Chapter 26: “The Darkness Lurking in People’s Hearts”
Let’s have Sugaru act as the first test subject.
“Sugaru, I’m going to add you as a friend.”
Right now, there was no reason not to tell it to her straight. Sugaru looked back at her blankly. This wasn’t exactly the response she was expecting.
Rare wondered what she had to do to add a friend. Normally, just asking “Do you want to be friends?” would work. However, what mattered here was how the game defined “friends.”
How exactly did one become friends with someone else?
The sinister darkness that plagued modern society gushed forth from within, and that commonly accepted method of making friends in real life paralyzed her body for a brief moment.
If the system operated in largely the same way, then similar actions should lead to similar results. First was to try what two players would do when they wanted to friend each other.
Unfortunately, Rare never wanted to friend anyone during the closed beta. All the account data would be wiped at the end of the test, after all, and she just had too much fun exploring all the game systems, which wasn’t what most players wanted to do. In this open beta as well, she didn’t have any players she wanted to friend.
Rare had to rely on the Help documentation again.