"That girl.... should be the Mita from 1.3B."
Alain pondered the scene he had witnessed: the human figure floating within the monster's liquid body. Unsurprisingly, just as his dear had said—the Mita belonging to version 1.3B was indeed a bit childlike…
"But, even if we know the conclusion," the hatted girl beside him looked at the door in front, then sized up the door behind. "Where do we go from here? Captain Alain, please give the order."
Millie finally emerged from her previous tension, her usual smile putting Alain at ease.
"Mm, you're right, Trooper Millie. That's a good question."
He wanted to open both doors and give it a try. To test if the ring's guiding function had been affected. After all. They were originally supposed to go to version 1.5, but it was as if they'd been interfered with, arriving directly at 1.3B. This was just… too strange.
"By the way, that…" Millie's fidgeting caught his attention.
"It's just… my hand, it's a little… sore."
Alain looked down and realized that in the dangerous situation earlier, he hadn't been thinking, and had gripped the hatted girl's small hand tightly. Even now, they were still holding hands.
"Ahem… when it's safe, let's let go first. We'll talk again when it's dangerous."
Millie arrived at an answer she could accept. That's right. As Alain's bro, it was nothing to hold hands and hug when in danger. It's bro-love, it doesn't count as betraying her best friend. It could be Alain worrying about her as his bro, or her worrying about Alain as her bro. Both reasons were justifiable. But in the current safe situation, there was no reason to continue holding hands.
And the girl noticed Alain had fallen silent instead. She thought she had hurt his feelings. Ahh, forget it! What bro-love, let's toss it aside for now.
"I didn't mean that, I don't dislike with you—"
Halfway through her sentence, he spoke up, "How about we go back to 1.3B?"
"Eh?! Why? Isn't it very dangerous there?!" Millie thought Alain was upset over a trivial matter of holding hands.
"Because, that way I can keep holding your hand."
The progress bar rose. And his good bro, under his professional hazard, blushed.
"T-Too cunning… Don't say that to me in front of my best friend…"
The girl still let go of his hand, patted her chest, and calmed herself down.
And Alain, seeing the cute girl, just felt… bro was smelling better and better.
He looked around. The windowless, narrow, empty square room was a cramped space. In the cramped space, the male and female hormones were sprinkled, making their bro-love a bit… deteriorated.
Brother's corruption progress greatly increased
Thinking carefully. Millie hadn't even heard of this small room. What was going on?
And while observing the small room, Alain noticed an extra line of pink writing on the wall.
[Open the door, let's play together]
Beside the writing, as always, was an arrow pointing the way. The arrow pointed to the door they had just retreated from, version 1.3B. This kind of writing… he remembered seeing it last time in the gray-white room. That person had even given him equipment. Their faction should be friendly. Quite trustworthy.
No, can't let my guard down either.
Alain turned back and instructed Millie, "You stay well behind me. If there's any danger…"
"I know…" she interrupted Alain's words, "If there's danger, you'll definitely hug me."
Alain, damn it, he felt so secure. If he had such a player accompanying him during that time in the room, those boring games, he would probably never get tired of playing them. Millie thought silently.
Alain watched the girl sink into some kind of contemplation again, couldn't guess, so he simply didn't try.
Gripping the doorknob, he checked the edge of the door, watching for possible danger. With a "click," he pulled the doorknob down.
Through the light from the crack in the door, it was clear that it wasn't the gloom of 1.3B, but a bright, natural light.
He breathed a slight sigh of relief and opened the door to a wider angle.
At the same moment, the ring on his hand changed,
Version 1.5? Are they back to the correct version?
Seeing that there seemed to be no danger, Alain simply opened the door completely before his eyes.
The door he opened seemed to be the entrance door in the foyer. Bright, sparkling white light, carrying white particles, fell into the pink-decorated living room.
The TV and sofa were placed in the center, and a few photos hung on the wall.
Alain observed the subject of the photos. Sure enough… it was the short-haired Mita he had seen once before. It was also the short-haired Mita he had praised as "you're also very cute with short hair" to the bad woman back then.
And beside the photo, bright pink writing was also inscribed:
From this, the homeowner's personality should be quite peaceful. There shouldn't be any danger.
Alain took a step and walked into the foyer.
But the door behind him slammed shut with a "thump."
He looked back and found that Millie hadn't followed him in yet. Quickly opening the door, he saw the hatted girl pouting in the square room, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
"Hmph! Alain is so mean, actually leaving me behind!"
"...Weren't you the one who didn't follow."
He patted Millie's hat and played with the pair of horns on the girl's hat. Her sulking dissipated, and she instead looked around the room.
"Is this version 1.5?"
The two walked inside, their gazes sweeping over the various layouts in the room.
"Wow~ This place is really nice! I want to live here!" After saying that, she patted Alain's back, "How about it, Alain? Cohabitation life? Cohabitation life!"
"...Forget it, I'm still planning to go to version 1.3B to save someone."
As soon as Alain's words fell, the [Hello there] writing on the wall suddenly changed.
[Regarding this point, I do not approve]
He felt that he didn't need the other party's approval for what he did, right? Making it sound like he knew her very well.
However… from the writing on the wall. Alain realized that perhaps the short-haired Mita in the photo and the person who gave him the Gauntlet of Failure were, in all likelihood, the same person.
So, that person had been paying attention to him since he first arrived in version 1.5?
"Excuse me, have I met you before?"
He voiced the doubt in his heart.
Writing change: [Never met]
"Then why did you help me?"
[I've said it before]
After Alain blinked, the Mita whose form he couldn't see wrote down the characters that had confused him in the gray-white room:
Greetings! ✨ Walnut here with another translation! Saint Seiya united by their strength!
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