Silver Wolf Really Is the Wolf Venerable

At lunchtime, Silver Wolf arrived at the dining room ahead of Kawaba Mutsumi, led by the maid Ye Yu. The table full of meat and shrimp immediately caught her attention.

Kawaba Mutsumi then arrived at the dining room in her wheelchair, pushed by Ye Yu.

The squinting butler stood quietly to one side, awaiting instructions. Kawaba Yue was nowhere to be seen yet; she seemed to still be busy with her own affairs.

Sitting in her chair, Silver Wolf asked the butler, "Where's Kawaba Yue?"

"President Yue will be here shortly. She said not to worry about her for now," the butler explained calmly.

Silver Wolf pondered, Will I gain weight?

[Detection complete: Probability of gaining weight: 12%]

Prometheus, you calculate even that?

In the end, Silver Wolf decided to eat less, just enough to satisfy her cravings. Still, she did not pick up her chopsticks right away, instead looking at Kawaba Mutsumi, who had just been pushed up to the table.

Kawaba Mutsumi smiled at Silver Wolf. "Then let's eat. We won't wait for my sister."

The butler and the other maids then left the dining room, leaving only Kawaba Mutsumi, Ye Yu, and Silver Wolf behind.

"Then let's dig in~" Silver Wolf decided to taste a little of everything first.

By the time Silver Wolf and Kawaba Mutsumi had nearly finished eating, Kawaba Yue finally arrived. Seeing that her sister and Silver Wolf were already full, she said with a smile, "I was busy with something just now. Sorry."

"Mm."

"It doesn't matter. Work comes first." Silver Wolf did not think much of it. After all, Kawaba Yue had to support the family.

But only now did Silver Wolf notice something: why had the previous information not mentioned their parents? And why had she not seen them anywhere in the house either?

This can't be some protagonist setup, can it? Couldn't they have been like that little gray-haired girl, with both parents around?

Silver Wolf suggested, "Let's meet in the game later. Aren't we going to some snowfield? Let's quickly push the story forward. The Goddess of Life is already getting impatient."

"No problem. I've already informed them."

"Great!" Kawaba Mutsumi was visibly excited. For someone unable to move around for long periods, a purely virtual world truly was far better than that terrifying reality.

Penacony. Silver Wolf suddenly thought of some people in Penacony. This is better than Penacony, right? At least most people can enter.

"Alright. Since you have me on your friends list, I'll know when you log in. I'll go look around first." With that, Silver Wolf vanished from where she stood, utterly unconcerned about displaying her abilities in reality.

Ye Yu covered her mouth and tried to restrain her voice, but her eyes still revealed her renewed shock.

Kawaba Yue was the same, though only a faint tremor passed through her pupils before she calmed down with a blink. "The Wolf Venerable truly comes and goes like a ghost."

"Then, Sister! Are you still going to oppose me now?"

"I never opposed you before... I was just afraid you'd stay in the gaming pod all the time." Kawaba Yue had wanted to explain, but the more she thought about it, the more... "It was my fault. Play as much as you want. I still have things to do."

Without waiting for Kawaba Mutsumi to speak, Kawaba Yue walked out.

Ye Yu did not dare make a sound. She silently pushed the quiet Kawaba Mutsumi back to her bedroom.

Kawaba Yue walked alone to the backyard in silence and lit a cigarette.

"Ah... What exactly is the Federation thinking? Why would they endorse a game? This is getting more and more complicated." Kawaba Yue took a deep drag, yet the corners of her mouth curled upward. "But our luck has been good enough. At least there is still hope for saving my sister's illness."

"Whether it's Silver Wolf or the world on the other side of that game, they should be able to cure her."

Silver Wolf returned to the game world, appearing not elsewhere, but at the place where she had previously met Phanes.

"Yo~" Silver Wolf greeted first.

Phanes raised her head and looked back, her voice tinged with displeasure. "Did no one teach you to announce yourself before entering?"

Silver Wolf did not care in the slightest and continued asking, "I'm curious. What exactly are you sending them to that snowfield to investigate?"

"Investigate why the Abyss has become so powerful. Even the weakest gods are still gods. The Forest Moon God is connected to me, yet she cannot send anything out. There are far too many suspicious things here." After explaining in one breath, Phanes sighed. "If you're worried about your friends, rest assured. Under my 'reason,' players will never die or perish."

Silver Wolf clapped. "So this is Phanes's power? That's amazing."

"Is there anything else? I'm busy with my own affairs." Phanes did not hesitate to issue an order to leave.

"How cold. You were asking for my big sword just the other day." Silver Wolf slowly walked over to Phanes's side.

"Honestly... those are two different matters! That still doesn't mean you can barge into someone else's home whenever you want!" Phanes slapped the table hard, expressing her anger.

After carefully observing that Phanes did not actually look angry, Silver Wolf said, "Fine. Get back to work."

Once Silver Wolf finally left, Phanes's expression instantly darkened. "As expected..."

After heading out, Silver Wolf checked the records on the Diamond Sword's side:

Structure: 9% damaged

Information: Damaged by the Abyss, elements, violence, computational power, and unknown factors.

"Seriously, I thought you were one of the good guys with that honest face~" Silver Wolf closed the panel and continued mocking, "Who would've thought you were involved with the Abyss?"

Silver Wolf said it deliberately for Phanes to hear. From what she understood, an existence capable of keeping so many people nearly immortal would definitely be able to hear her voice.

Sure enough, a message arrived shortly afterward. "System: When studying an enemy, how could I have no results at all? Are you looking down on me?"

"Of course not." Silver Wolf was standing beside a street in the main city. She glanced at a church not far away. "Look at that Life Church yourself. Are they worshipping you?"

"System: Of course."

"My God, it's actually the real person?"

"System: An alias. Are you determined to get to the bottom of this?"

"It's just that I gave it to you too readily that day. Thinking back on it now, I'm a little unhappy about it."

"System: Then say it. What do you want?"

"By the way, can you revive me?"

"System: ?"

"Then how about this? Send me the technology."

"System: Fine. Copy."

"Now that's straightforward!" Silver Wolf accepted it without another word and had Prometheus begin the modifications at once.

[Evaluation: An efficient, specific, low-cost body modification technique. Possesses authority over extradimensional space and time.]

"It's fine as long as I know how to use the technology. Isn't there already a ready-made set here?" Silver Wolf was naturally going to take the convenient route and use what was already available. Who would want to manually make a new one? It was not as though she wanted to play at being the Fourth Calamity like Phanes.

Phanes then tacitly approved Silver Wolf's actions, allowing an independent backup related to Silver Wolf to be created within her production line.