phase 001 [video/action]

[checkingmyemail]

[Haseo’s face appears onscreen and he does not look amused.] What the hell is going on? I know that I’m not in The World, but I still look like my PC. [He frowns.] This isn’t an error or anything… It can’t be AIDA either, because all of that should be gone. So why don’t I look the way I do in real life? [He sighs.] Whatever this is, it isn’t funny

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[hasavision]

PC? Player character? And you already know about Pokémon too?

[Is there seriously someone here who knows video games too-?!]

[checkingmyemail]

Yeah. Placer character. For some reason I look like mine.

I do. I played the games when I was younger.

[hasavision]

So... you look like a video game character?

[He kind of wants to say 'lucky' at this point, but he holds it back.]

I played it, too! But it wasn't too long ago for me. But it doesn't look like so many of the people here have played them...

[checkingmyemail]

Yeah. I look like my character from The World. [He pauses. No one here has heard of it before.] ...It's an MMO.

It's probably because everyone here's from different worlds, where they don't have video games.

[hasavision]

[Wataru nods. He doesn't play any MMOs, but he knows what they are. He'll have to look out for that one when if when he goes home for real.]

Except some people who said they were from Earth haven't heard of it, either. Er... You are from Earth, right?

[checkingmyemail]

Yeah. I'm from Japan.

[hasavision]

...! Really? That's where I'm from, too!

[checkingmyemail]

Oh? What part?

[hasavision]

Koto ward, in eastern Tokyo! What about you?

[checkingmyemail]

I also live in Tokyo.

[hasavision]

That's so cool! I didn't think I'd see anyone from my world here, especially from somewhere so close!

[checkingmyemail]

Yeah. Especially with all of the different worlds this place is pulling people from.

[hasavision]

Yeah... and I wasn't even in my own world before I came here, either. It was really confusing to go from Vision to a place I thought was just a video game, and find out everyone here is from different worlds on top of that.

[checkingmyemail]

Yeah. It's already confusing enough to just be here.

... Vision?

[hasavision]

[A nod.] That's the world I was in when I got sent here.

[checkingmyemail]

Huh. What was it like?