037 The World Revolves Around Money
Okay, here’s a question.
“Oh? You’re awake?”
You wake up to find a blonde, blue-eyed, elf-like sister heroine right next to your bed. What do you do?
You have 0.5 seconds to think. Now, let’s reveal the correct answer.
“Oh my, you gave me such a fright. You and Higaki-san were collapsed on the side of the road.”
“Here!”
“Gold coins—!!”
The correct answer is: “Since the person is a money-grubbing, avaricious, heretical nun (sister), throw gold coins to distract her.”
“Wow! What are these, where did these gold coins come from!? I’ve never seen gold coins with a jackal face on them before!? Do these come from the school dungeon? Uwah, these are rare!!”
Ignoring Ethel Tyner, who jumped to catch the ‘Netherworld’ gold coins I threw and was now happily examining them, I got out of bed.
Looking at the interior, I could tell that I was in a room in the hospital attached to the school.
After seeing it twice, I finally remembered.
And being in the hospital room meant that I had successfully revived.
It was my first time coming back from the dead, so I was a little uneasy, but I was glad that everything was fine.
“Hagu… It even leaves teeth marks, so it doesn’t seem to be gold leaf. The weight is similar to the kingdom’s gold coins.”
Ignoring Tyner, who had started her examination with a serious look, I turned my gaze to the side of the bed, where a bag filled with items I had brought from the ‘Underworld’ was placed.
In the game, they would normally be stored in the item slot of the menu screen, but since the menu had disappeared in reality, it seemed that they had appeared in this form in the real world.
It would be convenient if the menu screen and item box would somehow reappear… It’s such a pain to manage carrying items around…
“—Huh! What was I doing? And hey, are you even listening to me?”
“Here’s another.”
“Another one, yay!”
I threw another gold coin to distract her.
In the meantime, I picked up the bag and checked its contents. Taking out a small bag from it, I recounted the number of ‘Seeds’ inside.
“One, two, three, four… Oh? Oh? Oh! They’ve increased! The ‘Seeds’ have increased! This world is bugged! The patch hasn’t been applied!”
Right after the release of the additional downloadable content, the ‘item duplication bug’ became a hot topic.
This bug caused the number of items and the amount of money a player possessed to double when they returned from the ‘Netherworld’ to the real world. It became a hot topic because it was possible to use this bug to increase the number of unique items that could normally only be obtained once.
I’m not familiar with the technical aspects, so I can’t explain it in that way, but according to experts, “When going from the real world to the Netherworld, the character data is ‘copied’ instead of ‘transferred’. And when returning to the real world, the character data from the Netherworld is ‘copied’ to the real world, and then the data of the items possessed in the Netherworld is ‘transferred’, resulting in this situation.”
Well, please look it up yourself, it’s probably somewhere on the strategy wiki.
I’m not one to care about the cause, as long as it’s not a clear cheat code, I’ll use any bug I can, and if there isn’t one, I don’t care. What’s important is whether it’s possible or not.
“Rare gold coins in my right hand, rare gold coins in my left hand… Ah… I’m so happy…”
Although this bug seemed useful, it also caused the story’s key items to increase, which led to bugs in the later event progression.
In a certain dungeon, a problem occurred where “the key item that had been used (the one originally possessed) was somehow held in an unused state (the increased one), causing the stage gimmicks to be judged as not having followed the correct procedure, making it impossible to progress.”
Perhaps because of that, the bug disappeared after the application of a later patch, and the storm that had once stirred up the bulletin board sites had passed… but I remembered this in the ‘Netherworld’ and thought about it.
If this world was in the state before the patch was applied, wouldn’t it be possible to increase the number of ‘Seeds’ with this bug?
“I wonder how many kingdom gold coins I could get if I exchanged these? Or should I put them up for auction as a collection? I can’t decide, I can’t decide!”
Fortunately, I, who had nothing to do with the original story, didn’t have a single key item.
Even if the number of items I possessed increased, there would be no problem, and if no bugs occurred, then there would be no problem either.
It was a gamble with no risk and high returns, and I had won it perfectly.
“(The number of ‘Seeds’ is now 24. It’s not enough to completely make up for the 30% stat difference, but it’s an increase of almost 10 levels! Thinking that I’ll be able to hunt even stronger monsters with this… fufu, fuhihi… HYAHOOO!!)
I struck a victory pose, overjoyed. My clenched fist was hard and strong, proportional to my joy.
If this is the case, then the Bonus Uncle’s sword that Higaki has should have also doubled, so if I get one back, both Higaki and I will be satisfied!
Perfect, it’s too perfect! As expected, in games, those who have information, a spirit of challenge, and never give up are the ones who can become winners! Fuhya-hah-hah-hah!! HYAHOOOOOOO!!”
“Oh, by the way, your medical bill is 60 million.”
…Huh?