Chapter 9.1

CRASH!!!

With the sound of the status window breaking, I felt that the intangible matter that was restricting my whole body finally disappeared.

I’m free!

‘Is this how an escaped prisoner feels?’

Although my mouth was dripping with blood, I opened my arms at the smell of freedom for the very first time after more than two weeks.

“Edith.”

Curtis, who thought I was going to fall down again, was looking down at me with a strange face.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I must’ve looked insane.”

I walked past Curtis, barely able to raise my staggering body.

“I have some urgent business to attend to, so I’ll go ahead.”

“Edith!”

I hurried out of the room, Curtis’ call falling on deaf ears.

* * *

“Hey, please call 119.”

After asking the maid where Jian was, I found her room and opened the door without knocking.

“119. Please call me 136-18 Oogu-dong, Ilsan-dong, Goyang-si.”

“What?”

I hurriedly opened my mouth as I turned to Jian’s bewildered face.

“Hurry up! I’m stuck in the game.”

“…what are you talking about, Young Lady?”

Jian only tilted her head with a puzzled face, even though what I said was pretty easy for any player to understand.

“How does the Young Lady know of 119? Oh! Do you also call 119 for emergencies in this world?”

“No! That’s not it! I’m a game player like you!”

“What do you mean, Young Lady? I don’t know how to play games because I’m not good at it.”

My jaw dropped when Jian answered with a slow blink of her docile eyes.

Since Jian wasn’t a game player, then who was controlling Jian, the main character?

UNITA, which received investment from its parent company, invested a huge amount of capital and ambitiously prepared <Experience! Scenes of Life> series with each NPC in the game given artificial intelligence. NPCs respond naturally to the player’s behavior to some extent.

‘But since the main character is directly controlled by the player, she can’t be made with artificial intelligence!’

“…I could really die. It’s been over a week since I got stuck in the game.”

In the end, Jian only tilted her head despite my desperate pleas and my teary eyes.

“Young Lady, I don’t understand what you’re talking about. I heard you collapsed again. Are you still dizzy?”

I grabbed her shoulders, raising my head at the sound of her gentle voice.

“School!”

“What?”

“Which high school did you go to?”

Jian was the main character, she must be…

“Uh, Uni High School. By the way, do high schools in this world exist too?”

I slumped in my seat as I heard her answer.

Uni High School… All characters of <Experience! Scenes of Life> series were all Uni High School graduates. Uni High School was a fictional school created by UNITA production.

‘But I’ve never heard of UNITA producing Kim Jian’s character with artificial intelligence.’

No matter how rich UNITA was, it took a huge amount of money to develop artificial intelligence.

‘I made a lot of comments with that, and if the main character was included with artificial intelligence, it would have certainly been promoted.’

Goosebumps made me shiver and I had to wrap my hands around the back of my neck.

‘Is this not a game world?’

<SYSTEM> The deadline for the first quest is approaching.

<SYSTEM> Did you find out the identity of Jian?

YES

NO

As if reading my mind at the right time, a system window popped over Jian’s flustered face.

‘Yeah, there’s nothing more I could lose here anyway.’

Nodding my head as I swallowed a wad of saliva, I entered [Kim Jian] in the input window that hovered in the air.

<SYSTEM> You have entered the identity, ‘Jian’, ‘Kim Jian’.

<SYSTEM> You have entered the correct answer.

Congratulations on completing the <SYSTEM> quest.

The whole room turned black with a ringing sound that indicated the correct answer. In the pitch-black darkness where nothing could be seen, the sound of clicking heels echoed.

“Oh, you’ve finally completed the first quest. I was beginning to worry a little about the delay, but I’m glad.”

The languid voice belonged to Helper. I found him looking around as he fiddled with his well-polished monocle.

“This world is <Experiene! Scenes of Life>!” I screamed in frustration, “You said that the time flow in reality is different!”

When I saw his cheeky face – which I once had admired before for being a handsome one – my anger skyrocketed.

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