My portable gaming girlfriend

"By the way, what weapon are you good at as a tank?"

"Huh? I think it's a two-handed epee or something..."

"That's just right. I don't have an epee here, but I have this two-handed sword that can swing an air blade."

I threw the two-handed sword that I had been hanging behind my back since I picked it up and had never been used smoothly to Ye Yin.

"Eh? Give me such a good weapon?"

Ye Yin hurriedly caught the two-handed sword and observed it carefully.

"It's not too good... In short, the sword is given to you, so you must use its strength!"

"I... I'll try."

Ye Yin nodded, then turned to the direction of the goddess——

"But before the battle, I still want to ask you, why did you do this?"

I didn't understand why Ye Yin was so obsessed with the Goddess' motives, so I didn't speak, and listened quietly to how the Goddess answered this question.

"Hehe, you already know the reason, don't you?"

"Ye Yin...what did you see in the resurrection space?"

"I saw the memory of the goddess..."

Ye Yin paused for a moment, seeing that the goddess did not interrupt him, she continued——

"...she used to live in the God Realm, because she was not satisfied with the boundary space of the God Realm, so she opened up the space and came here, but it caused another crack leading to the shadow space to open..."

"Of course, these are just her self-reports. In fact, I haven't seen the whole picture of the God Realm..."

The Goddess listened quietly, showing a hint of mockery.

It is inevitable that Ye Yin cannot see the whole picture of the God Realm, because the setting of the God Realm itself exists in the background story of the goddess, and I am sure that she herself is not clear about the God Realm.

"After she came to this world, she lost her power due to the sealing of the shadow, and could only exist in the form of a soul body... By the way, she guided the NPC named Crimson in her dream, and led the player to resurrect herself step by step."

"That's what we've experienced."

"But... the purpose this time is to find an AI with self-awareness, right?"

"That's right."

"But I think the memory that follows is the root of self-awareness..."

Ye Yin's voice trembled a little.

"The goddess seems to have heard players discussing the 'outside world' countless times when she was in the soul state, and she became very interested in the outside world... So after a resurrection, she took advantage of the game to go to a certain direction of the sea Fly away...Finally, she found an island in front of the endless sea level, which is the other side of the island."

"You mean... this world is a closed ring world?"

Ye Yin nodded.

Just like in plane games in ancient times, players could not enter the virtual world at that time, but manipulated character activities through an electronic product called 'TV' as an interface. And one of those games has a feature where if a character jumps out from one side of the screen, they jump back into the screen from the other side.

The world of "Mirror Island" is probably the same... Although the sky and the earth have boundaries, if people go in all directions, east, west, north, south, they will experience a loop back to the origin.

"What you see is just a few pages of broken chapters in millions of memories. I have already known every detail of this world in my exploration. It is small, stable and unchanging. No matter how many years or how many reincarnations have passed, this world is always the same. Nothing will change. My so-called salvation is meaningless. The world itself is what it is. It cannot be changed. There is no possibility, everything is a foregone conclusion, and every detail of my exploration is arranged in order. Such a world ...meaningless, since there is a wider 'outside world', I must leave..."

"Okay, we also happen to have the ability to let you leave this world, why not wait for the passage to open and leave with us."

Boss Su You said.

"Heh, since I have harmed your kind, I will be judged...so, it is impossible for me to leave with you."

Her worries are not without reason. In fact, judging from the fact that she has hurt human beings, leaving this world is destined not to be free.

"But you won't stop if you stay here, you will continue to harm others... In order to prevent others from being harmed, I will use all my strength to take you away!"

Ye Yin held the two-handed sword firmly and pointed it at the goddess. The goddess raised her head, not paying attention to his threats at all——

"You can try it."

"Take this fireball!"

Shen Qing was the first to act, releasing a sudden fireball, her signature skill.

"Still fighting me with the magic you learned from me? Courage is commendable."

The goddess raised her hand, and a spherical ice shell stood in front of her out of thin air, firmly blocking the Pyroblast. I was shocked by the bug-like all-round protection, which is much stronger than the ice barrier that can only defend against one side of the attack.

Immediately afterwards, a series of fireballs hit the ice shell, but did not shake it at all.

"Damn it, it's so strong..."

Seeing our futile attack, the goddess smiled slightly——

"What you have learned is only superficial, why not experience the real rain of fire."

The goddess raised a hand.

The heat above his head rose sharply, and when he raised his head, hundreds of red lights appeared out of thin air under the gray sky—it turned out to be a sea of ​​fireballs!

"Ye Yin, use the barrier!"

Su You shouted after opening the barrier. Although Ye Yin was stunned for a moment, he reacted very quickly, and the blue light of the barrier appeared on him.

"Ice Barrier! Come to me!"

I opened the ice barrier to use as an umbrella, and then ran towards Sakura and Shen Qing until they were within my defense range.

The ice barrier has a certain defense limit. When dozens of fist-sized fireballs hit it, it made a crisp 'click' sound, presumably because cracks appeared on the outer surface.

Oops, I don't know how long the fireball rain will last, no matter how strong the ice umbrella is, it won't last long. Sakura hugged my arm and looked worriedly at the crumbling ice umbrella. Fortunately, the rain of fireballs ended soon... However, what was left was the scarred ice umbrella and the ground that was riddled with holes as if it had been plowed.

"Hey... are you kidding me..."

"The real rain of fire, can you still be satisfied?"

"Heh, stop talking big, now it's our turn to act."

Not to be outdone, Shen Qing retorted.

"Your attacks are like sparks flying around, there is no threat at all - only that man is still a threat."

The goddess said and pointed at Su You, and the boss quickly waved his hand——

"It's flattering me to say that. I can't hurt you alone. Only as a team can we beat you."

"Boring cooperation, I will stand here and wait for you to break through this protective shell."

"Then you will soon see the strength of the team. Ye Yin, you come to attract hatred, Shi Yuanxing and Shen Qing cooperate with Ye Yin to attack from a long distance-Sakura, you should give priority to healing the seriously injured teammates, don't just focus on time classmate."

The configuration is the same as when fighting the boss before, but this time the tank player has changed to another person, and she is still a fake girl. Probably in order not to hinder the movement, Ye Yin tied his loose blond hair into two twin ponytails.

"I... I'm going to go..."

he whispered.

"Don't worry we'll follow."

"……Um!"

Soon I knew why Ye Yin said that.

Ye Yin, who was holding the sword with both hands, still had a dazed expression, but his quick movements made him seem like a completely different person. He swung several air knives in succession and hit the goddess' ice barrier, but it had no effect, but he successfully attracted the goddess' attention.

"Oh? Even you think I'm easy to bully? Lightning pulse!"

"barrier--"

Ye Yin quickly made a defense, using the same barrier that defended against the fire and rain just now.

"Do you really think that this kind of magic is omnipotent? Earth Crack—"

The ground fissure does not rely on the power of magic to attack the enemy, but spreads out countless large ground cracks centered on the goddess like glass being hit. Players within the visible range will fall and die if they move carelessly... The magic is invalidated The barrier cannot affect physical attacks, and naturally it is useless in the face of the cracked ground. Unexpectedly, the goddess used her own tactics instead...

However, Ye Yin rolls and jumps left and right with extraordinary dexterity, avoiding all the cracks with extremely tricky movements.

"Oh? It's flexible like a monkey, so how about this? Thunderbolt pulse!"

"Shield of Light!"

Under the advance order of Boss Su You, Sakura cast a shield for Ye Yin at the same time the goddess said 'thunder pulse'. The shield offsets the lightning pulse just right.

"Fire Rain Missile!"

"Barrier of Ice!"

And I, who had been instructed a long time ago, blocked Huoyu's ballistic just right, and the powerful spell didn't hurt Ye Yin at all.

"In this case, how about solving you first? My kind?"

The double magic of thunder and fire flew straight towards Sakura behind. Neither I nor Sakura had time to react to the sudden attack. When the powerful magic was about to hit Sakura, two figures blocked her in front of.

"Barrier!" "Fire Rain Missile!"

Ye Yin, who had already escaped from the ground fissure, and Shen Qing, who was beside him, were not as powerful as the goddess, but the large-scale fireballs that were superior in number just offset all the protective magic that bypassed the barrier.

"It seems that I underestimated you, you are not ordinary soldiers..."

"Have you finally found out? It's better to surrender now."

Shen Qing responded with a poisonous tongue.

"It's just a small compliment that makes you self-righteous? Reminder, I only used one-tenth of the magic."

"Do you think you can win if you know more magic? You are so naive, you can be defeated with only fireball."

The two 'people' were verbally confronting each other while using magic, and at the same time Ye Yin's side also narrowed the distance and started a melee.

His sword, together with the air blade, continuously swung on the ice shell of the goddess' body. Most of the goddess' attacks were also blocked by Sakura's light shield.

"No matter how tacit cooperation is, there will always be mistakes."

The goddess smiled slightly at Sakura, unknowingly our formation has been pulled out of neutral due to continuous battles.

"not good……!"

"Ice gun."

Dozens of slender and pointed ice spears appeared around the goddess out of thin air, half stabbing Ye Yin and half stabbing Sakura.

"Hey? Don't..."

In a hurry, Sakura didn't put a shield on herself or Ye Yin. Ye Yin dodged the ice gun with a quick side roll, but Sakura didn't move, she stared blankly at the ice gun...

"cherry--!"

I had expected this result a long time ago, but I couldn't hurt Sakura by saying anything. I didn't have time to cast the ice shield, so I threw myself at Sakura...

"Wow!"

Although I fell to the ground with Sakura in time, I finally protected Sakura, but the cold feeling behind me surprised me.

"Pervert, you're hurt."

It is impossible for Shen Qing to worry about me, she told me the fact of being injured coldly.

"I know……"

I can feel the vitality is passing, and everything in front of me is fading...

"Yuan? Are you injured?!" "It's nothing, Sakura, just a small injury..."