You're Awake?

After wandering aimlessly through Shadow City, which had practically turned into a marketplace, for nearly an hour and buying a whole pile of miscellaneous trinkets from strange interdimensional merchants from God knew where, Bubble, who had already been working at high intensity all day, finally yawned.

"All right, it's getting late. Let's head back and rest."

I took the magic crystal flying swords, talisman cards, glowstones, figurines, spirit cores, and Master Balls that Bubble had bought for everyone on a whim from her hands, then gently pressed a hand onto the head of the shut-in loli, who was yawning nonstop yet stubbornly clutching the hem of her clothes and refusing to go home. "I'll carry these treasures for you. I'll distribute them properly once we get back."

"Not sleepy... I'm not sleepy at all." Bubble opened her little mouth wide for another yawn, then muttered as though trying to fool someone, "I finally finished working. If I have to go to sleep without even getting to play for a while, that would be such a waste."

That really was childlike logic. If someone who didn't know the truth heard a little girl say that, they would definitely feel deeply sorry for her, wouldn't they? Just like how I had been fooled the first time I saw this girl with her eyes tightly shut, "sealed" inside a Crystal Prism. But now that I knew her true nature, all I could do was smile helplessly. "If you didn't open ten or twenty million alt accounts to play games, watch anime, download movies, read novels, and slaughter Baidu every time you worked, you wouldn't be this tired."

"Hmph! That only uses a few percent of this mainframe's processing power!" Bubble bared her teeth at me and waved her tiny arms, fully revealing the