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When Nana Oba lost consciousness in Kita Kirihara, she happened to be in the Silver Garden. In order to save fuel for the director, she deliberately fell into a deep sleep.

Homura Akemi is different from other character cards.

She possessed enough magic power to operate for a period of time, so after Kita Kirihara fell into a coma, she was still able to continue to activate the barrier of the Silver Garden and immediately place Kita Kirihara inside the Silver Garden.

After Koizumi Saki made her wish, Kita Kirito was overwhelmed by the massive amount of computation required, and his recent condition hadn't been great either. He had been dividing himself up too much, so he completely crashed.

After the system crashed, most of the character cards went offline. Except for a few character cards that still had important matters to attend to, which Homura Akemi continued to support, the other character cards fell into a temporary dormancy.

The mindless demon Kitakirihara, and his useful body as the Silver Garden's boss, were naturally taken back after losing control.

Before the core of his soul could be completely separated from his original, broken body, and in accordance with Koizumi Saki's wishes and the rules, Kita Kirihara's consciousness automatically returned to that body.

Originally, he should have been dying, but fortunately, with the eyeball brought back by Nanoha Takamachi, after fusing it into Kita Kirihara's original body, his body was almost completely restored, and now he is even more lively.

In other words, no matter how convoluted things were before, after this formatting and restart, Kita Kirihara returned to his healthy childhood.

Although he still has control over the Silver Garden, most of his computing power is used to repair himself, retrieve those fragmented memories, and mend the self-awareness of [Kitagirihara]. Therefore, Kitagirihara can only use a portion of his computing power with the assistance of the system.

In other words, Kita Kirihara is currently suffering from a serious mental problem.

The way Kita Kirihara views the world is very different from that of normal people.

When Nana Ohba was first awakened from her dormant state, she would never have imagined that she would appear in front of the director like a new character in a gacha game, and that she would have to recite her name with great emotion in front of the director.

After Nana Oba and Homura Akemi got a basic understanding of the situation, they secretly turned their heads to look at the young director sitting on her dormitory bed in a daze.

Ten-year-old Kitakiri was not that tall yet, just a small child. Dressed in a Samoyed costume, he placed his hands on his knees and looked at this side with a very empty gaze.

Nana Oba no longer sensed Kita Kirihara's presence as she had before.

The other person seemed to have locked themselves in a shell, only observing the outside world through the cracks.

Nana Oba's feelings were quite complicated.

244. Early Childhood

This was the first time that Nana Oba had seen Kita Kirihara at this age.

From the moment she met Kita Kirihara, he had always appeared steady and mature, and was very considerate, possessing a level of worldly experience beyond his years.

Seeing Kita Kirihara as a child in person, as she was doing now, was quite a surprise to her.

She was surprised by Kita Kirihara's childhood, never expecting that he would have gone through such a period.

After all, she was the director... Every time she thought about it, she felt that the director was probably born with such extraordinary talent, and it was hard to imagine that Kita Kirihara would have such an approachable, mortal demeanor.

His large, clear, dark red eyes always stared intently at people. His face, which would grow up to be strikingly handsome beyond his gender, still had a touch of baby fat. One could see a hint of Kita Kirihara's future charm in his features, but he was mostly adorable, so tender that one wanted to pinch his cheeks.

Her soft, fluffy, snow-white short hair smelled nice and was fine and soft.

Kita Kirihara, who is just over ten years old and whose memories of the Kita Kiri family have been erased, is very cute.

Moreover, his bewildered expression only makes him more poignant.

The director in my memory rarely showed such an expression. Beneath that seemingly harmless smile, thoughts were swirling, and she was always scheming against others, and even against herself.

Nana Ohba had never seen the director so unguarded before.

Kita Kirihara, now back in her childhood, sat on the edge of the bed in a daze. From her perspective, a cutscene was playing in front of her.

Meanwhile, Homura Akemi and Nana Oba were already secretly observing her.

After waking up, she was wearing a Samoyed costume. While she was daydreaming, she seemed to find the headgear too hot, so she took it off, revealing her rosy little face covered in sweat.

She only started growing taller when she was twelve or thirteen, so at ten years old she was only at the average height for her age. Sitting on her dormitory bed in Xingguangguan, her feet could barely touch the ground.

With short arms and legs, wearing a mascot costume makes them look even more comical and cute.

Nana Ohba watched and couldn't help but smile from the bottom of her heart, sincerely praising, "Director, you're so cute."

Homura Akemi's gaze also fell on Kita Kirihara. While she agreed with Nana Ohba, she also felt a bit of a headache.

Kita Kirihara is in such a state that it's difficult for him to work normally. But he seems to have retained some work-related instincts; at least he still remembers how to activate the character card.

However, Homura Akemi did not intend to let Kita Kirihara handle the more complex tasks.

This thing crashed and turned into this state because its plan was too complex and involved multiple threads.

It's good to take a break during this time. The burden that the high-intensity work has brought to Kita Kirihara is something that even Homura Akemi can hardly share.

Kita Kirihara is currently undergoing self-repair, and it's unclear how long it will take to complete.

However, some tasks cannot be put aside. All Homura Akemi can do is provide guidance from the sidelines, allowing Kita Kirihara to complete what must be done and to suspend what Kita Kirihara cannot handle at the moment.

In addition, Homura Akemi also has to maintain the operation of the Silver Garden.

Although things sound terrible, at least Kita Kirihara has woken up, and at this rate, the reconstruction of the Silver Garden can proceed quickly.

But there's one more thing...

Homura Akemi remembered the inner demon character card that Kita Kirihara had brought back at the end, and felt a throbbing pain in her temples.

After the flipped state was removed from Saki Koizumi, the character card was automatically instilled with the concept of "Injustice God's Name" by the world consciousness.

If it were the old Kita Kirihara, he would definitely know how to handle this character card. But for the current Kita Kirihara, dealing with that character card is still too difficult.

Homura Akemi was temporarily sealed off, but because of the characteristics of the [Unjust God's Name], and because Homura Akemi standing here was not her true form, and had also consumed some of her power to maintain the operation of the Silver Garden, she always felt that the character card could break through her seal at any time.

...After all, it was Kita Kirihara's inner demon.

【Unjust God's Name】 and 【Heart Demon North Frontier】 are corresponding character cards.

The latter is a character card created by drawing on Koizumi Saki's negative emotions and using Kita Kirihara's body as a breeding ground.

The former corresponds to this.

In other words, the "Name of the Unjust God" is something that Kita Kirihara himself has never realized he possessed throughout countless reincarnations, and it is the existence he fears most deeply.

Using Koizumi Saki's body as a seedbed, and after being pulled out by Kita Kirihara, it took the opportunity to absorb Kita Kirihara's inner fears, thus fully forming a character card.

Previously, when Kita Kirihara still held absolute control over the character cards, [The Name of the Unjust God] would not have posed any threat to her.

It's hard to say now...

Homura Akemi was quite worried.

The North Frontier Plains are far more fragile than imagined.

It needs to be protected properly.

First of all...

He warned the ten-year-old Kita Kirihara not to go with the black-haired, blue-eyed woman who called herself Koizumi Saki.

If you encounter it, run away quickly.

...[From the child's original perspective]...

You noticed the concern your subordinates had for you.

However, you can tell from your keen observation that neither Nana Oba nor Homura Akemi treats you the way they would treat a superior or boss.

It's actually closer to the advice that elders give to troublesome children.

[Akami Homura]: "I have something to attend to first. Before that, I think I should give you a couple of pieces of advice."

[Akatsuki Homura]: "Don't leave the Silver Garden's territory casually. Even if you do leave, if you encounter a stranger outside, never go with them."

【Akatsuki Homura】: "Especially that black-haired, blue-eyed, baby-faced woman in her early twenties who gets excited and rushes at you when she sees you... she's a very dangerous one."

Three options are now presented to you.

1/ Of course I know not to leave with strangers.

2/ Are there human traffickers around here? I'll be careful.

3/ I need to go to the toilet.

You casually chose the second option, but you felt that Homura Akemi's advice was not so simple.

As we all know, in games, the things you're forbidden to do often yield the greatest rewards later on.

These "prohibited items" are the key elements that trigger the plot.

After Homura Akemi finished giving you her instructions, she felt relieved because she thought you had taken them to heart.

Unbeknownst to her, you are currently racking your brains trying to figure out how to escape the Silver Court and trigger the next main quest.

245. Nana Oba's strong liquor

...[From the perspective of a young child]

You are thinking about how to leave the Silver Garden.

Although Homura Akemi specifically told you not to leave her sight.

But in your view, high risk means high reward, and these days the work is so boring that you have started to get recipes from Nana Oba in an attempt to collect recipe illustrations. How could you possibly stay quietly in the Starlight Hall?

These past few days, you've been trying to wake up the staff under Homura Akemi's guidance, and wandering around the Silver Garden like a headless fly.

While it's called "reawakening employees," it actually feels more like the operator recruitment phase in a gacha game.

Apart from Nana Ohba, who can be awakened by the token, you need to randomly select other employees from the pool.

You used up your first 10-pull on the first day and got three characters.

One is Yuuki Yuna, who is completely paralyzed and needs to be kept in a wheelchair with intravenous nutrition to sustain her life.

When I first woke up, the other person was completely enveloped in a magical cherry blossom pink device, which looked quite cool.

But his true form was so weak that he couldn't even speak.

Every time you try to communicate with Yuna Yuki, she can only reply with "...".

The other one is Tachibana Hibiki, who looks fierce and speaks in a somewhat cold tone, but is actually quite gentle.

The little man with flaxen hair, wearing a gray hooded jacket and denim shorts, always gives you a fright when he sees you.

The other person seems to have some reservations about your age, but every time you talk to her, she gives you a konpeito (a type of Japanese candy).

The last one is Talulah, a white-haired dragon girl with cool dragon horns and a tail, but her personality is rather... carefree?