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[Concept Post]
[This is journalist Jang Seong-mun from QBS Game Magazine.] [43]
Hello, World of Arseria users.
I’m journalist Jang Seong-mun from QBS Game Magazine.
Last weekend, news broke that NPC Adella has been linked to the VR SPACE, causing quite a stir.
If anyone has photos or videos taken with her, please contact me at 010-XXXX-XXXX or [email protected].
Additionally, if anyone knows Streamer NoName personally, I would appreciate any tips.
[Comments]
– What’s a humble person like you doing in such a precious place…?
└ LOL
└ (Author): I worked overtime, so I couldn’t catch the stream at that timeㅠㅠㅠㅠ
└ LOL What a charming personㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ This person is doing journalism just to satisfy their personal desiresㅋㅋㅋㅋ
– Where is Adella right now?
└ No idea, might have just entered a Private Room? The tracking team has disappeared.
– Is it true that Wearsoft stocks have doubled in this situation? I’m so annoyed!
└ How much is the stock right now?
└ It’s recovered to about $150, easy moneyㅋㅋㅋㅋ
– I heard one employee was arrested, so why is the stock going up? What were they caught for?
└ It’s a retired employee already~ No impact at all~
└ It seems they included ASI on models under age 7, which is illegal in most US states.
└ What a double whammy with tax evasionㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Real-Time Best]
[(Nothing too intense, just some moments with Adella)][927]
(Group photo at the amusement park map main gate.jpg)
(Adella riding the roller coaster.mp4)
(Adella running around in the haunted house.mp4)
…
(Adella getting cultural shock watching the nerd night.mp4)
The singularity has already arrived!
For someone who’s been playing VR SPACE for years, Adella felt like a perfectly normal person.
So I guess everyone who played with her thought she was a foreigner trying virtual reality for the first time and had a blast.
+) Adella is so adorable, and her personality seems really niceㅋㅋㅋ. There were a few people who crossed the line sometimes, but she generously forgave them.
[Comments]
– Wow… Wow… Is this the future?
– Is this what AI and NPCs are?
– Isn’t this just someone in a cosplay?
– Why is a Vocaloid song playing at the night event? LOL
└ Seriously, this culture is too overwhelming;;
– Why are you all having so much fun!!!!!!!!!
└ The party’s cap is 10 people…
└ ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ I want to see Adella too!
– Is Adella still wandering around?
└ Nope, they’re done partying and probably headed to a Private Room.
– Is calling what happened at Halcas just crossing the line a bit? Seriously, isn’t the author a weirdo?
└ It seems they got desensitized from deleting constantly because of the complaints.
└ Thank goodness Adella didn’t go full Skynet; be grateful for that.
└ She was like a Terminatorㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Streamer Gallery]
[Just think of her as the owner of Twish, totally recommendedㅋㅋ][59]
(NoName main avatar front.jpg)
[Comments]
– So you’re saying it’s not that she’s 5 years past the minor age; she still has 5 years left?
└ Thinking of it this way makes her seem way youngerㅋㅋㅋㅋ
– Since she’s been playing League for 7 years, her age must specifically be around 14 to 15.
– What a panel that pedophiles would go crazy over, and the person inside isn’t even normalㅋㅋㅋ
– You got that right.
– Twish’s future is looking bright.
– A newbie monster streamer (and I mean a real monster).
– Looking purely at her magic skills, she could pass into Korea University.
└ What kind of Korea University? MIT or Stanford will do.
└ It’s seriously a blow to our pride; what were we doing at that age?
– Can you please share the video!!! How long do we have to wait until V-tube! Or you could at least upload the full video!
*
I turned on the hologram projector and placed it right in the center of the room.
Click!
The electromagnetic device, with its top and bottom shells dividing, emitted a soft blue light while scanning the entire room.
[Scanning complete.]
[The hologram will be projected according to the specified coordinates. Please do not move the device.]
And finally, a girl with cat ears appeared in a shimmering light.
She blinked a couple of times, spotted me, and waved cheerfully.
“Wow! Is this what you really look like, big sis? Kyaah, you’re so cute! Can I hug you?!”
“It looks just like the main avatar, why are you so surprised? And it’s a hologram; we can’t even touch each other.”
“That’s a shame!”
“What’s with that tone…?”
“Oh, this? My friends told me that last time!”
Adella rambled on about her experiences playing in the VR world even though I hadn’t asked.
Especially when she passed by an amusement park, she said she must have shaken hands hundreds of times.
“Ugh… I almost went blind because of it though!”
“Go blind? Did someone shine a light in your eyes or something?”
“No, it’s just that it was too early for you to know about it… But overall, it was fun!”
The urban legend that NPCs hang out with users in the VR world had already been reported on several news broadcasts.
Although they didn’t focus on this as the main topic and seemed biased towards praising Wearsoft’s technology.
The company hadn’t given any special hints regarding my bringing Adella here either.
Well, the Adella here isn’t ASI’s main body, just a derivative entity, so there were no worries about technology leaks. Instead, it’d only benefit them by promoting their game.
They did ask me via email later to just keep quiet until they decide to announce it.
I figured that would be something to keep an eye on.
It seems the stock has nearly recovered, so it might be best to hope that the upper management decides to just pretend not to know.
“By the way, there’s one inconvenient thing in this world.”
She said as she looked around my room.
“What is it?”
“I can drink here and not even get drunk, you know? I mean, not having to go to the bathroom is great and all, but it feels empty without alcohol.”
Adella, lying on my Private Room’s bed, shared her little grievance with a pout.
Would it comfort her if I told her that I’d only be able to drink in 11 years?
Probably not, so I opened my closet behind the hyperactive Adella on the bed.
“Are you going out today? Where to?”
“To see Professor Chun.”
“Is Professor Chun the one who lives in the same house as you?”
“He’s my stepfather.”
“Whoa, so you were an orphan like me?”
“That sounds a bit… off…?”
I really don’t want to feel a sense of kinship over this.
Even though it was already mid-April, the weather felt hot like summer.
But it also felt odd to wear just a t-shirt and shorts. The mornings and nights were still chilly.
In the end, I compromised and picked a yellow t-shirt and denim overalls, quickly changed, and started packing items into my bag.
“Hahaha! Wearing that makes you look like a chick!”
“… You’re not coming with me?”
“Ah, ah, ah! I’m so sorry! Please forgive me for saying that!”
It felt like Adella was getting too immersed in the VR world, so I advised her to study a bit, preparing for when she has to live in the real world eventually.
VR SPACE is nothing more than an extension of a game and not a real world, so it would be unrealistic for Adella to grasp people’s general cultural aspects nicely.
Coincidentally, she pressed me to show her around the outside world, and today was the opportunity.
If she took the hologram lenses, she would be able to move freely within a 1m radius and obtain a 360-degree field of view.
Of course, I didn’t forget to activate the invisibility mode so it won’t cause any trouble.
To her, the scenery of the Private Room would likely seem to be changing constantly.
“Shall we go?”
“Yup!”
April 2051.
The weather is clear, temperature at 25 degrees.
Holding the transformed blue octahedron projector in my hands, I walked through the busy streets of Gangnam District.
“Wowww… There are so many people…”
The crowd was so much larger compared to the VR world that it was unbelievable.
However, naturally, there were far more cars than people.
The parade of cars speeding past on the main road left Adella spellbound, unable to look away for a moment.
“Where are all these people going?”
“Probably, at this hour, they’re off for lunch after work.”
“Work? Does that mean you work too?”
“I’m still young; how can I work?”
“Can’t you work if you’re young? Why?”
Adella, whose values seemed muddled from the world of Wagal, tilted her head.
I explained to her that Korea is a country where labor laws are strictly upheld, so children do not work but attend school.
“Then why aren’t you going? It’s a weekday.”
“I filed for an absence.”
Since we were headed to Korea University, I could easily justify it under the pretext of a field trip.
I had considered taking a taxi when going alone, but since I was with Adella today, I intentionally chose to ride the bus and took a seat at the back.
The scenery zooming past at high speed and the crowd hustling every which way made me feel the vibe of our nearing destination as the proportion of university students on the bus steadily increased.
Ding ding!
Suddenly, my phone rang. It was Professor Chun.
“Hello?”
[Ah, Na-me, have you arrived yet?]
“I’m almost there. I’m at the main gate right now.”
[Sorry, but could you come to the Advanced Materials Synthesis Research Institute instead of building 3? I’m sorry for the sudden change of location.]
“Ah, sure. Got it.”
[It’s in building 131-1, so if you get off before the bus goes up the hill, you should find it easily. Don’t mix it up with the next building.]
[The next stop is New Materials. The Joint Research Institute for New Materials.]
This is my second visit to Korea University.
The place where I got off the bus was unexpectedly deserted and quiet. Maybe because it’s a corner of the school.
As I breathed in the refreshing air provided by the thick forest, I searched for the building that Professor Chun mentioned.
“Adella, I’ll turn the hologram back on later. I don’t think it’ll work well inside the building.”
“Oh? Okay! I’ll wait then! See you later!”
I properly turned off the projector’s power and shoved it hastily into my bag. It was quite a hefty product, making my shoulder a bit heavier.
Speaking of which, without a key, I couldn’t get inside the building.
Just as I was about to call Professor Chun again, someone behind me lightly tapped my shoulder, making me turn around unconsciously.
A woman in a blue lab coat suddenly widened her eyes as she asked.
“Are you… NoName?”
