Inside her room, Kurokawa Saki took out her second phone and looked it up. There's only one contact there and she quickly sent a message.
Yuki: The sweets are very good, especially the one in the west
Karin: Eating sweets too much is not good, afternoon after lunch should be fine.
Kurokawa Saki saw the message and smiled. Karin is her contact person. The first half of the sentence is the code and the second half is the reason and time.
West meant she had information and needed supplementary information asap.
After deleting the message, Kurokawa Saki put the phone away and then heard the game notifications.
…
[Ding! Everyone has passed the first test and adapted to their respective talent. The prologue mission has started: Survive the first month and don't go OOC. Losing your identity card meant death.
Death before the mainline will put you in the blackroom until the main story starts and you'll be given civilian identity. Talent will be reduced appropriately and skills will be halved. Your physique will be adjusted appropriately depending on the ID card you obtained.
Your group's main mission will change in accordance to the survivors, either black or red mission.
Death after the main storyline means real death and you'll be removed from the game, except during a time limited mission with a death script that will allow you to change your ID card. Reminder: you're not allowed to kill each other after the main storyline starts.
You still have a chance to survive: that is when the rest of the surviving players completed the game successfully. You'll be sent back to your original world.
In addition, acting in accordance to your ID card might grant you additional skill points depending on what you did.
During the one month prologue period, you can obtain twice as many points.
Your performance will be rated and the points will be tabulated before the main storyline. Once the main storyline starts, everyone's point will be cleared and your ranking will determine the benefit you can obtain.
Remember: you're all both competitors and companions.]
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[Ding! You have successfully changed the important mainline node and acted in accordance to your identity]
[Saving Scotland: 50 skill points]
[Proper acting: 10 skill points]
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Kurokawa Saki's eyes lit up when she saw this and almost wanted to use all of the skill points obtained.
But when she checked her skills, she realised that she was too naive.
Improving skills above 70 points cost 2 points.
Improving skills above 80 points cost 3 points
Improving skills above 90 points cost 4 points
Improving skills above 95 points cost 5 points
So, only improving skills points below 70 is cheap, which meant that she would have to think of other skills to improve and stay in character.
'Gun skills and fighting skills are important, but I only have 60 skill points.'
Kurokawa Saki looked at the list and was silent.
Her fighting skills were only 30 points, which she did not even know where it came from.
As for shooting skill, it was also 30 points.
She guessed that it should be from the sniping skills, though.
She wanted to improve both to 70
But…
It seemed that she had to do something else first.
Anyway, the prologue mission is a chance for her to get points, so…
The door opened at this time and Scotland returned with the ingredients.
Kurokawa Saki's eyes lit up.
Well, all problems should be for tomorrow. For today, let's enjoy the food!
…
After that hearty and delicious dinner, which made Kurokawa Saki want to cry since she hadn't eaten such delicious food for a long time, Kurokawa Saki returned to her bed.
The experience was quite thrilling and she just wanted to rest now.
The next morning, Kurokawa Saki was moved when she saw Scotland preparing breakfast. For someone who couldn't cook like her, this is definitely a great blessing.
"Alright, follow me, Scotland and later, stay behind my chair."
"Yes."
Kurokawa Saki quickly walked around before she reached the destination. It's a dessert shop and her youthful face is definitely very suitable for such a place.
She ordered a strawberry shortcake and ate leisurely.
Before long, a woman came while holding a cup of coffee.
"The dessert here is nice."
"It's the best and the sweetest." Kurokawa Saki smiled sweetly and then added, "But there is some chocolate mixed in the strawberry, which is not very delicious."
This is code.
Behind Kurokawa Saki, Scotland listened to their conversation and felt relieved. Even though Kurokawa Saki has said that she's an undercover agent, he only felt that it was true by now.
Karin nodded thoughtfully. "What do you need?"
"List of the strawberries in this country."
"Got it."
Karin took out her phone and tapped a few times before nodding at Kurokawa Saki and left.
Kurokawa Saki looked at her phone and then took out her laptop. She thought about her hacking skills and silently increased it to 80 from 60.
In this way she had used up 30 skill points.
But this is enough.
She hacked onto the camera while looking at the names that Karin handed over to her.
There are only 3 people aside from her.
After all, Kurokawa Saki was a newcomer and the purpose for her undercover was for a different small organisation. Who would have thought that she would attract the Winery?
Aside from her contact, there's only one more person who came here with her. The other two were here for the sake of other missions.
"Are there other…" Scotland's breathing was unstable as he knocked onto the glass. They didn't look at each other, but he somehow understands the underlying meaning of their conversation.
There's an undercover agent from the Winery in the ICPO in Japan.
This is a disaster.
"Ah yeah…" Kurokawa Saki lips curled up slightly. "So I have to deal with them before ending up the same way as you."
She didn't want to die.
If the undercover agent is the person who came with her contact, she might end up finding out that Karin is here for another purpose.
It'll be dangerous.
So Kurokawa Saki simply hacked the surveillance cameras and looked at the trajectory of their movements.
The first one was staying in the temporary base all day long. The second one had a mission last night to assist the police officer, but she failed the mission. The third one was with her contact as they investigated the gang that she should have gone undercover in the first place and engaged in a short battle but they escaped unscathed.
Kurokawa Saki looked at it thoughtfully before her eyes locked onto the second person.
"Scotland, I want you to follow her and if possible, look inside her phone."
Scotland nodded. "I got it."
"You might not be able to touch anything that belonged to her, though…" This is the first time she knew about the ghost's state and if it's related to their battles, the ghost might not be able to touch it.
"I'll figure out a way." Scotland nodded thoughtfully. It seemed that this ability was not all pervasive but still has a lot of limitations. Then again, the information about the ghost state that entered his mind didn't exactly cover up everything.
Kurokawa Saki glanced at Scotland and pursed her lips. "I'll try to investigate the undercover agent in the Metropolitan Public Security Police Department too when I have the chance."
Scotland's eyes widened slightly in surprise and then he smiled gently. "Thank you."