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Pandora of Fantasy And Reality Chapter 94
🕑 Added 2023-03-26 15:13:32 +0000 UTCEro Mod
『No, yeah. I don’t know what to say……sorry. As expected, I can’t give your guild a special treatment as the management. I want to help you somehow personally though. But, as expected it’s impossible when it’s like this.』
In the real world.
Akito contacted the information broker, but he seemed to have know the situation and talked with a troubled tone.
「S-so it’s impossible huh.」
『It’s impossible. Doing something like fighting at the plaza of the Capital of Diligence is just unbelievable. Though it also something that happen frequently in other time slot.』
The atmosphere inside the game also greatly differed depending on the time slot.
The time slot where Akito and others were playing considered this matter as a great incident.
「I’m sorry. We were being a bother.」
『Aa, yeah. As expected it looks like the NPC’s setting there is too strict, so I’ll do some adjustment there.』
Their talk ended. Akito scratched his head.
「What a pain. We won’t be able to login for three days……well, it’s no biggie I guess.」
Although they were given a penalty it was just a ban from logging in for three days.
It wouldn’t affect them too greatly, Akito thought while starting to prepare for school.
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In classroom.
His friend Riku was clearly looking dissatisfied.
「You, what the hell are you guys doing just right before reaching the frontline.」
Riku who was leading a mid-ranked guild was looking forward to Akito arriving at the frontline too.
「I never imagined that my guild members would go around picking fight while I was imprisoned.」
「It’s your guild. Be more aware of that kind of thing.」
It was just a three days ban from logging in.
However, that would create a gap of 24 days inside the game.
「Even though we would also have it a bit easier if you guys come.」
Akito watched Riku’s disappointed look while tilting his head.
「Even if we come to the frontline, for you guys it’ll be just another set of amateurs coming in right?」
He didn’t understand the reason why he was counting on them.
「Fighting is about number after all. In the World of Lust, even the top guilds can’t cover up the lack of number with quality, so as expected now everyone is busy with cultivating mid-ranked guild and enlarging their own guild too.」
It seemed that the clearing of the World of Lust wasn’t progressing really well.
Recently they were clearing the stage with good pace, but apparently the management was increasing the difficulty level.
「Our members only numbered a hundred you know? We are just barely medium sized aren’t we?」
Was his guild really worthy to be counted on that much?
Akito thought like that, but Riku’s reaction was the complete opposite.
「All your members are fundamentally aiming for the same objective even though there are a hundred of them. It’s something to be envious about. In my place, there are dozens of them who don’t show up at the base even though they are logged in.」
In Ponsuke’s guild, there was no player who joined just because of simple interest because of the mocking and the like.
No, such player couldn’t join.
After all his guild was a gathering of problem children.
(The promotional video really hurt us.)
The video was immediately erased but, its copies had already spread out and the view count was reaching an outrageous number.
「Anyway, come quickly. We’re lacking manpower right now. We greatly welcome any medium sized guild to join in.」
「Aren’t there many guild like that?」
「Even if there are, most of them are just temporary guild. There are also a lot of guild that increase its number drastically just to take on a guild quest but then get disbanded when they failed.」
Akito thought.
(Were we lucky?)
While the two of them were having such talk, a different group of boys nearby was getting heated up.
「You got scouted by a famous guild!?」
「Oi, don’t talk that loudly.」
「But, it’s a famous guild you know!」
The girls reacted to the ruckus the boys were making.
「No way, you joined that place? The joining requirement there is pretty strict isn’t it!?」
The boy who got scouted into a famous guild was looking embarrassed.
「Stop that. I’m just treated like a second string player there, besides my party leader is someone even more amazing.」
The boy explained that it was his whole party that got recruited but, the girls still gathered around him.
「I’m so jealous. Hey, I want to join there too.」
「No fair! Let me join in too.」
「No, as expected I don’t have any authority for that, I’m not a top brass after all.」
Looking at the atmosphere inside the class, it was like joining a famous guild was something amazing.
(Is that kind of thing getting popular recently?)
Akito thought of the game’s influence to the real world, but Riku was sighing.
「The girls want to join famous guild because they’ll be able to brag even inside the game like that. My guild also has some members like that, but they aren’t useful at all. You should be careful too yeah.」
Akito smiled wryly.
「Our guild is treated like a freak show. No way anybody will want to join us.」
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At the part-time work.
The store was more like a small sized supermarket rather than a convenience store. A space to put magazines was being prepared inside it.
The magazines that were placed in that small space were game related magazines.
They were magazines for Pandora walkthrough.
However, those magazines were intended for housewives and middle-aged man demographics.
The content was about the basics. There were also contents about sightseeing spots inside the game and beginner contents.
「……It feels like this kind of magazine is increasing recently.」
All of them were about Pandora.
Yakumo bought one of them and read it in the back office.
As expected she wouldn’t read it while working at the store.
「The game is popular, and being able to relax inside the game using just a short time IRL is also big. Come to think of it, apparently the number of stores with VR machine is also increasing you know? I heard salarymen like to stop by there during their lunch break to relax.」
Such store had existed even before but, the tendency of that was getting even stronger now.
(Adults really have it hard.)
When he thought that he would also become adult one day, the image of him similarly using his lunch break to login into Pandora formed in his mind.
(……It feels like, it’s the outside that is changing dramatically rather than inside Pandora.)
He was already in his second year of high school when he realized it.
He had to think about various things like acquiring qualification for his future.
「The future huh.」
He thought about his future, but it was vague.
There were a lot of paths that he could choose but, none of those paths could be called amazing.
(Guess the real world can’t go like in game. No, I guess it’s also the same inside game.)
Akito was working diligently too today.
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Around that time.
It was inside a dimly lit room. There was no window because it was located underground.
The person who was brought inside that room was Kurita who got fired from the supermarket where he was working.
There were several thuggish looking and tattooed men around him. He was sitting on a sofa while they were watching over him.
A man in suits gave an order to Kurita.
「It’ll be your turn next. Use the second chair.」
There were also many other people sitting on the sofa other than Kurita. Most of them were male.
Among them there were also middle aged women and elderly people.
Kurita was getting cold sweat.
「U-umm, do I really have to do this?」
The man grabbed Kurita’s collar with a dead serious gaze.
「This is so you can pay your debt. If you don’t like it then perhaps you want to go swim with fish instead?」
Kurita shook his head. He then waited for his turn while trembling.
The crowd that was gathered here were people who had difficult time paying for their debt like Kurita. All of them had bad complexion.
One of the thugs reported to the man in suits.
「Please take a look. We are earning this much just from two hours.」
The man in suits were grinning widely.
「The efficiency is great. You’ll be able to pay back your debt pretty quick like this. Good grief, it’s really easy to earn money with this Pandora game.」
The time was past 10 PM. Half of the people who had been sitting on the chair using VR machine until now woke up.
Almost all of them were sweating rivers. Then a cleaner came in and started wiping up the chairs.
The man in suits jerked his chin toward the chairs.
Kurita hurriedly sat on one of the chairs and wore the headset. Then his consciousness went to far away.
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There was a place with complicated path in the Capital of Diligence.
It was a place that the NPCs wouldn’t approach inside this townscape with old-fashioned atmosphere.
That street was a hole within the management’s monitoring. There was a small red-light district that was created by the players there.
Players who were dressed like prostitute were lining up. All of them were using very well polished avatars.
Among them there were also avatars that were using the data of celebrities.
They weren’t avatars that were created by amateur, but professional work that was greatly polished until its every detail.
「W-welcome dear customer~」
Smiling awkwardly was the avatar [Zein Cacus]──no, it was [Hotaru] right now.
The slender avatar was the reproduction of a famous model. She was waving her hand to the player who was ogling her.
「Oi, isn’t she that famous model?」
「Idiot. That’s just an avatar with her look.」
「But, she might be the actual person with how realistic her look is!」
The buildings at the surrounding were buildings that were created using mod.
The design was made to look similar with Pandora’s design, but the surrounding buildings didn’t have any neon lamp, so it made this area looked like a red-light district.
Among them, there were also places that were selling tabaco or alcohol──drug related items.
The players chose their partner one after another and entered inside the building.
(W-what to do? At this rate……)
Hotaru was clinging on a player with a flirty look.
An avatar that was using mod wouldn’t get any warning screen even if they acted too lewdly.
「Mister, I’m a newcomer here. I will get scolded if I don’t get any customer.」
The surrounding players were drooling when they heard that she was a newcomer.
Her outside appearance was that of a model, though that wasn’t the case inside.
The men──players who were also male in the inside were generally showing similar reaction when they got approached by such woman.
「I-I’ll pick you! T-then, will these be enough!? I have twenty of them.」
The player took out paid items.
They were items that would be consumed in great number during event. They were items that could be sold in droves.
「Ee~, please give me at least thirty. I’ll give you a lot of service.」
She had been taught how to respond beforehand.
She tried imitating it awkwardly when doing it for real, but…….
「T-then, I’ll prepare them right away.」
The effect was extraordinary.
All those items costed less than 3000 yen of real money.
She would only earn several thousand yen for several hours of work, but even if she could only earn 10000 yen in one day, it would translate into 80000 yen for just two hours in real life.
In reality it would be difficult to actually earn that many but, one person could earn tens of thousands of yen in a short time.
(Those guys will sell these items with discount price. Not much of it will enter my own pocket but……I’ll be able to earn money really easily like this.)
Hotaru──Kurita was laughing inside his heart.
(I paid that much real money for Pandora. There’s no problem then for me to get at least this much back. No problem at all)
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The night after the part-time work finished.
Akito was checking about the necessary quality for becoming a guild master.
He stretched his body while still sitting on chair.
「As expected things will be hard unless you have clear objective.」
The objective of Akito’s guild was to become [middle ranked guild].
They were aiming to reach the frontline while also wanting to not needing to work that hard for it.
Their guild was a gathering of such players.
「I guess it’ll be no good unless I lower the demand of Lighter’s group a little. Five days……no, four days for the farming is a good number I guess? Well, the point is I need to lower the quota.」
He considered the fundamental rule, manner, etc.
It would be problematic if the guild was too strict.
What was important in the end was that they could have fun playing.
「I need to do something with the presents from Fran-san and Noin-san too. It’s troubling to be given paid items like that.」
It would be fine if it was just one or two, but too many of them was a problem.
「There’s also the problem of Alfie and Mariela too……anyway, I have to give some rest to Blaze-san. I also want the new members to be able to fight boss and gather point……」
When he thought about it, there were a lot of things to do.
(Why am I doing something like being a guild master? It would be easier if I just join an easygoing guild.)
He thought that, but the guild items that they obtained at the beginning were very excellent.
The staff and shield of the elf queen.
Those items also held important memories. He felt hesitant to hand them over to other player.
「Well, let’s just aim to be a guild that isn’t too stiff.」
After he finished with his browsing, he found a topic that caught his attention.
It was the topic of mod.
Akito too was a man.
He was curious so he clicked on the link and found that there were many kinds of mod.
Mod that spread the data of completed avatar based on celebrity and the like for those who weren’t good with creating avatar.
This one was treated as grey zone.
Other than that, there were mods for changing status, or equipment, or item function. Any player that got found out using such mod would have their avatar reset without argument.
In addition the player would be entered into watched list for blacklist.
The management seemed to have little tolerance for such thing. In the worse case, account ban and login restriction would be waiting for the offender.
Among those offenses, erotic related mod had light punishment (relatively).
「Uwaa……amazing.」
There was a picture of an avatar wearing extreme underwear. Akito continued scrolling down to see more pictures and in the end there was the picture of the actual player behind the avatar with their eyes covered by a black bar.
The player was a man, furthermore a middle-aged man.
Horrible comments were filling the space below that post.
「……Awful」
However the poster wrote.
『I uploaded this picture to warn everyone that there are many cases like this, so be careful.』
Such warning was written.
「Are there actually many cases like this? I guess there are.」
Avatar with beautiful appearance was a dime a dozen inside Pandora.
There were also many players like Akito who purposefully used race like orc, even so the handsome men and beautiful women were overwhelmingly in greater number.
「But……it makes me a bit curious.」
However, when he tried searching for the usage of mod, he found out that it required some degree of knowledge to use it and gave up.
(Wait a second? If I take programming qualification, I’ll also get the know how for that kind of thing right?)
Akito checked how much time and fee would be needed to gain such qualification.
Erotic thing……it accelerated human’s zeal.
He found out that as expected, it would be a bit difficult to gain such qualification with his current situation.
(No good huh. Well, I’ll think about it again later.)
Akito gave up about the mod and decided to simply enjoy Pandora normally.
