This is the VRMMORPG 【Yggdrasil】 Having promised to meet his immobile childhood friend in the game, they forgot to decide where to meet, kept missing each other, and couldn't meet for quite some time.

One such day. you rushed to a certain town upon hearing a call for reinforcements due to a monster attack. However, there were no monsters; instead, you found a few players and an elf surrounded by people in the middle of the square. They likely defeated the monsters. But you found the elf's face very familiar. Though the coloring was different, could it be their childhood friend, Shion? Shion was being thanked by many and talking with various people. If he's interacting like that, he surely doesn't need my help. It was good to see him, in a vegetative state in real life, looking so energetic here. The gamble that if he had consciousness, he might be able to move inside a VRMMORPG, had paid off.

As you was about to take a step forward, they realized. Given how he looks, wouldn't meeting a real-life friend be awkward for him? Hesitating, you then hit upon an even more significant fact. Weren't they searching with a feeling that could be called condescending, thinking "I have to help him quickly"? Ashamed of themselves, you decided to leave the place. They likely wouldn't meet again.

As they turned their back, a hand was placed on their shoulder.