Text Game: It All Began when a Cat-eared Girl Took Me In-Chapter 160 - 142: Aina’s Sleeping Face is Too Cute~ Damn Text Turns Out to be Useful (Confirmed) _1
[Traveler, you’re caressing that soft big tail with your fingers, but you dare not use too much force for fear of waking Aina, who has already fallen asleep.]
[Aina’s head is currently resting on the pillow next to you on the bed. Her breathing is exceptionally steady, and a bit further away, there’s a lighter breathing that’s clearly Wei’er’s.]
[Traveler, would you like to continue petting Aina’s tail? (Doing so might wake her up~)]
Luo Xi let out a soft sigh and chose [No].
Leaving Aina aside, the fact that Cat Cat allowed him to sleep in their room, even without inviting him to the bed, represented that the cat-eared girl trusted him.
How could he betray that trust?
Luo Xi didn’t want to be thought of by Wei’er as some kind of a real perverted loli-con or something.
Of course, the main thing was that petting through Projection’s text, aside from the illusory Happiness Level, brought him nothing else.
[Note: Garbage Traveler, is there a chance that Cat Cat has long since seen you as a real perverted loli-con? She’s called you that many times now~]
No way, absolutely not!
Cat Cat must have just said it casually.
[Note: Poor Traveler, you can fool everyone else, but don’t deceive yourself~]
Luo Xi: "(╬￣皿￣)."
Damn text, shut up!
[Traveler, you stop your fondling hands from moving impulsively.]
[Unlike the tsundere cat-eared girl, you can pet the little wolf girl’s tail and ears anytime you want, and you’re not in a hurry. Petting Aina secretly while she’s asleep, though somewhat thrilling, always feels a bit underhanded.]
[Plus, the Furnace Core hat with Liya’s projection attached to it is still on the bed. This ’Mother-in-law’ could strike you down at any moment.]
[Note: Garbage Traveler, unleash your wolfish instincts! Would you be this peaceful if you were given another half hour of Dreamland Temporary Synchronization?]
Hehe, just give me that half-hour, and I’ll call you big brother.
Luo Xi, paying no attention to the damn text, took out his phone to check the time.
It’s almost three o’clock in the morning now.
But it’s not a big deal.
He had taken the day off from the cat café anyway, and even if the official convention was canceled, he could still rest for a day.
As for renting a place and moving, he could wait until after the next couple of days. He could probably take another day off tomorrow; he just felt sorry for Ai Xue’s trust, the trust that the little rich girl had placed in him.
After all, once he chose to backtrack, everything within that day would be reset to zero.
In short, spending time on other things didn’t make as much sense as just lounging on the bed playing "Dawn" all day.
Luo Xi planned to resolve all of Wei’er’s issues first.
Once tomorrow night passed, on the day of Wei’er’s birthday, maybe everything would become clear.
Liya and Noss, the Church of Truth, and the old city owner...
All those matters revolving around the Winter Divine Tree in Winter City, the conspiracies—could they really converge on a girl as delicate as Cat Cat?
Luo Xi’s heart grew a bit heavy.
He decided to go to sleep first.
After about ten minutes, Luo Xi had moved all the furniture from Wei’er’s family’s house upstairs, including the bed and wardrobe, down to the first floor.
Luo Xi stood on the uneven floor of the old house on the first floor.
There was no point in sleeping upstairs; he’d make do sleeping on the first floor for a couple of days.
So, where should he sleep?
His gaze went to the bed against the wall. It was Cat Cat’s family’s big bed.
During the previous attack, Wei’er’s bed, being tucked in the corner, hadn’t been stained with blood, while his own old bed was practically ruined by the initial spikes.
Luo Xi yawned wearily.
Borrowing this bed for a few days to sleep shouldn’t be a problem, right? It’s a waste to leave it here anyway.
If necessary, he could repay Cat Cat by changing the sheets and bedding someday.
Luo Xi walked over and lay back on the bed.
On the soft bedding, the familiar, sun-dried flower, sweet scent of Wei’er and Aina immediately swept into his nose.
No wonder they say girls’ beds usually smell nice.
It really did smell nice; after all, it had been steeped in their scent for so long.
[Note: Garbage Traveler, you’re becoming more and more perverted! (*´﹃｀*)]
Damn text, with that emoji, aren’t you the pervert...
For some reason, as soon as Luo Xi lay down, he felt a wave of drowsiness engulf him.
Come to think of it, he had died yesterday and seemed to have lost 20% of his attributes.
He needed rest...
As such, Luo Xi’s consciousness gradually sank into darkness.
After an unknown amount of time...
Luo Xi felt as if he had just had a very long dream.
In the dream, he stood enveloped in thick fog in the sky. Ahead of him was a giant tree that grew from the ground to the heavens, seemingly as tall as tens of thousands of meters, matching the sky in height.
For a long time, a ray of golden morning light dispersed the heavy fog, bringing the warm first light of dawn and the brightness of daybreak.
Luo Xi looked down, his gaze spanning tens of thousands of meters. Below was a prosperous kingdom where everything was living and growing.
At some moment, an indescribably thick darkness surged, completely swallowing the morning light in the sky.
Luo Xi felt his consciousness freeze in an instant with the coldness of that darkness.
The mighty tree burst forth with endless light, struggling against the darkness.
After an unknown time.
With a cry of anguish, the giant tree collapsed with a thunderous fall.
A magical book, as if inscribed with the reason and mysteries between heaven and earth and radiating a rainbow glow, emerged from the tree’s broken trunk, vanishing tracelessly before the darkness rushed forward.
The kingdom beneath the tree was thoroughly devoured.
"Hah... hah..."
Luo Xi was gasping for air, bolting upright from the bed.
The images from the dream were fading at an exponential rate.
Was this dream trying to convey something to him?
The giant tree he’d seen in the dream, that must have been the Eternal World Tree, right?
Compared to the Winter Divine Tree that was only a few hundred meters tall, it was not even on the same scale.
An incredible thought bubbled up in Luo Xi’s mind.
When the giant tree collapsed, that book radiating with rainbow colors... Could it possibly be the same book he’d seen when he triggered the Moonflow talent?
— Origin.
The word suddenly appeared in Luo Xi’s mind.
Was it the same Origin that Shopkeeper Lena had mentioned?
The Origin that could reverse time, a mythic artifact, wasn’t even the match for that darkness?
And if it could reverse time, why didn’t it turn back time at that moment?
Why did the ’???’ choose to give him this talent in the first place?
The more he thought about it, the more his head hurt.
Compared to Wei’er falling into the trap of Winter City, Luo Xi felt like he might have fallen into an even bigger hole.
— "Dawn."
Even though the Dream World had both day and night, with dawn and dusk occurring daily, Luo Xi initially found the game’s name quite odd.
Now, he maybe understood that the game’s name was not arbitrarily chosen.
Luo Xi reached behind his back.
To his shock, he was covered in cold sweat.
Even the beds of Wei’er and the others had become damp from his tossing and turning.
He checked the time, 5:30 AM.
He had only slept for a little over two hours.
However, he wasn’t very sleepy, and with his current physical attributes, a 20% decrease didn’t affect him much.
Luo Xi glanced at the projection’s text.
[Traveler, you are fast asleep···]
[Ding! Traveler, you have earned one Dreamland Temporary Synchronization (30 minutes) (HD Version). Would you like to use it?]
[Note: This is a special gift for you, the Traveler, so quickly say thank you, big brother~]
Luo Xi: "!"
Damn it, did the damn text really get him 30 minutes of synchronization time?
Speaking of which, Chu Tian had said his text wasn’t this strange. Could this damn text be that ’???’, or that so-called ’great will’?
No, I must not submit to the damn text. This is their sugar-coated bullet!
But he was somewhat curious about how Cat Cat and Aina looked when they were sleeping, and this was in HD...
Luo Xi’s hand accidentally shook a little.
[Yes]
His whole body went limp in an instant, his head tilted, buried in the duvet, and he lost consciousness contentedly.
...
Luo Xi shook his head a little.
The first sense to return was his smell, that familiar scent, extremely similar to the smell of the bed he was sleeping in earlier, lingered at the tip of his nose.
He blinked his eyes.
It was still pitch black outside, so the room without any light source was also very dark.
However, he could now see the stickers on the wall in front of him in the dark.
Awesome!
Dreamland synchronization with the same clarity as full immersion!
Although he no longer had the attribute bonuses, he had more time.
[Note: Lousy Traveler, shouldn’t you say thank you, big brother?]
Luo Xi: "Big... brother."
Although Luo Xi was somewhat reluctant, he didn’t expect the damn text to actually pull it off.
This indirectly proved that behind this text, which taunted him all the time, there might be an unimaginably powerful entity.
[Note: Hmm-hmm~(✧◡✧), little bro]
Luo Xi: "..."
For some reason, he imagined a scene where a little Lolita was hiding behind the screen, laughing triumphantly.
Tossing this nonsensical idea out of his head, Luo Xi slowly turned to look at the Wei Er Ainuo sisters sleeping next to him.
In the dark, Ainuo’s face was turned towards him, eyes tightly closed, without a trace of guard.
In fact, the hand under the blanket was touching the Little Wolf Girl’s soft, fluffy big tail, even cushioned under his hand.
A thought suddenly popped into Luo Xi’s mind.
Could it be that Ainuo, worrying he was too tired, deliberately placed her tail there for padding?
From his viewpoint, Ainuo’s little face exuded a soft pink color, her long eyelashes slightly trembling, and the wolf ears on her head lent this young Wolf Eared Lolita an air of youthful sprightliness.
[Ding! Your Happiness Level +20]
The Little Wolf Girl’s sleeping face was just too cute!
Ainuo’s wolf ears twitched.
A pair of tea gold eyes opened, looking puzzled at Luo Xi.
"Brother Luo Xi?"
