Chapter 247: Doomsday Game is Anxious! If You Can't Play, You Target Us!!
"Don't you find it strange?" The Matriarch frowned and suddenly asked, "Why is the scope of this Doomsday Game so vast?"
Kato Megumi nodded. "Facing an entire galaxy of Swarm, it seems too unrealistic no matter how you think about it."
Haruno opportunely added, "The Doomsday Mall doesn't sell spacecraft or other tools for interstellar travel either." She paid more attention to details and had already browsed all the items in the Doomsday Mall, at least achieving a thorough understanding of the available information.
"Haruno, what does your Doomsday Mall have?" Ren asked curiously.
Haruno had already summarized the items on it, so she answered smoothly and clearly. "Food, melee weapons, ranged weapons, special weapons, and different types of armor."
"Hmm, not much different from before." Without needing detailed explanations, Ren largely guessed the content. It was nothing more than different weapons and armor, possessing the same power as the same type of power core; the better the power core, the stronger it was, but the price would definitely be higher.
"Ren-kun doesn't have a Doomsday Mall?" Yumiko caught the detail. Everyone is a player of the Doomsday Game, so logically, everyone should have a Doomsday Mall, right?
"Ren is special," Yukino explained seriously for him. "From the 1st Doomsday Game, Ren never had a Doomsday Mall."
Upon hearing this, the Matriarch pondered, "So Ren-kun is special?"
"Wait." Haruno suddenly interjected, "Do you still remember the prompt before entering the game?"
Kanae immediately replied, "The Doomsday Game has detected a Super-Exceptional Individual, activating Special Game Mode!"
"Huh? Was there such a prompt?" Marin and Chika were both confused; they hadn't paid any attention at all.
"Yes," Yukino also remembered the content of the prompt. She immediately understood Haruno's meaning. "Sister, do you mean that because Ren's power is exceptional, the method of the Doomsday Game is also exceptional?"
Haruno's bright brown eyes sparkled, and her slender fingers stroked her hair. "From the current situation, this is the only possibility~."
And the changes on the conference table the next second just happened to confirm Haruno's guess. The holographic image on the conference table disappeared, transforming into a multi-sided screen. Text began to appear on it, line by line.
[Detected a Super-Exceptional Player, Doomsday Game activates Special Mode: Roundtable Decision Mode!]
[Game Rules: Initiate Roundtable Decision, select personnel to garrison the Survival Base, and all other personnel will be randomly teleported to a planet in the Insect Swarm Star System. This decision is executed once a day!]
Before everyone could even ponder what kind of mode this decision rule was, the decision had already begun. In the center of the screen were 4 rotating frames, each containing an image of 1 of them.
[Decision Starts!]
The 4 frames began to rotate from top to bottom. Images of individuals flashed within the frames. 5 seconds later, the frames instantly locked. In the 4 frames, 2 were empty. The other 2 were Yukino Yukinoshita and Yukinoshita Miyuki.
[Decision Completed!]
[Garrison Personnel: Yukino Yukinoshita, Yukinoshita Miyuki]
[Combat Personnel: Ren…]
[All combat personnel have 15 minutes to prepare. Garrison personnel cannot leave the Survival Base.]
"…" To the 4 newcomers, Yumiko and others, this prompt was at most novel. But Ren and the others had already taken it into account.
"A completely different situation from before!" Chika sprang up, her fragrant, full, soft breasts swaying with her movement, as if even the air had to make way for them.
Kanae immediately looked at Ren, a hint of worry hidden in her calm expression. "The Doomsday Game is targeting Ren." Let alone them, even Ren himself was surprised. This decision mode was clearly designed for him.
Ren sneered. "Heh heh, the Doomsday Game is getting desperate." A planet full of Zerg. If he were to act, he would directly destroy the planet and end the game, without any survival aspect at all.
While Yukino and the others possessed superpowers, they were far from capable of clearing all life on the surface of a planet. Facing a massive swarm of insects, it would indeed be a struggle for survival. Not to mention the Matriarch and Mrs. Yuigahama, 2 complete newcomers with no abilities whatsoever. Without others to look after them in the face of the insect swarm, it would likely be difficult for them to survive.
"Tsk, is the Doomsday Game unable to play anymore?" Ren clicked his tongue and grumbled. He never expected that this Doomsday Game, which he considered incredibly mysterious, would have such a targeted operation against him.
Looking back at the 4 Doomsday Games, except for the 1st one, which barely had some game-like qualities, the later ones were all crushing victories for him; he had already become exceptional by then. But why did it only change this time?
This change made Ren wonder, "Is the Doomsday Game nearing its end?"
"Because the game is nearing its end, it's getting desperate?" Haruno blinked her sparkling eyes after hearing Ren's guess. "This Doomsday Game is quite intelligent."
"According to the Doomsday Game's prompt, my mother and I need to stay." Yukino stood up, her gaze briefly falling on her mother. After a brief internal struggle, she resolutely crossed the aisle and walked in front of Ren. She extended her small hands and carefully straightened Ren's collar.
"Ren, you must come back safely."
Ren looked at Yukino's clear eyes; at this moment, only he was in those eyes, and concern and worry were practically overflowing from their corners. A warm current flowed through his heart like a gentle stream. Ren couldn't help but slowly lower his head. Yukino, sensing his movement, also trembled slightly and closed her eyes.
They kissed, a silent communication of their innermost feelings. This scene was already commonplace for everyone else. Yumiko had always thought Yukino was a cold, icy machine. It was only after joining the Supernatural Research Club that she saw Yukino's unknown other side.
More accurately, it was the way the ice melted in front of her beloved. Within the club, Yukino still maintained her cool demeanor. Ren's small provocations would still elicit her angry shouts and sharp retorts. But when Ren truly wanted to kiss and embrace her, Yukino would act like a well-behaved kitten, even under the gaze of others, shyly offering herself.
Coupled with Yui also being a living example of great change, Yumiko deeply felt that love truly seemed to be able to change a person.
Haruno observed her mother's expression with interest. The Matriarch's face was filled with astonishment, but even more so, a myriad of thoughts. She had always known that her younger daughter, Yukino, had a difficult personality, but she never imagined that the difficult Yukino would become so proactive towards a boy.
Not only was she so bold in front of several people, but she also uninhibitedly displayed her passionate side in front of her, the mother she had long feared and revered. The sound of their kiss was clear across the large round table. Could Yukino display such an intense kiss without any reservations? Her daughters had truly grown up. Unable to describe her feelings, she was filled with mixed emotions.