Chapter 4: 4

“So you were here for the Virtumon Collab, huh?!” Zecca said. “In that case, you should open the Present Box.”

“Umm… here it is!” Johann said.

As Zecca told her, she opened the Present Box from the menu. There she found various items. While the Newbie Level Boost Event and Login Bonuses are lined up, Johann’s eyes stop at the “Virtumon Collaboration Event Commemorative Gift”. When she tapped it, an egg-shaped toy appears in his hand. 1

“Summoned beasts are usually contained in crystals, but collaboration items are often in the shape of whatever they were in their original series,” Zecca said.

“Is that so…? That’s wonderful,” Johann said.

“It’s very detailed, I really like this part of this game. It seems that this egg-shaped toy was also popular before I was born… wait, what’s wrong, Johann-san! Does something hurt?!” Zecca cried.

“Do-Don’t worry, Zecca-chan. It’s okay, I’m fine. I just got unexpected damaged knowing you weren’t even alive when I was a child,” Johann replied.

Virtual Monster was more than 20 years old. It was a monster breeding game that followed the trend of other portable monster breeding games then. By taking care of the Virtual Monster in the egg-shaped toy, the monster evolves into various forms. And 20 years ago, an anime about Virtumon aired and became very popular. In fact, Johann had learned about them from the anime.

“Then, you also have one of these then, Johann-san?” Zecca asked.

“Oh… yeah. I have.. had one, then,” Johann said.

“…?”

With that, Kei’s bitter memories are revived. Kei, 8 years old then, bought a Virtual Monster with her New Year’s money and worked hard every day to train it. For Kei then, her Virtumon was her treasure, and she continued to play for years. Although it was a simple game, she felt like the moving monsters in the toy were real and raised them carefully.

However, she eventually went up to 4th grade. What do you mean you still haven’t moved on from these toys? She was scolded by her father and he smashed it to pieces. Right in front of her.

“It’s not like I was slacking on my studies or anything like that,” Johann said. “I’m sorry. This story is boring, isn’t it… wait, Zecca-chan?! Why are you crying?”

“Th-That’s unforgivable! Even if that was your father, Johann-san, I’m angry! It’s too cruel, destroying a child’s treasure without permission!”

“Zecca-chan…”

Johann was astonished. The kindness of a girl who grieves for Johann despite this being their first meeting. And she thinks back to what she was like back then. I’m sure she didn’t cry as much as she did. Since then, she was focused on her studies and sports.

Perhaps she was made to think that games and anime are childish things for children. Johann thinks that her generation was the last one to be bound by the value of “you should grow up from this by elementary school.” This is because she’s seen the younger generation like her younger sister immersed in such culture even after entering high school or college.

So she didn’t think anything of it. When Johann soothed the girl who was crying for her at that time, she said, “Thank you.” Zecca then stops crying and she now has big smile on her face.

“This must be fate! After 20 years, Johan-san’s partner has returned via GOO (which is short for Genesis Omega Online)!”

“I feel like you’re exaggerating a bit…” Johann said.

“I’m not exaggerating,” Zecca said. “Ah, when I heard that story, even I got excited. Johann-san, let’s summon them right away.”

“Huh, I can summon here?” Johann said.

“You can! You can’t fight with them, but you can summon them!” Zecca said.

Zecca excitedly teaches her how to use summoned beasts. Apparently, you just press a button and say a few words.

“Summoned Beast Call! Come forth, ‘Hinadora’!!”

In response to Johann’s voice, the beginner’s summoning skill activates. From a geometric magical circle on the ground, a small monster emerged…

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“Mokkyu”

A monster that looks like a deformed dragon’s head appears. The appearance of the monster with its black body and round white horns was familiar to Johann.

“He-Hey, it looks like the real thing…” Johann said as she carefully picked it up.

Hinadora cries “mokyu” as if it was tickled. It looked exactly like the one she saw in the anime, and it looked exactly like the one she dreamed of when she was a kid. So long ago. Something important that she voluntarily threw away when he was a child has been revived inside Johann.

“It’s been a while since you’ve met, huh?” Zecca said.

Johann nods at those and then buries her face in Hinadora to hide her tears. And she muttered so softly that no one else could hear,

“I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you then.”

“Mokyu?” Hinadora went.

“It’s nothing…I’m just glad to see you again,” Johann said.

She kept hugging Hinadora for a while until the tears stopped.

“… ~~So that’s basically it,” Zecca said.

“I get it now…” Johann said.

With Zecca’s instruction, Johann has a complete overview of the Virtumon Collaboration Event. From the menu, you’d warp to the event-only area, where you use the summoned beasts limited to the collaboration event and perform four battles that reproduce famous scenes from the Virtumon anime. By clearing one round, you can get randomly get 1 of 8 limited-time summoned beasts.

It’s not a very good event for anyone other than summoners, and there’s a hunting event with good drop rates currently being held alongside, so it’s become nearly empty, but as it’s a solo-only event, Johann can play alone without any problems.

“Thank you very much, Zecca-chan,” Johann said, bowing her head. “I’m glad I met you. Well then, I’ll go to the event.”

“Oh, don’t say that,” Zecca said, blushing and fidgeting. “It’s the duty of a veteran to be kind to newbies… and so, um.”

(Zecca-chan, what happened all of a sudden!? But she’s so cute,) Johann thought.

Even though she’s inwardly panicking, she waited for Zecca’s words.

“Umm, would you like to add me as a friend? I want to hang out with you again.”

(Hmm. I’m not interested in anything other than the Virtumon Event, so I’d like to decline.)

“No, I… can’t…?” Johann asked.

(She’s so cute with those teary eyes…)

“I meant okay!” Johann said.

“Yay!” Johann said.

Johann was so sweet to a pretty girl. After registering her as a friend, Zecca shakes her hand and leaves. After seeing her off, Johann tapped the button to move to the event area.

Footnotes

Think of a Tamagotchi.

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