When I realized it, I was lying on straw.
Why am I on straw?
However, it is definitely straw.
Straw was piled up somewhere in what seemed like a storage shed, and I was lying on it.
Is there a place with straw in Tokyo?
No, why am I in such a place in the first place?
Let me think.
What did I do yesterday?
I remember trying to play some weird online game.
I lost consciousness halfway through...
When I came to, I was on the straw.
I don't really understand what happened.
Is this a game?
A complete virtual reality?
No way.
I've never heard of such a thing.
Moreover, being able to enter the game just by clicking?
That's impossible.
Maybe it's a dream?
"Rumble"
At that moment, something made a whinnying sound.
Whoa, I was startled.
There's something in the shed.
I squinted to see.
A horse.
Huh?
What?
The information "horse" suddenly popped into my head.
It seems there is definitely a horse.
When I got up and approached, there was one horse.
The thickness of its legs and all suggested it wasn't a thoroughbred, but it was a horse.
I don't know much about horse breeds.
The shed was about the size of a one-room apartment.
With one horse in there. What a life.
I want to tell my dad and me, who live in a 4.5 tatami and 6 tatami apartment, to apologize.
But getting angry about it won't do any good, so I looked around.
It was dim, but the sky outside the window was reddish, and a faint light was coming in.
Either a sunset or a sunrise.
There was no sign of anyone around.
There were no windowpanes or wooden windows, and the windows were wide open.
The horse was behaving calmly.
When I thought about it, the information "horse" popped into my head again.
When I thought, "What is this?" the information popped into my head.
Appraisal.
I remembered that.
It was the last skill I added to my character settings in the game yesterday.
I looked at myself and thought, "Appraisal."
Kaga Michio, Male, 17 years old
Villager Lv1
Wow.
The information popped into my head.
Kaga Michio is my name.
So, this is undoubtedly the game from yesterday.
A complete virtual reality, I guess.
But how?
I didn't even register a name.
I was wearing the same tracksuit I wore yesterday.
My usual loungewear.
Reproduced in the game?
If it's equipment, sure, but a tracksuit?
And I'm barefoot.
The temperature is neither hot nor cold.
This outfit isn't a problem, but going outside barefoot is.
The shed was a bit brighter than before, and I saw something like sandals.
When I thought, "What is this?" the information popped into my head again.
Sandals, Foot Equipment
I decided to put them on.
Since I had no socks, I put them on barefoot.
I tied the laces to keep them from falling off.
When I thought about my body, the information popped into my head.
Kaga Michio, Male, 17 years old
Villager Lv1, Thief Lv1
Equipment: Durandal, Sandal Boots
...
Thief Lv1, huh.
Sorry. I equipped something that isn't mine.
I ended up getting a second job in a strange place.
By the way, the tracksuit doesn't count as equipment.
Maybe because it's something I brought from outside the game.
By the way, I remember there was a bonus equipment.
I searched the room and found a sword next to the straw.
Durandal, Two-Handed Sword
Skills: Attack Power x5, HP Absorption, MP Absorption, Interrupt Casting, Ignore Level Correction, Ignore Defense
Sure enough, it's a bonus weapon six.
It seems to have a tremendous power.
Next to the sword, there was a ring.
Ring of Resolve, Accessory
Skills: Increased Attack Power, Enhanced Against Humans
The accessory two also has some decent skills.
I put on the ring and picked up the sword.
Kaga Michio, Male, 17 years old
Villager Lv1, Thief Lv1
Equipment: Durandal, Sandal Boots, Ring of Resolve
So, this is definitely a game.
The bonus weapon I chose in the character settings is here, so it's certain.
I don't know how they achieved the virtual reality, though.
I decided to go outside the horse shed.
I stuck Durandal into my tracksuit belt like a samurai.
I shouldn't stay here too long, or I might get caught for stealing the sandals.
The outside landscape looked like a rural village.
There were a few wooden single-story houses and vegetable gardens around.
To the east, where the sun was, there were fields, and to the north, a forest loomed.
Even though the sun wasn't fully up yet, the villagers were already active.
Two people were walking down the road.
I hurriedly hid behind the horse shed.
I'm not sure if I needed to hide.
But I don't know where I am.
It's better to be cautious.
I did steal the sandals, after all.
I peeked at the two people from my hiding spot.
Zaian, Male, 38 years old
Villager Lv8
Ganack, Male, 35 years old
Villager Lv7
Their information.
First, they don't have last names.
They must be non-player characters.
Their levels aren't very high, but maybe they're set that way.
After all, I'm only Lv1.
I decided to enter the forest from the side of the horse shed and observe the village.
I might be able to go out in front of the villagers without any problems, but given the circumstances...
The village extends quite a bit to the southwest.
There are about thirty to forty houses.
In the middle, there are some two-story and three-story houses.
I monitored the people coming out of the houses.
Villager Lv11
Villager Lv4
Farmer Lv5
Oh, this person isn't a villager.
The person next to them looks like a wife, but the woman is Villager Lv6.
I can't tell the difference between villagers and farmers.
There should be a tutorial somewhere in the game.
If I didn't have Appraisal, I wouldn't know anything.
I continued to monitor.
Farmer Lv2
Villager Lv7
Villager Lv25
This old man has the highest level.
If I want to talk to someone, it should be this person with the highest level.
Or maybe I should talk to someone with a lower level.
Village Chief Lv8
The village chief has a slightly lower level. He's sixty-eight years old.
Merchant Lv6
Is it a traveling merchant or a store in the village?
They came out of a three-story house and went back in immediately.
Merchant Lv3
This time, it was a woman.
She came out of the three-story house and went to the well.
If they are a couple, then this house must be a store.
Talking to a merchant might be a good idea.
As I was thinking about this, a loud voice suddenly echoed through the village.