That was the sheer joy of giving a brat a hard lesson!
Unfortunately, fantasies were just fantasies. It couldn't be done.
Sigh.
Speaking of which...
Ever since her last contact with Lin Nai, Kafka had said that Elio seemed unable to see much of her future anymore.
She said changes had appeared.
But one thing was vaguely apparent: things were changing for the better.
Silver Wolf didn't know the specifics either.
But whatever.
Compared to that so-called future, the game in front of her was more important, right?
So.
Silver Wolf decided not to think too much about it.
And she was ready to give Lin Nai a little shock from a gaming genius!
She would let Lin Nai see.
What a genius hacker was! (Note: hacker, not player.)
Lin Nai: 6.
Silver Wolf: Steamed bun? Why aren't you serving utensils?
Before Was Before, Now Was Now
Inside a rather punk-style room.
All sorts of gaming merchandise were neatly arranged in cabinets, while graffiti suited to the room's owner's tastes covered the walls.
The room wasn't particularly bright.
Only neon lights provided illumination.
In front of the screen, a girl with gray spiral twin-tail tips hanging behind her head held a controller, lounging lazily against a soft sofa.
After accidentally smashing the table to pieces, she had changed locations.
The girl softly hummed an unknown tune, crossed her legs, and gently swung the sneaker she had taken off not long ago with one fair, stocking-clad foot.
Silver Wolf.
A master hacker.
She treated the universe as a massive immersive simulation game and played within it.
She was one of the Stellaron Hunters.
Of course.
Most importantly, Silver Wolf was adept at all kinds of games!
And she picked them up incredibly quickly.
In just a few minutes.
She had begun crushing Lin Nai.
"I'm dying laughing. Is this all you've got, Lin Nai? Oh dear, how did that saying go? Trash fish."
"Shut up. I just haven't gone all out yet!"
"Yeah, yeah, sure."
Silver Wolf replied perfunctorily. Lin Nai's mouth was harder than someone's pancakes.
At times like this, brushing him off was enough.
But...
When the score reached 0:2.
Something a little... unexpected happened.
"Mighty Action X!"
Hearing that strange sound effect, Silver Wolf froze for a moment.
That didn't sound like it came from the game?
What the hell was that noise?
Very quickly.
Silver Wolf realized something was wrong.
The character Lin Nai controlled suddenly started pulling off flashy moves.
Smooth little combos.
One-shot kills while at a sliver of health.
Lin Nai's score surpassed hers in just a few exchanges.
Silver Wolf: ???
"No way! You turned something on, didn't you? Is that even an operation you can pull off?"
As a genius hacker, Silver Wolf felt that her skills had been somewhat threatened.
Besides.
There was no way Lin Nai could pull off plays like that!
That guy could occasionally Flash straight into a wall!
After playing games together for so many years, Silver Wolf guaranteed that no one understood Lin Nai's gaming better than she did!
Had he really made those plays?
That just didn't look like something that guy could do!
"What are you saying? What are you saying?! If I didn't turn it off, that means I cheated?!"
Lin Nai: What era was this? Still accusing people of traditional cheating.
On the other end of the call, Lin Nai slapped the table in dissatisfaction. "You're slandering me! You're slandering me!"
"Silver Wolf! You need to understand! Before was before, now is now. If you're bad, then prac... Huh? Why did you disconnect?"
"I'm hacking your computer to see whether you cheated."
The moment she noticed something was off, Silver Wolf had gone over to her computer. Now, her little hand in a black fingerless glove was already moving across the controls.
For certain reasons.
Silver Wolf had remotely controlled Lin Nai's computer before, so she had installed a tiny little backdoor.
She hacked in with ease.
Faced with Silver Wolf's actions, Lin Nai could only take both hands off the keyboard and say, "6."
"By the way, why is there something on your desktop called 'Study Study Files'? What's that?" Silver Wolf raised an eyebrow and asked curiously.
"...There's nothing there."
"Oh? I don't believe you~"
Though the person on the other end of the call tried to keep his voice calm.
Silver Wolf could still hear his guilty conscience.
As though she had found an interesting toy, Silver Wolf licked her lips and directly hung up on Lin Nai!
Hehehe!
As long as she opened this folder, she would have Lin Nai's weakness in her grasp!
Then when the time came.
Wouldn't she be able to toy with that guy however she wanted?
Just thinking about it made Silver Wolf feel insanely hyped!
Her extreme fantasies made Silver Wolf even more excited. She could no longer hold herself back!
With Lin Nai's secret right in front of her, why shouldn't she be even bolder?
Thinking that, Silver Wolf sent Lin Nai a mocking emoji.
His secret! It was about to be hers!
Silver Wolf eagerly rubbed her hands together.
"Alright, then let me see what shameful stuff you've been hiding."
She quickly opened the folder.
Inside, she found another folder sitting there all alone, named 'Don't Look.'
The folder looked utterly ordinary, yet Silver Wolf seemed to see an unusual gleam from it!
Was this just an ordinary file?
No.
It wasn't!
It represented Lin Nai's secret. It represented her victory!
The words 'Don't Look' attracted her just as treasure chests attracted travelers and trash cans attracted Trailblazers.
This folder!
Was calling to her!!
So...
Silver Wolf decisively clicked into it and discovered that it required a password.
For Miss Silver Wolf, a hacker, that was nothing difficult. She solved it with ease.
"The password is... 114514? What kind of messed-up password is that?"
At this moment, Silver Wolf felt that things were getting a little strange. So, would she choose to continue?
Of course.
She was a super hacker who viewed the universe as a game. Nothing could make her afraid!
Charge!
Silver Wolf resolutely opened the folder.
Until...
Silver Wolf found a video inside.
After pondering for a few seconds.
Silver Wolf clicked on the video.
"Da da da da~"
"Never gonna give you up~"
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