Ch.4 Is Status Screen a Privilege Exclusive to Players?

Anyway, the only thing I can do right now is swaying my body restlessly.

Maybe I'll be able to move around once my level goes up.

That is, if this grass body of mine have a concept of level...

I'd like to verify this and make sure that I can move around before players or other NPCs living in this world (game) arrive here.

Otherwise, my life as a simple grass will soon come to an end.

As a human in my previous life, I only lived for 28 years, so I would like to live longer in my second life.

I need to think about that in tandem with everything else.

Right, there's also my current state of mind.

It's strange how I've accepted the fact that I'm dead so easily, and I don't feel any lingering attachment or regret. What is this?

Although I wasn't the type of person who would cry over something because I had regrets, I certainly wasn't the type of person who could simply accept death and move on to the next life either.

I would have at least wished I'd said something to my family or friends.

"..."

What is this? My heart is still very calm. Like there's emptiness to it.

Because it's an artificial body?

Curious, I started swaying my body again.

Yes, the feeling of the sway, the temperature and humidity of the soil, it doesn't seem much different from when I was a human.

Is it some kind of mental safety blocking function?

Well, I'd like to know more about this issue someday.

As long as I live, I'm sure I will be able to answer these questions one day. After all, I am the person (NPC) I am now.

At the moment, no matter how much I think about it, it seems like this lull in my mind won't change, so for now I'll just move forward and set myself a goal.

"..."

Having said that, I know there's still some time before the game starts, so I'll put that problem aside for now.

After all, this place is the Fairy Forest, a hidden area located between Area 8 and 9.

I remembered that the Fairy Flame Gerbil was a raid monster that only appeared there, so I was able to know where this is.

Knowing where I am in this world is already a good omen.

So my first goal is to get close to one of the many trees growing around me so that I wont get riddled with holes by that bird.

Now, let's pull up my roots...

Ah, of course this would happen ... What a poor thing. Now 1 more of my root is left exposed to the elements above the ground.

AI-san, will I still level up if I keep doing this wasteful behavior?

If I do something, will I be able to evolve even though I'm not using the avatar I had back then, AI-san?

"..."

No reply. There was no reply when I was playing the game either, so I wasn't expecting much. I thought it might answer my question since i'm now an NPC, though.

At the very least, according to the setting, there should have been a character who is a god.

Well, if there's no reply, there's nothing I can do about it. The only thing I can do now is to keep doing trial and error believing I can level up and evolve. All I got so far was 2 errors though.

"..."

Oops, how embarrassing. You saw me. Haah, I was just checking.

Before I even tried to raise my level, I couldn't help but murmur it, expecting a reaction.

Huh? What do I mean? It's that.

The standard response in situations like this is to say "Status!"

Unfortunately, no status window.

I guess I really do need a mouth after all.

Wait, isn't my root actually a mouth? Well, I can't really bring real life Biology into a game, can I?

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〘Prayer Seeker〙

A legendary game created in the early days when VR devices were beginning to become popular in common households.

It's a classic RPG in which you are recognized as a hero by a king and set out on a journey, but many players were discouraged by bugs that made it difficult to level up and the enemies' high dodge rate.

The company that developed it has left this serious bug unattended. The reason why is unclear.

The title alone didn't interest many people, and at the same time, few people bought it.

When the protagonist was in junior high school, he found this on sale in a cart and bought it.

After playing it, he regretted buying it.

"Isn't it terrible that your character progress disappears when you die...?"

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