My portable gaming girlfriend

“The matcha cake is amazing!”

"Hey, your mouth is full of cake crumbs, can you wipe it off?"

After the trip to the water park, we had dinner at a pizzeria and then returned to our respective homes. Sakura had a few emotional moments in the middle, and I finally got through it without any danger. After all, Mr. Han seemed to drink a lot at that time... ...Behavior is more unrestrained than usual, Shen Qing has been in a state of watching a show and has no intention of helping me at all.

At noon on Monday of the second week of the game, I handed the cake to the girl with the silver drill twin ponytails at the place I had agreed with.

Every day at noon and Feifei use cake as a reason for the joint story, it always reminds me of Mizuhara Mina from the previous game. But she is just an ordinary AI, even if the world is destroyed, as long as the file is reinstalled in the VR helmet, it will be restored.

The fluttering Chinese-style red dress, the small and delicate face gives people the feeling of a long time ago, like a boudoir lady in the Republic of China, if she—— a girl named Feifei doesn't speak...

Being eccentric is flattering, but to put it bluntly, this child is noisy and silly. Bringing her a cake always feels like a thankless task...but I dare not not do it because of the possible sidelines.

"Well, you are very competent as my servant."

"Who do you say is your servant?"

I lifted her by the back of her neck, and she immediately danced and shouted——

"Don't be so rude!"

"What are you talking about, how can it be called rude for elders to educate children?"

"You are not very old! Do you really think you are an elder?"

"I'm older than you no matter what, junior high school student."

"I, I'm not a junior high school student. I've been in this world for countless years, you brat!"

"He's obviously a junior high school student, no, his intelligence may not be at the level of a junior high school student!"

"Bastard, let me down!"

This guy became fierce and tried to turn around and bite my hand. Fortunately, I dodged away cleverly.

"There's no way—since you don't know how to respect your elders at all, I won't buy you cakes."

I put her down and got up to get out of here.

"Etc., etc!"

As I expected, she immediately grabbed the hem of my dress.

"Don't go! I get it—I'll show you something nice if you bring cake."

I don’t know why the three words “good things” were automatically distorted in my mind into something unsuitable for children——

"This is the book of favorability!"

She did not know where to take out a notebook, the cover is old cowhide, it is really an old notebook...

"As long as you open this book, you can see everyone's affection for you, okay? I don't need to explain what affection is, right?"

"What do you say this is?"

"The book of favorability!"

"No...I'm not saying I can't understand you, but do you know what you're talking about?"

"Are you stupid? Of course I know what I'm talking about. Don't you have anyone in this world you like?"

Feifei's answer made me stunned. I always thought that she was at most an NPC character similar to Mr. Han, who could give some plot assists when necessary, but I didn't expect...

"Yes, there is..."

"This book is a magical item that can show the affection of the opposite sex around you! I wouldn't show it to ordinary people!"

The girl with twin ponytails proudly climbed onto the bench in front of me and looked down at me with her hands on her hips.

"I am actually the god of love, and I can solve all your love troubles!"

So it is a notebook that can check the favorability?

You know, this kind of thing is like cheating in love games, especially in this game where the level of strategy is not determined by options but by favorability.

"Feifei..."

"Why? It's disgusting to call me that all of a sudden."

I thought of a possibility for a while...Let's try it out first...

"How did you get this book?"

"I picked it up!"

Of course she said it neatly without any doubts.

"Picked it up? Where did you pick it up? How did you pick it up?"

"Um...um~ ummmmm..."

Suddenly, she froze as if she was being questioned by me, and then she sat cross-legged as if trying to think about something, holding her head while making a troubled sound.

This kid... the strawberry panties are exposed again, are you here to give benefits?

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuah!"

"Have you thought of anything?"

"I forgot! I don't know! I can't remember the details!"

...

For a moment, the atmosphere fell into an embarrassing confusion.

"Are you stupid?"

"I'm not a fool! I'm the god of love!"

"Okay, then as a god, what did you do in the first place after picking up this book?"

I always feel like my expectations are going to be in vain...

"Ah? At the beginning, I will take this treasure and tell everyone that this is a very powerful thing. Do you want to come and have a look? I guarantee that you will not regret it! I am working very hard to help those who are distressed by love. people!"

"Then what happened?"

"Well... I don't know why, almost everyone ignores me and turns a blind eye to me. Although it failed at first, I soon understood the reason for the failure!"

"Ah, that's amazing...what's the reason?"

I almost echoed Feifei with a sticky tone and asked her to continue talking.

"Rushing can't be a good deal! Now that I've discovered lemon cheesecake and it's super delicious! I've never had anything like it! So I finally figured it out. Hey! Are you listening?"

"Well, I'm listening. So what did you realize?"

"That's good. Don't be intimidated after hearing this. Even a person like Yuelao can't take care of every couple all the time. So since he is a god, he must have offerings. I am a pious person." Will help him! So I decided to only give this book of favorability to people who are willing to bring me lemon cheesecake! How about it, isn’t it amazing?”

"Yeah, it's super awesome, so has anyone else brought you lemon cheesecake again besides me?"

"Aww!"

Suddenly her expression froze, as if she bit her tongue...

"Why, how, how... how could it not be! I am a god, super, super powerful! Let's not talk about this, can you read this book of favorability! This is a rare gift of mine, please worship me and love me , and bring me more lemon cheesecake! No! And matcha cake!"

This poor topic-changing technique...

"Oh~ So that's how it is, Lord Shenming is so powerful, so many people must have given you cakes?"

"That... of course! It's so much that I can hardly eat it!"

"In this case, I think there must be others who need Master Feifei's help more than me. To be honest, I don't have much trouble in love. Although the relationship with the person I like is not very good, it is not bad. I think I should "

"Eh?"

This time Feifei's expression was completely dumbfounded, she stared blankly at me for a while, not knowing how to react.

"So I'll leave first, and leave such a good opportunity to others. I won't bring cakes in the future. After all, Master Feifei doesn't lack such things."

After I finished speaking, I was ready to get up and leave.

"Wait! Wait! Don't deny me the cake! To be honest, no one has ever given me a cake except you! Don't go, I want to eat the cake. You can read this book of favorability !"

The crying Chinese style girl tightly hugged my waist.

"Finally tell the truth. A good boy is not allowed to lie, otherwise there will be no cake to eat, you know?"

"I'm... sorry."

"Then you told me that no one other than me gave you a cake before, is it true?"

As I said that, I took out the last piece of cake that I was going to leave for Sakura and shook it in front of her.

"Really! Really! Absolutely not lying! I really only remember you!"

When Feifei saw the new cake, she immediately let go of the hand holding me, and jumped to get it, but because of the height difference and my intentionally raised hand, she couldn't reach it.

"I want to eat cake! Everything is up to you, I'm not lying!"

Feifei, who couldn't get the cake, still had tears in her eyes that hadn't been wiped away before.

If this pear blossom sobbing with rain looks like I deliberately bullied her to others, fortunately there is no one around at this time, it seems that I have indeed gone a little too far. If this child doesn't speak, it's really pitiful and cute...

But there are still some gains, not just the book of favorability. The child Feifei is indeed an important functional NPC, the purpose should be to provide players with props such as the Book of Favorability.

From her expression at the beginning, I thought she was our goal this time - awakening AI. But from the conversation just now, it can be determined that she does not have the memory of the previous player's game like Sakura.

As for why she has the book of favorability and is vague about its origin, whether it is a doubtful point, just ask Shen Qing later.

Even the awakened AI can't completely break away from the initial attributes and settings in the game. This child is so silly that he has no resistance to cakes. Even if he has self-awareness, he will not lie. It seemed that it was really not her, and thinking that it would be too pitiful to be like this again, I still handed her the last piece of cake.

The child moved swiftly like a cheetah. In an instant, there was nothing in my hands, and the silver-haired twintails were bouncing lightly on the bench.

Finally, let me sigh, Feifei is so stupid, it is a ghost to succeed in approaching others with this method that looks like a sales promotion or even a pyramid scheme. I always think of the kind of person who sells you to scan the code on the subway unconsciously. It is normal to be ignored.

"How do you use this book?"

"You have to touch it once for your information to show up."

It looks like a beaver eating tree roots, and what it says is so unclear.

I reached out and pressed against the cover of the book.

"Well, well, let me see...and don't talk while eating."

She opened the notebook and I saw a series of names.

Lin Liyu 80

Yang Jiahui 30

Bai Qingyue 58

Han Yaqian 50

Pickled cabbage 50

Japanese yarn 10

...

It's strange these numbers, aren't the names in front of them all female characters in the game?

Wait, I suddenly understood what was recorded on it——

These names and numbers are the NPC's favorability towards me!

So this is a book that shows favorability? This thing is simply amazing! Not only are there a few heroines, but even the teachers and all the female students in the class are on the list. It's really an artifact of love games!

But what makes me concerned is that Lin Liyu's favorability is extremely high, what does it represent?

Also, why the favorability of Sakura's replacement characters Yukina and Shen Qing's replacement characters and yarn are at two extremes. It stands to reason that Shen Qing's favorability towards me should be 0, while Sakura, whose favorability should be full, is only 50, no matter which point I don't quite understand.

Because Shen Qing is in charge of investigating the strategy, she must see her again before asking her about the book.

"Snapped--"

The notebook was suddenly closed.

"If you want to keep watching, bring me more cakes."

In this way, the cake in Feifei's hand has already disappeared, and this child can only act so vigorously if he eats it...

"...Aren't you afraid of getting fat after eating so much cake?"

"Hmph, stupid. Unlike ordinary humans like you, I won't get fat no matter how much I eat!"

And remember to eat but not to fight, once the threat of cake is gone, he will immediately return to his nature.

I understand the routine of this game. Whether it was Yang Jiahui who helped her buy cakes at the beginning and met Yang Jiahui who was working part-time, or exchanging cakes for the opportunity to check the favorability book, they all seemed to point out one point.

This girl named Feifei is equivalent to a guide to help players in this game, although she does not have this self-awareness.

"—So you are such a person, I understand."

Oops, I blurted out my feelings accidentally.

"It's useless to be envious, this kind of physique is not something you can learn. You can't imagine the price you have to pay to become such a person—"

Seems like she always thought I was talking about the relationship between eating cake and being fat...

"In short, remember to continue to bring cakes to eat!"

Seeing her brightening face and still silly tone of voice, I think the trace of loneliness I felt earlier should be just an illusion.

Ding dong——

It's the bell for class.

"Then I should go back and continue to bring you cakes tomorrow."

"You are so active, do you really want to be my servant? Then besides lemon cheese and matcha, you have to bring me new flavors of cake..."

What a pushy guy...

"A Yuan? So you are here."

I just walked out of the shadow behind the teaching building, only to find Sakura standing not far in front of me. I clearly told her not to follow me all the time, why...

And what I want to know is how long she has been standing here...

"Because I'm bored in the classroom, I searched for a long time before I found A Yuan here... so you've been resting here these days?"

She smiled and talked, but it always gave me a terrible feeling... Could it be that she saw my conversation with Feifei? Although we are not in that kind of relationship, there is always a feeling of being caught and raped by a girlfriend...

"Well, it is true that you are resting over there..."

"But it's so strange, A Yuan seems to have been talking to someone..."

She tilted her head slightly confused.

——This is even more terrifying! It has been implied that the rape is so obvious, if I don't take the initiative to say it, I will be fragmented on the spot, right? !

"That girl just met by chance, there is no relationship between us! You have to believe me..."

"Girl?"

She squinted her eyes, which made me more sure that she had misunderstood something!

"Looks like a junior high school student—said she wanted to eat cakes very much. I thought she was very pitiful, so I agreed to bring some for her..."

"Elementary, middle school, student?"

Misunderstanding, it seems to have become serious! Have you started to suspect that I am a pervert who attacked junior high school students? !

"No no no I'm not interested in junior high school students at all, you have to know that I'm only interested in girls of the same age like Sakura..."

"A Yuan, you seem to have misunderstood something..."

Sakura sighed.

"Misunderstand?"

I was dumbfounded.

"Yeah—from the beginning, the one thing I didn't understand was—who the hell is Ah Yuan talking to?"

"The little girl with the twin tails over there... wait, is she gone?"

"So, there was no one there from the beginning..."

Sakura said helplessly.

"No one? Sakura, when did you start talking?"

"It started when I stood here and watched A Yuan sitting under the tree over there. That's why I wondered why A Yuan seemed to be talking to someone—there was no one there."

Mingming was talking to Feifei, but Sakura couldn't see her. Sakura has no doubts, because she has never seen such a situation, and I am different. The midday sun was shining, and I only felt a chill down my spine.

Feifei is not a human being, so what exactly is she...

But soon I will know.

"—You mean Feifei? I remember that there is indeed this person, no, it's not a person but a ghost—anyway, it's not an important character, so I forgot to tell you."

After class, I met Shen Qing on the rooftop, and she casually told me that she had forgotten about it.

"Isn't it important to have ghosts? The existence of ghosts means that this game has supernatural powers!"

"It's just a setting. This character can only be seen by game players, so it's normal that Sakura and I, who replaced the original NPC, couldn't see her."

Shen Qing said it lightly, she doesn't seem to understand my current mood.

"Then... Isn't Feifei very pitiful... She keeps saying that others can't see her and ignore her..."

"Because of the setting that she is a ghost, naturally others cannot observe her, no matter what she thinks or does."

"Does Feifei know that she is dead? Why did she become a ghost?"

"I'm only responsible for finding strategies and helping you advance the plot. I won't do such hateful things as spoilers."

She acted like she couldn't admit she was wrong.

"It's also possible that Sakura is the first artificial intelligence you come into contact with, and she happened to have self-awareness, which gave you some illusions. In the final analysis, the essence of most AIs is a piece of code. Don't substitute easily Your own feelings, they don't actually feel anything at all, just find a suitable response from a huge database based on your state, this girl won't feel any sadness, don't invest too much in meaningless NPC Feelings."

"But……"

"Otherwise you are not suitable to stay in our organization, you are too naive."

I don't know why Shen Qing said it in a serious manner, since I only knew that she was Wanyue, I vaguely felt that this person seemed to have a strange sense of disapproval of artificial intelligence.

Maybe what Shen Qing said is right, but I still plan to bring several more flavors of cakes before I meet that clamoring girl next time.

It doesn't matter if I'm naive or inappropriate, if I wasn't like that, Sakura wouldn't be brought out and experience a different life.

"Okay, I'll temporarily accept the fact that this game has supernatural powers—then you should also know the book of favorability, right? What about the favorability of all the female npcs displayed on it?"

I decided to get on with business.

"Oh? How is it?"

I told her about the favorability.

"That's an important reminder for you from the game. Favorability is related to the interaction between the player and the game characters - the calculation of favorability is very complicated. On the one hand, it depends on the NPC's response to your actions, and on the other hand, it depends on you. The frequency of interaction - there is a set of calculation rules in it. But for the special case of Sakura and me, the former cannot be calculated, so don't think that I will have 10 favorability with you, it's just you and 'me' It’s just that there are more physical interactions. You interact a lot with Sakura’s body, so you have reached 50 favorability with this person ‘Yukina’, which has nothing to do with Sakura’s manipulation.”

It turned out that it wasn't Sakura's true liking for me, it was just because we always dated together...

"Of course, this is just a model calculation of the system - the real goodwill between people is far from that simple, how can AI fully figure it out."

As if thinking of something, Shen Qing suddenly stared at the light blue sky in the distance and fell into deep thought.

"...I understand how you feel. In fact, I can say that I was tricked by an artificial intelligence companion."

In fact, Shen Qing's views on artificial intelligence are not incomprehensible to me.

"Have you used that thing?"

It's rare that she seems to have some interest in this thing.

"Well, it was a birthday present from my parents when I was in junior high school. It was the latest 6th generation artificial intelligence companion. I always thought it really understood the people around me, until it told me to confess to the girl I had a crush on in public. I was laughed until I graduated..."

"Pfft—however you look at it, the failure of the confession is your own fault, right?"

If I read correctly, Shen Qing smiled?

"It promises me swearingly that I will believe it if this thing succeeds. There are also times like this when you can actually laugh."

"First of all, your sadness has nothing to do with me, and secondly... this is why you dare not talk to girls?"

"—I don't want to admit it, but that's how it is."

"It's just being rejected in public. My heart is so fragile."

"It's so easy to say that you refuse in public, go and try!"

"me……"

Suddenly, as if thinking of something, she raised her head and looked at the sky.

"It's not that I've been rejected before, and more times than you think."

...

Shen Qing is a well-known Bingshan beauty in the school, and her family is not ordinary - I remember Shen Kong who appeared on the news not long ago is her brother, he is a researcher of the artificial intelligence giant Endia, I have heard that it is not A company that ordinary people can enter. From Shen Qing's usual style, it can be seen that she is a veritable young lady. This kind of life is different from ours from the very beginning. It's not that the starting line is different, it's the end point where she was born directly, but...what's the matter with being rejected? Woolen cloth?

"Getting rejected once and then blaming your smartmate for everything, so you're such a boring person."

"Okay, I'm too fragile, you taught me a lesson."

Since she didn't explain further, it's useless to ask her, maybe she will only tell people she really considers her friends, but I don't expect myself to have this opportunity... In fact, her favorability towards me... Well, I'm afraid it's not as high as recorded in the 'Book of Favorability'.

Maybe, she is no different from us. In the world she lived in before, she was also an ordinary person, that's why she has such emotion, and there will be an otaku girl who is different from the top students on the surface and addicted to games every day. contrast.

But there is one difference between me and Shen Qing. I also think that the artificial intelligence companion is incomplete. I have been tricked by it. The reason why I choose my current major is because I believe that if it is not perfect, I can make it perfect by myself. That's enough', while Shen Qing chooses to blindly despise. The appearance of Sakura did give me such a possibility, which is one of the reasons why I joined DEBUG.

If this reason is stated, Shen Qing will definitely not agree with it. I don't want to cause a quarrel, so I didn't open my mouth.

"Huh—Ah Yuan is actually here! I've searched the whole building."

Sakura appeared at the entrance of the rooftop panting over there.

"Sakura, good afternoon."

Shen Qing greeted Sakura normally.

"Hey, why is Shen Qing here? The lonely man and the widow are on the rooftop... I won't forgive you if you're doing something lewd!"

Where did I learn these strange words... After changing clothes together and the disturbance in the water park last time, the relationship between Shen Qing and Ying has inexplicably improved. name.

I really don't understand the psychology of girls, obviously they were still in the same situation before.

"Sakura, you're thinking too much, we're just talking about missions."

Sakura has a big brain when it comes to relationship issues, so I have to explain it quickly.

"Is A Yuan okay today? Can you go home with me?"

She said rushing up to hold my hand...

"Okay, okay, don't pull me..."

I was thinking about saying hello to Shen Qing before I left, but I found that she didn't look at this side at all, probably because she didn't bother to talk to our "childish couple"... In the end, after school, I was buying cakes and taking Sakura got rid of it while shopping together.