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"Eh eh eh, a transparent panel appeared in front of me?!"
Chihaya Anon exclaimed.
"I saw it too." Takamatsu Tomori said in surprise, reaching out to touch the air in front of her. "I can't touch it at all, it's as if it doesn't exist."
"Steady, don't panic." Kitahara Makoto said calmly, "Click confirm with your mind."
"A mind isn't a mouse, how can it click anything…" Chihaya Anon complained while subconsciously trying, "Eh? It actually works?!"
As all three clicked confirm, lines of text quickly refreshed on the virtual panel in front of them.
[Team formed]
[Current team members: Three]
[Game loading…]
[Randomizing game identities…]
[Injuries or zero HP in the game will not affect the body in reality. Have a pleasant game.]
[Load successful]
The next second.
Kitahara Makoto only felt his vision suddenly plunge into darkness, and a sensation of weightlessness, like being in an elevator, suddenly struck him.
Fortunately, it lasted only a brief moment before the reassuring sensation of solid ground returned under his feet.
Opening his eyes, Kitahara Makoto found himself in a lush green forest, with two pixel light points rapidly gathering and growing beside him, quickly transforming into two girls.
They were Chihaya Anon and Takamatsu Tomori.
Unlike in reality, the two girls were no longer wearing ordinary clothes, but had directly adopted their game character appearances.
For example, Tomori was wearing a magician's hooded robe, holding a magic staff taller than herself, as if she would sway off balance at any moment.
And Chihaya Anon, the pink-haired girl, had a pair of white Beast Ears growing on her head, a fluffy Beast Tail behind her, and was wearing a combat suit that allowed for easy movement, directly revealing her fair, slender, delicate waist, with sharp claw knives equipped on her hands…
"Ahhhhhh! So amazing!"
Chihaya Anon was full of excitement, looking left and right: "It's like we've really entered another world!"
"In a sense, this is indeed another world."
Kitahara Makoto replied while checking his equipment.
In his right hand was a dull, blunt sword, and in his left, a small wooden shield… Sure enough, he was the hero character in the game, no doubt about it.
Although he couldn't enter the game alone last night, Kitahara Makoto had looked up relevant information online and already had a general understanding of the game.
As an explicit game, the selling point was naturally the female characters; there was only one male character, and that was the nameless hero in the game.
According to the entry, when players loaded the game, they would randomly receive a game identity that matched their gender.
There was only one male character, the hero, in the game, so 'random' actually meant one hundred percent.
There were many female game character images: mages, archers, female swordswomen, priests, succubi, fox spirits… and some hidden characters, an extremely large number in total.
"Tomori should be a mage now, right?" Chihaya Anon's voice was curious. "Such a big magic staff, is it heavy to hold?"
"No, it feels similar to a school bag, and the texture is exactly like real wood." Takamatsu Tomori held up the staff in her hand, her eyes sparkling as she said, "Anon's tail… so cute."
It proved that Tomori not only liked stars and bugs, but also other cute things.
"Eh?"
Takamatsu Tomori turned her head to look behind her, and upon seeing the fluffy white tail, she was immediately shocked:
"Ki-Kitahara-kun! Why do I have a tail?!"
"Making a fuss over nothing." Kitahara Makoto said as a matter of course, "The game's name is "devil world adventure"; it's normal to have a few non-human characters, right?"
"That sounds somewhat reasonable… No, it doesn't!"
Chihaya Anon couldn't help but shout:
"Why is Tomori a cute mage, and I'm a beastkin?!"
"I told you before entering the game that you would be randomly assigned a game character." Kitahara Makoto shrugged, "I can only say you have a connection with Beast Ear Girls today."
Chihaya Anon: "..."
Could it be that she rubbed the Hana too much, which is why she turned into a beast girl?
"Anon, can I touch your tail?"
Takamatsu Tomori's eyes sparkled.
"No..." Chihaya Anon instinctively refused, "It would feel really strange."
Kitahara Makoto said from the side:
"Does a tail really have feeling?"
"Hmm..." Chihaya Anon blinked, reached back, and brought her tail to the front of her body, "There's only a very faint sensation."
Kitahara Makoto suggested:
"Try running a few steps and see if it affects your balance."
"Oh..."
Chihaya Anon tried running a few steps, and a look of surprise quickly appeared on her face: "My body feels so light. If I participated in the school sports meet, I could definitely get first place in track and field."
"So it doesn't affect movement." Kitahara Makoto retracted his gaze. "Never mind the tail for now, let's check our respective abilities first."
"How do we check?"
"Just mentally say 'character panel'."
"..."
Kitahara Makoto opened his game character panel.
"Identity: Hero"
"Current Level: 1"
"Experience: 0 / 100"
"Attributes: ..."
"Weapons: Bladeless Sword, Novice Wooden Shield"
"Skill: Heroic Holy Sword"
"Ability Description: After activating the Hero's Holy Sword, movement speed will be temporarily increased. The next attack will deal additional physical damage and apply a silence effect, interrupting enemy spellcasting."
"Good heavens, the Japanese RPG game vibe just hit full throttle."
Kitahara Makoto clicked his tongue softly:
"It's just this skill, why does it feel vaguely familiar..."
Before long, Chihaya Anon and Takamatsu Tomori had also finished looking at their respective attributes.
Levels, needless to say, were all one. Each person's attribute focus was different. For example, Kitahara Makoto's specialty attribute was stamina, Chihaya Anon's wolf-girl agility was stronger, and Takamatsu Tomori's mage character had a longer mana bar.
Besides that, everyone's skills were also different.
Chihaya Anon's skill was Slash, a standard melee skill that allowed for quick assaults and dealt slashing damage with her claws, making her a mobile assassin.
Takamatsu Tomori's ability was Water Bullet Technique, a Water Bullet Technique right from the start.
Bang.
Kitahara Makoto clenched his fist and punched a large tree by the roadside.
"Eh?" Chihaya Anon looked over curiously, "Kitahara-kun, what are you doing?"
"Testing if there's any pain." Kitahara Makoto explained, "It's not bad, the pain is very slight, feels about the same as a mosquito bite."
Chihaya Anon tried it herself: "There's actually still pain? I thought it wouldn't hurt at all."
"Pain is actually a protective mechanism of the human body. Not feeling any pain at all would be very dangerous." Kitahara Makoto tried walking a few steps into the forest, then quickly retreated, "The forest is full of thorns, so it's clearly impossible to explore. It seems to be a linear game, not an open world. We can only follow the path beneath our feet... Let's go, time to fight monsters and level up."
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