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【FROM: Yashiro Mai】
【TO: Asagi Taisuke】
Taisuke-san, thank you for your warning.
Excuse me for asking this all of a sudden, but by any chance have we met somewhere before?
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The reply came immediately.
What should I do if he's an acquaintance?
I wonder if he will be offended……
Even though I became a little anxious, I opened the mail.
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【FROM: Asagi Taisuke】
【TO: Yashiro Mai】
Umm, sorry……
I want you to stop calling me by my name.
I, honestly, don't like, ……this name.
Huh? You don't remember me?
I see, that's not impossible too I guess.
Well, you'll find out in due course. Even if you're not willing……
Oh yes, that's right.
I'll give you 100 points of CP as present.
Please be careful that if you don't earn minimally 100 CP in one day, your character will die.
Well, as for today you'll be fine with this.
That's why it'll be good for you to avoid battles today and read the help section first.
《Attachment・100 CP》
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Then, at the moment after I accepted the attached 100 CP attached to the mail, this is how the screen was displayed.
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【Minimum quota achieved】
Yashiro Mai-sama's Auto Death System is cancelled.
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Auto Death System?
Minimum quota achieved?
Did it mean anything?
ーNevertheless, I did understand that it did not have a positive meaning as the unlucky word 'death' was present.
For the time being, I decided to try investigating the "Auto Death System" using the help item.
At any rate, I have many things which I do not know about this gameplay.
Really just like what the person called 'Asagi' said, maybe it's better that I do not make any foolish moves today and devote myself to memorising the rules for this game.
When I tried to search for the auto death system at the help section, I found that it immediately.
I read the displayed explanatory note over and over again multiple times.
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※Help No.４
【Auto Death System】
After "0.00", a player who did not earn the minimum 100 CP in one day will be treated as dead.
In addition, in the event that you are revived, please choose a new revival cost.
However, please note that the body part that has previously ceased functioning will not return.
※①If you are unable to select your revival cost, you will also die in the real world.
※②If you have chosen your heart, you will be unable to choose your next revival cost.
Dying in this game = Death in the real world.
※When you attempt to enter battles or the map without selecting the next revival cost, it will be automatically determined.
In that case, please take note that there is the possibility of your heart being selected.
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This rule……
In other words, this a preventive measure to ensure that people do not set the game aside.
This is probably telling us that if we want to live, we have to play the game every day.
I'm getting depressed.
Since I'll be bound to this frightening game which I'm reluctant to play every day.
However……, if I don't play, I'll eventually die.
ーFor certain.
To be honest, I still don't want to die yet.
If that's the case, even though I'm not inclined to doing it, there's no other alternative than to play.
First now, if I summarise what I have understood into important points, it is as the 3 below.
①Abandoning the game without earning 100 CP ＝ Death in the game world
②Dying too many times will result in becoming unable to select a revival cost ＝ Death in the real world
③After selecting the heart as a revival cost and dying ＝ Death in the real world
Now then, which help item should I look at next?
It happened when I was thinking like that.
My game console's lamp switched on and was flashing.
It seems like a mail arrived again.
Unlike before, the title was filled in this time.
The filled in title was "Please help".
……Please help?
Is someone seeking my help?
Of course, I still don't have an acquaintance in-game who I can ask for help.
But I wonder what is it?
Even though I have no basis, from the uneasiness I have, I feel like I have to open it.
For now, I guess I shall I try opening it.
If I don't try opening it, I won't know the content and I also can't even take any measures.
With determination, I opened the mail.
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【FROM: Suzuki Naomi】
【TO: Yashiro Mai】
Umm, I implore of you……!
I beg you to please help me.
Right now, out of the 8 choices for the revival cost, I have lost 6 choices.
And if I haven't earned 100 CP after 0.00 today, the 7th choice which is my eyes will also be lost.
The next one I choose lastly will be the 'Heart' which is the only one remaining……
If it is alright with you, could you possibly help me obtain some CP or recover my robbed body parts?
I'm sorry, it's selfish of me right……
However, I'm extremely afraid of dying……
Could you please accede to my request?
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I finished reading the mail and this is where I had one question surfaced.
At the present, she is in a situation where apart from her two eyes and heart, everything else has ceased functioning.
Despite that, why is that she is still able to write a mail to me?
To begin with, if one can't use the 'hand' itself, one should also not be able to play the game.
ーFirstly, I guess I'll try asking her about this.
I decided to send a reply mail to this female called 'Naomi'.
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【FROM: Yashiro Mai】
【TO: Suzuki Naomi】
Pardon me.
Aside from whether I'll be accepting, I have something I would like to ask.
How does the cease of function work?
Naomi-san, currently you were able to send me a mail in this way.
Considering this, does the cease functioning not happen in the real world?
That's right, this was what I thought.
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The reply mail came before even before 5 minutes had yet to elapse.
ーThat's extremely fast.
I was thinking of researching the various aspects of this game while waiting for the reply……
Judging from this, I could tell that she is fairly at her wits' end.
For now, I decided to try checking the content of the mail.
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【FROM: Suzuki Naomi】
【TO: Yashiro Mai】
That is not the case
I can't use anything besides my two eyes in the real world.
It's just that there are times when the cessation of function is lifted.
I suppose that these times, are surely for us to complete the bare minimum tasks such as eating which are required for us to survive.
The detailed timings are as follow.
【Morning】7 for 30 minutes
【Afternoon】12 for 30 minutes
【Night】8 for 30 minutes
I think this is also stated in the help section.
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ーI see.
So it's something like that.
I checked the clock hung on the wall.
The time right now was 12.32 in the afternoon.
And the time when the mail from Naomi-san had been sent was roughly slightly past 12.
There is a time period at 12 for 30 minutes where the cessation of function is lifted.
Yup.
ーIt certainly is consistent.
For the time being, the time now has already passed 12.30.
Therefore, the time period for the lifting of function cessation has ended.
If that's the case, Naomi-san should once again be in a state where the nerves in other than her eyes and heart will cease functioning.
Even if I send a mail, I probably can't hope for a reply anymore.
I muttered while staring absentmindedly at the clock hung on the wall in my room.
"……I guess it means that I can't contact her until 8pm…… What should I do"
Although Naomi-san said that she wanted me to recover her body parts that have ceased functioning…….
I wonder if I can do something like that?
Granted that I could even do that, I'm a beginner who only started the game today.
Can someone like that actually win in a battle……?
My sense of anxiety is growing tremendously stronger.
However, while it may be true that I am unable to abandon someone who seeks help, it's just that I may be naive.
Or could this be either the guilty conscience or hypocrisy sleeping within me?
But if I can save someone as a result, it already doesn't matter which it is.
After knowing all the aforementioned, I cannot abandon Naomi-san.
ーAs a fellow human.
……Thinking about it now, it may be precisely because I am still unfamiliar with this game detailedly that I made this choice.
That's all I can say.
I didn't even know a handful of the horror of this game……
And then I made up my mind.
ーI am going to help Naomi-san……
Even if I die, I still have body parts which I can select as my revival cost.
It's alright.
Failure can still be allowed.
If that's the case I'll try to both practise and fight.
Besides, I'll have to fight eventually.
It's a matter of whether it's sooner or later.
Just that.
Furthermore, if it goes well, I may even be able to save Naomi-san……!
In order to erase my sense of fear, I repeated "It's okay, it'll go well" in my heart over and over again like a chant.
Translator corner:
Alright, we have finished one chapter! Hope to hear from you all so that I can decide whether people are really interested in this novel. 🙂