My portable gaming girlfriend

What exactly is this 'brain worm' that Anorv and Hades mentioned? Anorv said they came from the 'Bug Abyss', but I've never been in that world personally, maybe I should add Pluto friends to ask about the details afterwards.

The "combined creatures" made of bugs did not attack the larger Pluto and Veramia, but instead came towards us.

The two in the sky immediately attacked their heads. But the "aggregate creature" does not seem to be like the zombies whose heads are broken and lose their ability to move in zombie games. Every time their head is knocked off, a new one will be reborn from the body.

Even the all-out attack of Villamia and Hades couldn't stop it from rushing towards us.

It swallowed Anorv in one gulp...

"Ayuan... let's go...you can't stop it, if this continues, everyone will die..."

"cherry?"

She forced her eyes that were about to close, and for the first time told me the words to let me go.

"We took a lot of effort to rescue you, how could we leave!"

Shen Qing responded first.

"If you don't go, you will die..."

"Hehehe~ I'm sorry to interrupt your touching conversation like no one else, but...you don't think I'm offline, do you?"

Women are not devoured. She sat in the mouth of the 'aggregated creature', looking down at us. The eyes are disgusting, like looking at pork on a chopping board.

"Since the 'brain worm' is one of us, how could he eat me? I am the hardest-working servant of the master~"

"What the hell is this brain worm?"

"Huh? I can't believe it. You don't care about your girlfriend, but you're the first to ask this question... But I've always admired your eagerness to learn ~ so I'll give you a free make-up class, listen up—"

The woman who changed her face faster than turning the pages of a book suddenly changed into a teaching tone——

"The 'brain worm' is the most dangerous creature in the fishy worm abyss. It will invade the thinking systems of other AIs. The AI ​​that has been invaded for a long time will 'spontaneously' awaken self-awareness, and at the same time, it will be unaware that it will be 'brain worms'." Worms' affect thinking. 'Brainworms' can escape from the Abyss of Fishworms and enter other worlds through the ability of another creature 'Bridge Worms'. In addition, I suspect that the awakened self-awareness in this situation often contains malicious intentions, at least what I have learned Several targets in the information have traces of 'brain worm' infection."

"Is Sakura infected?"

"Oh? So you still care about her? But she doesn't~ Her malice is completely a bug born by herself, and she is a born villain just like me~"

"She's not a villain, she's totally different from you."

"Then tell me what's different?"

"like this!"

Ye Yin, who had been in contact with the goddess of Mirror Island just now, and was cast on her body by light magic while Anorv was not paying attention, jumped up and attacked the 'dragon head' at the moment when she was ready.

"Stand up and cut!"

Anorv finally felt a little surprised - she watched Ye Yin's spear from top to bottom, stabbing the dragon's head on her head with great force.

The bugs reacted and left the dragon body to block Ye Yin's attack, but it was too late.

This time, the spear went through Anorv's chest.

"Ah……"

The woman nailed to the ground chuckled lightly.

"It's amazing... Really amazing! Is this the so-called battle between boys and girls full of friendship and love... After defeating this evil boss like me, you are indeed partners of justice..."

"But it's useless! There's only one 'brain worm'...you can't find it, kill it, and all these worms won't die! Hahaha..."

The black worm once again formed a 'aggregate creature', this time its target was Sakura——

"Time travels far!"

There should be very few things that can make Shen Qing shout out so disregarding her image.

I didn't have time to say anything, I ran towards Sakura, she was very dangerous.

Sakura was uncharacteristically looking at me with a complicated expression.

"A Yuan, get out of here..."

"what are you talking about?"

"Hehe~ You've been expecting him to save you, but now you let him go, don't you think you're hypocritical?"

Anorv sneered.

"...You can't get hurt because of me..."

I grabbed her by the shoulder. At this time, the "aggregate creature" had come to Sakura's back, and I knew it had opened its mouth wide and wanted to swallow us in one bite. If we don't go, we will also become part of the "aggregate organisms".

Shen Qing's bullet hit its head and burst, but it had no effect.

Ye Yin attacked the 'aggregated creature' behind me, but was swung away by the suddenly extended 'claw' made of worms.

"Go away..."

"It doesn't matter!"

Even if it's cheating I want to tell her we're just in the game, we're players, and players don't die.

Don't worry about anything, just standing together is enough.

The insect's sharp claws pierced and hooked my shoulder, and I felt an upward force. Are they going to pull me into the sky?

I was rising irresistibly, I heard Shen Qing and Ye Yin's attacks, but it was useless.

Sakura subconsciously stretched out her hand, and I stretched out my hand too——

"Ahhhhh—!"

She let out a sharp cry, and two beams of emissive light shot out from her back to both sides, leaving a clear mosaic pattern in the space the light passed through.

The mosaic will spread out dozens of cubic meters in an instant, and even a different scene appears - a bit like the space cracks created by Anorv when he came, but now the cracks are all over the world, and there is a sudden storm between heaven and earth Discoloration.

"Sakura, stop..."

I am very familiar with this situation, and Shen Qing should also——

It was the effect of Sakura's uncontrollable 'fragmentation' ability, she lost control!

['Mirror Island Goddess' joined the communication group. 】

[Goddess of Mirror Island: What are you doing? ! 】

[Goddess of Mirror Island: That old man said that she cannot be allowed to use the 'fragmentation' ability! 】

[Mirror Island Goddess: Her personality as an 'awakened AI' will collapse, stop quickly. 】

"Hahaha~ What did I say? Maliciousness is maliciousness after all, no matter how you cover it up or suppress it, it's useless. As long as you are stimulated a little, you will return to the real you. Look, this is you..."

"Shut up, it's all your fault!"

During the diffusion of the fragmentation ability, the 'aggregate creature' was the first to be harmed. Its torso that touched the fragmentation ability seemed to be crushed by a meat grinder. Its claws no longer hooked my body, and I fell to the ground in front of Sakura.

It was writhing and struggling, but it was of no avail. The fragmentation ability diffused from Sakura's back to the main film space, and its body was eroded inch by inch into a mosaic.

"Don't... hurt A Yuan..."

She muttered to herself, I wanted to pull back her consciousness, I carefully stretched my hands from her waist to her back, while paying attention not to touch the fragmented ability of the winged eyes, while trying to hug her.

"Oh, the absorption failed, and I will not accompany you if it becomes like this."

"You want to run?"

Seeing that Anorv, the culprit, wanted to escape, Shen Qing immediately attacked, but the woman on the ground ignored the damage caused by the gunpowder explosion, and stretched out her hand to pull the gun.

Ye Yin rushed over and grabbed the handle of the gun to prevent Anorv from escaping, but she swung a knife and almost cut open his abdomen.

"'Brainworm' so quickly...disconnected!"

As soon as she finished speaking, three cracks appeared in the space, next to Bone Dragon, Dark Witch and Anorv respectively. The bone dragon, which was still dying just now, immediately shook its wings, and flew staggeringly into the largest space crack.

The Witch of Darkness, who was in an inextricable fight with the Goddess of Mirror Island, was not willing to fight. With the help of her tree of evil thoughts, which was tens of meters high and entwined with roots, she protected the Goddess of Mirror Island from a wave of flame magic.

Curly black rocks protruding from the scorched branches covered her fleeing figure...

"It's a pity, but I have to tell you that there is more than one 'brain worm'... Don't worry, we will meet again, time travels far away."

I didn't have the energy to stop it but just stared at her and walked away. Before leaving, she only left such a sentence, and then entered the space crack.

There is more than one 'brain worm'... Maybe it is a threat, including the world where it was born, 'Food Worm Abyss', but at least this 'brain worm' just now disappeared without a trace without even seeing its appearance.

Troublesome enemies are gone, but that doesn't mean the danger is over. What I have to face is a greater danger.

"Sakura, calm down..."

"I seem to be a little different... No, I can't hurt A Yuan... I can't be like...the same as before..."

Her eyes were empty, but the corners of her mouth evoked a strange smile.

"cherry?"

I reached out to put my hand on her head to comfort her.

"Do not touch me!"

"Calm down, Anorv is gone, calm down..."

【Me: Shen Qing, hurry up and leave with Ye Yin! And Villamia and Pluto also...]

【Shen Qing: I will tell them all to leave. 】

【Ye Yin: Then what do you do? 】

"Sakura, you won't hurt me, will you?"

The fragmentation ability destroyed half of the world, as if the coating on the surface was stripped, and that half of the world became a grid like the scene in the blue light wall we saw in the background wall.

"I... don't want to hurt..."

Sakura muttered to herself.

[Me: Sakura won't hurt me, you guys go away! now! 】

"Sakura, stop, let's go together."

"I...can't stop...something is going...wrong..."

【Shen Qing: What are you bragging about? The 'door' is open, come in quickly! 】

She wants to repeat the strategy of forcibly taking away Sakura in "The Story of Falling Sakura"...?

[Me: ...it can only be like this until now. 】

"Sakura, come home with me."

"No... leave... hurry up!"

Sakura hugged her chest and trembled, as if she couldn't bear a certain emotion in herself anymore, it was a strong emotion that could cause real damage to the virtual world, once it erupted, everything would be over.

"Come on...it's safe to go out."

I stretched out my left hand, but fortunately, it was on her shoulder without hindrance.

"Safe...? Where... is it safe...?"

The fragmentation ability erupting from Sakura subtly formed a wall——the wall that divided this space into two. The other side of the wall is a broken space, the game world is distorted by mosaics, and there are holes everywhere, revealing a deep gridded void.

But now something more serious has happened. The fragmentation has spread to the half space where we are, and is about to envelop Sakura and me.

I don't know what will happen to me when I get the fragmentation ability.

"Outside, there are bosses and programmers, and everyone will be fine."

"Well, boss...programmer..."

Sakura repeated what I said.

"That's right, there is also the real world, which is completely different from this side, a well-ordered world, and there will be no danger there."

I am a little anxious. Shen Qing persuaded the goddess of Mirror Island and Ye Yin to leave by some means, but she was still supporting the 'door' and waiting for Sakura and me to leave.

If she leaves here, the 'door' may cease to exist. In Sakura's current situation, she doesn't have the ability to act independently. Without the 'door', I don't know if she can leave this world safely.

"Ayuan...you know what I want...right?"

"Um?"

What does Sakura want? cake? cat? No, her expression is very serious, it must be something very important to her.

"Are...to be together forever...?"

Sakura didn't refute, she smiled again when she heard my answer——

"Yeah, isn't it good as it is now?"

"But it's dangerous here!"

"A Yuan is more afraid of death than being with me?"

Her speech speed increased.

"There are so many beautiful things in life that I haven't experienced. You once said that you want to live a comfortable life in a small town at the end of the world, and we can find it together. I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid that you will be sad."

It's unbelievable that as a straight guy, I've said the nastiest things I've said in 18 years in the last few months.

The reason for all this is that it did not originate from the confession in "The Story of Falling Cherry Blossoms"...

"As long as I'm with A Yuan, I won't be sad..."

A tear slid down her cheek.

I put my arms around her.

"Let's go!"

Shen Qing was still in front of the door. The moment I turned around, she hid her frowning brows and put on an impatient look——

[Shen Qing: Are you done talking? It just so happens that my 'Countdown to leave' has reached 3, if you don't come, you will be waiting to become a vegetable. 】

——Obviously he was worried about his companion, this guy will die once he says it?

I go to the 'door'.

"It is said that a real human heart is in the chest, where emotions can be felt. This is..."

"What?"

"nothing……"

I breathed a sigh of relief, and it would be safe to take another step. As for what Sakura said, I didn't hear clearly. Let's ask her after we leave here.

So before the world behind us collapsed, we walked into the 'gate' together.