[Comprehensive] For the sake of all mankind, I have to...

"What's the matter Qi Mu-kun? I'm sorry I don't have anything to eat here, anyway, let's have a cup of barley tea first."

【This barley tea was brought over by Hinata-kun. It’s been a long time since I’ve been here. I don’t have anything at home. It’s great that I went to a nearby convenience store to buy some snacks. 】

Saiki Kusuo served the barley tea, and calmly scanned the living room of Hoshino's house. There were few furniture but many green plants, but traces of someone's life could still be seen.It's just strange that these plants can grow extremely vigorously without taking care of them. According to telepathy, Hoshino Saki just sprinkled some water on the dying green plants yesterday.

[Actually, Hoshino Saki is also a psychic, right? ]

Saiki Kusuo was drinking barley tea and thinking about the problem, while Hoshino Saki went to the refrigerator to take out the cherry cake that he had bought separately before.

"Saki is so slow!" Chiaki Nanami shook the gamepad in her hand with a puffy face, "If you don't come, Hinata-kun and I will almost fall asleep."

"Little Qianqiu's going to get some snacks, I'll be here soon~"

Hoshino Saki put the snacks out of the refrigerator on a plate, and the primrose cakes were arranged in a staggered manner, looking very appetizing.

"Sai Mu-kun, do you usually like to play games?"

"Fortunately, I don't play much. 』

"Well, it's okay, just to show that you don't hate it? That's really great~" Hoshino Saki put the plate of snacks in her hand on the coffee table not far from the screen, and went under the TV cabinet to take out four medium-sized ones. Something like a helmet.

[Before, I sold some information about Sonia's frequent visits to dessert shops to Zuo Tian, ​​​​and asked him to make a game helmet. It is still in the research and development stage, and it probably cannot achieve the expected effect. 】

"Recently, I have been addicted to novels, so I tried to entrust someone to make it, but it is still in the testing stage, and some functions are not yet complete."

Originally, Saki Hoshino asked the "super high school-level neuroscientist" Matsuda Yasuke to help join the research design, but the other party refused without thinking.

At that time, the other party was lying lazily on the table in the laboratory reading manga, no matter how Hoshino Saki asked him beside him, the other party was completely indifferent.

'No, it's too much trouble.If you have nothing else to do, please leave.Senior, I can't even concentrate on reading comics while you're standing here. '

'Ah, by the way, senior, please tell Dunzi something, I know I was wrong, but I will not apologize to her, above. '

【What an unlovable junior...】

Thinking of this, Hoshino Saki smiled helplessly. It was thanks to Enoshima Junko's recommendation that she met Matsuda Yasuke.That super-famous Enoshima turned out to be a game nerd in private, or a fan of the games she made... Although Enoshima Junko said it himself, Hoshino always felt that something was weird, looking at Hoshino Saki didn't say anything about the eager and respectful eyes of the other party, but exchanged emails and made a nod acquaintance with her.

"Because it's a new device that hasn't been tested yet, let's play a game of life that can be cleared within two hours~"

Hoshino Saki briefly explained the basic operation of the game helmet to the three, then connected the devices to each other, and introduced the operation process again.

Because it is a game of life, there is a lot of randomness in it, so Saiki Kusuo silently put on the germanium ring that he kept in his coat pocket before the game.

The moment he put on the helmet and started the game, Saiki Kusuo was only briefly blinded by the strong light. When he opened his eyes next, he saw a strange ceiling in front of him, and he was in an ordinary crib. .

"..."

For Saiki Kusuo, who has been sucked into games by superpowers many times, even holographic games are not novel, and the only thing he is interested in is the experience of new game content.

Saiki Kusuo simply flipped his body. The baby's body was soft. It may be that the physics engine of this game is not perfect. Saiki Kusuo took a lot of effort to control this body and press it to the character interface in the center of the bed.

Fortunately, after filling in the basic information, it immediately grew to the most basic larval stage, starting games from kindergarten.Because the appearance and character values ​​are all random, Saiki Kusuo, who saw his new image for the first time in the game, was a little dazed.

Not surprised or anything, just a little excited, you know how ordinary black hair and black eyes are, this is the basic appearance he dreams of!

Saiki Kusuo resolutely changed his name to [Sato Hiroshi] and started the game. The time flow in the game was very fast, and three years passed in just a few rounds.The end of each year is the day for the comprehensive evaluation of four + 6 NPC players, and the player with the first comprehensive score will be rewarded with doubled attributes.

This year's winner is Muto Yuki. Because of the accidental discovery of the cheat book, after winning this year, all the values ​​are approaching the champion Hoshino Hikari of the previous two years.

The current third-year scores are as follows:

First place: Hikaru Hoshino, points: 4170+10 (in foreign music competitions, points plus ten)

Second place: Muto Yuki, points: 3962

Third place: Kazuma Sato, points: 2900

The fourth place: Outflow from the throne, points: 2760-10 (negative impact, ten points will be deducted each round)

Fifth place: Hiroshi Sato, points: 2568

Sixth place: Miya Yongsaki, points: 1910 (bitten by a vicious dog, hospitalized)

Seventh place: Takako Sagawa, points: 1881

Eighth place: Yamada Hanako, points: 1537

Tomoyuki Takayama, points: 1728 and Rikuto Kazama, points: 1428 [eliminated]

Saiki Kusuo did not expect that besides him, the other three also used pseudonyms. Although in the game he can also use the super power of mental perception to know which players are players, but in order to preserve the gameplay, Saiki Kusuo did not do that.

The way to get points in this game is very simple, just simply playing some small games, but the game itself is hidden, so you have to spend time looking for it yourself.For Saiki Kusuo, it was very simple to find the time of the hiding place. However, in order to imitate Sato Hirohei's daily work and rest habits, Saiki Kusuo did not go all the way to explore around the campus, but just shuttled between classrooms and other places according to the schedule to make money by the way. Earn points and draw cards.

Then there are a lot of traps in different events, such as [gangsters] robbing, [vicious dogs] biting people, being blackmailed by [bad girls] and other malicious events, these events will deduct a lot of points, when points are deducted If the total exceeds 1200, you will be out of the game immediately.

Saiki Kusuo, wearing the shell of 【Sato Hiroshi】, met another player 【Kamiza Outflow】 when he went to the 【Gymnasium】.

[In the fourth year [Gymnasium] the number of people > 1, trigger a special game event]

[Player [Sato Hiroshi], [God's Outflow] trigger [Sports Festival] event]

"How on earth are two people going to participate in the sports festival?"

[The player [God Throne Outflow] has entered the [Thinking] state. ]

[Player [God Throne Outflow] is removed from the [Thinking] state and uses the [Alliance Card], the player [God Throne Outflow] and [Sato Hiroshi] favorability > 0, the alliance is established. ]

[Drawing sports festival competition items...]

[Bread-biting competition, two-person three-legged, borrowing marathon, due to insufficient number of people, the group gymnastics competition was cancelled. ]

[Joining NPC, please wait...]

......

[Phew, is it finally over...]

Saiki Kusuo took off the game helmet and exhaled. It has to be said that this is a good game, but the workmanship and various experiences in the game are too rough.

Hoshino Saki said before that this is a game born out of a whim based on the concept of holographic games in the novel. Currently, it is not mature in all aspects and is still in the development stage, but this unfinished product is too rough .

The first is the problem of the character model. Leaving aside the horrible appearance of the character, the problem of the character's physics engine is a serious one.Every character seems to have no skeleton, no matter what kind of action it does, it looks soft, and when the player brings his consciousness into the game to control the "self" in the game, the whole person is simply "floating". , no power at all.

In terms of senses, there is a high degree of freedom in the game. As long as you explore by yourself, you can easily find five or six plot points in a scene.The points obtained in the game can be exchanged for money. In addition to searching the trash cans for some props in the game, the other way to obtain them is to draw cards in major stores.Saiki Kusuo's favorite place to go is the coffee shop. He also accidentally found this place in the game. When he entered the shop, he ordered a signature dessert "Summer Limited Snow Mountain Coffee Jelly".I thought I could taste the unusual taste of coffee jelly in the game, but it turned out not only did it not have any taste, but it didn’t even feel like jelly.

The crystal clear dark brown jelly is placed in a delicate glass wide-mouth cup, and above the crystal clear and mellow jelly are several circles of refreshing and delicate cream, with a perfect mixture of evaporated non-dairy milk and condensed milk in the middle layer and a few circles around it. Small pieces of milk jelly are used as decorations... Such a beautiful and appetizing coffee jelly tastes tasteless!

This problem is not only for Saiki Kusuo, but also for the other two who played the game together, which makes Hoshino Saki feel a little guilty.

"No, there is no way, the technology is limited, and I can't find anyone to help... Anyway, it is still in the research and development stage, and there is still a chance to improve it in the future."

Hoshino Saki is not good at modeling, and she has learned it well, but it is just superficial, very tasteless.She had no choice but to find "super high school-level animator" Mitarai Ryota, because the other party had experience in making 3D animation, so the knowledge in this area must be that the other party knew more than Hoshino Saki.

But Mitarai Ryota refused almost without thinking. Hoshino Saki entangled the fat Mitarai into a thin Mitarai for more than half a month, but the other party showed no sign of agreeing.

"Let me refuse, and don't disturb my painting, I'm very busy, please go out."

There were thick dark circles under the other party's eyes, and his subordinates kept dabbling on the hand-painting table, but his mouth was cold, and he didn't even lift his head.

Modeling here was rejected, but Saki Hoshino felt that she still had some help. After all, she could fine-tune the model, but relatively speaking, only the "super high school-level neuroscientist" Matsuda Yasuke could help.

It's a pity that the other party was arguing with his girlfriend for some reason. If this hadn't happened, the other party might have helped Enoshima's face.

As for the source of their quarrel, this Saki Hoshino has no way of knowing, after all, she is not very familiar with either side.

Saki Hoshino, who came back to his senses, was facing the cute trio who were staring at her with puffy faces and pitiful eyes.

"puff!"

Because of Nanami Chiaki's relationship, Hinata Chuang followed the assimilation to show cuteness... Hoshino Saki has already started from the beginning of "Huh?" It became commonplace, but it was Saiki Kusuo's cute and paralyzed expression that made Saki Hoshino couldn't help laughing after seeing it.

I don't know why, Hoshino Saki always feels like old friends at first sight after seeing Saiki Kusuo, although it is only the first time they meet, it feels like they have known each other for a long time.It's not that he is a classmate in kindergarten, but it's the feeling that can't be put into words, just like Hoshino Saki's feeling of defense towards her after seeing Enoshima for the first time, it's hard to express in words clear.

The same is true for Saiki Kusuo, who thought it would be awkward to stay at Hoshino's house for one night, but he didn't expect that it would go so smoothly and they would become friends and hang out together.Regarding the looks of the three of them, he always felt that he had seen them with his own eyes, but he couldn't remember. It seemed that when they played together like this, it seemed that there were more people around them?

"Hinata, why do you keep staring at the Sakuramochi in your hand, the grass mochi has been wiped out by us before."

Before Saiki Kusuo talked about a dung game that he just played a few days ago. Unexpectedly, Nanami Qianqiu also played it. After the two of them exchanged slots excitedly, Qihai did not know what happened and brought the topic to On Hinata Chuang.

After more than two hours of "hard work", the four of them have already digested the inventory in their stomachs, and they began to eat snacks unconsciously while chatting.Hinata Soso was very happy to communicate with everyone, but after he found out that the dessert he just took a bite turned out to be Sakura Mochi, the whole person began to be in a daze for a long time, and his mind became empty.With a livid complexion and slightly parted thin lips, those who didn't know thought Hinata Sou had been poisoned...

"stare..."

"stare..."

"..."

Having no choice, Saiki Kusuo had to take off the ring that he had been wearing since just now, and then learned from the endless voice of the other party that the other party just didn't like to eat sakura mochi.

"I wonder if Hinata-kun doesn't like eating sakura pancakes?" Before Saiki Kusuo could speak, Nanami Chiaki interrupted what Saki Hoshino said earlier, she touched her chin like a famous detective, " I accidentally saw the expression of Hinata-kun eating grass pancakes just now, it’s super cute! So he must have accidentally eaten cherry pancakes that he didn’t like to suddenly become like this.”

"Oh, thank you Xiao Qianqiu for observing so carefully, have you been playing some deduction games recently?"

"No, it's just that I went to Hyuga-kun's house to play games recently, and Aunt Hinata told me a lot."

[Speaking of which, Aunt Hinata looks a bit like Saiki-kun's mother, probably because they are both Yamato Nadeko? 】

"Hey!!! Xiao Qianqiu, you went to Hinata's house??? Why didn't you come with me!"

"Because Xiaosaki was too busy during that time, didn't you change the appointment of the netizen you promised to meet before? Then I mentioned it to you, and you forgot it not long after you heard about it."

"...It seems that there is such a thing..."

After she entered junior high school, she has always had a very good netizen, because she is a girl and just happened to chat with her. Over time, she has become a good friend with a good relationship. For a while, Nanami Qianqiu was jealous of this.

On the day Qihai invited her to play games at Hinata's house, Hinata Chuang was also there, but at that time, all she could think about was how to cooperate with Asahinazao's company, and then meet with netizens next step. Forgot all about going to Hyuga's house to play games.

[Suddenly I feel like a man who is looking for wild food outside his wife behind his back...]

Hoshino Saki felt a little guilty, and added some barley tea to everyone, while Saiki Kusuo raised the cup used by Hinata in front of him, and helped Hinata pour some barley tea to dilute the taste of sakura mochi in his mouth.

"Ah, finally revived... How can there be such anti-human wagashi in the world as Sakuramochi! If you want me to say, grass mochi is the hope of the wagashi world!"

Relieved, Hinata Soo thanked Saiki Kusuo, and then poured himself a cup of barley tea to rinse his mouth, and then exhaled comfortably.

Seeing this, Hoshino Saki, who likes sakura pancakes, felt a little helpless, she pouted and asked casually, "Is it because Hinata doesn't like sakura pancakes because she doesn't like sakura?"

"Huh? No, nobody hates Sakura, right? I'm..."

"Hinata-kun doesn't like the taste of salted cherry blossoms?"

"Well, that's right, I've been very sensitive to the taste of salted sakura since I was a child, so I have to say goodbye to sakura cakes, sakura water Shingen cakes, and all foods that contain salted sakura. After all, the taste of salted sakura The taste is very strange, even if I simply wash off the salt and make tea, I can't accept it."

Hinata So sincerely complained to everyone how strange the taste of salted cherry blossoms is, and he will never get its delicious point in this life.He also complained to everyone that he secretly ate the candied cherry blossoms made by his mother when he was a child, and finally tasted a hint of salted cherry blossoms.

"Hahaha, there is no way, because salt can sterilize bacteria. Soaking fresh cherry blossoms in salt water is an indispensable step at the beginning of making candied cherry blossoms."

"Pfft, Kosaki, no matter how rich your theoretical knowledge is, it can't change the fact that you are a culinary idiot. In middle school, you got excellent A's in other subjects, but only culinary is a pitiful C, right?"

"Well... I've made progress, I can make simple and cute bento by myself now!"

"I went back to Hinata-kun's house last time, and Hinata-kun made me omurice with tomato sauce. I chatted after dinner before, and Aunt Saiki also praised Saiki-kun for taking care of himself, and the cooking was great."

"...I really didn't expect Hinata-kun and Saiki-kun to be so virtuous. Damn, I'm so envious!"

Afterwards, the four of them fought and quarreled for a while, teased each other, and pulled away the bedding on the bed that had been prepared earlier, and the four of them slept on the left and right sides of the screen in the living room.

Not long after she closed her eyes, Saki Hoshino suddenly remembered that she hadn't recorded today's diary. She gently returned to the upstairs bedroom from the living room and began to write in the diary. In the middle of writing, she suddenly remembered something.

【Wait, Xiaoqianqiu has always been so concerned about Hinata-kun, it can't be hi...】

[You are really slow, you failed to save these three people. ]

The next day, after breakfast at Saiki's house, Saiki Kurumi brought out a plate of cherry mochi and a plate of grass mochi for everyone to make after-dinner snacks.Looking at the subtle expressions of everyone, Saiki Kusuo gave up his snack for the first time, and distributed his coffee jelly to everyone.

"Are you that SAI?"

Looking at the packaging of the coffee jelly, Hoshino Saki also made a rare detective: [This is a limited edition of high-end coffee jelly by a certain company, and only one batch is produced every six months, and last time this company should release the limited edition of their company's second half of the year. All the coffee jelly was given to the organizer of the last arcade fight as prizes. 】

The rare witty Saki Hoshino didn't wait for her to start acting, and the scene was all snatched by Hinata Sou who was eating grass pancakes next door and glowing golden, "This coffee jelly is a limited edition of X Club, I remember the last time I accompanied Qihai When I went to the competition, it was the No.2 reward. I didn’t notice it yesterday afternoon, but when I rang the doorbell just now, I noticed that there was a cardboard box with Club X printed on it in the courtyard.”

"Ah, I realized what Hinata-kun said! Even though it was squashed and placed in an inconspicuous place, you can still vaguely see the logo printed on it, and it looks like it belongs to X Club. Sure enough, Kosaki I also discovered this, combined with the coffee jelly, I think Saiki-kun belongs to SAI, right? You really deserve to be Kosaki!"

Hoshino Saki: ...No, I didn't notice it at all.By the way, do you guys get along so well? What kind of visual sense is there for a husband and wife to sing together? Hey!

Although I didn't find any suspicious points, the only clue I found was the limited edition coffee jelly... But Saki Hoshino did not give up, but let herself go and said casually: "Think carefully, Qi Mu-kun's hair color And the height is exactly the same as SAI."

And because of Saki Hoshino's words, "Is Saiki Kusuo really SAI?", under the subtle expression of Saiki Kusuo, and under the sudden flash of inspiration from Hinata and Nanami, such a simple "solve the case" "Are.Then Saiki Kusuo sighed, and generously admitted the fact that he is SAI. To be honest, it was the first time for him to expose his vest so simply.But as long as it doesn't have anything to do with super powers, there's nothing wrong with confessing. After all, there is the light of the Peak of Hope in front of it, and it's just the No. 2 game. It's really not too brilliant.

The four of them played lively and lively at Saiki's house until the afternoon, and then the three of them said goodbye to Saiki's family. The next part of the rock climbing department is going well.

[Climbing, rock climbing department? ]

The bewildered Saiki Kusuo asked his mother during dinner. He just mentioned it casually. Unexpectedly, after hearing Saiki Kusuo's question, his mother suddenly showed a guilty expression, with erratic eyes Said: "That, that, didn't Xiao Nan teleport back home that day, that, when he went downstairs, Xiaosaki and the others saw it... Then I told them before that you were not at home, Xiao Nan suddenly came down from upstairs and they I'm also very curious... So I said that Xiao Nan is from the rock climbing department of the school, and in a few days he will go to a camp in the deep mountains to exercise, so whenever he has free time, he will use his own house to practice or something..."

"Isn't that weird? Do ordinary schools have a climbing department? 』

"No~" Qi Mukurumi put on a very relaxed look, squinted her eyes and said with a smile: "Mr. Hui Lu called to invite you to climb the mountain, I showed his photo to Hinata-kun and the others. They believed it right away~"

[Grey Lu... It's true that I haven't seen him in a while. ]

[Wait... mountain climbing? ]

Saiki Kurumi saw at a glance what Kusuo Saiki was thinking at this time, she smiled and threatened Mimi: "Kusuo, don't stay at home all the time during the holidays, I have already promised Hui Lu-kun for you, the day after tomorrow you will come together Let's go to the camp. By the way, buddy-kun will go too~"

[Does He Ran Tang still have Hui Lu...]

Saiki Kusuo: ...I'll go eat some coffee jelly to calm down.

[Ah, speaking of which, who won that game in the end? ]