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◈ The Little Prince in the Ossuary

Chapter 127

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Unread Messages

[NationwideSlaveShowoff gifted 100 stars.]

「NationwideSlaveShowoff: I have been watching this whole time, and one thing keeps coming to mind. This host kid fights really damn well. He is very different from those other channels that just bulldoze everything with DLC spam... I guess you could call it good instincts?」

[まつみん gifted 300 stars.]

「まつみん: His situational judgment is amazing. I did not expect him to use a smoke grenade like that in the locker room earlier. Same with using the monsters as shields just now. Our Gyeoul-ssi is sexy all the way down to his brain, I swear. Ehehe. (*´▽｀*)」

「SnitchingEunuch: I admit he does not rely on pay-to-win. I will even admit the acting. When he looked at that dead guy and got gloomy, it really felt like he was actually depressed.」

「まつみん: Acting? To me, it looked like he was genuinely depressed.」

「ZzaraPappa: Huh?」

「まつみん: It was different from the expressions he usually makes.」

「UnderBlanketParkDanger: Different? What was? In what way?」

「まつみん: Uh... in what way... um... you just know when you see it... really, you could not tell? Was it just me? (;´д｀)」

「UnderBlanketParkDanger: If you look at his whole face, you get that vibe? lol」

「まつみん: Yes! Kind of like that!」

「BillyHarrington: I do not get it. ^^」

「HellExpert: Same」

「RetiredInMy20s: Same +1」

「AppleFanboy: まつみん unni seems kind of weird. Her taste in men was never normal anyway...」

「まつみん: Hng.」

「KILL: I do not know about all that, but I am sad we cannot see Lee Yura. She looked so pretty when she smiled with a gun in her hand.」

「KILL: Now that she is gone, when is she coming back?」

[KILL gifted 100 stars.]

「AekDda: That came out of nowhere. If someone heard you, they would think the host died, dude. lol」

「BeenToDolce: Ah, what the hell. I went to feed my kid, and all the fun parts are already over. Should I replay the digest...? I hate breaking the flow. So annoying. -_-」

「IsMugujeonggwangGreat: Feed your kid? How old is your kid?」

「BeenToDolce: Three. Always crying and throwing fits. I cannot stand him. Then he will not freaking eat either. My mother-in-law just runs her mouth and never helps. She is sick. Fuck.」

「BlackCat: You cook and feed the child yourself, meow? Oh my, nobody does that these days, meow. Why suffer on purpose, meow? If you put them in a childcare pod, it plays with them, feeds them, puts them to sleep, exercises them, and even cleans piss and shit, meow.」

「JoseonDynastyWiggle: True. I had two and put both in, then stopped worrying about it. But my first one is almost old enough to come out. Sigh. How am I supposed to raise that kid? The kid grew up seeing me and my husband every day, but for me it is basically my first time seeing the kid in five years. Just thinking about it feels awkward as hell. I already took the support money, so I cannot send the kid anywhere either.」

「BeenToDolce: I want to do that too... but my crazy mother-in-law keeps saying not to use the childcare pod. I even had a third kid for baby investment, but my mother-in-law is making me miserable. Every time I ask why, she just says it is obvious. That bitch cannot keep up with the times. My husband is on my side too, but because she is his mother, he still tiptoes around her. Pathetic. I wish that old hag would die already.」

「MoronlympicGold: That is next-level parent-insulting. But what is baby investment?」

「Don't_NickPun: Baby + financial investment.」

「MoronlympicGold: lol what? You can do financial investment by having kids? Is that actually possible?」

「doomchitdoomchit: Yep, possible. They pay childbirth support money. You also get leave as a bonus.」

「MoronlympicGold: Hey. Childcare pods are virtual reality terminals too, right? What about that cost? Is it not expensive?」

「BlackCat: You do not buy them, meow. The community center rents them out, meow. The rental fee can be passed on to the child as debt, meow. They repay it after becoming an adult, meow. Not mandatory, but everyone does it, meow. Only up to the third child, meow. There used to be no limit, but people abused it too much, meow. They kept having babies without working, meow. Almost everyone knows this, so why do you not, meow? Are you maybe Joseonjok, meow?」

「MoronlympicGold: Can you drop that annoying speech style, meow? Dumbass, I am not Joseonjok, I am in charge of managing them. Do you know how hard it is dealing with those foreign worker bastards? I do not have time to look into stuff like that.」

「HardGay: It is not that he has no time to look into it. He has no time to date.」

「Mustafa: If he cannot date, marriage is a pipe dream」

「HellExpert: If marriage is a pipe dream, then he had no reason to look into having kids and all that.」

「NitrogenPack: Aww, poor little Moronlympic bastard.」

「LendMeYourStrength: You nasty bastards lol when it is time to bully someone you sync up perfectly lol」

「MoronlympicGold: Thanks a fucking lot, assholes ^^」

「BlackCat: It is okay, meow. Love marriage is getting rarer anyway, meow. Everyone is doing contract marriages, meow. You can still get your own she-cat someday, meow. You are probably a dumbass, but stay strong, meow. Somewhere in this world, there is a cat who will like a dumbass like you, meow.」

「IngrownToenail: Either comfort him or insult him, pick one lol」

「BlackCat: I cannot help it, meow. Then I will insult him, meow.」

「IngrownToenail: What do you mean you cannot help it lol that cat act is crazy」

「conservative_extremist: That BeenToDolce lady is pitiful too. Going through hardship she would not need because of old fossils lol」

「まつみん: I am not sure... Rather than calling it pointless suffering, would it not be better to call it suffering that has meaning? In Japan too, it is split half and half. Some people do it, some do not. So I do not think contempt is right!」

「SnowyFox: Parents should raise their children themselves. Is that not love?」

「Don't_NickPun: Agreed. I do not think it is good for a child emotionally either.」

「conservative_extremist: What is this back-to-back dumb duo. Fine, call it love if you want. But what is bad for emotional development? I can hear your dentures chattering from here. Grandpa, you still got your body with you?」

「Don't_NickPun: I am not old enough to be called grandpa yet. And do you really think a virtual personality can replace parents? I do not.」

「conservative_extremist: Then why not, idiot lol? Do you not know that managing all that is a subroutine of the Afterlife Insurance Control AI? The best AI in the world takes care of them, so of course it is better than half-assed parents. Childcare runs on thoroughly verified programs. It does not make mistakes like humans do. Understand?」

「Don't_NickPun: You are the one not understanding. Do infants under five even have a proper TOM faculty? The virtual parents made by the Trinity engine have no human depth. You cannot get a deep personality out of just the active search module and that mysterious third module, can you?」

「NitrogenPack: lol this guy knows one thing and misses two. You are right, it has no depth. But why does depth matter for little kids? They do not know anything. Are toddlers asking philosophical questions? When they are tiny, you just play peekaboo and cuddle them. Done, right?」

「NitrogenPack: Once they get old enough to start understanding things, the real parents step in anyway. Did you know infant mortality dropped a lot after the childcare pod rental system was introduced? And birth rates went up?」

「conservative_extremist: Yeah, that is the fact. If parents feed kids directly, balancing nutrition is hard too. Higher chance they get sick. And once the kid comes out already speaking, how convenient is that for parents? It is an advanced system, and you people are dragging down national dignity for no reason. Listening to this old-fashioned crap, you all sound like Jeolla natives.」

「PooDongDong: Do not talk shit about Jeolla, you bastard --」

「conservative_extremist: Next, hongeo.」

「PooDongDong: Ugh, you little vermin bastard.」

「SnowyFox: ...」

[SnowyFox gifted 3,000 stars.]

「groseillier noir: Hey, Koreans. I do not think your government's childcare support system is necessarily bad, but should you not also consider the parents' side?」

「HellExpert: What are you talking about, baguette?」

「groseillier noir: That woman up there said her child feels unfamiliar, right? A parent should not feel that way. She said it had been five years. So do people put babies into machines right after birth? Without taking them out in between?」

「IsMugujeonggwangGreat: They do take them out briefly during quarterly inspections. Also when they refill nutrients. But that falls under the Ministry of Health and Welfare, so people from the health center handle it.」

「groseillier noir: Come on. That is not right. Parents need time to bond with their children.」

「Ephraim: Maybe. You are not wrong, but for these people this system seems just right.」

「groseillier noir: Why?」

「Ephraim: Look at this chat room.」

「groseillier noir: ...!」

「Meussiel: What kind of conversation is this now?」

「Don't_NickPun: He probably means, imagine these people becoming parents.」

「まつみん: wwwwwwwwwwwwwwww」

「DongmakgolSmigol: lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll」

「AppGirl: lololololololololol so saaaad...」

「Grade-9 Civil Servant: lol look at this Filipino bastard talking?」

「PizzaIsObviouslyLarge: Hey. People here may look dumb, but not all Koreans are like this.」

「richdog: That is your wishful thinking.」

「PizzaIsObviouslyLarge: Maybe people mature once they become parents? There is such a thing as inborn fatherhood and motherhood too.」

「richdog: That is also your wishful thinking.」

「PizzaIsObviouslyLarge: You son of a bitch. You got no patriotism either?」

「richdog: Come on, what are you talking about? As if I would have something like that.」

「DewCrocodile: True...」

「PizzaIsObviouslyLarge: What do you mean true...」

「conservative_extremist: This is all because of old fossils. They get old, refuse to go into the ossuary, and keep making trouble, so problems happen. What is the government doing? Why are they not extracting those old people's neural cores? The state should enforce it by force. Then they would scream abuse of power again, right?」

「NitrogenPack: Empathy. Their mindset is sealed shut, and they keep yapping at their children's generation while clinging to reality. Honestly ugly to watch. If they had money, maybe it would be different. That is exactly what it means to age badly.」

「MrLinFor50Years: hey,,,you punks,,,you will grow old too someday,,,if the government forcibly extracts,,,your neural cores,,,you sure as hell will love that,,,fucking hell,,,families collapse,,,society collapses,,,」

「conservative_extremist: I am fine with that. I actually wish they would do it. Please extract my brain too.」

「BeenToDolce: Seriously, my bitch mother-in-law should be forcibly extracted. Why is she scared when it is not even a bad thing? Also, I thought everyone would naturally feel Empathy with me, but lots of people do not. Hey, you brain-broken idiots, try raising a kid yourselves. Do you even know how annoying nonstop crying is? Ugh, I cannot even sleep properly at night.」

「SnowyFox: I have raised one. And I want to raise one. I want to stay together and hold those tiny hands... You do not know this feeling. You are someone with no right to be a parent.」

「BeenToDolce: lol what is that supposed to mean lol, right to be a parent? Since when do parents need qualifications? If you give birth, you are the parent, and if you are born, you are the child.」

「SnowyFox: "Are born"? How can you say that? If you are going to make a child live a life that feels imposed on them, it is better not to give birth at all!」

「BeenToDolce: Hey, fox bitch. Marriage is not about love either, so why would children be lovable? Hilarious, lol. Love is a luxury emotion. You can live without it.」

「SnowyFox: I truly pity your child. What a painful life that child will have from now on...」

「storm224: Not sure. In a good world like this, should people not be grateful just for being born? Imagine being born before Afterlife Insurance existed. Damn, once you died, that was it.」

「storm224: Just being born opens the possibility of existing forever. As long as you do not kill yourself and keep living hard, you can at least be placed, even at a low grade. My parents are dirt-poor as hell, but I live with gratitude. For real. Yeah.」

「Grade-9 Civil Servant: I agree. Being able to overcome death is an enormous blessing. Being able to meet the dead again is an enormous joy. We are living in a happy world.」

「KILL: Meet the dead again? There is no way unless you go visit, and even that needs prior approval. It is such a hassle that it is basically impossible. At best, you can chat through Teletype. Even that is impossible if the host does not log in.」

「Grade-9 Civil Servant: That cannot be helped, it is a security issue. You think only a few people are targeting Afterlife Insurance? The more data transmitted to the Afterlife Insurance side, the riskier it gets. They have to allocate a lot of resources to data inspection, and that inevitably lowers Afterlife Insurance quality.」

「KILL: Ah, whatever. I want to meet that host kid in person once, but I cannot even imagine pulling that off.」

「DongmakgolSmigol: Why?」

「KILL: I want to ask for a favor face to face.」

「DongmakgolSmigol: For what? Sex? lol seriously, that is some dedication.」

「KILL: No... well, in one sense, yes. I want Lee Yura. Sex is not the goal, but if it can happen, that would be even better.」

「FullTimeJessica: How did this guy end up like this?」

「BigBuffetBoy86: Oh, KILL. You sound like an otaku. Obsessing over a woman who does not even exist. Hahaha.」

「KILL: I need comfort. I need body warmth. But why Lee Yura? I do not even know why I am like this...」

「Don't_NickPun: Is that not what liking someone is like in the first place?」

「Don't_NickPun: There used to be a time when love at first sight did not feel strange.」

「Don't_NickPun: That damn DLC turned it into a joke. Every other moment gets treated as love at first sight. Everyone enjoys watching that, so public perception had to change too.」

「unitythroughzen: Sentient beings, the age of Romeo and Juliet is over.」

============================ Author's Afterword ============================

#Comedy

Hmm. I had a joke prepared, but as I was writing... I guess I will have to push it to next time.

#Ah, right.

The Ossuary has been registered on Naver N Store. It is up to chapter 126 now. I meant to mention it, but I forgot.

#Q&A

Q. qoewh: @ Author, do you know Dead Space? It is a double-layered game where there is always another dark conspiracy behind the main game the player progresses through, and the creator-related stuff in Ossuary gives me serious chills. Sorry for always asking like a detective, but were those original creators who died natural deaths, or not? Please just tell me that one thing!

A. Some were natural deaths, and some died in accidents. :)

Q. EpKna: @ Maybe people who dislike chat scenes feel that way because they waited for the Ossuary story, but all they get is a super long chat section and then it ends? So the solution is writer-nim posts two chapters in a row hahaha

A. I want to do that too... haha... but I am not capable enough...

Q. nuroop: This part raises a very loaded question. People who ate humans and turned into monsters, people who ate monsters and stayed human. By the way, what is the final clear condition of this game?? Also, in the current novel timeline, what civilian zones or survivor cities are active? Places in Asia or Europe too. Island countries like the Philippines too...

A. It is considered cleared when the probability of humanity's extinction in the Control AI's Situational Computation converges to 0%. / At this point in time, there are many survivor cities. Quite a few countries are still maintaining their governments too. As for the Philippines, because it has so many islands, even now after the government fled, there are still quite a few safe zones remaining on the mainland in this setting. But administrative control does not reach them, and even the government has not identified them.

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