Kaka is a strange pixie who likes to measure value with scores, digitizing everything in the world and treating everyone according to their numbers.

But Rane knew this was Kaka’s special ability—it could perceive the soul value of all things and digitize it. This ability could also evolve with Kaka’s strength, eventually allowing it to see a target’s weakness at a glance.

Essentially, the powers of memory enhancement and knowledge stabilization were just extensions of this special ability.

Kaka itself was unaware, only feeling somewhat special.

Later, through Rita’s pixie Nunu, Kaka provided her with considerable help.

But that was for later. For now, Rane considered the main challenge: how to make Kaka, the Score Slave, willingly follow him.

In the game, Rita’s score in Kaka’s eyes was only around 30, so the little sister alone couldn’t persuade it.

Rane didn’t know his own score in Kaka’s eyes.

He couldn’t comprehend Kaka’s perspective on the world and how it rated others left him puzzled. He only hoped to leave a good impression to secure a favorable score.

So when Kaka turned to him, Rane smiled kindly at it.

‘It smiled! At me! I’ve received recognition from a great being!’

Kaka was thrilled; it never expected such a being to show kindness to someone as lowly as itself.

‘God loves mankind!’

Naturally, this thought arose in Kaka’s mind.

Those white-clothed short-lived fanatics obsessed with faith really did have a point.

Without Rane calling, Kaka decisively abandoned its kin and ran toward the embrace of the god.

At that moment, Kaka felt it had seized the future.

“Most revered… Master of the Covenant, your arrival illuminates the Pixie Hall. I, Kaka, shall follow all the rules of the Six Great Covenants and await your orders at any time.”

From Kaka’s voice, Rane heard an odd mix of reverence, admiration and faint humility.

‘What’s going on? Was Kaka really this sycophantic in the original story? This was the same Kaka, who previously didn’t consider beings under 30 as intelligent and under 50 as having no rights at all?’

Rane felt uneasy but also noticed Kaka’s attitude toward him was unusual.

His own score must be decent—at least above 50.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so respectful, even more than when facing the Pixie King.

“Eh? This is a pixie? So cute!”

At that moment, an ill-timed voice interrupted Rane just as he was about to speak. Rita had finally adapted to the discomfort from the previous embrace and began curiously examining her surroundings, immediately noticing Kaka floating before them.

But the melodious voice sounded grating to Kaka.

‘Human! Why are you speaking!? Why interrupt my hearing of the great teachings!? Oh… I understand! You don’t want God’s favor on me. You don’t want me to serve God. You’re afraid I’ll take your place as God’s servant, right? The boss was right: all female short-lived species are truly vicious! How spiteful! A mere 32-combat-power servant—do you have the right to speak here!?’

Kaka’s round body gradually inflated and sharpened, resembling a bloated pufferfish. Yet Rita misunderstood its anger as cuteness. Excitedly, she reached out to touch Kaka, nearly ready to explode.

Rane’s heart sank—can’t you see it’s about to blow? And you dare provoke it?

After teasing it, you go find Nunu to sign the covenant—what about me?

Before she could act, Rane grabbed Rita’s wrist, his face growing cold.

“Rita, now is not the time for nonsense!”

Rita frowned instinctively, intending to pull away, but Rane held her wrist firmly, his gaze serious.

Only then did she recall the pixies shouting earlier, realizing it wasn’t the moment to argue and simply pouted, allowing Rane to hold her wrist.

She disliked Rane, yes, but wasn’t ruled by anger, she could judge the urgency of situations.

Now wasn’t the time for gentle negotiation with pixies to sign the covenant.

“What is the Calamity? What will happen to the Pixie Hall? Will the pixies be in danger?”

Rita asked directly, hitting the points Rane was considering.

“Kaka, can you explain the current situation? What characteristics does the Calamity facing the Pixie King have?”

Compared to Rita, Rane’s thoughts were clearer. Determine the severity first, then decide whether to proceed with the covenant.

Upon Rane’s request, Kaka returned to its usual round light-orb form and respectfully replied, “Respected Master of the Covenant, approximately three Lumina ago, our boss, the Pixie King, detected external interference on the covenant rules. You surely understand what covenant corruption entails. To maintain the purity of the Pixie Hall, we followed the boss to the apex of the dome to investigate which covenant was compromised. At that moment, the boss was engulfed in a dark green light. Immediately after, he announced the arrival of the Calamity and sent us pixies investigating out of the dome, completely sealing it.”

Recalling the event, Kaka added with lingering fear, “When I was thrown out, I saw another group of numbers besides the boss’s, vaguely starting with 8…”

Kaka’s phrasing was localized; Rita was confused, but Rane, using his knowledge of the game, could piece together the sequence.

Lumina was the pixies’ time unit, with one Lumina equaling one hour.

Covenant corruption was easy to understand: the six great covenants between humans and the Pixie King were sworn by both races; interference meant another race attempted to disrupt them.

Rane recalled Claude mentioning that his original family had experienced sabotage of their covenant with the Pixie King.

‘Could this relate to the current Calamity invading the Pixie Hall?’

The thought passed quickly; Rane returned focus to Kaka’s account.

The dark green light attacked the Pixie King and Kaka inferred from the numbers that the enemy was stronger than the current Pixie King.

Both were Calamity-tier combatants. In Kaka’s view, the Pixie King scored around 70, but the incoming Calamity received at least 80.

Since the Pixie King said it was a Calamity attack, not a Calamity-tier attack, this assault wasn’t related to the other three Pixie Kings. One of the five Calamities acted and its strength exceeded the Pixie King by more than one rank.

Dark green, stronger than the Pixie King—these traits were vaguely familiar from the early main storyline in the game, though Rane couldn’t recall details clearly, perhaps due to his traversal.

Clearly, the priority was to trick Kaka into signing the covenant first.