The Strange Cat from Fuuto

Poppy, now close to the little angel, is in her original form: pink hair, rosy cheeks, a yellow plaid skirt, and two pairs of stockings in different shades.

When people see her, they always feel like this girl jumped out of an anime.

"I spent all night researching the Heroic Spirit Alliance, so I didn't get much sleep."

The little angel, having poured instant coffee into the mug, quietly waits for the kettle to boil.

"Researching the Heroic Spirit Alliance?"

Poppy, after circling the little angel a few times, suddenly realized, "Isn't that the game I played all night last night?"

"I was planning to go to sleep at midnight, but that main quest was just too captivating, and before I knew it..."

The little angel scratched his head and smiled sheepishly. Upon hearing this, Jing Feicai, who had just joined CR, coldly remarked, "An intern is just an intern; they never understand the priorities!"

"But I think if we want to know which knights CatsDog sent, we need to know about the Heroic Spirit Alliance."

"We need to gather as much intelligence as possible!"

“That’s right!” Poppy put his hands on his hips and agreed with the little angel.

"Whatever you like!"

Jing Feicai, who had just taken the strawberry cake she brought from the box, casually reached out and said, "Scalpel!"

"Um, Fei Cai. Don't you find it cloying to eat cake so early in the morning?"

"Sugar is the best way to replenish brain energy. Eating cake in the morning can both fill your stomach and replenish sugar. It's a win-win situation!"

Hearing Jing Feicai's matter-of-fact answer, Poppy and the little angel exchanged glances, then shrugged in unison, indicating that they couldn't understand each other's thought process.

Although somewhat speechless, Poppy still handed her personal cake knife to Jing Feicai.

Jing Feicai, who had just picked up the knife, flicked her wrist and was about to strike.

"Beep beep beep...beep beep beep..."

The General Telephone next to him rang, causing a barely perceptible crease to appear at the corner of his mouth.

"I'll do it, I'll do it!"

Poppy's voice became calm as he picked up the phone, "Hello, this is the Computer Help Center, may I ask..."

Poppy was interrupted by the other end of the phone before she could finish speaking.

Hearing what the person on the other end said, Poppy's eyes widened: "Okay, I understand!"

"We're moving out immediately!"

"What's wrong, Poppy?" The little angel, holding her own mug, took small sips to cool down her coffee.

"Genm Games' president, Dan Kuroto, has contracted gaming addiction!"

"what?!"

.........

Forty-seven minutes later.

The little angel and Poppy were pushed into the isolation ward on a medical bed. After the medical bed was successfully connected, the little angel immediately turned on the examination machine.

As Jing Feicai came down from the second floor and arrived at the bedside, she aimed the game observation device, disguised as a stethoscope, at Xiajiao, who was lying on the hospital bed with a pale face.

"I'm sorry to have caused you trouble this time!"

"It's no trouble at all, it's no trouble at all," the little angel said gently to the shrimp dumpling. "You've already helped us so much, treating you is what we should do!"

"Something's strange!" Jing Feicai looked at the constantly moving icon on the monitor's screen. "Intern, come take a look!"

"it is good!"

The little angel who quickly came to Jing Feicai's side looked at the observation device and her expression changed.

Because the virus that infected the shrimp dumplings was different from the one they had seen before; instead, it was a black, chibi-style Exaid icon.

"This is..."

After exchanging a glance with Jing Feicai, the little angel also sensed that something was wrong.

"Um, President, may I ask how you contracted the virus?"

"I've been busy making new cartridges lately, hoping to give you guys new power, but a problem has arisen."

"question?"

"The prototype cartridge, originally intended for experimentation, suddenly went into overdrive for some unknown reason. It attacked me and also infected me with gaming addiction."

"Prototype cartridge?"

"Data overload?"

Chewing on the information revealed by the shrimp dumplings, Kagami Hiiro fell into deep thought. The little angel, however, was more decisive, saying, "Don't worry, I'll save you, Mr. President!"

Seeing the little angel pull out the driver and cartridge, Poppy quickly grabbed his hand: "Calm down. Even if we can perform the surgery, the CatsDog people will appear once we enter the game world."

"But we can't just wait here like this!"

With a push, Poppy's little angel pressed the cartridge button, and the game world instantly unfolded.

"Wait a minute, intern!"

A glint flashed in Jing Feicai's eyes as she stopped the little angel from inserting the card. "I have something else I want to ask!"

Is there anything more important than a patient's life?

The little angel was somewhat puzzled, even angry.

"intern!!"

Suddenly, Jing Feicai, shouting loudly, grabbed the little angel by the collar: "I understand your desire to save the patient, but the surgery is not that simple!"

"The preparations needed before surgery are not just about asking about the patient's condition, but also about understanding the course of the illness, the cause of the disease, and the deeper reasons."

"If you can't even master these things, then even if you perform surgery, it will be a failed surgery."

"A doctor who lets a patient die on the operating table doesn't deserve to be called a doctor!"

After a stern reprimand, the little angel reluctantly withdrew his arm.

"I understand, I'm sorry!"

"President, since you say the game disease is caused by data malfunction in the prototype cartridge, has any bugsters been generated?"

"Or is the Bugster still lurking inside you?"

Jing Feicai scrutinized Xiajiao with intense eyes. Xiajiao endured the pain and said in a trembling voice, "Because it's the prototype cartridge, I'm different from ordinary patients. The Bugster produced by the Game Disease in my body has separated and entered the game realm!"

"So that's how it is!"

With a knowing glint in her eyes, Jing Feicai pondered for a moment before saying to the little angel, "Intern, you will be the lead surgeon this time!"

"how about you?"

"I have other things to do!"

"Yes!"

........

The gaming industry.

After transforming, Jing Feicai invaded the area and stood still, waiting with his sword stuck at his feet.

"Snap..."

As expected, space cracked open.

Graphite, brainwashed and controlled by Miku, stepped out of the rift in his transformed form. The goggles on his visor were quite strange, one yellow and one red. The yellow goggles seemed to be pieced together, with rivets around them.

His messy mane had a metallic sheen, a necklace of animal teeth hung around his neck, and he held a curved iron knife in his right hand.

Are you the only one?

As Jing Feicai drew her sword, her expression turned serious.

"This time, I will definitely defeat you!"

"Roar!"

With a roar that sounded inhuman, Graphite lunged forward, attacking Mirror Flying Color from mid-air.

While a battle is about to erupt here, in another game scene...

"Stage Select!"

The little angel, who keeps changing scenes, quickly surveys his surroundings, but he usually only stays in one scene for three to five seconds.

Then it will move on to the next scene.

The scenes keep changing, but the little angel still hasn't found his goal.

According to Xiajiao, the Bugster that infected him will constantly travel through the game world. To find him, you need to keep switching scenes to achieve the same goal as the Bugster.

Finally, after dozens of changes in the game's environment, a black figure appeared before the little angel.

The game scene has now changed to a dark valley.

In the valley shrouded in night, two rows of braziers stood, their flames burning brightly and dispelling the surrounding darkness, leaving behind light.

The pitch-black Exaid stood in the center of the brazier, head bowed, right hand resting on the Defect Shield.

"finally found you!"

The little angel slowly raised his arm and gestured towards the air, whereupon a weaponized hammer landed in his hand.

The little angel's tentative step forward seemed to activate the other party. The black Exaid suddenly looked up, and the white pupils of the red eyes under the eyepieces lit up with a black eerie light. The black eerie light quickly filled the pupils, dyeing them black.

The black Exaid, moving with uncanny mechanical movements, also took a step forward and walked towards the little angel.

.......

The real world.

Top floor office of CatsDog headquarters building.

"It's started!"

Miku suddenly sighed, leaving Mick, who was standing next to him, somewhat puzzled.