novelraw Chapter 274: [Agony] Has Died!
Chapter 274: [Agony] Has Died!
"Huh?"
At the Chiyo family residence, despite being overwhelmed with handling Tokyo affairs, the Chiyo family still made time to watch every game, especially Chiyo Eine's matches.
They saw clearly that their family's former 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 time, 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, come look at this person - something's off! No information at all, and they just parachuted into third place!"
"Who is this? It shows they've only experienced one game!"
Chiyo Eine was so busy she could practically see steam coming from her head. Fresh out of the game, she had to handle family affairs, and now squeezed in time to check the rankings.
Frowning at the name for a long while, she felt deeply unwilling inside.
Bearing the family's hopes, she was striving to become 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 somehow."
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 game. We'll deal with it when we meet them."
Chiyo Eine appeared perfectly calm, but her peripheral vision remained fixed on the rankings, etching this person's name into her memory.
Yet compared to this, something else concerned her more.
"Sin" was first again - and again in Hell Mode! And again teamed with "Blank"!
Damn it, now they weren't even pretending. There must be something between them.
She remembered last time she asked, the other party had earnestly claimed having no real connection to "Sin".
That expression hadn't seemed 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 game, her gaming journey had been smooth sailing, conquering every challenge without fearing any opponent.
Only after meeting "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 newcomer 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-game:
—"I don't know why they call me Know-it-All. Really, they should call me Creator."
Back then, he'd voluntarily revealed his abilities and weaknesses - this was firsthand information exclusive to her.
At the time she'd paid no attention to his nickname, only focusing on his abilities. But now...
"An Exit Coin?... But didn't he clearly say that using an Exit Coin meant 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 time she hadn't overdosed on pills, and thanks to the psychological safeguard "Greed" had implanted last time, she still retained some mobility.
This already counted as tremendous progress.
Her thoughts felt tangled.
She'd known this game would change the world, but never imagined she'd be so close to the eye of the storm!
After this game 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 game meeting after killing Park Bu Seong, when she'd said she didn't truly like it, just felt curiosity and excitement...
What had that meant?
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 game interface pinged with a friend message.
Opening it eagerly, her expression froze.
[No.5-Chiyo Eine: What are you doing?]
Tch... She'd forgotten about this strange woman - the former 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 game'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-game...
Parents' warnings were being proven right—"games" 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 skimmed 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] immediately caught his attention.
The first line read:
—[Agony has died!]