Chapter 101


    Tranted by X-treme


    Edited by X-treme


    C101: Games, Horror, and Me


    After dinner, I went back to my room to y with Destiny and take some pictures, but when I picked up my phone, themp was glowing.


    “Oh, so I got a call before I went to bed…”


    When I hurriedly turned on my phone to see if it might be an extra job, I found out that the caller was……Makoto. What is it? Is it about work, or is it rted to the “Vige of Destiny”? Either way, I’ll know if I ask, right? I selected his name from the list of contacts, which was no more than two digits, and tapped it.


    “Hello, I just saw that you called me.”


    “Oh, I’m sorry to bother you. I wanted to talk to you about the vige we talked about earlier.”


    Well, I remember bringing up the topic during a break at work. I guess I casually mentioned where everyone was as one of the topics to kill time. The president and Ms. Misaki had never heard of it, but Mr. Yamamoto knew about the old days and the video distributor, so we had a good time with it.


    “Oh, that story.”


    “Since then, I’ve been interested in it, so I looked into it. Some of my friends in the game loved that kind of story. So I heard some information that caught my attention. I’ll send the link to your PC.”


    I received the data from Makoto on my new PC. Five addresses were disyed, and I clicked on the top one. This was the same video distribution site with the suspicious title.


    “It seems that there are a lot of video distributors who take advantage of that video because it went viral, and most of them are just wandering around unrted ces with random spection, but can you take a look at thest one I just sent?”


    “The bottom one?”


    I clicked on it and saw [Finally found! That vige!] in red bold letters that filled up most of the screen.


    “I wasn’t expecting it to be the same as the other one, but the entrance to the tunnel looks exactly like it.”


    To make it easier to understand, he pasted a video clip of a scene from a popr video. If Ipare them side by side, they look like the same ce.


    “I think I’ve hit the jackpot.”


    “Yes, it is. I’m not going to spoil it for you, but the video goes all the way through a pitch-ck tunnel and ends with a scream as soon as you exit the tunnel. I checked his other videos, but the part where he mentioned the location had blown up the sound and the image was distorted, so I couldn’t find the location.”


    “I see. If this is really a promotion for a movie, I’m impressed. I’m starting to want to see the movie.”


    If it entertained me this much, I think it’s worth watching even if the content of the film is dull.


    “Well, um, apparently it’s not for the purpose of promoting a movie, so, um, can you take a look at this too?”


    The next thing I saw was an exchange on an inte forum. It was also this—


    “I’m sure you’ll be able to find something that will help you out.”


    The main purpose of “the forum ” is to collect information about the game, but there are also threads for just talking about useless things. This was one of them, an uninspired thread titled [Is there anything interesting in the game or in real lifetely?]


    It’s such a popr topic. I’m not surprised that it’s being talked about on the forums, but the fact that Makoto took the trouble to tell me about it makes me wonder if there’s something…..about it. I thought it would be quicker to read the article than to question it, so I read through the contents disyed on the screen.


    278: Do you have anything interesting to say?


    279: Let the vige grow.


    280: Now that it’s in a stable period, it’s just peaceful. It seems to be a very remote area, and even the evil gods aren’ting after it, which is a good thing!


    281: If you’re bored, watch a video.


    282: Could that be that? It’s a horror-like thing that went to some vige.


    283: Iryu-Mujin-Vige, right? That was really well done, wasn’t it?


    From there, they talked about the video for a while.


    378: There’s something strange about this vige that bothers me.


    379: What, you too? It’s the same for me. It’s not just a rumor, it’s something that’s bothering me.


    380: I want to say no……but I understand.


    381: You know, maybe it’s because of the name of this vige.


    382: That’s a bit of a stretch, isn’t it?


    This was a bit of a thought for me too. When I first saw the name of the vige, that was the first thing I thought of. The name of the vige fit the situation of the God we were ying. I wanted to dismiss it as a coincidence, but when I remembered all the events I had been involved in, I couldn’t do it.


    383: Stories are more interesting when they’re told in an exaggerated way, so let’s assume that’s what’s going on!


    384: I’m on board with that!


    385: So, if you think it’s rted to the game we’re ying, what is that vige…..?


    386: Could it be that yers from the evil god side are secretly living there?


    387: ……Maybe there are? If they want to abuse the power of miracles, it would be more convenient for yers to cooperate with each other.


    388: It’s rumored that yers over there are all dirty with money. I wonder if they’re running some kind of shadypany there and using it as a front.


    389: But if that were the case, would you name a vige after such an easily associated name?


    “Oh, 384 and 390 is me!”


    I hear a happy voice from the other side of my phone.


    “That’s a good question.”


    In fact, it was a question I had, too. If they’re going to be secretive, what’s the point of naming the vige? Why would we, the yers, give it a name that would ring a bell?…………Maybe?


    391: Isn’t it more like an invitation?


    392: Who are they inviting?


    393: Well, you know, the yers on the Lord God side.


    394: For what purpose?


    395: To make it easier to attack us in the game, to capture and imprison yers who went there?


    There was a yer from the evil side who actually attacked me for real. I can’t ignore this hypothesis. Is it possible that yers from the evil side are really involved?


    396: We’ve been having a lot of fun hypothetically, but there’s no evidence, it’s all spection.


    397: Well, there’s no way to find out. Unless you go to the……site.


    398: Someone should go. I’m definitely not going.


    399: Then I’ll go.


    400: No, I’ll take care of it.


    401: I’ll take care of this.


    402: You thought I was going to say……didn’t you? Stop this trend!


    They seem to be having a light-hearted and fun conversation, but what is this buzzing in my chest? As a person who has experienced real attacks many times, I can’tugh at this conversation.


    403: I can’t help it. Do you want me to perform a miracle for you?


    404: Oh, really? But is there such a thing as a convenient miracle?


    405: You’re just lying to get attention, aren’t you?


    406: You can’t lie on this forum, so I guess not.


    407: My miracle is called “irvoyance”. I can’t see inside buildings, but I can see into any distant ce as long as I know where it is.


    408: Ooh……isn’t that the same as Google Maps?


    409: Don’t put them together! I can see into the most inessible ces.


    410: That’s a satellite photo……


    411: I’m not going to do it for you.


    412: No, no, no. I yed a little too hard. But, you know, how do we find out where it is?


    413: Does irvoyance has to be used in an exact location?


    414: Well, if you know the general location, you might be able to find it by searching the sky.


    415: I’ll take care of that. That’s where my miracle of explorationes in. I’ll exin, the more urate the information about what you want to find out, the better your detection ability will be and the more you can find out where it is!


    Damn, I wish I could have been a part of this conversation in real time. yers working together in using miracles is a hot development.


    434: Not yet. Hey, not yet.


    435: Don’t rush me. I just finished. It’s pointing to the sea pretty far south in Wakayama Prefecture. It’s quite far from the main ind, so I know it looks like……ind. Sorry, this seems to be the limit with the information I have.


    436: OK, that’s all I need to know. It might take a while, but I’m going to try to scour the ind.


    437: I just looked it up on Google, and all the inds in Wakayama Prefecture are close tond. Are there any in remote areas?


    438: It’s pretty far south of Wakayama Prefecture, right? Hmm, inds, inds, inds.


    The other yers cooperated in looking for it, but in the end, they couldn’t find it and the game seemed to be over. I heard that yers who can use “irvoyant” will continue to search for it, so let’s hope for the future.


    However, I hadn’t imagined that the topic would be connected like this. Is there some kind of conspiracy going on behind the scenes? If so, what are the evil gods thinking?


    “What do you think, Yoshio?”


    “That was an interesting story. If there really is an ind and the yers on the evil side are ying tricks on it, it could be quite a big deal, so I’ll look into it myself.”


    Hopefully I can tell the God of Destiny and get some information. From there, Makoto and I talked about work and small things, then I thanked him and hung up the call.


    “I thought it was deep in the mountains, but it’s an ind.”


    I had assumed that the location of Iryu Mujin Vige was somewhere in the mountains in the middle of nowhere, but I had lost sight of the possibility of an uninhabited or remote ind. If it was an ind, it would make sense that it would be hard to find.


    When ites to gathering information on the evil god side, there is one person I know of. But I don’t want to get involved with him, and I don’t know what he’ll demand of me if I owe him anything. If I had to use him, it would be as ast resort.


    I turned my attention to the oldputer screen to take a look at the vige to rest my head, and there – I saw a familiar scene that looked like the entrance to a tunnel.


    “What?”