Alice is Good at Business

The Time Regulator has a limited range of adjustment.

If other Soul Cards appear within the regulator's range, to ensure the Soul Card Master's Soul Card is not exposed, the regulator's effect will automatically deactivate and simultaneously issue a warning to both Soul Card Masters.

This warning is similar to the warning for a Soul Card nearing death, both having a sharp alert sound.

However, perhaps because Shen Sui was in a duel at the time, the Duel Instrument automatically set this alert to do not disturb.

Damn!

Shen Sui was panicking.

He wasn't worried about Alice being in any life-threatening danger.

Currently, the other Soul Card he knew of on the Dawn Continent was Isabella.

Recalling now, it seemed Xin Yuan Tanchun had mentioned that because Modena City was destroyed, Isabella was not in a good mood and had been advised by her to go shopping in Emerald City to relieve stress.

And Alice was currently in Emerald City selling the gems from his lakeside storage box.

A drop of cold sweat trickled down his forehead.

Just moments ago, he was truly in the heat of summer, but now he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

Alice! Please don't expose me!

Although with Shen Sui's strength on the Dawn Continent, even if Isabella really pulled out a cleaver and questioned him about where he had been for the past thousand years, he wouldn't be afraid. However, he couldn't be sure of Isabella's current stance. One had to know that back then, Balis had backstabbed Daylight, but now she was being hailed as Daylight's most loyal knight.

What he feared was the betrayal of a comrade.

A thousand years was too long, long enough to change everything.

Even an immortal Vampire True Ancestor like Isabella.

Look, hasn't her figure changed? Before, she was clearly a thousand-year-old flat-chested loli, but now looking at the Soul Card illustration in Xin Yuan Tanchun's hand, she was definitely an older sister type.

Therefore, before investigating the changes and stances of these former game comrades and NPCs, Shen Sui had no intention of coming out to acknowledge them.

[Alice arrived in Emerald City. She found a street specifically for selling gems and set up a stall there to sell the gems obtained from your storage box.]
[Your taste is excellent. The gems left behind from back then are all high-quality gems. Even without much magic power, they are quite popular.]
[Alice had a good harvest.]
[A beautiful lady came to Alice's stall. She took a liking to a ruby that wasn't particularly beautiful in appearance.]
["Where did you get this gem?" The lady's gaze swept over Alice.]
[Alice keenly sensed the lady's unusualness.]
["Pa Yin Jia Lake."]
["So it was at Pa Yin Jia Lake..."]
[The lady murmured.]
[She sat down opposite Alice, like friends chatting idly, and told Alice her story.]
[Her name is Isabella.]

Damn! Just as I feared!

The Duel Instrument in Shen Sui's hand almost dropped.

[She had a lover named Claude.]

Hey, hey, hey! She's slandering me! She's slandering me!

Completely conquering Isabella was when I played the harem route in the first playthrough!

In this playthrough, I just maxed out Isabella's favorability! I didn't completely conquer her at all!

Shen Sui made a scumbag's declaration.

Of course, this couldn't be blamed on Shen Sui. After all, if the players' behavior of giving gifts and increasing the favorability of multiple NPCs in the previous life's game were viewed in reality, it would be a complete player behavior, and the kind that was indiscriminate between genders. Shen Sui considered himself to be following the route of only pursuing Vivian in the second playthrough. After all, Vivian was the only one he had completely conquered and obtained the wedding dress CG for in this playthrough. Isabella was just a tool character whose favorability had been maxed out in the game.

Shen Sui had already been very restrained, not increasing the favorability of so many other conquerable female characters. But Isabella was an exception, because if he wanted Isabella to fight against the Vampire Progenitor with him, he had to max out her favorability.

So...

Don't link the game and reality!

Shen Sui scratched his head.

[Claude used to like giving her such rubies, one every day, and they were all exactly the same.]

Uh.

Of course they were the same, because from beginning to end, the ruby I gave you was the same one.

This was a common operation in the game. Because Dawn Link had a large number of conquerable characters, if players wanted to open the harem route, they couldn't avoid a large number of gifts, which would waste most of the players' time on finding gifts. Therefore, the game had a setting: each NPC would have a fixed location for storing gifts. Without being detected by the NPC, players could go to that location and steal back the gifts they had given, and then recycle them.

The ruby Shen Sui gave Isabella came from this.

Giving the ruby to Isabella to increase favorability, then while Isabella was away, going to the place where she stored gifts and stealing the gem back.

Repeating this operation the next day until favorability was maxed out.

In the game, this was called utilizing game mechanics. But in reality, this was called scum.

Unfortunately, Shen Sui is now facing the predicament that the game he's playing is actually reality.

[Actually, I knew he was giving me a ruby from beginning to end.]

[He stole the gift he gave me and gave it to me again the next day.]

[I should have been angry, but I accepted his gift as if possessed.]

[...]

[Isabella seemed to be venting, talking to Alice for a very, very long time about Claude.]

[Alice sat and listened, nodding frequently in admiration.]

[Although she silently admired Claude's scumbagginess in her heart, she showed no outward signs of abnormality, as if she didn't know Clyde.]

[Do you know Modena City? Well, most people call it the City of Sin now.]

[Isabella suddenly brought up Modena City.]

[Alice tilted her head, looking confused.]

[It was destroyed not long ago. Isabella stared intently into Alice's eyes, seemingly trying to discern something from them.]

[Alice blinked her innocent eyes and shook her head, indicating she didn't know.]

[Ah, you wouldn't have come into contact with it, after all, you're just a little third-tier fellow.]

[Isabella smiled with relief, letting go of her suspicion towards Alice. It seemed the ruby appearing in the little girl's hand was purely an accident.]

Isabella seemed to have suspected Alice.

Looking at these words, Shen Sui came to a conclusion.

That made sense. After all, the ruby had bounced back and forth between Isabella and Shen Sui, eventually returning to Shen Sui's hands. If it had appeared in Alice's hands, it would indeed be very suspicious.

Ah, so why was this ruby in the storage box?

It seemed that when he was fishing, he found his backpack was full, so he just stuffed everything into the box. Later, he was so focused on pushing Vivian's main story that he completely forgot about this matter.

[So, are you willing to sell this ruby to me? Isabella asked.]

[Yes. Alice nodded in agreement and silently put away the tag priced at five Magic Crystals.]

[She held up five fingers towards Isabella and said, "Five thousand Magic Crystals."]

[Alice was moved by Isabella's emotional story, and as proof of this relationship, only charging five Magic Crystals was too cheap.]

[Alice decided to make the price of this relationship more expensive.]

Damn! You're raising the price after hearing the story, huh!

It's truly you, Alice!

[Ding, you have obtained the spell card: Raise the Price]

Chapter two will be updated at twelve o'clock.