Log Horizon: Alien Chronicles Volume 1

Ch.40-Epilogue

"Oh, I ate too much curry," Shiroe sighed, flopping into his office chair. Naruto jumped up to Shiroe's desk, sitting on it while making sure the paperwork on it did not fly off.

[Well, you did eat four plates of curry. You normally don't eat that much like I do.] Naruto chuckled, swinging his legs over the edge of the desk.

"Akiba has gotten it's vigor back." Shiroe said, looking out the window, seeing all the lights throughout the streets near the center of the city. "Even though there is still holes in our economic system with pricing and such, it's good to see everything worked."

[Yeah. Though, give the pricing issue time. It won't take long for it to sort out as currency always need time to set its value once started. We just have the upside of old item prices for Gold to make the transition faster.] Naruto let out a sigh, [Though, guess I can't deny it any longer.]

"Your name? So the block is off it?" Shiroe asked, smiling at Naruto.

[Ah, knew I could not hide it from you.] Naruto grinned at Shiroe. [But, yeah. This world is using how I sort my memories for everyone else. But, it also my wishes to forget things I didn't like. Including my name.]

"I thought you loved your name. I mean, you love ramen." Shiroe jabbed at Naruto.

[The meaning of the name is perfectly fine.] Shiroe's eyes widen, [Back in the old world, I just saw it as simply a label for the current life I was playing. Even though I knew my parents gave me that name with love, it always sounded so hollow when it came out of people's mouths. As if instead that label was for describing something instead of for a person. When you remember every life you lived, it really gets to you. Though, now, it actually feels like a name when it comes from people's mouth's now.]

"Ah, that's right. You were the human sacrifice for Konoha. I guess it did not help with your problem." Shiroe sighed, picking up a report on his desk. "Though, to think your world was already using the same system as this one, but disguising it as reincarnation is actually quite brilliant. It allowed for the maximum amount of people to be brought to this world since each person who was fully incarnated resulted in two people instead of one with them reviving. It does make me wonder if any of this is really computer data as I was thinking."

[Oh, computer data was involved,] Shiroe raised an eyebrow at Naruto. [The backstory of Elder Tales was that the Ages of the Gods ended with the world broken. Though before the setting of Elder Tales, a time close to the Age of Gods was matched, it quickly went back down again with the extinction of the Alvs and the world possible broke again due to this.]

"And hence computer data was used to restore it." Shiroe said, nodding at Naruto. "That would explain why those with the computer data for the game was silenced like you or eliminated. As well as why this world has such physics connected to games. With such information, one could have total control over this world possible."

[Correct. Considering how Dad is an Alv and what all he done to the old world with just introducing his abilities and ninshu, it is safe to say that magic is an information based science able to act like computer code. Hence how it can make programs that results spells and cause effects normally not allowed in a reality without magic. It also explains why the Alvs sent people to the world I am from. This world probably needs the mass of real data to support the computer data used to repair this one.]

"Though, that also means we have no means to divide what is truly from the game and what is possibly actual a real thing to this world before the game." Shiroe sighed, "We need information. Though. the downside is that the People of the Land clearly have a different language even though they can speak to us just fine. You have learnt it, but it is pretty complex even for me. I am only able to copy it and read a few words at this moment."