Chapter 457: Complete (Corrected)
"...Huh?"
Monika’s dazed murmur was drowned out by the exhaust of the traffic.
Alain led Monika onto the elevator of the Large Flat.
He stole a glance at her out of the corner of his eye.
Throughout the entire journey, Monika wore an expression of utter disbelief... all that was missing was a visible question mark floating above her head.
Heh, it’s rare that I get to bully her for once. might as well earn back some interest for all that flattery I had to do before.
Besides, Alain didn’t think he was lying, technically speaking.
"W-Wait a minute..." She seemed to finally snap out of it, tugging at the corner of Alain’s shirt. "You mean to say, the relationship between the two of us..."
Alain gave her a deep, profound look, saying nothing, and continued to lead the way.
Leaving Monika alone in the wind, messy and confused, following behind Alain like a zombie.
Creak—
The sound of the door opening.
"We’re back." Alain gestured toward Monika behind him, intending to introduce her.
But the girl locked onto the computer in the room and walked briskly over to it, not even bothering to say hello.
"???"
Alain was baffled and walked over to check.
The others naturally gathered around Monika, watching as she opened a webpage.
[Qiandu Netdisk]
"Eh? A netdisk? Why is that..." Misha’s voice of confusion actually reminded Alain.
Would someone as shrewd as Monika not have anticipated her own memory loss?
If she had the ability to create a backup of herself, there were two possibilities:
First, backing up herself at multiple points in time to guard against memory loss and the loss of massive amounts of intelligence.
Second, real-time backups...
Automatically uploading a backup of herself to a certain location at regular intervals.
What Alain had obtained was perhaps the most basic backup (the body)... while what Monika was retrieving now was the latest backup (the memories).
Sure enough, Monika clicked on a file in the netdisk. Entering download...
Upon completion, she fainted once again.
When she opened her eyes again, she cast an unkind look at Alain.
"You... really have some nerve speaking like that, Alain."
Monika’s smile remained warm and pleasant, but Alain could see the vein popping on her forehead.
He spoke with righteous indignation, "Alright, is this really the time to talk about such things? The life and death of the Game World depends on all of us—mphmphmph..."
Before Alain could finish his sentence, Monika, in a rare fit of madness, grabbed both his cheeks and pulled.
"You! Ah!!"
"I’m swoowwy, Lady Mwonika..."
"..." The Mita maidens looked at each other, each sighing... The relationship between these two seemed pretty good.
With this, Alain’s title as the ’Electronic Succubus’ was firmly established.
"Phew... Alright, I understand the situation now."
The coral-brown haired girl brushed her long hair back with a melodious yet haughty elegance, complaining, "I really got played by that Yang Wanhua. To think she laid such a trap inside the Security Guard..."
Her face darkened, and then she looked around, sizing up the group of Mita maidens as if evaluating weapons one by one.
"Alain, you’ve found yourself some decent allies—"
Before she could finish, Misha took a step forward and flashed a kind smile at Monika.
"Thank you, Miss Monika."
"...?" Even Monika hadn’t expected the sudden gratitude. "Why?"
"Because you helped Alain, and you left a glimmer of hope for everyone in the Game World!"
Misha narrowed her eyes slightly, her expression smiling.
"...Oh." Monika took a step back, leaning back on her hands indifferently. "It was nothing. Your own endurance was also important."
The Mitas looked at her slightly flushed face and smiled at each other. None of them exposed her.
In Alain’s peripheral vision, Misha shot him a look: [Got her.]
Alain gave her a thumbs up: [Good job.]
As expected of his dear. She figured that since Monika was ’black-bellied’ (scheming), she should treat her with ’natural innocence’...
It was super effective.
After Monika exchanged greetings with Core Mita, the coral-brown haired girl sat on the sofa with her legs crossed.
"So? Where is your progress at now?"
Alain nodded and told her everything they currently knew.
After a long while, she murmured...
"The Core, the progress bar..." Monika crossed her arms, pondered for a few seconds, and spoke.
"Progress is fast; it has already reached the final moments. It is also time for me to reveal everything I know..."
She looked at Alain. "To lay it all out."
"You can say it now?" Alain felt strange. She had been a riddler before, but now she was being so honest... it actually made him a bit unaccustomed.
Monika hmphed. "Yang Wanhua’s gaze is temporarily fixed on the Core, so she won’t discover me yet. If..."
Her expression sank. "If we wait until she completes the erosion of the Core, then the real world won’t need to exist anymore. At that time... I will still be discovered. Who knows what kind of fate I will face?"
She lifted her eyes to look at Alain. "So rest assured, we are still tied to the same boat."
"I don’t distrust you. On the contrary—" Alain reached out his hand to her. "I have already confirmed that you are my good comrade-in-arms."
"..." She hesitated for two seconds before reaching out to that large hand and shaking it.
Seeing this, Millie and Miluo were secretly eating popcorn on the side.
"Looks like the Good Brother’s capture progress on Monika has reached sixty or seventy percent. I really don’t know how he managed to gnaw down such a difficult woman!"
"As expected of Sir Knight... Another rival added. Miluo needs to work even hard!"
Monika coughed as if she had heard them, trying to alleviate the awkwardness. "Alright, let’s get straight to the point."
She uncrossed her legs, sat up straight, and placed her hands on her skirt.
"First, is the issue of Yang Wanhua." When she touched upon this topic, her face was covered in dark clouds. "Unfortunately, inside the Game World, it is completely impossible to kill her.
"And since her body inside the Game World is undying, it leads to the continuous generation of viruses.
"For her, creating viruses is just a finger movement of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V."
Alain spoke up, "Then, what is the solution?"
He understood that Monika was definitely not someone who would speak aimlessly just to destroy morale.
If there really was no solution, she would have tried to say it tactfully. Rather than being so blunt.
"You understand me quite well." Monika smiled.
"It’s alright, after all, our relationship..." Alain acted shy.
"Get lost."
"Yes, ma’am."
Millie murmured, "The relationship between these two really is good."
"Tch." Monika clicked her tongue, changing the subject. "Just as Alain said, there is indeed a solution. It just depends on you guys..."
She narrowed her eyes, looking at the kind-hearted maidens.
"Whether you have the determination, to harden your hearts and do this."
"Speak." Alain shielded the maidens behind him.
Monika’s small nose wrinkled, and then she said,
"Her only weakness, which can also be said to be a common weakness of living things, is..."
She chuckled lightly and uttered a single word:
"Pain."
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