"Great name, Parasite." Alain stroked her hair, and the short-haired girl comfortably squinted her eyes.
This made Millie, watching, quite annoyed.
"Hmph... What's this all about? First the room, now a head pat..."
Alain also noticed Millie seemed a bit jealous.
He temporarily put down his greatsword and started patting her head.
"Oh! The hat... never mind."
Millie sensed her hat was about to get wrinkled, glanced at Prankster Mita, and surprisingly said nothing, allowing Alain to pat her.
And his gaze shifted to the entrance door.
The small spiders came from that dark room.
Since an ordinary door could reach it, it must be close to, or even adjacent to, version 1.5.
And… he wondered if these small spiders were related to the human-headed spiders that appeared on the computer in the real world, and the pile in the hat room.
Could it be a place like a "nest"?
Considering the highly probable danger, Alain couldn't just let those small spiders be.
And... His gaze focused on the greatsword beside him, and the two girls following him.
With three people, they should be able to clear out those small spiders.
Alain conveyed this general goal to the two of them.
"Eh? W-Wouldn't this be too much trouble for you?" Prankster Mita felt a bit embarrassed.
"No. Besides, those spiders might also increase Big Sister's workload, right?"
"Mm... That's true." The short-haired girl nodded.
She had been saved by him once before.
Now, she was about to receive her player's assistance again...
As expected of her player! Is this the feeling of an ordinary Mita enjoying her player's doting? Prankster Mita thought.
Well then, she also had to show enthusiasm worthy of this doting!!!
As for Millie, she had already put away her controller and pulled out her rubber mallet.
"Time for an extermination mission! This is way more exciting than those games!"
"As expected of my good bro." Alain's head-patting motion still hadn't stopped.
"...I say, shouldn't you stop by now?"
"Then… I'll go pat Prankster Mita?" Alain was about to release his hand but was grabbed by a pair of large gloves.
Millie said nothing, just gave him a dissatisfied look, then clumsily raised the mallet and swung it twice.
"Ha, hahaha! Exterminate, exterminate!"
Alain understood her meaning.
Just like a cat: displeased verbally, but the action couldn't stop.
Mulling it over, he reached a conclusion: "Well then. The extermination mission begins."
Alain manipulated the room's permissions, trying to see if he could connect to the previous room.
Being unfamiliar with it, Prankster Mita also came to help.
Millie gazed at the two of them, who looked like a player and Mita helping each other, her expression somewhat dazed.
No... their relationship was now deeper than that of an ordinary Mita and player.
Even the room belonged to Alain.
Millie lowered her head in thought.
After a while, everything was debugged.
Alain took the lead, leaning against the door.
Behind him were Millie, holding a large mallet in one hand, and Prankster Mita, gripping a frying pan.
"...Don't you have any decent weapons?" He twitched his lips, causing the short-haired girl to blush slightly.
"Even if you gave me a good weapon... I'm not good at fighting. I just picked something with a wide attack area."
Alain couldn't help but think of an anime he watched as a child, where there was also a character wielding a frying pan.
He pulled down the doorknob, exchanged a look with the two, then quickly opened it.
With an "empty" sound, the dark room came into view.
Unsurprisingly, pairs of crimson eyes, as always, cast their gazes towards the three of them.
Then, they spread like a waterfall, quickly reaching their feet.
Alain first closed the door leading to version 1.5 to prevent any stragglers.
Then, he picked up his greatsword and swept it around.
"Hmm?" The sensation of attacking was like brushing away grains of sand.
Every inch of attack with Cleanup Acceleration could cause damage.
Simply put: the blade could cause damage, and the wind stirred by the blade's passage could also cause damage.
Just now, with one swing, he had swept away dozens of spiders, clearing a large area.
"You're amazing!" Millie praised, also wielding her mallet and striking fiercely.
Although her speed couldn't compare to Alain's, each swing still killed a dozen or so small spiders.
"You're also very capable!!"
Alain didn't hold back his praise, "When we get back to reality, I'll reward you with a hair wash."
The hat's movements almost faltered. "If you dare wash my hair, I'll bite you to death!"
"...Didn't you agree to it?"
"Playing dumb again?!" Well, now he had to wash her hair when they got back.
The seemingly tense battle situation appeared too easy amidst their back-and-forth banter.
And Prankster Mita wasn't to be outdone. "I'll make my player see me in a new light too!"
The girl charged forward with a "Waaah!", her frying pan clanging "dang dang dang," also exterminating quite a few spiders.
Midway through the battle, Alain understood the small spiders' characteristics: they looked terrifying.
In reality, they were very weak.
Alain's gaze flicked towards the two girls.
Compared to him, the spiders around them were clearly much more numerous.
These spiders had a strong aggressiveness towards Mita.
His face darkened; then he definitely couldn't leave them.
"Wow! Your attacks suddenly became much fiercer!" The hatted girl watched, dumbfounded, as Alain wreaked havoc.
"No charming me during battle!" Millie pouted.
Under some motivation, her movements also became more open and bold.
This was clearly visible to Prankster Mita, who was watching from the side.
"These two are so strange."
Alain was very "aggressive" towards Millie, yet it stopped at teasing.
And Millie's defense, seemingly impregnable, constantly uttered words of refusal.
In reality, it could be considered feigned resistance.
Logically speaking, as long as Alain truly launched an "offensive" against Millie, she should quickly be defeated, right?
Or if Millie cast aside those words of refusal and launched an "attack" on Alain, it should also come to fruition naturally...
Can't understand. Oh well...
With the efforts of the three, the number of spiders rapidly decreased.
Soon, the small spiders in the dark room were completely cleared out.
The process seemed smooth, but it actually took some effort.
After the massive number of spiders was cleared, Alain used his greatsword as a broom, sweeping them into a corner.
Then... he observed the front, back, left, and right, a total of four doors.
Previously, submerged in the swarm of spiders and darkness, he hadn't paid much attention.
He only discovered them after clearing the spiders.
Could it be, doors similar to the ones with the Tamperer back then?
Alain sighed helplessly, familiarly walking towards one of the doors.
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