that my chains were intertwined with her shackles.

Since it's the same chain, it has the same properties.

"When...... Choked with a loud bang.

Did the guards find out? I looked out worriedly.

No? Very good.

After the first impact-blow of the shackles, I took another look at the properties panel.

Shackles of gravel

Ore Identification: Normal

Item Durability: 4300/5000

Item-specific effects: Seek enemies/consume a lot

Hey, sure enough, when used between "enemy" and "enemy", it consumes faster.

Yesterday was really hard for me, and it took me a day to lose 200 durability.

Well, go ahead.

"When! While! ”

"Dang!"

After a few times, "Come again, it's almost ready." ”

There were big cracks in the shackles of the hands and feet.

The little man on the opposite side held back a lot of energy, her face was flushed, she gritted her teeth and persevered, and endured the injuries on her body.

"Click."

Well, it's time to disconnect.

After the shackles were disconnected, they turned into black-colored pieces and disappeared as if they had been sold in an online game.

"That...... Door locks"

I pulled out the dungeon key from the haystack from the guards I passed by, and smiled slyly at her.

"Just use this one."

The sound of the key turning "clicks" and the door lock opens.

By the time I pushed the door open, half an hour had passed, and we had to hurry, unsure of the path to the room where the dungeon was exited.