D-Genesis: Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 3] by KONO Tsuranori

Author:KONO Tsuranori
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, fantasy, comedy, slice of life, military, science fiction, dungeons, Dungeons, Adult Protagonists, Status Screens, Modern Day Japan, Multiple POVs
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

Yoyogi-Hachiman, Office

I was beyond put out. Upon seeing that giant thing sitting in the middle of the living room, I’d jumped straight beyond anger and right into a tension headache.

“I know we need a server here with the stat-measuring device going on sale, but... But...” I stressed the last word. I thought I’d heard some kind of construction going on, but I hadn’t expected to come downstairs and find a whole sound-dampening cubicle partition dead-center in the middle of our tatami-mat floored sitting room. “Is this necessary?!”

Within the makeshift partitioned room was yet another box, some mysterious two-meter-by-two-meter black cube Miyoshi had gotten from who knows where.

“It’s a more-or-less cutting edge Linux system from IBM. Went on sale last September. I was thinking we ought to have the mainframe here at home.”

“Oh, that simple, huh?” I replied caustically.

How exactly the SMD quantified stats was a trade secret. We could have coded everything into the individual devices, but that risked reverse engineering. Instead, we’d have them connect to a server, and run the calculations on our end. That was all well and good, but—

“With the device going public, someone could still figure out the formula through inductive reasoning, couldn’t they?”

“Eventually,” she responded. “But unless they have a perfect guinea pig like you who can change their stats one at a time, I’m not sure how practical that would be.”

“Guinea pig? Harsh. But yeah, you’d have to try to drum up a bunch of explorers who all have a difference of just one in each stat to get the same kind of data.” Plus, you wouldn’t be sure how other individual variables might be affecting the readings. “What about sending in a bunch of dummy data?”

“It wouldn’t be very efficient. Plus, if we saw a bunch of different inputs coming from the same account that fast, we’d just ban it.”

“Oh,” I responded, not having realized that was possible. “Huh.”

According to Miyoshi, we’d also publish banned unit ID numbers online, which would prevent resale and further discourage misuse. And if someone bought a banned unit without checking? Personal responsibility.

“But if the calculations are easy enough for the devices to have run natively, couldn’t we just have used basically any rack server?” Modern PC calculating power had gotten pretty impressive.

“Yeah, but...that’s boring, right?”

“In other words—” I squinted at her accusingly “—you just wanted an excuse to use higher-end equipment.”

“Wh-Wh-What? Me? Never! B-Better too big than too small, right? Plus, there are tons of advantages to input-out processing. And mainframes win out any day in terms of reliability, flexibility, and maintainability! Right? Plus, it’s...well, it’s not cheaper, but think about the benefits! A-Anyway! It’s not like I just wanted to use it...or replicate the ending of Summer Wars...as a main reason for getting it, anyway!”

“But those were reasons.” Oh well. If Miyoshi said we needed it, we probably...probably...did.

“To tell the truth—” she lowered her voice conspiratorially “—the main reason for getting it was as a bluff.”

“A bluff?!”

“Think about it! People can look into our purchase

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