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The two identical, white-haired young men stood opposite each other like two sides of a mirror, their hands linked.
Shan Ziwei shivered and took a deep breath, suppressing his racing heartbeat as his eyes lit up.
Great! As expected in games, the lower body parts were merely decorative.
After a momentary flash of joy, a certain hypersexual then descended back into the pit of despair. While the game developers weren’t shameless enough to recreate that kind of bodily function, and even though there was no physical evidence, the feelings were all experienced intimately. Even when faced with “himself”, he could feel the arcing threads of pleasure from the contact running through his nerves, settling across his entire body and making his heart itch.
“Haaaah…”
Shan Ziwei took steady, measured breaths. For this degree of contact, he could suppress the rest of his reactions, as long as that hardest to control, most shameful reaction was gone. If it were like this, other people would only find him a bit weird, not take him for a pervert. Thus, what he had to do now was find his endurance limit.
Holding hands was fine. That meant he should go a step further.
A certain hypersexual stifled his embarrassment as he ordered the mirror image, “Hug me tight.”
The white-haired young man blinked his lead-coloured eyes and opened his arms wide, completely enveloping his original body in an inseparable embrace without a sliver of space between them. Their white hair mingled, so intimately becoming one.
For a moment, Shan Ziwei’s consciousness blanked. He couldn’t remember how long it had been since he had been hugged by someone like this. Even though it was just a game NPC, he could feel that gentle human warmth flooding him.
And then, a certain hypersexual who had overestimated his own limits ended up in a tragic situation.
“!!!”
This moment of courage cost Shan Ziwei dearly.
“L-let go, hurry and let go!!!”
Shan Ziwei took a few steps backwards and suddenly squatted down, burying his face in his knees. His ears were bright red under his white locks.
Goddamn it, he had gotten so excited his Hearts SP (Joy) had taken a hit! QAQ
Shan Ziwei could feel his entire body trembling with arousal. As he had no way of letting it out, that sweet, sweet pleasure was locked inside his body, wreaking havoc everywhere. It felt like even his hair was tingling.
Sob, why did someone as upstanding and principled as him have to have such an indecent body…
Just as Shan Ziwei was crying to himself with his head bowed, he felt something ruffle his hair, as if someone had patted his head.
Shan Ziwei looked up. No one was there. Even the mirror image had disappeared due to its summon timer ending.
It was probably just the wind.
[Scenario 3: You’re afraid of red puzzle pieces. (00:01:00)]
That was when the system gave him his third scenario. Shan Ziwei scrambled away from the red puzzle piece under his feet. From the looks of it, the system was prepared to go through all the colours one after the other. If that happened, then he’d eventually be afraid of red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple and even black and white puzzle pieces, and he wouldn’t even have a place to stand. This game was clearly made to encourage players to reach their goal as soon as possible – with every Scenario that system gave over time, it would be harder and harder to survive on the chessboard. Shan Ziwei felt his scalp going numb at the thought of tens of System Scenarios all descending upon him at once.
There was no point in delaying. Let’s hurry up and get to the City of Toys.
Shan Ziwei shoved the remaining mirrors into the pocket of his waistcoat. After a moment of rest, he headed west in accordance with the signpost.
This place was bright and almost dreamlike. Every now and then, bubbles would float by. Coupled with the sweet creamy aroma and the constant cheerful singing, it was as if he had entered a dreamland. It made his heart melt.
Shan Ziwei’s childhood was like any other boy’s, filled with toys, mischief and noise. Before his hypersexuality made itself known, he had been active in all different kinds of groups, so full of energy that he couldn’t use it all up. It was a typical choleric temperament. However, ever since his hypersexuality emerged, Shan Ziwei’s life was turned upside-down. He stopped going to places with a lot of people and his personality grew strange – he wanted friends of his own, but because he was afraid of being seen as a pervert, he didn’t dare to approach anyone. The one time he gathered his courage to try and pursue someone, it ended before it even began.
–– Omg, that guy’s “excited”? What the hell? Gross!
Shan Ziwei shook his head to escape those memories. Currently, he was already close enough to see the City of Toys in the distance, a place built with colourful building blocks. However, he was unable to take a single step further, for between Shan Ziwei and the City of Toys lay an area filled with black and red puzzle pieces.
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[Scenario 1: You’re afraid of black puzzle pieces.]
[Scenario 3: You’re afraid of red puzzle pieces.]
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Shan Ziwei took out a pokeball… uh, mirror… from his pocket: I choose you, mirror image!
A mirror image identical to Shan Ziwei once again made its appearance. Shan Ziwei thought to himself with delight: if he couldn’t touch it, it didn’t mean that his mirror image couldn’t. He could have his mirror image carry him on his back the entire way. It wasn’t like there was anyone else around. Even if he got off his mirror image’s back looking out of it, it wouldn’t matter.
Following Shan Ziwei’s orders, the mirror image took one step forwards and stepped onto the red and black puzzle pieces. It instantly lost SP from the same gauge he had.
… Okay then, it seemed that the mirror image had inherited his Scenarios as well.
Shan Ziwei didn’t call back the mirror image, instead, he had it continue to run. He wanted to see how far it could run. If possible, he’d have one mirror image carry him as far as possible and then run the last section himself, like a relay.
At around a fifth of the way over, his mirror image’s Diamond SP fell to zero. At that moment, the mirror image stopped like someone had pressed a pause button. It didn’t react even when Shan Ziwei tried to give it orders.
So this was Spiritual Breakdown?
Just as Shan Ziwei thought that his mirror image was going to die just like that, the white-haired young man standing on the black and red puzzle pieces turned around and revealed a pair of blood red eyes.
His mirror image gave him a smile that was as terrifying as his eyes and began to stalk towards him.
“You want me to leave you?”
H-h-his mirror image was talking!
“That won’t do, that won’t do at all, I refuse to leave you.”
“I can’t live without you.”
Shan Ziwei stepped back instinctively. The other’s aura was too strong; he could practically see black miasma leaking from his mirror image!
“Don’t…”
Shan Ziwei’s retreating step seemed to flick a switch in the other white-haired young man, sending him into an uncontrollable rage. The white-haired young man charged furiously at Shan Ziwei, a dangerous glint in his red eyes.
“If I open a hole in our stomachs and tie our intestines together, then we won’t ever be separated then, will we?”
What the fuuuuuck!!!
Shan Ziwei immediately turned and ran for it.
Mommy, he was being chased by a crazy man! Even worse, this crazy man was wearing his face!!!
He was going to have nightmares about this! He was definitely going to have nightmares about this!!!
Shan Ziwei enlarged the summons’ tab, but then realized with a sinking heart there was no “dismiss” option! Luckily, his mirror image only had half the MP he had, so the mirror image’s MP hit zero first from vigorous exercise.
Shan Ziwei watched his mirror image disperse into blue light, panting, and gave up on the idea of using his mirror image as canon fodder to cross the puzzle pieces. In fact, it would be a long time before he used the Mirror Image skill again. A certain hypersexual had truly had a taste of what kind of assholes the game developers were.
That wasn’t spiritual breakdown, that was a fucking madman! =皿=
Shan Ziwei stumbled back to the red and black puzzle piece area, gazing at the far-off City of Toys in despair. Though he had only left for a few minutes, that experience was sure to leave a mental scar.
There must be another way of getting through this.
Shan Ziwei sat down to recover his MP for a bit. When his MP was full again, he began following the edge of the red and black area in a big circle around the City of Toys. After around ten minutes of walking, Shan Ziwei finally found the first and only “living creature” he had seen except himself (and his mirror image).
It was a teddy bear holding a bunch of balloons in its hand, squatting there and looking at something on the ground.
[You have encountered a “pawn”.] The system immediately sprang out to explain: [Pawns are characters that are not under the control of players. After they die, they will drop their respective chess piece. A pawn’s stance on a player can be categorized as “friendly”, “neutral” or “hostile”. You may interact with neutral and friendly pawns.]
So that meant that “pawns” were NPCs controlled by the computer?
Shan Ziwei carefully approached the teddy bear. He couldn’t be sure if the cute, fluffy stuffed toy would suddenly attack him or not. After getting close enough, Shan Ziwei closed his left eye and used Investigate.
[Teddy Bear
Type: ?
Category: ?
MP: ?
SP: ?
Stance: Neutral
Description: A pawn that likes to make friends.]
The question marks given by Investigate had Shan Ziwei’s flight response flaring up, but when he saw the stance and description, he let out a breath of relief.
Sensing Shan Ziwei’s approach, the teddy bear raised its furry head.
“Rawr~ hello.”
“H-hello…” This was the first time Shan Ziwei spoke face to face with a game character. It was said that NPCs in these fully immersive games all acted according to their behavioural blueprints. If the player said a certain keyword or did a certain action, they would be able to trigger story progression for the NPC. Shan Ziwei didn’t have any experience, so he directly asked, “Do you have anything you need me to do?”
“Rawr~ You’re willing to help me?” Hearing Shan Ziwei’s question, the teddy bear stood up happily, “I lost a few chessmen. Could you help me find them rawr? In return, teddy will give you these balloons rawr~ Teddy’s balloons are really awesome, they’ll take you into the sky~”
Touched, Shan Ziwei felt tears welling up. So it was finally heading in the direction of a traditional RPG – getting quests from NPCs, fighting mobs and then getting a key item to progress further in the story from said NPC. How kind!
“Leave it to me!”
“Rawr~ You truly are a great person! Teddy likes being friends with good people rawr~”
The teddy bear gave Shan Ziwei a stack of “you’re a good person” cards… quite literally. Shan Ziwei stared at the playing cards on the teddy bear’s paw, feeling an inexplicable sense of foreboding.
[You have obtained special Scenario Cards – Relationship Scenario Cards. On the chessboard, you may use Relationship Scenario Cards to alter your relationship to other people from your side. You may roleplay the corresponding relationship to recover your desired type of SP (Note: this is the only way to recover SP).]
… So, that meant the already cramped and limited Personal Scenario column had to allocate some space to Relationship Scenarios now?
Shan Ziwei thought to himself as he took the Relationship Scenario Cards from the teddy bear. After reading them, a certain hypersexual could feel his expression crumbling.
[Ace of Spades – Friendship
Category: Active Relationship
Effect: When you help them, restore 10 percent of your Spades SP.
Description: You’re my friend. I’m happy to help you.]
[Ace of Hearts – Love
Category: Active Relationship
Effect: When you express love for them, restore 10 percent of your Hearts SP.
Description: I like you, I like you so, so, so much.]
[Ace of Clubs – Monopolize
Category: Active Relationship
Effect: When you express possessiveness for them, restore 10 percent of your Clubs SP.
Description: You’re mine. I won’t let anyone else have you.]
[Ace of Diamonds – Monopolize
Category: Passive Relationship
Effect: When they express possessiveness for you, restore 10 percent of your Diamonds SP.
Description: I’m yours, only yours.]
Did this game have no decency! Shan Ziwei was so close to throwing these cards onto the ground in rage. Apart from the first one, the rest were all perverted as hell!
“Rawr?”
Shan Ziwei suppressed the urge to rip these cards into shreds and looked back at the teddy bear that was staring at him with wide eyes. This time, Investigate gave him more detailed information instead of a bunch of question marks, probably because their friendship had increased.
[Teddy Bear
Type: Two of Clubs
Category: Bishop
MP: 2000/2000
SP: Spades (100%), Hearts (100%), Clubs (90%), Diamonds (100%)
Stance: Friendly
Relationship: Friendship (Passive)
Description: A pawn that likes to make friends.]
Twenty times his MP! Shan Ziwei was stunned and kind of terrified. That meant that this cute stuffed toy that looked like it could be pushed over easily was basically equal to twenty of him! Thankfully, he didn’t have to fight the other, Shan Ziwei thought to himself. Then he noticed that there was some new information under “stance” – relationship, the teddy bear’s relationship with him was currently “Friendship (Passive)”.
It was clear that at this point he should probably use his “Ace of Spades – Friendship (Active)” card. According to the card effect, if he completed the quest he had been given (= helping the teddy bear), he could recover Spades SP.
Thus, Shan Ziwei whipped out the “Ace of Spades – Friendship (Active)” card and used it under the shining black eyes of the teddy bear.
[Scenario Eight: You’re friends with Teddy Bear.]
“So happy! Teddy has another new friend rawr~” The teddy bear spun in a circle with joy and gave Shan Ziwei the box it had been looking at before. “Here, for you, Teddy’s lost six chessmen – rawr, you can look for them in the North.”
Inside the box, there were ten black chess pieces. Shan Ziwei recalled that for both white and black, there were typically sixteen pieces on either side. He looked over them and realized that the set was missing a knight and five pawns.
“I’ll go and look now.”
“I’ll be waiting rawr~”
Shan Ziwei shoved the rest of his Relationship Scenario Cards into his pocket and the teddy bear saw him off as he begun his new journey.
Thank you for all the comments!
Next up, Scenario Seven: City of Toys (3)
I wonder who the ML is🧐
I think it’s the dean from ch 1 bc on novel updates this has a ‘male yandere’ tag and he put the hair that touched MC in his mouth
Thank you for the chapter!!😍😍😍
This game is brutal… such limited card slots… QAQ
Thanks for the chapter~ ( ^ ♡ ^ )/
I wonder if ML will turn out to be his mirror. That would be kinda interesting.
Thanks for the chapter! So, who ruffled his hair? Don’t tell me the game’s AI is the ML or something? Or have I been reading too many stories like that lately?
I think the ml is one of the devs…
Ohh it’s pretty interesting… I guess the difficulty will raise when there are a bunch of “You are afraid of _” scenarios, since you won’t be able to remember what you can’t step on.
When the ML appears it’ll be easy to farm Diamond SP :]
Thank you for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter
Am I the only one afraid of this teddy? I have a feeling he’s goona flip soon.
Thanks for the chapter <3
I think the ml is the director of the orphanage from the first chapter. Remember he whispered I’ll see you later. He could possibly work at the place who developed rpg and have access to the internal structure. And that’s how he infiltrated so he could I interact with our mc. Maybe he helped create it and he does the orphanage thing on the side to have a normal identity in the outside world.
” Dan Ziwei took out a pokeball… uh, mirror… from his pocket: I choose you, mirror image!” Okay, I laughed so hard at that looooool
Thx for the ch \(≧▽≦)/
that mirror… was really creepy
Who patted his head?! Maybe it was in the real life, not inside the game!
That teddy bear seems a little weird.
Thanks for the chapter!
ML is probably invading his mirror card all along lol. That berserked intestine comment is NOT MC’s own mentality imo, not to mention the eye blink before he hugged MC, and then the head pat before his time was up. Dude is definitely the creep Dean and has been around the MC in-game. Now I just want him to not overstimulate MC to the point of triggering a heart attack, and then help MC to get rid of the traitorous team captain and stupid cannon fodder cousin of YeYe’s.