Fish for Koi! Fishing Festival & VR

> **Rochefort:** (Pant... Wheeze...) O-Orval-sama... Dashing off in the morning at full speed is... a bit... strenuous...
> **Orval:** Wah, Roche! Are you okay? Do you need an amino drink!?
> **Demi:** ...Should we go rest over by the bench?
> **Demi:** Here, have some of these honey lemon preserves.
> **Rochefort:** Hah... Thank you very much. I truly apologize for subjecting you to such a shameful sight...
> **Demi:** It's nothing. But, is there some sort of emergency? What were you running for that got you so exhausted...?
> **Rochefort:** Oh, yes. Orval-sama had something to discuss with you, Commander.
> **Orval:** However, as a long holiday is soon upon us, the streets are rather crowded. In the middle of our travels, he hopped off the ox cart and began to run over instead.
> **Demi:** (A long holiday, huh. Now that he mentions it, I do remember seeing a lot of red letters lined up on the calendar...)
> *In this country, this time of year is referred to as the "Great Week".*
> *"The weather stays nice around this time, so let's just take it easy and rest for a while..." seems to be the reason for the long holiday.*
> **Rochefort:** There are many sightseeing locations in the area. Due to this, there tends to be road congestion during holidays.
> **Rochefort:** Well, one of the charms of traffic is being able to sit leisurely in an ox cart while you wait...
> **Orval:** I wanted to come invite you as soon as I could, Demi, I couldn't wait.
> **Orval:** The driver said we had 10km left until our destination, so I thought I'd just go ahead and run the rest of the way!
> **Rochefort:** Although I was accompanying him... I deeply apologize for making a blunder and collapsing...
> **Demi:** Oh, no... Running full tilt for 10km would be pretty rough...
> *It would usually be difficult to be able to run that much at all, unless you trained for it.*
> *But Orval-sama didn't even break a sweat.*
> **Demi:** (He's really powerful in battle too... Orval-sama has some pretty fearsome potential...)
> **Orval:** Hm? What's up, Demi?
> **Demi:** Huh!? It's nothing! Anyway, you had something you wanted to talk about?
> **Orval:** That's right! Hey, let's participate in the Boy's Day festival together!
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### FS★VR Ch. 1 ~Sneak Peek! Nearby GW~

> **Orval:** Did you know? It's almost time for the Boy's Day seasonal festival! It's held at the river.
> **Demi:** A Boy's Day festival at the river?
> **Orval:** Yeah! The koi climb up the waterfall around this time of year.
> **Orval:** Normally, the male koi live downstream, and the female koi live separately upstream.
> **Orval:** The male koi aim to climb upstream only during breeding season.
> **Orval:** If you make a wish upon the jumping koi, they say you'll grow taller, stronger, and healthier.
> **Orval:** I've prayed to them every year since I was little.
> **Demi:** If even Orval-sama prays to them, there definitely seems to be a benefit to it.
> *Like gaining the stamina to sprint full speed for 10km like it's nothing...*
> *After seeing that happen before my eyes just a moment ago, I'll believe anything.*
> **Demi:** I'd like to see it too! Please let me come to the festival with you.
> **Orval:** Yay, I'm glad! Thanks Demi!
> **Orval:** And you know? After everyone watches the koi climb the waterfall, we all have fun fishing together!
> **Demi:** You fish up the koi you just prayed to!?
> **Orval:** Nope. We fish for other kinds of fish. Although, koi do get caught up in it sometimes too.
> **Orval:** Once the koi leave the downstream area, other types of fish flourish.
> **Orval:** Even fish that normally hide in nooks and crannies and are hard to catch can be fished out easily this time of year.
> **Rochefort:** Living in the shade, in fear of the koi, coming out when the koi leave, just to get hunted...
> **Rochefort:** Thus is the sad fate of a fish.
> **Demi:** Saying it like that is oddly depressing...
> **Orval:** He says that, but Roche is great at fishing!
> **Rochefort:** I'm just good at masking my presence, is all.
> **Rochefort:** Fishing is also a game of silence and solitude. You can sleep, you can space out. It's a nice pasttime.
> **Demi:** It would be nice to bask in the sun this time of year too.
> *...As if. In the meantime, while we were chatting peacefully...*
> **Hite:** Dhe... Hehe, pfhe. At last, at last...! It's complete...
> **Leviathan:** Dweeeehhhhh!!
> *At the same time, various other cogs began to turn.*
> To be continued.
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### FS★VR Ch. 2 ~The Hite Family Situation~

> **Hite:** Dhe... Hehe, pfhe. At last, at last...! It's complete...
> **Baltika:** MASTER YOU'RE BEING GROSS LMAO
> **Hite:** You, who do you think I've been working so hard and staying up all these nights for? I'm not gonna let you use it.
> **Hite:** Even without that, you lost an important projector of mine on a recent expedition too...
> **Hite:** I made this as a replacement. Reflect on your actions, will you?
> **Baltika:** SRY
> **Miller:** Oh... I've seen this in a book before. This is a tool used for diving in the ocean.
> **Miller:** Hite-sama, are you going to take us to the ocean?
> **Hite:** ....Ah, no, Miller. These aren't diving goggles...
> **Baltika:** SO SAD, SO PITIFUL, GETTING HIS HOPES UP LIKE THAT
> **Baltika:** MILLER. MASTER IS A SHUT-IN WITH POOR COMMUNICATION SKILLS. HE SEES NO BENEFIT IN GOING TO THE OCEAN.
> **Miller:** So, we can't go to look at the little crabs...
> **Hite:** No! You can go! You can go, Miller! N-not in reality, but, it's realistic!
> **Baltika:** ANOMALY DETECTED IN MASTER'S BRAIN WAVES
> **Hite:** Oh shut up! Just be quiet and listen to me.
> **Hite:** This is a VR headset. It's a piece of equipment that can allow you to experience a virtual world.
> **Hite:** By putting this on and falling asleep the wearer's neural signals are directed to a shared consciousness which is then used to connect to a virtual reality meeting place with several other participants to an exceedingly realistic but nonetheless unreal world as your prefrontal cortex is
> **Miller:** If I wear this, I can go to a "virtual" ocean?
> **Hite:** ...........
> **Hite:** Rather than explain it, do you want to try it out?
> **Hite:** Hmm... First off, let's see...
> **Hite:** Baltika. Give me the data input from last week on the topography and climate of the southern island.
> **Baltika:** AYE SIR
> To be continued.
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### FS★VR Ch. 3 ~Blue Thunder's Situation~

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### FS★VR Ch. 4 ~Elpida Castle's Situation~

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### FS★VR Ch. 5 ~GW is a Fairly Busy Week~

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### FS★VR Ch. 6 ~Thump! Countermeasure Task Force is Full of Guests~

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### FS★VR Ch. 7 ~Demons Want to Have Fun Too~

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### FS★VR Ch. 8 ~Dad is Serious!~

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### FS★VR Ch. 9 ~Son Returns the Favor~

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### FS★VR Ch. 10 ~Secret Koi Studies~

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### FS★VR Ch. 11 ~Fishing Festival!~

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### FS★VR Epilogue ~This Kind of VR, For Example~

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