"...So you can actually get the figure out."

"Of course," Hopkins said with a grin. "Getting box-shaped prizes like these requires a special touch."

"You're amazing, Hopkins."

"Feels like I’ve just become the cool uncle who gets his niece a gift."

Hopkins chuckled proudly. I, on the other hand, kept marveling at the figure box resting on my lap as we headed up to the third floor.@@novelbin@@

Despite spending 30 minutes struggling with the claw machine, I hadn’t managed to grab the figure. Hopkins had stepped in, his skillful maneuvers making it look easy. Unlike my futile attempts, he first targeted boxes surrounding the figure, nudging them to build a tower near the exit. Once he maneuvered the figure box onto the top of the pile, he used the claw to nudge it sideways until it tumbled into the prize slot.

It was a display of patience and strategy I hadn’t considered.

In a way, it was no different from Astria Online—you needed the right skills to handle monsters efficiently.

This was just another kind of skill to learn.

Realizing how universal the importance of "skills" was in games, I nodded to myself.

Still, I remembered why I’d come here in the first place.

"Hopkins, do you know where the capsule room is?"

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