I was expelled from school at the beginning, but luckily I am the king of endurance.

Workers' Union? Millennium! : Chapter 13 What a hearty Akaashi

Burned out, Ya was really burned out, she wanted to ask who developed this magical game.

The incredibly crude and simplistic tutorial is fine, but what's with that prompt to press the "B" button, but the game ends immediately after pressing it?! After trying for a long time, the girl finally got past it by accidentally pressing the "A" button on the side of the controller.

Even after that, the game's narrator was surprised: "Oh, your anti-fraud thinking is pretty good!"

Damn, this kind of face-jumping taunting.

[Where's the planner? Where's the copywriter? Come out! I won't let you get away with anything!]

As soon as she finished the tutorial, Ya didn't want to touch this game anymore. She wanted to pick up a gun and curse the whole family of the game developer rather than the game.

I exited the game and saw, wow, it was "Sword of the Final Goddess Legend".

I'm sorry, sir, I didn't recognize you just now.

Ya cast a murderous look at Xiaolu who was shivering beside him.

No, Xiaolu is an artist. Think about the fresh pixel style in the game, it seems pretty good?

So what are game copywriting and planning?

"Xiao Tao!"

But Xiaotao was not in the club room, and Ya felt like she had hit cotton with a heavy punch, which was very uncomfortable.

Never mind, the purpose is not to play games anyway. The key is to let Alice speak like a normal person as soon as possible. So why not see how Alice progresses?

That's good. After nearly two hours of struggle, Alice finally passed the novice tutorial with the inspiration of Ya. Now the character she controlled came to the door of the novice village. Now she will meet the first monster in her life, no, in her life - slime.

Slime Bud knows that classic monsters in Japanese RPGs usually appear as small monsters that novices encounter for the first time. So, as a Japanese RPG, "Final Goddess Legend Sword" must be designed in this way, right?

The good news is that it is, the bad news is...

"Is this a slime?!"

Just as the character controlled by Alice entered the combat state and the action box popped up, the slime on the screen leaped over and knocked Alice's character to the ground.

"Isn't this what it is? Is this still a turn-based game?"

Under Ya's complaints, Alice started the second round of battle, and the result was still the same as last time. After Xiaolu's reminder, they realized that they didn't need to care about the action box at all. They could just press the buttons on the handle to make the character move, and the RPG turned into a pixel horizontal screen to pass the level.

But the problem is that even if Alice made her character move, she still couldn't beat it, because the slime could jump and fly, and its movement was very flexible. Alice restarted the game more than a dozen times but couldn't even touch the slime's hair.

"Well, the battle system and programming are in charge of our captain Yuzu..."

Unable to bear Ya's gaze, Xiaolu directly gave away their president.

"President? Where is your president? Why haven't I seen her before?"

I looked around the game development department. It was such a small place, but I didn't see anyone else.

"Uh... I, I'm here..."

A faint sound came from the corner of the office. If it weren't for Ya's good hearing, she would almost ignore it.

Turning around, I saw a blue cabinet with a label that said "The YUZI" on the outside.

That's where the sound came from.

The teacher walked forward and gently opened the cabinet door. Sure enough, there was a girl with orange hair and a big forehead like Xiaokong hiding inside, but her expression seemed very scared.

"Sorry, teacher, I'm Hanaoka Yuzu, and I'm the president of the game development department..."

It turned out to be social anxiety, and a very serious one at that.

Ya opened her mouth but said nothing. In this situation, even an apology, let alone blaming her, would make her extremely nervous. Why did Ya know this? Of course, it was because she had social anxiety when she was in Gehenna, but not as severe as Yuzu.

After the baptism of the black market and Caesar Camp, Ya has gotten rid of the social anxiety, but she still doesn't like talking to strangers.

However, to Mei's surprise, although Yuzu looked very scared, she did not continue to hide. Instead, she mustered up the courage to leave the cabinet and sit next to Alice.

"Alice? Then I'll call you Sister Alice. Well, that's how it should be..."

Yuzu took the handle from Alice, and Mei could clearly feel a change in Yuzu's aura, her previous fearful expression gone, now she had a sharp and determined look in her eyes, and she exuded the aura of someone who had been through many battles.

"This is...UZQueen!"

Xiaolu exclaimed that Yuzu's current state did have a domineering feel.

On the screen, Alice's character was flying around at a speed no less than that of a slime under Yuzu's control. The speed was so fast that Ya's eyes could hardly keep up. She could only see two blurry blocks of color constantly pulling back and forth, and Yuzu's hands operating the handles left afterimages.

"Now!" After two minutes of intense back-and-forth fighting, Yuzu's eyes narrowed and she quickly pressed a few keys. "This is the kill line."

Alice's character dodged quickly, and the slime froze in the air and was split into two halves. The game victory prompt sound rang, indicating that the player had successfully defeated the first monster after leaving the novice village.

"So impressive..." With this level of hand speed and eyesight, Mei felt that even if she practiced for another two or three years, she might not be as good as Yuzu. But now was not the time to discuss Yuzu's strength. Mei changed the subject and said, "But Yuzu-san, is it right to design a novice monster like this?"

Let Ya judge the content of "Sword of the Final Goddess Legend" so far. It is actually not that bad. Apart from the weird and useless novice guide, this work that won the worst game of the year award actually has many good points.

Excellent art, appropriate music, and an operating system that feels very good.

But as mentioned before, this work is a Japanese RPG game, so the combat system designed by Yuzu can be said to be a disaster.

"Japanese RPGs don't seem to fit in with this Souls-style combat system, do they?"

The teacher sat next to Yuzu. Compared to Ya, he had more gaming experience, so he didn't have much aversion to the novice tutorial designed by Xiaotao and the action box that popped up during battle. Instead, this peculiar design made the teacher's eyes light up.

Anyway, it's Alice and Ya who are being screwed.jpg

In the teacher's opinion, Xiaolu's solid art foundation and retro music are an excellent match, the battle system and numerical settings designed by Yuzu are also top-notch in the Souls series, and Xiaotao's imaginative thinking is also excellent, but she just needs others to be on the same wavelength with her...but when the three of them are combined, something goes wrong, and the teacher understands where the problem lies.

"I'm back!"

Workers' Union? Millennium! : Chapter 14 Putting aside the plot, this is indeed a good game

Xiaotao returned, bringing Alice's ID with her. It had been less than three hours since she left. Was Millennium so efficient? Feeling a little thirsty, Ya reached for a glass of water.

"Hehehe~ I asked Maki from the Truth Society for help. She helped me hack into the Millennium student management system. Now Alice is a bona fide Millennium student!"

"puff!"

Xiaotao's words made Ya spit out whatever was in her mouth, and it almost sprayed onto the game console.

"Hey, hey, hey! This is a valuable asset of our game development department, we can't damage it!"

Xiaotao hurriedly squatted down and wiped the game console clean with a tissue.

"No, Xiaotao, do you know what you are doing?"

"I know. It helps Alice solve her identity problem."

"No, no, no, you just said hacking into the student management system, right?"

"Yes, that's right. Anyway, this system was designed by the Truth Society. I just asked them to change the data. It won't be discovered."

Wow, there is also embezzlement. It seems that gods are not just a specialty of Gehenna, and Millennium is no exception.

"Don't worry about the details. Look at how Alice is preparing."

Alice...Alice...she's frozen!

After being killed by the slime for the 50th time, Alice's originally bright eyes dimmed, and even the halo above her head went out. The teacher was so scared that he hurriedly shook her shoulders to wake her up.

"Has stopped thinking and cannot perform computer processing...The system is restarting."

Alice's halo lit up again and her pupils regained their color. The game development department was able to reboot the ancient Kivotos robot, which was truly an amazing achievement.

Finally, on the 51st time, Alice learned Yuzu's operation and controlled the character to split the slime in half with great difficulty. Cheers broke out in the game development department.

"Hurray! Alice!"

Even the extremely socially anxious Yuzu was infected by the atmosphere and smiled.

In this situation, Ya saw that the corners of Alice's originally expressionless face also rose slightly.

"Unknown fluctuations detected in the emotional module, presumably... joy?"

Playing games does work, but I don’t know how long Alice’s hard-earned joy will last.

"A fatal error has occurred in the computing and processing system and the consciousness expression system!"

Alice has been playing in "Sword of the Final Goddess Legend" for more than five hours. Compared to the beginning, her expression has become much richer. For example, now she looks completely panicked.

Seeing Alice close her eyes again, and the halo above her head flickering a few times before completing the reboot, even Ya was a little worried: "I say, if I continue to let Alice play, will it really not ruin her?"

Ya made a small record. In the two hours after completing the Novice Village Slime, Alice restarted a total of 20 times, an average of once every six minutes. This frequency is not good no matter how you think about it, right?

"Please rest assured, Guide, this machine is in good working order and can continue to operate to defeat the Demon King."

"That's right, Alice! Continuous exploration and repeated attempts until defeating the final boss—that's the charm of retro RPGs!"

At least these kids' speech isn't as human-like as before. Could it be that Xiaotao is really an excellent copywriter?

"Wait! It looks like my sister couldn't remember the term 'herbivore man' so she wrote 'vegetative man' instead, right?

"'Ah, sorry. Talking to women is really difficult for me, a vegetative person.' Little Alice immediately rebooted after seeing this text!"

Poor Xiaolu, not only does he have to be responsible for art design and sound tuning, but now he also has to correct the mistakes in Xiaotao's copy. Not to mention Alice, even the teacher couldn't hold back when he saw this text.

"You, just tell me, is it difficult for a vegetative person to talk to others?"

Yes, it was too difficult, so difficult that the teacher wanted to take back his evaluation of Xiaotao.

“Question: Why is the mother the heroine and also the wife of the protagonist in his previous life?

"Why is it that my wife is actually a half-friend who was lost in childhood and traveled through time...

"No, the point is that the expression 'half-friend' is not recorded in the Kivotos dictionary database... Error! System error!"

Poor Alice has to restart again.

Mei and the teacher were too exhausted to complain, and even Yuzu had to go back to the closet in embarrassment. Xiao Tao's amazing writing and plot design...

"It's all in Kivotos, but I can't understand a word. But Alice's vocabulary does seem to have expanded."

Mei looked at the robot girl who was fighting with the controller. The latter felt her gaze and said, "Brave man, if you desire my approval, then I agree with you."

Well, it's gone from being a human-computer to being a middle school student. But as long as it keeps going, it should be no problem to pass Yuka's verification. At worst, I can just say that Alice is an avid RPG game fan, and because she likes RPG games so much, her speaking style is the same as in RPG games.

The game has come to the end. As the pixel hero on the screen swings the last sword at the devil, Alice, who has been fighting for six hours, finally completes the game with the help of Xiaotao and Xiaolu. There are many reversals in the subsequent plot, including but not limited to the devil being the hero's rival in love, he wants to compete with the hero for his mother, the goddess who guides the hero is actually the hero's half-sister, and she is the sister of the hero's mother, and so on. All kinds of weird things make Ya want to restart the system like Alice.

"Uh... that..."

After completing the game, Xiaotao became shy.

"Um, Alice, can you tell me what you think of our game?"

In the end, it was Xiaolu who pointed out the problem on Xiaotao's behalf. They really wanted to know the opinion of the only player on the entire network who had completed their game.

Alice closed her eyes. She needed to think about this question carefully. The Caiyu sisters stared at her intently, and even Yuzu couldn't help but open the cabinet door. Their work had received widespread criticism online, but no one had ever completed the game, so Alice's evaluation was crucial.

After a while, Alice opened her eyes again, a smile on her lips. Although this game almost made her processor freeze, but...

“This game is fun, and playing it feels like you’re adventuring in a new world.

“Alice loves this game!”

Putting aside the game plot, the world view designed by Xiaotao is indeed excellent, and the various imaginative mechanism designs are also very eye-catching. The teacher knows where the problem lies with the game development department. They are not useless, they just lack some coordination.

Workers' Syndicate? Millennium!: Chapter 15: The Kivotos are just for fun, the real Superman is Alice

Of course, the game development department has more than just "Sword of the Final Goddess Legend". In fact, as a club specializing in the development of retro RPG games, it can be said that no other place has a larger collection of retro RPG games than them in the millennium.

And these huge number of games have become the best supplement to Alice's vocabulary.

"Bang Bang Ka Bang! Alice defeated the Demon King again and saved the world for the forty-sixth time!"

It was another morning, and Ya, who was sleeping soundly on the sofa in the game development department, was awakened by Alice's voice.

Slowly opening my eyes, I saw Alice with a happy smile and the game discs and cartridges arranged beside her.

Should I say it's worthy of being a robot? It can play games intensively all night long without feeling sleepy.

She stood up and stretched. The teacher and the Caiyu sisters were still asleep, so Ya went over to see the results of Alice's training all night.

"Ah, it's Guide Mei! Are you here to check on Alice's progress? Alice has added 28 new rhetorical devices, 32 situational patterns, and 451 different words this time!"

Seeing Mei approaching, Alice put down the controller and spoke confidently.

That’s right, even the author’s rhetoric shows Alice’s changes.