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

Indeed, Haruka herself, as a game character, does not have hunger or thirst levels. As an MMORPG, Dream City certainly wouldn't give players such an unnecessary system.

However, Haruka is no longer just a game character, but a 'person' with her own consciousness, so it's normal for her to feel unbearable hunger if she doesn't eat for a long time.

Unlike in reality... Haruka's body can be considered an immortal body, so no matter how hungry she is, Haruka will not starve to death.

"So that's why you're skipping dinner?"

Yukishima glanced at Haruka and Tsubaki. They must be very hungry right now, otherwise they wouldn't be frequently covering their stomachs with their hands.

"Because food is precious to us, a meal every morning is enough to energize us for work."

Xiaochun had nothing to hide and frankly told Xuedao about their current impoverished and distressed living conditions.

Only one meal a day? And only this one meal is eaten to keep me focused at work? Even if I don't starve to death, what kind of human suffering is this?!

Xuedao couldn't take it anymore after hearing this... She wouldn't be worthy of being human if she could keep tolerating it!

So Xuedao directly opened her sister's account backpack, opened the 'Consumables' category, and took out a whole bunch of the highest quality food items and put them on the table.

Dishes like "Seven-Star Eight-Treasure Rice", "Dragon's Breath Roasted Meat", "Leaping Yellow Croaker", "Premium Cream Pudding", and so on, a whole bunch of high-quality food that shone with a golden light when taken out, were all laid out on the table.

Then Yukishima spread out her hands and spoke to Haruka and Tsubaki, those two poor little ones, in a saintly, magnanimous tone.

"Eat up! Eat as much as you want! There's plenty of food in my backpack, and I can go buy more if it's not enough!"

This huge pile of consumables was dispensable to Xiaomian, but for these two poor little ones, it was an exquisite delicacy they had never tasted in their lives.

But... is that really the case?

"Why are you all standing there? Don't worry, I'm still your master's friend, I wouldn't lie to you about this! Besides, all this food is for my own use... so eat as much as you want."

On the snow island, she smugly urged her youngest daughter, Haruka, and Tsubaki to quickly pick up their chopsticks and spoons and begin to feast.

And Xuedao was also looking forward to seeing the happy smiles on their faces as they filled their stomachs.

Unfortunately... this was all just wishful thinking on Xuedao's part.

"Um... Yukishima-nee, we can't eat all this food," Haruka said softly.

"Let me be blunt: Miss Yukishima's food isn't food at all. It's more like a 'boost' with food modeling."

Xiaochun picked up a spoon, scooped out a small spoonful of pudding, and put it in her mouth. Finally, she used her index finger to pull open one side of her lips so that Xuedao could see how the 'food' evaporated and disappeared in her mouth before saying...

"These things have absolutely no taste, and you can't eat them. They'll just turn into some kind of buff and disappear."

"Eh?"

Snow Island was stunned into place once again.

But if she really thought about it carefully... the food in the game is more like a buff item than actual food.

Since players can't taste the food anyway, they only eat it for a health or buff.

"So what do you usually eat?" Xuedao asked quickly after realizing what was going on.

Xiao Chun sighed helplessly and took out a can of food that she had been keeping in her cupboard.

“We usually eat this; we can’t afford better food.”

Snow Island glanced at the unpackaged can and used her detection skill, only to find that the item displayed a bunch of random numbers.

It looks like this canned food is an item that was never officially released in the game.

"What if I send you money?" Snow Island asked, pulling a large pile of gold coins from her backpack. "Can you use this money to buy these canned goods directly?"

"...Our currency is not interchangeable with the players' currency," Haruka said with a hint of helplessness.

The currency isn't universally accepted? Then…

"Where's the equipment?" Xuedao took out some of her sister's discarded equipment from her backpack and asked, "Can you sell these treasures for some money?"

"This seems to be a dangerous and illegal act. Big sister, I advise you not to try it." Xiaochun shook her head, indicating that she was unwilling to get involved in this mess with Xuedao, this strange big sister.

"Illegal behavior? What law is violated? Whose law is it violated?"

Snow Island just couldn't understand what law she had violated by voluntarily transferring her equipment to her friend's account.

"This...we don't know either." Haruka seemed a little scared by Yukishima's suddenly excited tone.

Kotsubaki, speechless, shielded Haruka behind her and then spoke to Yukishima.

"Big sister, why don't you ask your personal customer service representative? They definitely know a lot more than we do, right?"

"My personal customer service?"

After pondering for a short while, Xuedao quickly thought of a cute little guy.

"Pico, are you there?"

Snow Island used voice commands to summon the mysterious little sprite that all Dream City players would encounter during the beginner phase.

"Of course I am here. What do you need me for, Master?"

At the call of the snow island, a creature that was pure white and looked like both a cat and a squirrel appeared before the snow island.

This mysterious little sprite initially served as a tutorial for new players and also helped resolve various system issues.

"I want to know how to make money for them? No... how to make them live a happy life?"

Yukishima pointed directly at Haruka and Tsubaki and asked.

"Master, who are you referring to...?"

But this newbie Pokémon, Pikachu, seemed completely oblivious to Haruka and Tsubaki, tilting its little head in confusion as it looked at Yukishima and asked.

"Them! Wait a minute... can't you see them?"

Yukishima reacted quickly; I remember her first words to Haruka were, "Can you see me?"

However, the way this newbie sprite acted seemed more like it was deliberately pretending not to see Haruka and Tsubaki, after all, they were the part of the Dream City system that needed to be hidden.

However, this did not stump Snow Island. She pulled out the dagger given to her by Shanor and touched the novice elf directly.

Under the influence of this disruptive dagger, Pico's originally pale blue eyes were suddenly dyed a scarlet color.

This newbie Pokémon seems to have become much more lively after its 'Disorder' transformation.

"Master, you want to ask how to make these two reborn beings live a happy life, right?"

The fluffy little elf, Pico, floated in the air and happily twirled around before asking...

"Rebirths? Never mind that strange name, yes! I want them to live a happy life free from worries about food and clothing!"

When Snow Island made this wish and request, the little sprite Pi Ke landed on the table in front of Snow Island.

"It's actually a very simple thing."

"It's a simple matter? But how exactly do you do it?" Xuedao immediately pressed for details.

When asked by Snow Island, the little sprite Pico sat upright on the table, squinted its eyes, smiled, and then tilted its little head slightly to speak.

"If they want to fulfill this wish, all they need to do is sign a contract with me and become magical girls!"

Chapter 77 The Inevitable Fate of Magical Girls

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Huh? What the heck... You want them to sign contracts with you and become magical girls?

"What kind of logic is this? I know about magical girls, and the new class in version 6.0 includes a bunch of magical girl-themed support characters, but what's the point of making them magical girls?"

Snow Island instantly dumped a whole host of questions on the face of this novice sprite.

"Master, please calm down and let me explain one by one."

The little sprite Pikachu floated gently onto Haruka's head and said...

"First of all, these two reincarnated beings... they were souls born unexpectedly by the Dream City System, but the Dream City System still chose to accept them and provided them with food to alleviate the hunger stemming from their 'soul instincts,' it's this..."

Pico pointed to the can that Xiaochun was holding and said.

“Master, isn’t this the first step to making them happy? First, make sure they have enough to eat every day, and then consider whether they can eat well… But you have to pay for this canned food! And how much food they are given each day depends on how much ‘value’ they can create for the player.”

Pico told Yukishima something very important: the existence of 'reborn beings' like Haruka and Tsubaki.

They are on a rationing system in the Dream City, meaning that the amount of food they receive each day depends entirely on how much 'value' they create for the players throughout the day.

"I'd rather know how to make 'food' that they can eat. If I have cooking skills, and if I go out to hunt creatures like wild boars, can I make food that they can eat?" Yukishima asked.

Clothing, food, housing, transportation... Now, given Snow Island's status in the dream city, she can satisfy her youngest daughter and Xiaochun to the greatest extent possible in terms of clothing, housing, and transportation.

The only problem is 'food'. The fact that a large number of food items in the game are just 'buff potions' with food models is a real headache for Snow Island.

"No."

To prove this, Pico pointed to a crow perched outside the cabin and said.

"Master, you should be able to attack that crow now, right? Why don't you try attacking it?"

"..."

With a simple attack command, a spike emerged from the shadow beneath the crow, piercing it through and tossing the crow's carcass into Snow Island's hands.

In the instant of its death, the crow left not even a feather behind, becoming an ordinary ingredient called 'poultry meat'.

"This... is also a craft item that can only be looked at and not eaten."

Xiaochun walked over to Xuedao's hand, sniffed the palm-sized piece of poultry meat, and then said directly.

"Master, this is the true nature of this world."

This little elf Pikachu is also very straightforward.

"For you players, this is an amusement park full of amazing adventures, but for these reborn beings... this is a fake world fabricated by data, or perhaps an apocalyptic world?"

"What about the food in that can?"

Snow Island, perhaps suffering from PTSD again in Xia Nuoer Village, pointed tremblingly at the can of food in Xiao Chun's hand and asked.

"You don't mean to say that it contains the flesh and blood of other reborn beings, do you?"

Because it's really easy to make this connection. If all the food in this world were fictional data codes, then the canned food that could feed Haruka and Tsubaki could, in a sense, be considered 'flesh and blood'.

For the Reborn Ones, the only things that seem to have 'flesh and blood' are the other 'Reborn Ones'.

The terrifying conclusion from the snow island successfully frightened Tsubaki, causing her to repeatedly utter phrases like "What...what are you saying?!" and her hand holding the can began to sway unsteadily.