The barista glanced at the light screen by the stairwell and left regretfully.
Perhaps to explain that she had not deliberately let Zai Jiu Xunge go, the rabbit followed behind her and said, "Don't worry, Stupid is on the third floor."
"Really? Then how is that any different from going home? Zai Jiu Xunge has it good again."
"Do you have some kind of misunderstanding about the two of us?"
"I only trust the Captain now."
"...That's worse than Stupid. Do you know the Captain started paying attention to Zai Jiu Xunge no later than we did?"
"Of course I know, but it's different." The barista stopped walking. Ignoring the Godly Game's urging, she turned back and said seriously to the rabbit, "When you and Stupid like a player, you like going to play with her, causing her trouble. You don't care about her temporary successes or failures. You nurture her. You try to understand what she thinks, what she wants, what she desires. But the Captain believes it's too early to care about such things before the world shatters."
"...I almost forgot how completely insane the Captain could be sometimes."
"Even if the Captain and I are on the same side, I have to admit that being liked by the Captain is a misfortune," the barista said.
"You remembered, didn't you? Remembered how He made Zelan Fengtang fail back then. She was clearly just one step away from protecting Forest Sea, but in the Captain's eyes, only ships tempered by storms were qualified to sail the ocean. Only after experiencing the shattering of a world could one see a player's true nature.
"The best tempering for a player was to let her experience a shattered world, then rely on her own efforts to reshape it.
"You and I both