Survival: King Picking Game

Li Pingan smiled and touched the girl's head.

Jade squinted her eyes comfortably like a groomed cat.

"I won't go to school today."

At the dining table, Li Pingan picked up a piece of bread and ham, and walked towards the door.

"Hey... my lord father, what is this?"

Tono Akiba stood up a little surprised, looking at his disappearing figure.

"Over there at the school, please ask for a leave of absence for me."

He waved at his daughter, and ignored the reactions of her and the maids and sisters, put on his shoes in the hallway, and walked out of the house.

……

After walking out of the Tono mansion, Li Pingan shook hands.

"...The power still hasn't recovered."

He's just a normal guy.

However, since the key to solving the puzzle is already in hand, it doesn't matter if you have power or not.

Things didn't go as smoothly as expected.

It wasn't until five o'clock in the afternoon that Li Pingan finally found the little black cat who could only speak human.

"It's so strange, even if I became an ordinary person, I wouldn't be so weak that it would be difficult to even find a cat, let alone someone like you who can definitely recognize it at the first sight..."

"That's because the time when I met you was also set."

The little black cat licked its paw and replied calmly.

"Twilight—the time of encountering the devil, is the time when the great curse covering Misaki Town is most effective. Your women will call you soon."

As soon as the black cat finished speaking, the mobile phone in Li Pingan's trouser pocket began to ring.

After he picked it up, on the opposite side of the radio wave was Tono Akiba

"Father, where are you now? Please come back quickly. Or do you need Amber to pick you up by car?"

...It seems that he has no option to refuse.

"I see."

He nodded.

"So, come to me in advance, what's the matter?"

The black cat stared at Li Pingan closely.

"I should have already said it? As long as you can survive, I will tell you the truth. Just like clearing the game, you must trigger the condition."

This is also "set in advance".The little black cat said so.

"I want to ask you a question... No, it doesn't matter if you don't answer it specifically."

Li Pingan sighed and squatted down.

"What I want is your attitude. Do you have good intentions for me, or are you malicious? Are you an NPC who wants us to escape from the infinite loop of the maze, or an accomplice of the man behind the maze?"

"Idiot, do you still need to ask this kind of thing? Of course it is the latter!"

The little black cat pawed Li Pingan's face with some dissatisfaction.

"Although I don't have any memory left...But, I don't know how many times, without you noticing, I will definitely end up being run over by a car. This is inevitable. This feeling is enough once, so stupid The way to die, don't...!"

"If this is the case, there is something that I must discuss with you."

Li Pingan scratched the little black cat's chin.

"Yesterday, when I was hunted down at Tono's mansion, a strange girl I didn't know finally dug out my heart and took my life, not someone else. It was because I regarded that girl as a It was you who changed, so you let your guard down."

"...I don't have any memory of yesterday. In this abnormal world of infinite loops, the 'permissions' I have are only a small part of what I snatched from the beginning. However, if I'm not mistaken..."

I don't know how to do it, but Li Pingan saw a solemn expression on the face of a cat.

"...That's also 'me'. However, it's not the current 'me', but the shadow created by the nightmare, the white 'me' (lian). If that guy also appears, it means..."

The little black cat turned around twice, probably meaning "I'm thinking".

"...I now have two paths for you to choose from."

OK, here we come.

"This is a key choice about life and death, not only you, but also the group of women trapped in this world... and Ben Meow. So, please listen clearly."

"Ah."

The little black cat raised a paw.

"The first way is for you to follow the 'normal' method... Well, it is to let you go back obediently, go to that mansion, and survive the pursuit of those women. I will wait for you there, as long as you If it can be done, the truth will come to light, and the labyrinth of the cycle will end."

The little black cat lifted up both cat paws.

"The second way. You can get the truth behind the incident from me right now... Ah, more precisely, the information I have. You came to me for this purpose, right? However, this way Come on, you will have no chance of reincarnation, just like a video game without archives. If you fail, you will really die completely?"