Chapter 002: My 2 Life (2)
Translator: NullTranslationGroup
Generating Personality Card...
High-risk warning! [Physical Sleep Inducer (Psycho Killer)] (Basic) Killing is aesthetics! Killing is justice!
Generating Personality Card...
High-risk warning! [Anti-Social Researcher] (Basic) Genius and madness are often separated by a thin line.
Generating Personality Card...
High-risk warning! [Carnival Painter] (Basic) Revel! Revel, in the flat world.
*Note: "Basic" refers to a general personality description, requiring the Player to interpret and improve the match for upgrades. This The Game has ultra-high freedom, and different interpretations by different Players will lead to different "complete personalities". Please maintain personality match, otherwise the Personality Card will detach on its own.]
[You unlocked an achievement! No Turning Back (A taste of malice, perhaps it's addictive to you) *Note: Possess 1 High-Risk Persona (Personality Fragment +1)]
[You unlocked an achievement! Three Makes Company (Seriously, are you really a pervert?) *Note: Possess 3 High-Risk Personas (Personality Fragments +2)]
Looking at the three high-risk Personality Cards, she suddenly remembered filling out a form about three days ago. At that time, she had just finished reading a manga where the protagonist was a typical wolf in sheep's clothing, possessing a combat power that became godly once the seal was released...
No way, she's a sucker for that kind of thing.
So, while filling out the form, she let herself go a bit, writing declarations like "My right hand seals an evil power," "The black wings of anger are my arms," and "I'm so tired of saving this world, it might as well perish."
But no normal person would take these words seriously, right?!
Shi Qian tried to communicate with the system.
"Is there a possibility that I'm just a simple chuunibyou?"
A slowly appearing question mark.
A screen full of flashing red question marks.
Clearly, The Game system thinks it's absolutely impossible.
Not only that, it adds insult to injury:
[Dear Player, please note, excessive modesty is arrogance. Trigger reward:
Generating Personality Card...
High-risk warning! [Arrogant Delusional] (Basic) Delusion? No, everything is real.]
—This is too absurd, because besides that, the promotional focus of this The Game seems to be on leisure farming and a second life. What kind of "leisure in a second life" is it to start by having her pressed into a bathtub by a Contaminated Entity?
Although in the post-cataclysmic era, Contaminated Entities are considered very beginner-level anomalies compared to Anomalies, this has nothing to do with "leisure."
The system suddenly popped up: [Actually...]
The Game system popped up a window:
[System's heartily recommended core gameplay:
Instance Exploration: There are many secrets in this world, aren't you curious?
Player Confrontation: You can plunder others' Personality Cards through various means (of course, NPCs can also be your targets)
Leisure Farming: Blue skies, white clouds, delicious food, everything you've lost in reality, you can have here.]
[The Game clearance conditions:
Worldview decryption (0%): Who am I? Who are you? Who is everyone?
Possess 100 or more standard Personality Cards (4%) [If the full collection is achieved, other conditions can be ignored]
Perhaps life is not just about clearing levels, please enjoy your beautiful second life here!]
The system explained: [Clearly, leisure farming is ranked third, and the second life is even ranked fourth.]
If it weren't for the fact that she got The Game for free, she would definitely go for a refund, negative review, and complaint combo.
Just as she was about to seek some compensation benefits, the system suddenly sounded an alarm.
[[Psycho Killer] Talent [Observation]: There's someone outside, male, with Abnormal Ability fluctuations, a Superpower holder, based on posture deduction, the bathroom door will be kicked open in three seconds. But Contaminated Entity disintegration will take 30 seconds.]
"What's going on?" A male voice came through.
Shi Qian instinctively wanted to say it was nothing, but she swallowed her words.
She looked around: the Contaminated Entity's corpse was rapidly decomposing, she was still sitting on it pulling on the hose, the room was splattered with black blood spots up to the ceiling, and she was covered in bloodstains. It didn't look like nothing was wrong.
Clearly, she couldn't flush the entire Contaminated Entity down the drain in three seconds.
Shi Qian decided to retrieve the weapon from the Contaminated Entity and gave up on hiding.
—If it really can't be explained, then this NPC will just have to experience a 404.
The bottleneck was easily pulled out, but who knew the shower hose wrapped around the Contaminated Entity's neck had embedded into the cervical bone, and with a tug from Shi Qian, the head separated from the body. She watched as the head, identical to her own, rolled towards the door.
With a loud noise, the bathroom door was kicked open by the boy.
Then, he saw Shi Qian's face, smeared with non-human bloodstains. After half a second of hesitation, the confidence of being a Superpower holder made him step forward, only to feel something semi-hard and soft under his foot.
Under his foot was a face exactly the same as hers.
The boy's pupils shook violently, and he let out a very frightened: "Holy shit—!"
Shi Qian thought for half a second, then showed a very sincere smile:
"I say I'm the victim, do you believe me?"
[Ding! [Psycho Killer] (Basic) Personality match +5 (70%)]