"Hey, at least this confirms that I am in a fantasy world. So that's cool."
That's the only positive thought he can have while trapped in this darkness with a useless system.
[Hearing my voice should've confirmed that already.]
"I mean never know with me? Maybe I went full schizo and started hearing voices."
Even now, he didn't rule that possibility out due to knowing himself and the past that he went through.
[You sure have a weird thought process.]
"Hey, it's less weird than being in the situation I am in right now."
None of the anime or other forms of media he read had a main character in a similar situation to himself.
'Well some system being useless was there, so one thing is common.'
He couldn't help but laugh at the absurd thoughts he was having right now and not to mention the emotional state he was currently in.
[You are right but don't worry, it will get back to normal soon.]
"Pretty confident aren't you? It's almost like you know where I am exactly?"
There was more likely for him to be stuck in this room forever or get experimented on than escape.
So he couldn't help but find it pretty surprising by the confident voice from it.
[Yes.]
Taking in a sharp breath, he first calmed himself down and asked the most important question.
"Let me guess, you can't tell me where I am and who I am trapped by?"
[Yes, I can't tell you any of that.]
With a pang of disappointment, he went silent and started to think about various questions.
Questions that he could ask the mechanical voice without it rejecting him.
"Alright so first thing first, did you know it was an illusion from the start?"
[Nope.]
"As I- wait what? You didn't?"
Thinking he was almost right in his guess, he was met with a surprise when it rejected the suspicion he had on the voice.
[Nope, it was even a surprise to me.]
"So it was not a part of the story?"
[I can't answer that.]
Even though he didn't get the answer, he was almost sure that the situation he was in right now was something that was not supposed to happen.
"Then how about? You know who captured me here?"
[Not sure.]
Even though it answered negatively, at least it was not a firm rejection which meant it had some guesses as to who it was.
"And you are not gonna tell me who you think it is that captured me right?"
[Yup, and good thing you are becoming smarter. Perks of being with me.]
Ignoring the second line, he focused on what it said and felt a bit relieved as at least he was not going into the full unknown.
'Even though it almost is like that.'
"Anyway, can you at least tell me if they are safe or dangerous?"
[Can't confirm it yet.]
"So more likely to be safe then."
[That was not my answer?]
"Don't worry about it."
Hearing its somewhat positive answer which didn't lean toward rejection, he was relieved that he wouldn't get his organs traded or something like that.
"So last one for now, any idea of what is trapping me and why is it so dark?"
He started to get a little bit anxious due to all the darkness and was surprised by how his eyes were not adapting to darkness at all.
[Nope, but you can try to use analysis.]
"Oh yeah, I had that. Almost forget about it."
Laughing in embarrassment, he used to analyze the surroundings but was only met with disappointment.
"I can't see the screen."
[Stronger than I expected, also it's not worth seeing the screen as it's all question marks.]
He was once again reminded of how useless he was right now and all the skills he possessed to save himself.
"Also how am I not able to see that blue screen at all?"
[Don't know.]
"Man…"
Sighing, he started to think about other questions he could ask as thinking about his system made him only feel worse.
"Oh yeah! That reminds me, what's your name?"
[Don't have one.]
"Really? That's kind of sad so let me give you one."
'Such a classic trope too.'
He couldn't help but laugh at this as in each anime he has seen, it always ends up with the main character naming the system.
'So I kind of want to do this too.'
[Don't need one.]
Ignoring its rejection he started to think about what name it should have.
"How about AI?"
[Didn't you hear me? I said I don't need one and really? AI? You can't be serious?]
"I gotta call you something right? So we don't have any misunderstandings while I am talking to someone else."
While feeling a bit disappointed from it not saying yes to his name suggestion.
He decided to give the secondary reason why he wanted to give it a name.
[You know only I can talk to you in your mind?]
"We never know with a fantasy world, also how about Iris?"
Ignoring its rejection even further, this time he decided to go with a better name which sounded pretty good too.
But instead of answering, there was only silence from the mechanical voice side.
"Heyyyyyyy? Are you there?"
A little bit worried, he decided to wait and ask but even then he got no answer.
'I guess no system naming session trope.'
But before he could even voice that out, he finally heard the mechanical voice and was surprised by its answer.
[Not bad, but why did you go with that name?]
"Honestly, I don't know. Went with that cause that's the first one that came to mind after AI."
[Hmm, you can call me Iris from now on.]
He smiled after hearing Iris's answer as he was finally able to complete one of the troupes he had dreamed of from all the anime he watched.
'Now I just need this system to be useful.'
Sighing, once again the dark surrounding went silent when neither his nor Iris's voice was heard in his mind.