Clack, clack, clack...
The sound of typing on a phone keyboard. Before long, Alain stopped his dancing thumbs and sent the email.
[I need your help.]
He understood that when conversing with Monika, there was actually no need for beating around the bush. Expressing his request directly would suffice.
[You still intend to have me help you get in?]
[Correct.] after sending this, Alain added another line:
[You aren't human, right?]
The sound of her replying slowed down slightly. Alain waited for a few seconds before her answer arrived.
[En. You guessed it after all. What do you think I am?]
Alain replied: [Digital Lifeform?]
[Your description is quite apt... Not bad.] Her next email brought the topic back around.
[I can indeed help you enter that residence, but... not by directly telling you the address.
Moreover, the Property Management is an obstacle you cannot bypass no matter what. If you want to enter the residence, you still need to go through the Property Management and have them personally escort you there.]
Alain rubbed his chin. Just as he expected—the answer to reaching the residence did not lie in "directly obtaining the address" or "filling out an application form."
Instead, it was the condition he had ignored from the very beginning: obtaining Yang Wanhua's permission.
This was undoubtedly the most convenient and efficient plan at present. By the same logic... Alain guessed that this was something only Monika—the ally situated extremely close to Yang Wanhua—could accomplish.
[What do you intend to do?]
[It's very simple. Just as you said, I am a Digital Lifeform. Mimicking her voice slightly isn't anything difficult. However, conversely, Alain...]
Beep~
A new email.
[How do you intend to repay me for this matter?]
The corner of Alain's mouth clicked in a "tsk." Sure enough, it wouldn't be that easy.
[What do you want me to do?]
[You guess.]
Looking at the email, Alain's line of sight seemed to travel along the electromagnetic waves, arriving right in front of Monika's phone.
Reflected on that screen was likely her expression wanting to prank him.
Alain understood that the moment for him to pay up had arrived.
[I... can treat you to dinner.] Alain looked at the message he just sent, felt it was a bit unstable, and added another sentence,
[However, you absolutely cannot get touchy-feely with me. We are really just simply eating a meal. After all, I am a man with a family.]
[?] It was her usual question mark.
[You already know I am a Digital Lifeform, so why can you still associate it with that kind of thing? Furthermore, aside from the willingness to cooperate with you, I hold no other feelings for you. Please do not misunderstand.]
[So, it's just a physical relationship?] Alain's reply.
[Get lost.] Her reply.
Alain looked at that single phrase and couldn't help but chuckle. He continued to ask, [Then what do you want me to do?]
Monika didn't stand on ceremony either, sending her demand over:
[I hope that after this event, you will treat me as a Mita.]
"..."
Alain secretly pondered what exactly she meant.
Could it be... Monika really was sexually frustrated and wanted to use Alain as a tool to satisfy her fetishes?
Indeed. It's possible that a Digital Lifeform browsed too much of that sort of information online and became curious about that sort of thing...
And the only male by her side capable of traveling to and from the Game World—Alain—became her target.
A tool for venting desire, is it... Alain gnawed on his thumb.
Currently, he felt as if he had become the "wife" of some wage slave in a certain NTR game.
And Monika was that wage slave's "Boss."
The Boss tells the wage slave's wife: If you don't want your husband to be fired,
Then come...
Thinking of this, Alain lamented that Monika's schemes were quite deep. To think she coveted his body!
Beep~
[I don't know why, but my code just felt a chill. You must have associated this with something rude, right?]
[No. But don't think you can obtain my heart so easily; I have always been unyielding and faithful.]
[Oh my, it's not that. Where on earth did your thoughts go?] Her email appeared very helpless.
Alain also couldn't help but burst into laughter. Cracking a few small jokes with her and teasing her a bit felt pretty good.
But he still harbored doubts about Monika's phrase "treat me as a Mita."
[Can you explain in detail? Your request.]
[Actually, you don't need to overthink it.] Monika's reply, [How you treat Mita, just treat me the same way, and that will be fine.]
"..." Seeing this, Alain roughly understood her meaning.
Alain treated Mita like a treasure cupped in his palms. Couldn't be touched roughly, couldn't be hurt.
Although he occasionally had tendencies to bully her in daily life, he had always cared for her with great affection.
And Monika wanted Alain to protect her, just as he protected Mita.
She wanted to occupy the same weight on Alain's scales as Mita.
This way, in the future when her identity is discovered by Yang Wanhua, she could receive Alain's desperate protection.
Beep~
[Although I still haven't figured out her mind to this day, after long-term observation, I understand—]
[She is an extremely dangerous anti-social personality. In her eyes, any human or Digital Lifeform is likely no different from "decorations" or "tools."]
[But you are different, Alain. Perhaps you are the only figure in this world who can make her thoroughly break down, disintegrate, and collapse.]
[She will never feel despair, but you—can make her despair.]
[You are the only sword that can kill Yang Wanhua.]
She said a lot, and Alain understood a lot.
To Alain, Yang Wanhua was a [Nemesis]. But wasn't Alain also a nemesis to her?
The two belonged to a relationship of mutual restraint.
And Monika had pinpointed exactly this, hoping to obtain Alain's protection. Protection as meticulous as that directed at Mita.
She didn't intend to merely maintain a simple cooperative relationship with Alain; she wanted to go deeper, to become an ally like Mita.
[This calculation of yours... is really far-sighted.]
He lamented once again: it was truly great that Monika was an ally.
[So, your answer?] Her email.
[I agree.] Alain's reply.
His gaze looked toward the clouds at the horizon.
Those two snow-white clouds were extending a warm white branch, connecting with each other.
Becoming the same entity.
Beep~
[I will help you enter the residence. But at this time, shouldn't you send something to a lady?]
Alain smiled gently, typing out the characters one by one,
[Happy cooperation!]
[Mn, although it's a bit different from what I imagined. But I'll accept it reluctantly.]
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