[Just a small change: From now on, paladin orders will count as knight orders. It's better for keeping everything organized.]
Right after Seo-ah left, Ethan remained seated in his office for a long time, silent.
He didn't worry too much about the fact that she had simply run out of the office all on her own. At least, not the way he would have if she were a native inhabitant of this world.
If he were a player too, like her, he'd probably react the exact same way.
Full-immersion VRMMORPGs were already gaining popularity when he died, around the year 2063, and he himself had played them a few times.
More than twenty years had passed since then.
If he were still alive back in that world, he'd probably be doing exactly what she was doing now—exploring every corner of it with wide-eyed wonder.
And, just like her, he would have shouted with joy upon landing a mission of that magnitude.
After all, in her eyes, he was nothing more than an NPC.
