Log Horizon - Shiroe's sister

Chapter 23

"Conversation~"

Thinking thoughts

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Shiroe felt that Serara is a cheerful and nice girl.

How old is she?  Shiroe wondered.

In this world, your face was affected by your face in the real world depending on your Race, but your body size and appearance were determined by the game data. So, one shouldn't assume anyone's age by their height as that would be rude and probably wrong as well.

Shiroe learned about this from the experience with Akatsuki.

From Serara's manner of speech, she didn't sound elderly.

High school, or maybe middle school?

Elder Tales was a monthly subscription game, so the average age group was higher than free to play games. But that was only the average, it was not surprising for middle-schoolers to play this game.

If I recall, the twins were also about this age.

The chain of events in the rescue mission had tensed Shiroe up, so maybe it was because the tedious part of the quest was over, or maybe it was the celebratory mood and the food, but Shiroe reminisced of the time before the Apocalypse.

Shiroe knew the twins back when Elder Tales was just a game world.

Shiroe was a unique solo player since a high-level Enchanter could only be described as unique, based in Akiba, living his daily life in Elder Tales.

After the Debauchery Tea Party dissolved and Rinne was focusing on her studies for her final year in high school, Shiroe became a true roaming player. This was not a negative description, as he enjoyed this type of gaming life.

In the town centre of Akiba, there were people recruiting parties for raids everywhere, using the game server chat channels.

Shiroe would sometimes join a group using this method, or join friends like Maryele in their quests, or even go by himself to explore or collect treasures.

Shiroe's subclass was Scribe, a production class, with the ability to duplicate scrolls, maps, and magic tomes.

In Elder Tales, production was the transformation of ingredients into items, so getting raw ingredients was an important step.

For Scribes, the ingredients were paper and ink.

For normal scrolls, the cheapest ingredients would do. But for high-level magic tomes, you would need ink with magic properties. Making special ink was also the job of Scribes, which needed ingredients like dragon's blood or rare minerals. If you wanted to get rare ingredients, you would need to travel to different places and defeat monsters.

Even with the Debauchery Tea Party gone or not dragging Shiroe adventuring around anymore, Shiroe was still busy with all sorts of business.

As Shiroe was living his daily gaming life, the twins were the ones to approach him.

"Nii-chan, Nii-chan, please wait a minute!"

"Excuse me, I'm very sorry. Is it convenient for you to talk? We want to find out something."

The twins were only up to Shiroe's shoulder in height. The boy wore cheap armor with a sword on his back. The girl wore white robes, holding a staff with bells on it.

"No problem, what's the matter?" Shiroe remembered that it was in a crowded area of Akiba.

Judging by their equipment, the twins were beginners, using default weapons.