"Welcome to the world of acceleration?"

"It's still a success." Asuna's tone revealed an emotion of either secret joy or helplessness.

"What to do next?"

Shota was a little confused.

"Shout with me - Overclocking."

"Overclocked!"

The moment Shota shouted, all the colors disappeared, and only the clear blue spread out, covering the entire room in an instant, but...

The room he was in suddenly became a little strange.

"This is because there are no public cameras here. If they were outside, it would be a different scene."

After hearing Asuna's words, Shota stood up with some confusion, and then...

"Sister...there are two of them!"

However, before he could react, he saw the guy sitting on the bed again with a smile on his face.

"...Isn't this me?"

"Well. It's you. You can check your own condition."

Shota looked at his hand with some curiosity, but what he saw was a claw...

"Isn't this my avatar?"

"Yes."

Asuna is now in her own avatar state. The prototype of her avatar is a dove, but after some design and modification, her appearance is basically the same as that of an angel, except that she wears dove feathers.

It consists of pure white feathers.

"What's wrong? Have you forgotten the image you designed for me? But Shota, you haven't changed it either. It still looks dark."

Shota's avatar is based on an eagle. When he was a child, in order to look cool, he only had half a black wing. The other half of the wing was like a shawl covering his left hand, which deliberately kept the eagle's claws.

Although now it seems that he really feels that this look is quite vulgar. But when he was a child, even though he was very old in his heart, in order to match Asuna's look, he could make an avatar like this...

…

"Are we experiencing an out-of-body experience?"

However, now is not the time to lament this.

"Well... as the welcome word literally means, this is an accelerated world."

Shota subconsciously glanced at the old toy alarm clock next to the bed, only to find that both the second and minute hands had stopped.

"It's not that the world has stopped, but that our thinking has accelerated."

Asuna sat next to Shota and explained: "The neural connection device can do this without causing any adverse effects on the body or brain cells. At this moment, it is the neural connection device on our body,

The frequency emitted by one beat of the heart is amplified and sent to the brain using wireless quantum signals, and the amplification ratio is as high as a thousand times."

"A thousand times? That is to say, the second hand will not move until sixteen minutes and forty seconds have passed?"

"Yeah." Asuna continued to explain: "It's just that this acceleration has an upper limit, which is the thirty minutes here, converted into 1.8 seconds in the real world."

Although it sounds unbelievable, Asuna would never lie about this kind of thing. Shota took a deep breath and then said: "In other words, the owner of this program can be regarded as thirty in 1.8 seconds."

Minutes have been used? What a...ridiculous feature."

"Not only that, in fact, our current world is processed by public cameras." Asuna pointed to the outside where the curtains were not closed, and said: "So, things here will be a little strange, that's because of those places

It’s a blind spot for public cameras. He can only try to complete it as much as possible instead of recreating it.”

"But...for example, in classrooms or other places, ubiquitous public cameras will perfectly complete the whole world. In this case, using these thirty minutes, you can even peek at other people's answers during the exam. This

That’s what I mean by destroying reality.”

Shota slowly digested the meaning of Asuna's words. After a while, he asked: "I have two more questions. First, where does this program come from and how many people have it. Second, how to use this program?"

What are the side effects—or costs—of this ability?”

"I don't know where the program came from. I only know that there are about a thousand active accelerator players now. Since a necessary condition for installing the program is to carry a neural link device since childhood, most of them are actually children...

...You also know that they will never disclose the existence of this unknown software to others."

"As for the second question... it involves the essence of this game. It is actually a fighting game, which uses a kind of BURSTPOINT, that is, acceleration points, as a bargaining chip to win or lose. Shota, you should have a hundred points now...

No, it has just been accelerated once, which means there are still 99 acceleration points. This is given after installing the game."

"If we fight...how to fight? In this form?"

"No. There are special battle avatars. And you can't set it yourself. If you sleep with the device tonight, you will probably have a nightmare. The battle avatars are basically composed by reading a person's mental trauma.

." After Asuna said this, she comforted: "Don't worry, I will sleep with you at night..."

"Ah? No, no need, it's just a nightmare."

Shota quickly shook his head.

"Objection rejected, let me explain. There is only one way to increase overclocking points, which is to win the battle. If both sides are at the same level, 10 points will be added as long as they win: but 10 points will be reduced for the losing side...

If it drops to zero..."

Speaking of this, Asuna paused, seemed to want to strengthen his tone, and continued:

"Then this program will be uninstalled and all your memories of the BB program will be cleared at the same time."

"I thought I would die directly."

Shota immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"I said, have you listened carefully? Once you taste the benefits of acceleration, it will not only help you cheat in exams, but it will also make you invincible in fighting, sports, and even some gambling, and it will allow you to easily become a master...

…”

"That doesn't matter."

Shota interrupted: "I installed the game just to be with my sister. Even if the game is uninstalled, it will just forget this memory. But Asuna is still Shota's only sister, and this is not what this game is about.

It can be changed.”

"What an idiot..."

Although she said this, Asuna had a smile on her face.

"Then finish the acceleration. I'll explain the rest after you get the battle avatar tomorrow."

"Hmm...but, how to exit?"

The two may have been talking for a while, but Shota noticed that the second on the alarm clock had moved forward by one mark.

"Just call Overclocking to log out."

………………

At night, Asuna actually ran to Shota's room with pillows and quilts in her arms. Fortunately, Shota slept on a big bed comparable to a double bed since he was little, otherwise there would really be no room to squeeze in.

"Well, isn't this bad?"

Although they separated the quilt and pillow, Shota still felt a little embarrassed. After all, the two of them were no longer what they were when they were children.

"What does it matter? We often slept together when we were young. At that time, you were still holding me like an octopus..."

"No, no, there is absolutely no such thing. The one who looks like an octopus is definitely you, my sister."

Before Shota finished speaking, he saw the threatening look in his sister's eyes, so he had to compromise: "Okay. Good night."

"Well, good night. Don't worry, no matter what nightmare you have, I will be by your side."

After turning off the lights, the sister and brother each faced each other and fell asleep.

Not long after, after confirming that Shota was asleep, Asuna suddenly turned over, looked at the back of his brother's head and murmured in a low voice: "I hope you won't blame me for bringing you into this game, I just want to, even in that long I can see you in the accelerated world..."

"good evening……"

Shota didn't hear Asuna's whisper. He had already fallen asleep and had a dream that was longer than he imagined.

Longer than a lifetime.

He dreamed of becoming an ordinary worker, repeating the same work with a smile every day, one day, one month, one year, until his hair turned gray, still doing the same thing with a smile he could never lose. .

He became an ordinary salesperson again, greeting every customer with a smile every day, one day, one month, one year, until he turned gray-haired, still doing the same thing with a smile he could never lose.

I became an ordinary office worker again, looking at my boss with a smile every day, repeating the boring work there. One day, one month, one year, until my hair turned gray, I was still doing the same thing, worrying about him. A smile that can never be lost.

...I spent nine ordinary lives like this...

numb, compromised, for the sake of life.

In fact, you also want to live for yourself, right?

"No, this is all for my sister..."

Shota covered his ears in pain. He was surrounded by nine white-haired people wearing different clothes, with only gray old men on their bodies. The only thing that was the same was that Shota himself could be seen on their faces. The shadow, and the smile that has completely stiffened.

It doesn't matter no matter how hard you endure, or how ordinary your life is... anyway, you are just that ordinary, ordinary and useless...
To be continued...