The King's Mandate: Anomalous System

Chapter 104: The Overseer (iii)

"What will we do about Das?"

"Let me see what I can do"

"Can we do anything?"

"To be honest, I can't. But I will change his stats and limit them to what he has set to"

"Will that help?"

"It will restrict him, but his system can easily break that limit"

"What's the point of doing it then?"

"His system will have less interaction with the game system"

"I hope it helps"

"It will...I am not surprised anymore"

"What's wrong?"

"There is an AI with him. Can you see it?"

"I can't"

"Figures" Ruidas said as he snapped.

"I can see it now. It's a pixie"

"Yeah. How did he get it?"

"Rias mentioned her too. The developer of the game gave him the pixie"

"How many developers are there in this game? Wait, first tell me what game it is?"

"The game's name is LWO, and there is only one developer for this game"

"What?! One?! There is only one?!"

"There are sixteen developers on the license of this game, but she alone runs the game" 

"Who is the developer?"

"She is a friend of Rias"

"Umm" after thinking for a while he said, "Olivia?"

"Yes. She made this game in the memory of Rias, who wanted to be a game developer, but died on her graduation day"

"She doesn't know that Rias is alive?"

"Rias hasn't told her yet"

"Well, it's their personal matter"

"Olivia will graduate from her university this year"

"She goes to university?" 

"She will be a doctor after she graduates"

"I see. Will she continue this game?"

"She is already in high debt, but she wants to continue this game in the memory of Rias"

"She must be busy with her studies, so who is monitoring the game?"

"No one. It's Rias who keeps an eye sometime when she comes here, and after noticing strange things about Das, she reported it to me"

"Interesting"

"So, we were talking about that AI"

"Yeah. That AI is more advanced than my AI"

"She is more advanced than U.E?"

"Yeah. Where is she by the way? Haven't seen her today"

"She is with Elisha and her boyfriend"

"I still don't allow that guy as my daughter's boyfriend" 

"I already allowed it. There is no need for your permission" 

"What is U.E doing there?"

"She is helping out Elisha and Bryon's AI, U.A"

"Das's pixie is more advanced than both U.E and U.A"

"Is it because of his system?"

"Yeah. He altered her program. That pixie too...she has emotions, but little of her data is corrupted"

"Would she be okay?"

"It depends on Das. If he loses his control and gives in to his emotions, he will mostly erase her or should I say, his system will kill her"

"Can't you do something?"

"I can't. That pixie is connected by his system"

"What about his system? How does he have it inside him?" Ria questioned herself. 

"His pixie...she has been to the real world"

"Huh?"

"His pixie. Her program goes to the real world when the server of this game closes" 

"Is it because of Zek VR-4.0?"

"Yeah"

"Should we take it back then?"

"Nah. Let him have it. It would be safer with him"

"What about the real world? Is his system affecting his body there too?"

"Who knows? I haven't been in the real world for years"

"How does it feel to have a system?"

"Normal. Nothing interesting"

"Maybe that's the reason he hasn't noticed yet?"

"Yeah, but I think we should let him know because his system can unconsciously affect the devices, like jamming the cameras or hacking"

"Hey...Ruidas" Ria said with a shocked face. 

"What?"

"You were killed by those men because you had the system inside you. Doesn't that mean that they will go after Das too?"

"As long as no one knows, he should be safe"

"Sorry, I was just getting paranoid. I don't want the son of my friends to die"

"Don't worry. He is from the Edens family. He will have extra protection, and it should be fine as long as he doesn't commit any crimes"

"Wouldn't it be bad if he ends up doing some crime?"

"He is the son of Angela. I don't think he will commit any crimes"

"No I mean, unconsciously" 

"That would be bad, but I don't think anyone can commit crime unconsciously...I have no right to say that"

"Sorry"

"Why are you apologizing?"

"I reminded you of that again"

"It's okay. I don't want to forget it. I don't want to forget how many players I killed when we were trapped in that game"

"Zero!"

"Don't call me that. That name reminds me of that night, the night when she died"

"I swore to my sister who died in that game, that I will find her killer and end him myself"

"I ended him...wait, are you still angry about that?"

"Of course I am. You stole my prey"

"It's been thirty years. How come you never told me?"

"My love for you is more than the hate I have for you"

"Feel free to hate me, I will accept it too"

"Is that so? I will pass this to Elisha"

"This was for you"

"What about your...our daughter Elisha?" 

"She already hates me"

"She is just like you, good at hiding her real emotions"

"Remind me of one time I acted like that"

"The night where we met in that game"

"I don't remember it"

Ria stared at him for a while and said, "Do you really want me to say that?"

"I don't. Sorry" realizing that his joke failed, he admitted his defeat.

"You were crying, no. Not crying, you were weeping---"

"I said, I don't want to hear it!"

"This is what happens when you tease me"

"Yeah, yeah. You are the same as ever"

"We should go now. Are you done changing his stats?"

"Yeah. I am done. Let's go" Ruidas moved his hand towards Ria.

"Let's go" Ria said, holding his hand.

Ruidas glanced at Das and said, "See you soon, second son of Angela" and disappeared. 

Das looked up to the sky.

[What's wrong, Das?]

"I just felt like someone was watching us"

"There is no one in the sky" Elena said, hugging his arm.