Isekai Online's
Chapter 30 - The Other Side of the Internet

“This is just sheer nonsense, isn't it?”

Right after the first break begins. Okita got up from her seat and walked over to Hans. Due to this unusual action, the originally silent classroom, instantly turned awkward.

Even the Queen Order members who understood Okita's nature were shocked by this incident.

Hans, who felt that his break was disturbed, looked at Okita with a cold look. Seeing Okita who came with an open laptop in her hand, Hans accidentally stared at the laptop monitor screen.

A discussion that occurred in the Isekai Online Forum turned out to bring Okita diving through the row of comments to the first comment. A tremendous persistence and motivation and rarely used in the right place.

Hans opened his food box, some of the remaining bread he was greedy. Amidst the slightly horrendous talk, Hans looked at Okita while giving her the remaining bread.

“Do you want?” hans said as he extended his hand.

“No need!” Okita immediately refused Hans' gift and sat down next to Hans.

Hans who did not show any reaction just fell silent, he was confused by Okita's behavior that attracted this attention. Even Will Isaac who wanted to get close to Hans was held back a few meters from him.

Hans wanted to make this situation even more relaxed in the absence of such a troubled aura.

“Em.. What's up?” ask Hans.

The question was quite stupid and Hans understood it. However, to know the thoughts of a different woman. He should dare to ask.

“These people! they have no courtesy in speaking!”

“Hah?” Hans glanced even further and read the contents of the laptop that was nearby.

A row of rude comments filled with religion, politics, tribes, and swear words were in it. Hans saw comments left by Okita's account but replies were harsh words.

“Do you have any other social media accounts?”

“For what?” ask Okita.

“Since the past, Forums with the freedom to create anonymous accounts like this have the freedom of speech that is difficult to control. Not infrequently dangerous discussion in the comments can be found. In this case, something you're going through. Create an account and then reply with piercing words. This is your first experience?” hans asked while pressing Okita.

“Kuh! Why are they like that? are not internet regulations set?”

“That rule has been set, but if the case is not so heavy and is in the anonymous Forum. Such rules are very difficult to implement. Well.. You have the power to fight it, don't you?”

“Means?”

“Forum Isekai Online has two different accounts, first an anonymous account you created and an account with Character ID used in the game. Anonymous accounts are commonly used for this purpose, while accounts with Character ID. You can see in several rows of comments column your reply there is an account like that.”.

“Uhuh? Continues?” okita is full of curiosity.

“If not wrong, Queen Order will cooperate with Isekai Online right? You can use the power of your cooperation to gain special access to banned access to those accounts.”

“Haaaa~” Okita still seems to be confused with Hans explanation.

“In short, you can punish these accounts by having access banned. If I don't remember wrongly, your contract agreement makes a new character with a different class from other players. With the new class, the system you use will be different from others. Or. You can buy my services to track these people and give them the punishment you want” Hans replied with a smile.

“Uh... doesn't seem to need.”

“What are you looking at anyway?”

“Oh.. only this.”

Hans looked directly at the topic of discussion Okita read. That topic was one that Elliot discussed with him. A mystery that occurs in the game Isekai Online, where there is a dead Player and his spirit trapped in the game. However, somehow the content of the comments in it is a sentence that came out of the discussion and Okita created an anonymous account to straighten out the direction of the topic.

Unfortunately, it was not to his liking.

“Okita, you are a mystery lover huh?”

“D-Where did you know?”

“Talking about mysteries, it seems our friends, Yuuki Saku and Will Isaac have more experience. Technically, the two of them are Veterans of Isekai Online who recently took a detective looking for a kidnapping victim but they went to explore the dungeon.”

“Guhu!”

“Kuk!”

Getting quite a violent reaction from Yuuki Saku and Will Isaac who were standing behind him, Okita then turned to look at the two of them.

“H-Halooo.”

“Good Morning, Okita.”

Yuuki Saku and Will Isaac who heard the talk of Okita and Hans also want to join. However, because in the previous day they were too focused on their game instincts which inadvertently left Hans to settle their punishment case.

Hans certainly had his own anger. However, it managed to be covered with a flat expression on his face.

Hans didn't want his life to be filled with small problems like this, at least he could understand how the characters of Yuuki Saku and Will Isaac were. As long as it had nothing to do with their gaming instincts, then they could still be controlled.

Hans, Yuuki Saku, and Will Isaac had a slightly awkward aura. Hans just glanced at the two of them and refocused on enjoying his break.

“Er.. Hans. for yesterday's incident. I'm really sorry. For that, I brought some food for an apology. Although I asked for advice from Kotori but she was sure you would receive this” Yuuki Saku brought some packs of dried seaweed ready to eat.

“Oh? You can still feel guilty apparently?” reply Hans with sarcastic tone.

“Guhu!” like an arrow piercing his body. Yuuki Saku felt a pain in his chest.

“Ahahaha! Hans. I also apologize for my attitude yesterday. Who would have thought there was such a dungeon so I wanted to scour it a little.”

“...” Hans looked at Will Isaac, in contrast to Yuuki Saku who brought food as an apology. Will Isaac uses his bare hands to apologize. Of course, Hans replied to her with a smile and a gaze that erased the existence of Will Isaac.

“You came alone, Pocket? Don't you have another friend? What's that name? I can't remember. Didn't he sign today?”

“Kuk!” hans' sarcastic tone was not an arrow piercing Will Isaac's body, but a ballista arrow that shattered his mental shield.

Saw Will Isaac suddenly fall to the floor. Some of the people who saw him were a little wondering about what was going on. Surprisingly, Will Isaac got up from his slump and left the classroom. From a distance, Will Isaac ran down the emergency staircase in a hurry.

“What happened to Will Isaac?” ask Okita.

“Once you know, maybe he's in a hurry” replied Yuuki Saku.

“Oh! Also true! Does Yuuki Saku play Isekai Online games as well?”

“Yah. rather than say play it. That's actually my main job as a Female Professional Player.”

“Y-Yuuki.. do you like these people too?”

“Em?”

Hearing Okita's ambiguous question, the curious Yuuki Saku sees the contents of Okita's laptop.

“Of course not! What kind of woman would put out such a rude comment!”

“Y-Yes, it has a point anyway. We don't know who's behind comments like this?”

“Really? Though we can guess the personality of people just from his comments. As far as I read, there are three cloning accounts that one person uses just to defend his argument” Hans said while enjoying his meal.

“Eh?”

“Eh?”

Yuuki Saku and Okita put each other down to hear Hans say.

“If you read them slowly, their intonation, punctuation, vocabulary, and writing techniques are very similar. All three accounts in there have the same arrangement even that is enough to show their identity as a cloning account. Except, if they are bot accounts that have been set up using the same format.”

“...”

“...”

Yuuki Saku and Okita who were curious about Hans' words also observed one by one a line of comments. Their eyes are so focused paying attention to the line of words written.

“It's just my feeling or you're just making it up, Hans” Okita said in a dubious tone to Hans.

“Give it to me..” reply Hans while cleaning up the scraps of his depleted food.

Okita gives her laptop into Hans' lap, using text-based software, Hans gathers a line of account comments and returns them to Okita.

Okita who got an answer from her question was silent reading the line of comments gathered by Hans.

“Eh, this is exactly the same. Why do you know this, Hans?”

“Only old habits.”

“Old habits?”

“Then, I had a very racist classmate and he always teased me with the harsh words he put out. In short, because I could not stand the rant, I began to study the history of his birthplace, the culture of his homeland, and the language of his region, and some other additional information I got from his family. With such preparation, as he began to speak harshly. I can reply to her racist words accurately. Something like an eye for an eye and a racist for a racist.”

“Ahahaha..” Yuuki Saku who heard it only laughed awkwardly.

“Hans... actually.. What the hell is inside your brain?” ask Okita who is trying to satirize Hans' behavior.

“Taken that incident, we were good friends until now. As long as no one feels disdained. This is not a problem for us.”

“I don't know why there are men like this?”

“Oh, just additional information. She's a woman. Should I tell you why there's a woman like this?”

“HAH?” Okita panicked when she found out.

In the midst of Okita's panic, Will Isaac who suddenly opens the classroom door changes the atmosphere. His uniform looked messy, his breathing was rushing, and his sweat was starting to show around his face. He returned with a plastic bag containing a light meal and walked towards Hans.

“Etto.. for the previous incident.I'm sorry Hans. Sometimes when I hear a new dungeon, my body moves on its own to search for it. So well. em. sorry to leave you in the middle of the game.hehe.” said Will Isaac while handing over a symbolic sign of his apology.

“Oh, Will? You just logged in?” hans replied while receiving a sign of his apology.

“Well, actually I don't care if you guys go like that. But, just imagine if you have a life partner and have been married for a long time suddenly your partner left without explanation.”

“Hey, isn't that parable too heavy for a small problem like this?” reply Will Isaac.

“The problem is. This is not about how big this is but my sense of trust in you. For starters, you guys I've considered to be classmates I respect but with an incident like this I guess you're getting into the position of friends I want to avoid.”

“Guha!!”

“Krek!!”

With no physical injuries in sight, Yuuki Saku and Will Isaac received a surprise attack that pierced through their bodies.

“Listen.. I'm really sorry, Hans. Events like this will not happen again” refuted Will Isaac.

“Well, this won't happen again because I won't be playing with you guys again” Hans replied.

“Anoo... Actually I want to ask you about your relationship but it seems you guys are having problems?” asked Okita who had heard the conversation between Will Isaac and Hans.

“Nothing special, it's just that I still harbor a sense of disappointment in staying by them. Though I took pains to find a kidnapping victim.”

“Kurban abduction?!” hearing the words of the kidnapping coming out of Hans' mouth, Okita's eyes seemed to glow and thirst with curiosity.

“It was just a Quest to find someone, at first they both wanted to teach me but in fact they went somewhere” Hans' words grew sharper with the look in his eyes that glanced at Yuuki Saku and Will Isaac.

“As information.. when we enter the teleportation circle. We split up somewhere” denies Will Isaac.

“Y-Yes.I also split up with my sister and met in the woods while out of that place” Yuuki Saku denied that reinforces Will Isaac's objection.

“So, after you two are out. Your brain is thinking of gathering Guild members and exploring dungeons?” this time, Hans words slightly suppressed the two.

“Uuuh~”

“Er..”

Yuuki Saku and Will Isaac fell silent.

“But at least I thank you. Because of you, I got a gift in the form of a certificate of land and building.”

“HAH?”

“HEH?”

A startled Yuuki Saku and Will Isaac began to draw closer towards Hans.

“B-How can it be?”

Y-Yes, why can you get such a gift?”

“What is the NPC Nekoya Inn sultan?”

“Why don't we get a part?”

Yuuki Saku and Will Isaac asked in succession, showering Hans with various questions.

“Well, to be honest, it's not an ordinary kidnapping case. This is not a random kidnapping, but rather a planned kidnapping and several players are involved in it. I don't know why they could be involved, but it seems that the NPCs in Isekai Online have the feature to recruit Players in their work and it is used to set up teleportation magic traps in various places. And.” Hans stopped his words.

“Kurasa.. you don't need to know what's going on with those kids” Hans continued.

“H-Hans.. did you deliberately make us die of curiosity?” ask Will Isaac.

Hearing Will Isaac's question, Okita now looked at Hans with a curious look.

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