"Huh? You want me to go back?"
Even through the screen, Fang Zheng could see the reluctance written all over Sajyou Manaka's face.
"You don't want to come back?"
"Of course I don't, Father... Why do I have to go back?!"
Upon hearing Fang Zheng's question, Sajyou Manaka immediately began to complain.
"I've had enough of that dump. This place is clearly much more fun! It's boring over there. There's nothing there that interests me at all."
"Yeah, it's not like I don't understand how you feel..."
Looking at Aika acting spoiled before him, Fang Zheng felt rather speechless. Of course he understood why Aika did not want to return. In the Game World, she could be considered a success now. And compared to the Nasuverse, where anything she did could easily succeed, the satisfaction of accomplishing something through "hard work" had made Aika even more addicted. In fact, she was already planning to begin production on a Dark Souls sequel. This time, Fang Zheng had decided to leave the entire matter to Aika herself. After all, his original reason for making Dark Souls had merely been that he could not be the only one to suffer. Now that his goal had been achieved, he was naturally content to retire after a job well done.
Aika had been eagerly preparing to take things a step further, only to find that Fang Zheng actually wanted her to return to the Nasuverse...
To Aika, that world truly held no secrets whatsoever. She had long since grown sick of it. Not to mention that the technology of the Game World was nearly fifty years ahead of the Nasuverse. Compared to the Game World, which specialized in entertainment, the Nasuverse seemed like some crude and backward countryside to Aika. She did not want to