This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist-Chapter 1147 Divine Game: Quiet Mountain 30

Deceitful Bloom raised her hand, preparing to knock BS Rita unconscious, but then hesitated. It was only the eighth day of the game, and she couldn’t keep knocking her out every day. That thought made her abandon the idea of using that shortcut.

Instead, she extended another Vine to bind BS Rita’s other hand, and the two continued to move slowly through Quiet Mountain.

When Deceitful Bloom realized that talking might help ease BS Rita’s anxiety, she reluctantly started a conversation.

"Do you remember who you are?"

"SS Rita."

Not bad. Deceitful Bloom felt that BS Rita’s condition was much better than Uncharted Star Sea had expected.

She wasn’t in the numb state that usually came from extreme pain; rather, it felt as though she had shut off all emotions.

"Is this state the result of some skill? It looks like the passive skill from your divine gift, but it doesn’t quite seem like it."

"..."

"Did you not set any sort of off switch? Or a mode change?"

"..."

Deceitful Bloom turned to Nivalis. "Has she used any special items?"

Nivalis shook her head. "I don’t know."

B80 added, "Do you suspect she did something?"

Deceitful Bloom’s response was firm: "It’s not a suspicion, it’s a certainty."

Given BS Rita’s personality, she would never allow herself to be consumed by power and lose her sense of self.

The Vine called [Flower Crown Murder] was the best proof of this. While it was quiet, it hadn’t withered.

BS Rita had foreseen what she might face. She couldn’t afford to miss this opportunity, yet she didn’t want to become numb in the pursuit of power.

Before repeatedly using time-stop to enter the Demon Game, she must have prepared something.

Just as Deceitful Bloom was about to continue comforting BS Rita, who was growing increasingly anxious and searching for the Order Badge, Nivalis suddenly spoke up.

"There’s something a little special, but also very ordinary."

B80 chimed in, "Ah, the coin!"

Before Deceitful Bloom could ask, Nivalis and B80 had already started explaining.

Nivalis said, "On the day she received the note from QM Rita, the afternoon of the fifth day of the game, at the time when the Demon Game began, she had me use [Tail Tip] to rewind time by ten minutes."

"Then she probably used time-stop again, you know the noise that skill makes. After that, she called me and B80 out and said she wanted to play a game with us."

B80 jumped in, pulling out a coin from its pocket and mimicking BS Rita’s actions. "Let’s play a game, heads or tails?"

It tossed the coin high into the air.

The coin spun, leaving behind golden afterimages as it twirled in the air.

BS Rita immediately locked her gaze on it, following it intently. When the coin fell, she shifted her eyes away.

There was nothing special about it.

But both Deceitful Bloom and Nivalis, along with B80, couldn’t dismiss this as a childish game. Normally, BS Rita might be playing with her pets, but after Nivalis had used [Tail Tip], this was far from a mere game.

With Nivalis in her small panda form, she jumped down and grabbed the coin from B80, turning to Deceitful Bloom.

"There’s more to it! She did this too!"

Deceitful Bloom instinctively leaned forward, her focus sharpening.

Under Deceitful Bloom’s serious gaze, Nivalis placed the coin on her thumb and gave Deceitful Bloom a gentle smile.

Seeing the toothy grin of the panda, Deceitful Bloom’s expression twisted slightly. She straightened up, "If you have a toothache, use healing skills."

Nivalis angrily slapped the ground, "Did you even pay attention? She was smiling so gently, so happily!"

Deceitful Bloom: "...I don’t want to deal with BS Rita’s toxic loyalty, but after seeing her reaction with the coin, I can’t ignore it."

She took out BS Rita’s capsule machine, hoping to find some clues.

But when she enlarged the capsule machine, a headache started to form.

6929 capsules... Clearly, after learning the ins and outs of the capsule machine, the first thing BS Rita did was to expand its capacity.

While she had left a secret method to open the capsule machine and access the capsules, Deceitful Bloom wasn’t the owner of the machine and couldn’t directly "see" what was inside.

This involved the core design of the machine—ensuring fairness in the lottery by blocking any skills that could be used to cheat.

So now, she had to search through each capsule one by one.

At first, Deceitful Bloom could tolerate it: equipment, seasonal clothes, accessories, watches, game consoles, odd items like the World Graveyard...

Until a half-eaten bag of chips fell out of a capsule.

"Why would you put half-eaten chips in the capsule machine?"

Nivalis jumped up, grabbing it, "This is the limited-edition cilantro flavor! She stole it from me! How dare she not finish it!"

Deceitful Bloom took a deep breath and continued, "When I get back, I’ll share this news with Drummer. She treats our art as a personal trash bin."

While they rummaged through the capsules, BS Rita quietly watched, appearing detached from the situation.

This caused Nivalis to dramatically sob, "Why are all these silly kids the same..."

Deceitful Bloom couldn’t even figure out if Nivalis was a toxic fan or a black-sheep critic of BS Rita.

After digging through a pile of junk—Deceitful Bloom refused to admit her luck was bad—she finally found what she was looking for.

A lantern containing a silver moon, with a shiny coin leaning against it beside the moon.

When the coin appeared, BS Rita’s gaze immediately locked onto it.

[Wrathful Moon] willingly spit the coin into Deceitful Bloom’s hand. One side of the coin was engraved with an open book, with several pages turned at odd angles, as if the reader was searching for forgotten passages. The other side was more complicated: a river, a pirate cat ship with a light by the top right corner.

The item was named [My Sigh].

Deceitful Bloom placed the coin on her knuckles, her thumb resting beneath it, and brought the coin up to BS Rita’s eyes. Under the gaze of those red pupils, Deceitful Bloom flicked the coin with her thumb.

The coin soared high into the air, spinning in golden afterimages.

A few seconds later, the coin landed in BS Rita’s hand. Her eyes sparkled, as if a child had found a new toy. She eagerly grabbed the coin, and quickly, it soared back into the air again.

It was already 6 p.m., but BS Rita’s eyes were completely consumed by the coin.

Nivalis and B80 unconsciously slowed their breathing, drawing closer to Deceitful Bloom and whispering, "So, what is this?"

Deceitful Bloom propped her chin, watching as BS Rita repeatedly tossed and caught the coin.

It was a childish scene, but Deceitful Bloom was oddly focused on it.

Finally, when Nivalis asked again, Deceitful Bloom kindly shared her guess, "She’s stored all the memories she thinks are worth remembering in World Sigh, and then turned them into her own personal sigh."

Every time the coin spun, those "memories that make BS Rita who she is" would resurface in her mind.

She would reclaim herself sooner or later.

This was her way of leaving herself a path back.

[My Sigh] (Treasure): "I don’t know how many times I’ll suffer, but I can relive happiness through my memories."