Prologue
Haruyuki just stared at the steel hole with six counterclockwise spirals with his pig avatar’s eyes.
There was nothing in the surrounding space. White floor and walls. A huge room sealed with a white ceiling.
In the center of the room floated a steel-blue, large automatic pistol. The slide with hairlines, the grip carved with checker rings, all showing overwhelming weight and density, sent out a cold feeling, but of course it’s not real. The reason you wouldn’t be able to tell the maker or modeler’s name is, it is just a substitute Haruyuki made with randomly selected polygon gun parts.
But it can shoot. With that intention, it pointed between the eyes of Haruyuki’s avatar who stood just 20 meters away.
After referring to the book manuals to create this VR training application, on his first dive, Haruyuki was very disappointed with the dull white room. He really wanted it to be the roof of a high rise building, and the pistol held by a dark suited hitman, but making that would be too much for a poor middle school student gamer.
If he asked his upperclassman and mentor for help, no matter what kind of set, it would be easily built. However, Haruyuki did not do that. He is afraid of her asking why he would do this kind of beginner training at this time. The result, was an eye irritatingly pure white room with just one brusque handgun floating, an ultra dull substitute.
But, after actually using it, it might be better this way.
Because there was nothing aside from himself other than the gun. This made him only have to concentrate on the gun muzzle.
The pink pig avatar squatted, extended both hands slightly, and Haruyuki earnestly stared at the black hole.
He lost the feeling of time. He could not remember how many minutes he had been in that position. This application’s specification is very simple. After diving and saying “Startâ€, with a five second countdown, the pistol will automatically aim at Haruyuki, and from that instant on, it will randomly fire within 30 minutes.
Of course, in the real world nothing could be done and he would die, but this is a virtual space made within the Neuro Linker. At the instant he sees the handgun muzzle flare, if he reacts within the shortest time, he would be able to dodge it, since he already checked the bullet speed and distance.
However, the problem is the he has no idea when the gun muzzle will flare within the 30 minutes. Different from the virtual squash game, there is no information provided like reading the ball’s path and timing. The only thing he could do, was to open his eyes wide, and keep up his concentration.
However that is a difficult thing. He has no faith in his long term concentration. A month earlier when he started this training, after just two or three minutes he relaxed, and started playing «Senpai Album» in his mind with a small idle smile, so he was shot without mercy by the unseen hitman.
But for Haruyuki, since this is a self made application, he perversely continued the training.
Since the opponent is just one immovable pistol. In that «Field» - veteran fighters use many fearsome skills to continually fight for 30 minutes of «Duel», compared to that, this can be said to be an easy thing. In Haruyuki’s plan, one month later the handguns would be increased to five. However, he is currently having a hard time with just one shot from the single gun.
No talent. He understood that from the start.
However, if training cannot help him improve, then that would mean the «Top» - next to that person, will be forever denied to him.
