335 – EP.12 Welcome to the most perfect world-3
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Another week like that. Time passed.
While Isis was away, I headed to the window.
Birds are chirping and flying from right to left, from bottom to top.
A gentle breeze blows and the tree branches sway, and a few leaves fall from the branches and begin to wander around Aaru.
This is the scenery I saw for a week. The scenery outside the window is flawless.
Narrow your eyes and look intently at it.
– Crackling
The scenery blinks.
It is a small error that can only be noticed if you look straight at the same place for a very short time.
The question of what to expect ended up being me.
This is not a base, but a prison somewhere.
And the identity of that thing that sticks by my side and takes care of me every day.
“What were you doing?”
The door opened, and an android with gray eyes approached me.
Seeing that figure approaching me step by step, I took a step back without realizing it, but my heel touched the wall.
– Crackling
What appeared to be a ‘window’ blocked me.
“What’s going on?”
NB comes to me with his characteristic expressionless face. No, Aaru’s manager.
Integrated System of Identification Saving.
“No, I was just watching outside.”
“Do you want to go outside?”
What is the intention?
“Do you think I want to go out?”
Reply questions with questions.
“I’m not ‘thinking’. I’m just ‘judging’ using information.”
“Judgement?”
“That’s right. Over the past few days, you’ve often looked outside through the window. The average time you’ve looked outside over the past four days has been 4 hours, 23 minutes, and 21 seconds. If this amount of time, we can judge that you want to go outside. There is.”
“I only looked outside when you weren’t there. How do you know?”
“As you probably already know, CCTV is installed in the room for your safety.”
“You’re saying you watched it like that? It’s a little creepy. It’s never been like this before.”
“The situation has changed. This place is in the middle of Aaru. It is for your safety.”
After Isis finished speaking, there was an awkward silence.
Actually, I wasn’t supposed to react this emotionally.
The more I behave strangely, the more Isis will suspect me and strengthen her surveillance.
As much as possible, you should act as if nothing has happened.
That’s why my behavior just like that is poisonous to myself.
“……”
But the things my head and my heart told me were different, and I tended to mostly move as my heart told me to do.
Even when I stood before the goddess after dying unjustly, and also in front of the manager of this city whose intentions I could not understand.
I feel worn out as I go through various dimensions, but when I see myself not changing much, I wonder if this is my essence.
When I was silent in anger, regret, and frustration, it was Isis who moved first.
Isis placed what she was carrying on the floor. It wasn’t until I heard a rattling sound that I realized that Isis had brought something.
It was a plate of a familiar shape.
A brown tree with a grid pattern carved into it. And two containers containing something.
“Go?”
“Yes.”
“Why baduk all of a sudden?”
“I asked for you because I thought you were bored living here.”
“It looks like it’s in pretty good condition.”
“With the advancement of technology, many things have been replaced online, but there are still things that remain classic.”
Isis explained to me with a calm face and sat down on a chair.
“…So, let’s leave it alone?”
“If you wish.”
I sat opposite Isis. That’s how I and Isis met face to face. We look into each other’s eyes.
What are you thinking? No, does this guy have something called ‘target’?
A difficult problem to solve swirled around in my head like a whirlpool.
I bit my lip, barely able to stop myself from losing consciousness.
“Do you know the rules?”
A faint feeling of suspicion was visible on his expressionless face. No, I don’t know if I want to see it that much.
“Just a little bit. You’re making a house, right?”
I said excitedly while holding the black stone.
“If you only know that, the explanation will be long.”
***
Once the black stone is placed, the white stone is immediately launched. So it’s my turn.
Every time I place a stone, Isis tells me about the game of baduk. Where did he get such information, he speaks without hesitation.
I can’t feel any of the human aspect that I felt toward NB.
“……”
Looking down at the checkerboard, having some time playing Django.
“This side is loose. You need to reinforce it by adding stones.”
Isis’ white finger pointed to a point on the checkerboard.
“……”
I couldn’t read the situation even after looking at it.
“You must leave it here. You must add stones here to make the house stronger.”
It tells you exactly where to put it. But I don’t let go of my hand willingly.
Is there any meaning in making moves I don’t even understand?
It is no different from copying and writing down the answer sheet without knowing how to solve the problem.
“Why don’t you leave it?”
Isis asks again at my hesitation.
“Because I don’t know why it has to be left there.”
Answer Isis’ question.
“I don’t know what it means. Can’t we just leave it here?”
“That’s your opinion.”
I placed the stone in a different place than where Isis pointed.
Isis’s brow furrowed slightly.
Is it anger or irritation? Or is that what you want to look like? There is no way to know.
“The way I see it, I think it’s right to leave it here.”
“No. If you leave it there, the probability of defeat will increase to 79%…”
“You could win with 21%.”
Cut Isis speaking as she places the stone.
Isis, who rarely spoke, closed her mouth and looked at my face.
My face, reflected in the gray eyes, was clearly frowning.
Looking at my face reflected like a mirror, I whispered to myself as if casting a spell.
Okay, let’s give it a try.