The Big Boss of Cosplay in the World of Honkai Impact 3rd Chapter 12

"Eh..."

Li Pu walked up to the hibernation pod. No matter how he looked at it, he felt like this thing was full of unspeakable secrets. It felt full of sci-fi, and full of villainous vibes.

"This... immersive learning... how does it work?" Li Pu was still a little resistant.

"You know in some sci-fi novels," Li Yiyi said, pushing up her glasses. "Those full-dive VRMMOs? Well, the protagonist needs to enter a game pod, and then they can start playing."

"Control their own character with their own thoughts."

"Sword Art Online, the NerveGear! I know that thing!" Li Pu exclaimed, clapping his hands. "Could this be that?"

"Although I don't know Sword Art Online," Li Yiyi said, sounding a bit disdainful, "this thing is far more powerful than the NerveGear! This thing can perfectly simulate almost everything in reality."

"Oh~" Li Pu's eyes lit up. "So... in that case, this is a large-scale gaming peripheral?"

"I haven't heard of anything this advanced before."

"This is military equipment. The army uses this for training," Li Yiyi explained. "The danger lies in the fact that the simulation is too realistic. If you die in the game, you'll lose your brainwaves in reality."

"To put it simply, you'll die."

"But to be precise, you'd only become a vegetative state, a vegetative state with a very high chance of recovery."

"Eh..." Li Pu took a step back. "Then this... I..."

Ten thousand yuan for a life, isn't that a bit too cheap?!

"Don't worry, we're here," Li Yiyi comforted him. "It's very safe for now. The main issue is that if the simulation is too low in realism, it won't achieve the learning objective, but if the simulation is too high in realism, it will lead to the severe consequences I just mentioned."

"Our goal is to reconcile these two contradictions, and before you suffer those severe consequences..."

"We'll wake you up! You don't have to worry about dying."

Chapter Nineteen: Let's Not Say Anything Else

Real-scene teaching, unity of knowledge and action, organically combining education, learning, and practice.

In short, to put it simply.

In order for students to adapt to the harsh realities of society after leaving school, the school intends to personally intervene!

To beat you up in advance!

This is the purpose of this batch of equipment used for 'learning'. To let students fully experience the cruelty of society, to organically combine the knowledge they have learned with social events, to allow students to grow healthily, and to not be deceived by the tempting reality of society in the future.

So the teachers decided to deceive you first and beat you up!

This is the purpose and meaning of the existence of the learning device.

To create a virtual scenario that is very close to real society within the controllable range of the teachers, so that they can experience the malice of society in advance and grow more robustly.

Regarding this, it's really...

"Good idea, please be gentle with me," Li Pu said, stretching his lips stiffly, forcing out a smile that looked even uglier than bitterness. "I already know what social reality is, and I've been beaten by social reality and felt the malice of this society. So please, make sure I have a good dream."

"Don't worry, this is just a test," Li Yiyi said. "Just think of it as a virtual game."

"Then what kind of virtual game is this?" Li Pu asked, pulling on the edge of the hibernation pod with both hands. "Can you tell me?"

"It's the kind of amazing, amazing~ wish-fulfillment request," Li Yiyi said with a smile to reassure him.

"Really? You're not lying to me, are you?" Li Pu still stiffened his body.

"Lie down!!!"

This time, Li Yiyi really couldn't take it anymore. Where did they find this test subject? Didn't they say it was probably, maybe, not entirely safe?

She really didn't have the patience to talk more with this guy.

She suddenly became stern, even a little scary, and said, "Hurry up and lie down! Are you even a man or not!"

"Stop being a wimp! This is St. Freya Academy! Although there are some safety issues, this is also very safe."

"Hurry up and lie down, do you understand?!"

"I understand."

Li Pu gave up. I'm the meat on the chopping block, and you're the knife. I've already signed the contract, what else can I do? This isn't that deadly game from Sword Art Online, is it...

Probably...

He lay down and watched the lid close, watched something cover his head.

He watched the world turn completely dark, and then the world suddenly became clear.

And then...

"Is this a stable?"

Li Pu suddenly found himself lying on some straw. He was wearing a coarse linen outfit, also seemingly made of linen. He seemed to be lying in a corner of a horse stable, with two fine horses beside him.

He...

He might not be able to feel it properly, but his chest felt a little tight, and there was a sense of emptiness below...

"Hey!"

Suddenly, a young boy with blond hair, blue eyes, and some freckles on his face, holding a wooden bucket, two brushes, and some tools Li Pu had never seen before, shouted and threw all of it in front of Li Pu.

"Stop being lazy like a pig and get up, Knight-sama is going out today."

"Hurry up and get the horses ready."

Li Pu looked at the pile of things thrown at him. What were these? Cleaning tools!

"Why… why do I end up being a cleaner everywhere I go?" Li Pu sighed. "Is this… a medieval version of a life in another world that starts with being a cleaner?"

"What are you rambling about?" the boy with blonde hair and freckles on his face said. "It'll be late if we don't hurry. If Knight-sama isn't happy…"

"You'll get spanked, but I don't want to!"

This wasn't a good dream, but it wasn't a nightmare either. At least it was much better than what he imagined, where the moment he appeared, there would be guns, swords, and bloodshed.

Li Pu shouldered the mop and picked up the bucket, saying, "I know, I know."

"So I'm just a cleaner. I'll just treat it as a beginner's quest."

"Anyway…"

It's all the same, being a cleaner everywhere.

And this…

"Is… is this the legendary King Arthur?"

As soon as Li Pu entered this 'dream,' a golden figure was standing in front of the main control hall screen. The maid outfit girl standing next to him looked confusedly at the screen, at what looked nothing like a king's work.

"What do you think King Arthur should be doing during this period of history?" the blonde-haired man asked while drinking coffee. "Rita."

"Shouldn't he be learning swordsmanship?" Rita replied respectfully. "Or combat? Or knightly etiquette?"

"Not at all," Otto shook his head, his eyes shining as he looked at the display on the screen in front of him. "Starting as a page boy at seven, he wouldn't directly come into contact with these things."

"He'd do chores until he was 14, when he'd be promoted to squire. Only then would he start learning swordsmanship."

"But he'd still have to clean horses, maintain armor, and so on."

"Only at 21 would he officially become a knight."

"Times are different, and some things and practices will vary," Otto said. "But the basic situations are still somewhat similar."

"At this age, he's not an official knight yet, so doing these chores is very normal."

"And have you forgotten?" Otto retorted. "King Arthur was the child secretly taken away and protected by Merlin. Do you think she would be in a pampered position?"

"So this is very normal."

The blonde-haired boy on the screen, or rather, the girl disguised as a boy, was cleaning stables and horses, maintaining armor, and practicing swordsmanship with a wooden sword alongside another boy.

"It should be almost time."

Otto said, "It won't take too long. I'll have Mei come over in a bit…"

"No, prepare a separate activity room," Otto said, taking a sip of coffee. "Let him spar with Mei."

"Sparring?" Rita looked at the clumsy 'boy' on the screen swinging his wooden sword at a wooden dummy and said, "Is this okay?"

"Hokushin Itto-ryu, Li Pu can't possibly win against that."

"Even if he's the reincarnation of King Arthur."

"Don't underestimate the memories of the soul too much," Otto said, finishing his coffee in one gulp. "The changes brought about by gradually awakening his soul's memories are not insignificant."

"Go and prepare." Otto stood up, his hands behind his back, looking at the clumsy 'boy' on the screen.

"The outcome of this match is not yet determined. Tell Mei that during the swordsmanship spar…"

"Make sure to go all out!"

Chapter 20: This Feels Not Bad At All

"This game isn't fun at all! The learning curve is incredibly steep!"

Li Pu grumbled as he climbed out of the hibernation pod. "In this session, I didn't do anything but brush horses, chop at a wooden dummy, and get spanked with a board."

"At least give me a beginner's guide! This game…"

"Let students travel to the Middle Ages?"

"This game is utter garbage!"

Without much hesitation, Li Pu activated his keyboard warrior rage mode and unleashed a torrent of criticism at this so-called 'virtual game.' "When you make games, at least consider! Even if you don't consider the players' feelings, consider the students' feelings. Are the NPCs you wrote sadists?"

"So what if I lost? They actually hit me!"

"Ouch, that really hurts!"

"There's not even a save or load function."

"One star!"

Because he lost to that blonde kid during the swordsmanship spar, he got spanked. He had originally hoped to use some cheating method to reload and try again.

But he found there wasn't even a game interface.

He just took the beating head-on.

If it weren't for this board, he wouldn't have crawled out of the hibernation pod in such a sorry state.

"And why can't I customize the character? No custom ID? It looks like an open world."

Li Pu complained again, "It's not open at all!"

It felt like playing Assassin's Creed 1 and 2. Although it looked like an open world and felt like one, it wasn't truly that open.

There were places he couldn't go, not many objectives to explore, and if he strayed from the established main quest, they'd pull him back.

As a player, his scope of exploration was limited, but he definitely took a beating from the NPCs.

"Even if you give it a bad review, it's useless."

Li Yiyi said, holding a small notebook, "This is a learning device, not equipment for you to actually play a game. So, your mindset of treating this thing as a game is the real mistake!"

"But you didn't tell me the protagonist was a girl!" Li Pu clutched his lower half, feeling a sense of relief.

"Because it's for female students," Li Yiyi explained again. "What else would it be? You'll get used to it."

"But..." Li Pu was about to say something else.

"No more 'buts'!" Li Yiyi said with a dark expression. "Change your clothes and prepare for the next test."

"Huh... there's another test?" Li Pu exclaimed in surprise. "No... is this the only test...?"

"Of course not!" Li Yiyi said. "This is a learning device, and we need to see how much you've learned."

"Hurry up, change your clothes, and go to the next test."

"Besides grinding horses and getting beaten up, what the heck can I learn from this?" Li Pu stood up, grumbling as he went to change. He had already sold himself out, so he could only do as they said.

Although he felt something was off, why did the learning scenario involve a medieval setting?