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they give
us. For me this game is the ultimate adventure,” she says with a
look of excitement on her face. “Back in the real world, if I jump
out of my apartment’s window then the medical robots will just put
me back together. Here if things bug out, it’s instant death. I’m
on the edge of dying all the time and that floats my
boat.”
    “ You should have picked Daredevil
for your game name.”
    Axel smiles.
    “ I’ve been Killer Extreme for too
long now. I don’t think I could go back to living a real world
life, if such a life even really exists anymore.
    Real life. The world of 2222 isn’t
pretty, perhaps the world never was, almost no one leaves their
houses. Everything they need is a request away. There are huge
masses of bored or poor people, who can’t afford real world
experiences, which are often less pleasant than the Sensory Input
World one’s anyway. It’s a different life from what Harry learned
about in school: infinitely better and infinitely worse at the same
time. Axel and Harry are just a product of that; a world they lost
faith in; a world so boring that risking your life in a game for
fun or money is better than living in a world that isn’t very nice
anyway.
    Harry gets up and looks around the forest to
try to get away from the thoughts that he tries very hard to hide
from. There are a few pigs nearby and he can see a small bear
wandering through the woods in the distance. He is pretty sure that
he is not going to be able to get back to town without some
help.
    "Are you going back to town?"
    “ Not really. Do you want some
help?”
    “ That would be very generous of
you.”
    “ Generous? It’ll cost you one
silver.”
    He looks back at her and then jerks his thumb
at the farm in the distance.
    "The farmer nearly killed us because you were
eating his sandwich. Don’t you think you owe me for that
one?”
    She stands up and strolls over to him,
stopping to run her finger down his chest to the belly
button.
    "You've got balls, I can see that,” she says,
making Harry blush, “but it will still cost you a
silver."
    Harry sighs and then pops one out of the air
to throw to her. She catches it and then begins walking in a
direction just off from where the farm is.
    About half way to the town by the small map
that Harry which Axel shows him how to summon, they are attacked by
a large black bear that charges out of the woods at
them.
    Harry starts to run, but Axel stands firm as
it charges towards her. She pulls off her bow and casually drawers
out an arrow to nock and fire in one clean movement.
    The arrow slams into big bear’s paw and its
stumbles off to the side slightly. It skips past Harry as it slips
by and another arrow takes it in its rear leg. After a few more
meters it falls to its side, unable to move with two legs gone, and
Axel walks over to fire an arrow straight into its
chest.
    Harry watches as a small window opens in front
of her telling her that she has gained a very tiny amount of
experience points and a few gory bits of animal meat.
    The bear puts out one final growl and then
lays its head down to the dirt. The woman bends down, drawing a
knife and begins cutting the creature's skin off. Harry looks away,
but it doesn't take long for him to look back curiously at what the
woman's doing. The bear’s skin comes away relatively easily and all
that remains underneath as she pulls it away is pixilated red that
could be flesh or a tomato, it’s hard to tell. It’s almost
comically pleasant for an act that would normally be very
messy.
    She pulls away the fur and the creature slowly
disappears as Harry watches her pocket the entire fur without any
obvious signs that anything out of the ordinary has
happened.
    "That's absolutely amazing. How did you learn
to do that so easily?"
    The woman glances at him.
    "You don’t know? I’m a hunter class with
leanings towards the combat skill tree. Skinning is one of the
things that I learned early on to finance the cost of the 1000