'How painful that would be for Frisk...'
'How can anyone play this? Players won't dare to die.'
'Oh, re-ma-mo, heart-line-song!'
'It's all over. More flowers are going to sprout on Frisk again...'
'If "Falling Flowers" were a bullet-hell game, I'd practice for a million years to get a no-hit run!'
'Same here!'
'This is clearly a plot-driven death. Three choices, and except for the last one with an extra option, the result is still death. It's all death!'
...
How to play?
A question hanging in everyone's mind. If facing the "Sheep Mom" is a plot-driven death, there's no point in continuing, unless...
"Unless I trigger some hidden mechanism after dying a certain number of times..."
Thinking of this, Mo Zhi's expression instantly turned ferocious: "This damn fan-creator, why did they have to imitate the old designer and be so cruel to players? Damn it!!"
Then, she rethought it. Perhaps it was precisely because of this that this work was chosen. The source was still the old designer. Realizing this, Mo Zhi continued, "We still have to curse the old designer, the source of all evil!"
Although it was just a guess, Mo Zhi felt it was highly likely.
So a new question arose: Should she continue fighting the "Sheep Mom" with Frisk's body, enduring the mental condemnation of the blooming flowers?
Leaving the ruins was the first step out of the新手村 (newbie village). If she chose to unconditionally spare all monsters, to convert and redeem them with love, then she had to be prepared for mental condemnation.
After all, Frisk in the game was not just a puppet for players to control, but a person with thoughts, feelings, and a soul.
This was one of the more captivating aspects of this AU. It diluted the player's sense of participation, turning players into tools to advance the plot, while also creating a very deep bond between the player and Frisk.
Frisk was both the player's proxy in the game and a little girl venturing through the game world with an independent personality.
"......"
After a moment of silence, Mo Zhi once again focused her gaze on the game. Since she had made a decision, she could not back down midway.
She wanted to redeem the monsters in the underground world with love and achieve salvation with Frisk. She always remembered Little Flower's words: as long as they could return to the surface, the flowers that grew on Frisk due to magic would naturally disappear.
So it was too early to retreat. She had to continue fighting bravely. Even if she had to die a hundred more times, she would break out of the ruins!
"Why?"
Frisk looked at Little Flower, her eyes full of bitterness, "Why can't we succeed?"
"No matter how I avoid it... it's still..."
"This isn't right."
She suddenly asked Little Flower, "How many times have I died already?"
"Fifty times, seventy times, or a hundred times?"
"How many more times do I need to die to win?"
It turned out that after Mo Zhi's persistent trial and error, even Frisk had realized the connection between her deaths and resurrections.
"How many times?"
"......"
She was somewhat dejected, facing the stark [ga/
"No!"
Frisk slowly began to approach Toriel...
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—
However, after only a few steps, scorching flames brushed past her head.
She attacked me?
Why am I okay?
Frisk had resigned herself to death, but found that her consciousness remained intact and had not stalled, which meant...
"Why won't you listen!"
Toriel roared obsessively, "Go back to your own room!"
But Frisk, holding Little Flower tightly, resolutely walked towards the exit of the ruins, ignoring Toriel's furious shouts and pursuit from behind.
Her breathing was rapid, but she kept walking.
"No!"
Toriel's frantic tone carried a hint of pleading, "Please."
"Child!"
A flicker of emotion stirred in Frisk's heart. She turned her head and saw a tear streak down Toriel's face.
She froze on the spot, as if struck by lightning.
"Sheep Mom..."
Off-screen, Mo Zhi had already burst into tears. She realized that the "Sheep Mom" was still the "Sheep Mom." Even though this crazy world had driven her mad, her heart still held the "Sheep Mom" who wanted to protect her child.
Despite her methods being insane or even brutal, all she had ever wanted was for Frisk to stay in the ruins.
The viewers who had followed her journey were also shaken by the "Sheep Mom's" breakdown. When Mo Zhi regained her composure, gifts and bullet comments had already flooded the livestream.
'Every child who fell was let go by the Sheep Mom, yet none survived... She doesn't want to lose anyone anymore.'
'Suddenly I can kind of understand the Sheep Mom.'
'The Sheep Mom isn't that bad, just extreme.'
'The Sheep Mom isn't bad, she's just mentally unstable due to the successive deaths of the children, and her protective methods are excessive.'
'There's no absolute black and white. A mother has just gone mad.'
'Fundamentally good, just mad.'
'Ahhhhh I'm feeling a subtle sting, it tickles, it numbs, but it feels a bit strange.'
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