"Huh?"
At the Chiyo family residence, despite being overwheld with handling Tokyo affairs, the Chiyo family still made ti to watch every ga, especially Chiyo Eine's matches.
They saw clearly that their family's forr glory had passed, and the future depended entirely on how far their top player could reach.
After the last Waterloo, Chiyo Eine had directly fallen from third to fifth place. This ti, with another perfect clearance, she had surpassed one player above her to reach fourth place.
But now she'd been pushed down again.
"Big sis, co look at this person - sothing's off! No information at all, and they just parachuted into third place!"
"Who is this? It shows they've only experienced one ga!"
Chiyo Eine was so busy she could practically see steam coming from her head. Fresh out of the ga, she had to handle family affairs, and now squeezed in ti to check the rankings.
Frowning at the na for a long while, she felt deeply unwilling inside.
Bearing the family's hopes, she was striving to beco world number one. But this world had too many monsters - not just "Sin" alone.
"This can't be right. How's this calculated? Sis, you have so many perfect clears, this person must be cheating sohow."
Before Chiyo Eine could respond, her younger brother Chiyo Ji couldn't hold back his indignation.
"Enough, let's focus on what we can control."
"The world is vast. There's still much we don't know about this ga. We'll deal with it when we et them."
Chiyo Eine appeared perfectly calm, but her peripheral vision remained fixed on the rankings, etching this person's na into her mory.
Yet compared to this, sothing else concerned her more.
"Sin" was first again - and again in Hell Mode! And again tead with "Blank"!
Damn it, now they weren't even pretending. There must be sothing between them.
She rembered last ti she asked, the other party had earnestly claid having no real connection to "Sin".
That expression hadn't seed fake at all - but now it appeared to have been an act.
Tch... Why lie? Didn't they trust her?
Damn it!
Chiyo Eine bit her lip.
Before that last ga, her gaming journey had been smooth sailing, conquering every challenge without fearing any opponent.
Only after eting "Sin" had she truly encountered an insurmountable mountain, leaving her with a sense of absolute impossibility.
And the person she admired didn't seem interested in acknowledging her either...
Plus now this sudden newcor had pushed her ranking down again.
Tch... Though perhaps it proved this world had many different experts. Surely this new guy couldn't also be connected to "Sin"?
......
"Is this... really connected?"
In her own room, Xie Antong fought down her negative emotions while staring disbelievingly at the news, hand covering her mouth.
Every intelligence organization worldwide was now frantically searching for information about this new third-ranked player.
But Xie Antong, usually obsessed with information retrieval, currently had zero interest in searching.
—As if any search would turn up anything!
Her mind kept replaying what Know-it-All had told her in-ga:
—"I don't know why they call Know-it-All. Really, they should call Creator."
Back then, he'd voluntarily revealed his abilities and weaknesses - this was firsthand information exclusive to her.
At the ti she'd paid no attention to his nickna, only focusing on his abilities. But now...
"An Exit Coin?... But didn't he clearly say that using an Exit Coin ant losing all abilities, just returning to the real world as an ordinary person?"
"Is it really him?"
Slumping in her chair, Xie Antong pondered.
This ti she hadn't overdosed on pills, and thanks to the psychological safeguard "Greed" had implanted last ti, she still retained so mobility.
This already counted as trendous progress.
Her thoughts felt tangled.
She'd known this ga would change the world, but never imagined she'd be so close to the eye of the storm!
After this ga ended, everyone focused on two topics:
One was "Sin's" undisputed first-place position, his seemingly unstoppable performance.
The other was this new world third-place, mysterious and powerful.
But both matters... were things she'd just personally experienced!
And if her suspicions were correct, if "Sin" really was Lu Ce...
"Heh..."
She gave a helpless laugh, suddenly feeling absurd.
She recalled when she'd told Lu Ce about forming an organization, maybe one day reaching the world's peak...
Damn! Had he been laughing at her behind her back?
And that first ga eting after killing Park Bu Seong, when she'd said she didn't truly like it, just felt curiosity and excitent...
What had that ant?
Originally able to withstand her negative emotions, this train of thought made them nearly unbearable.
She almost felt like becoming a sky diver...
Just then, her ga interface pinged with a friend ssage.
Opening it eagerly, her expression froze.
[No.5-Chiyo Eine: What are you doing?]
Tch... She'd forgotten about this strange woman - the forr world number three.
Just what kind of world had she entered!
......
Half a day later, Lu Ce once again sat in the classroom.
Now a third of the seats stood empty. Under the ga's influence, no one cared about entrance exams anymore.
Where these missing students had gone, Lu Ce didn't know. Given the brutality he'd experienced, he instinctively wondered if they'd died in-ga...
Parents' warnings were being proven right—"gas" really did affect studies.
Currently, Lu Ce sat blankly at his desk, lost in thought about what he'd recently seen.
That new Sequence Object, the thing created by his own power—"Sin's" notebook.
He'd skimd through it, reading the descriptions of the three gods.
Since his contact with this power remained limited, the descriptions weren't extensive. But the entry under [Agony] imdiately caught his attention.
The first line read:
—[Agony has died!]
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