Spring 15th of the first year
It's decided, I'm going to take a stroll in the street today!
You stroke the soft, fluffy duckling and decide to take a day off. You won't farm, fish, or even go mining. You'll simply wander around Pelican Town with a backpack full of odds and ends.
First, check the bulletin board—Pierre wants a crystal to put on the chain and requires it to be shipped today.
You turned and left without hesitation. Who would go down into the mine for a profiteer's strange demands? Impossible!
If you leave too early, the villagers are still at home. Without the town key, you can't enter any of the houses, but you can try to ambush Nana Ming. He has to get to work at Joja Supermarket on time, so he leaves very early and has the longest commute in the whole town.
You thoughtfully delivered breakfast to this working person and then served coffee to most people in town over the next few hours. These universally loved artisan items make excellent gifts; the only problem is that making them yourself is quite time-consuming, but thankfully, money can solve that perfectly.
You happen to have something that's your favorite item, so you just casually take it out and give it to someone. For example, you might have some chives that you picked up on your way out in the morning. You used to give the old man a lot of these in order to get the recipe for spicy eel.
I opened the favorability list and took a look. Currently, the three people with a 2-heart favorability rating towards you are Shir, Yuyu, and Nanami Kento.
Shen'er and Youyou are villagers who cannot marry, so there's no special two-heart event; at most, you might give them a recipe or something. Therefore, the only event that can be triggered today is the one involving Nanami Kento. To be honest, I'm quite looking forward to it. Every time, you're the one bringing him beer, and now that you're two hearts, it's finally his turn to treat you! And it's at the lakeside dock in the forest—the atmosphere is great. If it were Elliot, it would be so romantic… Well, it's not that Xie En is bad, it's just that you're not very good at handling these kinds of heart-to-heart conversations; you have absolutely no idea what to say. Luckily, this event only requires you to quietly keep him company and drink.
According to the Stardew Valley game settings, Shane's 2-heart storyline requires entering the forest after 8 pm. There's still a while, so you stand in the plaza and open the live stream to chat with the viewers.
"Let's have a Q&A session, I happen to have some free time right now," you announced. "Feel free to ask anything, mainly about gameplay. As for what this mod contains, I don't actually know more about it than you do, so I won't go into detail, but you can tell me now if there's anything you'd like to see."
[Hilarious! If there's a problem with the gameplay, shouldn't we just check the wiki? Why don't we go to Master Wuwo's Stardew Valley for some lessons? Why are we asking you?]
[Get out of here without asking questions.]
Let's all be friendly, okay?
Why don't you play version 1.6, Rabbit Foot?
You quickly replied, "This mod hasn't been updated to 1.6 yet, so it's still using the 1.5 version of the game. There are probably quite a few streamers playing 1.6 right now, so I won't join in. Besides, I still suggest everyone try it out themselves first. You can check it out when guides are updated, and you'll be more likely to understand the tricks when you see them."
[I want to see the anchor and Shoko Yuufumi]
"Um... it's not impossible," you politely declined, "but the most popular choice right now is Gojo Satoru, and our favorability rating is still far below his. We can wait and see how the story unfolds before deciding."
[Wuxia has publicly rejected the marriage proposal. Who is actually supporting the streamer's marriage to Gojo Satoru?]
No, I'm a die-hard fan.
[Using Yoshino Junpei's appearance, isn't that a way of trying to pair him with Itadori Yuuhito?]
[It's just a pure friendship, thank you. I'm really fed up with you guys who randomly ship them as couples.]
Whether we ship them or not is our freedom, but I'm impressed, bro. Didn't you say just half an hour ago that you couldn't stand it anymore and were going to block the streamer? How come you're back on a different account? Are you that into them?
Hahaha, I'm impressed! Who came up with this nickname? It's so fitting!
Right? I give up.
I'm impressed.
Okay, stop teasing her. Let's get serious. Does anyone know why my Leah's affection level is only 6 hearts? Is she thinking of divorcing me?
“Don’t worry, only the player can initiate a divorce,” you replied. “It’s probably because you haven’t talked to your spouse in a long time. Talking to her and giving her gifts every day will make up for it quickly.”
[A divorce costs 50,000 yuan, which is more effective than any cooling-off period for a poor gamer like me.]
[Goodness, how long has it been since you've paid any attention to your wife? If you're really never home, just get a divorce. Being single is great; you can date 12 women at the same time without losing their affection.]
Humans cannot, or at least should not.
...
It's 8:00 pm, time to trigger the Seven Seas Builders' 2-heart event. So you stop watching the live stream and head into the coal mine forest along the southernmost path of the town.
As you cross the boundary between the two scenes, you feel an unprecedented dizziness. After finally regaining your balance, you see a stool flying towards you, along with a bone-chilling cold and a furious roar of grief.
Your combat level is very low, and you were just an ordinary otaku with little athletic talent before, so this stool hit you squarely.
"Ouch!" It did hurt quite a bit, but the main thing was being scared. In short, you screamed when you were hit.
"Who's there?!" A slightly hoarse voice sounded alertly. You looked over, clutching the spot where you'd been hit, and saw a blond boy with his eyes covered.
You immediately recognized the person standing not far in front of him; he looked very similar to Xia Youjie, whom you had seen at Robin's house, except that his dark circles were more pronounced, his face was haggard, and he was holding a white cloth in his hand, about to...
You suddenly covered your mouth, involuntarily took a few steps back, and your heart pounded so hard it felt like it was about to jump out of your throat.
This is the first time you've been so close to a gruesome corpse. It looks terrifying, and the stench of blood mixed with an indescribable, unfamiliar smell fills your nostrils, bringing with it the aura of "death."
Xia Youjie seemed unaware of your presence, and upon hearing this, asked Qi Haijianren, "What's wrong?"
After a moment of silence, Nanami Kento said, "It's nothing, it's probably just a hallucination."
Xia Youjie continued to cover Haibara Yu's mangled body with a white cloth and said, "Nanami, you should rest first. Satoru will take over the mission."
So that's what the plot was all about!
You suddenly realize where you are.
What's going on? Being transported into Stardew Valley is one thing, but at least it's safe as long as I don't go mining. How did I suddenly get thrown into the world of Jujutsu Kaisen?!
After a few seconds of panic, you try to calm down and comfort yourself. At least it seems that only Nanami Kento can notice that there is an extra person in this morgue (or maybe it's a ghost). You should be able to go back after this part of the story is over, right?
So you stood there uneasily, waiting for Xia Youjie to leave the room before walking up to Qi Haijianren and tentatively asking, "Qi Hai?"
"Who are you?" Nanami Kento felt somewhat incredulous. What was an unidentified intruder, who meant no harm and was able to evade the perception of a top-level sorcerer, doing here to find him?
"Uh, I... I am Yoshino Junpei." You don't want to use your real name or online name, and you can't think of a suitable pseudonym for the time being, so you simply borrow the name Junpei. Anyway, the real Yoshino Junpei will not appear for more than ten years, and by then Nanami Kento may have forgotten about it.
I've never heard of Yoshino Junpei, and he doesn't seem to be from any of those sorcerer families.
Nanami Kento then asked, "What is the purpose?"
You don't know what you can do right now.
If you had arrived a few days earlier, you might have had a chance to warn them that the intelligence was incorrect and that the case was beyond the capabilities of a level two sorcerer.
But now, everything has already happened. Haibara Yu is dead. You didn't even have a chance to give them a cup of coffee to help them run faster or a cake to instantly heal them. Any words of comfort seem powerless in the face of a comrade's real sacrifice.
So you take two beers out of your backpack, hand one to him, and say, "I'm here to drink with you. Here. Stardew Valley Special Brew. It'll make you forget all the bad things in life."
Perhaps your act of barging into the morgue to deliver alcohol was too absurd, because Nanami Kento couldn't think of anything to say for a moment, and finally muttered, "...Minors cannot drink alcohol."
You said, "Today could be an exception."
After a long silence, Nanami Kento suddenly took the wine glass, tilted his head back, and drank the bitter wine in one gulp, revealing a hint of his adult drinking prowess.
You returned to the coal mining forest in the night, feeling a tightness in your chest.
Why would this kind of plot be triggered? It seems pointless...
If their combat level were higher and they could help them, would things develop differently?
You open the live stream and find that the viewers seem completely unaware of your cursed journey. After scrolling back a few pages, you roughly reconstruct the scene they just witnessed in your mind—
Nanami Kento stands beside you on the dock, confiding in you about his feelings after leaving the world of sorcery, believing that he will live a peaceful life like this, leisurely on a pasture by the forest.
So that's how it is. It was Nanami Kento who didn't go back to being a sorcerer... He seemed to vaguely realize that this kind of life wasn't what he truly wanted; he was just indulging in a false peace, unable to extricate himself.
Aren't you the same? The abundance and peace of Stardew Valley cannot replace the meaning of the real world for you.
"I still need to hurry up and get back as soon as possible..." you murmured. "Won't the plants on the balcony wither if they're not watered for too long?"
When you returned to the farm that day, it was already past 10 o'clock, but instead of going inside to sleep, you picked up an axe and began to quickly clear away the excess trees on the farm.
Tomorrow morning I'll go to the blacksmith to buy gold ore and refine it into gold ingots to complete the blacksmith's sacrifice! I'll also finish the other sacrifice quests as soon as possible to catch up on the progress and try to raise my skill level. Good luck, Iridium Rabbit Foot!
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