Chapter 56 - A New, Customized Add-on?

Third person POV

 The next morning, after waking up, Shuto went to Roxas and his friends, who were making breakfast in the kitchen, and informed them of his recent dream with Keita. His friends, alongside Anko and Hideyoshi, were taken aback by it with shock.

 "Woah, what?"

 "No way…"

 "Oh, no…"

 "Yes," Shuto responded back while nodding, "and that guy told me that we should aim for the 80th floor of the Tower because that floor contained the monster that has the keys to free him, Kirito, and their friends."

Roxas and his friends were shocked even more.

 "What?"

 "No way! The 80th floor?!"

 "That sounds too hard."

 "I know," responded Shuto back, "but if we want to finish our given mission, we must do it."

While her friends were pumped up with determination, Koyuki felt behind, now wanting to search for her potential spirit guardian to do her part in this mission.

 Later on, while eating breakfast with his friends, Shuto went on to explain that, to free Kirito and his friends, they must defeat their evil selves that were fabricated by the game's creator. Roxas and the others were stunned but understood that side note, keeping that in their minds as notes. Roxas then wrote it in his notepad later on.

 After that, at the school rooftop during lunchtime, Roxas was reading his usual book while Anko was reading it when the system's screes appeared before Roxas, showing him a new "official" feature that was added in the game: Add-on Mods Chute. As the name suggested, it is a horizontal chute that allows any players who can make mod packs to add little changes to the game to make it more enjoyable. Here are the steps:

1. Write, draw, or both, your mod pack ideas on paper, either typing or writing by hand for linear form, while hand draw or digital draw it for visual, non-linear form.

2. Submit them to the Add-on Mods Chute, which will process them according to their current ability to interpret their meanings and ideas and make them into reality as mod packs.

3. The chute will turn them into reality in the game.

4. Label your mod packs and add a passcode to keep them secured and safe from anyone who wants to steal or remove them.

5. Enjoy the game with your customized mod packs!

Roxas and Anko were stunned, and Roxas, having experienced with small-time mod packs in his favorite games like Minecraft, decided to cash in.

 So, while lunchtime was still on, Roxas made his own by typing a document on his laptop, which was luckily brought to school by him, and printed it out at the school's library printer, before feeding it through the Add-on Mods Chute, which turns it into reality in the game. His is called Music Morale Boost, which boosts the morale of players according to their taste and preference for kinds of music. This boosted their morale, and in turn, their stats temporarily. And then, the Chute took effect and action, adding the mod pack into the game with immediate effect. Now, every player has a meter that fluctuates depending on the player's taste and preference for music. If it was high, it would boost the player's stats. If it was low, it would maintain the same stats, having no effects at all. The duration of the effect will vary, of course. And so, the players suddenly had that, and some of them had high ones when listening to their favorite tunes, while others had low ones that didn't have any effect on their stats. As a result, those who had temporarily boosted stats became more efficient in their fighting with swords and other metal weapons. Upon seeing that effect and good fruit from the school rooftop, Roxas was positive that his idea had worked well. Anko was stunned, knowing that Roxas was smarter than he thought. Roxas then labeled his mod pack as Music Morale Boost and put a passcode for it, making him the owner of it.

 The game became more enjoyable than ever thanks to Roxas' radical innovation. But as for the Add-on Mods Chute, no one knows who added it, adding a layer of mystery to the game.