Iām a corporate slave who is employed at a company.
I played games as a hobby, but I have been so busy recently that I have not been able to play at all for a while.
And in spite of being so busy, my salary shows no signs of increasing.
ā¦In other words, itās one of those evil corporations.
It happened one midnight.
I was dealing with some work, that I had brought back home with me, when an unfamiliar window popped up on my pc screen.
The window had the following message:
You have been summoned to another world!
Press YES if you accept. If you wish to refuse, press NO.
A lack of a response will be recognized as YES.
āHm? ā¦Whatās this? A virus?ā
This message sounded like some kind of joke.
It didnāt even have the X button on the top right that would allow me to close the window.
The only buttons that existed here were the YES and NO buttons.
I was quite sure that it didnāt matter which one I clicked. Both buttons would take me to some scam site for sure.
My anti-virus software was up to date, and I was always careful to avoid suspicious URLs. So how had this happened?
In any case, there was only one thing to do.
I would find the program in the task manager and stop it.
That was the normal way.
It should have beenā¦
āUhhā¦what?ā
Unfortunately, there was no virus-like program to be found.
In that case, the only thing to doā¦is to restart.
I clicked the mouse several times and rebooted the pc.
Thankfully, there was nothing preventing the computer from doing this, and the pcās power was shut off just like I had orderedā¦but then it happened.
āNo replyā¦ You have therefore consented.ā
My vision suddenly became very dark, and those words appeared in front of me.
This all happened very suddenly, and I started to panic.
I must be overworked and Iām going to faintā¦no, not really. I knew what it was like to collapse from being overworked, and it always ended with me losing consciousness and waking up in a hospital bed.
So that meant thatā¦ Ah, this was a dream.
Just as I came to this conclusion, something happened that made me sure that this was just a dream.
My surroundings suddenly turned to that of a forest.
This in itself was unbelievable, but then something even more unbelievable appeared in front of my eyes.
ā¦It was a status window.
Yuji
Job: Tamer
Skill: Taming
Attributes: None
HP 10/10
MP 10/10
Hmm. Definitely a dream.
Something like this wouldnāt appear in reality.
Apparently, I must have fallen asleep in front of my computer.
A Tamerā¦I guess it was that thing where you used monsters to fight.
A monster tamer in Japanese.
Unfortunately, my job has nothing to do with taming. Iām a corporate slave.
Well then, I should wake up.
I still have work to do.
Thinking this, I tried to wake myself upā¦but showed no signs of being able to do so.
Thisā¦I guess I had to give up for now.
If I stayed up for three nights straight, I could still make it before the deadline.
Luckily, I had my alarm clock set to 6 AM just in case I fell asleep like this.
Staying up for three nights straight would be hard, but I had stayed up for four nights in the past, so it was possible.
As I thought about this, a circular, clear blob appeared in front of my eyes.
Not only that, but it was moving like a living creatureā¦it was a living creature.
I had never seen such a thing beforeā¦but I had an idea of what it was called.
Because I had seen them in different games before.
It wasā¦a slime.
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