Chapter77

'Thank god,' he thought, letting out a breath he didn't know he was holding. 
 
He slid one arm under her knees and the other behind her back, picking her up with a slow, careful motion to avoid jarring her ribs. As he stood up, the stream panel flickered in his vision, the comments scrolling faster now that the fight was over.
 
[ JunaFanClub:] IS SHE OKAY?? 
[ ShadowMage44:] please tell me the wolf girl survived 
[ CringeSlayer91:] if she died i'm actually going to uninstall this app 
 
He looked at the messages and spoke quietly, "Yeah, she's fine," he said, glancing down at Juna's sleeping face. "She just needs a bit of rest."
 
He walked away from the boar's corpse, his mind wandering as he looked at the steady climb of the viewer count. They were still treating this like a show, a high-budget production with an AI lead, and for some reason, that thought bothered him more than it should have.
 
'Do they really think this is all just fake?' he wondered, stopping for a second to look directly into the void where the camera would be. 
"Hey," he said, his voice sounding a bit tired. "Do you guys still think this is a show? Or do you finally believe this world is real?"
The comments stopped for a second, before coming back different than usual.
[ CringeSlayer91:] tbh, the way you talk to use directly is pretty wild 
[ ShadowMage44:] bro can actually hear us and respond, no AI chat bot does that in real time