Hearing Argo's words, Rozen wasn't surprised at all.
Since this mouse took the initiative to contact him, it could only mean that there was a solution to this matter.
The investigation on Kurumi.
"How is it?"
Rozen asked concisely.
Facing this question, if it was in the past, Argo would have provided detailed information, showing off her ability as the best intelligence dealer in SAO.
However, this time, Argo's expression was clouded by a layer of shadow.
Then …
"I don't know."
Argo gave a similarly concise answer.
"You don't know?"
Rozen was stunned.
What does that mean?
What do you mean by "I don't know"?
Rozen's heart was filled with doubts.
Argo sighed as if she knew what Rozen was thinking.
"Don't think too much, it's what it means." Argo said, "I've been investigating that kid named Kurumi for the past three days. But in the end, after three days, I didn't find anything."
According to Argo, the first place she went to was the Town of Beginnings on the first floor to investigate Kurumi.
"The first thing I investigated was the young children who stayed in the Town of Beginnings."
Argo said so.
"I guess you also know that children of Kurumi's age should all live in the Town of Beginnings, right?"
Argo's words made Rozen slightly nod.
Because of their young age, unlike the mature players, the children basically wouldn't think of going out of the circle to fight monsters.
"At the beginning of the game, almost all the children of that age developed mental problems due to excessive fear. Although some children adapted to the game and left the town, there were only a few exceptions."
Argo said slowly.
"They are at the age where they love to act spoiled in front of their parents, but suddenly being announced that they can't leave this place and might not even be able to return to reality, most of the children fell into a state of exhaustion. Some of them seemed to have cut off their connection …"
Hearing that, Rozen went silent.
There was no need to ask what would happen to the children who were disconnected.
After all, Kayaba Akihiko had said on the first day of the game that the helmet would immediately burn a player's brain if there was no power or internet connection for a certain period of time.
"Fortunately, there were only a few children who were disconnected from the Internet. The rest of the children seemed to have been taken in by some kind high-level players after some twists and turns. They even lived together in the church in the Town of Beginnings, where they depend on each other."
Argo gave him this information.
"Now, there are about 20 children living in that church. That should be all the young players in the Town of Beginnings. The rest of the young players have probably reached the upper echelons and have made some names for themselves."
Hearing Argo's words, the first person Rozen thought of was Celica.
Although Xili was quite a bit older than Kurumi, she was only thirteen or fourteen years old. If you were to call her a young player, she could be counted as one of them.
And Celica relied on Pina to make a name for herself as a tamer.
"She's very young, but she can fight in the upper echelons. No matter how good her skills are, she must be famous, right?"
That was what Argo thought.
"But whether it was in the Town of Beginnings or the upper echelons, I didn't hear about a player named" Yui. "
That was why Argo said he didn't know.
He didn't find anything.
That was what Argo wanted to say.
"I also investigated the information about 'players who don't have buoys and their main menu is different from others', but I didn't find anything. So far, there are no players who have such a situation."
Argo gave this information to Rozen.
In other words …
"The identity of your daughter is a mystery. No matter where I go, I can't find any information about her."
Argo reluctantly admitted the fact that he didn't find anything and looked at Rozen with doubt.
"I say, Zhenzhen, is that child really a player?"
Argo finally had the same question in his mind.
"Could she actually be an NPC?"
Argo began to suspect this.
Since Argo couldn't find any information about Yui, it proved that there was no player named "Yui" who had been active before.
Unless she hid her name and lived in an unknown place from the first day of the game, logically speaking, Argo shouldn't be unable to find any information about her.
Argo couldn't help but suspect Yui's identity.
It was also something that Rozen and Yasna had suspected before.
As for now …
"Yui can't be an NPC."
Rozen said with certainty.
There was no other reason.
"I've never heard of an NPC being able to summon a main menu. Even if the main menu is special and special, this function should only be a player's privilege. So, Yui can't be an NPC."
That was what Rozen told Argo.
Of course, other than this reason, Rozen also had another reason why he didn't believe that Yui was an NPC.
And that was …
"Even if she's an NPC with a high AI program, she shouldn't be able to show such an autonomous and human side."
Rozen muttered to himself.
In the past, it wasn't like Rozen hadn't encountered NPCs with high AI programs that could talk to players freely and act on their own, but no matter how realistic they were, they were just "human-like" after all, not real human beings. Therefore, their actions would be more or less affected by the system. For example, they would only communicate with players when they were carrying out a task related to them.
But Yui was different.
Yui had a clear human side. Whether it was her intelligence, personality, behavior, etc., she gave off a feeling that she wasn't controlled by the system.
Yui had a sense of "human" existence.
That was the main reason why Rozen didn't believe that Yui was just an NPC.
"Is that so …?" Argo seemed to have accepted Rozen's explanation and helplessly said: "If that's the case, then I can't do anything about it."
For the first time, the best intelligence dealer in SAO admitted the fact that he couldn't do anything about intelligence.
Argo must be very unhappy, right?
"Forget it." Rozen shook his head and said: "Even if I can't find any information about Yui, it's still a gain for me."
That way, Rozen could be sure.
"Yui must have some secret, and it's not because of the system bug that she's different from other players."
Rozen said.
"Moreover, this secret is very likely to have a great connection with this world."
This was Rozen's deduction and also Rozen's hunch.
What kind of person was this cheap daughter of his?
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