There is currently a user trying to connect to your personal room

MonitorMonica requests to link with your headset, State: yes or no

I said outloud "Yes" and with a litteral sound of 'Plop' a girl with a flowing blue robe with deep purple furr with blue tipped ears, her tail is now missing the plug instead its blue tipped like her ears and her eyes are suprising normal compared to the rest of her it is not quite as 'cat like' well its not that is unwelcome it would be unnerving to look into cat eyes on a humanoid

she looked around and immediatly spotted the gleeming statue of me striking a pose she made a face that looked like she was trying to hold in her laughter

"What it’s the achievement I got its called system defying"

She looked at me in disbelief for a while, then she opened what looked like a hole in my wall went inside and came out with another statue that looked eerily similar to the one on my shelf just now and she started clutching her stomach in laughter, I had a real bad feeling in my bones than 'how'd she have that statue of me as well?'

"Did I miss the joke somewhere?"(Jake)

"Hahaha~ You are- Hehe~ You are the joke" she holds up the statue of me and shatters my hope of this whole virtual thing "anyone who has the achievement will have this statue now Hehehe"(Monica)

I couldn't believe it was it really that amazing that is changed to make the achievement look like me, I'd sulking in the corner if I wasn't so mad at this CAT that is laughing in my face holding a miniature of me in her hand

Oh well what done is done right? NO WAY I ran up to her grabbing the statue she looked at my face then goes slightly pale seeing the rage on it

"NO" (Jake)

I threw the statue on the ground stomping on it and then I looked around at what more I could do I saw nothing just a statue of myself and a shelf that was it maybe I should've let the program finish the initialization maybe there'd be more like a new player kit or something while I was thinking a set of starter stuff showed up a coat with a strange symbol on it, a pair of basic pants, and basic equipment sadly no undergarments for me still got to use the loincloth I looked through the basic equipment and there was an item that showed up according to blue box the virtual fire starter a code used to remove other code I quickly grabbed it and started a fire on the statue

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Monica almost started screaming when she saw the fire burning the statue

"so, now what's this virtual mind stuff?"(Jake)

"Well the virtual mind IS you, if you invite someone inside its literally sharing one body for the virtual world, that’s what inviting to the personal space means, so I have access to request to enter your personal space, you can also request to access mine and the two spaces are linked if I leave your virtual mind I will not be able to re-enter without your approval"(Monica)

"Why's it called virtual mind if its literally me?"(Jake)

"Well the virtual mind was renamed from virtual avatar because if your avatar dies you don’t die you just return to your virtual mind, otherwise if your virtual mind is destroyed you die currently the system is protecting new users from being destroyed, you remember the invisible wall that is one system of protection from the system"(Monica)

"Wait so I'll die if someone doesn't like me?" I suddenly felt really scared about the fact that 10 thousand people had my statue(Jake)

"Well the system is harder to destroy than you think especially when its protecting something or someone in this case so you'll be fine"(Monica)

"well I already guessed that else there'd actually be punishments for fooling the system at any passing turns"(Jake)

"don’t worry about the system it's just there to make things easier not rule over everyone, you will never receive any bonus from the system the 'Hehe' Trophy you made is a Trophy because of what it is not because the system made them. The system doesn't care about anything other than harm the virtual world and you will know when you do something that will harm the system, trust me I wouldn't be here if I didn't accidently put a glitch in the virtual bank system to wire more credits to my account. No one likes to monitor the new users"(Monica)

"wait you aren't an AI or some Virtual construct? You said you were made by the system!"(Jake)

"No, I am not, the system stripped of my old name when my name when I got caught~ *Cough* I mean before I accidently found a glitch, and the whole spiel about me being made by the system was just a script to ease the user transitions into the virtual world"(Monica)

"So, I gave Monica the criminal a name and now she's in my body probably finding a way to avoid the system to make me a puppet or something"(Jake)

I felt like being sarcastic for a moment but I hope don’t say anything to make her react to the extreme again

She gave me a quick glance and replied seriously "two things, 1 the system monitors me all the time while I am doing my community service as you would call it. 2 anyone who enters your virtual mind does not have to avoid the system to do anything to your mind please be careful in the future of who you let in here"(Monica)

Oh well that’s good to know now I guess "so why did not see anything about this on the forums and such?"(Jake)

"Remember that thing about anomalies that the program was supposed to scan for it would have found out immediately that you skipped a whole 10 years of learning to set up security programs and it would have set up even more protections, once you said you could see me the system started setting extra tough programs around you"(Monica)

Ah, so that’s how it was

"I hope the system is watching you harder than you were watching me"(Jake)