The human named Alpha looked them all in the eye, not focusing on anyone in particular, but scrutinizing them from his bed.
"Don't be so serious. Did you think a company would send two thousand players to experience a real game without first ensuring their survival? I'm both an Alpha tester, as my name implies, and a supervisor, although I admit I didn't plan on being known that way…" The story might fit with the dynamics of the video game world, but something in Ikky's spine told him that wasn't the whole truth…
"And how did you end up so injured?" Birta asked.
"It's a long story… on the way here, I found myself in a forest with six of your people, wounded and mutilated, waiting for death… I don't know what those guys had done to them, but at that moment I was only fulfilling my mission, saving as many players as I could." He was referring to Wholgan and his henchmen.