In this tiline, Rita had also participated in the [Card Swap] ga. During the Divine Ga in fifth grade, she even managed to return temporarily to BS.
But she never made it back again.
She died alongside the other BS players during that final war.
Just hearing about it was enough to piss Rita off.
She let out a long sigh and was about to leave when Nivalis, who had run over to inspect Maple Syrup up close, suddenly waved excitedly at her.
"Co look! Did she turn you into a cookie?!"
Rita instantly appeared beside Forest Sea Maple Syrup and followed Nivalis's claw.
Sure enough, hanging around Maple Syrup's neck was a little black-haired cookie figure.
[Failed BS Rita Cookie] (Souvenir)
Rita: "...What is wrong with you, Maple Syrup?"
Not long after leaving that tiline, Rita found Snowland in another one.
So Mistblade had succeeded once too.
In this tiline, the final fragnt of Snowland had drifted into BS.
Rita found Mistblade's palace deep within Misttail Clan territory.
Mistblade sat alone upon a throne, resting her chin against one hand while silently staring at the mahjong tiles before her.
Rita walked over and casually sat on the armrest beside her, glancing down at the hand.
Pretty good.
She was only one tile away from a Full Flush.
Then why was she sitting there looking like the world was ending?
At that mont, B80 appeared on Rita's shoulder holding a tiny tablet.
"I found the information for this tiline. Want to hear it?"
"Go ahead."
"In this tiline, you were originally one of BS's leaders. BS Zoey was too. You entered Divine Ga together."
"You also participated in [Card Swap]. You, Mistblade, Maple Syrup, and Fat Goose all beca friends at Moonlight Marsh."
"But later, Mistblade and Maple Syrup regained their mories too..."
Rita's sleeve brushed across Mistblade's cheek as she casually discarded a useless tile from the table.
"And then?"
B80 continued.
"In this tiline, BS Rita never managed to return to BS midway through."
"[Card Swap] was the most special ga. As long as GodDraw77 never appeared, the flow of ti inside the ga remained different from the outside world."
"One year inside the ga only equaled one day outside."
"All participating players beca trapped inside the ga, slowly growing up together. They could only return once a world outside was destroyed."
Rita could already imagine exactly what happened.
B80 continued happily.
"Mistblade and Maple Syrup prevented anyone from obtaining GodDraw77."
"And then you all grew up together... until BS was destroyed."
Rita sighed deeply.
"Where's the Rita from this tiline now?"
"Went to Dawn."
"BS Zoey went to Tiger Ear."
"You two swore to drown Snowland and Lania Kaia in blood."
...How exactly did such detailed stories spread around?
Was sobody hiding under her bed listening?
Rita thought it, then asked it aloud.
B80 explained imdiately.
"Ah, detailed? There are actually a bunch of versions floating around. But this one's the most popular."
Rita: "...Then why are there so many humans in Snowland?"
"Mistblade got a temporary chance to recover her mories and contact the outside world during the ga. She told Flowering Edge to protect as many humans as possible and relocate them to Snowland."
Rita fell silent for a long mont before changing the subject.
"What about Lightchaser and Cinders?"
B80 replied cheerfully.
"They still left Isolated Isle to look for you because they realized sothing was wrong."
Two rebellious teenagers.
Ran away from ho again.
Rita asked another question.
"Did you find the version of yourself from this tiline?"
Every ti they entered a new tiline, B80 loved searching the abandoned zones for itself.
Sotis it found itself.
Sotis it did not.
But one thing never changed.
If B80 was not trapped in the abandoned zones, then it was always beside the BS Rita of that tiline.
B80's tone beca especially bright.
"Found it. Still stuck in the abandoned zone because you never ca."
It liked these two completely unsurprising outcos.
Because if no unexpected choices appeared, then BS Rita remained its only choice.
Unlike Nivalis...
Always getting stolen by this person or that person.
And none of them could actually protect her.
In the end, she always died and returned crying to Dragon Island and Holy Cup's arms.
Rita loved discovering these alternate possibilities.
And the things that never changed no matter the tiline.
For example, You Are endlessly waiting for a Deceitful Bloom who would never co.
Or Cicada refusing to rebuild Beacon under any circumstance.
Were Vineborne simply born stubborn?
Then there was Quex.
Again and again betraying Midsumr.
Why could she never truly harden her heart?
Quex always did so much for Midsumr. Yet in the end, she was always the one who walked away.
Did soft-hearted people simply surrender first every single ti?
As long as Quex beca a leader, and as long as she discovered that shortcut capable of rapidly strengthening the Celestialkin, every path eventually led to the sa conclusion.
Rita searched for a very long ti before finally finding a different Quex.
In this tiline, Quex chose silence after discovering the thod.
She threw herself into Divine Ga even harder than before, fighting for rankings and evolution progress for her people.
But eventually, rumors still spread.
"Midsumr Quex wants Celestialkin to give their bonded elents to players with greater talent."
B80 laid out all the evidence it had uncovered.
"I used a skill to investigate this."
"But those players died not long after Quex left Midsumr."
So from the very beginning, this problem had never really had a solution.
The best path for Midsumr Quex had always been becoming a lone powerhouse like Rita herself, rather than involving herself in politics and factional struggles too early.
Rita asked one more question.
"What level of skill uncovered this?"
"Only an A-rank skill."
"It was easy to find."
"Not so huge conspiracy."
"Maybe because they knew Quex wouldn't get angry even if she discovered the truth herself, so nobody bothered cleaning up the evidence."
Then the Quex of this tiline should have been able to discover the truth easily too.
Rita expanded her awareness across the entire tiline.
Eventually, she found Quex at Mountain Isles.
She had been assigned to a small island and was currently sitting quietly by the shore watching the sunrise.
In this world, Frenzied Shark never slaughtered his own people.
The world that invaded Mountain Isles had been another relatively average world instead.
The war remained brutal, but not enough to completely break the Sharkfin Clan.
They managed to push back the invasion while teetering right at the limit of despair.
And sohow...
They survived.
Frenzied Shark traveled everywhere searching for wanderers like Quex, paying enormous prices to recruit them to work at Mountain Isles.
Those Sharkfin Clan mbers unwilling to fight beca life-skill players instead, supporting the warriors through powerful crafting skills and incredible agricultural techniques.
Anything extra got handed over to Frenzied Shark, who traveled between worlds as a rchant to exchange goods.
Then Frenzied Shark diligently worked every Divine Ga like a laborer.
Every single ti, he carefully invaded only worlds that Mountain Isles could absolutely defeat, filling the invasion slots before stronger worlds could descend first.
He refused to ever fight an uphill battle.
This tightrope strategy sohow carried Mountain Isles all the way to the present.
The only side effect was that Frenzied Shark's hair had begun falling out in terrifying amounts.
The Frenzied Shark of this tiline had shaved his head into a buzz cut.
Even so, the balding was still painfully obvious.
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