.Hack//Epitaph of Twilight Volume1 EpisodeReal
Episode Real//Meanwhile[edit]
Following the sound of the front door opening, two pairs of footsteps echoed through the quiet house. They were the footsteps of Harald and Lara’s father.
“Lara?” Her father called, but there was no response. It seemed that they were the only two people in the house.
“Where did she go……?” Harald wondered aloud, then heard his brother sit down on the sofa behind him.
“It is late, she probably just stepped outside for a bit.”
“That’s an irresponsible thing to say. You’re her father, aren’t you?”
“I’m sure she’ll come back soon enough.”
Harald sighed with dismay. “I’m going to check around the house.”
“Is there anything here you wouldn’t want other people handling without permission?”
“There is. One very important thing.”
Saying that, Harald came to stand in front of the door at the end of the hall. Suspicious that the door was closed tight, he pushed forward into the room in a rush, but the room was empty.
A computer fan was buzzing, and the room was lit by the pale light from the monitor. “Why……”
Harald approached the computer and stared at one of the screens incredulously. He had left the monitor on standby, but now, the title of the game he had been developing was crossing the display instead.
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Carefully, Harald picked up the goggle-like display and controller that had fallen onto the ground at his feet. “She couldn’t have……”
In a sudden panic, Harald grabbed the keyboard propped up next to the computer.
“She couldn’t have……!” With a self-deprecating grin scrawling across his face, he returned the keyboard to its original position. “It wasn’t supposed to be working yet.”
He told himself that, but quietly placed a hand over the power box for the computer that bore his game’s title floating across the screen.
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