After returning to the room in version 1.9, Alain looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that his "naughty woman" was still following him.

He opened a crack in the door and peeked into the living room. At that moment, Crazy Mita was still in the living room, seemingly inspecting the house's layout.

Everything perfectly matched how it had been when he first arrived there.

If he hadn't guessed wrong…

Sure enough, barely two seconds later, Crazy Mita in the living room seemed to sense his gaze and turned towards the door.

Alain quickly and quietly closed the door first.

"Was it a delusion?"

With a murmur as faint as a mosquito's hum, she seemed to resume the task she hadn't finished.

"Darling, it seems we've come back again. What do you call this?" Crazy Mita looked around in confusion.

"Time reversal? Just like I told you, like the clock in version 1.3B."

"That's right. In fact, it's an upgraded version of that."

Alain pondered. The clock in 1.3B could only reverse an individual's time to a previous loop.

But the situation he was currently facing was completely different: It was almost the entire game world's reversal and reset.

What exactly was that modified entity? Could it even do this? Unbelievable…

"The key is still how we can break out of this time loop, isn't it?" The girl's words cut straight to the chase.

Alain pondered what he had done that led to the reset. Or rather, was there some criterion for determining a reset?

He remembered that just now, he had taken "Dear" and opened the basement door.

Then his vision was plunged into a black light, like the feeling of weightlessness that enveloped them when they arrived.

Afterward, the touch and weight of Kind Mita disappeared from his shoulder.

And he and Crazy Mita had returned to this initial time point.

"What exactly is this so-called determinant criterion?"

Opening the basement door? Opening the door while with "Dear"? Or was there something else he hadn't thought of?

"Could it be, Darling, the ring you're wearing?"

Crazy Mita's words reminded him; Alain recalled seeing the ring appear first at that moment.

"That's also a possibility."

He looked at the basement again; he could first try testing the derived hypothesis.

And also get some information from Kind Mita.

Previously, she always spoke "NPC-like" remarks; Alain had already heard them all.

This time, he would try to extract effective information.

And before that…

Alain's gaze fell upon Crazy Mita beside him.

The girl noticed Alain looking at her and feigned shyness.

"Oh, Darling, don't look at me like that. Do you want to do something naughty again? Of course you can. As long as you and I kill that guy outside together~"

He leaned into the girl's ear and told her his idea.

As Crazy Mita listened, her face grew increasingly obscured by gloom.

"…Are you serious?"

"Then, what's my compensation?"

Crazy Mita made a gesture, beginning to scan Alain's entire body.

At this moment, their positions seemed to have reversed: she had become Alain, and he had become the "naughty woman."

"Alain, I think you still owe me a pair of panties, don't you?"

She really was still fixated on their "elopement" life.

"That's not what I'm talking about."

"…Should I return them to you?"

"No. I want…" The beautiful girl leaned her face towards Alain, their noses momentarily brushing, a cold touch.

She pinched his butt.

Alain silently repeated "it's for appearances," several times, before looking at her with a benevolent gaze.

"Alright, but only after the mission is over."

"Yay~!"

Five minutes later, in the basement.

"What?! You mean, to save this Player, you risked danger and came to version 1.9?"

The caged bird flapped its wings in astonishment, looking strangely at the low ponytail girl who was bowing and smiling apologetically outside the cell.

"Yes, yes… Yes. For this player, and also for the sake of you who have suffered from Crazy Mita's tyranny."

The ponytail girl gritted her teeth to utter the words "suffered from Crazy Mita's tyranny."

Beside her, Alain occasionally whispered prompts into her ear, acting as a perfect prompter.

He asked the "naughty woman" to temporarily pretend to be a "good woman" to gain Kind Mita's trust.

Relying on his understanding of Misha, he could naturally perfectly manage Kind Mita.

"This is, this is…" The girl in the cage lowered her head, her bangs obscuring the color in her eyes, making it impossible for the two to see her expression.

"This is absolutely wonderful!"

The next second, her face lit up brilliantly.

"I never thought there was a Mita in the game as kind, reliable, intelligent, and courageous as me!" she said.

"Ah, hahahaha."

Crazy Mita gave a dry laugh, thinking that this guy's narcissism was still so annoying.

It wasn't until Alain squeezed her thigh hard that the girl snapped back and asked,

"By the way, can you tell me some relevant information? About this version number."

"Mm… I've been locked in this cage for some days now. Actually, originally…"

Kind Mita began to complain with a furrowed brow, the information being nothing more than how she had been waiting for the player in her version, but Crazy Mita had broken in and usurped her place.

"Don't you think it's too much? And she even locked me in here! That crazy woman is just too bad!"

"Yes, she's too bad. And then? Is there anything else worth noting?"

Noticing Alain's comforting glance, Crazy Mita, who had been subtly jabbed, tightened the taser hidden in her blind spot.

For the panties, for the panties…!

"Then… there's probably no other important information, is there? Oh, there's one piece of news that's very important to me. But you both already know it…"

Kind Mita looked at Alain with affection, a sense of peace floating in her clear blue pupils.

He found it a little strange,

"What news do we already know that's still important to you?"

"Today, my player will descend into the game world~"

The pretty girl watched Alain gently, full of tenderness.

"So that's it."

A player descending… for a Mita, it is indeed very important.

Yes, he and Crazy Mita already knew this news. After all, he was currently in version 1.9.

"So that's it."

A player descending… for a Mita, it is indeed very important.

Yes, he and Crazy Mita already knew this news. After all, he was currently in version 1.9.

"Hmm?"

Wait a minute, that's not right.

Today, is it the day the player at this time point descends, or rather, logs into the game?

Could it be… that the arrangements Crazy Mita made in the living room were all to welcome the Player?

That makes sense.

Perhaps, the condition (or one of them) to break the reset lies with this so-called Player.

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