While whispering, Lyfa pulled his sharply pointed ear. The only reply was a mumble that sounded like “munyamunya”. On his lap was another companion, a pixie, sleeping soundly while curled in a ball. “Hey, if you fall asleep, you’ll log out!” She pulled his ear again. Doing this made his head end up on her thighs, his head rolling around as if looking for a comfortable position. Lyfa’s body stiffened in mortification, her hands clenching futilely as she wondered what method to attempt next to wake him. It isn’t surprising that he is falling asleep though, she realized as she looked to the lower-right of her field of vision. After all, it is past 2:00 AM in the real world. Normally, Lyfa would already have logged out and been soundly asleep in her bed. That’s right, Jötunheimr and Alfheim were worlds that were products of a gaming company. Somewhere in the real world in Japan’s metropolitan city of Tokyo was a server machine and this place is a virtual world inside it. Lyfa and her companion existed here as people using the FullDive interface machine called «AmuSphere». It was actually quite easy to leave the virtual world. One simply had to extend the index and middle fingers of his or her left hand, wave them in order to open the game menu, and press the «Log Out» button. Alternatively, you could simply lie down and fall asleep; the AmuSphere would sense the user’s lowered brainwave activity and automatically disconnect. Come the next morning, users would wake comfortably in their own beds. However, there was a specific reason that Lyfa and her companion could not sleep here.