Sakura Emma, ​​I'm going to control you fiercely!

As night fell, Emma Sakura leaped from the tops of buildings.

'Wow...! This feels so good!!!'

Emma recalled the scene from earlier.

Emma really liked the unintentional flamboyance that the deity had just displayed!

'Next time... I'll do it this way next time too!'

Emma's little vanity was satisfied like never before after the deity asked her for directions.

She imagined how she would ask for directions if it were her.

"Excuse me, could you please tell me how to get to Sunshine City?"

Emma: '...'

I always felt that it completely lacked the decisive and efficient feel of when a deity was in control.

Emma could practically picture herself being hit on after asking the question...

At this moment, Yang Wen naturally couldn't perceive Emma's slight satisfaction.

On the contrary, he was more agitated than ever before.

"...This crappy game."

He held down the [Shift] and [W] keys tightly, controlling Emma as she frantically parkoured on the rooftops of buildings in Ikebukuro. Occasionally, he would skillfully execute a few quick time events, as if playing a web-free version of Spider-Man.

Yang Wen suppressed the urge to curse and looked at the small map in the upper left corner, which had no mission guidance.

The main quest prompt only provides a large yellow circle indicating "Go to Sunshine City," without even giving specific coordinates!

The key issue is that this open-world map is ridiculously huge, and you have to explore it step by step on your own!

Today, Yang Wen played games for three hours, with two and a half hours spent exploring the map!

Is this how you're going to waste players' game time?

drop--

At that moment, a notification tone came through the headphones, and a pop-up window appeared:

[Arrived at the designated mission location: Top floor of the Sunshine City Cultural Center building.]

Yang Wen had just breathed a sigh of relief when he discovered that there was a second page in the pop-up window:

[Countdown to start of the eclipse mission: 60 minutes.]

Yang Wen: "..."

This game is absolutely insane.

Not only did they create a 1:1 scale map of Tokyo, but they also made the time flow in sync with reality for a truly hardcore wait!

In other words, he was genuinely held captive here for an hour.

Because it's a new storyline, you can't fast forward yet.

Emma decided to let Beibei out to relieve her boredom, while taking out her phone to check the group messages.

[Magical Girl Cobalt Blue: The mission starts around 11:00 AM. Everyone, please meet on the rooftop of the Cultural Center in Ikebukuro.]

Then came Shirley's private message:

[Sherry: Emma-san, Emma-san~ When we meet later, I'll give you a big surprise, okay?]

[Sakura Emma: Oh.]

Yang Wen turned off his phone. He planned to use the time before the mission started to significantly enhance Emma's abilities.

Yang Wen opened the character panel and quickly found the option for [Black Filth].

[Black Filth: 767]

Yang Wen exclaimed, "Huh?"

"Why is there more black filth than last time?"

He remembered that after leveling up with Hannah, he only had a little over 600 points. How did he suddenly gain more than 100 points?

Upon hearing this, Emma became somewhat nervous.

After the god returned her body last time, she spent some time leveling up with her senior on her own.

I wonder what the gods would think about this...

Would people say she "didn't do anything necessary"?

"Could it be that Emma did it herself?" Yang Wen's words sent a chill down Emma's spine.

Yang Wen was shocked: Could the AI ​​be leveled up during the takeover period?

That's great!

"well done!"

In the future, perhaps a method for leveling up can be developed based on this.

Hehe~ Thank you!

Emma was encouraged and became even more motivated!

What's reflected on Yang Wen's panel is an attack buff called "Full of Energy".

Yang Wen upgraded all the black filth.

Wow!

In an instant, a dazzling pink light shone on Emma!

[Lv24→Lv27]

[Remaining Black Filth: 17]

Emma felt her entire body being cleansed, and the concentration of magic power was rising accordingly...!

And my body seems to feel much lighter!

Did the gods help her become stronger again?

While silently expressing her gratitude, Emma roughly assessed the intensity of her current situation.

If she were to experience the siege of those twenty-odd servants during the "Second Music Hall Incident" again, her "stronger self" would be able to easily defeat the enemy even without relying on the power of the gods!

Yang Wen, on the other hand, focused his attention on the [pink filth].

[Pink Filth: 108]

That's enough to upgrade a skill once.

Yang Wen first looked at the defeat cutscene of Hero, which was also Emma's current ultimate move:

[The Princess's Defeat Lv0: 300 Pink Filth Required to Reach the Next Level]

Too expensive... No wonder it's a killer move.

Even if you were to make his pink cow Noah sauce, you couldn't make that much in one night.

Ignore it, ignore it, we'll talk about it later.

He then turned to look at the CG of "surrounded by stars".

The ability Emma gains from the "Surrounded by Stars" equipment is "Execution Mode".

Compared to the "Mercy Mode" of Sorrow, the Execution Mode is just pure fun!

This perfectly matches Emma's current Eclipse mission.

Therefore, the upgrade must be to the [Execution Mode]!

Yang Wen didn't hesitate and injected it in forcefully—

[Execution Mode Lv0→Lv1]

[Skill acquired: Intuition]

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Compared to when the [Execution Mode] was first acquired, it gained three new skills. However, the upgraded Lv1 version of Execution Mode only has one skill.

[Intuition: Your combat instincts have been greatly enhanced, even allowing you to predict the very short future.]

Upon seeing this line of text, Yang Wen immediately thought of the Golden Lion King's skill from a certain Fate series.

Based on the skill description, it seems to be similar to the Golden Lion King's Intuition.

But Yang Wen couldn't quite figure out what the [Intuition] was used for in the game.

The vague term "combat intuition" is completely useless to gamers.

After all, "intuition" doesn't add numerical values ​​or damage, so it's something that player Yang Wen can't directly perceive.

Or... does this game have some ability to make "intuition" visible?

Yang Wen couldn't figure it out, so he simply put the skill aside for now.

Compared to Lv0, which is entirely damage-based, Execution Mode Lv1 is actually more utility-oriented.

I don't know why [Intuition] has the power to monopolize a whole level of [Execution Mode] with just one skill.

Emma gazed at the night view of Ikebukuro, quietly waiting for the mission to begin.

Emma: 'So boring... I wish I could chat with someone.'

Why don't you move around a bit?

My eyes are getting sore from staring at one spot for so long.

Evil gods...

Yang Wen, on the other hand, began to revisit "DATE ​​A LIVE".

Kotori Yoshino is cute, and Yoshina (that hand puppet) is cute too.

The others were all mature women.

Neither Yang Wen nor Emma noticed a pair of eyes watching her from afar.

Then, those eyes narrowed into a cunning smile.

……

……

With the help of magic, Tachibana Sherry danced in the night sky and above the city.

She squinted her slightly dark-circled eyes and looked at the silhouette of Sakura Emma atop the cultural center building in the distance.

She had been feeling restless and anxious since last night.

Shirley naturally wanted to find the reason for her anxiety. But no matter how she searched her memories, she found nothing.

This anxiety seemed to have appeared suddenly. Or perhaps...

Did I have a dream that I've already forgotten?

In short, Shirley felt a slight heaviness in her heart no matter what.

The emotional fluctuations were particularly intense when I thought of the character [Sakura Emma].

When Sherry saw Emma Sakura's back, this strange and wonderful feeling reached its peak.

Shirley was surprised: she, who was usually devoid of negative emotions, actually felt a little "annoyed".

She was curious about what Sakura Emma had done.

She's such a cute junior, and she even helped me out...

But when Sherry investigated further, she discovered that this negative emotion did not seem to be directed at Emma Sakura.

At least not just on the surface as Emma Sakura.

Rather, it's something deeper, something more fundamental...

"Ju, what's wrong?"

Just as Shirley was getting to the bottom of things, a voice suddenly came from the side.