forever lv.0

The noisy human voice is an excellent background sound suitable for wild thoughts, but if you carefully distinguish what each voice is saying in the noisy chaos, it is not an interesting thing.

"Let me tell you, the new store on the shopping street..."

"Oh, I've heard, I'm going to take those guys with me next week—"

Kudo Shinichi returned to his routine.Different from the so-called "everyday" concept, it is a wonderful daily life full of events and unimaginable.

But in his spare time when he has nothing to do and no case troubles, he finds that he will let go of his mind and hold his cheeks to observe what the "passers-by" who have nothing to do with him are doing.It's not a brainstorming for the purpose of proving something, nor is it for the purpose of digging out some dissonance in this peaceful daily life to seek excitement.

Some arrogant guys will directly ignore the "insignificant guys" around them as sketch dolls without facial features, but in fact even a passerby whose face is simplified to a cross has his own story.

"Wow, what kind of face is that, Yamada, it's terrifying."

"Don't mention it, it was all night yesterday. But let me tell you, the plot of that line really exploded..."

"Shut up, I don't want to hear your spoilers!"

After a short time of interaction with a popular classmate, a passer-by named Yamada also returned to his daily life.At least that's how Kudo understood it.

It turns out that there are also friends who can chat casually.That's right, as long as it's based on reality and has normal communication skills, there will always be a few friends who won't be embarrassed to chat with at any time. It's human nature, human nature.

My own intervention in the world is probably nothing more than an extraordinarily colorful episode, and "I met that Kudo Shinichi who seemed very unapproachable outside the repair shop", and "the other party bought a piece and saved a few I’m not even willing to buy a keyboard with monthly pocket money.” This kind of experience is at most a three-sentence conversation in a small chat.

For me, it may be that I have been in the daily life and never walked out.

"Speaking of which, the game you told me about last time, what about that, G—"

"Ah, you mean that inexplicable RPG? That game is really terrible, and I almost can't play it with luck," said Yamada, suddenly turned his head, and shouted at Kudo who was two aisles away from him.

"You mean it, Kudo?"

Eh?

It was the first time that I was brought into the topic of other students so naturally in the classroom.And the topic they were talking about at the moment was actually "games".

For the first time, Kudo felt that he had the right to speak this time, so he nodded and joined the chat between classes.

"That's right, it's easy to get stuck in many places without some strategies," suddenly recalling that he had summed up the strategies for the new monsters that appeared on a certain map. .

"Haha, at the time I thought it was going to be over, the big crisis—"

Looking at the dense data and detailed operation explanations on the manuscript paper, Yamada and another classmate showed the admiration expressions of ordinary people facing hardcore players.

"Before, I always thought that you, Kudo, were very powerful," Yamada said in a daze, "I didn't expect that even games... all-powerful!"

Well, although it wasn't me who was actually doing the manipulation... Kudo waved his hand to show that he wasn't that powerful, Kudo showed half-moon eyes where the other party couldn't see, and laughed dryly at a volume that only he could hear.

"However, even if the game is really bad," he changed the topic, "it's better to talk about it with the production team on the official website."

"Well, I'm working on it," Yamada folded his arms and nodded seriously, "I went to the official website and complained seriously, "This game sucks!" Like that! "

Wait, the original simple and rude comment... Recalling the few comments from other players on the official website message board when discussing with Kuroba the day before, Kudo finally couldn't bear it anymore He stopped, and laughed out loud under the puzzled eyes of the two students.

Yamada and another classmate looked at each other suspiciously, and then laughed out of nowhere.

"Hahahaha-"

Reality is always similar everywhere in unexpected places.Fragments of dialogue are scattered here and there, but occasionally they can be pieced together into a roughly respectable whole without deliberately integrating them.Sometimes without thinking about the close connection between seemingly unrelated events, the excitement that can be experienced at that moment often makes people want to cover their mouths and applaud loudly from the bottom of their hearts.

"Coincidence," that's what we call events that connect unintentionally.

It is a "coincidence" to touch the invisible silk thread entangled in it.The event formed by each gear closely fitting under the huge operating system is "inevitable".

But to be able to intervene in the conversations of those so-called "ordinary people" so naturally, and even laugh out loud like that regardless of the image, I may have overestimated the bonus effect of the "protagonist halo".

Life has never limited who is the "protagonist".There are as many versions of the story as there are characters in the plot.

Kudo suddenly felt that he was undoubtedly lucky to be able to realize this.

In the version that Yamada came into contact with, Kuroba does not exist.And in the version he explored, Kuroba is not just a "high school student of the same age who met through games".

What is the world like in Kuroba's version?Is the "he" seen by the detective who aims to "solve the mystery" just a part taken out of context?

Try to think about how the plot will unfold from the perspective of others. The NPC who doesn’t even have a dialog box is actually the protagonist. The opponent who thinks he knows it is actually unknown or even unexpectedly approachable. From my perspective, I am just a passer-by using an ordinary dialog box... Based on this, the "new" world observed by continuous reasoning and expansion must be another level of excitement and diversity.

The game is not over yet.

A few days later, I received a message from Kuroba.

"Good news, detective! The team has finally released the demo version of the new work!" After the processing of the electrical signal, the excitement in his tone can still be clearly heard.

That guy is really obsessed with discovering all kinds of interesting games... Kudo twitched the corner of his mouth knowingly.

"So, what is the theme?" If there is another difficult moment of operation, it may get stuck, but he is grateful for his insensitivity.

"Escape from the secret room! Would you like to give it a try as a detective?"

Is it actually an orthodox puzzle solving? Then don't be careless.If the famous high school student detective gets stuck in the puzzle game, what face will he have?

"I don't care..."

"Ah, I really didn't expect that they would actually release it just by mentioning it in the message. As expected, the effect of giving a little impetus is very obvious~ By the way, they also mentioned it in the introduction," Hei Yu Still immersed in the excitement just now, he kept talking non-stop, "I said that I want to practice with the goal of being in the top ten of LudumDare's creative ideas, ah, I'm really looking forward to—"

"L... what?" Listening to the new terms that kept popping up, Kudo realized that he might have to explore for a long time in this strange field.So he simply skipped the message and tried to come up with constructive suggestions that could solve "how to spend the weekend".

"...Want to solve the riddle together?"

(The messy plot has nothing to do with it:

Voiceover: The crowd is also the protagonist.