This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist

After obtaining the Divine Idol, Rita, despite being certain that gods wouldn't really waste a useless trinket in a high-level gift box, couldn't help but feel grateful for choosing the "Black Account" playstyle.

After the ninth round of elimination, Rita replenished the dishes she had used from her inventory. During her last Cooking class, White Bear had spent half the time reinforcing her cooking techniques, and the other half of the time talking about the universe in a casual manner. However, even during the storytelling, Rita still felt that she benefited immensely.

Rita could only share her feelings with her pet, speaking in BS language, which was rare enough to remain somewhat private. She spoke as she cooked, "You guys have no idea how great that teacher was."

She wasn't trying to flatter anyone, so she didn't specifically mention who it was.

Nivalis enthusiastically asked, "How was he great?"

Rita responded, "That teacher's teaching style was leagues above Apache by at least a hundred Lucias."

B80234615, still hidden in the shadows, couldn't speak openly since it wasn't in Black Account status. It privately asked Nivalis, "How many teachers has she actually recognized?"

Nivalis answered, "From what I know, there's Apache, Maple Syrup, Lucia, Mistblade, with ranks in order. There are also many unnamed ones in Lania KaiaHigh Tower, but I can't remember them all."

B80234615: "?"

It seemed to think something was off with Nivalis's description.

After replenishing the dishes, Rita didn't continue attending any classes but instead organized all the items she received from the gift boxes.

Aside from the somewhat useless clothing and the most valuable classes, there wasn't much of true value left.

The attributes added up to 500 points, completely covering the loss of attributes due to violations from the start of the game, with nearly 100 points to spare.

There were also five Golden Tree Branch Buds.

Two Rabbit Fur Replicas.

100 types of Languages of All Races.

10 random World Graveyard items, which Rita stored in B80234615 to conserve power.

The remaining seven classes were: Brewing, Alchemy x2, Ranged (Crossbow), Combat Movement, Magic Principles, and Aerial Combat.

Rita packed everything up and checked her battle power, which had reached level 9.

After receiving so many SSS-level skills and attending 32 star-sea years of classes, she had only reached level 9. This made her feel even further away from those Abyssal King-level players.

Progress definitely becomes harder to achieve as you go further.

Still, being stuck in pain wasn't entirely bad. At least her Divine Game rules still had 27 rules.

Rita rested for a while until the tenth round's elimination began to approach, but this time, she didn't put any ingredients in the fridge.

Instead, at 16:58, she used a hidden Easter Egg reward once again.

Easter Egg #1 Reward: After use, you can temporarily become a customer and enjoy everything the food street has to offer for 10 minutes.

She wasn't sure if, after the customer identity disappeared, she would become a Black Account or remain as an employee, but she just needed to survive the tenth round's elimination.

As long as she passed it, even if she became a Black Account afterward, it would be at 17:08, so she would be safe for the 11th and 12th rounds of elimination.

By doing so, she'd minimize her death count, with only three deaths, bypassing 12 rounds of eliminations.

After using the Easter Egg reward, Rita became a strawberry. She put Nivalis back into her pet space and left the restaurant immediately.

Rather than stay in the restaurant, hoping to guard an unknown employee spot, she decided to take the chance and try out a new possibility.

There were many ways to play the customer identity.

Previously, she couldn't attack customers, but now that she was a customer, could she attack other customers?

Rita went out and immediately used I Just Want to Improve So Badly on a customer.

It failed—not that it was ineffective, just that it didn't work.

Rita's eyes lit up when she realized that over an hour had passed since she last used Steady Happiness.

She went behind a few customers, shouting in Owlspeak, "I want Steady Happiness!" and then used I Just Want to Improve So Badly on the three customers.

Three iron boxes appeared, and the world froze.

At 17:00, the tenth round of elimination began.

Once the familiar process was finished, Rita didn't immediately check the boxes but instead used her time to continue causing trouble.

When she shouted in Owlspeak, the nearby customers noticed her. Rita ran up to one of them and punched them down to the ground.

—No hidden Easter egg was triggered.

Rita helped the customer up, grabbed their fist, and let them punch her.

The customer, who had been angry a second ago, was now speechless.

Rita didn't give up. She wasn't sure if the punch would be counted as her punching herself, so she grabbed the customer's fist and hit herself a few more times, saying, "Come on! Hit me harder!"

The customer did as told, but honestly, this wasn't a new request for Rita…

—Still no hidden Easter egg!

Rita sighed and walked away. But after running a few steps, she turned back suddenly and gave the customer a healing skill.

This time, it worked!

[Congratulations! Player discovered Hidden Easter Egg #5 (6/20)]

[The Fourth Disaster is Like This: Do something incomprehensible to a customer, with over 1000 players witnessing it.]

[Easter Egg Reward: After use, you can see a player's true identity (3/3).]

"Over 1000 players witnessed it..."

Rita glanced silently at the vast sky, feeling relieved that she was still just a strawberry saying Owlspeak.

It was 17:04.

Rita ran into a restaurant and, before sitting down, began to order: "What's the fastest dish you can make? I'm giving you 2 minutes!"

Two minutes later, a simple dish was placed in front of her. She took a bite and immediately left the restaurant.

[Congratulations! Player discovered Hidden Easter Egg #2 (7/20)]

[The Boss Meal: Enter a restaurant, eat, and don't pay.]

[Easter Egg Reward: After use, you can reduce one death penalty by 3 levels.]