"This..."
Seeing the pale orange button before him, Natsuki Subaru froze for a moment, then stared wide-eyed in disbelief. "W-What?!"
Yet at this moment, he was high up in the sky.
Other than the howling wind, there was no one around to answer his question.
exit
Though it was English, the word appeared quite often in games. As a gaming nerd, Natsuki Subaru immediately understood it.
If this word were translated...
It meant exit...
That was right. It was the button at the very bottom of a game menu. Normally, players could click it to leave the game and return to the desktop.
"..."
Natsuki Subaru stared blankly at the exit button before him, clearly dazed.
In that instant, countless memories surfaced in his mind—the excitement of first arriving in this world, the awkwardness and fluttering heart when he first met Emilia, the fury of being slaughtered dozens of times by the Gut Hunter, and the despair of being unable to leave no matter how many times he shouted "exit"...
His journey might not have seemed long to others.
But to Natsuki Subaru himself...
He had truly died countless times, witnessed endless deaths, and walked step by step through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Looking back now, Natsuki Subaru realized that he had possessed many flaws at first: recklessness, impatience, narcissism, and cowardice. Fortunately, he had met a benefactor—an old player who had also gotten lost in this game... Xie Dongwen. It was through his patient guidance, time and again, that Natsuki Subaru had become who he was today.
Whether this place was another world or a game, it had been an incomparably precious journey to him.
But since it was a journey...
The day he reached its destination would eventually come.
It was just that Natsuki Subaru