Is the person you sculpt as cute as me?

"Oh, you still remember me." The girl's laughter stopped abruptly.

Senior Cat was silent for a while, then slowly spoke again.

"Mr. Lie, one of the Three Secrets, you are interfering with reality."

"It's just a visit. I want to see my only old friend and the legendary her...but why are you——"

The girl called "Lie" looked around in confusion.

"This should be what's called low-rent housing...right? Why do you live in a place like this?"

"Thanks to your boss for creating this game, buying and selling gold coins with real money is strictly prohibited. What era is it in to still have such old-fashioned and rigid fake rules?"

"classical?"

"Hey, it's a classic game. You enjoy killing people for gear, forming guilds, fighting for territory, and clashes of factions, right? Your leader is truly too classic. Tell him for me, we're going to kill him this round."

"Haha, but won't you all starve to death first?"

"...There's something to be said for the life of poverty. Surely you, the great 'lie,' don't understand? Humph, a defeated general."

Senior Cat raised his eyes, as if uttering endless mockery.

I didn't take the "lie" seriously, I just thought about it and sat down close to the bed.

Using Yu Man's sleeping body as the dividing line—

Lies are on the left, and Cat-senpai is on the right.

"Actually, I don't understand what you call game design. Classical or not... But I do know that this system was created, according to your calendar, nearly twenty years ago... and it's been fixed ever since, without any changes."

"Hmph, I suppose. It smells like old antiques." But Senior Cat was honest with himself. "What a shame. I like it very much."

After licking its paws, the senior cat moved to another position to prevent Yu Man’s thin body from being unable to bear the weight of the cat.

Without giving Lie a chance to speak, Cat-senpai spoke again.

Topic - is what you care about most.

"I am a person who can bend and stretch."

"Well, you cat do seem to have a soft body...and what?"

"It's like this... I take back what I said. I won't chop off your heads. Let's be peaceful and friendly... Can you please give me a bottle of transformation-removing potion... I want to become human again and set foot in that world again."

After a pause, "Lie" laughed again.

The heartfelt joy washed away all the fatigue on her cheeks.

Then, with deep nostalgia, she whispered to the cat:

"I will go to Him and ask if I can take you back."

“…Is this a lie?”

"This is the only thing that isn't a lie—I still want to invite you once again, to our world."

After listening to this, Senior Cat was very calm.

But not long after, it found that it had lost the strength to support its body and fell on Yu Man's soft thighs.

It was a strange feeling of relief.

Even if it is just a ray of uncertain hope, it is enough to make up for the regret of waiting for three years.

"I'm not sure if it will succeed, so don't be so happy." Lie advised.

"Too……"

"Speaking of which, 'Going Against All Things', as great as you are, the first human being to reach the true reality of us, I haven't had a proper chat with you yet."

"Chat? Of course not."

Senior Cat has many complaints——

"Your plot is crazy, stupid riddle man, you can't speak properly! I don't like puzzles, but I have to chop you down when I see you... Besides, you! "Lies", you are full of lies, annoying as hell."

"You think so lowly of me?" Lie felt a little disappointed.

"That's not the case. You're so strong that only after the fight did I want to get to know you."

Lie took over and asked cheerfully, "Then, what kind of human are you?"

"...What's the problem? I don't want to talk about the past."

Senior Cat doesn't want to waste the precious opportunity in such a place.

What's more - she is not willing to talk about the past.

Before turning into a cat, becoming addicted to games, and becoming the strongest player——

She just studies a little better than ordinary people, but her eyesight is a little worse than ordinary people.

A high school girl who is quiet and timid.

Simply put, she is the inconspicuous little girl in the class with a ponytail and glasses, who is given the responsibility of class monitor.

However, that was not the life she wanted to return to...

"So, Lie, you met my Xiaoman?"

"Well—she saw through my identity. But I also saw you, so I came to you to catch up."

Senior Cat looked surprised. "Isn't she still grinding near the main city? How could she encounter a level-defining monster like you, known as the 'Three Secrets'?"

"We must clean up the traces left by the world's changes and leave them to the souls being recruited this time in an easy and user-friendly way."

"Oh, I see. There are a lot of things you don't want players to find, so you need to clean them up at the beginning of this round."

"Lies" did not refute, but just responded with a meaningful smile and silence.

A trace of fatigue appeared on her face, but she had no complaints.

Senior Cat immediately understood: because Yu Man's progress was very fast, or in other words... he touched upon some remaining secrets, which attracted the prying eyes of "lies".

It seems that... what I should do here... is to beg for mercy.

So that the hope for the second round will not be extinguished here.

"For my sake, old friend, don't do anything. It's rare for you to have a second-round player, so it's not good to pinch the seedlings at the beginning."

"...I have no such intentions—that's the truth. Besides, it's not allowed."

"Not allowed?"

Lie sighed, his face darkening. "She enshrined the spoils of victory from round one in her eyes."

"Trophy?"

Lies thought for a moment and described it this way:

"That is the final state of the world that only they can see."

……

"Sister, I am indeed a man, don't ask."

Yu Man is extremely sincere and honest.

I'm afraid no lie detector can shake my determination at this moment.

"So, this isn't the case with that...girls helping girls thing. I just don't want to lead you into this dungeon, understand?"

"Okay, okay, if you don't want to bring it, then don't bring it." GM3 looked bored.

Yu Man broke out in a cold sweat.

In Xiaolu's opinion, GM3 seems to be a normal female player named ▇▇▇.

However, in Man's eyes——

This thing looks like data corruption, but it's disguised as the player's inexplicable and enormous magic power.

She kept begging in a sweet girl's voice to play the game together.

It's like it has no soul...

But suddenly——

The horrifying scene disappeared as Yu Man blinked subconsciously.

GM3 was no longer that strange thing - instead, it took the form of a young girl.

It's like the soul has returned...

And, it has a title: "Lies".

Apart from that, she was dressed in a white robe and had a soft, contented smile on her face.

"It looks very warm." GM3 suddenly said this in a low and light voice.

"...What?" Yu Man was confused.

"I also wish you a smooth journey this time."

"and many more--"

But the "lie" quietly left - blending into the crowd and disappearing.

Xiaolu was confused. "This guy is really a jerk. He kept nagging me. I was about to give in and take him with me, but suddenly he said he doesn't want to play with me."

Yu Man looked in the direction where the other person was going away and nodded thoughtfully.

Suddenly, she felt the corner of her clothes being tugged by the deer, and her thoughts were completely torn apart.

Then, a friend chat sounded.

"So, are you the kind of person who really doesn't play with your sister?" It was Xiaolu.

"Look, we two brothers are having a great time together, why would you bring a sister you don't know?"

"...Good brother." After typing, Xiaolu didn't know what he was happy about.

Yu Man pretended not to notice and put all distracting thoughts aside: "Then shall we continue with the next chapter?"

"Down."

……

After using the token, a trace appeared on their map.

It was silver, like a trace of wind.

If you want to check its details, you will get only one word -

Silver Garden

That is the name of this copy, maybe it means something, maybe it means nothing.

It is located further away than the illegal area, in the opposite direction of the Unfrozen Forest.

Because it is of the fifth level of difficulty, the place that can accommodate its landing must be deep and far away from the main city.

The two well-prepared people just quietly set off.

Along the way, Yu Man explained all the new equipment and weapons.

When we were approaching the illegal area, the players around us became noticeably different.

Some are teams that are excited and ready to challenge PVP content.

Some are losers, those who were driven out but are still alive.

There are also some obvious ones, called "eyes".

They are members of a team, pretending to be ordinary players, observing and collecting intelligence along the way, and then telling the team in the illegal area so that they can avoid the battle in advance or ambush in advance.

Of course, there are also people shouting, "It's dangerous in there, don't go if you can't afford the loss."

"I feel like it's going to be very lively once we get in." Xiaolu couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

"I feel……"

Yu Man was about to say something - but her voice paused, because her eyes were collecting information and her brain was temporarily unable to work.

This resonated with Xiaolu: "Hmm...should we go back first? We can come back when there are fewer people. It seems that there are too many players. If we lose in the illegal zone..."

"I feel like the profit from just one dungeon isn't enough." Yu Man continued, "We have three backpacks now. Let's fill them up before we go back and make some extra money."