Laid-Back Life in Tokyo: I Really Didn't Want to Work Hard-Chapter 779 - 465: Uesugi is an Ancient Person_2

"Alright."

Uesugi Sakura knew that helping might actually cause more trouble, so she comfortably sat down on the sofa next to Kitagawa Sakisa.

"Here, for you,"

Kitagawa Sakisa slumped on the sofa and handed a white controller to Uesugi Sakura, "Take it, let’s play some games."

Uesugi Sakura took the controller and examined it closely.

It seemed quite novel.

"Uesugi, you don’t know how to use it?"

"Nope." Uesugi Sakura slid the joystick back and forth twice in her hand.

"..." Kitagawa Sakisa was instantly silent. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"What’s wrong?" Uesugi Sakura asked.

"I’m just wondering...whether you’re really from this era." Kitagawa Sakisa’s gaze was like that of an archaeologist discovering a living ancient creature.

"I just rarely play games." Uesugi Sakura pressed the buttons on the controller, flipping it back and forth, "Controller games, I think it’s been ages since I last played them."

"It’s called console gaming, not controller gaming," Kitagawa Sakisa sighed, "I originally wanted to play ’Street Fighter V’ with you, have some match-ups, but we might as well switch games..."

"Whatever."

"What do you want to play?"

"What do you have?" Uesugi Sakura asked in return.

"Mainly what you want to play."

"Something slow-paced, preferably with some cultural elements," Uesugi Sakura thought for a moment, "I don’t really like fast-paced games, slow ones are easier to get into."

"Slow-paced? Cultural? Those are some strange requests." Kitagawa Sakisa glanced at Uesugi Sakura, stood up, and began searching through the pile of games next to the console.

Not long after, Uesugi Sakura watched as she picked up a red game disc titled "Red Dead Redemption 2" and asked if she wanted to play that.

"’Red Dead Redemption 2’?"

Uesugi Sakura didn’t quite get what ’Red Dead’ referred to, was it the rugged man on the cover smoking a cigar and holding a revolver?

Didn’t seem like it.

"It’s ’Red Dead Redemption 2’," Kitagawa Sakisa said, placing the game’s Blu-ray disc into the machine, "You said you like slow-paced games? This one’s slow, so it’s fitting."

"Oh."

Uesugi Sakura didn’t understand consoles; she would go with whatever she said.

Kitagawa Sakisa placed the game disc properly and lay back on the sofa, arms crossed, watching the TV.

"Aren’t you playing?" Uesugi Sakura turned her head to ask her.

"Single-player game, get familiar with it yourself, if you don’t get something, I’ll teach you."

"Oh, alright."

...

Uesugi Sakura focused her attention.

On the screen, the logos of game companies flashed by, followed by a somber tune with artistic English text floating on the black screen.

[1899, the age of gunslingers and outlaws has come to an end...]

1899?

Uesugi Sakura thought, around that time, it seemed the Qing Dynasty hadn’t fallen yet.

Then the screen went dark again, with text reappearing.

[America was emerging as a land of law...even the West was almost completely conquered.]

[Only a few gangs still roamed freely, but they couldn’t evade capture forever and were destined to disappear...]

The opening already had a strong sense of the era.

Not bad, Uesugi Sakura quite liked this vibe, at least it wasn’t a hack-and-slash game.

Next, the scene shifted to a dim, snowy place.

In the dead of night, horse carriages were lined up here, with fleeting lights, and amidst the snow, faint sounds of wheels and horse hooves.

A person wearing a felt hat and wrapped in a thick coat struggled to get down from a carriage, covering his hands, he walked to the front carriage, shouting hoarsely:

"Dutch! Abigail says she can’t hold on, we must find a place to rest."

The man named Dutch seemed to be the leader of the group; he glanced at the snow ahead and turned back to reassure him, "Arthur has gone to look, I sent him to scout the surroundings."

The man asking nodded, slipped his hands into his sleeves, and started to walk back, his body shivering in the snow.

Beside Dutch sat another man, their coats were covered in snow, bodies chilled, hands turning red.

He said to Dutch:

"If we keep stopping like this, we’re all going to die."

The scene continued, a person named Arthur approached through the snow, came to Dutch’s carriage, squinting, he said, "I found a place where we can take shelter from the snow....."

...

Seeing this, Uesugi Sakura, holding the controller, asked the knowledgeable Kitagawa Sakisa beside her:

"Are they avoiding something? Braving such heavy snow to go out."

Kitagawa Sakisa explained: "Yeah, this is the Vanderlinde Gang, they just pulled off a big heist in Blackwater Town, a successful yet failed heist, they had to escape, $150,000 in loot was stashed, they wanted to go back, but the Pinkerton Detectives were on a full-scale hunt for them, there was no way back for them."

"$150,000 in 1899? No wonder they’re so desperate."

Uesugi Sakura continued to focus on the screen, now able to control the character, the goal was to steer the character to find two companions who had scouted ahead in the snow.

This was likely the beginner’s tutorial, teaching how to control the character.

Uesugi Sakura was not stupid, she knew what to do, which dimmed Kitagawa Sakisa’s eagerness to teach her.

"I’m going to the restroom."

"Okay." Uesugi Sakura nodded at the snowy, stormy screen.

After washing her hands, Kitagawa Sakisa came out of the restroom. She curiously glanced at Uesugi Sakura’s screen.

She discovered that he had reached the scene where the opposing gang fought fiercely in the snow.

A simple revolver, in his control, hit every target without a miss.

"Uesugi! You lied to me!"

"What’s up?" Uesugi Sakura turned back, she had already taken out all the enemies by then.

"Aren’t you supposed to be ancient? How come you can play so well on your first try? You even aim so accurately with a controller."

Uesugi Sakura realized, it must be her skill at play.

"This is my first time playing."

"I don’t believe you; I’ll watch you play."

Uesugi Sakura saw her sit next to her, but didn’t mind her, continuing to play her game.

The enemies were taken care of, and she also rescued the female owner of this cabin, Shadi, who said the Ostredico Gang killed her husband and robbed all their supplies.

The protagonist’s gang wasn’t much better, but at least they weren’t like those beasts, they saved Shadi and took her to their temporary camp.

To gather food, they raided the Ostredico Gang’s camp and obtained their not-yet-executed plan.

Robbing a rich man’s train.

Up to now, Uesugi Sakura had a good impression of the game, and the snow, every step made by the protagonist would leave a trace.

So games have advanced to this level.

In fact, later on, there were barely any enemies, Kitagawa Sakisa didn’t get to see him shoot using the controller.

"How’s the game?" Kitagawa Sakisa asked.

"Not bad, quite interesting."

"Then hurry up and finish, let’s head online later! Then we can team up to rob!"

"Playing together...just to do bad things?"

"What fun is there in not doing bad things in games? Hurry up, I won’t bother you."

Uesugi Sakura was just about to continue the mission when Hanamaru Hanabi and Kyujuu Rika called her over for lunch.

Uesugi Sakura absent-mindedly ate her lunch.

Kitagawa Sakisa mentioned that in this game, you can rob others, and if she teamed up with Hanabi...

Uesugi Sakura had a feeling bringing her along to do bad things would be quite fun.

She assumed she would be the kind who wouldn’t even dare to pull the trigger on game characters.

No, why was she always thinking about the game?

Uesugi Sakura glanced at Hanamaru Hanabi, who was quietly eating across from her.

She was here to start a fresh campus romance with little Hanabi, not to waste her life on some game.