Miss Player, please don't cast spells on me.

Snow Island immediately brought up the menu, wanting to abandon the dungeon, but unfortunately the 'abandon dungeon' option was grayed out at this moment.

Not only was there no option to abandon the dungeon, but there wasn't even an option to quit the game! Snow Island could only force-close her game and then log back into her account, but… that would take at least several tens of seconds! During this time, the aggro of the two annihilation units would fall on Haruka alone!

It was as if the system of the dream city was mocking Snow Island: 'You've made so much money by cheating, and now you think you can just walk away? No way!'

Xuedao forced herself to calm down and began to observe the movements of the two annihilation units. Just as Xuedao had guessed... the two annihilation units were all focused on her!

So Haruka is safe for the time being, but just as Yukishima breathed a sigh of relief, she remembered a fact that would suffocate her.

That is... this is an event dungeon! And event dungeons... spawn monsters!

"The 24th wave of monsters has spawned."

Upon seeing this notification, Yukishima almost uncontrollably shouted at Haruka in the distance.

"Run away!"

But after she shouted those two words, even she herself found it somewhat ridiculous.

Escape? Where can she escape to? Even as the team leader, she couldn't leave the dungeon on Snow Island, so what right or authority does Haruka, as a support character, have to escape?

Thinking of this, Xuedao immediately activated the awakened state of her sister's account: Shadow King! While her entire body was surrounded by shadows, countless sharp spikes also sprouted from her body, trying to break through the blockade of the two annihilation units!

"Don't get in my way!"

But it was no use! No matter how hard Snow Island struggled, it couldn't do any damage to these two law enforcement units belonging to GM. In fact, Snow Island's face was slammed against the wall by an annihilation unit.

What finally brought Yukishima to its complete collapse was Haruka's cry for help...

"Sister Xuedao! They...they...are surrounding us!"

The monsters that spawned in the dungeon focused all their hatred on Haruka in the distance. These most troublesome monsters in the dream city almost swarmed towards Haruka.

"Haruka!! Let me go! Damn it! Let me go!"

Snow Island kept typing on the keyboard, but it had no effect whatsoever. Her external brainwave controller was actually interfering with her control of the character.

"The target is being forcibly kicked out of the instance."

In that final moment, all Xuedao could hear was the cold, merciless voice of the annihilation unit echoing in her left ear, while at the same time, she heard Yaoxiang's tearful plea for help coming from the other side of her earpiece.

"Sister Xuedao, I..."

"Haruka!"

As a third-person narrator, Yukishima could see what was happening on Haruka's side, but that only made her more desperate.

Because all she could see in the end was her youngest daughter, Haruka, being devoured by the monster horde, and even the desperate scene of her reaching out to the snow island for help amidst the monster onslaught being swallowed whole.

"Your ally, Haruka Yukishima, has died."

When this cold, ruthless prompt appeared before Snow Island, her mind went completely blank for a moment.

When Snow Island came to her senses, she found that her character had also died and was now standing blankly at the resurrection point outside the dungeon.

Wait a minute, this is a game! Yes! This is an MMORPG! It's normal for characters to die! If you can revive after you die, then Haruka can definitely revive too.

Because Haruka is essentially a player's account, she can't simply disappear when she dies.

So it's no big deal!

Just as Xuedao was thinking this, she immediately looked around the respawn point and sure enough, she saw her little daughter, Yaoxiang, holding a staff and standing there with her adorable and innocent figure.

"Great!"

Yukishima was so excited she almost cried. She immediately ran over and hugged Haruka, saying...

"I was really scared that you would suddenly disappear after you died, but I'm glad everything is alright! Let's stop here for today, Haruka-chan. The experience of dying must be very painful."

After hugging Haruka, Yukishima pressed on Haruka's shoulder again to comfort her, but suddenly noticed that Haruka's expression was a little strange.

"Are you my captain? My name is Yukishima Haruka. Although I'm still a rookie as a magical girl, I'll be your ally from today onwards!"

"Captain... what captain? Haruka-chan, it's me, Yukishima! Yukishima-nee, you usually call me master." Yukishima heard Haruka pause, then trembled slightly, trying to calm her daughter down...

Standing in front of the snow island, Haruka repeated what she had just said, "Are you my captain? My name is..."

Is this amnesia? No!

Looking into her daughter's empty eyes, Yukishima instantly realized that this was definitely not amnesia! Rather, the Yukishima Haruka in front of her was simply an empty shell!

A mere empty shell that simply repeats pre-set lines, much like most mediocre N-rank cards.

Wait a minute... what about my daughter's soul? What about the personality that Haruka spent three years developing?

That... Yukishima Haruka who would secretly build a house when she was offline, and then demolish the little nest she built when she logged back in so as not to worry her, who was actually very shy, timid, and considerate and gentle despite having a lot of petty thoughts.

"My daughter, her soul...where has the self she spent three years developing gone?!"

Snow Island almost angrily called out to the little sprite Pikachu and questioned it.

"That's really strange. Shouldn't what just happened be common knowledge in your real world?" the little elf Pico asked Snow Island with a somewhat puzzled tone.

"Common sense in our real world? What...common sense?"

Xuedao had actually guessed the answer, but she didn't dare to confirm it at all!

"In the previous instance, you failed to protect Miss Haruka, resulting in her body being torn to pieces by those supernatural monsters, leaving almost no intact part, and her health points were reduced to zero. In the real world, this situation would be considered 'death'."

"The master is someone who has died in the real world. He can't possibly greet you as if he were alive, right?"

Pico's answer was completely unacceptable to Snow Island.

"But this is a game world! An MMORPG game world! Isn't death commonplace? I've died countless times when I played my own account before! Why..."

“For you, Master, this world is indeed a game world, but didn’t I say that for these reborn beings, this world is the ‘real world’? You know, what happens if you die in the real world… I don’t need to tell you, Master, right?” Pico said.

"If you die in the real world... you become a corpse?"

Yukishima stared blankly at Haruka Yukishima, who had lifeless eyes but kept repeating her entrance lines.

No, this thing in front of her is no longer her Haruka-chan. Even though she still has her eyes open and can move, it is still just... Haruka Yukishima's 'corpse'!

"Why...why didn't you tell me this sooner! Damn it...damn it! Damn it!"

At that moment, Xuedao felt like she was going crazy.

But before the little sprite Pike could even speak in her defense, Snow Island heard another familiar voice ring in her ears.

"Yukishima-nee, what happened to Haruka-chan?"

Xuedao suddenly turned her head and saw that it was Xiaochun. She had arrived at the entrance of the dungeon at some point, probably to take them home.

At that moment, seeing Tsubaki's frightened expression, Yukishima seemed to suddenly remember something, immediately ran in front of her, pressed her shoulders with both hands, and shouted.

"Tsubaki! Forget about magical girls and all that! You should say, absolutely never think about becoming a magical girl! Because... your lives are in this world..."

Before Xuedao could finish speaking, she saw that Xiaochun was holding a gem that emitted a dreamlike light.

This is something that countless children and girls in the real world should yearn for: the transformation device for magical girls.

"Sister Yukishima, I came here this time... to tell you that I've become a magical girl..." Tsubaki said in a slightly trembling voice.

"I... have become a magical girl." This should be a dreamlike line in the real world, but why does it sound so desperate here?

"Hey, Yukishima-nee, what... what should I do next?"

Tsubaki was a smart child. When she saw Haruka behind Yukishima, who looked like a zombie, her voice was filled with uncontrollable fear and trembling.

What to do? Run away! Run away from this damn world! Run as far away as possible!

At this moment, Yukishima's hands were trembling, but she still controlled her character and firmly hugged Tsubaki's body, which was also trembling with fear, and made a vow in the firmest tone she had ever used!

"I will... protect you! No matter what happens! No matter the cost! I will definitely protect you!!"

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Chapter 80 I will save everyone!

In a daze, Yukishima returned to Tsubaki's cabin with Haruka's 'body'.

While Kiyono Hai, who plays Konoe Tsubaki, is currently in a relatively stable emotional state, Yukishima is completely at a loss as to what to do.

She had just said that she would protect her friend no matter the cost.

Also in a state of panic was Rena Takigami, who had watched the entire process from behind the scenes.

"This...this is pain that can only come from the death of a loved one, right? It's the kind of pain that comes from killing a loved one with your own hands, Gray! Are you sure it's okay to make Miss Player bear such painful emotions?"

At this moment, even Takigami Rena felt that Kiyono Hai's acting was a bit over the top.

Previously, the storyline in Shanor Village only focused on feelings for the game characters, that is, only on the level of guilt.

But the emotional impact of Haruka's death this time is no less than that of a close relative dying tragically in front of you in real life, especially the kind of death that you caused with your own hands.

Even now, Shiina Akane, the future god... her expressionless face revealed a somewhat 'perverted' expression of pleasure, presumably because she was immersed in the sweet taste brought about by a whole host of negative emotions such as pain, sadness, and self-blame on the snow island.

Rena Takigami also felt that as a player who simply wanted to protect her beloved, Yukishima shouldn't have to suffer such a painful experience that would leave her with psychological trauma for the rest of her life.

"I won't let Ms. Yukishima suffer for too long. Actually, in the script I'm acting in, Haruka can be resurrected."

This time, Kiyono Gray has provided a more direct healing method than the offline treatment in Shanor Village, which is to bring a dead character back to life, which is the setting of spitting knives.

"Can he be resurrected? Then the impact of this plot point will be..."

If this Miss Fox were a viewer or a player, she would probably be the kind of person who is particularly difficult to please.

If Haruka cannot be resurrected, she worries that Yukishima might be too devastated; if Haruka can be resurrected, she worries that this part of the story might be too heavy-handed. In short, it's too childish.

"This kind of resurrection, of course, comes at a price, and that price is the flesh and blood of the Shanor people."

Kiyono Gray, somewhat speechless, lightly pinched Miss Fox's ear, but she quickly dodged away before continuing to speak.

"But for now, let's focus our attention on Tsubaki."

Kiyono Hai stopped teasing the fox lady under the gaze of the world-destroying witch and focused his attention on Konoe Kotsubaki.

…………

"Sister Xuedao".

Just as Xuedao was hesitating about what to do next,

Xiaochun suddenly broke the silence and made a decision that surprised Xuedao.

"As expected... I still want to save everyone!"