Any minute now.

  What’s taking so long? Does the game master want to torture me by letting me stay here longer?

  Ok, I’ll just log out on my own. Why isn’t the screen popping out? Is it delayed because the game’s closing? Um, let’s test the settings, still nothing....then map? Stats?

  HEY! Why did stats pop out instantly? Then log out!....STILL NOTHING? Friend list! Guild! Skills!

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  WHY? Then “LOG OUT!”

  I stood there like a tree waiting for a non-existent feature.”LOG OUT! LOG OUT! LOG OUT! LOG OUT!!!!!” I screamed with all my strength.“Why isn’t it working? And why do I feel pain in my throat? This hasn’t happened before.”

  I lay on the bluish meadow and stared at the stars. “I’ll just wait then.”

  After ten minutes. “Why am I still here?” I do like it here, but this game is supposed to end already, so why am I still here? And why can’t I log out manually? Grr, fine, I’ll go to a city and ask. I’m sure I’m not the only one stuck on this game. “Inventory!”

  It works properly, then one last time. “LOG OUT!”

  Still nothing.

  I released my equipment and took a teleport stone from the inventory. Releasing equipment? That’s a feature for high-end gears. A character is given slots for normal equipment and for extreme to god tier equipment, and a character could interchange between two equipment at will.

  It’s used to prevent pkers from taking away your hard-earned equipment, not like the god tier gears would fall. My gears are binded to my character, and even if I pay a million yen I can’t give them to others nor drop them after being killed. So why did I change? You know, parading as a weakling despite being strong, it’s a trend for strong players, don’t know why though.

  Heh, for me it’s not only for parading, I use this equipment to show that I don’t need powerful gears to win a pvp match.

  My current set is composed of a wooden stick, plain white shirt , black trousers, and wooden sandals. You know what? These equipment are all fully upgraded, cause why not? Oh, I’m getting farther from the main issue.

  I held the green stone, that’s as big as a baseball ball, above my head. “To ‘City of beginning’!”

  Normally, I would get transferred in a blink of an eye, but after my body got covered in white light, I lost consciousness. When I woke, I wasn’t in a city but in the outskirts of a village. No there’s a bigger problem, I fell asleep? When? And why am I still in the game?

  As I stood, a wicked smell entered my nose, cold air caressed my skin, my hair was annoyingly poking my eyes, wait, my sandals are buried in mud!

  I covered my nose and moved away. Thi-this hasn’t happened before! When did the game add such sensitivity?

  “Arf! Arf!” I heard from behind.

  When I looked back, there was a red furred pup with two tails. It’s a Val hound, one of the basic monsters that you could see near the beginner village. No need to kill it, it can’t even damage me.

  It jumped to my legs and bit me, but it’s jaws couldn’t even pierce the trousers. See? Not even a scratch. No wait, why is stuck on my legs? It normally goes back to it’s fighting stance after an attack, like any mob would.

  I kicked forward, sending the pup to a tree....killing it, crushing its body, and splattering its blood and organs. I stood there looking at the corpse, I felt goose bumps around my body, I felt chill on my spine, and I gulped from time to time. “Ha-haha this can’t be real.”

  With my body shaking uncontrollably, I felt the urge to vomit, making me kneel on all fours and soon cover my mouth with my left hand, which was dirtied by the soil. I tried to hold it back, but when I tasted the sour soil, I vomited.

  As if to torture me, another pup appeared and tried to bite me on the face, forcing me to hit it with my fist. On impact, because of too much force, it’s body exploded near me, covering me in its innards and blood.

  Dumbfounded, I tried to touch the thing dangling on my face. It’s squishy, its reddish, and it’s pulsating. “I-I killed?” I threw it away and vomited again.

  I have watched gore movies, but seeing organs in the flesh is a first for me, I’m even the reason why it came out of a living organism’s body. The game never had such a brutal feature, at most, a mob would leak a bit of blood, but it will never show an actual organ. Yeah, I did study martial arts, but I never studied about killing.

  Just now, two simple mobs died like a normal living being. What’s happening? I’m still inside of a game right? I haven’t killed anything right? This is just a new feature of the game right? Please, someone tell me!

  I mustered all of my strength and ran to the village that’s within my vision. Why? I never had problems running around before, so why do I keep falling down? Why does the soil stick to my equipment? why am I getting all sticky? Why does it all feel so real?

  My body got more and more tensed as my thoughts got jumbled from shock. This kind of state is a first for me, both ingame and in real life. “T-this is all a dream right?”

  Still far from the village, I saw a man soaked in sweat swinging an axe sideways to a tree. Drenched, his shirt had a yellowish color and showed what’s underneath, a tanned and muscular body.

  Seeing the man, I ran to him with my tear-smeared face completely visible. I didn’t know how to respond with what happened, at least, at least I need someone close to me. Just for now, until I calm down. “Please?” I said while holding his arms.

  He noticed me a few steps away before I held him, and before I got closer, he dropped his axe. He didn’t know what happened or who I was, but he knew I was afraid of something, since my body was shaking violently.

  It was a huge shock for him, not because of my sudden entrance but because he saw my pointy ears. It even surprised him more after my silver hair tainted by blood. He pulled his hand away from me due to fear, but after seeing my pitiful state, he asked. “What happened?”

  With a shaky voice I said. “I-I killed” And after remembering what happened, I lost consciousness.

  When I woke, I was in a soft and comfortable bed. What my eyes first saw was the wooden ceiling and looking around made me see different wooden sculptures. Atop me was a thick blanket, which I pushed to the side as I sit on the side of the bed. The bed was in the corner of the room and beside it was a drawer with a lamp placed on top.

  I raised my hand, which just killed a life. After remembering, I went to the corner of the bed and covered my body.

  The door of the room opened, and a girl around eight years old entered, holding a tray with a bread and a cup of water. She placed it on top of the drawer, pushing the lamp to the side. She then jumped to the bed and sat beside me, who was still covered in blanket.

  From the outside the thick cloth, she touched my ears, which felt a bit ticklish. “Big sis, are you an elf?”

  Still confused and scared of my situation, I ignored the girl.

  Hearing no reply, the girl just sat near me and continued touching my ears.

  The door opened again, this time, the man who I met before entered. Seeing the girl, he walked closer and lifted her. “I apologize for my sister’s behavior” He then went out of the room.

  I didn’t move an inch from my spot, and just used my time thinking of how I should act.

  With the span of time I spent and the fact that I still can’t log out, it’s possible that I won’t get back anytime soon. My senses feels too real, so either it’s a new feature or everything became real. The way the mob died proves that its the latter.

  Players can’t own houses or create one, and there’s also no cooking ability in the game, so the man and his sister should be npcs, but they act like real people. I moved closer to the drawer and took a bite from the bread. It’s bland, but it tastes like a real bread, even the texture feels real.

  “How did this happen?” I said before taking another bite.

  ====Desu Corner====

  I seriously don't know if I'm doing fine in this fiction.