Silly, Cake and Ghost (1)

"The matcha cake is amazing!"

"Hey, your mouth is full of cake scraps, can you wipe it."

After the trip to the water park, we ate dinner at a pizzeria and then returned to our respective homes. In the middle, Ying had a few emotions and I finally passed through without danger. After all, Mrs. Han seemed to drink a lot at that time... …Being more unrestrained than usual, Shen Qing has always been in a state of watching a show and has no intention of helping me out.

At noon on Monday of the second week of the game, I handed the cake to her at the place I agreed with the girl with the silver drill and double ponytail.

Every day at noon and Feifei uses cake as the reason for the connection of the plot always reminds me of Shuiyuan Weina in the previous game. But she is just an ordinary AI, even if the world is destroyed, as long as the file is reinstalled in the VR headset, it will be restored.

The light and fluttering Chinese style dress, the small and exquisite face give people the same feeling as a deep-bowed lady in the Republic of China long ago. If she—a girl named Feifei does not speak...

The spirits and spirits are all flattering, and this child is just being noisy and silly. Bringing her cakes always feels like a thankless thing...but I dare not refrain from doing it because of possible sidelines.

"Well, you are very competent as my servant."

"Who do you say is your servant?"

I picked up the collar of her neck, and she immediately yelled and danced--

"Don't be too rude!"

"What are you talking about, how can it be called rude, elders educating children?"

"You are not that old! Do you really think you are an elder?"

"I am older than you in every way, a junior high school student."

"I, I'm not a junior high school student, I have been in this world for many years, you sucky kid!"

"Obviously I am a junior high school student, no, my intelligence may not be as good as a junior high school student!"

"Asshole, let me down!"

This girl was so fierce that she tried to turn his head and bit my hand, but fortunately, I drew away cleverly.

"There is no way since you don't know how to respect your elders, I won't buy you cake."

I put her down and got up to leave here.

"Etc., etc!"

As I expected, she immediately grabbed the hem of my dress.

"Don't go! I know as long as you bring a cake, I will show you a good thing."

I don't know why these three words are automatically distorted in my mind and become something unsuitable for children.

"It's this book of favorability!"

She didn't know where she took out a notebook. The cover was old cowhide. It was really an old notebook...

"As long as you open this book, you will be able to see how good people feel about you? I don't need to explain what good is like, right?"

"What do you say this is?"

"Book of Favorability!"

"No... I'm not saying I can't understand what you mean, do you know what you are talking about?"

"Are you an idiot? Of course, I know what I'm talking about. Don't you have any favorite people in this world?"

Feifei's answer made me stunned. I always thought that she was at best an NPC character similar to Teacher Han, who could give some plot assists when necessary. I didn't expect...

"Yes, yes..."

"This book is a magical item that can show the opposite sex around you likes you! I wouldn't show it to ordinary people!"

The girl with two ponytails proudly climbed onto the bench in front of me, looking down at me with her arms akimbo.

"I am actually the god of love, and can solve all your love troubles!"

So it is a notebook that can check the favorability degree?

You know, this kind of thing generally exists in love games, especially this game where the level of strategy is determined not by options but by favorability.

"Feifei..."

"Why? It's disgusting to call me that suddenly."

I thought of a possibility for a moment... Let's try it out first...

"How did you get this book?"

"I picked it up!"

Of course, she didn't seem to be suspicious of what she said neatly.

"I picked it up? Where did I pick it up? How did I pick it up?"

"Um... uh~ uh uh uh..."

Suddenly, her expression became stiff as if I had been asked, and then she sat down cross-legged as if trying to think about something, holding her head while making a troubling sound.

This kid...the strawberry panties are showing up again, are you here to give benefits?

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Have you thought of anything?"

"I forgot! I don't know! I can't remember the details!"

...

For a while, the atmosphere fell into a fascinating embarrassment.

"Are you stupid?"

"I am not a fool! I am the god of love!"

"Well, what did you do when you picked up this book as a god?"

I always feel that my expectations are going to fall...

"Huh? At first, I will take this treasure and tell everyone that it is a very powerful thing. Do you want to come and have a look, and I will make sure that you will not regret it! I am working very hard to help those who are troubled by love People!"

"Then, what was the result?"

"Um... I don't know why, almost everyone will ignore me and ignore me. Although it was a failure at the beginning, I soon understood the reason for the failure!"

"Ah, it's amazing... what's the reason?"

I almost echoed Feifei with a great tone and asked her to continue.

"Catch up will not be a good deal! Now that I found lemon cheesecake, and it is super delicious! I have never eaten it so delicious! So I finally realized it. Hello! Are you listening?"

"Well, I'm listening. So what did you realize?"

"That's good, don't be scared after listening. Even a character like Yue Lao can't always take care of every couple of lovers. So since he is a god, he must have worship. I am a pious person. Will help him! So I decided to show this book of likability only to people who are willing to bring me a lemon cheesecake! How is it great?"

"Hmm, it's super awesome, so anyone besides me brought you lemon cheesecake?"

"Ah!"

Suddenly her expression became stiff as if she bit her tongue...

"How so...how could it not be! I am a god, super, super awesome! Don't talk about this, you can't read this book of affection! This is my rare gift, worship me and love me, And then bring me a more lemon cheesecake! No! There is also matcha cake!"

This botched topic transfer technique...

"Oh~ That's how it is, Lord God is so powerful, so many people must give you cakes?"

"That... of course! It's so much that I can hardly eat it!"

"In this case, I think there must be someone who needs the help of Feifei more than me. To be honest, I don't have too much trouble in love. Although the relationship with the person I like is not very good, it is not bad. I think I should "

"Eh?"

Feifei's expression was completely silly this time, and she stared at me blankly for a while and didn't know how to react.

"So I will leave first, and leave such a good opportunity to others. I will not bring the cake in the future. After all, Master Feifei does not lack such things."

After that, I am ready to get up and leave.

"Wait! Wait! Don't stop giving me cakes! I'll be honest, no, no one has given me cakes before except you! Don't go, I want to eat cakes, you can read this book of favorability. !"

The crying Chinese girl hugged my waist tightly.

"Finally tell the truth. Good boy is not allowed to lie, otherwise, there will be no cake to eat, you know?"

"Yes... I'm sorry."

"Then you told me that no one other than me gave you a cake before is it true?"

As I said, I took out the last piece of cake that I was going to leave for Ying and shook it in front of her.

"Really! Really! I never lied! I really only remember you!"

When Feifei saw the new cake, she immediately let go of her hand holding me, jumping to get it, but because of the height difference and the deliberately raised hand, I couldn't reach it.

"I want to eat cake! Everything is up to you, I didn't lie!"

Feifei, who couldn't get the cake, still had tears in her eyes that hadn't been wiped dry before.

If this sobbing look of Ewha with rain seems to others as if I deliberately bullied her, fortunately, there is no one around at this time, and I do seem to have done a little too much. If this kid doesn't speak, it's a bit pitiful and cute...

But there are still gains, not just the book of goodwill. Feifei, this child is indeed an important functional NPC, and the purpose should be to provide players with props such as the Book of Favorability.

At first, from her expression, I thought she was our goal this time-awakening AI. But from the conversation just now, it can be determined that she does not have memories of previous players playing games like Ying.

As to why she owns the Book of Favorability and is vague about its origin, is this a doubt? Ask Shen Qing later.

Even the Awakening AI can't completely deviate from the initial attributes and settings in the game. This kid is silly and has no resistance to the cake. Even if he has self-awareness, he will not lie. It seemed that it wasn't her. Thinking that it was a bit too pitiful, I still handed her the last piece of cake.

The child moved swiftly like a cheetah and instantly there was nothing in my hand, and the silver-haired double ponytail leaped gently on the bench.

Finally, I sigh, Feifei is really stupid, using this kind of approach that looks like sales or even pyramid schemes to get close to others will be a ghost. I always associate myself with the kind of people on the subway who sell you scan codes. It's normal to be ignored.

"How do you use this book?"

"You have to touch it once before your message will be displayed."

He looks alive like a beaver holding a tree root and eating, and what he says is so unclear.

I stretched out my hand and pressed it on the cover of the book.

"Well, okay, let me see... and don't talk while eating."

She opened her notebook and I saw a series of names.

Lin Liyu 80

Yang Jiahui 30

White Kiyotsuki 58

Han Yaqian 50

Setsuna(Ying) 50

Kazusa(Shen Qing) 10

...

It's strange that these numbers aren't the names in front of them all female characters in the game?

Wait, I suddenly came to understand what was recorded on this——

These names and numbers are exactly how NPC likes me!

So this is a book that shows favorability? This thing is simply amazing! There are not only a few heroines, but even the teacher and all the female students in the class are on the list. It's really an artifact of the love game!

But what makes me care is that Lin Liyu's favorability is unusually high, what does mean?

Also, why do Ying's replacement character Setsuna and Shen Qing's replacement character Kazusa in the game have two extremes in their favorability. It stands to reason that Shen Qing's favorability for me is 0, and the favorability of Ying, which should be full, is only 50. No matter what, I don't quite understand.

Because Shen Qing is responsible for the investigation of Raiders, she must see her again to ask her about the book.

"Snapped--"

The notebook was suddenly closed.

"If you want to keep watching, bring me more cakes."

That said, the cake in Feifei's hands has long since disappeared. This child can only be so resolute when he eats...

"...Aren't you afraid of getting fat after eating so many cakes?"

"Huh, stupid. Unlike ordinary humans like you, I won't get fat no matter how much I eat!"

And remember to eat or not, once the threat of cake is gone, he immediately reverts to his nature.

I understand the routine of this game. Whether it was Yang Jiahui, who was working as a part-time worker for her to buy cakes in the first place, or trading cakes in exchange for the opportunity to check the book of goodwill, it seemed to point out one thing.

This girl named Feifei is equivalent to a guide to help players in this game, although she does not have this self-consciousness.

"——So you are such a person, I understand."

Oops, I accidentally blurted out the feeling.

"Envy is no use, this kind of physique is not something you can learn. You can't imagine the price you want to pay for being such a person--"

It seems that she always thinks that what I am talking about is the relationship between eating cake and obesity...

"Anyway, remember to continue to bring cakes to eat!"

Looking at her immediately clear face and still silly tone, I think the trace of loneliness I felt before should be just an illusion.

Ding Dong——

It is the bell for class.

"Then I should go back, and I will continue to bring you to cake tomorrow."

"To be so proactive, do you really want to be my servant? Then in addition to lemon cheese and matcha, you have to bring me new flavors of cake..."

What an inch...

"Yuan? So you are here."

Just stepping out of the shadow behind the teaching building, she found Ying standing not far in front of me. She clearly told her not to always follow me, why...

And what I want to know is how long she has been standing here...

"Because it's so boring in the classroom, I searched for a long time before I found Yuan here... So have you been resting here these few days?"

She smiled and talked, but she always made me feel terrible... Could it be that she saw the conversation between me and Feifei? Although we are not in that kind of relationship, there is always a feeling of being caught and raped by a girlfriend on the spot...

"Well, I did rest there..."

"But it's weird, Yuan seems to have been talking to someone..."

She tilted her head and spoke in confusion.

——This is even more terrible! I have already implied that the arrest of the rape is so obvious, if I don't take the initiative to speak out, I will be fragmented on the spot, right?!

"That girl only met by accident, there is no relationship between us! You have to believe me..."

"Girl?"

She squinted her eyes, and this look made me more sure what she had misunderstood!

"Looks like a junior high school student-said she wanted to eat cake very much. I thought she was very pitiful and agreed to bring some for her..."

"First, middle, raw?"

The misunderstanding seems to have become serious! Have you begun to suspect that I am a pervert who started with junior high school students?!

"No, no, no, I'm not interested in junior high school students at all. You have to know that I'm only interested in girls of the same age as Ying..."

"Yuan, you seem to have misunderstood something..."

Ying sighed.

"Misunderstand?"

I looked dumbfounded.

"Yes-from the beginning, the one thing I didn't understand was just-who on earth is Yuan talking to?"

"That little girl with two ponytails over there...wait, isn't it anymore?"

"So, there was no one from the beginning..."

Ying said helplessly.

"No one? Ying, when did you first say it?"

"It started when I stood here and watched Yuan sitting under the tree over there, so I wondered why Yuan seemed to be talking to someone—clearly there was no one there."

I was clearly talking to Feifei, but Ying couldn't see her. Ying would not doubt anything, because she had never seen such a situation before, and I was different. When the noon sun was on, I only felt a chill on my back.

Feifei is not a person, so what is she...

But soon I learned.

"——You said, Feifei? I remember that there is indeed this person, no, not a person but a ghost-anyway, I forgot to tell you that it is not an important character."

After class, I met with Shen Qing on the rooftop, and she lightly said that she had forgotten about it.

"Isn't it important for ghosts? The presence of ghosts means that this game has supernatural powers!"

"It's just a setting. This character can only be seen by game players, so it's normal that Ying and I, who replaced the original NPC, can't see her."

Shen Qing said lightly, she didn't seem to understand my current mood.

"That... isn't Feifei very pitiful... keep saying that others can't see her and ignore her..."

"Because she is a ghost, naturally others can't observe her, no matter what she thinks or does."

"Then Feifei knows that she is dead? Why did she become a ghost?"

"I'm only responsible for finding strategies to help you promote the plot. I won't do spoilers like this kind of heinous thing."

She put on a look that she can't admit her mistakes.

"It's also possible that Ying was the first artificial intelligence you came into contact with, and she happened to have self-awareness and gave you some illusion. After all, most of the AI ​​is essentially a piece of code. Don't substitute it easily. Your own feelings, they don't actually feel anything at all, but they just find a suitable response from the huge database based on your state. This girl will not feel any sadness. Don't invest too much in meaningless NPCs. Feelings."

"But..."

"Otherwise you are not suitable to stay in our organization, you are too naive."

I don't know why Shen Qing said it seriously. From when I only knew that she was a waning moon, I vaguely felt that this person seemed to have a strange sense of disagreement with artificial intelligence.

Maybe Shen Qing is right, but I'm still going to bring more cakes with several flavors before I see the uproarious girl next time.

Whether it is innocent or inappropriate, if I were not like this, Ying would not be brought out and experience a different life.

"Well, I will accept the fact that this game has supernatural powers for the time being-then you should also know the Favorability Book? What is the favorability of all-female NPCs shown on it?"

I decided to keep talking about business.

"Oh? What's it like?"

I told her about the status of the favorability degree.

"That's an important reminder from the game. Favorability is related to the interaction between the player and the game characters-the calculation of Favorability is very complicated. On the one hand, it depends on the NPC's response to your behavior, and on the other hand, it depends on you. The frequency of interaction-this has its own set of calculation rules. But for the special situation of Ying and me, the former cannot be calculated, so don't think that I will have a favorability of 10 for you. It is just you and "me". You have a lot of physical interactions. You and Ying interact a lot, so you and the person 'Setsuna' have reached a 50-degree favorability degree, which has nothing to do with Ying's manipulation."

It wasn't Ying's true affection for me, it was just because we always date together...

"Of course, this is just a kind of modular calculation of the system-the real goodwill between people is far from that simple, how can AI completely figure it out."

As if thinking of something, Shen Qing suddenly stared at the pale blue sky in the distance and fell into deep thought.

"...I understand your feelings, in fact, I can say that I was fooled by the artificial intelligence partner."

In fact, I am not incomprehensible about Shen Qing's views on artificial intelligence.

"Have you used that thing?"

It's rare, she seems to have some interest in this thing.

"Well, it was a birthday gift from my parents when I was in junior high school. At that time, the latest sixth-generation artificial intelligence partner. I always thought it really understood people around me until it told me and the girl I had a crush on to confess to failure in public. I was laughed at until I graduated..."

"Puff—how do you think the confession failure is your own reason, right?"

If I read it right, Shen Qing smiled?

"It vowed to me that I will believe it if it succeeds. There are also times when you can actually laugh."

"First of all your grief has nothing to do with me, and second...this is why you dare not talk to girls, right?"

"--I don't want to admit it, but that's it."

"It's just being rejected in public, so fragile in my heart."

"It's so easy to refuse in public, you go try it!"

"me..."

Suddenly, as if thinking of something, she raised her head and looked at the sky.

"It's not that I haven't been rejected, and more often than you think."

...

Shen Qing is a well-known iceberg beauty in the school, and her family is not ordinary-I remember that Shen Kong that appeared on the news not long ago is her brother, he is a researcher at the artificial intelligence giant Endia, I have long heard that it is not at all A company that ordinary people can enter. From Shen Qing's consistent style, we can see that she is a veritable eldest lady, so that people's life is different from ours from the beginning, not the starting line is different, but the endpoint where she was born directly, but...what's the matter of being rejected Woolen cloth?

"Once I was rejected, I blamed all the problems on the smart partner, so it's really boring to say that you are a person."

"Well, I'm too fragile, what you taught is."

Since she didn't explain further, it's useless to ask her, maybe she will only tell her people who are really friends, but I don't expect myself to have this opportunity...actually, her favorability towards me...well, I am afraid it is not as high as recorded in the "Book of Favorability".

Perhaps, she is actually no different from us. In the world she used to live in, she was also an ordinary person. That's why she feels this way. She is also different from the superficial top students who are addicted to games every day. Contrast.

But Shen Qing and I are different. I also think that the artificial intelligence partner is incomplete. The reason why I choose the current major because I have been pitted by it is because I believe that if it is not perfect, I will make it perfect. Just fine', and Shen Qing chose to blindly despise. The appearance of Ying really gave me such a possibility, which is one of the reasons why I joined Debug.

Shen Qing would definitely not agree with this reason. I didn't want to cause a quarrel, so I didn't speak up.

"Huh—Yuan is here! I've rummaged through the entire building."

Ying appeared over there panting at the entrance of the rooftop.

"Ying, good afternoon."

Shen Qing greeted Ying normally.

"Hey, why is Shen Qing also here? The lone man and widow are on the rooftop... I won't forgive me if he is doing anything lustful!"

Where did you learn these strange words... After changing clothes and the storm at the water park last time, the relationship between Shen Qing and Ying has somehow improved. At least it is not called the Fishy Cat and the Violent Girl, but each other. Name again.

I really don't understand the girl's psychology, and he was still in the same situation before.

"Ying, you think too much, we are just talking about the task."

Ying has a big brain when it comes to relationship issues, and I must explain it quickly.

"Yuan has nothing to do today? Can you come home with me?"

She rushed up and took my hand...

"Okay, okay, don't pull me..."

I thought about whether to say hello to Shen Qing before I left, but found that she didn't look at this at all, probably because she didn't even bother to care about our naive couple...Finally, after school, I was buying cakes and carrying them. Ying passed away while shopping together.