Lead and Battle Line - 2

I ate lunch at a nearby restaurant and took out my credit card to pay. 'But, how much money do I have?' Come to think of it, I didn't know how much money I had. I had used my credit card many times, but I had never thought about how much I had before spending. 'Surely I don't have any money left...?' With a sense of foreboding, I logged into my online banking on my smartphone to check how much money I had. But the number was a bit strange. '......billion? What is this......' I was momentarily speechless. Apparently, there was a reason why I had been spending money without caring how much I had. *** I sat on a bench in a suitable place, basking in the sun and thinking. I was organizing the things I hadn't finished thinking about yesterday. 'First of all, who am I?' I took out my student ID and looked at it. There was a picture of me with an expressionless face and my personal information. Species: Human Date of Birth: August 2 Name: Namari Line LINE NAMARI 'What kind of name is this......' Looking at my name, I wondered what kind of name it was. My name was written in kanji and katakana as 鉛リネ. 'How can a person's name be lead (鉛/Namari)...? And why does the English spelling of Line (リネ/Rine) start with an L instead of an R? Rine?' The surname was the kanji for lead, and the first name was Line. I had no idea what kind of name it was. 'Well, whatever. It sounds okay when you just hear the sounds. Namari Line......' Namari Line, I didn't know the meaning, but it sounded okay. It sounded good, and it wasn't like I could change my name by caring about it, so I decided not to care about my name anymore. 'Then, what kind of life have I lived?' I looked back on my life as Namari Line, a student of Kivotos. First of all, I was quiet and not sociable. I had no friends and no conversations with people around me. I had no special hobbies and just studied or stayed still. I was very passive and lived as if something was missing. I just repeated the same thing for years. No matter how far back I went in my memories, that was it. When I finished thinking about this, I suddenly felt a sense of crisis and an indescribable fear running down my spine. 'What the hell is this...? What kind of life have I lived?' I had just studied. And even that study wasn't because someone told me to or because I wanted to, but because there was nothing else to do. I had no emotions about anything. I didn't think about anything. I just moved as something led me, like a hollow puppet. "Haha, what is this... It's just a soulless corpse......" Cold sweat ran down my body, chilling me. Then, I suddenly felt as if my body had become cold and heavy like metal. Like lead. *** I went to a nearby vending machine and got a cold drink. Then, I gulped down the drink to calm myself down. "Haa, should I be glad that I realized it now?" I leaned against the vending machine and thought about what happened yesterday. The reason I realized my current situation, that is, seeing Sensei in the D.U. district. 'That was part of the prologue, wasn't it?' The prologue, where Sensei, together with the students, retakes the Schale's club room in order to regain control of the Sanctum Tower. 'Then that means the story of Blue Archive has begun... I've seen the early parts of the story, but I don't remember them that well......' From what I could remember, a few days after the prologue, Sensei would go to Abydos to help the students of the Abydos Foreclosure Task Force. 'Since everything will be resolved if Sensei just acts according to the story, there's no need to get involved, right? Rather, it would be worse if I got involved and the story got twisted.' I thought about what the story in Abydos was like, recalling it step by step. Abydos High School was a once-great school that had fallen into ruin due to desertification caused by climate change. And the rough story was that the students of the Abydos Foreclosure Task Force, with the help of Sensei, struggled to repay the enormous debt incurred in the process of the school's decline. 'Yeah, that was it. So now, in a few days, Sensei will go to Abydos......' Sensei will go to Abydos, wander the streets for days, and become exhausted. "......Isn't this a bit sad?" In the ruined Abydos, people had already left long ago, and most areas were empty houses. The only thing Sensei would encounter there for days would be the sandstorm. 'Surely, after wandering for a few days, Shiroko will appear and help Sensei, but......' If something went wrong and Shiroko didn't appear, I didn't want to think about what would happen. 'Besides, there's already a variable called me.' I had already met Sensei in the D.U. district. Not only that, but I couldn't know what kind of butterfly effect my existence and life in this Kivotos would have. 'Originally, there was no student named Namari Line in Blue Archive......' If I was just one of the many mob characters, it was something I didn't need to worry about. 'But what if I'm not? What should I do?' I thought carefully about what I should do. And it soon became clear in my mind, and it clearly indicated what I should do. In a few days, I will go to Abydos. 'If I don't know how the variable of me will act, I have to control it.' Since I decided to go to Abydos, I needed to prepare for it. I planned what to do in Abydos and thought about what items I would need. 'First, if I go to Abydos, I have to meet Sensei first. Depending on when I meet him, he might be starving for days, so I need to bring water and food.' But as I thought more about it, the list of items I needed to bring grew longer. First of all, I had to consider whether I could properly navigate the vast and desolate Abydos, where a healthy adult male could wander for days, and how long it would take to find Sensei. To navigate Abydos, I needed a map, a compass, a protractor, and so on. And if Sensei was not only starving but also injured or sick, I would need appropriate medical supplies. The first things that came to mind were disinfectant, ointment, bandages, and other over-the-counter medicines, but this was Kivotos. There was a possibility that someone would attack Sensei for some reason, and he would get shot. Thinking about the case of a gunshot wound, I thought of various items such as pressure bandages, gauze, tourniquets, forceps, hemostatic agents, antibiotics, and painkillers. Most importantly, the amount of water and food I needed increased several times over. Even just a few days' worth of water and food would take up a lot of space and weight. And carrying that for days, walking around a desertifying town would be very difficult. 'There are too many items I need. Even if I reduce other things, at most, I can only reduce the water and food to a three-day supply. Even then, I might get exhausted first... Should I bring a cart?' I imagined a young girl carrying a lot of luggage in a cart, wandering around a sandy town. And that would be me. Many thoughts came to mind, and I didn't want to think about it anymore. 'Hmm... I need a vehicle. A bicycle? A car? Let's go home first and think about it some more.' I decided to stop worrying in the middle of the school and go home. I was already full of thoughts about Abydos to go back to class and study, and I didn't want to be in that remote and gloomy place anymore. *** 'By the way, why me?' On the way home, I suddenly had a question. I don't know why I came to this Blue Archive world. Right now, I have vivid memories of living as a student in Kivotos and living as a male student in reality, as if they were just yesterday. 'One of them was definitely yesterday. So what was the last thing I did in the original world...?' I tried to recall the last thing I did in the original world, but that day, I just played games while talking with my friends on a messenger as usual, and then I went to sleep. The game wasn't even Blue Archive. 'Wait, didn't I play Blue Archive before that?' When I traced my memories further, I remembered that I played Blue Archive that day. I definitely turned on Blue Archive before playing another game and pulled a pickup character, and I showed that situation to my friends through a messenger broadcast. "Uh... Could it be because of that...?" That day, I pulled the pickup character for the first time in 20 pulls. In front of a friend who hit the pity ceiling.