But the moment she finished speaking, Caroline gave Su Wen no time to react. Instead, she revealed a beautiful yet sly smile unique to a Little Witch:
"Hmm hmm, did your heart skip a beat just now? I was only teasing you, so don't really fall in love with me. I won't give up the path I'm walking. So, Rhine Mr., let me see the future you want to prove."
Caroline could feel it. Compared to the last time, when he had given her high-level civilization core AI data and allowed her to break through to the fourth order—
This time,
she had actually obtained from him an opportunity to break through to fifth-order gold:
Extraordinary Characteristic: Grant Me Light—Data Creation—Blueprint of the World (Fifth Order):
In an instant,
before the three of them, boundless neon began flowing like liquid through the rain curtain covering this vast world.
At this moment, many of those who had been drawn in finally gathered the courage to leave the abandoned train cars and enter this somewhat eerie world.
But because rain condensed from data turbulence had completely obscured part of the surveillance from Deep Tokyo's controllers, they had become something like unregistered residents and thus hid directly within the city.
They evaded the investigation,
and brought the final variable into this world.
Because the memories Su Wen had extracted were simultaneously misidentified by the system as Memory Units that truly existed.
Thus, this was proof that this virtual world possessed the sense of touch for the first time.
And so,
in every corner of this world,
those "characters"—or rather, "memories"—extracted by Su Wen began to slowly emerge:
The handsome Scholar stood beside the upper-level glass wall Caroline had hacked into, gazing up at the endless, faintly visible pixel dust within Deep Tokyo's Data