Date a Live:This is not the date I wanted! Chapter 84 84: Virtual Games Basically Trap You Once You Go

Shido stayed in this virtual world for quite a long ti.

During this ti, whether it was the shopping district, the plaza, or the school he usually went to, he looked at them all very seriously once. To be honest, the more carefully he observed, the more he couldn't believe that this was a virtual world constructed from electronic data. It even almost gave Shido the illusion that this was the real world.

"So you're saying, you're getting along perfectly with Tohka-chan, Tobiichi-san, those beautiful Yamai twins, Ryougi-san, and especially that Miku-tan—"

Right in front of Shido, his bad friend reconstructed by the computer based on Shido's mories—Tonomachi Hiroto—glared at Shido's eyes and roared at Shido with an unquestionably strong tone.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Anyway, all of these are your delusions! Do you understand!?"

"Mhm... I understand, Tonomachi, you're tired. Don't push yourself, get a good rest!"

Feeling Shido's sympathetic gaze and comforting words, Tonomachi seed to be stimulated by sothing. Gritting his teeth, with tears in his eyes, he shouted like a stray dog.

"I-I'm perfectly normal! You're the weird one! And also! This world... Uwaaaah QAQ!"

(...He's basically no different from the Tonomachi in reality.)

Watching Tonomachi's figure running away in tears, Shido thought silently in his heart.

Then, Kotori's voice sounded in his mind.

[Well, this world is roughly like this. From now on, Shido will be here, experiencing all sorts of Galga Lives!]

"Haha... I sohow feel like this will be even more exhausting than before. Oh right, Kotori, what happened to Reine-san? I haven't heard her voice for a while now."

[Oh, Yutsuki-nee seed very interested in the structure of this ga, so she asked Reine to give her a detailed explanation. They are currently in another room. But don't worry, I have confidence in the system's operation. As long as there are no bugs, there shouldn't be any problems.]

"...What if there is a bug?"

[Well... we'll talk about it when the ti cos!]

(That irresponsible way of talking of yours gives absolutely no peace of mind, my cute little sister!)

"...Stare—"

Hm? Feeling like soone was staring at him, Shido turned his head sowhat puzzled. Then, he saw not far away, a girl wearing strange clothes staring at him intently.

[What's wrong, Shido?]

"No... I just saw a girl I don't know. It feels like she's looking at ."

[How is that possible? Reine said the NPCs in this ga are all extracted from Shido's mories, it's impossible for it to be soone you don't know!]

"Is that so? Then maybe it's soone I accidentally glanced at and forgot... No, I still really don't recognize her."

Observing the girl for a long ti, Shido finally shook his head slowly. The other party was wearing a highly conspicuous white nun's habit. If he had really seen her before, Shido would definitely have so impression of her.

The girl secretly observed Shido for a long ti, then, as if suddenly losing interest, turned and left.

"...I'll go after her and see."

[Wait, Shido, don't act recklessly at a ti like this.]

Ignoring the sowhat anxious voice coming from Kotori, Shido chased after the direction the girl disappeared in.

"Wait!"

Seeing the other party's figure, Shido hurriedly called out. Subsequently, as if hearing Shido's voice, the girl stopped in her tracks and looked at Shido silently.

The other party's silent gaze gave Shido a little pressure. After scratching his cheek, Shido spoke sowhat nervously.

"Um, let ask you a weird question, have we t sowhere before... Uh, why does this sound like a pick-up line? Sorry, I didn't an it that way."

"..."

However, to Shido's question, the girl gave no answer, only continuing to stare at Shido.

"Um... what are you doing?"

"..."

[No answer, huh.] Right then, Kotori communicated from the other side, [It looks like it should be a bug in the ga, importing so erroneous appearance data... Well, it's about ti, let's stop here for today. Let's discuss the issue with this girl in detail next ti!]

"...Oh, understood."

"..."

Appearance data? Does that an she has no physical body and is purely sothing like a hologram? Although such an analogy is a bit weird in an electronic world... Shido scratched his head, looking at the silent girl in front of him with so confusion.

But—he felt a power in this gaze.

"...Itsuka Shido."

Eh? My na?

[Eh? How is that possible... Shido! ...Bzzzt—]

Then, in Shido's mind, the call with the other side disappeared as if the phone line had been cut.

"...I have a question, I want to ask you..."

Under Shido's surprised gaze, the girl looked at Shido with her incredibly clear eyes and slowly opened her mouth.

"In other words, through the calculations of the Realizer, transmitting computer information to the brain, the ti in the ga world will also have a difference compared to reality?"

In a conversation room, Yutsuki asked while flipping through the docunts in her hand. To this, Reine nodded.

"Mhm, that's exactly it. Also considering the efficient use of ti, the flow rate ratio between here and the computer world... to put it simply, ten minutes here feels roughly like one day on the other side."

"I don't even want to complain that this is Accel Beepld barging in..."

Yutsuki said with black lines dropping down her forehead.

"Through the regulation of the Realizer, the ti difference between the two sides can be adjusted to a certain extent. Your ability to communicate normally with Shido in the ga from this world is also possible relying on this."

"I sohow feel like the Realizer is a setting that makes everything very convenient to explain..."

After a speechless complaint, Yutsuki let out a breath and continued flipping through the docunts in her hand.

The technology crowned as Miracle Magic—the Realizer. In Yutsuki's understanding, it wasn't an omnipotent machine, but a general term for a series of advanced technologies.

Since the Eurasian Spacequake happened in this world, history took a massive turn. To deal with the massive disasters brought by spacequakes, military, dical, construction... all technologies were developed with knowledge centered around the "Realizer." The so-called Cr-unit developed to deal with Spirits was rely a fraction of it.

Although if you had to say, in a novel, this was just a worldview setting convenient for the plot to unfold. But in reality, seeing the specific data, although it wasn't the first ti, Yutsuki still felt a sense of shock.

The person who ca up with this set of theories is either a genius or a madman... visibly the latter. Recalling Westcott, whom she had t once before, Yutsuki thought with certainty in her heart.

Putting away these boring thoughts, Yutsuki focused her questions back on the topic of the ga.

"So normal NPCs use a special program to project the player's mories into virtual bodies in the virtual world. What an amazing idea! Not only does it reduce useless mory usage, but it also allows the player to experience extrely natural dialogues! So amazing!"

Yutsuki's eyes sparkled brightly, looking at Reine with excitent and admiration. But she also asked with so confusion.

"However, since that's the case, why are the heroines to be conquered programd separately? Wouldn't setting them up the sa as the NPCs be fine?"

"It's different... Characters created using that thod would be largely influenced by the player's subjective will. Normal conversations are fine, but if it involves topics like romance, it would appear very unreasonable. After all, this was developed to allow Shin to better communicate with you Spirits..."

"I see..." Yutsuki nodded as if she suddenly understood. Reine's viewpoint, raised from the perspective of a ga developer, was quite inspiring to her.

"But, even so... as expected, writing human emotions through a computer is very difficult. Emotions regarding specific traits are currently also quite incomplete."

"For example?"

"Let's see..." Reine tilted her head slightly. After thinking for a mont, she said slowly, "Sothing like love, I suppose..."

"Uh... true."

With a slightly stiff smile, Yutsuki's face flushed slightly. After two dry coughs, she jumped to the next topic.

"But speaking of which, there are clearly so many devices in that room that can enter the ga, yet only Shido can go in..."

"Well... because it's still in closed beta. After the ga trial run is over, we will open up the other equipnt. No need to rush, Yutsuki..."

"Although I'm happy to hear that, what I care about isn't that."

Shaking her head, a weird expression appeared on Yutsuki's face.

Full-dive ga, virtual world, incomplete emotion settings, multiple devices but only letting one person in... I sohow feel like so incredibly massive Flags have been raised.

"This is bad! Honey, Kotori said Darling is currently trapped in the virtual world and can't get out! What should we do!"

Suddenly, when Miku ran up to Yutsuki with a panicked expression. Yutsuki knew her premonition had co true.

...

"How is it, Reine? Can you log Shido out?"

Looking at Reine operating back at the control panel, Kotori asked, full of anxiety.

"...It seems it's impossible. I've already tried various thods, but external commands have been forcefully cut off... Let alone contacting the internal simulation system, even cutting the power to force a logout is impossible."

A rare look of difficulty appeared on Reine's face. Under everyone's nervous gaze, she slowly shook her head.

"Then, let's physically separate the machine..."

"No, that's too dangerous. A physical direct cut-off would cause massive damage to Shin's brain."

Before Kotori could finish, Reine decisively rejected it.

"But... if even that doesn't work..." An undisguisable wavering expression appeared on Kotori's face. Gritting her teeth, she felt extrely unwilling regarding her own powerlessness.

"Geez... why must Shido... always get dragged into danger again and again?!"

Seeing the two of them at a loss, the Spirits who were originally sowhat worried now fell into a commotion as well.

"What exactly happened? Kotori, Reine. Shido seems to be asleep, can't you wake him up?"

Looking at the unconscious Shido lying in the machine, Tohka showed a very panicked expression.

"Uh... it looks like that's not possible, Tohka-chan. According to the conversation just now, if we forcefully wake him up, Shido-kun seems like he'll have a big problem."

"How could this be... Shido-san..."

Yoshino heard Yoshinon's words, and an uneasy expression appeared on her face.

"Does that an Shido has to stay like this forever?! A-always like this... if he can't wake up..."

"T-This kind of thing... I don't want it!"

Both Tohka and Yoshino began to cry because of worry. Honestly, the condition of the others wasn't much better.

"Shido... then, Yuzuru... Shido won't be trapped in a prison of nothingness forever, right..."

Kaguya asked Yuzuru sowhat fearfully. However, Yuzuru couldn't say any reassuring words.

"Unease. Yuzuru is feeling the exact sa way as you right now, Kaguya."

"Darling... uwaaaah."

Miku just hugged the sleeping Shido and started crying loudly.

This is bad, the Spirits' ntal states are rapidly deteriorating. We need to think of a way before the situation gets worse!

Although Kotori was also very worried about Shido, as the Commander, she had to calm down and think of a way to handle it.

"Geez... he's just trapped in a ga and can't get out, why is everyone acting as if Shido is already dead?"

Yutsuki's voice sounded in everyone's ears. The calm voice acted like a tranquilizer, making everyone calm down a bit. Turning their heads to look...

—Yutsuki, with a partial Astral Dress deployed and holding her Angel, was constantly shooting crackling lightning at the control panel.

"Yutsuki-nee, don't act impulsively!"

"Yutsuki, you can't. Reine said just now that forcefully waking Shido up is dangerous!"

"O comrade of mine! Do not let montary panic cloud your judgnt. Let us calm down together and think of a counterasure!"

"Quote. Impulse is the devil. Yutsuki, calm down, calm down!"

"Ah! Yutsuki-chan, although I understand how you feel very well, don't do anything stupid!"

"Yutsuki-san... calm down a bit..."

"Honey, Darling will definitely be fine. Have so peace of mind."

"I say, what's the aning of this..."

Looking at everyone hugging her all at once, not letting her move, the corners of Yutsuki's mouth twitched slightly. Then, she sighed unable to bear it and said, "I say, you guys don't really think I'm planning to dismantle the machine, do you?"

"Then what are you..." Kotori said with so doubt. She suddenly noticed that the electrical currents distributed around Yutsuki were actually very weak, basically not even having a numbing sensation, let alone destroying the machine.

"Since the system rejects external commands, then I'll just forcefully hack in."

After breaking free from everyone's restraint, Yutsuki loosened her joints and said with a smile.

Only then did Kotori realize that the person in front of her was the Spirit—Hacker—who had successfully hacked into the electronic databases of DEM and Ratatoskr, and who, relying on hacking skills far beyond common human understanding, gained the fearso reputation of being the existence most dangerous to humanity. If soone else said they were going to hack into their computers, Kotori would just think they were bragging and ignore them. But coming from Yutsuki's mouth, it possessed an unusual persuasiveness.

"Then..." Yutsuki's guarantee relieved the tension in Kotori's heart. After a mont of silence, she solemnly bowed her head and said, "I'm counting on you, Yutsuki-nee! No matter the cost, please definitely bring Onii-chan back!"

Having received the Commander's permission, everyone stopped trying to prevent her.

"Mhm, leave it to , Kotori-chan! Even in the worst-case scenario where the computer of this airship is completely paralyzed, I can guarantee that brat Shido will be safe and sound."

"No! ∑( ° △ °|||)︴ If possible, please try your best to avoid that happening..."