Chapter 33: Kiss

There were two ways to exit the simulation. One was to hit the Exit Button yourself, essentially shutting down your own machine. The other was to hold out until five days passed, when the Simulation Assessment ended and every machine powered down, ejecting everyone at once. With how things stood, Ethan Letherdale and the others probably would not last five days. And with the Exit Button dead, there was, in fact, one more way out. Death. This was a simulation, not a literal soul-transfer. If the...