A Conversation Across Distance-Was This a Challenge?

The game had officially begun, and everyone reacted quickly enough.

At a street corner, a man spotted a candied hawthorn cart.

After he entered this world and the game began transforming it, the candied hawthorn cart had appeared right in front of him.

The coincidence made him realize—this might have been the game's hint all along!

In the real world, he had already lost his job after the game descended.

Starting a small business was the safest source of income, so he had gone into selling candied hawthorns.

If he displayed a happy, natural version of his normal self as much as possible, he would have a chance of obtaining a "Special Function Card"...

This was his normal self, but the problem was, he had no such thing as natural happiness, okay?

There was no time to think too much. The world had become like this, and he had come into the game prepared to die, not to waste time.

He had not thought about whether he could kill Sin, or be chosen by the gods and soar to greatness in a single step.

He merely wanted an opportunity—to be chosen, or at least to have the chance to participate in the game.

Without hesitation, he put both hands on the candied hawthorn cart before him and began walking down the street.

"Can... candied hawthorns!"

"Made with pure rock sugar! Premium candied hawthorns!"

Normally, he did not even call out to customers, but now, he had no idea what a cheerful, happy appearance was supposed to look like.

So he could only act. He could only pretend, pushing the candied hawthorn cart through the empty streets and hawking his wares.

He forcibly squeezed a smile onto his face, suppressed the tension and anxiety in his heart, and began calling out.