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Sword Art Online Volume 5 – Phantom Bullet

“It seemed like a hardcore player using drugs and hallucinating... Although looking at this one case alone doesn’t help very much when put into a general perspective compared to all the other cases...” “Indeed, in terms of the overall national crime rate, these barely amount to anything, but concluding from a myopic perspective it may be VRMMO games that breed such social unrest. However, as you had previously mentioned...” “- VRMMO games do cause people to lower certain boundaries in reality. It is something even I recognize.” At that time, the waiter returned with silent footfalls and placed in front of me two plates of dessert and a cup of coffee. “Would this be everything Sir?” After a nod, he placed a bill with a scary figure face down on the edge of the table. I took a sip of the coffee that exuded a nutty aroma and continued our conversation. “... As PKing is seen in most of these games as just another daily occurrence, it isn’t impossible for such an environment to serve as a training ground for real world murders. Especially in this new genre of games, where cutting off a wrist leads to blood spurting out and slicing open a stomach results in internal organs spilling out. Above that, are also hardcore maniacs who would rather commit suicide than log out.” A throat was cleared from a nearby table with an interrupting ‘ahem’, to reveal two prim and proper women glaring daggers directed at me. I lowered my head, and continued in a quieter voice: “Given such common daily occurrences, it isn’t much of a mystery for some idiot to have brought back that practice into reality. I too, feel

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