Private Isulus Nerd and Hero

[Seigi Ling Ling]

As Seigi was stumbling over the bloodstained battlefield, looking for someone, she soon found herself noticing a familiar frame. Maybe. Covered in mashed bug remains and dirt, it was hard to tell from that distance.

Was she... was she dead!?! "Hey!" Oh no! Though if her body hasn't despawned, it meant she could still revive her! "You can die when you're dead." Seigi started to push away the slight debris covering N's body. Not that it was literally squashing her, but it was just, 'ewh'.

"Apart from needing a shower, are you alright?" N was her name. And they had some... some adventures together. Back then, and now, too? Nonetheless, N found herself soon surrounded by a warm (albeit very slightly foul) aura coming forth from Seigi. N's wounds and pain were easing.

"I've seen you earlier! That was really cool! And thanks for letting me rise higher." Seigi did step on N, after all.

@Lady N

 

[Lady N]

Tangleweaves: Demon Crater

Chelsea squinted, as the early morning sun was beginning to peek from behind the rainclouds. The light after all this would have been fitting if you called this a victory. Tsk, Chelsea supposed that maybe it was in a small way.

Then a silhouette blotted out the ray of sunlight. That stupid raggamuffin hair and those... heterochromia eyes? With all the ridiculousness of this adventure, the Nexon had never realized that change before. She simply continued to lay there and said nothing for a while. The simulation asked if she was alright...

Seriously?

*Stare*

Urgh, not again. Why was the raven hair starting to feel like a damsel in distress trope? She had come to SAVE Seigi not the other way around. Boo, she knew this was a bad idea from the start! When Chelsea spoke she would stutter more from her disdain at all of this than from her exhaustion.

"D-Do I look alright? Of course I'm fine... you smell worse than me but obviously, you're used to it. J-Just give me a minute. I will get up myself... I don't n-need you to be constantly pulling me out of the mud okay?!"

Chelsea took all of her strength to hoist herself up and stand on her own. Nearly slipping in the wet mud several times in the process. In the end, she had succeeded in proving her point, that she was perf-

*SPLASH*

"AGHHH! I HATE THIS STUPID GAME!! ...Well?!"

She shot up her hand angrily and waited in the mud.

@Seigi Ling Ling

 

[Seigi Ling Ling]

"Well! It's the scent of blood, sweat, and hard work! We are all in need of a shower. Really." Usually, Seigi would have helped up immediately. But she was now either too tired or enjoyed watching the girl struggle some - considering her pride. Or maybe both? Yeah, N could always just, ask!

"Pulling people out of the mud is kinda what I do though..." Seigi interjected, crossing her arms behind her back as she waited for N to finish. "But you can believe in me who believes in you!" Really, if N managed, all the more power to her!

Though ultimately, she did not. And instead asked Seigi for help after all! "Of course, your wish is my command, Princess." Seigi spoke in a slightly teasing tone as she ignored N's hand and instead, princess-carried her once more. Well aware that N likely would just push her off otherwise or something. "You know, you got the most awesome and bestest hero as your support. Maybe you should stop acting like a Tsundere and be more honest at times."

Seigi sighed, taking a few steps before dropping N gently off and, if she needed, providing her own shoulder as support instead. "You don't have to be ashamed, or whatever it is you're doing!" Though Seigi was really the last one who should give such lectures.

@Lady N

 

[Lady N]

Tangleweaves: Demon Crater

Regardless of her cold expression and angry glare, Chelsea would offer no resistance when Seigi helped her up and only emitted a long tired sigh when Seigi decided another Princess Carry action was necessary.

What was the point after a day like this anyhow?

Eventually Chelsea would show that she was capable of standing and she had enough of the annoying AI hero's antics, Chelsea began to wipe off her clothes from the filth. Did logging out just reset your appearance? She tried to recall the particular log entry that VRS had on a similar subject but it wouldn't come to her at the moment. Too much filling her head already.

"A tsundere? Is this some stupid anime now? first a video game and now... Oh nevermind. Why am I even standing here talking to you. I wonder?"

Chelsa walked up and stared into the taller girl's eyes up close, she had to get on her tiptoes but it was good enough.. sort of. What was behind them? What if the game's developers were behind those eyes, mocking her. Mocking everyone?

Or was it just that this AI really did think it was a human. When you know they are dead, gone forever, are replacements like this acceptable? Would a replacement for her father be acceptable?

No.

"I don't know how you operate but... I'm not going to thank you. I also do not need thanks for being an aerial footstool, hmph!

Chelsea pulled away but continued to talk, her voice returning to its normal quiet tone after all the excitement had put her through an emotional wreck.

"I'm sorry that you do not understand what you are either, or you pretend to not know. Look at your eyes, you're glitching. Your strength also is...

More like a monster than a human.

Was what she wanted to say. Like something only an NPC created by this twisted game could have been. But she didn't, Chelsea could not be that cruel after all this. This AI had some sentience or seemed to for now.

So Chelsea would ask an important question.

"Do you know your real name?"

@Seigi Ling Ling

 

[Seigi Ling Ling]

"Excuse me?" Even without the anger enchantment, there was a limit to the verbal abuse Seigi could take. Especially on a day like this. But was there, really? The brunette stared at @Lady N rather angrily for a moment, as if she was about to put her right back into the dirt she had just recovered from before...

...sighing. Closing her eyes for a moment, Seigi calmed down as quickly as she got upset. Right. This crazy girl was under the assumption that Seigi was some sort of AI. An NPC. Not... real. Thoughts that went through Seigi's head at one point in time, too. Though now she was long over it. Her conclusion was simple.

"I am as real and living as you are!" Seigi responded quite determined at the things Lady N implied. Ultimately, N had asked a taboo question, but the Hero had never been one to bend down to courtesy stuff.

"My name is Raina Raythean, daughter to the CEO of one of the biggest Weapons Research Companies on earth. Or at least, that was the case four years ago." Seigi raised her hand to her lips, as to symbolize a 'shhhh'. "'Any AI could be fed that data. hmpf.'" She tried to mimic what Lady N would say. "Before I... died, the company shifted its focus on cyber warfare and weaponized AI. But, really: What would that do in a game like that, hm? I've just been enjoying my life at West Oaks, you know? Living my teenage years and all that. I've been one of the very first to experience this UI lock. Four years ago. And you keep going on and on about how I am just 'part-of-the-game', well, what if this isn't all just a game!?" Seigi actually fumed again, just a bit...

"But, I can say whatever I want, can't I?! You only believe what you want to believe and make up whatever excuses fit your narrative. Common sense really sucks."

 

[Lady N]

Tangleweaves: Demon Crater

Weaponized AI?

That was an angle Chelsea had not considered. Hmph, maybe this ghost was worth keeping alive. She shared the memories of the real thing... she? Why not it? Boo, Chelsea was too tired to continue this much more.

"That's right. I didn't know the girl you think you are very well but she was annoying... much like you."

Even though she said this and it was obvious the Nexon was getting under the AI Raina's skin. The tsun smiled ever so slightly.

"Tsk... it's hard dealing with you, Seigi."

She would not call her by a dead girl's name, but she would respect her individuality at least for now.

"I want to know, I don't trust you as far as I can throw you... and that's not... very far.."

Chelsea blushed for a moment realizing the truth of that. Then Seigi finally said the thing she heard several times before during her investigations into this deathtrap.

"What if this isn't all just a game!?"

...Not this again. Well, maybe it was more than a game but Chelsea refused to accept some magical fairy tale scenario. Conspiracy theorists were not going to solve this. Logic dictated to use facts, and facts she would use, not theory.

Then the taller girl snapped harder...

"*Twitch*"

Chelsea had tried, she almost opened up to this fool and this is what she got? Tsk enough!

"I am done here! You don't know anything! Common sense is all I need! You can punch things and see how far it gets you! You... Y-You Gorilla!"

Chelsea immediately hit logout and vanished with an angry glare at the Sunset Sage, the last of her to be seen...
@Seigi Ling Ling