Tokyo: The Player Behind the Scenes

"Now, I am you."

There is no way out.

"It can only succeed."

Iwasaki slept for a long time.

Goto secretly watched the surveillance footage for a long time, and only felt relieved after confirming that Iwasaki was just sleeping normally.

"Goto, why didn't you come to wipe my old woman's butt this morning?!"

In the duty room, a burly caregiver angrily slammed the door open, startling Goto so much that he jumped back in fright.

Upon closer inspection, it was Kamei Caregiver.

"I... Mr. Iwasaki woke up early today; I'm busy with his work."

Goto clutched the back of his shirt, his voice growing softer and softer as he explained.

Kamei sneered: "Ha, trying to pressure me with a sick person, huh? What's wrong with leaving a dead, paralyzed person for an hour or two? Can't even come up with a proper excuse, do you want to die?"

Her robust body stood before Goto, like a towering mountain.

"Please don't say that about my patient! I'll go tomorrow," Goto couldn't help but retort, but then softened his tone.

However, Kamei had never been talked back to by Goto before. In her opinion, someone like Goto, who not only didn't obediently accept his fate but also dared to talk back, was simply extremely disrespectful.

Not to mention there are other caregivers watching over things in the duty room.

"Oh dear, it seems your reputation isn't working so well anymore, Kamei~"

"That's right, who wants to clean up that grumpy old woman's mess? Hehe, Goto, I support you, don't compromise."

Hearing others fanning the flames, Kamei, feeling humiliated, picked up a broom and started hitting someone without thinking.

The other caregivers stood with their arms crossed, watching the lively scene with great interest, looking like they were enjoying the spectacle.

"You dare talk back, huh? I'll teach you to talk back! You filthy bitch, don't think I don't know who you are!"

The broom handle wasn't very sturdy, and Goto shielded her head, letting the broom hit her arm.

Then, with a sharp pain and a cracking sound, the broom broke in two and flew away, landing with a clatter at the doorway and rolling in front of a pair of shoes.

"Ahem, Director Ando!"

Someone shouted, alerting Kamei.

Everyone looked towards the doorway, where a middle-aged woman with a furrowed brow and a stern expression stood.

Kamei awkwardly put down the half-broken broom in his hand and stood there somewhat embarrassed.

"You guys have a lot of free time? I just passed by the ward and heard Mr. Kawai coughing non-stop. Sato, are your ears not working today?"

Director Ando's gaze, seemingly carrying a cold glint, swept over everyone, lingering a few seconds on Goto, who had his head bowed, before staring at the caregiver named Sato.

"Yes! I'm so sorry, Director! I'll go take care of it right away!"

Sato, the caregiver, quickly grabbed her tools and jogged out of the duty room.

"Also, Xiaoze, your patient is coming back first thing tomorrow morning, and the bed hasn't been washed or changed at all. Do you think I can't tell or the patient can't tell? Is this your kind of perfunctory work attitude?!"

"I...I plan to go take a shower tonight, right now!"

Another caregiver hurriedly left.

Director Ando was like the King of Hell calling roll; the nursing assistants he called all had more or less shortcomings, and dared not stay in the duty room to slack off any longer, so they quickly went to do their jobs properly.

"And you, Kamei, you've already received two complaints this month. If there's a third, you know what the consequences will be. I'm too lazy to repeat it to you, understand?"

"Understood, understood, Director."

Kamei left without saying a word.

Only the caregiver Goto and the head nurse Ando remained in the duty room.

"I don't want to interfere in your private affairs, but there's one thing: it can't affect your work or your clients. Can you do that?"

"I will, Director."

"I'm relieved to hear that."

Ando didn't say much and turned to leave.

Goto stood in the duty room, rubbing the bruises on his arm, looking at Iwasaki Kosuke sleeping soundly on the monitor, his downcast eyes lost in thought.

Iwasaki slept from an afternoon nap until night.

In the game, his mind is filled with cold, logical thinking, seemingly devoid of any personal emotions. Although he lacks the desire to escape the subway that the character he controls has, he can use reason to describe his feelings and then apply them to the character he controls.

chap!

Yoyogi Station.

He passed through the station with remarkable ease, freezing the ghost soldiers in place.

Then, without stopping, they solved the little boy's puzzle and headed to the Kisaragi route.

He had already filled in all the missing clues and even found his own phone.

Not only his phone, but also a cherry blossom-patterned phone case with a wallpaper of two girls whose faces are obscured under a cherry blossom tree.

The phone was badly damaged, but it was still barely functional.

Remembering what the girl in the white dress had said on the Yamanote Line, he took the phone with him.

Then, after seeing the white light at the end, I decisively chose to turn back and not take this path.

In this game, if a hopeful scene appears, without a doubt, it's a trap!

Then, upon arriving at the opposite station, he spotted the girl in the white dress and offered her the cherry blossom-themed phone.

"This should be your phone. Can you remember why you threw it away? If I'm not mistaken, you really want to hear that call, but you're also afraid that you'll actually hear it, right?"

The girl in the white dress stared blankly at the broken phone in Kosuke Iwasaki's hand, then slowly took it.

"Yes. She clearly said she would definitely come back to pick me up. Why? Why didn't she even make a phone call? Coward, traitor."

“No,” Iwasaki interrupted her mutterings. “What you’re afraid of is that she really will come back. You don’t want her to come back to save you! That’s why you even threw away your phone.”

The girl in the white dress paused, then looked up at Iwasaki in a daze.

After a while, she suddenly smiled faintly.

"That coward, I promised to protect her, so naturally I won't let her risk coming back. Although I will forget about this later, thank you for letting me briefly recall the past."

The girl in the white dress handed her phone to Iwasaki.

"I can only tell you a few words about the road ahead."

"You need a train ticket to go back."

"The train at Kisaragi Station is not the one going back, but it will awaken on the last train of the timetable and actually appear at Hibiya Station."

"However, that car has an emergency braking device. If it can be activated successfully, it can buy some time, at least allowing it to accumulate power for a while longer."

The girl in the white dress's words clearly point to two possible endings.

Go home or stop it.

Obviously, to achieve a perfect completion, you need to do the latter.

The path to a perfect ending has already appeared before him.

Chapter 88: Card Hero

You have successfully completed the game and reached the final ending – The Last Survivor.

[Ending Review: Excellent ending. You escaped from hell, and your wife cooked your favorite buckwheat noodles at home and told you the good news that she is pregnant.]

[First-time completion rating: B+]

[Final Reward: Ability - Card Warrior (Collect cards, draw cards, as long as you have enough cards, it's always your turn!)]

[Potential: B+, Growth Requirements: Courage, Communication, Wisdom, Growth Abilities: Multi-core, Creating Cards from Nothing, Wild Card]

(Tip: Completing more games gives you a chance to obtain new cards or directly level up.)

(Messages related to player lobby, points, etc. will be omitted later)

Nobi Tomoyoshi lay on the bed in a daze, feeling the overwhelming amount of information washing over him.

He needs a little, no, maybe a whole night, to process this.

No wonder the ranking rewards are so small, this is the real big prize!

It's utterly unreasonable, a game that twists the rules of reality. What exactly is it about this game that's so appealing to them?

"I'm so lucky."

Nobita never imagined that one day he would be able to realize his fantasy of being a hero in the game in real life.

Based on the information above, we know that the higher the ending rating of the first clear, the greater the reward!

But he survived, so doesn't that count as a perfect victory?

Isn't the goal of this game to escape?

There could be other solutions. Could it be that we need to deal with that monster named Zhu Hai?

That's something an ordinary person can't solve. Even if there's a mechanism to kill it, it's not very reasonable, unless a divine intervention suddenly occurs and an Onmyoji appears.

Nobita's attention quickly shifted away from the ending. Despite the abundance of information, the most crucial element was clearly the Card Hero ability!

Nobita couldn't wait to try it out.

As he focused his mind, he felt an ability he had never experienced before, one that seemed to be innate, even though he had never encountered it before.

【Card Warrior: Obtain special or ordinary cards by experiencing certain events, contacting certain groups of people, and getting to know them.】

But please remember, more cards are not necessarily better.

[Current Hero Level: Lv1]

[Deck Effects: Provides comprehensive boosts to Strength, Defense, and Agility; allows the summoning of the Hero's Sword at any time; converts evil entities into the user's health bar; and grants experience to level up by defeating monsters.]

[Hero Special Card:]

The brave never die in the dungeon - Core Card (Automatically triggers after encountering fatal or severe injury, forcibly preserving the ability to act)

Brave Armor - Equipment Card (Guaranteed in the first draw of the Brave deck; forms a well-defensive armor according to the Brave's wishes - even if it's a swimsuit)

Allies of Justice - Summon Card (Randomly summons an ally of justice to help fight against evil)

Save Point - Skill Card (Sets a save point outside the game; use it to move to the save point)

[Standard Card:]

Elbow Strike - Skill Card (Flying units will inevitably fall)

Cover your head - Skill Card (Slightly increases defense, slightly decreases the chance of hitting the enemy's vital points)

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These messages are not difficult for Nobita, who has gaming experience, to understand.

It's almost too easy to understand; it's like bringing the game into reality.

Even the battles have a semi-turn-based feel to them.

"Can I really use these abilities?"

Nobita's eyes lit up.

The deck effect was activated by default. He tried swinging his fist and could feel that his strength had increased considerably, but it was still not beyond the level of a normal person. He could only be described as a relatively strong adult man.

"Come forth, Sword of the Hero!"

He shouted this in a low voice, disregarding his shame, and in an instant, a gleaming sword appeared out of thin air and slowly landed in his outstretched hand.

The sword's design isn't overly flamboyant; it's somewhat reminiscent of the Master Sword from Link's Legends.

After picking up the sword, I felt a completely different sensation. This sword even had a special attack effect against evil things.

But for ordinary people, it's not even as effective as a fire poker, and it will simply disappear if it's found to be harming kind people.

The sword of kindness belongs to that category.