Log Horizon - Shiroe's sister

Chapter 14 (Edited)

"Conversation~"

Thinking thoughts

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This world had recreated the settings of Elder Tales wonderfully, but Elder Tales was a game, not a journey to experience an alternate world. There was no sleep or pain in the Elder Tales game, and this world was not a game.

Even though it inherited the settings and logic of Elder Tales, Shiroe believed they should treat this as a totally different alternate world. Since the first day of the Apocalypse, Shiroe had felt a deep sense of unease, telling himself it would be a big mistake to underestimate this world of Elder Tales.

Everyone forgot about something important and wants to move on without confirming it. But no one knows what is really happening. Even if this is really related to Elder Tales, this is still an alternate world... Rin is right, maybe that's why everybody is acting so strangely.

Security didn't really turn bad.

Saying security was turning bad seemed to imply security was good before, which was not true. If you treated this as an alternate world independent from Elder Tales, then security did not exist in this world in the first place.

The non-combat zones were the only places that were close to being safe. This seemed to be a shallow sign to prove that the Elder Tales' settings still existed.

But this restriction was not the same as laws.

There was no security in the first place, so it couldn't have deteriorated.

This was a lawless world.

Akatsuki understood this point.

However, she still talked softly to herself, even though she understood.

Were her emotions wavering in the depths of her serious eyes?

I can't tell... Shiroe couldn't see through Akatsuki's thoughts.

It might be unease, homesickness or even despair. But if you searched in Shiroe's heart, he thought you would find frustration.

This was the reflection of his heart.

The irritation that things turned out this way. The subject when she said 'Will it always be like this' was this world, but it could also refer to 'us'.

Is this the best we can do? Are we being looked down on? We are killing each other, racketing, crying, and despairing over trivial things.

"Would we immediately turn into backstabbing villains when thrown onto a lawless plain?" Shiroe mumbled to himself but Rinne heard it.

"No, it won't. At the very least, not all humans will be like that. I believe that once we have thought of something that could allow players to live in peace in this world, it will be better than now" Rinne answered Shiroe with confidence.

Shiroe heard Rinne's answer and smile.

Yes. That's why we would fall in despair in order to understand and overcome this madness.

As Shiroe was distracted with such thoughts, Naotsugu tapped his back.

"You would help if your family is sobbing, right? That is common sense. Even if those guys are unsightly, we have no reason to dance to their tune."

Shiroe didn't want to accept that he had drifted into an unsightly, dull, and boring world beyond redemption. There must be something cool and flashy out here like during the time with the Debauchery Tea Party.