The next day when they returned to the Whale Garden, Miss Ruo had already recovered. Her face wore more smiles, and she interacted with them more affectionately, no longer shutting down conversations as she did the first time they met.
During the conversation, she mentioned interactions between personalities. The reason she lived alone in the Whale Garden was that sometimes her siblings would suddenly come out and kill people. Of course, the people they killed were not good people, but dealing with the corpses troubled her.
She had long left the game and become a Grey Player. Although free from Zone 022's control, if she killed too many people, the government departments could intervene if they wanted, and she felt a recent undercurrent, sensing that some people's patience with her was wearing thin.
She wasn't necessarily determined to stay in Zone 022, but if she could, she preferred not to move in the short term; she had grown accustomed to life here.
