[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist":3,"chapter-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-629":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1532686,1991,"Chapter 629: 629: Divine Game – Chaotic Blocks20","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-629",629,"\u003Cp>After being out of the spotlight for years, Rita had no idea someone had already made new Divine Game-themed merchandise based on her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the moment, she was focused on a newly appeared stat: Stamina.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It popped up while she was about two-thirds through her grilled fish — starting at 80. After finishing the rest, her stamina climbed to 95.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it wasn't just her — Nivalis and B8017913 had it too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The meaning was obvious, not just to Rita, but even to Nivalis and B8017913, who were both already deeply marinated in BS culture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once you entered the amusement park, you'd consume stamina — whether or not you were playing a game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the only way to replenish it? Spend Blocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even without testing, Rita was sure that self-made magical food items wouldn't cut it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a trial period ending or a newbie safety zone disappearing, the amusement park was finally showing its true teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From here on out, doing nothing still came with a minimum charge — the fee to stay, and the fee to eat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita didn't plan to find out what happened if stamina hit zero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She took her two companions to the back of a food truck, where the three of them sat in a circle and began sorting through their collected Blocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All food purchases had been paid with Rita's Blocks. As long as she had the resources, she believed her companions' daily needs were her responsibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After subtracting the 74gBlock spent on food and the amusement fee paid after leaving the claw machine, she still had 256 Blocks on her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She kept the small Blocks and rare oversized special Blocks — the ones she'd spent were the most common standard square ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She'd earned 100 Blocks from the claw machine game — more than from the space pirate ship — but whether the game had no leaderboard or she just hadn't made the cut, there had been no rankings and no rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, she'd collected 8 game item fragments, and both Nivalis and B8017913 had gotten a few too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After comparing the fragments, Rita took a lens, Nivalis chose a cloak, and B8017913 picked a dagger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Interestingly, the lens had come from B8017913, the cloak from Rita, and the dagger from Nivalis — so they each ended up trading with one another before dumping their leftover fragments into the vending machine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both the dagger and cloak were 3-piece sets; the lens was a 5-piece. Naturally, prices varied — but none of them cared enough to do the math.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita didn't ask B8017913 to turn over the Blocks it had earned at the claw machine, nor did she make it revert into a ring. Instead, she told it to budget wisely and buy its own entry ticket for the next game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>B8017913 quietly pieced together its Blocks, glancing now and then at Rita.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had always known — Rita may have signed a master-servant contract with it, and her trust in it couldn't compare to what she had with Nivalis, but in day-to-day life, she treated them both the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If ever forced to choose between life and death, she'd no doubt pick Nivalis without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in their daily lives, Rita never made that difference felt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Nivalis, B8017913 could roam the house freely. It could use anything, leave things wherever it wanted. They were treated like residents — not guests, and not pets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could ask Rita for pocket money. Ask her to play. Joke with her, tease her, even request the occasional little favor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita didn't enforce hierarchy. As long as they followed her orders in battle and didn't fool around at the wrong time, she never got mad. She never demanded blind obedience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they were useless in a fight, she never blamed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Rita, help from others was always just a bonus — not a necessity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And based on B8017913's careful analysis of her, it was almost certain:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how many Blocks it or Nivalis earned, Rita would never ask for them after the game ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, if B8017913 offered them on its own, Rita would probably open her pockets wide and make a show of turning away, saying something like:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't do this~! What if Nivalis sees?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if Nivalis tried to offer her Blocks?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita would absolutely refuse — she'd insist Nivalis keep them and use them to grow stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because to Rita, Nivalis was undoubtedly the most important and irreplaceable presence in the universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>B8017913 stared, fascinated, at the strange new emotion that surfaced in its emotional pool the moment it made that comparison:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jealousy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the first time it had ever felt it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They said jealousy was a sin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But like light and shadow — that sin was always paired with another feeling:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Desire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wanted to be just as important as Nivalis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wanted that level of devastating importance — the kind where if both it and Nivalis were kidnapped by the villain and only one could live, Rita would fall to her knees in anguish, unable to choose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As B8017913 sneaked another look at Rita, the one unknowingly sobbing on her knees inside a little robot's imagination finally had enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita: \"What's with you? Why do you keep staring at me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>B8017913 didn't even flinch. No shame. Just a straight-up question:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If one day I earned your full trust, would you be willing to form an equal contract with me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nivalis, busy assembling her tail, didn't even look up:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Little sis, you're being so immature. You've barely been in the palace for half—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita tackled her and held her in a headlock, then grabbed a ring-shaped Block and shoved it onto Nivalis's dragon snout like a muzzle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sealing her mouth, Rita sat back down and resumed working on her Blocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course I would.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>B8017913: Satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Deal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita had just finished assembling the glasses. One lens was from the fragment, while the other — since there wasn't a matching piece — had to be filled with a [Plush Collar].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result was… weird.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One side had no frame, and the other had no lens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the item's effect didn't disappoint. It was the exact kind of scouting gear she'd been craving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Unfazed by the Strange · Incomplete] (?\u002F5):\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When worn, allows the user to view partial information about a target…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita put the glasses on, but nothing happened — she wasn't currently inside an amusement facility, so none of her skills or gear effects were active. Even passive ones were disabled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the glasses were finished, Rita visited the vending machine again and picked up the Blocks she earned from selling two of her game items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, out of curiosity, she sorted the items by total number of required fragments — from largest to smallest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Game Machine That Loves Games] (1\u002F9) — Price: 480gBlock\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Game Machine That Loves Games] (1\u002F9) — Price: 490gBlock\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rita's hand, hovering over the page-turn button, stopped mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn't the first time she'd seen that item.\u003C\u002Fp>",1175,"2026-06-06T06:15:13.778Z",1,"novelbin.me","50688cc1b427bc9198941a8585b09948cceaa8504502348c0241fd247586b387","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-630","this-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-chapter-628",1404,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-life-i-will-be-the-protagonist-cover.jpg"]