My Iyashikei Game Chapter 6: Trade Social Anxiety for Madness

After Han Fei lost his job, he did find temporary solace in many different video games. His main goal was to vent and readjust his status so that he could soon regain motivation to continue with his life. Well, his goal was accomplished now. After playing this Perfect Life, he had a renewed and deep appreciation for the goodness of life. The injustice that he faced before paled so much in comparison to attempted murders and virtual ghosts. So in a way, he was cured. But the method of treatment was rather rough. To borrow an analogy, it was like the surgeon had decided to chop off his hands because a wood splinter got stuck in his pinkie.

Lying listlessly on the ground, pain, and fatigue tormented his soul. Han Fei had no idea whether he ultimately drifted off to sleep or lost consciousness.

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Bang! Bang! Bang!

At 7 am, Han Fei was woken up by knocking on his door. He crawled up from the floor and his brain blurred. It was not until he saw the gaming helmet on the table and the blood stains inside it that he realized the game yesterday was not a dream. ‘The New Player Mission is already so damn hard, and it’ll only get harder from here. If this is not a death summon, then what is? I’m just a comedy actor, I don’t even know how to fight. How am I supposed to wrestle with a whole building of crazy neighbours?’

Bang! Bang! Bang! The knocking was insistent. If this happened before Han Fei experienced Perfect Life, the young man with great social anxiety would pretend to be absent from home and quietly wait until the person left. But now? He strode to the front door and opened it without much thought.

“Good morning, we are the police from Xin Fu Road’s station.” Xin Fu Road was located at the older parts of town, which incidentally was also where the convenience store where Han Fei bought the gaming helmet was located. “My name is Zhao Ming and this is my colleague Zhang Xiaotian.”

“Police?” Seeing the two officers in uniform at his door, Han Fei’s eyes lit up. The thing called Black Box in his brain threatened him with

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