3 : First Check – 1

“Nn…..”
I opened my eyes.
Then the bare concrete room was reflected for a moment.

“Ugh!?”
My field of vision was distorted and discomforting. A dull pain soon followed and I reflexively shut my eyes.

“Ah-, yes, that’s right, I have 13 eyes now. If I opened all of them suddenly, my real brain which only supported 2 eyes would have trouble compensating.”
I understood the cause now.
This is one effect that comes with assimilating a bizarre form.
For now, listening to the surrounding sounds, it looks like there’s no other signs of movement besides my own in this place. It seems as if this is some sort of safety zone. If that’s the case, let’s check it out in detail while getting used to this avatar.

“First, though I closed my eyes, in the upper left of my vision remains two gauges which are HP and hunger I believe.”
In my upper left view, a green bar and a yellow bar was placed.
Green was for health while yellow was for satiety.
Furthermore, there was no such thing as MP in “CNP”

“The gear in the upper right was the settings screen wasn’t it”
With my consciousness, I focus on the upper right and the gear is indicated. When I perceive the displayed gear, the settings screen is shown.
Within it contains…. A logout button, pain sensitivity settings, Show/Hide HP and Satiety bar, and Titles setting. There’s also a friendlist, blacklist, an ingame BBS clock, as well as game recording and uploading settings. Yeah, it seems like the basics are all there.
For the time being, I’ll probably leave the pain sensitivity at the default 50%.
Regarding titles, I set it to “Spawn Of Jugemu.”
As for the rest… I don’t have to tweak them until it’s necessary.

“Well then, let’s open the eyes.”
I can’t stay in my current condition which was akin to floating in a pool forever can I.
First, I have to properly grasp what this place is.

“Two eyes.”
I open the two eyes attached to my face.
Within my sight appears the concrete floor and the bare ceiling.

“Chest’s eye.”
I open the eye positioned between my collarbone.
The bottom of my view broadens slightly and I get the feeling that the distance towards the ceiling became better comprehensible.
In addition, I could also see the bottom of my chin.

“Both hand’s eyes.”
I open the eyes located on the dorsal side of my hands.
Because my palms are facing the ceiling right now, I’m able to see the bottom half of my body.
I anticipated to see a pool or anything similar was what I thought, but in contrary to my expectations, I only saw the concrete floor, around 10cm away from me.
It appears that one of the effects of my curses caused me to float ever so slightly.
It’s no wonder that there was no sense of feeling since it was as if I were placed in the boundary between air and water’s surface.

“Both foot’s eyes.”
Well now, it’s about time to increase the amount of my opened eyes.
I open the eyes placed on top of my feet.
Ah, this is interesting.
As of currently, my toes are pointed towards the ceiling, thus I’m able to see my entire body from below as well as the underside of my breasts which would normally be impossible to see.

“Wing’s eyes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.”
I open the eyes on the tips of the 6 wings which sprouted from my back.
My horizontal view immediately widened.
And now, with the eyes on the plumes opened, it wasn’t 360°, but I was able to see in each direction, left, right, up, and down all at once.

“What a strange sensation…..”
I surveyed the inside of the room… -Or not, I just looked.
All there was in this bare room of concrete was a desk-like table, an object composed of a green liquid that gently spewed out of the container that was in, and a thin fog mixed of the colors red, purple and black. In addition, there was also a metal door which seemed to lead to the outside.
By the way, I’m wearing two old rags which only purpose seem to be to hide my chest and lower region. I’ve identified that there is a necklace with a loupe around my collar as well.
Incidentally, aside from the original eyes, because my new eyes protrude out from the skin in a hemispherical shape, if you move each line of sight respectively into various spots, it seems like you’ll be able to accurately see in a fairly large range with barely any movement.

“Now then, It’s time to stand up.”
I can’t be laying sprawled on the floor forever.
Thus, I shift my right arm. I try to stand with my right arm reaching for the floor but…

“Eh?”
I can’t stand.
The right hand that reaches towards the floor doesn’t come in contact with it.
Before I could touch the floor, something pushes me away. Is it because the angle in which I’m reaching with my arm is slightly askew? I slipped excessively.

“O-One more time.”
This time, I try putting both my hands towards the floor.
However, it doesn’t make contact.
No matter what I do, I just slip.
It’s hard to describe, but I can’t touch it because there’s something kind of like firm elasticity there or should I say it feels like I’m laying on top of an extremely slippery oil?
For now, I can’t stand up using normal means.

“I understood that we could use the recreation feature within 72 hours, but there’s probably other curses that would be traps wouldn’t there. Something like your lower body becoming a fish or your entire body smelling bad.”
I murmured with conviction, moved my limbs and my neck.
As a result, if I wanted to sit up, I could do so with my abdominal muscles.
And now, while moving my body around, I somehow vaguely noticed the disposition of this curse.

“Hmph!”
In one go, I instantly pushed my arms and legs towards the floor.
Then, it was only for a moment, but my limbs made contact with the concrete floor and that recoil is returned to my body.

“Alright, if I could just somehow stand…”
That’s right, my curse was that there was a delay when separating my body from the ground. A bit of time was required.
Previously, I tried to touch the floor by slowly moving my arm towards it. Motions like walking would become a problem, but if I tried to move in the way I’m doing now, I can accomplish my action before the effect takes place.

“Whoa!? T-That was dangerous”
But, when I stood up, I actually stood up this time. Now it feels like standing upon a sea of oil.
Slightly bend the knees, drop the waist, and spread both arms. As a girl, it was a pose that you shouldn’t show off in front of other people. Although the pose wasn’t awfully tough to maintain, I wasn’t able to keep standing.
Rather, even in this stance, if I relax my posture or slightly lose balance, it feels like I’ll end up toppling over.
And If I fall, I’ll definitely wind up mercilessly hitting my head.
In order to work with this curse effectively, it’ll require time, no doubt about that.

“Walking seems impossible so….. Hop!”
Again, standing wasn’t the goal. I have to be able to move from here afterall.
In a single motion, I stretch my knee out. With one foot on the floor, the reaction was received and I fluttered through the air.

“Looking good! -Or not!?”
My attempt to land was also affected by the curse and I splendidly fell flat. My body struck against the floor and a dull pain assaulted my entire being, enough to make me almost faint in agony.
My HP also went down a little.
It’s embarrassing that my first time taking damage in “CNP” was caused by my own self-destruction. Well, there should be other players who’ve done the same thing, probably.

“At any rate, it’s nothing but a emergency workaround”
If I were to really use the method of kicking the ground to move, the moment I land, I’d have to position myself to be on all fours. It’s also necessary to consider the slippage when walking around.
For now, I can say with certain that this won’t become my normal means of movement.

“Let’s stand up once again….”
I stood up again and this time, I attempt to shuffle along, not letting my feet leave the ground.
However, all that occurs is my feet moving back and forth in one spot.
If you think about it, creatures who can walk on the ground can do so because there is more friction generated in that motion compared to my kicks off from the ground.
Nevertheless, the current me is in a situation where I cannot produce that friction.
That being so, it was only natural that I wouldn’t be able to move normally.

“Then, let’s try out the wings I guess.”
If that’s the case, then it was better to use a method that wasn’t normal.
With that reason, I poured my thoughts into the wings on my back and tried to slowly move the wings positioned behind me to the front.

“Unexpectedly, it moves quite a bit.”
My body then casually moves backwards as if I’m sliding on the ground.

“Fumu, Fumu.”
When I move the wings in the opposite direction, my body moves the same distance as I did before, returning me to my original position.

“… Lets see, If I recall correctly, birds will spread their wings on the down stroke while folding their wings as small as possible when lifting them right?”
I see. If you don’t move the wings consciously, you won’t move even a single step.
Which is why I was just folding and spreading my wings now. I started to practice moving the 6 wings individually along with trying other things I was curious about.
If I precisely manipulated my 6 wings in that way, I was able to move in the same speed as I would walk in real life. My body was also able to freely move directionally.

“Phew, with this I can finally explore.”
The time this took was around 8 hours ingame.
“CNP” uses a time acceleration system so the time you experience in the game was 3 times what occurs in real life. Though, it doesn’t change the fact that my brain was working for 8 whole hours.
Thus, I decided to log out for a bit.

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