After buying information on the Taylor family, Rita went straight to a massage parlor and booked a three-hour session.
She napped while getting massaged.
She did not plan to sleep tonight either.
She was in a hurry. The sooner this was done, the sooner she could go home and continue her alchemy lessons.
It was already July 3rd.
The third beta would begin on October 10th. She had to raise her Alchemy as much as possible before then.
As expected of masseuse number 88.
Lucky numbers like that were only given to true masters.
Rita slept through the entire three-hour massage, yet woke feeling as if she had rested all night.
She glanced at the masseuse and thought that after the game invasion, this person's massage skills might get datafied into an actual skill.
Rita did not look for a hotel afterward.
The massage parlor allowed paid overnight stays. After confirming there were no cameras in the room, she booked it and told the staff not to wake her until eight tomorrow morning.
Once the employee left, Rita carefully checked the room again. After confirming there were no hidden cameras, she locked the door, casually placed her bag on the massage bed, and went into the bathroom.
She activated Phantom Cloak.
Then she used Phantom Shift to appear near a courier station close to the black market entrance.
Constantly hiring runners to deliver things to crime scenes was a bad habit.
She did not like letting people figure out her patterns.
She got hold of the courier transport schedule directly.
At this time every day, a transport truck stopped at this station. After unloading, it continued to the next stops.
The seventh station was closest to the Taylor family, only five kilometers away.
It was troublesome, but she had never been to the Taylor family estate before.
Phantom Shift would not work without a clear image in her mind.
She was honestly worried she might land right on top of Camila.
By hitching a ride on an actual delivery truck, Rita reached the Taylor family...
Or rather, the outside of their estate before dark.
Did a family need an actual estate to qualify as the future wife's family in a live-in son-in-law novel?
Rita took a deep breath.
Relying on her rich home-invasion experience, she soon found Camila.
As for Henry, he was like her. Another relative of the male and female leads.
But her treatment was worlds apart from Henry's.
Camila and Henry were truly close as siblings.
Even after Camila genuinely fell in love with Rick, she would never hurt Henry for Rick's sake.
Rita had envied that so much in her past life.
Today's main target was Chávez, not revenge.
Using potions, Rita walked straight into Camila's room and skillfully crawled toward...
Damn it.
Camila's bed had a solid wooden base.
There was no space underneath.
Rita sat cross-legged at the foot of the bed.
Good thing she had learned Phantom Cloak.
She kept her eyes lowered and did not look directly at Camila.
People were strange like that.
Even in sleep, they could sometimes sense another person's gaze.
As usual, she started with [Wheel of Fate], lowering Camila's Luck to 1.
Then she added Sleep Spell as insurance.
After that, she began consuming Beginner Healing Potions without worrying about the cost, repeatedly using [I Want This, This, and This] on Camila.
[Intelligence +1]
[Intelligence +1]
[Chávez Top Hat +1]
Stop.
She had seen this hat in her previous life.
So this was the final piece of the Chávez set.
Seriously?
This thing really was standard equipment for heroines?
Rita could not wait to inspect the Chávez Top Hat.
[Chávez Set: Top Hat (3/3)] (A Rank)
Even fortune tellers who can see across the river of fate, well, assuming their skills and items are A Rank or below, cannot learn your whereabouts.
Must be worn to take effect.
When she placed [Chávez Set: Glasses], [Chávez Set: Mask], and the top hat together, all three items began glowing softly.
The black top hat, gold-rimmed glasses, and silver mask slowly merged into a small and exquisite silver pocket watch.
[Chávez's Time] (S Rank)
You do not need to know who I am, where I am, or what I am doing.
I'm In a Hurry.
[Skill 1] Disguise
As long as you wish, you may disguise everything about yourself. The disguise takes effect immediately.
[Skill 2] Insight
As long as you wish, you may inspect anything you want to know.
Inspecting detailed information consumes 10 mana per second.
Energy-saving mode may be activated to display only basic information about people or items.
Energy-saving mode consumes 1 mana per minute.
[Skill 3] Concealment
You cannot be divined by anyone or anything.
When someone attempts to divine your whereabouts, you will sense their existence.
Chávez is the strongest. Even SS Rank can only see fog. I said so. Chávez.
[Set Skill] I'm In a Hurry
After use, teleport to any location within your line of sight.
Maximum range: 5 meters.
Cooldown: 10 seconds.
A huge harvest.
Rita steadied her breathing and immediately activated Insight's energy-saving mode.
Now, players in her field of vision looked just like they did in-game.
A line of pale blue glowing text appeared above their heads, showing their name, level, HP percentage, and MP percentage.
For example, above Camila's head:
Camila Level 0 100% | 100%
Rita suppressed the excitement in her chest and used her skill on Camila a few more times.
[Constitution +1]
Leave.
Then she went downstairs to Henry's room.
Wheel of Fate was still on cooldown, so she could only use the Sleep Spell and Thief God combo.
She stayed busy until dawn and only managed to get two points of Constitution.
When she left the Taylor estate, her main stats were now:
[HP]: 150/150
[MP]: 300/300
[Strength]: 8
[Constitution]: 8 +3
[Intelligence]: 12 +2
[Agility]: 21
[Luck]: 10 "MAX"
[Charm]: 10 "MAX"
Her HP had finally begun increasing.
Constitution was a comprehensive stat.
It affected vitality, defense, magic resistance, mental resistance, health recovery speed, and more.
Her starting Constitution had only been 6.
Earlier increases had not affected her HP.
But once her Constitution surpassed 10, each additional point increased her HP by 50.
Leveling up would also increase HP, but those gains were not fixed.
The higher a person's Constitution, the greater the HP bonus when leveling.
MP worked the same way.
Because of her increased Intelligence, her mana had now reached 300.
Rita hung the pocket watch around her neck and tucked it inside her bra.
If possible, she would have loved to sew a password-locked pocket onto her underwear and lock the watch inside.
Disguising information still only required keeping the item in her bag.
But blocking divination required wearing it.
More importantly, item skills also required the item to be worn.
The Chávez set skill was far too practical.
There was no way she would not use it.
Since she had hitched rides all the way to the Taylor estate, she had seen the route along the way.
Even though the Taylor family was over thirty kilometers from the massage parlor, she could now use Phantom Shift.
With 14 Intelligence, each cast moved her 14 kilometers.
After three Phantom Shifts, Rita returned to the massage parlor bathroom.
She showered, changed clothes, unlocked the door, and climbed into bed to avoid dying from overwork.
When the staff came to wake her at eight, she simply booked another three hours.
She got massaged until noon, then went out for lunch.
She needed to think about what kind of gift to leave Camila and Henry.
Otherwise, it would hardly repay the slave array Camila had once carved into her back.
Back then, Rick had arrived in time to save her.
But now that Rita's pig brain had upgraded to version 2.0, the whole thing felt wrong.
You didn't come early.
You didn't come late.
You only showed up after the array was finished and the spell was completed?
She could not bear it.
She really could not bear to kill Camila with one clean strike.
She had to torture her first, then kill her.
Only then would her heart feel clear.
Otherwise, it would feel like starving for ten days, walking into an all-you-can-eat buffet, then eating only chicken breast and vegetable salad for health reasons.
If she just one-shot her enemies, she would spend the rest of her life sitting up in bed at midnight, slapping herself.
"Seriously? You killed them just like that?"