Event 107: Fantasy Link

About three weeks had passed since the incident at the senior officials meeting, Haruta had not seen her grandfather since that day.

Yuriko calls Haruta daily to make sure she is okay, Saya on the other hand finished Haruta's garden but since she discovered the old house library she has spent hours reading the old books.

"Is this the new design for the nevergear?" Haruta stood in front of what looked like two totally luxurious seats with what appeared to be a version of the nevergear reduced in size and more comfortable only to place it on the eyes.

Yamamoto shook his finger while showing a big smile "This is not a nevergear this is the Fantasy Link, a totally original version of the nevergear but without the instant death function"

Haruta took the Fantasy Link and put it in his hands "Are you sure this works?"

Yamamoto approached Haruta, put a cup of coffee aside and stared at her "Look at my eyes, I have bags in the bags, I can't remember the last time I could sleep, all I had on my mind was this device, even. Even Asumi-chan came to see me several times and made coffee for me .... of course she was dressed as a maid to motivate my hard work "At first Yamamoto began to scream but little by little his tone dropped until his face was red. just think about his girlfriend.

"So the development of this device was not entirely tortuous for you, having a maid while serving you coffee for your work"

"She made fun of me, said she would die a thousand times in that game"

"she was not so wrong"

"You too, doesn't anyone have confidence in my abilities?!"

"They kicked you until you died and you almost lost an arm" Haruta pointed to Yamamoto's arm that was still covered in bandages making the latter's look more gloomy.

"I will never let it happen again ..... I also want to be as strong as you, now I have this system and I have to learn to use it correctly" Yamamoto returned to his seat just to open his laptop "The screens that are on the wall serve to capture everything we see during our stay in SAO, the other screens capture the change in our statistics and the rest is to monitor the changes in our body, they are adjusted to force us to leave the game in case of any unforeseen event"

"When are we going to enter SAO?"

"We should rest for today, I want to go in without having these dark circles on my face" Yamamoto touched the edges of his eyes slightly "Besides, I have to warn you about something else"

"Hmm?"

"After Kayaba gave us the equipment, the three of us had a chat conversation to help with various problems of logic or ideas, do you remember the main topic?"

Haruta remembered until he remembered the several times he had his phone in his hand in the group chat of Yamamoto and Kayaba, there the trio talked about theories for SAO or the VRMMORPG in general "The flow of time in a secular dimension such as the SAO case? "

Yamamoto nodded and turned her body to the computer to display various traces of information on the screens "I have the data from your dive in SAO as a tester and I have the codes from the final version of SAO, time flows differently".

"How different?"

"At least ten times"

"Ten times?"

"Yes, I measured it several times and checked the codes repeatedly, the time inside SAO flows ten times faster than out here"

Haruta pressed his hands tightly, the idea of ​​the flow of time came from his own knowledge, it was nothing of the system he just used his knowledge as a university student to help Kayaba and now it turns out that it could be his undoing.

"I thought these three weeks represented nothing, I assumed they would only be on floor two when we entered and if we pushed ourselves in a week or two we could catch up with those in front" Haruta released his grip and then sighed "I guess we have to work twenty times more than the others to reach the top "

Yamamoto couldn't help but feel bad, he knew very well that all this was also their fault, they helped Kayaba but they never doubted the words of the genius after all in their minds he did not gain anything by deceiving them, but the reality was different.

"Haruta, we can't play fair"

"Ah?"

"We cannot play fair friend, if we are going to follow Kayaba's rules we will not be able to reach the top even if we are reckless, we have to be of the worst kind of players"

"Are you suggesting that we cheat?"

"Yes, we will be cheater from the moment we enter the game, we do not have opportunities within SAO following the rules, we still have to attend school and continue with our lives, we cannot be in SAO all the time because that way there would be no difference with the other prisoners of Kayaba. I have someone special within SAO as well as you have Asuna, we both have something to achieve and I have the way "Yamamoto turned on a solitary screen where several variables, numbers and letters appeared.

"Come on don't make me wait any longer, you are the genius of the project"

"I took the trouble to create our characters using the system as a reference, you said that the systems were already adapted to SAO that means that we can make changes to the SAO system, use that data to configure variables within SAO and now we have some tricks up our sleeve "

"What were the changes?"

"The biggest changes are experience, the experience gained by defeating an enemy is doubled, experience is gained by walking, you gain twice the experience running, the damage dealt is transformed into experience, the money earned in the game is doubled and we have double the drop rate on objects "Yamamoto puffed out his chest proudly while displaying all the data.

"Wouldn't it be better to have made the experience increase a few times more?"

"I'm cheating, I fell low enough already, I don't want to break the overall balance of the game!"

"Fine, whatever you say"