After Joining the Game, She Came Out as Gay [Infinite] - Chapter 1

Every life that marches toward death is growing with fervor.

Love Game Clearing Rules

Witnessed by God, as long as two people Declare to become lovers, they may proceed to the next stage of the game.

Each person has one and only one chance for Divorce and one chance for Remarriage. Please choose your partner carefully.

If you wish to reorganize a romantic relationship, and you or your target already has an original partner, you must use Divorce on the original spouse before Remarriage is permitted.

Divorce is enforced compulsorily. Once either party proposes it to God, the romantic (team) relationship is immediately dissolved. Take note! However, a Remarriage request can be rejected; it is not compulsory.

Those who are abandoned still have a chance for Remarriage and will not face an immediate “game over”; they will be forced into the next round of the game. However, if they have not successfully escaped their single status before the game ends, it is “game over.”

Once Divorce takes effect, regardless of who proposed it, the two people involved in a Remarriage will no longer have the right to Divorce or Remarriage. That is, each person is allowed only two marriages (one opportunity to change partners).

Violent behavior toward others is not permitted in the game (verbal abuse does not count). For example, using violence to force an opponent to Divorce and thus force them out of the game is prohibited. However, violence may be used against one’s lover or oneself.

Remarriage requires two people to declare their vows again and be witnessed by God before it can be established.

The only strategy for the Resurrection Game is: Lovers must love and trust each other, and encourage and help one another!

Number of participants for Group C in the first stage Love Game: 7 people

The first thing Qi Cheng did when she opened her eyes was to perform an immediate confirmation.

She confirmed her location, her physical condition, and, as much as possible, the time.

A room about ten square meters in size. There were no furniture or decorations, no windows, and no doors—this was a completely enclosed space.

The ceiling, walls, and floor were covered in white tiles of the sort used in cheap apartment bathrooms. The entire space blended together, looking like a hollow cube.

And she was located at the center of this space, lying on the floor in the posture of a mummy placed in a coffin.

…She had really been placed in quite a bizarre and hellish place.

Qi Cheng scanned the white walls.

No surveillance.

Despite the strange posture, she was not tied up or restricted in her movement.

Qi Cheng propped herself up and slowly stood up.

Her body did not feel uncomfortable, and there were no external injuries.

—That was strange.

Because she remembered clearly that she was being hunted and was in a state of serious injury.

The opponent’s goal was her life; they had even gone so far as to involve innocent civilians, causing a massive pile-up accident.

Qi Cheng remembered that before the explosion, she had crawled out of the deformed car, but was still caught in the blast’s air current, and her head had slammed against the guardrail of the emergency lane.

She didn’t know what happened next.

…Could she have been timely rescued by a search and rescue team?

Or… perhaps certain people arrived before the rescue team, snatched her away, and performed emergency treatment.

Looking at it from a million different angles, this scenario wasn’t impossible. Many people were interested in her and wanted to utilize a “her like this.” So, to keep her from dying, there was a possibility they intervened and healed her.

If that were truly the case, judging by her current physical state, at least several days must have passed since the incident.

Unfortunately, the iPhone she could have used to confirm the time and location was not on her—it made sense. They wouldn’t leave her with a phone that could contact the outside world.

—If her current state was indeed what she suspected, the work of “those people.”

Qi Cheng walked to the nearest wall and began to investigate this limited space.

Somewhere in this seemingly enclosed space, there must be some kind of mechanism or hidden door.

Furthermore, these walls that looked like tiles to her eyes might be one-way glass. Perhaps on the other side of the wall, someone was observing her like a white mouse in a lab.

She lightly tapped the tiles.

Because of her past training, she knew how to distinguish the subtle differences between a one-way observation wall and a normal wall.

When she touched a certain tile, a row of arrows suddenly appeared on the floor. On the opposite wall, a “door” large enough for one person to pass through opened up.

Qi Cheng did not act immediately.

Prudence had always been her law of survival.

Although she had touched the wall, she didn’t believe the current situation was due to her finding the “correct unlock.”

Moreover, this eerie situation felt familiar to her.

Qi Cheng looked down at her neat and clean clothes—the same ones she wore during the accident—and her heart sank.

“Could it be…”

She sighed, scratching her hair somewhat despondently.

“I didn’t expect to draw the ‘worst lot’ again… but—”

She tilted her head up, staring intensely at the path that had suddenly opened to her. Her habitually expressionless face showed a subtle change for the first time.

—It was an expression that was almost like relief, a half-smile, a compromise made when coming to terms with fate.

“This time, for me, it might be considered the ‘best lot’…”

“Alright Hmm… explaining it in human time Well As of February 13, 2020, at 23:59:45 Tada! The final participant has finally arrived! My~ by human average standards, to take this long to get here, your physical quality, endurance, and mental toughness have already reached S-class levels~ Truly congratulations, congratulations!”

At the end of the white-tiled corridor was a space three times larger than the previous one, though of the same specifications.

Six people—specifically two men and four women—partially surrounded a strange panda standing upright, all watching Qi Cheng with varying expressions.

The one speaking in that clown-like, eccentric tone with long, trailing vowels was precisely that panda.

Even for Qi Cheng, suddenly seeing a panda stand like a human and speak was startling.

“Confusion, tension, unease… it’s all written on your face~ No need to feel embarrassed~ Everyone is like this when they first arrive. These six people had the same expressions as you when they first got here!”

“There were even some who grabbed my fur, ignored my cries of ‘it hurts, it hurts,’ and screamed hysterically: ‘What kind of ghost thing are you?!’, ‘Where on earth is this place, what do you want with me?!’.”

“…Oh dear, my eardrums were nearly burst.”

As the panda narrated, Qi Cheng saw behind it a heavily made-up woman and a middle-aged noblewoman take on the peculiar looks of people who had just been tattled on.

“That’s only natural, isn’t it!”

As if unwilling to be “reproached” by the panda, the heavily made-up woman clenched her fists, roaring with resentment: “To suddenly arrive in a strange place and be spoken to by a panda, did you think I could normally reply: ‘Oh, I see’?!”

The panda turned around, acting cute, and said with a smile: “I understand~ I understand~ After all, every group reacts this way~ I’m not angry with you! In any case, this is how I am defined by humans—’Embracing everything about humans, loving every human equally’~ I will take care of your feelings! Changing into this cute panda appearance is also to make humans feel a sense of familiarity!”

The reactions of the six people to this sentence were varied; some didn’t even hide their feelings of disgust.

Qi Cheng sighed.

The panda noticed her sigh, spun around, and said with a smile: “Oh my, I’m sorry for neglecting the newcomer. Well then, first, let me clear up your doubts. Although the others have already heard the explanation, they are welcome to ask new questions if they think of any! Since so much time has passed, your heads should have cooled down a bit so you can think normally, right? Though for some people, it’s still quite a struggle~ hee-hee.”

Everyone: “……”

The fact that a charming panda could show such a cunning smile subverted everyone’s perception. In a certain sense, it was even more terrifying.

The panda said: “First of all, I am not some kidnapper or abductor, nor will I harm you—because, you are already dead~ Oh? Not surprised? It seems you remembered how you died as soon as you arrived here?”

Qi Cheng did not respond, but her expression at that moment was the best answer—the kind of defenseless expression that allowed one to understand her thoughts at a glance.

The panda laughed: “Not bad, not bad~ It seems this group will be very interesting. Since you are already clear about the fact of your death, it shouldn’t be hard to understand what this place is and who I am, right? Tada! That’s right, this is the place called the ‘Heaven’ of the Divine Realm by you people of the lower world. And I am the existence called ‘God,’ ‘Jehovah,’ or ‘Existence X’ by you humans—call me whatever you like, though I personally prefer the title ‘God’.”

Qi Cheng: “……”

“In addition, there is one more point. I already explained this to each of them before you arrived. Though there were some who noticed even before I explained.”

God glanced at the girl who appeared to be the youngest here, smiled, and then said to Qi Cheng: “You all died on the same day. What a strange coincidence! You are all comrades who ‘died on the same day’.”

Qi Cheng: “……”

No wonder God had specifically emphasized the time when she walked in. And no wonder these people could maintain a relative level of calm now.

Every time a newcomer arrived (every time someone died today), God would repeatedly explain. In other words, under the effect of this repeated numbing and the passage of time, even the most uneasy person would slowly get used to it, thereby accepting their own death.

“Is this kind of explanation even necessary?! What does it matter if we died on the same day! Compared to that, you should have something more important to say, right?”

The middle-aged noblewoman suddenly interrupted.

“Didn’t you say that once the last person arrived, you would explain the game rules to us? Now the last person is here!”

Qi Cheng: “…Game rules?”

God: “Oh my, how impatient. You see, the newcomer doesn’t understand at all~”

God used a back leg to scratch an itch, then jumped onto a platform that suddenly appeared. Overlooking the crowd, he beckoned with a panda paw and said with a laugh: “Actually, everyone has the right to be resurrected!”

Qi Cheng: “…!”

God smirked: “However, you have to win the game first~”