Want to be human, but cube-like

"It's that monster you just saw. Normally it's a neutral unit and won't bother you unless you attack it. But if you make eye contact with it, it will anger it. The scream you heard is a sign that it's about to attack."

Outside the door, Alex explained as she looked around.

"But I wasn't attacked...?"

That's for sure. If they were attacked, the time it would take for Alex to come down from upstairs would be enough for the Endermen to tear Xiangzi into a dozen pieces.

"So now I need to find it and see what's going on."

After saying that, Alex left the cabin and walked to the oak tree.

Now we're back in Alex's familiar territory.

She knocked down two pieces of wood, quickly made a workbench, and after thinking for a moment, did not immediately make a wooden axe.

Instead, he took out a pale purple crystal fragment from his backpack.

This thing is called the Soul Shard.

It is the most basic and important core material in a module called "Sword Drawing Sword".

However, we don't need it right now.

The Katana mod adds a new type of weapon to the world: swords. Unlike other common weapons, the swords in this mod have a very powerful attack system. Not only are there a variety of moves, but the attack frequency is also extremely high. They can keep monsters at a distance and prevent them from getting close. The swords that are crafted later in the game also have terrifying damage. Even the Ender Dragon can't withstand more than a few hits.

In addition, it has many convenient functions, such as being able to jump in the air by relying on a certain combo. When falling from the sky, no matter how high you fall, you can be unharmed by simply drawing your sword and slashing once upon landing. You can even deflect all projectiles by simply swinging the blade. There is also the Phantom Sword as a ranged attack.

Furthermore, these functions are available from the beginning. Even the lowest level, which only requires a wooden sword and logs to create the nameless sword [Puppet], has an attack pattern that is not much different from the final form of the katana.

This mod can reduce the survival difficulty of almost any dangerous world by several levels.

This is why Alex's mother has been very fond of installing this mod ever since she discovered it. As a result, most of the time, the early and mid-game is almost effortless, and it only becomes difficult in the late game when encountering monsters with special mechanics and high health.

Of course, most of the functions mentioned above were never actually used by Alex's mother. When using the katana, she would usually just let Alex wield the sword and slash around randomly, presenting an attack mode that completely abandoned thought.

To some extent, this also left Alex feeling quite helpless.

After all, whenever she held a sword, all sorts of moves would come to mind, but Alex had never used any of them.

Now we have that opportunity.

After knocking down two more logs, Alex placed the workbench on the grass.

After making the wooden sword, they threw in two more pieces of wood.

A pure wooden katana appeared in her hand.

The Nameless Sword [Puppet] is the starting point for almost all subsequent swords and is also the easiest sword to obtain initially.

Alex stopped collecting logs and now needed to kill the Enderman and get Xiangzi back.

She was a little worried that Xiangzi might encounter an accident here. After all, the Sky Island world was bound to be somewhat dangerous. Alex didn't know if Xiangzi would be resurrected if he died here, and she didn't want to gamble on that probability.

Moreover, monsters spawn in this world, and Alex, who currently doesn't have a torch, can't light up the dark areas around her. If zombies, skeletons, or even creepers spawn, it will be troublesome to protect Xiangzi.

Thinking it over, Alex quickly ran around the sky island. The sky island wasn't very big, and there weren't many buildings to block the view. She had only run half a lap when she saw the Enderman. He was standing behind the two-story building, holding a grass block he had just picked up from the ground next to him, staring blankly into the distance.

With her sword in hand, Alex felt there was no need to build blocks above her head to block the Endermen.

Her eyes locked onto the Enderman's body. She took a step forward and rushed forward. Two white curved blades flashed past the Enderman the instant she passed by him. She quickly turned around and unleashed several blade dances. Then she raised her sword and slashed upwards, knocking the Enderman flying. The Enderman, who originally had forty points of health, instantly lost twenty-five points.

Alex was about to finish it off with a downward slash when she suddenly realized that the Enderman had been sent flying too high after her upward slash, and a bad feeling rose in her heart.

Because it was her first time using these moves, Alex, who was unfamiliar with them, didn't control her strength well and knocked the Enderman out of her attack range.

As expected, Alex, who failed to land a follow-up slash and knock the Enderman to the ground, could only watch helplessly as the Enderman vanished from her lock-on, leaving only tiny purple particles in mid-air.

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PS: Don't worry if you're unfamiliar with the Katana Draw Sword mod, as I won't go into too much detail. This mod is simply used to enhance the visual appeal of Alex's combat, serving as a cheat code for dealing with witch dungeons. I'll cover the necessary information in detail, but there's actually not much to it.

On a side note: No wonder Mu Tou covered his mouth when he laughed at karaoke; he was afraid of scaring everyone.

When I first watched it, I thought I had wandered onto the wrong set; everyone's mental state was worrying.

Suddenly, turning everyone into witches doesn't seem so extreme anymore. It turns out the worldview of Madoka Magica and the Chicken & Dog Gang are quite compatible after all.

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A piercing roar, like the roar of an engine, came from beside her. Alex quickly took two steps back and leaned against the wall.

Fortunately, it's now clear that the Endermen's hatred is directed at him, so Xiangzi is probably safe.

But after holding her breath and waiting for a few seconds, Alex listened in bewilderment as the screech of the Endermen gradually faded away.

During this time, there was absolutely no sign that the Endermen teleported over to attack her.

Confused, Alex ran around the outer edge of the sky island again, and this time found it under a spruce tree on the other side.

He just stood there blankly, without making any other move.

Moreover, even the hatred towards her seemed to have disappeared.

She thought for a moment, then knocked off a few pieces of spruce tree trunk, broke them into planks, walked over, stood directly in front of the Enderman, and built a simple two-block-high pavilion in front of it.

Then, Alex stood inside, tilting her head back and opening her clear, pure, beautiful crimson eyes wide, quietly staring at the tall man in front of her who was almost three meters tall.

The piercing hissing sounded again in her ears. She was furious at the Enderman, her whole body trembling, her mouth wide open, and her head even lifting up several centimeters in anger.

But it just won't attack Alex.

Alex stood puzzled under the pavilion, watching the Enderman tremble with rage, pacing back and forth without approaching her, while the hissing sound in her ears never stopped.

"It's noisy."

The white-haired girl muttered something to herself, then stepped out of the pavilion and stood right in front of the Enderman. She blinked her big eyes and glared at it with an expression that she thought was fierce but was actually extremely cute, but she still didn't see it make any move to attack her.

Thinking about it this way, was the reason Xiangzi wasn't attacked earlier because of the same situation as now? Although the Enderman was very angry, for some reason, it just couldn't attack the creature that had angered it.

While she was thinking, she suddenly remembered the mission book.

There are many instructions on it that she hasn't read yet.

Ignoring the still-raging Enderman, Alex opened her backpack, took out the quest book, and after carefully searching through it, she actually found the answer.

It turns out that this world has been set to a special peace mode. Although hostile creatures will still spawn, all monsters will no longer attack player units. In addition, villagers will be immune to most damage.

Alex certainly knew that the player unit referred to her, which was what distinguished her from other creatures.

In that case, this floating island world would pose no danger to her at all.

So, this mission book is actually the instruction manual for this Sky Island world?

Previously, Alex hadn't studied the mission book much because most of what it described didn't match what she saw in the hamburger shop. Now, she realized it was simply because she hadn't discovered that the hamburger shop was connected to this floating island world.

Alex put away the quest book, not intending to start studying it right away. She casually slashed the Enderman twice, emptying its remaining health bar by less than half a bar, picked up the Ender Pearls on the ground, and didn't forget to collect the planks she had just used to build the small pavilion.

Let's go back and take Toyokawa Shoko away from here.

Then, Alex suddenly realized something.

Toyokawa Shoko, she too will not be attacked...

Is she also a player?

……

Toyokawa Shoko is now ashamed of her previous shallow and ridiculous understanding.

Even knowing that Alex had faced, and possibly even defeated, that monster before saving her, she stubbornly believed that Alex was just an ordinary person.

They even presumptuously believed that by staying away from her and not bringing danger to her, they were protecting and compensating her.

When Xiangzi thought about how she had felt a sense of superiority and smugness because Alex didn't know about magical girls, she couldn't help but want to cover her face.

What a shame!

That Alex might have been secretly laughing at me all along!

She clenched her teeth slightly, and a blush rose on her pretty cheeks from shame.

Look up and observe your surroundings.

Without a doubt, this is another world, right?

In Xiangzi's eyes, everything in this world was a sharply defined square. Leaving aside the wooden houses and other buildings, even the two trees and their leaves appeared to be composed entirely of cubes. The leaves weren't flat, but rather countless tiny green cubes aggregated together.

It forms a large square.

She had just glanced at the grass nearby, and even the weeds were composed of tiny squares. Only upon closer inspection would one discover that the grass's form was extremely abstract.

Even the clouds in the sky are semi-transparent white rectangles. Now it seems that the white square hanging in the sky is the moon of this world? And the patterns on it are the phases of the moon?

Xiangzi found it hard to believe that he could actually identify the specific object that corresponded to a bunch of blocks that looked like they were made up of pixels.

The world looks exactly like the world of those old pixelated games.

So, who is Alex, this girl who seems to know so much about this world?

People from another world?

Upon thinking about this, Xiangzi suddenly felt that Alex's seemingly inexplicable words and actions had been explained.

Having previously spoken with Kyubey and personally experienced being bewitched by a witch, Xiangzi understands that magical girls and witches might actually exist. Now, she can easily accept that the person who saved her is from another world, and that there is a door to another world hidden in the basement of her house—a fantastical story that sounds like something out of a light novel.

As she pondered, she suddenly felt an urge to learn more about Alex and this strange other world.

An impulse called curiosity.

"Toyokawa?"

Just then, Alex returned.

She carried a wooden katana in her left hand and pushed open the door of the cabin.

"Are you OK?"

Xiangzi, who was sitting against the wall, also stood up. She observed Alex's clothes and complexion and saw that she seemed to be fine.

"It's okay, I've already taken care of it."

Shaking her head, Alex finished speaking and then looked at Xiangzi, as if she was thinking about something.

“Alex…”

With many questions in her mind, Xiangzi hesitated for a moment before slightly parting her lips.

"Who are you?"

These words interrupted Alex's thoughts.

"...Cube-like person?"

She blinked and replied hesitantly.

Alex clearly has little understanding of her own race.

But one thing left a deep impression on her.

……

That was the first time Alex developed self-awareness and opened her eyes to observe the world.

Wow! They're all pixelated blocks!

Then, a slightly distorted, static-like girl's voice came to my ears.

"Is this a sheep? A cube sheep?"

The voice was sweet, gentle yet vibrant, very pleasant to listen to, and reminded one of delicious candy.

"Let me see what the character looks like... Hmm, the button to switch the view..."

Immediately afterwards, a feeling arose that someone was carefully observing me.

Wow! It's a blocky character! So cute!

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No, I don't see anything that looks like a square.

Toyokawa Shoko opened her mouth, but then hesitated and stopped herself from speaking.

She observed Alex's current appearance once more with a serious look.