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

"So that's what you were worried about, Xuedao-jie?"

To put her mind at ease, Xia Nuoer demonstrated the entire process of his missing left hand's growth—from bone to flesh to outer skin—right in front of Xue Dao.

"Sister Xuedao, don't underestimate me. If you just want to feed your little daughter, I can provide it quite often..."

"What about the other players?"

Snow Island, of course, knew the setting of the red-eyed Shanor in front of her... it was an aggregate that had merged the consciousness of all Shanor.

Therefore, Snow Island does not consider him to be an NPC that belongs exclusively to him. So, the red-eyed Shanor that other players encounter in their own maze sanctuary must also be his true form.

Therefore, once Snow Island reveals the secret of Red-Eyed Shanor, or rather, the secret of the Dream City account becoming sentient.

So in the future, she won't be the only one who needs to divide and devour this Xia Nuoer flesh and blood. Hundreds or even thousands of female players will come to Xia Nuoer to ask for his flesh and blood, either to make up for their mistakes like Xue Dao did, or simply to see what it would be like if their accounts came to life.

But what troubled Xuedao the most was...

“Of course I will provide it to them as well, because, Sister Xuedao, I’ve told you before, haven’t I? My love for you is quite greedy,” Shanor continued with a smile.

This is what made Snow Island feel extremely upset and somewhat helpless: this red-eyed Shanor was indiscriminately inviting all the female players who had completed the final ending of "The Principality of Roses".

"Decided."

After Xuedao understood this, he accepted Shanor's flesh and blood without any further politeness and said...

"I will then contact the owners of those Reborn accounts, and I will make sure to select those fellow players who have completed the final ending of 'Rose Kingdom' first," Xuedao said.

"Then... isn't the quantity screened a little too small all at once?"

Shanor, or rather Qingye Hui, still had some expectations regarding the current number of players in "Rose Kingdom".

"If that's the case, then you'll be abandoning a lot of homeless people, right, Sister Yukishima?" Red-eyed Shanor's wicked nature was on full display again at this moment.

But Xuedao, unconcerned, simply said...

"No! Because after I contact the owners of the remaining Reborn accounts, I will use every means to recommend that they play 'Rose Kingdom'! After all... no matter how heavy your love is, Xia Nuoer, it is only for those players who also liked you, isn't it?"

As Kiyono listened to Miss Yukishima's resolve, he felt that, given Miss Yukishima's current missionary abilities, even Kiyono would have to respectfully address her as 'High Priestess of the Church of Shanor' for life.

Although it's true that a bishop like this recruits believers to share the flesh and blood of his own god... it's obviously some kind of strange and terrible religion, but anyway, Qingye Hui doesn't intend to make Shanor any proper god.

Fast forward to Chapter 82: "I'm such an idiot."

At this moment, Kiyono Hai, disguised as Tsubaki, was silently watching Ms. Yukishima make plans and preparations in the real world from the Tsubaki Inn.

Snow Island is very serious about wanting to save all the reborn beings in the dream city.

To this end, she even made a table based on the hotel list given by Tsubaki. It seems that Snow Island is investigating the relatives in the real world based on the names of the reborn people on the hotel registration list.

But before that, Snow Island needed to find a helper who could go on field missions, and that helper was, of course, her sister, Owlface.

To convince her sister, Owlface, of the existence of the Reborn, she even broke off a finger from her left hand that Shanor had given her and fed it to her sister's character account.

After her sister's game account, Yukishima Yui, devoured Shanor's flesh and blood, she indeed regained some of her senses...

"Is this really a consciousness that originated from my account?"

She stared at the 'Shadow King' who, under her control, dominated the entire game arena, ruthlessly slaughtering a large number of experts from the Dream City.

The trembling figure hiding behind Xiaochun at this moment indicated great suspicion.

Even when she said those words, her tone carried the threatening air of a thug.

"Is it possible... that it's because your personality is too scary, sister? That's why Yui-chan is so timid?"

Xuedao refers to her sister Xiaomian's account as 'Wei-chan,' which is Xiaomian's real name.

Because of the personality of the character Owlface in the game, it seems that a gentle and soft name like Yukishima Yui is more suitable than the real-life Owlface.

"Sigh... Forget it, I don't care about these boring and unnecessary settings. So, Xue, do you have some new ideas for telling me about the Reborn One and the Red-Eyed Shanor again?"

Owlface is an incurable sister complex, and she will basically fulfill any wish that Snow Island wants to do.

Unfortunately, this time... Owlface may not be able to fulfill his sister's wish.

"Yes! Just like I told you earlier."

Yukishima, controlling her character Haruka, picked up a can of food from the table and said to Owlface.

“These reborn beings live very hard and poor lives in the dream city. Most of them are poor children who don’t know where their next meal will come from! So I want to save them and let them live a happy life where they can at least have enough to eat.”

"and then?"

When Xiaomian heard this, she didn't think much of it. On the contrary, the fact that Dream City had added a game content of 'raising Rebirthers' made her quite interested.

"So I'd like to ask you, sister, to help me contact the real-world account owners of these children and convey the message that 'the game characters you control are now real people with flesh and blood, so please treat them kindly.'" After making this request, Xuedao's expression instantly turned cold.

“No.” Owl Face said to Snow Island in an unprecedentedly cold tone.

"Why not? Sister, if you find it troublesome, you can give me their contact information, and I will contact them one by one!" Xuedao thought it was because her sister found it troublesome.

After all, Owlface is usually busy playing various offline PVP battles, so it would be too much to ask her to act as a negotiation ambassador and explain a bunch of meaningless settings to other players in Dream City.

But the reason she refused wasn't because it was too troublesome, but rather...

"Ah Xue, let me repeat the trigger method for the 'Rebirth' storyline in the dream city. First, you need to play the final ending of the Shanor route in the 'Rose Kingdom', and second, complete the peace route in 'Maze Sanctuary 2', right? Of course, neither of these two points is the most important."

Of course, Xiaomian remembered her sister. When she wanted to ask her to contact those top players in the real world of Fantasy City, she specifically emphasized that players who had played the final ending of "Rose Kingdom" should be given priority.

This prerequisite is not the most important thing; the key lies in the following part.

"The important thing is that in order to see these 'Reborn Ones' in the Dream City, you must obtain the item called the 'Blade of Disorder,' which is obtained by tearing apart the flesh and blood of the Shanors, right?"

This is the most important point! Even a combat fanatic like Xiaomian, who basically skips the plot in games, could smell the strong 'knife' in this setting.

Normal players of Fantasy City cannot see the 'Reborn Ones' in the game; otherwise, the 'Reborn Ones' concept would have been revealed long ago after so many years of operation in Fantasy City.

Only by obtaining the Blade of Disorder given by Shanor, or rather, the virus that can reveal the truth behind the Dream City, can this part of the story be triggered.

Each time a Blade of Disorder is generated, a portion of the 'flesh and blood' of the Shanor people needs to be cut off!

That is to say...

"Ah Xue! I'll just admit it outright, the Rebirth of the 'Rebirth' setting is very interesting, so interesting that it might attract a lot of players from Dream City back to the game... But if the price to see the 'Rebirth of the 'Rebirth' or trigger this plot is that we have to peel off a part of the flesh and blood from the Shanor people."

"Have you ever thought about what would happen to the likes of Shanor if the secret of the 'Rebirth' were exposed, and countless players in Dream City wanted to see what their game characters were like in private?"

Throughout her speech, Xiaomian kept her hand on her sister's shoulder and stared directly into her eyes.

"That's why I told you to prioritize finding players who have completed 'Rose Kingdom'..." At this moment, Yukishima also felt that... what she said wasn't very convincing.

"I also finished 'The Principality of Roses,' but I don't care at all about the life or death of those Shanor people. To be precise, if I can trigger some interesting enough plot, I don't care how many times they die!"

She spoke directly and without any mercy…

"Those guys in Dream City, or rather most players in the world, after learning about the interesting storyline of 'The Reborn,' will only play 'Rose Kingdom' with the same utilitarian mindset. Even players who have already played 'Rose Kingdom' will peel off Shanor's flesh and blood without any psychological burden, just to trigger this storyline."

"And what about you, Xue? Can you just accept this? Accept that your beloved... will endlessly sacrifice his own flesh and blood to save those you don't know at all, those who have nothing to do with you, and those who don't even care about Xia Nuoer! Until Xia Nuoer and the others die?"

Xiao Mian's words were truly piercing, each sentence like torture of Xue Dao's conscience.

Yukishima choked up slightly, glanced at Tsubaki in the game screen and Yui-chan who looked extremely timid, and then mustered up her last bit of courage to retort.

"But if the game character's owner isn't told, those reborn beings, those children... they will continue to be injured and die in battle under the control of the unsuspecting account owner until they die!"

This is also why Snow Island truly wants to reveal the secret of the Reborn Ones, because only in this way can everyone be truly saved.

Players of Fantasy City may not realize it, but every time their game character dies during gameplay, it's equivalent to harming them.

Just like Owlface's own character, although she also developed self-awareness at the beginning, with Owlface's extremely brutal way of using her, every death was equivalent to inflicting some kind of torture on 'Yukishima Yui'.

Because Owlface doesn't care about the life or death of her game characters at all, or rather, most players don't care either, since they can be resurrected after death, and that's part of the game mechanics.

This is precisely where the true despair of each of the reborn is. Their masters, without their knowledge, will naturally push them, who have already developed self-awareness and adore their masters, into the abyss of death.

This is why Snow Island wanted to reveal the secret: to tell everyone to stop treating their game characters so roughly and cruelly, because they are also 'living, breathing people'.

But the price of going public is that the Shanor players will be 'eaten up and killed' by the swarming players.

At this moment, Xuedao was facing the agonizing dilemma.

"Then just ignore them!!"

Suddenly, Xiaomian slapped his sister's cheeks with both hands, trying to bring her back to her senses.

"Ah Xue, who do you think you are? A savior? A god? Or a saint? Don't be so arrogant! You're just a fake high school girl who dropped out of high school because of a health problem!"

"So you don't need to bear such a heavy responsibility to save everyone? Wake up! You can't save everyone! Even if you reveal this secret, those reborn ones will live happily ever after, but what about the Shanor people? Don't you care about their lives?"

"I..." Xuedao was speechless, unsure how to refute her sister's words.

But Xuedao still somewhat reluctantly moved her sister's hand away from her cheek and said.

"But sister, seeing those people who could clearly be saved but... not extending a helping hand to them, watching them die right before your eyes... is just... hard to accept."

This might be part of the stubbornness in Xuedao's personality, or perhaps after the tragedy of 'Xianor Village', she really didn't want to experience that feeling of helplessness of 'failing to save the person she wanted to save' again.

"Then let me help you."

She forced her younger sister to ignore everything that was happening in front of her. If she could really leave those reborn beings alone, then she wouldn't be her little sister.

"Of course, the secret of triggering the Rebirth plot must be kept from everyone, but I will gather a bunch of good people to help at the tea party. Isn't it just raising a bunch of little brats?"

"With us taking turns leading them through dungeons, we can easily make a fortune in any kind of currency, like 'value'."

"Another issue is the problem of account owners controlling their own game characters to die. I'll talk about this in the Dream City pro player group. Whether it's an official hidden setting or launching a one-life challenge, I still have some influence in the Dream City player group. Just try to get those guys to develop the habit of not dying randomly."

"elder sister!"

Upon hearing this, all Xuedao could do was hug her sister's slender waist, deeply moved, and rub against her repeatedly.

Xiao Mian naturally enjoyed his sister's adoration and affectionate gestures.

Only Kiyono Hai, who played as Tsubaki in the game and got to experience all of this drama... I have a feeling that Yukishima's mental state is very bad right now.

From the moment she went to see the red-eyed Shanor on the snow island, Qingye Hui sensed that this girl was putting on a brave face, insisting that she had to save all the reborn beings in the Dream City.

But if the owners of those reborn accounts, as Owlface prophesied, truly choose to repay Snow Island by 'cruelly killing Shanor' out of greed.

that…

Why does Kiyono Hai feel like this plot reminds her of Sayaka Miki's classic line from "Puella Magi Madoka Magica": "I'm such an idiot?"

It feels like Yukishima is about to fast-forward to the point where she says something like, "I'm such an idiot."

In short, I hope that one day in the future it won't become a strange day like 'Today is the 10th anniversary of Yukishima-chan realizing she's an idiot!'