The Eternal NPC

The game worlds endlessly vanishing and being born around them suddenly froze.

Yurina Takishiro held Yurina Kurotetsu's gradually chilling body and watched with his own eyes as the health bar above his head dropped to zero, his name dimming away...

He stood there, stunned.

"Father..." Holding Yurina Kurotetsu's corpse, he murmured to himself.

He did not know what it felt like to lose someone. He only knew that his heart felt hollow now—oppressed and aching.

This was the first time he had personally witnessed a life come to an end.

And the life that had ended... was his father's.

Looking at the unfamiliar, aged face in his arms, he somehow recalled his first meeting with that spirited middle-aged man.

Wearing a flashy sequined suit with a withered rose tucked at his waist, the man had approached him with a smile.

"Hello, I'm Japan's Number One Host, Kyosuke."

He had said that a host's job was to help people solve their troubles, and he had done just that.

During this time, Yurina Takishiro had truly been happy—happier than ever before.

He had experienced countless great games, met someone who could play with him, eaten the delicious curry pork cutlet rice Kyosuke made himself, and stayed up late together to clear countless stages...

Over that time, Yurina Takishiro had actually noticed that Kyosuke did not know how to play games at all and had not played many games either. This was not really his hobby...

But for Yurina Takishiro's sake, he would secretly go online and copy other people's walkthroughs and comments, then recite them fluently to Yurina Takishiro the next day, looking indescribably pleased with himself.

Perhaps, just as An Qingyu had said,

Yurina Takishiro was special to him.

So there was no need to doubt it. Yurina Kurotetsu... was his