I'm just an internet cafe owner

In the realistic mode, the gory battle scenes and some terrifying anomalies are sure to cause players' sanity to plummet. Therefore, this game needs to be tested.

The system needs to be based on the average player's tolerance level.

A minimum threshold is set to ensure that players who want a thrill experience can enjoy the realism without the thrill being too intense and affecting their mental state in reality.

The ratio of game time to real time is one day: one hour, meaning that for every hour that passes in real life, a day passes in the game. The first day's work was very simple: getting to know the intelligent AI Angela and the Minister of Control, Ilya.

She was a young woman with brown hair wearing a headband, holding a notebook in her hand and greeting Shirogane Miyuki.

"Hello, I'm Ilya..."

After a brief self-introduction, she guided Shirogane Miyuki on how to work. "One sin and a hundred virtues"—this was a skull floating in the air, covered in thorns. For the remaining eight hours, Shirogane Miyuki experienced seven days of gameplay within the game.

He found the game quite interesting. Each day, he would choose an isomer and hire an employee to work. He would then assign employees based on their attributes and the isomer's attributes, coordinating all employees to complete a task.

This really gave him the feeling of being a senior executive. The isomers he chose were also very cute: a bird, a group of little elves, and a bracelet floating in mid-air.

They are all those cute little things.

When carrying out their work, Shirogane Miyuki also adheres to the principle of keeping an employee in one position and not easily changing positions unless necessary.

However, on the sixth day of the job, he learned a lesson.

Employee development involves attributes; in the real-world model, these attributes are what Angela digitizes as an employee's abilities. Improving these attributes helps employees perform their work better. Understanding this concept, Shirogane Miyuki considered sending employees with different attributes to other variants to further enhance their attributes.

But when he transferred the employee working at the fairy's place to pray at the place of One Sin and One Virtue, an accident happened: the employee was eaten by the fairy who suddenly appeared.

With the help of surveillance footage, he witnessed the entire process of the employee's death. However, a cognitive filter intercepted the images, making the process appear neither bloody nor violent; it simply presented the death like a flat painting, but it preserved the sounds of the death, albeit at a slightly altered volume.

But when he saw the word "death" on the command interface, he felt a chill. The realism of the five senses in the realistic mode was so high that he had come to believe this was the real world.

And because of his own mistake... an employee named Basil died?

While he was still in a daze, the internet cafe closing notice appeared in his mind.

Only then did he hurriedly compose himself, save his game, and exit. But even after exiting, he remained in a daze.

He did play Red Alert, but his method was to endlessly reboot, constantly learning from Yuri and acquiring various skills to improve himself. However, employees at Lobotomy Corporation died due to their own actions. Furthermore, their cries for help at the moment of death, and the sudden smell of blood in the company, were constantly agitating him.

"This is a short time for closing time, customer!"

Liu Yuan's voice pulled Shirogane Miyuki back to reality. He asked nervously, "Excuse me, boss, is this game... really a game?"

"That's up to you. Whatever you think it is, that's what it is."

"Boss, what about these people's deaths..."

"Essentially it's fake, but like I said, it's all about what you want to be. It's just a game where you can unleash your true self to the fullest. You can disregard life and let all the NPCs die. Or you can cherish life and ensure that everyone survives to the end, allowing them to go home and reunite with their loved ones. Ultimately, it's about what you want to do."

"But…"

Liu Yuan patted him on the shoulder: "You know what? In a certain game, players are considered a natural disaster. You can do whatever you want. In real mode, employees who die can't be resurrected, but you can protect more employees. You are the protagonist of the game, the manager. You can think about how to play the game and how to achieve a truly happy ending."

Chapter 226 Kaguya Shinomiya's Imaginary Journey

"Did he die so suddenly?"

This thought kept lingering in his mind; he was pondering why his employee had died suddenly and whether he had overlooked something.

While he was thinking, he went home, ate, slept, and then got up to go to school.

Even after he got to school and joined the student council, he kept reminiscing about his experiences in the game.

"I must have overlooked something..."

Just as he was pondering, Kaguya Shinomiya stood beside Miyuki Shirogane, carrying a large stack of documents, calling out, "President, President!"

Kaguya Shinomiya stood nervously beside Miyuki Shirogane.

"What do we do! What do we do! What's the student council president thinking? Is he thinking of confessing his feelings?!"

Kaguya Shinomiya's mind flashed back to the image of Miyuki Shirogane confessing his feelings to her while holding her hand, and her face flushed completely. She was considering how she should accept his confession if he actually did.

Just as her mind was wandering, Shirogane Miyuki suddenly looked at her.

"Shinomiya?"

"Ah."

"I'm thinking about something, what if I..."

"No, it's not that it's impossible, it's just..."

Kaguya Shinomiya's quick answer left Miyuki Shirogane speechless. He pondered for a moment and said, "I'm thinking..."

"If I were a manager, how could I ensure that my subordinates could perform dangerous tasks without any risk of accidents occurring?"

"Hey?"

Kaguya Shinomiya was stunned; reality had far exceeded her expectations. She thought Miyuki Shirogane wanted to ask about student council work, but how did it suddenly turn into management-related questions? And specifically, risk management-related ones?

"Could it be?!"

In a split second, Kaguya Shinomiya's mind conjured up a possibility: in her mind, Miyuki Shirogane realized the gap in their status and wanted to start from the bottom of management, grow step by step, and then confess his feelings!

At that moment, Kaguya Shinomiya clenched her fist. Regardless, she supported Miyuki Shirogane's idea.

She took a deep breath and explained to Miyuki Shirogane what it meant to be a manager.

As a young lady of the Shinomiya family, she received a great deal of education on management from a young age.

"If it's a dangerous job, you first need to understand the nature of the danger..."

Kaguya Shinomiya used examples from her own knowledge and common dangerous jobs in the market, even touching on foreign mercenary systems. She explained in great detail how to establish your own network of informants and how to gain power.

Finally, Kaguya Shinomiya took a sip of water and asked, "Is there anything else you don't understand?"

"The rest is unclear; it may only be needed in practice..."

While Shirogane Miyuki was still considering what to do next in the game, Shinomiya Kaguya's advice was very useful: first assess the risks, and then send people to carry them out after thoroughly investigating the risks.

During execution, prioritize safe and reliable solutions, trade time for safety, and complete the task while ensuring the safety of everyone to the greatest extent possible.

"By the way, President, what kind of work do you do?"

"Me? A temporary manager at a company? And a student of Professor Yuri."

He didn't dare admit that he went to the internet cafe to play games, but then he thought that although the things in the mind space internet cafe were called games, playing them was just like playing real life, especially Yuri and Angela, who were practically life mentors and more reliable than many people in real life.

"What?!"

Kaguya, who had been watching Shirogane Miyuki closely, suddenly realized something was off. That look wasn't directed at her; it seemed more like he was thinking about a certain girl? Or a very pretty girl at that?

The expression on her face froze.

No! We can't do that; we have to start a conversation.

Whether it's true or not, she needs to start a conversation. But what to say? Student council matters? The student council hasn't had much going on lately, just studying?

She had already imagined that if they were to discuss academic matters, their conversations might be...

I'll definitely win next time!

I'm sure I'll win!

She shook her head vigorously, shaking the thoughts out of her mind.

But looking at Shirogane Miyuki's expression, she still blurted out, as if possessed: "Guild Master, if you met a rich but powerless heiress, how would you help her?"

"Help her? What exactly is the situation?"

"Well, her family is very wealthy, and she has several older brothers who are fighting over the inheritance but are wary of her. That's roughly the situation. So, how can this girl be freed?"

"Huh? Why would you ask that?"

Kaguya Shinomiya said nonchalantly, "I have a friend who's in a really difficult situation. I don't have any good ideas, so I'd like to see if any bystanders have any suggestions."

Upon hearing this question, Shirogane Miyuki's mind switched from subjective to heretical; at this moment, he had become Yuri's most prized student.

"Freedom? You have to fight for it. You can feign weakness and then leverage your family's influence to gain the support of all businesses. Influence large corporations through small businesses, and then win over a group of local forces. Even a powerful dragon can't suppress a local snake; once you've won over the local forces, you can infiltrate them in turn. Women usually ignore you subconsciously; take advantage of their indifference to develop your power, and finally completely swallow them up. You have to be ruthless; if possible, it's best to eliminate them all..."

"And there's another way. Japan's large conglomerates are ultimately a bit stingy; in my opinion, only SPW..."

This is a method Yuri gave me when playing Red Alert. It's not complicated, but it's not simple either. It's easier to make people submit than to directly invade with a large army, but it's still something that heretics can achieve.

It's also thanks to the fact that Yuri is not the same person in each game, otherwise he would have doubted whether there was something wrong with his training method. Why are the heretics either devoid of human thought, thinking about how to destroy the world, or falling in love?

Upon hearing Miyuki Shirogane's words, Kaguya Shinomiya fell silent.

"What's wrong with the Fourth House? Isn't it a bit too easy? Indeed, I haven't encountered anything more complex yet. I'll learn more about it tomorrow. Hey, what's wrong? Is it... that my thinking is a bit unreliable?"

After all, it was an idea that came about after Yuri gave instructions in the game, so it's possible that it's unreliable.

In his view, Kaguya Shinomiya's expression was somewhat gloomy. But in reality, Kaguya Shinomiya was inwardly crying with excitement. It wasn't that it was impossible; it was far too possible. She had considered some of the ideas before, but because she had absolutely no interest in power, these ideas remained just that—ideas.

What surprised her even more was that Miyuki Shirogane's ambitions were so great that even Japanese conglomerates couldn't satisfy him, and he even set his sights on SPW, a long-established American conglomerate.

Perhaps beauty is in the eye of the beholder; Kaguya Shinomiya's feelings for Gosho Shirogane...

She was quite impressed by Shirogane Miyuki's ambition. She felt as if she no longer recognized him, and at that moment, a sense of crisis arose within her.

On the other hand, Miyuki Shirogane hadn't realized that Kaguya Shinomiya's "I have a friend" was referring to herself. He was still foolishly thinking about how to help Kaguya's friend so he could practice his skills.

Chapter 227 White Night?

Miyuki Shirogane had a rosy picture in mind: as a supervisor, he would complete daily tasks to ensure the survival of his employees. With the help of Angela and the heads of various departments, he felt that this matter seemed very simple.

But when he actually started playing, he suddenly realized that the game was a bit cruel.

While the Punishing Bird and the Pokémon could still be described as cute, what Shirogane Miyuki saw next made him feel that something was amiss.

T-09-85, we can change everything.

On the surface, it looks like a humanoid machine, and the description says it can solve all sorts of problems. A naughty, constantly crying child? Disliked your figure? Tired of life and short of money? These can all be solved.

At first, Shirogane Miyuki was wondering how to solve the problem, but when he saw the truth, his heart was racing.

After the employees entered the machine, it started running, and cries and screams could be heard from inside. The screams gradually subsided, and finally the device opened, revealing spikes from the blood-sucking apparatus, clearly proving what these things were.

Another employee has died, this time under his orders, entering this killing machine.

"Manager, our company possesses Singularity Technology. If you wish to alter history, you can use this technology to relive this day. Furthermore, those who died on this day can be resurrected through this technology."

"really?"

"Yes, I won't lie to my supervisor."

With Angela's help, Miyuki Shirogane chooses to start over. Unlike the original game, in the original game, all information about the Abnormalities is lost when restarting, and everything needs to be done from scratch.