There Is Absolutely Nothing Wrong with the Player's Honmaru

Name: There Is Absolutely Nothing Wrong with the Player's Honmaru
Author: Cutting the Lamp

玩家的本丸才没有问题

by Cutting the Lamp (剪灯)

Status: Completed
Length: 648k Words
Genre: No CP
Era: Modern Era
Updated: 1mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

At a friend's recommendation, Qianye got hooked on the VR version of Touken Ranbu.

Compared to the original, this version let players not only take on the role of a Saniwa, but also play as a Touken Danshi and head into battle, adding plenty of exciting, high-stakes combat.

So, despite knowing next to nothing about the characters' backstories, Qianye first fell in love with the thrill of playing a Touken Danshi and charging into battle. When it came to the story, he just kept hitting skip.

What he didn't know was that his account was actually connected to a real Touken Ranbu world.

And so, a player who cared only about fighting and having fun, never bothered to watch his health bar, knew nothing about the characters, and was constantly acting out of character, met swords and Saniwa who were highly alert to all these strange occurrences.

When Qianye went out on a mission alone despite being seriously wounded, a group of people stopped him and demanded to know his Honmaru number.

When Qianye used a store-bought mod to radically alter a character's appearance, people concluded that the sword had undergone an evil blade-modification procedure.

When Qianye mistook people for someone else and got their names wrong over and over, they imagined some melodramatic accident that had never happened.

The swords and Saniwa in the real world: What on earth is going on? Is someone up to no good?

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The swords and Saniwa care about you.jpg

Qianye: ?

What are you babbling about? I don't understand.

There's nothing wrong with the player's Honmaru!

Stop throwing so much story at the player and let me fight already!!

Some time later, when a friend asked Qianye how he was enjoying the game

Qianye: It's pretty good. There's just way too much story, and it always triggers automatically. You can't even avoid it.

Friend: There's a lot of story?

Qianye: But some of the dungeon adventures are really fun! Like solving puzzles in the Honmaru and clearing stages in the Government of the Time's headquarters.

Friend: Dungeon adventures??

Qianye: The starter character is so weak, though. Why can't I level up this character called a Saniwa? The one time I went out, some guys calling me "Master" and giving off black smoke grabbed me. I still haven't escaped...

Friend: Hey, hey, something is clearly wrong with your game!!

[Notes]

It's probably all sorts of misunderstandings caused by information gaps and people reading too much into things, with everyone imagining the protagonist as some grand figure. =v=

Different perspectives, different scripts, different flavors. The protagonist has multiple secret identities, and none of them get exposed. =v=

This is an attempt to find my desire to write again. If you like it, please leave lots of comments! qwq

Theme: Keep a kind heart and treat others kindly

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