Chapter 558 Chapter 556 · “Come back.”

“—Then, the proposal for Miss Mizushimakawa Sora to be the temporary head of the family is unanimously approved.”

In a large wooden structure room, under the Fuso plaque with black characters on a white background, a serious-looking middle-aged man made the final decision.

　　The black-haired woman sitting at the top of the long table glanced at the elders who did not dare to look at her.

The sheathed black sword beside her is placed on the beige tatami, with a red paper rose hanging on the scabbard.

She raised her hand, picked up the knife, and slowly left in front of people's eyes. The evil aura of a top player on her body shocked the group of young old men.

　　After her figure completely disappeared behind the wooden sliding door, the group of people breathed a sigh of relief as if waking up from a dream, with a mixture of vigilance, fear, and helplessness in their eyes.

“The murderous aura among adventure players is getting stronger and stronger…”

“Is it the influence of the Eighth World? I always feel like I’m facing a ferocious beast. I never felt this way when I faced my ancestors before…”

"It was the death of her sister that stimulated her. Sometimes when I passed by Mizushima's room, I could always hear her talking to herself about a doll, as if she was possessed."

“The world has really changed. We old bones can no longer hold on. We still have to leave the future to young people..."

“It’s a pity that the boys from the master’s family are so cowardly that they let a woman take the lead…”

 “Hush, Mr. Hexiu...be careful that the walls have ears.”

 …

 Mizushima Kawakawa returned to his room and stretched himself.

She lazily looked at the cherry blossoms flying outside the door, looking out through the meandering water and green shadows, and saw the afternoon sun shining down along the broken shades of the trees, and even the rockery and rocks were covered with a layer of gold. .

 This is a good time to take a nap.

 She fetched water and combed her long hair. Although the main god's world is a digital body, which makes it very convenient to do everything, and can even cut and comb her hair with one click, she likes a simple lifestyle.

This will make her feel as if she is still living on Zhai Xing.

 As if nothing happened.

She stood up, got dressed by herself, combed her hair by herself, polished her sword by herself, prepared snacks and tea by herself, and called her crazy sister to come for dinner...

“Haru, it’s time for snacks.” Mizushima Kawakora placed various cakes, dumplings, taiyaki, yokan, mochi and other snacks on the table, and called to the room inside.

 Looking at the dessert plate, she changed the positions of the red dumplings and white dumplings, making the arrangement look more pleasing to the eye.

"Qing. If you don't eat, I'll eat it myself." She continued.

 No reply.

She frowned slightly and continued shouting.

"Stop playing video games like crazy, Qing." She said: "I shouldn't have agreed to buy you a game console in the first place? You just lie there in your room every day, staring at the little electronic man, and your father is... Want to scold."

 No reply.

 Cherry blossoms fell from the door and landed on her shoulders.

 She tore open the dorayaki, revealing the sweet bean paste inside, and took a bite.

 The sweetness of the bean paste is just right, and the texture is a little sticky to the teeth, but this is Mizushima Kawaharu's favorite sweetness, and she specially watched the cook make it. The outer edge of the dorayaki is also soft and elastic. Haru likes this texture.

"Dorayaki tastes very good and suits you very well." Mizushima Kawakawa continued to say to Uma: "I still remember that when you were a child, you and I liked to eat half of it. You liked to eat the side of Dorayaki, begging me , saying you want to eat more side and less side..."

 She took another bite.

 No reply.

"Are you stuck in the game? Shall I send it in for you?" She picked up the disk, walked into the inner room in the warm mist of tea fragrance, and opened the wooden door.

 The cherry blossoms slowly fell from her shoulders and landed on the tatami.

 She looked inside and saw a round seat cloth and some neatly folded girls' clothes next to it.

 There was no one on the cloth panel.

There is only a Fuso rag doll with black cloth hair.

 The doll is wearing a kimono made of linen, with a fiery red sacrificial fan behind it. It is about 1.6 meters tall, and is one to one ratio to a real person.

 When he saw the doll, Sora Mizushima's eyes softened.

“Haru.” Mizushima Kawakawa looked at the doll and said, “It’s time to have some snacks.”

She placed the snacks in front of the doll, took the doll's hand, handed the dorayaki to the doll's hand, and squeezed the doll's hand.

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As soon as she let go, the doll's hand also naturally relaxed.

The dorayaki fell on the tatami, making a slight sound, and the bean paste was stained and rolled all over the floor.

Mizushima Kawakora stared blankly at the motionless rag doll and the falling Dorayaki.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, as if she was thinking about something.

 After a moment, she lowered her body, put away the snacks, and wiped the bean paste clean.

"...You didn't even eat the snacks!" She was a little angry: "Well, as a sister, I don't want to worry about you anymore. There will be a meeting in two days and I won't be able to come back. Don't ask your family for help then. Aunt Sanzhi will open a small stove for you."

 She took the plate, turned around and left.

 When she reached the sliding door, her steps suddenly paused.

There was obviously no sound in the room, but she seemed to get a reply. She turned her head slightly and looked at the rag doll lying on the ground.

“…Qing, it’s useless for you to apologize to me now. As a sister, like a mother, I really want to educate you well.” She said:

“No, it’s useless to act coquettishly. I don’t want to do that now.

"snort.

"...I know. I will leave some for you. When you come out after playing the game, remember to eat it. Don't forget it."

Mizushima Kawa Sora kept talking to himself, giving some instructions to the doll before going out.

 She is in a good mood now and greets people with a smile.

“The head of the house looks happy?” asked a middle-aged man wearing a long gown, smiling and flattering.

“Because of my sister.” Mizushima Sora said with a smile, “She is very obedient today.”

"Oh...oh." After hearing this, the middle-aged man's expression changed slightly. He forced a smile and flattered a few more words, and immediately left in a hurry.

They had long known about Mizushima Kawakawa's eighth world's setback, and had been carefully paying attention to her attitude, not wanting to anger her.

　 Today is no different than in the past. They have understood the nature of the world game and know how influential and powerful the top players are.

If they continue to be shy and treat Mizushima Kawakawa as a **** and treat themselves as elders to bully her, they will be the ones who are killed to scare the monkeys.

Only by holding on to others’ thighs can they be prosperous and prosperous.

 The pattern of the world has long since changed.

 A woman who was once regarded as a marriage partner has actually become a being far above them.

However, since the end of the eighth world, this woman has started holding a rag doll like crazy and calling her sister, and has also told them not to come close. She takes care of the rag doll like a self-hypnosis, eats and sleeps with the rag doll, and talks to herself. Talking to myself…

 Crazy, really crazy.

　　Those people at the forefront of mankind... have long been assimilated by the crazy copies, and they have long gone crazy...

Mizushima Kawakora watched the middle-aged man leave in a hurry, then turned around and continued humming her song.

Her sister is very disobedient, rebellious, and out of line, dressing up like a bad girl. He also deliberately disappeared for a period of time before, deliberately trying to make her anxious.

But that's okay.

 …because she has got her sister back.

 My sister has become much better recently. Although she is a picky eater and won't eat, she won't resist. She will wear whatever clothes she chooses for her sister, and she has to help her wear them herself.

 Today I am wearing a kimono and a sacrificial fan, what should I wear tomorrow...

By the way, there are also bows. Qing likes bows very much, so she can buy bows in the store. The prices are much cheaper than before, and she can buy hundreds of them without blinking an eye.

 There are always blind people who say her sister is a rag doll...how could she be a rag doll? She could see clearly that Qing would chat with her and laugh with her every day.

 “That’s great.” Mizushima Kawakawa opened his arms facing the sunshine on his face.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…"

 She laughed.

The sun shone down on the back of her hand, which showed six white marks of perfect clearance, one at a time.

 “That’s great.” She smiled and stood under the scattered cherry blossoms, as if she was embracing the world.

 “No one wants to separate us, no one wants to.”

“Qing is not dead, she is back, and is by my side, always accompanying me..."

"very nice."

 “…I’ll take care of the weather,”

 “I’ve found it.”

 …

 After leaving the United Regiment, Su Mingan received an email from Lu.

He came to the address mentioned in the email, District 120, an ordinary district server.

The location mentioned on the road is an old castle near the corner. The style of this area is relatively medieval, with many scattered old castle buildings.

The usual meeting place of the Peak Alliance is actually an old castle. I don’t know if it’s because of Lu’s secondary interest or because of the so-called sense of ritual.

 He saw Lu in the old castle, and Lu still had the same smile on his face.

The so-called "Peak Alliance" is a group with peak adventure players as the core, with various sub-professional players as the outer ring, and they have consistent interests.

The nine adventure players don’t have to worry about their identities being pulled out by some organization to raise the banner—because each of them is the core of this alliance. Their rights are entirely in their own hands.

 Influential commanders like them can temporarily give chaotic people a unified goal to move forward. Even if the alliance disbands and connects with other organizations, it will at least have the capital to have equal dialogue with other organizations.

This alliance is just a simple structure. From now on, they are no longer a single top player, but an entity in the eyes of people.

Like Su Mingan’s lighthouse theory, this is an act to deepen people’s impressions and improve the situation, just like the “Hero Plan” of the United Regiment.

Moreover, compared to a coalition with countless entangled interests, this small group of only nine people is simpler and clearer.

Lu handed Su Mingan a piece of paper with the above content written on it - as long as Su Mingan signs, their alliance will be officially established, which is equivalent to a form of certification.

Under the dim candlelight of the castle, Su Mingan could hardly read the words clearly. He really suspected that Lu was here for a candlelight dinner.

Seeing that Su Ming'an was hesitant to write, Lu thought he was hesitating.

"Don't worry, your foresight has already reached a level that makes me awestruck. Your layout in the early stage of the world game is also extremely sophisticated. With you as the leader of this alliance, we can definitely go forward together in such a desperate world." Lu sighed: "-If it were you, it would be fine."

Su Mingan was speechless for Lu, the brain-boosting emperor who had already idolized him so much.

He looked at the list of nine seats: Lu, Beiwang, Lu Shu, Yamada Machichi, Alger, Isabella, Luna, Eleven.

Except for Alger and Eleven, everyone else is an acquaintance and has good character.

 He signed his name by the light of his watch.

 …At the moment of signing, he suddenly felt like he had made an ending choice.

It seems that whether he chooses to join this alliance or not will lead to different endings in the world.

 Join the alliance plot line/not join the alliance plot line.

 …I have played too many copies.

 After he signed, the paper was divided into two parts, one part he held and the other part went into Lu's hands.

 When establishing an alliance, the long-term benefits are temporarily invisible, and he cannot consider what will happen after the game is over. But the good thing now is that they can try to form a team and stick together.

Su Mingan’s four teammate positions include Noel and three more. Whether it is Lu, Yamada Machichi or Luna, they are all relatively reliable existences.

 After leaving the castle, Su Mingan suddenly received a communication from Noel.

“—Su Mingan, I will give a speech on the ‘New World’ this afternoon.”

 The blond boy looked at him gently across the screen.

Su Mingan noticed that there were large areas of blood stains on Noel's body.

 “There is blood, what are you doing?” Su Mingan asked.

“…Are you coming to listen to the speech in the afternoon?” Noel did not answer, but just took off his blood-stained white gloves.

Behind Noel was a child who stood up slowly and was connected to several mechanical tubes.

Su Mingan knew the face of that child. It was Xiaochen. After the end of the sixth world, he called him "Brother Lighthouse" in the kindergarten. He was a cute boy.

 But now, this child is like a newly born machine.

 “Brother Lighthouse.” Xiaochen also saw Su Mingan across the screen.

There was a slight clicking sound, and Xiaochen's steps were still a little stiff.

 “Xiaochen?” Su Mingan said.

 “That’s great.” Xiaochen said with a smile, “I also want to become a powerful player like Brother Lighthouse.”

 He smiled brightly, like a spring flower in full bloom.

 (End of this chapter)