[Bonus chapter] Patience's anguish

"This is terrible, simply terrible..."

A young rabbit-faced woman was walking back and forth inside the giant transparent sphere at the very top of the tower of sloth.

With no more confusing fog covering the area below, she had a perfect view for basically all of her territory, but she was in no mood for enjoing the scenery.

"What is that girl doing...why has she began ignoring all the quests I've been giving her? Has she realized that I'm influencing the system...? No, impossible... She might have known this world from the game that my creator based it on, but she surely realized that it's not exactly like it... right...?"

The voice who spoke those words was undoubtedly the voice of Almond – Shank's cousin that the Cranberry and the others passed on their way down, but judging from the meaning of said words, her body was completely taken over by Patience by that point.