This is not the date I wanted.

Maria looked at Meng Yue in surprise. Shidao was also somewhat concerned about this.

Meng Yue scratched her cheek with a wry smile.

"Well, I had a vague feeling... and the further we went in this direction, the more clones of Maruna we encountered. I figured the location of the 'mother core' should be in this direction, so I killed my way here."

"I see."

Shidou nodded in realization. At first, he was wondering why he was not attacked by Junai's clones along the way. It turned out that Meng Yue, who arrived earlier, had already cleaned them up.

As for why Mengyue arrived at the "mother core" before himself and Maria, Shidao didn't care too much. After all, after entering the data management level of the computer world, the concepts of distance and direction became very vague. Maybe Shidao accidentally took a longer detour.

"Speaking of which, where are Junai's people?"

Shidou looked around. Although he had reached his destination, the target of Shidou and others' action - Ormori Maruna - was not there.

"Ah, about this..." Speaking of this, Meng Yue scratched her long hair in distress and said, "Ju Nai's plan seemed to be to separate everyone and then take the opportunity to gather most of the clones to get rid of me who was isolated. But what about those clones... I just happened to restrain them and annihilated them all. Then after I came here, Ju Nai shouted to me, 'I will definitely come back!' and fled in a hurry."

"Haha, annihilate..."

Shidao couldn't help but laugh dryly, and the picture that this word could describe emerged in his mind. Junai, who had already risked everything, saw that his clone was easily destroyed by the "Demon King" Mengyue, and was approaching him step by step. If it were him, he would probably run away without hesitation.

"Shidou?"

Meng Yue looked at Shidao with some confusion and asked.

"Ah...it's okay."

If Mengyue knew what I was thinking, she would probably be furious. Shidao quickly changed the subject.

"But now that Junai has escaped, what are you going to do, Mengyue?"

"What else can we do? Since they've all run away, we can only put them aside for now." Meng Yue showed a complicated smile, shrugged and said, "Ju Nai won't just give up like that. He will definitely show up again after a while."

"……it's over?"

Ju Ya asked weakly.

Meng Yue smiled gently and stroked Ju Ya's head gently.

"Well, it's over for now, don't worry, Juya."

"call……"

Hearing Meng Yue's words, Ju Ya's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and he sat down on the ground weakly.

In fact, after everyone was dispersed, just as Shidou didn't want to make Maria worry, Maria also tried to remain calm in order not to burden Shidou.

Is it really over?

Shidao always felt like he was missing a key piece of the puzzle. The strong sense of disharmony made it impossible for him to let go of the heavy stone in his heart like Maria did.

Junai's last trump card was defeated by Mengyue. Junai, who had used up all his cards, had no choice but to flee in panic. This seemed like a natural scenario.

"I always feel like something is wrong..."

Shidou muttered softly.

After Ju Ya's blockade was lifted, Meng Yue used her angels to build a virus network between the computer space and the airship, disassembling all the instructions sent from the computer space into garbled code. As long as this virus network is there, Ju Nai can neither destroy the Fraxinus airship nor leave this computer space.

Knowing that he had no way out, Junai chose to take a gamble.

Would Junai choose to run away? Where could she run to?

Shidao felt that the possibility was not high. Even if he really escaped, Junai must have some hidden cards that he hadn't yet used.

"Next, Mariya, I will help you restore the privileges that Maruna took away from you. Then I will remove the virus network, and the rest is up to you to teleport us back to the real world."

"Yes, then I'll leave it to you, Mengyue."

Ju Ya nodded as if he understood, slowly stood up from the ground, and followed Meng Yue towards the red crystal in the center of the room.

Shidou was about to call Mengyue to remind her.

--wrong!

A question suddenly came to Shidao's mind.

Even I could think of this. Meng Yue, who knew Junai better than I did, could not have failed to notice this.

Then why didn't Meng Yue say to herself "keep looking for Junai" but instead said something unmotivated like "she escaped, so just forget it"? !

After all, if all of Jun Nai's clones were completely annihilated by Meng Yue, what means did Jun Nai have to escape from Meng Yue?

All kinds of irrationalities emerged, and all the memories of what had just happened were instantly connected in his mind, and a completely unexpected conclusion appeared in his mind. Shidao felt his heartbeat frequency begin to accelerate, and sweat broke out on his forehead.

——No, no, no, no! Alarms kept ringing in Shidou's mind.

"This red crystal is the mother core, Ju Ya, you should know it. Please give me your hand, I will help you connect it to the main computer again."

"Yes."

Having just been told that the danger had passed, Ju Ya was obviously not on guard and just obediently reached out and held Meng Yue's hand.

Shidou shouted with all his strength.

"Juya, run! That's not Mengyue! It's Junai in disguise!"

"What!?"

After hearing Shidou's shout, Maria was startled and hurriedly tried to pull her hand out, but "Meng Yue"'s hand held Maria's hand tightly like a branding iron.

The corners of Meng Yue's mouth stretched out, revealing a dangerous smile that Shidao and Maria had never seen before.

"What a surprise... I was quite confident that I wouldn't be discovered. I underestimated you a little, Gokawa Shidou. But you discovered it a little too late~"

"Juna..."

Shidou stared at the "Dream Moon" in front of him.

As if confirming Shidou's guess, the outer skin of "Dream Moon" began to turn into light particles and dissipated in the air, revealing the girl with long black hair inside - or Shou Maruna.

"Ju Nai, let Ju Ya go quickly!"

Seeing Shidou's flustered expression, Junai couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"No~ What? Ryougi Yumezuki, Gokawa Shidao, this is the consequence of your naive fantasies. Hahahahahahahahaha——"

"Juya!"

"Shidou...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

A strange light flashed back and forth between Junai and Ju Ya. There was a sharp pain as if all the bones in the body were forcibly removed, and Ju Ya let out a painful wail in torture.

PS: Let me make it clear that the plot here is completely modified by me according to my own ideas. Maybe you will find bugs when reading it, but I will never follow the original work!

Not for any other reason, just because it's so shocking that I just can't accept this part in the original book.

The original text is roughly as follows:

Maruna (disdainfully): Are they here? Itsuka Shido and the fake one.

Shidao (angry): Maria is not a fake!

Ju Nai (deeply thinking): Indeed, that child already has his own self, and what you said makes sense. Then I agree with you, Ju Ya.

Ju Ya (surprised): Are you willing to agree with me?

Junai (nods): Yeah, that's it, so let's make peace~

Shidao (suspicious): Really?

Maruna (seriously): Of course it’s true, Gokawa Shido please stand next to me.

Shidou: !!! (Unable to move)

Ju Ya (happy): Are you willing to make peace? That's great.

Junai (smiles): As long as you can accept me, I won't do bad things. Such a friendly proof. Handshake~

Ju Ya (shaking hands): Okay... please give me more advice! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (screaming)!

Then, Ju Ya fell down.

Junai (laughing wildly): Ahahaha, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! You're such an idiot! You didn't even notice such an obvious trap and fell for it without any suspicion. What a pity haha ​​...

……

PS2: Just like that, I felt my IQ was insulted by Laoju. -_

19 Spiritual Equipment, Intensification, Collision

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Shidou and others, including Mengyue, have always believed that summoning a large number of clone armies was a trump card prepared by Ormori Kunai to deal with them.

Judging from the data in all aspects, the ability of the clones is lower than that of Junai herself. However, Junai, who has the authority of an administrator, enables her clones to have the ability to distort space, and can also use the random field in the manifestation device to make various fierce attacks like a magician, and then multiply it with the advantage of numbers. It really makes Shixiang and others feel a little tricky.

However, it can only be described as a problem, not a threat. Junai knew that even if there were more clones of this level, the most they could do was to delay the situation.

Indeed, if Meng Yue is solved, the Dawn Sage who remains in the real world will disappear, and then the virus network that seals this computer space will also disappear. At that time, he only needs to use his administrator authority to order Fraxinus's magic convergence cannon to attack the ground or shut down the airship engine to fall to the ground. No matter what Gokawa Shido and others do in the computer world, it will be game over. However, Junai knows that it is impossible to achieve this directly.

Therefore, Jun Nai’s first goal was not to kill Meng Yue, but to seize the remaining management authority from Ju Ya first. As long as he could completely control this world and limit Meng Yue’s power, Jun Nai would have a chance of winning.

However, to seize the remaining 10% of the authority, Junai must let Ju Ya voluntarily contact Fraxinus's main computer. To do this, Junai must pretend to be an acquaintance of Ju Ya to relax her vigilance.

The reason why Junai separated Meng Yue and others was not to defeat them one by one, but to delay them from joining Shidao and Maria. After all, if the real person he pretended to be showed up, Junai's intention would be discovered by Shidao and the others.

Maruna's transformation is just based on the data of the elves stored in "Let's Fall in Love, MY☆LITTLE☆Shidao②". Due to the nature of the game, the abilities of the elves are not included in the settings. In other words, Maruna is completely powerless during the transformation.

The person she pretended to be was Mengyue because of this. Among all the spirits, Mengyue was the only one that Maruna really talked to. If it was Tohka and the others, Shidou, who always interacted with the spirits, would easily find out the flaws. Moreover, since Shidou and the others had proposed this action, Mengyue's words were less likely to be suspected.

He disguised himself as Mengyue and met Shidao and Maria, deceiving them that he had left, and then induced Maria to connect to the main computer and took the opportunity to seize her authority.

Although the transformation was still seen through by Shidou, the plan still went according to Juna's script.

"How is it? Fake, how does it feel to have everything taken away from you?"

"Ju... Nai..."

Looking at Ju Ya who was in great pain at this moment, Ju Nai showed an excited smile on his face.

One hand grabbed Ju Ya's slender neck and gently lifted her up. If she wanted, she could format Ju Ya's data here and let her die from this world.

Maruna believes that if he ends Maruna's life here, neither Shidao nor Mengyue will choose to accept him. As a villain boss, this is a natural action for him.

I don't know why, but Junai just can't bear to do it.

It's not because he couldn't accept seeing a face that looked exactly like his own die. Rather, killing or protecting Maria violated a basic setting that made up the personality of "Marina".

No, strictly speaking it is the basic morality that humans should abide by in this world.

——You cannot kill your blood relatives.

"My dear... I actually treated this fake girl... as my own sister..."

Junai's eyes widened in disbelief.

The construction of Maria's personality and the type of program are all based on Maruna, so her body structure is naturally the same as Maruna's. If placed in human DNA monitoring, Maruna and Maria will definitely be identified as twin sisters. (Author (smiles): Actually, strictly speaking, from this point of view, Maruna is more like Marua's mother, but doesn't this make Marua seem very old? So Maruna is... you know.)

When did you come to this realization?

[Wow wow wow——Why is your sister so difficult to please, Junai! ]

Meng Yue...Ju Nai clenched his teeth in anger.

"You must be kidding! I don't agree with that!"

As if he was trying to increase the strength in his hands, he wanted to increase the strength in his hands. However, in addition to the operation of depriving the authority, as long as the action involved taking Maria's life, the body would instinctively resist.

Affected by the unexpected situation, Junai lowered his vigilance towards his surroundings and ignored another person present.

"Partial expansion - Raphael (Hurricane Knight)"

The strong wind gathered at the soles of Shidou's feet to create a powerful propulsion force. Shidou was like a bullet jumping out of a gun barrel, shortening the distance at an incredible speed and coming in front of Maruna.

Yamai's ability!?

There was a look of shock on Junai's face. Shidao's action was too sudden, leaving her no time to defend herself.

However, unexpectedly, Shidou did not choose to attack Maruna, or take away Maruna who was in pain at this time. As if controlling his hands and feet, Shidou flexibly controlled the strong wind under his feet, and moved his body in a semicircular trajectory to get behind Maruna. His movements were so smooth that they reminded people of those athletes who are good at dribbling past the opponent in basketball games.

However, it's not over yet.

[Sandalphon - Angel of Manifestation]

A giant sword with luxurious decorations appeared in Shidao's hand. Shidao raised the angel in his hand and chopped it from top to bottom towards an empty area.