Chapter 28(End of Stage 2, Part 1)

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(The prize money of BOG is in U.S dollars. But since Karma is in Japan, I am going to use Yen as a currency when he is back in the real world.)

I walk outside with Reina and En.

"Guys!!" Exclaims Ika once she sees us, she runs to Reina and hugs her.

She then looks at En and smiles too.
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"So what are we supposed to do now?" Says Reina.

En taps at my shoulder and brings a small whiteboard with a marker.

"Oh, En has something to show us," I say.

?

Reina and Ika walk over to see what's up.

We look at what En drew on the whiteboard and was puzzled for a second. It shows a defensive system and an alarm system that can be put into place using the materials in this base.

Oh!!

"Ah! I get it!" I exclaim. "En says we should use this base as ours for now. After all, it's empty now and it is in an area avoided by many players so the chance of us being found will be very low."
"Oh...i see."

En then takes out her notebook and writes something: "We need someone to go outside and set the alarm sensors around the base parameters of up to a 100m radius."

The girls started staring at me.

"What."

En then pulls a radioactive yellow protective suit and shove it into my face.

"Okay okay, I'm doing it!!" I say.
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System announcement:

The first part of stage 2 is coming to an end.

Players will be able to exit the game shortly.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about this.

"What's going on?" Says Reina.

"Oh uh, to prevent too much stress and workload in our brain, stages are divided into different parts. Each part consists of 5 days of in-game time."

"Oh, the previous stage ended early so there weren't any second part." Says Ika.
"Yeah...we sort of got carried by Karma..."

...

"Oh yeah, we haven't used our blessing skills on you yet, should we use it?" Says Reina.

I shake my head. "Until I can find a way to gain lots of stats faster, let's not waste it. Besides, it should be around lvl 3 now, right?"

Both of them nods.

"Good. Then that's more of a reason not to waste. I will see you all tomorrow." I say.
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Player off mode.

The system is switching off...success.
Disconnection with the brain...success.
Safety precautions check...success.
Mental Health check...stable.

User "Karma" will now be logged out.
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...

I open my eyes as I yawn.

This damn alarm is annoying.

My phone rang at that moment and I answered.

"Hello..."
"Oh! Uh, it's Reina."
"Oh...hi Reina...*yawns* what's up."
"You sound tired?"
"Yeah, I am, get to the point."

"Oh um, En wanted to call all of us together to her house and strategize for the second part of the stage." Says Reina.

"Oh don't worry about that, the next part starts 5 days later on the weekends. BOG always starts on the weekend so that it doesn't disrupt our lives too much and we can still go to school, work, etc."

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