Question: What was the most awkward thing in the world?
Was it opening the bathroom door just as your stepsister came out of the bath? Opening a bedroom door to find your childhood friend changing into pajamas? Or working part-time as a host and having your boss request you by name?
None of those. That was child's play.
Because no matter how many twists and turns came along the way, the story would inevitably follow the usual script and turn into a scene where someone's affection for you went UP.
So why had this happened?
He had won third place in the rookie season, entered the Myriad Worlds Card pool, and gained a new cheat ability. Three joys should have overlapped, each bringing still more joy, until he had a dreamlike moment of happiness. And yet, why—
"Hey, kid, are you going to make me top up your QQ Coins if you don't say something?" The fluffy penguin went slap-slap across the carpet on its webbed feet.
Lines of writing appeared on the pages of the Book of Fate, then twisted and wriggled together, making the newly formed penguin more real.
As though jolted awake from a deep sleep, a crow's silhouette beat its wings in alarm, looking as if it had seen a ghost.
[The sacred and the fallen are both realms He created]
[He is one, and He is ten thousand]
[He is, He was, and He shall forever be—!@$]
"Fuck! A recorded passage went and became independent on its own?!"
The crow sent a message from inside the Book of Fate: "You're the one who led the Rancher here?!!!"
As Huai Shi stood stiff and dazed, the penguin silhouette inside the Book of Fate raised its head and looked out, meeting Su Lin's eyes.
[Taichu]
[God Almighty]