1 (1) How to Clear Cinderella After Turning Into a Bird?
Time for a new novel! This one in particular will contain material that is not suitable for younger audiences especially later on, however, it's a fun one to translate. Do not expect regular updates for this.
Knock knock——
"Open up, Mother, it's Drisella."
Knock knock knock——
"Open up, Mother, why do you not open the door?"
A young girl outside the door dragged an axe, with the originally elegant and pretty formal dress turned dirty and worn. Drisella tilted her head, and revealed confusion, while a girlish cute smile—— as for why one would use a girlish smile to describe a young girl's expression, was because the pressure she gave others was far too strong, making her smile make people think to a human skin mask, making their hairs raise up.
She lifted her head up, and the fair and tender finger crooked, then once again knocked on the door.
"Mother——"
Drisella's voice was dragged very long.
"Open up——"
All of a sudden, along with the loud sound of the axe suddenly smashing towards the door and a shrill scream, Drisella revealed a warped and extremely happy smile. She stepped into the room, and uncontrollably revealed white teeth. The slightly curved corners of the mouth split open, and the bloody red lips and a row of teeth pretty much made people think she was actually a human-eating ghost.
She walked towards the sole closet in the room that could hide someone step by step, while the fresh blood flowing down from the axe dragged a red scar over the floorboards.
Right at this time, a kingfisher quietly clutching onto a tree branch by the window had a suspended window only he could see in his eyes pop up.
「Player Chi Yu, new player quest underway」
「Countdown to the end: 00:09:59」
「Role:Kingfisher—— 100% (Adds 1% to acquired ending points)」
「Main Quest:Accompany Cinderella through childhood (individual) √
Accompany Cinderella to the ball (individual) √
Have Cinderella participate in the marriage ceremony 」
「Special Quest: Catch the culprit」
The kingfisher's pitch-black eyes looked at Drisella who was in the room without blinking, while his ears transmitted with the screams from a teammate.
"Hurry up! You guys think of a way to catch her ahhhhh my role is her old lady! I don't have any way of fucking resisting, I can only run, wait, she found out I'm not there! Don't just stand there, the culprit is her!"
A handsome man currently running away in a fluster was the teammate Turtledove who was just like Chi Yu who entered the new player quest. He held up the thick hem of a skirt and was running madly barefoot, and ran into the study after directly leaping down from the stairs, and planned on borrowing the bookcase from the study as a tool to delay time.
They were originally a seven-member group, but now, they were already only left with three people, separately, Chi Yu playing the kingfisher, Turtledove playing as the stepmother, as well as Zi Mo, playing the chef.
At this time and moment, Zi Mo who received Turtledove's SOS did not have any way to go and help either.
When looking at Anastasia in front who was holding up a face of being drunk on the joy of killing people, he could not help but ask his teammates in his mind.
"You are certain the culprit is Drisella?"
"What?"
Zi Mo held his breath in, "I felt it was a bit strange from the start. If the killer really is only Drisella, then why did the gardener and the tailor die at the same time? We only have one set of handcuffs, so how can we catch all the culprits? There must be something wrong with the system's quest!"
Following that, Zi Mo paused, and opened his mouth with a bit of hesitation, "I can't come out from my side, Anastasia has a hunting rifle. Chi Yu, can you see the prince and the servants? How much longer until the prince comes? If there isn't anyone to open the gates for the prince, then we have no way of completing the last main quest."
Chi Yu flew up from the branch and looked far off for a bit.
"Around three more minutes."
"That's great! I will think of a way to open the gates, Chi Yu, you go bring Cinderella to the entrance. Right now, she should still be at the garden's arbour." Turtledove pushed down the thick and heavy bookcase in a fluster, and temporarily pressed Drisella down, "I'm fine I'm fine, I'll..."
Their voice suddenly stopped.
Turtledove looked at the locked study in front of him with a pale face, and to his back, the bookcase was continuously swaying. Drisella who was pressed on the bottom already reached out with a hand.
It's over.
Turtledove who got side effects because he harmed his "daughter" had his strength immediately drain out, the remaining strength was only enough for him to run for one minute.
"What happened? It's alright, you still have me!"
You are only a kingfisher, what can you do...
Even if it was like this, Turtledove said neither crying nor laughing, "Then go for it, Chi Yu."
"Just trust me!"
The kingfisher flapped its wings and flew all the way to the arbour in the garden. Here, a delicate-looking Cinderella was peeling a pomegranate as though nothing else was happening.
Her fair fingers stained with the pomegranate juice made people recall the blood in the currently disorderly and noisy castle for no reason at all. When she saw Chi Yu fly here, she very happily lifted the pomegranate in her hands, "My little kingfisher! Would you like to eat a pomegranate?"
Chi Yu flapped his wings and flew down, and a small claw stepped on the ball of her thumb, and lowered his head to peck at it for a bit, and hold the pomegranate seed.
Cinderella smiled as she watched him eat, while the other hand instead moved towards a birdcage hidden beside her...
All of a sudden, the kingfisher on her hand immediately flew up, and following, with a bam, a blue-green-clothed youth appeared. He smiled towards Cinderella, and the other party's gaze turned a bit peculiar and mysterious, "So, so it was you, the fairy godmother that day..."
Chi Yu reached out to grab her hand.
He only had two minutes as a human.
He pulled on Cinderella and used a small sun-like smile to say to her to follow me, and Cinderella then obediently let him pull her away, with the hem of her dress blooming with flowers, quickly rushing off to an unknown place with her beloved kingfisher.
Chi Yu's destination was clear-cut. He directly brought Cinderella from the closest path towards the castle gates. They did not need to open the gates, and just needed wait outside the gates for the prince's arrival.
Cinderella saw Chi Yu who was pulling her suddenly stop, and discovered she was already at the castle gates. When she still did not know what was happening, suddenly——
A pair of silver handcuffs suddenly clacked and locked onto her wrists.
Chi Yu earnestly lowered his head to put on gloves for the person, and at the same time, the minds of the teammates' chat box echoed with a notification——
「Sole mission tool:Silver handcuffs In use Used target:Cinderella」
Zi Mo and Turtledove both sunk into a strange silence...
As expected, the small kingfisher was a game newbie, to think he actually used the handcuffs on Cinderella... In this story, no matter one looked at it, Cinderella who was always being bullied was the least likely to be the culprit!!!!!
But whatever, as long as the main quest is complete, then it's fine.
"Hurry, Chi Yu, have her participate in the marriage ceremony!! Is the prince there yet!"
Turtledove was practically hoarse from shouting, "Drisella found meeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
Thus, Chi Yu held up Cinderella's handcuffed hands, and gently looked at the person with his blue-purple eyes.
"Will you participate in the marriage ceremony, Cinderella?"
"I-I will."
She took one step forward, and the handcuffed hands used strength to pull at Chi Yu's collar, "I will, ceremony... yes, our marriage ceremony..."
All of a sudden, bam.
The youth in front disappeared, with only a few feathers falling from the sky.
And at this time, the prince appeared with his servants, and asked Cinderella, "Are you the owner of the crystal shoes?"
「Player Chi Yu, new player quest complete」
「Role:Kingfisher—— 100% (Adds 1% to acquired ending points)」
「Main Quest:Accompany Cinderella through childhood (individual) √
Accompany Cinderella to the ball (individual) √
Have Cinderella participate in the marriage ceremony √ 」
「Special Quest: Catch the culprit √ (Additional points +10)」
「Player Zi Mo, new player quest complete」
「Role:Chef—— 85% (Acquired ending points minus 15%)」
「Main Quest:Accompany Cinderella through childhood (individual) √
Accompany Cinderella to the ball (individual) √
Have Cinderella participate in the marriage ceremony √ 」
「Special Quest: Catch the culprit √ (Additional points +5)」
「Player Turtledove, new player quest complete」
「Role:Madam Maylie—— 30% (Acquired ending points minus 70%)」
「Main Quest:Accompany Cinderella through childhood (individual) √
Accompany Cinderella to the ball (individual) √
Have Cinderella participate in the marriage ceremony √ 」
「Special Quest: Catch the culprit √ (Additional points +5)」
「Special Achievements: Master of Ghost-Walking · Apprentice—— Continuously avoid vengeance from a single target for 40 minutes (Additional 40 points) 」
「Mission has already been completed, countdown to end:00:00:09 Now returning to the Creator Space...」
「9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3...」
After a strong ray of light, the three people appeared in a pitch-black space. This space was so big there was no end in sight, but the pitch blackness had many small little lights around, with the makeup of many polyhedrons letting out gentle glows- each polyhedron had some figures in them, and the very centre of the polyhedrons had a round plate-like circle of light.
At this time, on the optical disk Chi Yu was at, appeared with a congratulations.
Among the three, Zi Mo and Turtledove were the most dishevelled, taking in breaths while still shaken.
Chi Yu looked at the final points and rewards displayed on the optical disk.
「Point Results: Chi Yu 111
Zi Mo 90
Turtledove 75」
"Being chased by a ghost actually adds that many points..."
Turtledove bitterly laughed, "Good thing getting chased by a ghost also gets points, otherwise, I really don't know how low my points would be... there should only be... 61.5 points? Hm? Are the points for the main quest that high in this game?"
"That can't be right ... if was like you said, my points wouldn't be right..." Zi Mo looked at the points page and started silently calculating.
"If the points for ghost-walking weren't there, your points should be at 35, the extra points here should not be affected by the individual role's 100 points. If you calculate it like this, the main quest is one hundred points at max, however, how could three missions add up to one hundred? I think each individual performance should also make up for a portion of the points."
"You're pretty amazing."
Zi Mo looked towards Chi Yu, "Can you explain why you were certain Cinderella was the culprit in the end?"
Turtledove could not help but look over.
"Because Drisella and Anastasia were both killing people, and no matter if it was Cinderella's father who was the first to die, or those four players later on, and even the other game NPCs... they all had one point of similarity..."
Zi Mo realized it, "They all bullied Cinderella..."
Turtledove was also surprised, "Isn't it very natural for Cinderella to be bullied, I completely did not notice this irregularity!"
"It's like that, because everyone felt Cinderella being bullied was very normal, because she had that kind of setting, being kind and frail, where she would be with the prince in the end, obtaining happiness after all that suffering, where she would even forgive all the people from before..."
Zi Mo could not understand, and interrupted Chi Yu, "But how did Cinderella kill people? It was clear that in the end, the ones chasing us were Drisella and Anastasia, furthermore, I did not bully her, I was only a chef."
"Because Cinderella's weapon is inciting disharmony," Chi Yu explained it very patiently, "No one would be on guard against someone who is always bullied by them. Furthermore, Cinderella was all alone with no support. She could only confide with small animals, and that is also why, in front of Cinderella, each person is bare, including us players. Because we were prejudiced by first impressions, we felt that Cinderella was a gentle, pitiful person, thus, Cinderella could easily watch each person. She did not need to be raise her hands, she only needed to push, and ignite rage or coax evil, anyways! It's like this! The culprit is Cinderella!"
So it was like that...
Turtledove and Zi Mo could not help but once again look at Chi Yu.
Clearly, they looked to be a cute boy, but was this amazing, their reasoning ability was very strong... their ability to scheme is also very surprising too...
All of a sudden, the optical disk in front of them let out a sound.
「Trade successful, points added:10」
Turtledove turned shocked.
"What did you trade with the optical disk?"
Chi Yu awkwardly reached out and touched his ears, "Because before entering the game, the system said that every game prop could be exchanged for points..."
This we know too, but why did you go up in points!!!
"So I took the props from the story... since Cinderella would use them once and then throw them away anyways..."
Holy shit!
"So y-y-you sold the things in the game to the system..."
"C-can I not?"
Turtledove arduously swallowed his saliva, "Pro- probably, the system already traded with you... but..."
"I think it's possible too! But unfortunately, the countdown was too quick, there were some I didn't have enough time to take..."
—— A kingfisher was truthfully too small, there wasn't much it could take, even if he hid the things long before, he didn't have enough time to take any more, how unfortunate...
But to have 121 points should be okay.
Chi Yu tapped the optical disk, and started trading points.
「Hourglass of Time Reversal: Life is like the sands in an hourglass. When life ends, the sands would also all fall down, hence the time of the end. However, someone turned over the hourglass, and thus, the sands started slowly flowing once again. 」
「Directions: For players already dead in real life, they can exchange for 4h of life. Please leave the soma in time to return to the Creator Space, allowing the soma to maintain a vegetative state, preventing the player from dying once again. 」
「Points Needed:30」
Chi Yu exchanged for four hourglasses without any hesitation.
He even did not open his new player clearing gift, and first bid farewell to his teammates, "See you guys another time!"
And then immediately used the hourglasses.
On an ice-cold surgery table, a shout resounded.
"Teacher, the patient recovered their heartbeat!"
Chi Yu's consciousness was not that clear under the anaesthesia, but he definitely knew he returned to the real world once again.
Sixteen hours, enough for him to see Gu Wen Qiao after the surgery finished.
Thinking like this, he relaxed himself, and slept away.
