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"Oof, geez, looks like I might've brought the crowd, huh?" Kai asked, looking between everyone. "Uh, well anyway, yeah, I was a chef from Osaka. I... well, I don't know if everyone is totally comfortable going straight to real world names, but why not? I'm Igarashi Kaito! You guys can just call me Kai."

His head whipped around to Deneb when she said the word Isekai, grateful that he wasn't alone in his idea of what had happened.

"Yeah, right? I'm getting some [i]extreme[/i] Log Horizon vibes from this whole thing, right down to the 'new expansion' part!"

He froze for a bit when she asked what everyones plans were, because apart from coming here, he didn't really have any. Before he could answer, the demon cleric started asking about how living in their avatars bodies worked, and if they could advance the same way they did when it was just a game.

"Well, this is just a theory, but I think the answer might be yes to all of them..." He said to the cleric. "I mean, these aren't just artificial bodies. They're real, physical, fleshy ones. Here, look."

As he spoke, he pulled unequipped his bracer and showed them his arm, which had a small graze on the underside.

"I got this when I teleported into town and fell over. If this was just some kind of fake body made of code, I wouldn't have a graze or anything, right? I'd say that means we still have all the same needs as we did in the real world. Actually, no, that's not right. It'd probably be better to say that this [i]is[/i] our real world now. BUT, we [i]do[/i] also have menus, and I was able to get a scroll from my inventory to teleport here too, so I think a lot of the game mechanics should work the way they did before as well."

He brought his hand to his chin, trying to remember anything else important, before raising a finger into the air as one last important detail hit.

"Oh right, I nearly forgot to mention. When I got the graze, I [i]did[/i] also lose a tiny amount of HP, so I think they might still be connected somehow..."

Finally, he turned to Den to answer her question.

"Aaand, well, I'll be honest, I don't really know what I'll do now." He said, scratching his head sheepishly. "I'm not so sure I wanna keep going with the demon lord thing, especially now that all the NPCs are proper living people. Which, by the way, also a flag for this being a Log Horizon style world shift! Anyway, plans... Well, maybe I'll rebrand... Yeah, start a Monster Hunter style hunting guild... [i]And then I can COOK THEM!"[/i]

And suddenly, all his loose thoughts began to intertwine, as he finally figured out a proper plan for the quite possibly terrifying future.

"Ok, right, I'm gonna start a hunters guild. Like I mentioned before, we players probably still need to eat and sleep, but if this is like Log Horizon, then any food that isn't prepared by someone with the cooking skill is gonna taste like a flavourless goo. Or salt, if you have any. It also needed to actually be [i]cooked[/i] like it would be in real life, because any food made in the crafting menu also just tasted like goo. I think you could eat raw ingredients like fruit and it tastes fine though, so that might be a temporary solution. But anyway, yeah, you can make food out of pretty much any monster in this game, and if we hunt it a certain way, we can actually butcher them instead of rely on drops."

He pointed towards the ocean side of the town.

"And considering how many other players seem to be freaking out in the market district, I reckon we might need as much good food as we can get, otherwise they'll start moping around and lose any will to do much of anything. Again, this is all based on the show, and it might not actually go that way, but better safe than sorry..."

He sat down on a small stone fence, almost falling over it in the process, but managed to keep somewhat balanced eventually.

"So yeah, I'll capture, butcher and cook monsters, and then I'll either try to find a way to transport them to the cities and towns the adventurers are staying in, or they can come to Castle Edenkyte for it."

He looked around the group.

"Of course, I'd much prefer to not do it alone. I'm not exactly amazing at the game outside of cooking and building, so if anyone wants to join Edenacht, I'd be glad for the help!"

He turned to the Dragonkin.

"Now, I'm pretty sure I've seen you in Heavens Door a few times, so I'm guessing you're already with them, but if you ever leave or anything, you would be [i]particularly[/i] useful. Like I said before, I'm borrowing from monster hunter here, so that means weapons and armour made from monsters, and seeing as our old artificier is missing like almost everyone else in my guild, I'm probably gonna be coming to you a lot."

Finally, he turned to the only two people he hadn't addressed, the hunter and the storm giant.

"And you two, well, I reckon you guys are perfect for the job, honestly..." He said, looking at their character names. "I mean, Y-... Ij... Stormcaller, you're enormous. That's an advantage against all the big monsters right there, and Shinon, you look like a capable archer. I bet you'd like the chance to hunt some giant monsties [i]and[/i] feed the hungry at the same time, right?"