So, everyone approved the proposal for Miss Mizushima Kawakora to serve as the temporary head of the family. "
In a large room with a wooden structure, under a Fuso plaque with black characters on a white background, a serious-looking middle-aged man made the final decision.
The black-haired woman sitting at the top of the long table glanced at the elders who did not dare to look at her.
The sheathed black sword beside her was placed on the beige tatami, with a red paper rose hanging on the scabbard.
She raised her hand, picked up the knife, and slowly left in front of people's eyes. The evil aura of a top player on her body shocked the group of little old men. .
After her figure completely disappeared behind the wooden sliding door, a group of people breathed a sigh of relief as if waking up from a dream, with a mixture of vigilance, fear, and helplessness in their eyes.
"The murderous aura among adventure players is getting stronger and stronger..."
"Is it the influence of the eighth world? I always feel like I'm facing a ferocious beast. I never felt this way when I faced my ancestors before..."
"It was the death of her sister that stimulated her. Sometimes when I passed by Mizushima's room, I could always hear her talking to herself about a doll, as if she was possessed.
"The world has really changed. We old bones can no longer hold on. We still have to leave the future to young people."
"It's a pity that the boys from the master's family are all very naughty, and they actually let a woman take the lead..."
"Hush, Mr. Hexiu...be careful that the walls have ears."
Mizushima Kawa Sora returned to his room and stretched.
She lazily looked at the cherry blossoms flying outside the door, looking out through the meandering water and green shadows, and saw the afternoon sun shining down along the broken shades of the trees, and even the rockery and rocks were covered with a layer of gold. .
This is a good time for a nap.
She filled her head with water and combed her long hair. Although the main god's world is a digital body, which makes it very convenient to do everything, and can even cut and comb her hair with one click, she likes a simple lifestyle.
This will make her feel as if she is still living on Zhai Xing.
It's like nothing happened.
She stood up, got dressed by herself, combed her hair by herself, polished her sword by herself, prepared snacks and tea by herself, and called her crazy sister to come for dinner...
"Haru, it's time for snacks." Mizushima Kawakora placed various cakes, dumplings, taiyaki, yokan, mochi and other snacks on the table and called to the room inside.
After looking at the dessert plate, she changed the positions of the red dumplings and white dumplings, making the arrangement look more pleasing to the eye.
"Qing. If you don't eat, I'll eat it myself." She continued.
No reply.
She frowned slightly and continued shouting.
"Stop playing video games like crazy, Qing." She said, "I shouldn't have agreed to buy you a game console in the first place? You just lie there in your room every day, staring at the little electronic man, and your father is... Want to scold."
No reply.
Sakura fell from the door and landed on her shoulders.
She tore open the dorayaki, revealing the sweet bean paste inside, and took a bite.
The sweetness of the bean paste is just right, and the texture is a little sticky, but this is Mizushima Kawaharu's favorite sweetness, and she specially watched the cook make it. The outer edge of the dorayaki is also soft and elastic. Haru likes this texture.
"Dorayaki tastes very good and suits you very well." Mizushima Kawakawa continued to say to Uma: "I still remember that when you were a child, you and I liked to eat half of it. You liked to eat the side of Dorayaki, begging me , say you want to eat more side and less side...
She took another bite.
No reply.
"Are you stuck in the game? Shall I send it in for you?" She picked up the disc, walked into the inner room in the warm mist of tea fragrance, and opened the wooden door.
The cherry blossoms slowly fell from her shoulders and landed on the tatami.
She looked inside - she saw a round ball of seat cloth, and some neatly folded girls' clothes next to it.
There was no one on the seat.
There is only a Fuso rag doll with black cloth hair.
The doll is wearing a kimono made of linen, with a fiery red sacrificial fan on its back. It is about 1.6 meters tall, and is one-to-one proportion to a real person.
Mizushima Kawa Sora's eyes softened when he saw the rag doll.
"Haru." Mizushima Kawakora looked at the doll and said, "It's time to have some snacks."
She placed the snacks in front of the doll, took the doll's hand, handed the dorayaki to the doll's hand, and squeezed the doll's hand.
"Crack."
As soon as she let go, the doll's hand also naturally relaxed.
The dorayaki fell on the tatami, making a slight sound, and the bean paste was stained and rolled all over the floor.
Mizushima Kawakora stared blankly at the motionless rag doll and the falling Dorayaki.
Her eyelashes slightly moved, as if she was thinking about something.
After a while, she lowered her body, put away the snacks, and wiped the bean paste clean.
"You didn't even eat snacks!" She was a little angry: "Well, as a sister, I don't want to worry about you anymore. There will be a meeting in two days.
If I can't come back, then don't ask Aunt Sanzhi at home to open a small stove for you.
She took the plate and turned around to leave.
When she reached the sliding door, her steps suddenly paused.
There was obviously no sound in the room, but she seemed to get a reply. She turned her head slightly and looked at the rag doll lying on the ground.
"Qing, it's useless for you to apologize to me now. A sister is like a mother. My mother is not here. I really want to educate you well, even though I am only a little older than you." She said:
"No, it's useless to act coquettishly. I won't do this now.
"snort.
"I got it. I'll leave some for you. When you come out after playing the game, remember to eat it. Don't forget it."
Mizushima Kawakora kept talking to himself, giving a few words to the doll before going out.
She is in a good mood now and greets people with a smile. Others were a little flattered when they saw her having such a good attitude.
"The head of the family looks happy?" asked a middle-aged man wearing a long gown, smiling and flattering.
"Because of my sister." Sora Mizushima said with a smile, "She was very obedient today."
"Oh." After hearing this, the middle-aged man's expression changed slightly. He forced a smile and flattered a few more words, and immediately left in a hurry.
They had long known about Mizushima Kawakora's eighth world's setback, and had been carefully paying attention to her attitude, not wanting to anger her.
Because even if he suffered setbacks, Mizushima Kawakawa was still a top player who made it to the final stage. Today is no different than in the past. They have understood the nature of the world's games and how much influence and strength top players have.
If they continue to treat Mizushima Kawakawa as a pawn and treat themselves as elders to bully her, they will be the ones who are killed.
Only by holding on to others' thighs can they prosper and rise to heaven.
The structure of the world has long since changed.
A woman who was once regarded as a marriage partner has become a being far above them.
However, since the end of the eighth world, this woman has started holding a rag doll like crazy and calling her sister, and told them not to get close.
Taking care of the doll like a self-hypnosis, eating and sleeping with the doll, talking to myself with the doll...
Crazy, really crazy.
Those people at the forefront of mankind... have long been assimilated by the crazy copies, and they have gone crazy...
Mizushima Kawakora watched the middle-aged man leave in a hurry, then turned around and continued humming her song.
Her younger sister is very disobedient, rebellious, and off-kilter, dressing up like a bad girl. He also deliberately disappeared for a period of time before, deliberately trying to make her anxious.
But that's okay.
...Because she has got her sister back.
My sister has become much better recently. Although she is a picky eater and won't eat, she won't resist. Whatever clothes she chooses for her sister, her sister won't object and will wear them, and she will help her wear them herself.
Today I am wearing a kimono and a sacrificial fan, what should I wear tomorrow...
By the way, there are also bows. Qing likes bows very much, so she can buy dozens of bows in the store. The prices are much cheaper than before, so she can buy hundreds without blinking an eye.
There are always blind people who say her sister is a rag doll...how could she be a rag doll? She could see clearly that Qing would chat with her and laugh with her every day.
"That's great." Mizushima Kawakora opened his arms facing the sunshine on his face.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…"
She laughed.
The sun shone down on the back of her hand, which showed six white lines of perfect clearance, one at a time.
"That's great." She smiled and stood under the scattered cherry blossoms, as if embracing the world.
"No one wants to separate us, no one wants to."
"Qing is not dead. She is back. She is by my side and has always been with me..."
"very nice."
"...I'll be clear,"
"I got it back."
"One by one, Su Ming'an, regarding the Peak Alliance, let's meet at this location."
After leaving the United Regiment, Su Mingan received an email from Lu.
He came to the address mentioned in the email, District 120, an ordinary district server.
The location mentioned by the road is an old castle near the corner. The style of this area is relatively medieval, with many scattered old castle buildings.
The usual meeting place of the Peak Alliance is actually an old castle. I don’t know if it’s because of Lu’s secondary interest or because of the so-called sense of ceremony.
He saw Lu in the castle, and Lu was still smiling.
The so-called "Peak Alliance" is something he and Lu discussed in the early stages of the Eighth World - this is a group with peak adventure players as the core, with various sub-professional players as the outer ring, and each other has the same interests. .
Among them, the upper limit of the number of adventure players is set at nine.
These nine adventure players do not need to hand over their names to anyone, nor do they need to worry about their identities being pulled out by some organization to raise the banner - because each of them is the absolute core of this alliance. Their rights are entirely in their own hands.
Lu Zai is trying to establish a "parliamentary system".
He is not purely fighting for power, but wants to use the influence of this "parliament" to establish an organization such as the Super Power Control Bureau to maintain peace after the game is over.
Influential commanders like them can temporarily give chaotic people a unified goal to move forward. Even if the alliance disbands and connects with other organizations, it will at least have the capital to have equal dialogue with other organizations.
This alliance is just a simple structure. From now on, they are no longer a single top player, but an entity in the eyes of people.
Just like Su Mingan's lighthouse theory, this is an act to deepen people's impressions and improve the situation, just like the "Hero Plan" of the United Regiment.
Moreover, compared to a coalition with countless entangled interests, this small group of only nine people is simpler and clearer.
Lu handed Su Mingan a piece of paper with the above content written on it. Once Su Mingan signs it, their alliance will be officially established, which is equivalent to a formal certification.
Under the dim candlelight of the castle, Su Mingan couldn't even see the words clearly. He really suspected that Lu was here for a candlelight dinner.
Seeing that Su Ming'an was hesitant to write, Lu thought he was hesitating.
"Don't worry, your foresight has already reached a level that makes me awestruck. Your layout in the early stage of the world game is also extremely sophisticated. With you as the leader of this alliance, we can definitely go on together in such a desperate world." Lu Gan said: "If it were you, it would be fine."
Su Mingan was speechless for Lu, the brain-boosting emperor who had already idolized him so much.
He glanced at the nine-seat list, looking north, Lu Shu, Yamada Machichi, Alger, Isabella, Luna, and Eleven.
Except for Alger and Eleven, they are all acquaintances and have good character.
He signed his name by the light of his watch.
...At the moment of signing, he suddenly felt like he had made an ending choice.
It seems that whether he chooses to join this alliance or not will lead to different endings in the world.
Join the alliance plot line/not join the alliance plot line.
...I really played too many copies.
After he signed, the paper was divided into two, one part he held and the other part went into Lu's hands.
The long-term benefits of establishing an alliance are temporarily invisible, and he cannot consider what will happen after the game is over. But the good thing now is that they can try to form a team and stick together.
In addition to Noel, there are three remaining teammates for Su Mingan. Whether it is Lu, Yamada Machichi or Luna, they are all relatively reliable existences.
After leaving the castle, Su Mingan suddenly received a communication from Noel.
"One by one, Su Ming'an, I'm going to give a speech about the new world this afternoon."
The blond boy looked at him gently across the screen.
Su Mingan noticed that there were large areas of blood stains on Noel's body.
"There is blood, what are you doing?" Su Mingan asked.
"Are you coming to listen to the speech in the afternoon?" Noel did not answer, but just took off his blood-stained white gloves.
Behind Noel was a child who stood up slowly and was connected to several mechanical tubes.
Su Mingan knew the face of that child. It was Xiaochen. After the end of the Sixth World, he once called him "Brother Lighthouse" in the kindergarten.
He's a cute boy.
But now, this child is like a newly born machine.
"Brother Lighthouse." Xiaochen also saw Su Ming'an through the screen.
There was a slight clicking sound, and Xiaochen's steps were still a little stiff.
"Xiaochen?" Su Mingan said.
"That's great." Xiaochen said with a smile, "I also want to become a powerful player like Brother Lighthouse."
He smiled brightly, like a spring flower in full bloom.
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