Continued Chapter Five Hundred and Ninety-Five Welcome Back Holy Spirit
(PS: The first two chapters are free. This sequel is a story that has been echoing in my mind for a long time. It is a plot a little before the ending of Chuangyou. It can be regarded as a 'better ending'. The content of the sequel is based on '
The main theme is the blend of reality and games. To put it simply, the theme of this sequel is that games affect reality, and the feeling of playing the Holy Spirit in reality. In short, I will post two chapters first. If you still want to read it, you should expand this new chapter.
Finished?)
The current timeline is a story that happened in the period before the full-scale war between the Holy Spirits and the Legion of Annihilation in the Sanctuary of Creation.
But now we need to withdraw our attention from the world of the Holy Spirit and focus on a small island country next door.
Located in Ichihara City, the island nation, this city is only across the sea from Tokyo, the island nation.
But this has nothing to do with Chiyo Aragaki, a country girl living here.
It's going to rain again today.
Aragaki Chiyo looked up at the sky, which was so gloomy that it seemed like it was about to drip with water.
The weather in Ichihara City has been very bad these days, just like Aragaki Chiyo's life, it is so gloomy that there is no sunshine all year round.
She is now a freshman in Ichihara City Public High School... The difference from other young and beautiful female high school students is that Chiyo Aragaki is not very popular in school.
"..."
Chiyo Aragaki opened her shoe box and found that her outdoor shoes were missing again. Someone must have hidden them as a prank.
But she didn't look for it because it was going to rain soon due to the gloomy weather.
She didn't bring an umbrella...and if her thin body got caught in the rain, she would most likely catch a cold.
Maybe a cold would not be considered a serious illness in ordinary people's homes, but Chiyo knew that in her home, if she caught a cold, it would most likely develop into a more serious illness.
So she chose to go home barefoot. She was already used to it anyway, so she just had to pay more attention to whether there were any glass fragments on the way.
Unfortunately, it seemed that God didn't want her to go home honestly. When Chiyo Aragaki was walking home...she was blocked.
Every school has one or two scumbags who will ask for money from other students' wallets as a matter of course.
Originally, a girl like Aragaki Chiyo, who could only live on a piece of bread for lunch every day, would hardly be included in their blackmail scope.
But I don’t know where these scumbags came from. The school just gave her a poverty subsidy today.
"Hello!"
When the leader shouted the word "hello", Chiyo Aragaki turned around and ran away without thinking!
Because this money is related to whether she can have a piece of bread for lunch in the future! And these scum will only take this money to KTV or game hall and squander it.
Chiyo Aragaki may not be able to match them in her ability to escape, but she can hide... She took advantage of the corner of the road and hid in a garbage dump filled with black garbage bags.
She held her breath and hoped that those idiots would not guess that she was hiding here... Fortunately, she did overestimate those idiots, or they would not search in this pile of garbage at all.
Chiyo Aragaki escaped in this way, but when she walked out of the garbage he found that the soles of her feet hurt.
The sole of her foot was still pricked by a piece of glass, but fortunately the wound was not deep... Her home is not far from here.
Aragaki Chiyo just tiptoed and managed to return to her home, a low-rent apartment.
When she stepped into the door, she soon smelled an unbearable smell of alcohol and smoke in the old and narrow house.
The small living room was indeed filled with all kinds of bottles and cans and cigarette butts... proving that someone had had an unbridled carnival in the living room.
No need to think carefully, Aragaki Chiyo knew that her adoptive mother had brought back a bunch of rubbish to ruin this low-rent house, which was not big in the first place.
She still needs to clean up the remaining garbage herself, otherwise she will be beaten again when her adoptive mother comes back.
This forced Aragaki Chiyo to endure the severe pain in her feet and began to clean up the garbage in the living room.
She was born in a normal family and had a lovely younger sister.
But because of a car accident, her parents and sister were turned into three motionless pieces of meat in the morgue.
On that day, Chiyo Aragaki, who was only in junior high school, realized the cruelty of this game called ‘reality’.
The character with the highest favorability towards her will suddenly die for some reason, but she cannot save or load files, cannot be resurrected, and does not even have the power to decide her own life.
Because after that, she was sent to an orphanage and then adopted by her current foster mother.
The reason for adopting her is of course not out of good intentions, but because of social regulations that parents who raise an orphan can receive a certain amount of relief every month.
After the foster care comes back by the way, there will be one more servant in the family, which is a hugely profitable business.
But even so, her adoptive mother would still borrow loan sharks from the Yakuza. Several times when Chiyo Aragaki returned home, her home was completely destroyed by those in the Yakuza.
Sometimes she really thought that if her adoptive mother had been kidnapped by the Yakuza and sunk into Tokyo Bay, then she would be relaxed.
It's a pity that this situation is impossible. If she is kidnapped, she will be kidnapped first. Her bastard adoptive mother will definitely use her as a scapegoat.
Chiyo Aragaki was a little slow in cleaning up the garbage at home because of the injury to her sole today, and she didn't have time to clean it up before her adoptive mother came back.
So when the door of the house opened again, and the children of other families should have happily welcomed their parents back, it turned out to be bad news that Aragaki Chiyo did not want to hear in her heart.
"Why haven't you packed it up yet? My friend will be arriving soon!"
The adoptive mother had an extremely bad temper. When she saw that the house was still in chaos, she greeted Chiyo Aragaki with fists unceremoniously.
She packed up the garbage in the living room with a beating, and then threw it into the storage room... This small, dark, damp, and only two square meters storage room is her current room.
Aragaki Chiyo curled up her body in the storage room... She seemed to be cursing this rubbish game of 'reality' in her mind as usual.
But today she encountered something in the storage room, which was a kitchen knife that was thrown here.
Aragaki Chiyo picked up the kitchen knife, and her face full of bruises and tears was reflected on the smooth blade.
At this moment, Chiyo Aragaki suddenly had an uncontrollable thought, that is, maybe the garbage game "Reality" cannot be saved and loaded, the dead cannot be resurrected, and even her next step cannot be decided by herself.
But there is one thing she can decide by her own will, and that is to 'quit this game!'
That's right! After Chiyo Aragaki figured this out, she made up her mind to quit the garbage game Earth Online!
So Aragaki Chiyo locked the door of the storage room to prevent her adoptive mother from disturbing her, and then...she put down the kitchen knife and picked up a helmet that emitted a light blue light.
Of course she didn't want to commit suicide. Although her current life was enough to give her countless reasons to commit suicide, she still had another reason to live in this cruel real world.
That is...she can still rely on her body in the real world to travel to another world.
"Holy Spirit"
This is the game trial qualification that Chiyo Aragaki got inexplicably a year ago. She thought it was a scam at the time, but when the game helmets were delivered to her doorstep, she was taken to that wonderful world.
The world in the Holy Spirit has become the only reason for Aragaki Chiyo to live, and meeting someone in the Holy Spirit world is the only motivation for her to endure in daily life.
Escape! Even if it's just temporary...Escape from this cruel real world.
Aragaki Chiyo put on her helmet and logged into her account... "Yoshita Chow, Level: 70, Occupation: Bard, Guild: None"
When Aragaki Chiyo opened her eyes again, the smell of wine and cigarette smoke that filled the tip of her nose disappeared, replaced by the faint fragrance of flowers.
The dark, damp and small feeling in the storage room has not completely disappeared, only the dark and damp atmosphere has been replaced by the warm and peaceful atmosphere of the sun shining into the house through the cracks in the trees.
The feeling of smallness is still there, but it is the warm feeling of being squeezed together by freshly dried quilts.
She is currently in a small tree house... which is the stronghold of Brand Island.
And when Chiyo Aragaki opened her eyes...a soft voice gently welcomed her back.
"Welcome back Holy Spirit."
This is a greeting that she has not heard in reality for three or four years, and the person speaking is the only relative she has left in this world.
Introduce the doll Freya.
"Well...I'm back!"
Aragaki Chiyo immediately threw herself into Fulia's arms and rubbed her twice briefly, then looked up at her flawless face and asked.
"I haven't seen you for a day. Did you miss me?"
"There's a lot of tiredness on my face. It's because of the Holy Spirit's hard work today."
Freya caressed Aragaki Chiyo's forehead like a mother or a sister, and then pointed to the round table made of wooden stakes next to her.
"I have prepared dinner for you today. How about we eat together and then start today's adventure?"
"Um…"
Chiyo Aragaki looked at the exquisite dishes on the wooden table and realized that maybe only she in the game could eat them...and the people who ate with her.
She picked up the chopsticks and looked at Fulia sitting opposite her. Her heart was filled with that warm feeling again, which made Chiyo Aragaki take a mouthful of steamed meat and put it in her mouth to chew.
It's a pity that this piece of meat doesn't have any flavor. After all, it's just the data in the game. It's all false. At best, it can only simulate the taste.
Of course, it will not bring any feeling of fullness to Chiyo Aragaki. He will only become hungrier and hungrier as he eats, and his saliva will flow more and more... This feeling is like a person using sea water to quench his thirst.
"Sorry Holy Spirit, I can only find tasteless low-grade ingredients like this. If it will affect your body in reality or..."
When Freya saw the pained expression shown by Chiyo Aragaki at that moment, she still wanted to persuade her to directly use the "eat" command to get the buffing effect of the meal, instead of eating it herself.
"It doesn't matter, I'm full in the real world anyway, so I'm eating with you Fulia today."
Chiyo Aragaki ignored the hunger that kept growling in her belly and comforted her that Fulia was fine.
After a warm but torturous dinner, Chiyo Aragaki began to check out the dungeons that could be played in the near future.
She is a lone player, and her experience of being tortured by reality for so many years has made it difficult for her to have any interactions with real people.
Even players who are also Holy Spirits are the same, so the big version of Holy Spirits is like "Battle of Godhead", "Bland Island", "Conquest of Kuroshio Island", "Sanctuary of Creation" and other all-server collections.
She didn't even participate in the group fight chapters.
The most common thing is to set up a stronghold on Brand Island and take Freya out to live there.
But today Chiyo Aragaki wants to find a truly ‘flavorful ingredient’ for her Fulia!
This was originally a legendary existence in the Holy Spirit, but now the Holy Spirit has specially launched a related group book, and the reward is "flavorful ingredients".
"Creation Sanctuary Food Store Looting Mission"
The minimum requirement for this task is teamwork of two people.
"...let's try it."
It’s not like Chiyo Aragaki has never formed a team before, but every time she formed a team, she acted as a transparent person in the team, and she just played the game honestly without saying anything.
Today, she pressed the "match" button as usual, and soon...she was matched with her teammates in this group session.
"There will be no update today. Level: 85. Occupation: Holy Spirit Summoner. Guild: Nameless One."
