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◎【Crime and Punishment requests to add you as a friend】◎
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Kawakami Wakai:...? ?
Looking at the new message on her phone, she almost dropped it. But before she could ask what was going on, she heard the professor order everyone to quiet down.
The professor for this course was the type who couldn't tolerate even the slightest imperfection. If she was caught using her phone, it would only affect her final grade. So, Kawakami Wakana had no choice but to suppress her impatience and start listening to the lecture.
The lesson covered common vital signs in the human body. However, Kawakami Wakana found that no matter what the professor talked about, she couldn't help but associate it with the Lucia.
When the topic of blood pressure came up, she wondered if the Lucia people, with their pale and thin faces, might have low blood pressure.
When the topic of heartbeats came up, she wondered if Lucia people might have some kind of heart problem.
Even when body temperature is mentioned, the professor can make a connection to how cold Lucia is when he jokingly talks about hypothermia.
Then she started to wonder, if "crime and punishment" really was her online friend, what exactly did he mean?
She couldn't help but rub her hair.
Damn it!!
This makes it impossible to concentrate on the lesson!
Fortunately, the ordeal of an hour and a half finally ended. As soon as the professor stepped out of the classroom, Kawakami Wakai immediately took out her phone.
But before she could even open Jinjiang, she discovered that Dazai Osamu, whom she hadn't contacted in a long time, had suddenly sent her a message out of the blue.
My idea was copied.
Kawakami Wakana bluntly asked a question mark.
But Dazai Osamu seemed to be watching to see when she would reply, and quickly sent her a screenshot.
It's the ranking of the "Guess the Disease" app's points competition.
The player named "Crime and Punishment" was even highlighted with heavy red circles by Osamu Dazai using the phone's drawing function.
This is the guy!
[It was Dazai Osamu who first came up with the idea of asking the AI for its disease name in an unconventional way! He actually copied me!!!]
Several lines of exclamation marks followed.
Kawakami Wakai:?
Wait, wait!
Let her think about it.
In other words, not only might "Crime and Punishment" be Lucia, but even the "Purple Clay Method" is someone she knows...?
This world is really quite small.
So Kawakami Wakana typed a polite reply with a blank expression: "[Sorry, that's my friend. I sent him screenshots of your posts a few days ago, and for some reason he downloaded the app too.]"
After sending the message, she packed her things and went to the classroom for the next class.
That's the trouble with university; there are no fixed classes or classrooms, and the campus is huge, so the fifteen-minute break between classes is basically spent moving between classrooms.
When she arrived at the new classroom, she swiped her student card to clock in before glancing at her phone.
Dazai Osamu sent several messages in a row.
"Oh no, that guy probably doesn't like you. He's just doing this to get your attention."
【Wakai-chan, I'm the victim here!! How are you going to compensate me?】
【Wakai-chan?】
"…Since you're my benefactor, let me give you a word of advice: Don't trust online relationships unless you've met in person. Otherwise, if things fall apart after the initial meeting, you'll be the one who gets hurt."
"..."
The Lucia... was trying to get her attention?
Kawakami Wakai was utterly shocked by these words.
But she never said anything that would make people jealous, like "the track that Dazai Osamu pioneered is very interesting".
Moreover, what does "benefactor" mean?
"A benefactor? What benefactor?" Kawakami Wakana replied, "Besides, we're just ordinary friends."
Dazai Osamu only sent a message saying "That's not accurate," and then didn't reply.
"..." What a strange guy.
Midterm exams start next week. Kawakami Wakai didn't take this little incident too seriously. However, when she sneaked a moment to check the rankings on the Guess the Disease app at night, she noticed that Dazai Osamu and the Lucia people were constantly alternating between the top and second positions, while everyone else could only tremble in fear below.
This period coincided with the major exams, and her good friend Hinata Natsu was also busy with this year's tournament, so Kawakami Wakana hadn't seen her for a long time. It wasn't until June, when the Kanto tournament came to a close, that she finally had time to have a meal with Natsu-chan.
In the tea restaurant, Kawakami Wakana ate her hamburger steak while complaining to Hinata Natsumi about the Lucia and Dazai Osamu. At the end, she asked for her opinion:
"Don't you think they're a bit strange?"
Hinata Natsume: emmmm...
"What if it's true?"
Kawakami Wakai:?
"What if it's true?"
"Of course, it was your online friend who tried to grab the ranking points just to get your attention!" Hinata Natsumi's tone was somewhat exasperated.
Before Kawakami Wakana could even argue that it was impossible, she immediately said, "If you don't believe me, you can try it online."
"...?"
…………
A few days later.
Is this... really a good idea? Kawakami Wakana sat in front of the computer, hesitantly registering a game account.
Hinata Natsu has an older brother. It's not unusual for a guy like her to know a few close male friends who do play games, even if he doesn't play them much himself. A few days later, at her brother's suggestion, Natsu recommended an online game to Wakami that allowed them to add each other as friends and play together.
Fortunately, exams had just ended and there were no reports to write, so Kawakami Wakai decided to just relax and downloaded the game.
She still uses the name "Miaozi" that she uses on Jinjiang Literature City.
After downloading the game and going through the tutorial again to understand how it was played, she hesitated for a while before taking a picture of the game screen on her computer and sending it to the Lucia.
Have you played this game?
My friend recently started playing this game and kept pestering me to download it too, so I could help him level up and fight monsters.
"Friend?" The Lucia replied after a while.
Kawakami Wakana originally wanted to say it was a classmate from university, or a friend from her high school volleyball club with whom she was quite close, but looking at the Russian's words, she inexplicably said:
[Um... his name is Dazai. We met by chance in high school.]
[A strange guy.]
The message clearly showed as read, but the other party did not reply.
"..."
It seems Dazai Osamu and Natsumi were overthinking things!
Kawakami Wakana put her phone down and then slammed her laptop shut.
It's like she's an idiot.
At the same moment, Lucia.
Fyodor frowned as he looked at the text on the Jinjiang chat interface.
Dazai?
Why is it Dazai again?
This is just never going to end.
Moreover... what is the other party's intention in suddenly registering an account for this game and specifically mentioning that Dazai introduced her to the game?
Could there be something hidden in the game?
With that in mind, Fyodor immediately called Gogol.
The other person seemed to have just woken up; their voice still carried a hint of their pajamas.
"Do you play games?" he asked bluntly.
Gogol: "...?"
“Play games,” Gogol said, puzzled, but he still listed a few games he had played.
But when we got to the time for one of them, the person on the other end suddenly said, "Wait a minute."
“This is it,” Fyodor said. “Can I borrow your game account for a moment?”
Gogol: Huh?
…………
End of July.
After finally getting through the dreaded final exam week, Kawakami Wakana felt like her whole body was about to fall apart.
Midterm exams are only part of the exams; by the end of the semester, it's a full-scale mobilization of all subjects, and many of them are closed-book exams, which is absolutely infuriating.
So much so that Ruoyi originally planned to go back to Sendai with Hinata Natsume on the night she finished her last exam, but now... she just wants to stay home and lie around for a day or two.
As a result, she went home and rushed back to work. When she woke up, it was already two or three in the morning.
Kawakami Ruoyi: "..."
Please provide a solution.
I went to bed too early and woke up in the early hours of the morning. Now I'm not sleepy at all. What should I do?
The answer, of course, is—to kill time!
She had originally planned to watch some shows on her laptop, but when she saw the game icon, she fell silent.
To be honest, after downloading the game and registering an account, he went through the tutorial and then never logged in again.
"I think I should play for a while," Ruoyi thought.
Otherwise, it would seem as if she deliberately downloaded the game to test her friend.
As soon as she logged into the game, the background message count immediately showed 99+. Most of them were things like return gifts and newbie welcome gifts, but the latest message made Ruoyi pause in surprise.
[Crime and Punishment requests to add you as a friend.]
Kawakami Wakai:?
Isn't this the account name of the Lucia person on "Guess the Disease"?
Could it be...?
Kawakami Wakana didn't recall the Lucia man mentioning that he had also downloaded the game, but considering his personality, perhaps he was just not good at taking the initiative. She still cautiously clicked "accept."
The friend list shows whether the other person is online. "Crime and Punishment" is online now.
A short while later, she received a notification from her newly added friend that a message had been sent to her.
[Still awake?]
【Yeah, I slept too much during the day.】 Perhaps thinking that the other person might be an online friend, even if they changed chat channels, they were still acquaintances, Ruoyi replied naturally.
[Oh, I see...] A new message popped up in the chat box: [So, how about we play a game together? We can even do voice chat.]
Do you want to connect via live stream?
Kawakami Wakai paused for a moment.
But a new message has already been sent from the other end;
【○x Voice Room Number: xxxxxx.】
"..."
We've been friends for so many years, it should be fine, right...?
Kawakami Wakana immediately downloaded the voice chat software the other party had given her. However, before entering the room, she still turned on the software's built-in voice changer, selected a "simple male voice," and then entered the room.
The homeowner's profile picture is the same smiling mouse head that her online friends like to use.
“Добрыйвечер…” A gentle voice came from the other end.
[Author's Note]
Dazai Osamu: Am I just a part of your play?
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