some invisible hat, I felt the anxiety returning. “That’s impossible, both of them. Right now, we can’t move our bodies…our real bodies. The «Nerve Gear» receives all the signals that our brain is sending here…” I tapped the back of my head. “… and reroutes them to move our avatars here.” Cline slowly closed his mouth and put his hands down. We both stood speechless for a while, each lost in thought. To attain the FullDive state, the Nerve Gear blocks the signals that our brain sends down our spines and changes them so that we can control our avatars in this world. So however wildly we swing our arm about here, the arm of my real body, which was lying on my bed right now, wouldn’t move an inch, ensuring that I wouldn’t hit my head against the corner of my table or anything. But because of this function, we can’t cancel the FullDive of our own free will right now. “…so unless the bug is fixed or somebody in the real world takes the Gear off, we have to wait it out?” Cline mumbled, still a little dazed. I silently signaled my agreement. “But I live by myself. You?” I hesitated slightly but told him the truth. “…I live with my mom and my younger sister, a family of three. I think that I’ll be forced out of Dive if I don’t come down for dinner…” “What? H-How old is your sister?”