Mash-up Anime World: Creating the SCP Foundation to Contain Anomalies Chapter 83: Helping Gabriel Quit Her Gaming Addiction, Cogni

"Haruto-kun, this is illegal intrusion!"

Gabriel tried to protest.

anwhile, Haruto scanned the apartnt and felt his sanity take a hit.

Gabriel's apartnt was now a chaotic ss.

Thick curtains were tightly drawn, blocking all sunlight and plunging the room into darkness. Snack wrappers and other trash were scattered everywhere. The only source of light was the computer screen on the small desk, running a popular ga.

How Gabriel had turned her apartnt into this hellscape in just one day was beyond comprehension.

At the sa ti, Gabriel herself exuded a strong aura of a depressed shut-in otaku.

The girl who once had a gentle smile and could emit holy light to heal people's hearts seed to have vanished like a bubble.Now, Gabriel, with her ssy blonde hair, had a few strands sticking up and swaying.

Dark circles heavily weighed under her eyes, making it look like she hadn't slept for three days and nights.

"Gabriel, skipping class to play gas, is that really okay?"

Gabriel, with her ssy hair sticking up, really wanted to tell Haruto, "This has nothing to do with you."

But feeling Haruto's sharp gaze, Gabriel shrank her neck, completely unable to say the words out loud.

She had a feeling that if she actually said it, sothing terrible would happen.

"Gabriel, go to class."Haruto said in a deep voice.

Gabriel hesitated at his words.

She didn't want to go to class at all; she just wanted to stay ho and play gas. But Haruto was terrifying!

Suddenly, an idea struck Gabriel."Hey, Haruto, you see, I actually have quite a talent for esports."

Standing up, Gabriel patted her chest.Unfortunately, given her flat figure, the motion caused no ripple whatsoever.

Haruto narrowed his eyes.

He had already guessed what Gabriel was about to say.

"So instead of going to class, I'd rather develop my talent and one day beco a professional esports player!"

A complete lie!

Gabriel just wanted to stay ho and play gas.

Even if she truly had extraordinary talent, she would never actually step onto the path of professional gaming.

Haruto squinted his eyes and stared at Gabriel, making her feel extrely guilty.

"Gabriel, I don't believe you have any so-called esports talent."Haruto stated bluntly.

Gabriel's eyes flashed with cunning.

"Oh? So you're denying my dream, Haruto? In that case, if you can beat in a ga, I'll admit it!"Gabriel pointed at the computer screen."

This ga—if you beat , I'll imdiately give up on gaming and obediently go to class with you, no complaints. But in return, if you can't win, then you have to acknowledge my talent and stop trying to drag to class!"

As she spoke, Gabriel's lips curled up uncontrollably.

Plan successful!

"Alright."

Haruto nodded.

"Then hurry up!"

Gabriel said excitedly.

However, Haruto shook his head.

"It's not who's going to play against you."

Gabriel tilted her head in confusion.

Then she saw Haruto walk out of her apartnt and head to the one next door, his own apartnt.

Leaning against the window, Gabriel watched, feeling puzzled.

Could it be that Haruto had so gaming expert at ho? Then she saw Haruto walk out, carrying a white-haired loli in his arms.

Gabriel: !

As Haruto walked into the room holding the girl, Gabriel's gaze darkened with slight annoyance.

"Haruto, are you seriously making this little girl play against ?"

Gabriel was dissatisfied.

She had planned to crush a noob and get Haruto off her back. But bringing in a child, wasn't that disrespecting her gaming skills?

Haruto nodded.

anwhile, the girl in Haruto's arms, Shiro, looked half-asleep, her eyes barely open.

She had played until early morning, only stopping when the power was cut, forcing her to sleep. Later that night, she had sneaked into Haruto's room, wasting even more sleep ti.Now, being carried out so early, her brain was still in sleep mode.

Haruto placed Shiro on a cushion next to Gabriel and stuffed a ga controller into her hands.

"Alright, you can start now."

Haruto announced.

Gabriel: !?

"Her eyes aren't even fully open yet! Haruto, are you mocking !?" Gabriel protested.

Haruto shrugged.

"This arrangent benefits you, doesn't it? What are you complaining about? Just start the ga."

Gabriel shot Haruto a resentful glare, muttered,

'I'm an angel, you know! Don't underestimate ! I'll make you both pay for this!'

After all, Gabriel was an angel!

She had only been playing this ga for a little over a day. But with her quick reflexes and superhuman hand speed, she was already a high-level player!

However, upon hearing Gabriel's muttering, Haruto suddenly frowned.

'Angel?'

The ga started.

Shiro, looking drowsy, barely opened her eyes, just enough to make out so information, her fingers moving purely on instinct."Take this! Take this! I, Gabriel, am super strong! A re- wait! What the heck is this?! Stop, no, don't—!"

No suspense whatsoever.

In this ga, a match usually lasted about three minutes. Even if one player dominated the other, it would still take about a minute to finish.

But Shiro, practically asleep, ended the match in 42 seconds.

Gabriel, aside from moving and attacking a little at the beginning, spent the rest of the match with her hands off the keyboard, screaming in despair.

To make matters worse, Shiro's half-asleep combo included a taunt emote.

"Weak!"

Now, on the ga's results screen, that taunt was displayed in large letters.

"Brother, can I go back to sleep now?"

Shiro snuggled into Haruto's arms, closing her eyes, not even sparing a glance at her opponent.

Gabriel sat on the floor, her eyes dull, looking utterly defeated.

"H-How could this happen... She was definitely cheating! There's no way!"

Shattered by the loss, Gabriel mumbled to herself. Haruto, holding Shiro, refocused.

"Gabriel, are you ready to keep your promise and go to class?"

Gabriel, still in her pale, broken state, forced a smile uglier than crying."How about... best two out of three?"

That wasn't part of the original deal, and she was obviously stalling.

But... whatever.

"Shiro, play one more round."

Haruto whispered into her ear.

"Ugh, so annoying... I don't want to leave brother's arms..."

She muttered.

Then she found a way to play without leaving Haruto's embrace.

She lifted her small feet and peeled off her white silk socks, exposing her delicate, fair toes. Her white, tender feet looked like warm jade, making people want to hold them, stirring a strange temptation.

With her soft little feet, she skillfully pressed the controller buttons. "Alright, let's begin." Shiro said.

Gabriel: !?

Her previously dim eyes reignited with determination.

"I'll make you regret this!"

Playing with her feet, if it wasnt an insult,

I dont know what is!

I'll make her eat those words, after all I am an ang-

"Weak!"

This ti, the match lasted 30 seconds. The taunt popped up again. Ga over.Gabriel cried.

She cried hard.

She had been utterly destroyed by a loli... using her feet. Gabriel began questioning the aning of life, her place in the universe, and whether ti was even real...

"Shiro, good job!"

Haruto praised, patting Shiro's head. She tilted her head up, smiling with sleepy eyes, enjoying the head pats.

No one cared about the devastated loser in the corner.

"Brother, my socks."

Shiro lifted her small feet.

Haruto was about to refuse and tell her to put them on herself. But Shiro expertly acted cute and whined.

Since Shiro was adorable, her technique was super effective.

After hesitating, Haruto picked up the white silk socks, took hold of her soft little foot, and began putting them back on.

As his fingers brushed against her ankle, the sensation was...

Alright, if I keep talking, I'll end up in jail.

Carrying Shiro back to the apartnt, Haruto returned and glanced at Gabriel, who looked like she was in a monochro painting.

"Gabriel, we're going to be late. Let's go."

"Mm..."

Gabriel's response was lifeless.

She had been forcibly cut off from her internet addiction.

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The two of them walked toward Sōbu High School. On the way, Haruto suddenly asked,

"Gabriel, earlier you said... you were an angel?"

Gabriel, who had been in a daze, instantly trembled all over.

"Uh... that... hahaha, I was just rambling nonsense."

She tried to brush it off. There were very strict rules in Heaven—angels who entered the human world were not allowed to reveal their identity to humans.

She had already slipped up, which was a serious violation.

"Gabriel, let teach you sothing. In situations like this, if you just admit it openly and make so bizarre declarations, you can actually get away with it, because people will just think you have a severe case of chūnibyō. But if you vaguely deny it, it'll just make them more suspicious."

Haruto explained.

Now he was certain—Gabriel really was an 'angel.'

This kid had absolutely no sense of scheming. However, despite Gabriel being an anomaly, the anomaly detection system hadn't even been triggered. She must have been classified as a Level 0 Safe anomaly.

Gabriel was humanoid and didn't affect other people's perception. So whether she was contained or not didn't really matter. But compared to Gabriel herself, Haruto realized there was a bigger issue.

An honor student angel had beco a lazy shut-in overnight just because of video gas.

This plot... felt oddly familiar to Haruto.

It was like he had seen an ani with a similar storyline before. But for so reason, he had no mory of Gabriel.

If it was an ani he had watched in his past life, why couldn't he rember Gabriel's na?

If it wasn't, then why did it feel so familiar?

There was a contradiction in Haruto's perception. And Haruto's perception was protected by a divine fragnt, it had cognitive immunity!

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A/N:

(Soone asked about Project Phoenix, thinking that a consciousness transfer combined with a cloned body would an the person is no longer the original. No need to overthink this. None of the heroines or important characters will be killed. Project Phoenix is just a safety net for regular Foundation personnel.)