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Pandora of Fantasy And Reality Chapter 42
🕑 Added 2022-11-01 07:15:07 +0000 UTCRelaxation of Regulation
Akito learned about that news when he was helping Riku with his part-time work.
At the VR cafe――there were few workers there and also few customers.
It didn’t feel like the place needed any extra help at all.
「It feels like there are too few customers here. There’s also no other staff or part-timer.」
Riku stretched his back while answering.
「Well of course. After all they know that it’ll get busy soon, so they all are taking a break while they can now.」
Riku said that the café would get busy soon. Akito asked him for more detailed explanation in regard to that because it was currently break time.
「Is something going to happen?」
Riku was grinning.
「You’ll know sooner or later so I’ll tell you. Actually, the testing for the implementation of Pandora’s large scale update is over already. Café like this need to prepare ahead, so we had gotten notified earlier. The official notice will be announced around the day after tomorrow.」
Pandora’s Box Garden.
Even Akito got excited from hearing that its large scale update was finished.
「Then, we’ll be able to login soon!」
Riku enjoyed Akito’s reaction. He was being all smiles.
「That’s how it is. It’s finally back. It’s great……」
Akito got a thought when seeing Riku’s face.
(He looks excited, or perhaps even more than that?)
Happiness, nostalgia. Akito felt various emotions from Riku’s face.
Riku was radiating an aura that wasn’t just made up from mere excitement. He was smiling as he placed his hand on Akito’s shoulder.
「Also there’s one more big topic……look forward to it.」
「No, tell me now already.」
Riku absolutely wouldn’t tell him, so Akito gave up asking him about it.
Then, this time it was Riku who was showing interest toward Akito.
「More importantly, how did your summer break go?」
「It’s still not over yet isn’t it? For now I’m doing exercise. I had also taken my license but, is something like license necessary for this era where automatic driving vehicle is the mainstream?」
The amount of money that he paid for the training institute wasn’t small.
As expected Akito felt dissatisfied when he thought about it.
Riku showed more interest about the matter of exercise rather than the topic about training school.
「That’s nice. Surely you’ll be able to move even better the next time you login.」
Akito laughed.
「You exaggerate. Well, I’m also looking forward to it.」
Actually nearly 80% of the reason he was going to the gym was occupied by wicked thought, but it didn’t change the fact that he was going frequently there.
Going there was fun for him because there were also a lot of older girls there.
Considering his age, not having this kind of reaction would be problematic instead.
「It will be a lot of hectic right after a large scale update but it’ll be interesting too. But, it also happen often that skill or equipment that were effective before would become unusable. So what a player can do is only to polish their own player skill.」
Riku said that while taking off his shirt and showed the body that he had trained ruthlessly during the summer break to Akito.
「How’s that. Amazing right?」
Riku showed his back and made a pose. Akito also nodded while touching the muscles with his hands.
「Uwah, they’re real.」
「There’s no way they’re fake muscles. All of them are real. Stupid, that tickles.」
The two were screwing around because they had nothing to do. But there was someone’s silhouette standing still at the other side of the entrance.
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Asano Yukine. 14 years old.
She was at the second year of middle school. She was standing still at the entrance of a VR café.
「……Eh, h-huh?」
At the other side of the glass door, a senior at her part-time workplace Akito was messing around happily with a half-naked male.
No, it was obviously suspicious just from looking.
「N-no way. Because, he went to see movie with Shikata-senpai before, and yet」
Akito and Yakumo were a duo who meshed well with each other at the workplace. Yukino was mistaking them as lovers.
It couldn’t be helped that she misunderstood like that after seeing the two of them watching movie side-by-side when she visited the movie theater with her friend.
But, Akito was messing around with a man right now.
「Don’t tell me he’s only using Shikata-senpai as a cover……horrible.」
Yukine was making a great misunderstanding while stepping away from the café’s door. She hid behind a cover and sat down on the ground while holding her head.
「N-no, wait a second me. Surely it’s just something like skinship between males. Yes, surely it’s something like that, no doubt about it.」
She tried to persuade herself like that and secretly peeked into the café once more.
But, there Yukine witnessed a decisive moment.
「T-t-t-t-they’re hugging!」
Akito and the other male were hugging with their upper body naked. Yukino went bright red while getting away from there with unsteady footsteps.
「C-calm down me! This is some kind of misunderstanding. Yes, it must be a misunderstanding! But……if Naruse-senpai likes male」
For Yukine, Yakumo was a capable and reliable senior who she respected. When she pictured that such senior was actually dating with someone who was simply using her as a cover, she couldn’t endure it.
「……I need to make sure. And, if I find out that he really like man, I have to tell Shikata-senpai.」
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Inside the café.
Akito was thrown away by Riku.
「No way! Even though I had trained!」
Akito made an expression of disbelief. In respond Riku made a pose and accentuated his muscles.
「You idiot. I’m a former sportsman despite my look. I’m still training even now. If I lose against you I’ll be shocked and can’t come out of my bed.」
Certainly the time they had trained until now was different. Considering that, Akito thought it couldn’t be helped that he lost.
「Even though I was confident」
Riku sighed.
He was calm now and noticed that they were messing around too much by doing sumo half-naked like this just because they were free.
「Or rather, why are we doing this again? Come on, let’s get back to work.」
Akito also stood up and put on his shirt.
「What should we do first?」
「There’s only one thing to do at this time――」
The two started working, but Akito had no way of knowing that he had already been put under some kind of outrageous misunderstanding.
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The next day.
There were only Akito and Yukine taking a break in the break room.
Akito was looking at his smartphone.
But Yukine was thinking.
(How do I make sure that he’s interested with woman……that’s right, I can search at internet for this kind of thing.)
She took out her smartphone and immediately wrote her question. Then she waited for the respond.
『I want to find out if this man is interested with woman, but how should I do that?』
An answer quickly came for that question.
(It’s here! As expected from summer holiday. A lot of people have nothing better to do.)
Yukine was thinking like that about the person who wrote an answer for her question, but the answer that she got was terrible.
『Try stripping in front of him.』
Perhaps it was karma for insulting people with free time. The answer that came was something that she couldn’t possibly do at all.
In the first place, Yukine would be the one who got thought as a pervert if she stripped in this place.
『You misunderstand! We aren’t lovers. Please teach me a simple method!』
Then there was a reply from another respondent.
『Ask him upfront.』
Yukine became irritated.
『I’m asking for some kind of method here because I can’t do that. In the first place, there’s no way he will answer me if I simply ask him like that!』
There was a bit of time passed before the next reply came.
『Then, strip.』
『Please stop telling me to strip! I’m asking a serious question here!』
Like that Yukine was wasting her time responding to the respondents on and on without noticing that she was being made fun of.
And then at the end.
『Got it. Then it’s fine if it’s just underwear. Flash him your panties. A man who doesn’t look at that isn’t a man. Can I ask you one thing? Are you a man?』
『Obviously I’m a woman!』
At the comment field the letters 『www』 that indicated laughter were lined up.
『It’s summer holiday so strange people are coming out of the woodwork. Well, do your best with flashing your panties.』
And then the respondents were gone. Yukine noticed that she was being made fun of and treated like a person who had nothing to do during summer holiday.
She put away her smartphone and thought.
(There’s a table between senpai and me. He won’t be able to see even if I flash him my underwear. No, I don’t want to show him in the first place but……)
This was for the sake of the senior who she respected. With that thought Yukine raised her long skirt just a little.
(I-I think, with this he’ll be able to see if he goes under the table.)
Yukine turned red and intentionally dropped the plastic bottle that contained her tea so it rolled toward Akito.
「Ah, I’m sorry I drop――」
――ped the bottle. Before she finished saying that, Akito put his hand under the table and caught the falling plastic bottle without taking off his eyes from his smartphone.
And then he put the bottle in front of Yukine with his eyes still fixed on his phone.
「Here. Be careful next time.」
Yukine whose hands were gripping her skirt and whose legs were slightly opened to make it easier to catch a glimpse of her underwear became slightly tearful.
「……Y-yes」
She felt happy that she failed, at the same time she also felt somewhat displeased.
(Take off your eyes from your phone’s screen!)
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The break time was over and Yukine returned to the store. Akito saw her off and put his phone on the table.
「……Don’t tell me, this is the thing that Riku wanted to say?」
The smartphone’s screen was showing news about VR.
Player could experience two whole days inside the game in two hours that were lengthened by 24 times.
From the flow of events until now, it wouldn’t be strange for the regulation to be tightened even more.
「And yet why?」
Akito’s gaze dropped to his smartphone’s screen.
There――.
『Relaxation of VR Game’s Regulation is Adopted』
――Such words were displayed.
He thought that the news was surely an ill-natured prank, a lie by someone to increase the number of their website viewer.
However when he checked it out, the news source was credible.
There was also video of when the adoption of the bill was passed. It was becoming a hot topic.
「Everyone won’t talk of anything else except this today. But, how did Riku learn about this earlier?」
Akito got curious how Riku was able to obtain this information a day before, but perhaps there was some kind of preparation that was done at the café for this.
He thought of that and stopped thinking any deeper about it.
「From this month the two hours login will be stretched by 48 times. So we’ll be inside the game for four days……is this really going to be alright?」
The timing felt as though it was aiming for when Pandora’s Box Garden resumed service. Akito got a bit of hunch that perhaps there was something more to it.
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At the last day of Yukine’s part-time work.
Today Akito had holiday and returned to his parents’ home.
But there was also Yukine here so there was no need to ask anybody else to take his shift.
Yakumo was working at the cash register while thanking Yukine.
「Good work. You’re really doing your best.」
「Y-yes.」
Yukine felt happy because she was praised by Yakumo who she looked up to, but she was feeling troubled of how to tell her about Akito.
But, Yakumo’s face twisted as she looked at the cash register.
「Again. That person is buying a lot again.」
Someone was purchasing a lot and it was recorded in the log because that someone was an employee.
Yukine also sneaked a look at the log. There were charges for game in the amount of several hundred thousand yen.
「I-is there really a game that charge this much money?」
Yakumo waved her hand.
「Aa~, that’s not it. The game doesn’t need this much money. Do you know about Pandora? Or perhaps you’re a player too?」
Yukine shook her head.
「You can enjoy the game normally by paying the monthly fee only. Well, I myself am using some money outside of that though. But, even then I’m only spending around 3000 yen.」
Even just the basic fee plus 3000 yen were a considerable amount.
But Yakumo’s spending was still considered small.
「It’s popular even in my class. Is the game really that interesting?」
Yakumo started explaining to Yukine.
「It’s amazing. I think it’ll become even more amazing after this large scale update but, there are already a lot of things you can do in there and each person has their own way to have fun. Well, you can play free of charge for the first month so perhaps you can give it a try. Like at VR café――」
VR café. Yukine’s face turned pale when she heard that.
「Hey, you alright?」
And then Yukine looked up at Yakumo’s face with teary eyes and told her.
「Senpai……actually」
She told Yakumo everything about what she saw at the VR café.
Yakumo laughed when she heard that.
「Ahahahaha, nope. That’s just impossible so don’t worry. Naruse is normal.」
「B-but!」
Yakumo laughed too much that tears came out. She wiped them with her fingers.
「Besides, that guy’s eyes are always stealing glances at my chest. He’s my work pair so I’m not bothered anymore though. Besides, we aren’t going out. Because, I――well, forget it.」
Yakumo stopped talking at the middle, but Yukine weakly crumbled down on the spot when she thought that she had been worrying needlessly.
「No waay~. Even though I was so worried and did all those things」
Yakumo heard from Yukine what did she meant by “did all those things”. Her face turned serious and she told her to never do anything like that ever again.
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There were several days left for the summer vacation.
But Akito was setting his VR machine from his PC.
「Installing the update is finished. I had read the warnings too. The preparation is complete with this.」
It had become possible to download the update before the service resumed.
And then there were three hours remaining until the service resumed.
「Everyone will login simultaneously at midnight but, it will be crowded then. I guess the usual time will be better.」
There was the large scale update and the relaxation of regulation that had too good timing.
A lot of the players were on cloud nine.
Of course Akito was also one such players.
He wanted to login right away, but in the first player the two who he usually played with were planning to login in the usual time.
Their usual login time was from five o’clock until seven o’clock in the morning.
「The preparation is finished already, so I guess the usual time will be fine.」
Akito lied down on the bed and closed his eyes. And then he fell asleep.
The business-use VR machine started moving after a while. The PC also activated and started downloading something.
After it finished the download, the PC entered sleep mode.
The VR machine was the same.
