Puppet Girl · Withered Heart

Withered Heart didn't know if it was just her imagination, but she always felt that her Guild Master had been acting a little strangely today.

Or rather, ever since arriving at this Villa, she had felt that everything she saw carried an unsettling air of absurdity.

The Shadowkhan who had been sent out to buy drinks earlier had merely been the opening act. Everything she saw afterward had undoubtedly shattered her worldview.

Shadowkhan wearing aprons around their waists and sweeping with Brooms, Shadowkhan carrying buckets and rags to wipe the windows, Shadowkhan holding scissors and plastic bags as they trimmed the lawn... and so on.

Other than cooking, all the daily chores had been taken care of by these hardworking Shadowkhan.

As a result, during her time at the Villa, she constantly felt as if she were living in some kind of magical realism.

But honestly, she was quite envious of it.

The Five Elements Doll she controlled could do such things as well, but their intelligence was clearly more than a tier below that of these Shadowkhan. Having them do housework was not housework at all—it was demolition. They could wreck a place worse than huskies... unless she split her attention and controlled them one by one.

But doing that was far more exhausting than handling things herself...

Of course, the hardworking and remarkably useful Shadowkhan were only one of the things that shocked her in this Villa. There were even more shocking things to come.

Tian Huo, a Player from a Dungeon in another world; Anna, an Anomaly(?) from another world; Tong and Qingyi, humans(?) from another world...

At first, she had focused her attention on Tian Huo, but afterward, all of her attention had shifted to the three little girls.

Everyone had their own secret, and she