HBWnovel Chapter 458 458: Pain
Chapter 458 458: Pain
"Pain?" Millie murmured the term. "Isn't that easy to deal with? Since she has a weakness, just beat her up! Maybe she'll run away?"
The hat-wearing girl's words did not garner the group's approval. Alain and Monika knew the difficulty involved.
The reason lay in—Yang Wanhua's personality.
Alain glanced at the clock. Two hours had passed since he came out; time was still relatively sufficient.
He looked at Monika. "But there is a problem with that, which is Yang Wanhua's personality.
"She is a Yandere through and through. Even pain... might turn into pleasure for her."
"Wait a minute." Mila raised her hand. "She's a Yandere, not a Masochist..."
"But we also can't ignore her tolerance for pain. It's definitely higher than a normal person's, right?" Alain's helpless words caused everyone to fall silent for a moment.
Misha spoke up, "Let me do it."
The long-haired maiden looked at the baseball bat in the corner. "I will torture her, make her suffer, and thereby force Yang Wanhua to leave the Game World!"
"No." Alain rejected it without hesitation.
"Why!" Misha puffed up her cheeks in indignation.
The young man explained in a gentle voice, "Just as I said before: Yang Wanhua does feel pain. But don't forget, we are all beings with 'moral ethics'.
"If her pain threshold exceeds your tolerance for morality, then...
"Misha, you won't be able to go through with it."
Hearing this, Misha wanted to argue back.
Alain added, "Hypothetically, even if Yang Wanhua is subjected to the torture of impalement and suffocation, if she can still face it with a smile... can you strike even deeper?
"Dismembering the human body, dissection, turning her into a human swine... do you have that kind of resolve?"
"Uh..." The maidens immediately looked gloomy and stopped speaking.
Alain hung his head. Indeed... even if pain is Yang Wanhua's weakness, doesn't everyone else have weaknesses too?
Alain and the Mitas beside him all belonged to the "Good" faction. And most were "Lawful Good" citizens.
Only that fellow Monika was "Chaotic Neutral".
"...What's with that look? It's like you're saying only I could bring myself to do it." Monika seemed to sense Alain's gaze, crossing her arms and letting out a hmph. "I'm telling you in advance, don't even think about letting me go to the Core. If I go, it's a dead end.
"Rest assured," Alain soothed. "I can't bear to let you face Yang Wanhua either."
"W-W-What?!" His pleasant words instead triggered a fierce reaction from Monika. "You... what's wrong with you? Did the sun rise from the west? T-This..."
As she spoke, she trailed off.
Alain felt he wasn't lying. Mita City would still need her in the future. Furthermore, letting an electronic lifeform under Yang Wanhua's command face Yang Wanhua was essentially sending her to her doom.
"However, we still haven't solved the problem." Misha sighed. "Honey, do you have a plan?"
"I do."
Alain's answer exceeded everyone's expectations.
Millie patted his shoulder. "Good brother, if you have a plan, say it!"
"Heh, it's actually very simple," he began. "I will face Yang Wanhua. I, myself, am her weakness. And I have already thought of all the measures to cause her pain."
"Eh?!"
The Mita maidens let out trembling sounds of surprise.
Cool Mita interrupted, "Wait a minute, Alain! You were just talking about moral standards... Is your moral standard that low?"
"...Why are you cursing people?" Alain held his forehead. "Relax, trust me.
He smiled lightly. "I have a way to force Yang Wanhua to leave the Game World without getting my hands dirty."
"..."
The maidens looked at each other. But seeing the certain look in the young man's eyes, they didn't say more.
"And you say I'm a Riddler." Monika twirled her hair around her fingertip, twitching her mouth. "You're not much better yourself."
"Lady Monika, you better stop the sass. After Yang Wanhua is done for, you'll definitely be crying and throwing a tantrum to thank me."
"...Although that 'Lady' sounded quite nice, what followed was a bit insulting to me. I'm declaring in advance—"
Seeing that a certain someone who cared about saving face even if it meant suffering was about to launch into a long speech, Misha quickly spoke up.
"But!"
Seeing Monika cast a glance at her, the long-haired maiden breathed a sigh of relief, then turned a serious gaze toward Alain.
"Alain, we cannot ignore a crucial issue."
"Mm. Honey, speak."
"Hypothetically, if the Game World's Yang Wanhua is truly defeated by Alain using some 'painful' method... we have to admit: the Reality Yang Wanhua still exists.
She placed her uneasy hand on her chest. "Even if the game clone is defeated, the reality main body... will still make a comeback. It's only treating the symptoms, not the root cause."
Alain did not answer rashly. He felt Misha spoke very well, perfectly articulating their current predicament.
Even if the Game's Yang Wanhua was destroyed and the progress bar retreated to zero...
Based on Alain's understanding of Yang Wanhua, she would inevitably descend before Alain again at some future moment, in an even stronger posture.
Continuing to smile and say to him, "Long time no see."
Then, another reign of terror. The result would either be victory or being defeated...
Repeating like this, waiting until Yang Wanhua's lifespan ended.
He did not doubt the degree of persistence a Yandere had after deciding on something.
Treating the symptoms, not the root cause.
Cutting the tree trunk, but the tree roots remain in reality.
Fortunately, he also had a solution.
Alain smiled faintly, calculating the time... it was about time.
Amidst everyone's confused gazes, Alain didn't say much. Instead, he opened his phone and tapped on the Security Assistant.
Swish— The maidens saw a panel appear in front of Alain.
"Hmm? Why is the interface different from what I preset before?" It was Monika's first time seeing the Security Assistant panel.
Alain explained the matter of the 'Guard' becoming the 'Assistant'.
"...So my communication with you was discovered because of this opportunity? I really don't know what to say."
Alain ignored her complaint and called out 2D Mita.
The maiden instantly leaped out of the screen and stood on the ground, seeing the large crowd of people around her. There were even three Mitas waving to her from inside the computer screen.
"Wow, super huge crowd!"
"Alright, alright. I called you out this time to ask you—"
Alain spoke every word clearly, stating the capital that would allow them to achieve complete victory,
"The cracking situation of the Unknown Port—it should be up to standard now, right?"
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