Want to be human, but cube-like

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In the past, Toyokawa Shoko never imagined that one day she would live in such a small and dilapidated place.

From a rich young lady who didn't even know what a vending machine was, to a poor girl who dropped out of school and is now skilled in various part-time jobs, it's only been a few short months.

She desperately wanted to seek change, but every conversation with her father always ended in discord.

Xiangzi didn't know how much longer he could hold on.

But what if she chose to move to Alex's burger joint? Would things improve then?

Ironically, Toyokawa Shoko wasn't even sure if her father would worry about her because she suddenly said she wanted to move to where she worked.

It's really ridiculous.

Not wanting to dwell on issues that were bound to make him feel down any longer, Xiangzi began to reflect on the events of the past two days.

But actually, we still need to recall our first meeting with Kyubey some time ago.

She took out her phone, casually swiped away the LINE messages that kept popping up in the notification bar without even glancing at them, opened the search engine, thought for a moment, and slowly typed in the keyword "magical girl".

Naturally, all that popped up were images from cartoons or games.

The same applies to "witch" and "familiar"; not a single useful piece of information could be found, not even a possible urban legend.

Furthermore, the keywords "Kyubi" and "Witch's Kiss" yielded no results, not even in film or television works with similar literal meanings, let alone any other information.

"call……"

With a hint of distress, Xiangzi tapped his phone screen lightly with his thumb and subconsciously typed in the name "Alex".

This did bring up a lot of related people, since it's a very common English name.

But it is clear that it is impossible to find any information related to Alex from this.

After all, she came from another world.

Moreover, they had only arrived two days prior and hadn't even left the vicinity of the burger shop.

Her thoughts drifted away from the terms "magical girl" and "Kyubi," and Xiangzi began to think about her encounter with Alex.

Initially, after being rescued and waking up in Alex's house, he mistakenly thought she had mental problems because of her strange conversation that sounded like she was discussing some game...

and many more……

game?

Suddenly remembering something, Xiangzi began to try to recall all the words Alex had said, and all the phrases in those words that sounded like game terminology.

"Debuff" - A quick search will bring up the corresponding explanation. This is a common gaming term in online games, meaning a negative effect.

But Xiangzi herself knew the meaning of this word. Although she didn't play games, as long as she spent a lot of time online, she would know some of it.

Terms like "health bar," "NPC," and "beginner storyline" are all very common and searching for them is pointless.

"Villagers..."

He murmured something softly, recalling Alex's question.

She continued

The search yielded no meaningful information whatsoever.

Clearly, Xiangzi needed to find some more specific nouns.

"Cube Man..."

That's all we have then.

However, the results of searching for this term are very mixed, including games, animations, and even some parody videos, all of which are vague and ambiguous information.

Even within the realm of games, there is nothing symbolic that Xiangzi can use to correspond with Alex.

"Sky Island?"

This search only yielded scenes from movies and TV shows, as well as content from some books; it was so disorganized that no connection could be found.

"Enderman? Phantom?"

She recalled the monster she had encountered on the floating island, and the other monster Alex had described that morning.

These two terms are completely unrelated, with no related entries whatsoever. In the end, the search only returned some results that linked individual characters of the terms, with absolutely no usable information.

Finally, he searched for the "cheat mode" that Alex had just told him about. Naturally, all he found were guides and explanations about various ways to cheat in games. This completely vague term obviously wouldn't be of any use to Xiangzi.

The same result was obtained from "Creative Mode," yielding absolutely no useful information.

As she swiped the screen aimlessly, Xiangzi fell into deep thought. She wanted to think about any other details she couldn't recall, but to no avail.

"As expected, there isn't one?"

Xiangzi let out a soft sigh of relief, and began to wonder if his imagination was running wild.

Honestly, is it because I care too much about Alex that I've even become a little less clear-headed?

The fact that she thought Alex was a character from some game was simply out of the blue.

This kind of plot seems like something out of a light novel. How could it possibly happen in real life?

Although encountering people from another world who had traveled through time, and being approached by strange creatures searching for girls to sign magical contracts, were all supernatural events beyond her comprehension.

But the idea of game characters traveling into reality is still too far-fetched.

After a long while, Xiangzi closed the search page and returned to the main interface. She glanced at the time; it was almost midnight.

Looking around, the room was quiet, and the dim lighting couldn't even fully illuminate the entire room.

Father probably won't be back tonight. I don't know where he went.

I was originally planning to tell him about applying for a job at the burger joint...

But now.

"I have to get up early tomorrow to go shopping with Alex."

Muttering to himself, Xiangzi began to think again about what the hamburger shop, or rather Alex herself, was missing that she needed to buy tomorrow.

"Never mind... Anyway, let's wash these clothes first."

With her eyes lowered, she opened the notification bar, casually swiped away the message notifications that kept popping up on Line, checked them, and after confirming that there were no other to-do items for tomorrow, she turned off the screen.

Volume 1: Chapter 34 "That's what Mom taught me to say."

The next day, early in the morning, Toyokawa Shoko woke up with a start.

A soft, diffused light streamed into the room through the curtains.

Opening his eyes, the sunlight, like a scalpel, sliced through the air, clearly revealing the tiny dust particles floating in the rented room to Xiangzi.

She lay flat on her back, quietly waiting for her heartbeat to gradually increase to the rate she was in when she was awake. Only when her limbs regained strength and her consciousness was fully awake did she struggle to get out of bed.

I picked up my phone and glanced at the time; it was just before eight o'clock.

She pulled back the curtain that had been used to create a small space for herself to rest, and peeked out. The room was empty except for her.

It seems that Father didn't come home last night.

"..."

With a silent sigh, Xiangzi quickly changed her clothes, washed up at the sink, rubbed her stomach which was starting to feel hungry, and went to the small balcony.

I opened the window, and a cool breeze brushed against my cheek.

It didn't snow again last night, but there was a strong wind all night, which made her sleep restless.

However, because of this, the air is relatively dry, and clothes that were hung out to dry late at night are already dry by this morning.

Collect them all and fold them carefully.

If you go out now, the time to get to the burger shop should be just right.

As for breakfast... she's long since gotten used to not eating it.

Picking up the bag of clothes to return to Alex, Xiangzi walked to the entrance and took one last look at the exquisite doll on the closet.

"I'm going out..."

She closed her eyes and shut the door.

……

"Ugh—ha!"

Bathed in the warm morning sun, a tall, slender silver-haired girl with a beautiful figure stood in front of a hamburger shop and stretched.

Her large breasts trembled slightly, and her fitted sweater perfectly showcased her slender and strong waistline, attracting many passersby to secretly cast their glances at her.

Last night was another all-nighter. On the floating island, while harvesting monsters under the mob farm, I also waited for the animals to breed and changed crops.

After a night of hard work, although she only got one iron ingot, she also obtained two pieces of gold equipment whose durability was more than half worn off. After smelting them in the furnace, Alex finally got two gold nuggets.

Next, you only need seven more gold nuggets to craft a gold ingot, and the golden apple requires eight gold ingots...

Alex, who was just feeling happy about last night's haul, suddenly paused and started counting on her fingers.

A set of 64 gold nuggets can be combined into 7 gold ingots, with one gold nugget left over. Therefore, you need to farm 8 more gold nuggets to combine into one gold ingot.

In other words, you need to farm another set plus eight more gold nuggets to gather enough crafting materials for a Golden Apple.

"Besides, even if we get the golden apple, it's useless... there's no way to weaken the zombie villagers."

She squatted down and muttered something to herself, sounding somewhat distressed.

"Sure enough, let's wait until an Iron Bucket spawns before starting to run the biome."

As soon as she finished speaking, a petite shadow appeared on the ground in front of her, covering half of her body.

Good morning, Alex.

A pleasant voice came from behind, and Alex looked up in the direction of the sound.

Xiangzi, with his hands clasped in front of him, carrying a bag, stood in front of her, smiling as he looked at her.

Good morning, Xiangzi.

Alex stood up and greeted them.

"Have you been waiting for a long time?"

With a blink, Xiangzi glanced sideways at the burger shop behind Alex. The lights were off, making it appear somewhat dim.

Alex probably didn't open for business because we were supposed to go shopping today.

"Ok?"

However, Xiangzi's polite inquiry startled Alex for a moment, and she suddenly recalled some memories from the past.

My thoughts instantly drifted back to a certain day.

……

That day, her mother had just changed her into a new outfit when she bumped into a homeless merchant leading two alpacas as soon as she stepped outside.

The first thing my mother said when we met that day was something similar to this.

"Hey, you wandering merchant, have you been waiting for me outside for a long time?"

Then, she ran up to it and said she wanted to show it how nice her new clothes were.

After that, it seems that the wandering merchant and his alpaca both disappeared... What was the reason again?

Oh!

She remembered the conversation from that day.

"Heh heh, how about it? Isn't this new outfit nice?"

"Humph?"

"Let me see what you're selling..."

"Ok?"

"What a swindler!"

"Uh?"