"How... how could this be possible?"
Looking at the bizarre rectangular button before him, Natsuki Subaru wore an extremely complicated expression.
Shock, confusion, astonishment, incomprehension—countless emotions shifted across his face, plunging his heart, which had only just begun to calm, back into bewilderment.
"Could this really be a game world?"
Natsuki Subaru struggled with the thought. He truly did not want to accept that reality.
After all, Emilia was far too real to him. Every word she had said, every thing she had done—Natsuki Subaru could even feel her heartbeat and body temperature, understand every little thought in her mind... Could a program really accomplish that?
What kind of server could simulate emotions so delicate?
And just how much computing power would it take to build these NPCs, who seemed so vividly alive, out of code?
But if this was not a game world...
Then what was this bizarre system interface before him?
Natsuki Subaru looked up again. That warped, shattered system interface still floated there, but after examining it carefully, he noticed several details he had overlooked before.
For example, although this page had quite a few buttons and settings.
Because of the corrupted data, many buttons were actually gray, including the knobs for adjusting things like model resolution. Even the reset button at the bottom looked as though it had not been unlocked, while some function buttons had simply broken down completely.
Natsuki Subaru tried moving a gray volume button.
The result was about what he expected. None of those gray buttons could be controlled.
Of course, not every button was unusable. After some testing, Natsuki Subaru discovered that the pain button still barely worked.
However, that button clearly had problems too.
Under normal circumstances, a button like that should adjust parameters between 1% and 100%.
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