Chapter 159: Warm Heart
159.
Following the map, you rode your Chocobo to the place where
A remote hilltop.
The further you go, the more confused you become: Is Xia Yujie living in such a remote place now? Yabai, he can't really become a monk, is he now the abbot of the temple?
Until you reach your destination and see the tombstone with Geto's name on it.
You have to admit that at this moment your brain is traveling the universe. Didn't you say that Geto Suguru is alive again? Although there is a strange note after his name... Why did your navigation lead to his grave?
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You haven't logged into the holographic system for a few days? Why do you see the NPCs are gray when you first come in? It turns out they were burned to ashes, haha.
You were thinking about the hell joke in your mind, squatting on the spot with a look of despair. No, before, Geto Suguru... er, I don't know how long ago, anyway, he took the cursed spirit ball and asked you to process it into delicious flavors. You have processed it, but why did this person leave when he hasn't settled the bill yet? !
This is an unforgivable act of running away from the bill!
But the name of Geto Suguru in your series list has turned from gray to black, and even the Tail of the Phoenix cannot save it. You can only leave a big paper flower tray to give people a little floral scent.
That’s not right.
Geto is here, and the linked series list is also dark. What is the resurrected Geto who has been opened in the system notification?
I really want to catch an NPC who knows what's going on and ask him what's going on, but there's no one here in this remote place. You can only start flipping through 99+ pages of messages with sadness, trying to find clues from the large amount of [Wheat*20 harvested] [Rice*20 planted]
Why are there so many system messages? If I had known that I would use the mobile terminal, I would not have set the messages to silent mode... Your fingers and eyes are cramped from flipping through the pages, but you can't blame others.
When you first see the red dot, you will click to remove it. Then the number of messages increases to 99+, which actually gives you a sense of accomplishment... You keep adding more and more messages, and you end up with 99+ pages of messages.
Finally you get to the beginning of the message. You compare the current game time with the game time in the beginning of the message... Hiss, you strategically lean back, and ten years have passed in the game!
You hold your head with both hands, thinking hard, and carefully recalling what you did on the mobile terminal... But you didn't do anything. You just complained that the crops grew too slowly, so you used the new function to speed up, uh, add half a month at a time.
Oh, the mobile version also adds dialogue skipping and automatic synthesis of cursed spirits. The latter only requires you to open the game and wait, and you can harvest the highest level S-grade special cursed spirits, which is suitable for playing while Gin is supervising you writing documents.
Is this why ten years have passed in the game without you noticing? But you just focus on farming, synthesizing cursed spirits, and playing plants against jailbroken cursed spirits. What's wrong with you? What's wrong is that the NPCs don't tell you when something happens!
It doesn't seem right... Your body stiffens, and you remember the times when you were in the store, Gojo Satoru came by with a dark cloud over his head.
You forgot what Gojo Satoru was mumbling at the time. You continued to scroll through the system panel. It seems that you skipped the dialogue directly... Oh, you turned to the system log:
[The wild and melancholy Gojo Satoru appears]
[Gojo Satoru: Boss... Haibara is gone... Jie defected... Why did this happen...]
[AAA food stall plumber: I am dying of laughter]
【Gojo Satoru: No, Boss, I mean Jie defected. 】
[AAA food stall plumber: Don’t run away]
【Gojo Satoru: …】
[Gojo Satoru left in silence]
Haha, what's the matter... You just laughed twice. Isn't this just a random dialogue? If you do it again, you will definitely...
Or will I skip and continue to choose randomly.
There are more than one such system records.
[Gojo Satoru appears with a changed look and a somewhat smug look]
[Gojo Satoru: Boss, I’m staying at the technical high school to become a teacher. Please call me Gojo Sensei from now on~]
【AAA food stall plumber: college】
[Gojo Satoru: ...Can't your boss switch to manual labor? ]
[Fushiguro Shiori: ... Well, it's not a big problem. The salary has even increased.]
[Gojo Satoru: Where is Yato? Wasn't he here last time? ]
[Fushiguro Shiori: I don’t know, maybe he quit. He left a letter for his boss…it seems like his boss hasn’t noticed yet.]
[Gojo Satoru: Has Kei ever considered joining a technical high school? Parents, please feel free to leave your child to me, Mr. Gojo.]
[Fushiguro Shiori: Leave without buying anything]
[Gojo Satoru snorted and left.]
Eh? Did Yedou quit? Wait, you're the boss! Are you the last one to know?
You flipped forward and saw the records related to the night fight:
[Yadou: Boss...ah, you haven't come back yet?]
[Yato: Well, that's fine... Didn't I tell you that I'm Noragami? If I'm not remembered, I'll disappear like a snowflake in the sun...]
[Yatou: I can probably sense the time when I disappeared... How strange, it doesn't matter if no one remembered me before... Well, anyway, thank you for taking me in... During this time... I was very happy]
[Yatou: When I become a famous god in Takamagahara, I will definitely give you many blessings! ]
【Yedou: Well then, goodbye, boss】
[Your employee "Ye Kui" left "Iron T Fire Fighting" quietly on a starless night after leaving a letter]
[Because you forgot to feed your employees, your employees' "night radish" disappeared]
How...how could this happen? Did you forget to buy food from the mall and caused the employee to resign? You thought it was enough to feed them with ordinary food...do you have to use food that contains divine power?
How come Yedou is like a cat? After knowing the date of his death, he quietly ran away from home, not wanting others to see him disappear... You found the letter he left for you in the last compartment of your backpack.
[A farewell letter with blessings: I have accumulated the remaining power of a Noragami...]
Scrolling down, you see the last record with a conversation:
[A somewhat tired Gojo Satoru appears. ]
[Gojo Satoru: Boss... I don't want to become an enemy of Jay, but why... hasn't he always insisted on justice and righteousness? Why is it like this...]
[AAA food stall plumber: awesome]
[Gojo Satoru: …Has she been like this for almost ten years? Fushiguro Shinobu, please take care of her!]
【Fushiguro Shiori: …】
[Hasebe, who was passing by, quickly got close to you, replenished Alluki's energy, and solemnly said: No matter what the master becomes, I, Hasebe, will always follow him...her! ]
[Fushiguro Shiori: Well, I can’t control it.]
【Gojo Satoru: …】
[Not knowing whether to be angry or laugh, Gojo Satoru ended up laughing out of anger and left swearing.]
So that's how it is. It suddenly dawned on you that it was Geto who defected for some reason, and then fought against Gojo Satoru, and became pale after losing.
So what is the unboxed version? You still don't know!
But how did you achieve a complete BE in a food management game? Even your Zen Farmhouse was too remote and had no customers to declare the plan a failure.
You can't laugh and everything feels dull.
But it doesn't matter, your goal is just to complete the game. Even though every aspect of this round is terrible, you can still continue playing as long as the main quest is fine.
You had to reload the game multiple times to successfully complete the food competition. It's not worthwhile to play it again just to hack the NPC...
Just as I was thinking this, another message popped up on the system panel:
[You missed the registration period for the National Food Contest]
[Side quest failed]
Damn!
You spent hours carefully preparing this double S-rated cursed food just for this national food competition. How can you say you missed the registration time and failed the mission?!
This is the rollback!
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This time we really went back to ten years ago.
After the side quest fails, the system locks a batch of save files for you.
You have also excluded the saves of "being absent from duty while planting vegetables and causing insect infestation of crops", "the jailbroken curse spirit's attributes exploded at a critical moment, knocking the pea shooter away and escaping successfully", "the last step of synthesizing the curse spirit was successful but the game was over" and so on...
As a result, only the save file that you just finished playing Zenyuanjia offline is left.
So angry, so upset, so helpless.
You jumped up from the bed and kicked all the NPCs in the Zen temple. I don't know who to blame... Anyway, it's not you! You are innocent, and Master Mushroom Soup will definitely see it!
A message suddenly popped up in Honmaru's communication box.
【Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi: The political situation has detected a strong space-time fluctuation in the world you are in.】
【Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi: What did you do again? 】
[The toughest tough guy among tough guys: I didn't do anything, Chang Yi, why do you always think negatively of me? Pointing and talking, that's too bad, you want to lick me with your tongue... No, that's too bad! I'll punish you by making you write more documents]
【Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi: ...What are you doing now? 】
[The best of the best: ...farming! ]
[Yamaubakiri Nagayoshi: Please go back to Honmaru when you have time. People in Yokohama sent you a New Year's gift.]
Eh... Is it almost New Year in Yokohama? It's so fast, it's still summer in the New World... Oh, if you haven't gone back, it should be winter now.
But how did they send you gifts across the world? I'm a little curious. After you pass the "Big Eater Food Contest", come back to Honmaru to have a look.
Haha, after returning for the second round, you already know the requirements of every food competition. This time, winning the championship is a piece of cake!
Over there, Zenin Naoya, who was kicked by you for no reason, rubbed his thigh with a grin, his eyes determined: "My fiancée kicked me... beating is love, scolding is love, and if she loves me deeply, she kicks me, she must have me in her heart!"
The other Zenin people who were kicked showed expressions of fear mixed with complex emotions, and they all moved away from Zenin Naoya, and looked at Zenin Naohito with admiration: Having a son like this is a blessing that can only be obtained after several lifetimes of practice.
…
Gojo Satoru, who was sitting on the ray, paused.
Xia Yujie noticed his abnormality and turned his head in confusion: "What's wrong? Wu."
"It feels a little strange..." But what's strange, Gojo Satoru couldn't tell. He smiled and hooked his arm around Geto's shoulder, "It feels like I haven't seen Geto for a long time."
Xia Yujie pulled his arm away in disgust: "Did your head get hit by the boss's scarecrow?"
"But..." Xia Yujie paused, "I also have a very strange feeling, I don't know why, I want to say..."
He looked at Gojo Satoru and chuckled, "Long time no see, Satoru."
…
You bought some food from the system store and stuffed it all into Yedou's mouth as he looked on with emotion.
Ye Dou, with his eyes already watery and holding a pile of food, said: "Wow...Boss, is this...is this the beheading rice? Or...or is it the resignation rice?"
Why suddenly give him so much?
"This...that..." You feel a little guilty. You can't possibly say that it's the meal you owed in the first round, right?
"Here, take it." You put your hands on your hips and said righteously, "What's wrong with the boss being generous to his employees?"
"Am I the kind of stingy boss who doesn't give a penny to his employees?"
Ye Dou nodded subconsciously, then shook his head quickly. He put on a flattering smile, picked up the massage hammer and tapped your shoulder armor, and began to flatter: "How could it be, the boss is the most generous boss I have ever met-"
…
Fushiguro Shigeki, who was watching from the sidelines, turned his head and educated Fushiguro Megumi who came to pick him up: "See, if you don't work hard to make money, you will become a person like the uncle Yato next door in the future."
"It's better than asking a kindergarten kid to pick up an adult." Fushiguro Megumi showed a look of disdain to Fushiguro Shiori, "How did your mother fall in love with you?"
"Oh, is Megumi here to pick up Senri-kun again?" The Uta-sen Kanesada, who was on duty today, put a piece of dried biscuit in Fushiguro Megumi's hand and said with a smile, "You are really capable."
"Thank you." The child with the black sea urchin head held the biscuit and said seriously, "Thank you for your care for our useless Fushiguro Nori."
"…Hey." Fushiguro Shige rubbed his neck helplessly, "I'm not that bad, am I?"
…
Although the holographic version has many limitations and the mobile version is more convenient to play and easier to kill time, but... you look at the scene in the store and think that you still like the holographic version better.
Let your body, which has become cold due to writing documents, become warm again.