When the plot-skips players into the game world Chapter 5: 3 Aiwass Moriarty2

Finally, she was killed, and after losing most of her spirituality, she shrank into a fla butterfly, which Aiwass contracted to beco his first familiar. Aiwass used this thod to preserve her spirituality, hoping to eventually find the master of the "Insect Amber" who possessed the legendary revival magic to bring her back to life.

Only in version 5.0 of the main story did Aiwass master a new ability. He could seal the theoretically unkillable phantom demons into cards, which acted as enhancent-type equipnt to arm his familiars. It was only then that Aiwass finally received a major enhancent that was exclusive to him.

After that, he stopped joining players in dungeon raids and instead beca the plot's finishing move against phantom demon-type bosses in the CG.

"...Brother?"

Just as Aiwass ca to this realization, he suddenly heard a young voice.

He was startled.

Hayna, excitedly discussing "Sherlock and Deduction" with Aiwass, also instinctively turned her head when she heard the voice.

There was a little girl standing silently at the door.

"You woke up yesterday, just when I was asleep. After I woke up, you went back to sleep," she said, sowhat aggrieved and sowhat astonished. "Brother, how co you're... in a wheelchair now?

"—And who is she?"

She was dressed in the sa pure white fluffy pajamas as Aiwass, her silver-white hair reaching her shoulders, her deep red pupils reminiscent of roses. Her features were delicate and gentle, evoking the image of a white cat or rabbit, a type utterly different from Aiwass's dazzling handsoness. Whether it was her eyebrows, hair color, or pupil color, everything proved that there was no blood relation between the two.

If there was any resemblance between them, it was that sense of frailty passed down in their lineage.

She had a similar frailty to Aiwass, and it was even more pronounced in her.

The girl's skin was sowhat sickly, almost transparently pale. She stood at the door unconsciously leaning on the doorfra, her body slightly tilted to shift her weight and reduce the pressure of standing upright.

—Such a cute girl!

Hayna's eyes lit up.

Like seeing an adorable pet, she wanted to get closer but feared she might scare the other.

"It's okay, Yuli. It's just temporary. This is Senior Hayna; she had so things to ask," said Aiwass, smiling and addressing the girl with a nickna just as he rembered. But for so reason, it felt awkward and unnatural.

It was like not using friends' nas for a long ti, calling them by nicknas instead, and feeling strange when suddenly calling them by their full nas as if the na didn't belong to them.

After a montary daze, he opened his arms slightly to Yulia: "Co here for a hug."

"...Okay."

Yulia obediently wobbled over, as if she had just woken up, exuding a sense of weakness that made one worry about her falling.

As he embraced Yulia, who snuggled up to him, Aiwass felt a sudden mont of disorientation.

The Yulia he held now was from this world, yet it felt like another world entirely.

Having received the "prophecies" from another world, Aiwass suddenly felt a certain fear for the future.

Yulia would turn into a monster... and then, she would die.

—At that mont, Aiwass's mories overlapped with reality. They rged completely, and the mories from his two lives beca clear. It was like a sleepy person suddenly awakened from a nightmare, finally able to distinguish whether they were dreaming or not.

It took Aiwass two full days after awakening his past life's mories to finally realize that he was not dreaming. He had truly crossed over to another world.

He had co to this world at a very young age, and only just recently rembered who he was.

But now, he also clearly realized another fact—that the current plot was different.

The Aiwass in the ga definitely had not contracted with the Shadow Demon.

Because the ritual this ti was interrupted by players, it never successfully took place.

And this probably ant that there were no "player characters" in this world.

In an epic fantasy ga, players usually take on the role of a one-ti savior; and if the ga is an MMO, they usually beco a continuous, high-frequency, low-forgiveness savior.

They have to save the world with every major update.

...And that would be troubleso for him.

Because "players" are, by design, descendants of the "Serpent Father," one of the Nine Pillar Gods who once controlled "The Path of Transcendence." This is the reason players can have "Experience Points" and "Levels," allowing them to grow stronger endlessly, unimpeded by any threshold or talent. By design, players didn't actually do dungeon raids, nor did they form teams. Instead, they defeated all enemies by themselves.

But Aiwass, despite being a key character, couldn't defeat calamities like the "Fallen Celestial Marshal," "Calamity Demon Dragon," or "Shadow of Avalon," the world-ending disasters, by re conventional strength.

Aiwass knew that in about half a year, sothing terrible would happen to the Kingdom of Avalon.

Though he didn't rember the main story in detail, at least he rembered key monts like the version update.

What he told Hayna was no lie. The Kingdom of Avalon would indeed face a catastrophe in half a year, and it was deeply related to the current unnoticed Demon Ritual.

But now, Aiwass still had a chance to change everything.

To change everything—

He hugged Yulia tighter subconsciously, and the girl, sensing sothing, asked perceptively, "Brother?"