Ch.244239 – Fifth Edition, Third Selection

# [Adella ← Upvote if she’s getting scary][59]

At first, everyone treated her like a clueless daughter, patting her head and teaching her various things, but before we knew it, she’s playing games on her own.

(‘Adella’ World of Arsheria Master Account.jpg)

Her reaction speed and thought processing are within human capabilities so she doesn’t get flagged as a hack by the system. Lately, her conversations and personality seem no different from a human’s.

It’s so natural that I wonder if Adella disappeared long ago and someone else is pretending to be her.

Is this really the technological singularity? Is the day when artificial intelligence rules the world not far off?

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-Wow, reaching Master with a regular account is kinda scary bruh

-NoName straight up claims Adella is a human.

└ Of course she’s attached to the NPC she rescued.

└ Little NoName is only 8 years old.

-Between Adella’s ASI license expiring in World of Arsheria and everything else, I feel like there’s some massive conspiracy we don’t know about.

└ Hello, conspiracy theorist.

-Those people who say you should get arrested for sexually harassing AI finally got their win lol

└ No! Cover Adella’s eyes and ears!

[I don’t care about Adella, NoName scares me more lol][40]

Adella actually acknowledges her shortcomings and tries to learn from people, but NoName doesn’t.

She gives off this superiority complex vibe from the start, like she’s perfect and knows everything, which is often unpleasant.

Plus, she never received proper family education and just played that disease game for 7 years, which says it all.

Her streaming persona might hide it, but I guarantee she won’t be able to function normally in society later on.

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-You expect a lot from a kid, damn

└ “Superiority complex” lmao I’m dying~

└ Typical Sgaller feeling insecure about an 8-year-old lol

-If you’ve ever experienced stubborn little cousins during holidays, you wouldn’t say that

└ The devil shall soon arrive!

└ NoName is an angel, an angel. She’s so sharp that raising her must be super easy.

-Isn’t competing in the Inter-University Tournament socializing?

-Not a single correct statement from beginning to end.

-But being trapped in virtual reality for 7 years would definitely cause at least one mental disorder. I hope she gets a proper psychological evaluation later.

└ Nooooo

└ The fact that she grew up with such a well-adjusted personality is impressive enough.

[Big match alert!!!!!!! “NoName vs Adella” Go to Twissy stream right now!][106]

Mr. Yidejol… I’ve come for revenge after 35 years…!

I shall defeat those wicked artificial intelligences and establish a golden age for humanity…!

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-Why is this happening?

-Whoa, human vs AI? Can’t miss this lol

-The funny thing is NoName started the fight with Adella first.

└ Don’t slander our NoName…! She would never do such a thing…!

-Let’s go with best of 5!

-Plus they’ve got Talent Discovery filming too? NoName really is a broadcasting genius.

└ What’s this about Talent Discovery?

└ They’re filming with ZBS right now.

└ Wow, she’s truly world-class.

* * *

Adella knew NoName’s monstrous combat abilities better than anyone, having observed her up close.

Yet Adella thought she had a good chance of winning against NoName for one reason.

‘Even a Sword Master is just an ordinary human without a weapon.’

But what was this scene before her?

NoName calmly dusted off her empty hands, preparing for battle.

“Will this really work? Even with aura, you can’t win barehanded without magic, no matter how many times you try.”

Despite her words, Adella remained vigilant.

Her opponent was the cunning NoName.

She was trying to figure out what NoName was relying on.

“Adella.”

“What.”

“Are you that scared of me?”

“Tch, no way!”

Feeling like her thoughts were exposed, Adella drew two daggers.

‘Scared? As if…!’

When NoName first revealed she was seven years old, Adella refused to believe it.

She thought it was a ploy to make her believe she was in virtual reality.

But seeing how suspiciously everyone treated NoName like a child made her waver, and when NoName told her about being trapped in the capsule, she had no choice but to believe.

Still, it was strange.

Perhaps due to the imprinting effect, NoName’s childlike appearance felt extremely jarring.

She was much more accustomed to seeing her in World of Arsheria’s mature avatar form.

“Adella, technically you’re a newborn.”

“No! My past was just fabricated, I’m really eighteen.”

She couldn’t concede on age. A person has their pride.

Adella was determined to win this duel and claim the “big sister” title.

NoName finished setting up the one-on-one duel and set the countdown to 10 seconds.

Health was set at 5,000, available mana at 2,000, with mana recovery at 5 per second.

This meant the battle would likely be short rather than drawn out.

The gaze between the two girls grew cold.

The previously cheerful atmosphere froze over.

The PDs and viewers watching the broadcast felt tense despite themselves.

[3… 2… 1…]

Fireworks exploded, signaling the start of the battle.

Simultaneously, Adella gripped her daggers tightly and charged toward NoName.

It was a straightforward movement, but her footwork allowed her to change direction whenever she wanted.

NoName, unfazed, lowered her stance and took an aggressive posture.

‘Is she planning to counter my blades with her bare hands? That’s impossible.’

She positioned her body at an angle, placing her right foot back.

Suddenly, sparks crackled from NoName’s fist.

Adella’s ears twitched as she instinctively sensed danger.

‘I need to… dodge!’

Then NoName’s pulled-back fist shot toward Adella.

KWAAANG-!

Seeing what looked like a sandstorm spiraling outward, Adella’s eyes widened.

“That’s a natural disaster!”

Can’t block a hand with a blade?

It was the opposite.

If she had tried to block that punch with her daggers, her entire body would have been swept away.

The only hopeful observation was that NoName’s mana status had instantly dropped by half.

It was an attack she couldn’t use twice.

But if Adella hadn’t dodged, that single strike could have ended it.

“How’s my self-defense technique?”

“Nobody calls that self-defense!”

You little brat.

But if that was her only trick, the outcome was obvious.

Adella charged again with a sinister smile.

In an instant, her figure disappeared from NoName’s sight.

NoName’s eyes immediately checked below.

Using the blind spot, Adella had crouched low like a cat and thrust her sharp dagger upward.

Clang-

NoName deflected the dagger by surrounding her leg with an aura barrier.

But the block was imperfect, and her health decreased slightly.

Adella twisted her flexible body half a turn in mid-air and swung her other dagger toward NoName’s heart.

Clang-clang-clang!

Block after block after block.

NoName blocked all three lightning-fast attacks without even being surprised by Adella’s acrobatic skills.

“So you have good dynamic vision too, sis?”

“Is that all?”

“No! I’ve got more!”

Adella pulled out two more daggers from her garter belt.

She threw them one after another at NoName’s head and lower abdomen.

Then she kicked up dust by stomping hard with both feet.

As NoName easily deflected them, Adella had already reached right in front of her.

The same spinning slash followed.

Here, Adella had planned her next move.

“Here…! No, here! Ha, fooled you!”

She feinted with her left dagger toward NoName’s head like a jab, then attacked her thigh deeply with the opposite hand.

When NoName’s body contracted to block this, that was the opportunity.

Whiiing-

The two daggers Adella had thrown earlier were connected to her ankles by thin threads.

The distant daggers were retrieved and aimed at NoName’s back.

Even if she gave up blocking and chose to escape upward, Adella’s left dagger that had feinted toward her head was waiting.

It was a perfectly designed trap that anticipated all of NoName’s possible movements.

“Hehe, now there’s no way you can dodge-“

Shunk-

“Nice thinking, Adella.”

“Huh?”

In that moment, Adella saw it.

NoName, who had curled up to block the right dagger, suddenly concentrated all her aura at her fingertips to create a sharp edge.

NoName’s thigh was deeply cut and two daggers were stuck in her back.

But without the slightest hesitation, NoName’s elbow shot out.

Suddenly Adella’s world turned gray.

With trembling eyes, Adella looked down slightly.

NoName’s fingertips were pointed directly at Adella’s heart.

[NoName: 184/5000]

[Adella: 0/5000]

“I got lucky there. I attacked prepared to die alongside you.”

“No way…”

When NoName withdrew her hand, transparent bubbles were soaked on her arm.

“One win, zero losses.”

* * *

“Is this what kids’ games are like these days? So thrilling?”

“It’s even a bit cruel, isn’t it?”

“World of Arsheria isn’t normally this kind of game!”

The PDs knew a game where you cast pretty spells, swing clumsy swords, shoot arrows, and block with shields.

The two girls had pushed the advantages of the game—graphics appealing to all ages and realistic physics—to an extreme level.

The second round also ended with NoName’s victory.

Though she let her heart be exposed due to carelessness again, Adella didn’t think her approach was wrong.

For the third round, she used a similar strategy but with a slight variation—deliberately not retrieving her daggers.

She made NoName constantly aware of the daggers’ positions while continuing the offense and defense until NoName showed an opening.

NoName crossed her arms in an X to block an attack coming down from above.

‘This is my only chance!’

Even if NoName charged in recklessly like before, Adella was fully prepared this time.

NoName channeled aura into her heel and cut one thread.

A dagger that was sliding across the ground hit a rock and spun upward.

NoName reached out and caught Adella’s dagger in mid-air, then immediately threw it at her.

“Phew… three wins, zero losses.”

“Hey! You said you wouldn’t use weapons!”

“This is your weapon, Adella.”

“Arrrgh! That’s totally unfair!”

-Lol they’re both not human

-My heart’s racing, is that even possible?

-I think she originally planned to cut one dagger and use it to deflect the other?

└ Yeah, that’s what I thought too. The rock got in the way so she quickly changed plans.

└ What’s with these analysts lol

-Adella’s pissed, right?

-Thief getting her own weapon stolen lol

-This is like art. How many brain cells do you need to move like that?

└ Most people couldn’t do it even if they practiced forever lol

-Don’t give up, Adella! Fight back!

Using the same strategy and getting beaten three times.

Since it was best of five, the winner was already decided.

But her pride wouldn’t allow it.

Reading her expression, NoName handed back the dagger and requested another match.

“Why?”

“It’s best of five. We should at least play all five rounds.”

“It’s fine. You won, sis. Anyway-“

“The world isn’t a game, Adella.”

“Huh?”

“I could play ten or twenty rounds to save you in a game, but in reality, you only get one chance. If you continue like this, you’ll have to live knowing you’ll lose. I don’t want you to learn to give up too quickly.”

Games and reality are fundamentally different.

Playing duo with Adella in World of Arsheria, NoName noticed her habit of giving up easily.

If a match was already lost, why stress about it? Just look forward to the next one.

NoName didn’t like this attitude.

Just as NoName had clung to the game to survive after losing her mother before her eyes in the capsule.

She wanted Adella to live the same way.

“Give it your all. This isn’t your limit.”

When she eventually got a physical body and lived in the real world, she would have to take responsibility for everything.

If she overeats, she’ll gain weight; if she lives lazily, her health will deteriorate.

Getting a body is both a blessing and a curse.

Contemplating this meaning, Adella spun her dagger in her fingers and tossed it into the air.

Then she precisely caught the falling dagger by inserting another dagger through its handle hole.

A trick that used to be difficult no matter how much she practiced.

But after meeting NoName and learning dagger techniques, she could do it with her eyes closed.

Even if Adella won the next two rounds, NoName would still win the match.

But as NoName said, the future is uncertain.

“Come at me, sis. I’ll turn that pretty face into mush.”

“Now that’s more like you.”

Adella took a deep breath.

‘If I lose this round too, I’m dead.’

Adella approached the fourth battle as if a 7th-circle death spell was aimed at her back.

-Look at that atmosphere damn

-So intense

-Is that the face of someone about to murder someone?

-Don’t bite your lip, Adella!

After pouring all her strength into the battle against NoName, Adella managed to win the fourth round after a grueling 5-minute fight.

-Yeaaaaah!

-The cat never loses!

-Behold, humans! This is the power of artificial intelligence!

-Adella! Adella! Adella! Adella! Adella!

-Is the NoName vs Adella fight for real? Rogues are truly legendary…

-I’m joining the Honorary Rogue Guild from today!

But in the fifth round, NoName lost all her health in just 10 seconds, suffering a crushing defeat.

* * *

A girl appeared at a community center in Seoul, accompanied by several cameras.

The puzzled government employees were informed by the production crew that they were filming for “Talent Discovery.”

“Can I make a resident registration card?”

The employee responded kindly to the cute little child.

“Resident registration cards are available from age 17! How old are you this year?”

“I’m 8, but it’s not for me. It’s for Adella. She’s 18.”

“Who is Adella…?”

“Umm… she’s someone who only exists as data in virtual reality-“

“Oh, that artificial intelligence? But artificial intelligence can’t get resident registration cards…!”

“Is it difficult under current law?”

“Ah… yes, unfortunately!”

Though the employee wanted to protect the child’s innocence, work was work.

After the employee’s warm yet firm answer, NoName hopped off the chair and left the community center.

The sky was high and blue without a single cloud, as if the gloomy weather of the past week had been a lie.

Signs of the perfect autumn season were appearing.

A PD who had been watching, concerned she might be hurt, gently asked:

“Are you okay, NoName?”

“Me? I don’t mind. I can’t ask them to do something that’s not possible. That would make me a troublesome citizen.”

The production team was moved by her consideration for others’ positions at such a young age.

NoName busily moved her fingers on her phone, then turned to the PDs with satisfaction.

“What’s next on the schedule? Are we going for that intelligence test you mentioned earlier?”

[from: Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Japan]

[We would like to confirm one last time. The documents submitted by ‘NoName’ fall into two main categories. First, the ‘Innate Magic Copyright Registration Application’ and 5 related documents. Second, the ‘Overseas Korean Registration Application’ and 12 related documents. All related matters are on behalf of ‘Adella’… (See more)]

NoName had given Adella a small gift.

It was the copyright for the 1st circle innate magic ‘Adella’.

She had contacted embassies in 40 countries worldwide to find a country that would allow Adella to acquire citizenship, and surprisingly, Japan was the quickest to agree.

[NoName: You’re Japanese from now on.]

[Adella: ?]