This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist-Chapter 267: Dare or Truth

The blue light flew upwards from the Soul Catcher, forming a set of coordinates.

It really worked! And the coordinates included both longitude and latitude, as well as the elevation?

A minute later, the coordinates dissipated, and the hand bone, which had only been loosely held, now completely relaxed and lay flat on the table. Rita pushed the hand bone towards Nivalis, suggesting that Nivalis try the game. The game’s map automatically included the coordinates, so Rita opened it to check exactly where this location was.

Rita keenly noticed that the glowing sea demon characters on the hand bone had changed.

However, there were still not many of them—she counted, only 9. Whether in terms of the type of sea demon script or the number, no pattern was apparent.

Soul Catcher: "How many gold coins would it take for you to betray your friend?"

Nivalis looked at Rita: "How much do you want?"

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Rita casually replied, "Ten thousand gold coins."

Nivalis, looking at the hand bone, said, "Twenty thousand gold coins." Then she turned to Rita and added, "Fifty-fifty."

Rita nodded in approval, giving Nivalis her blessing for the betrayal.

Soul Catcher flashed emotionlessly again. Just like before, the Curio’s description added a new skill.

[One Answer (1/1)]: You can ask me one question related to money or wealth.

Nivalis didn’t pay much attention to this. She eagerly grabbed the now-soft hand bone again and chose to go for Dare this time.

The sea demon characters on the hand bone lit up with red light, and seven characters appeared.

Soul Catcher sang out in a voice of sea demon language, announcing the dare’s challenge:

"Betray your friend, at least once."

The air seemed to freeze.

Nivalis became a little flustered. Rita furrowed her brows deeply. She wasn’t worried about the content of Nivalis’ dare. In fact, the same dare appeared for both of them, so she knew she had plenty of ways to avoid it—just like how she and Skylar had once used a bug in their game. She and Nivalis could certainly handle it.

What worried her was her own dare.

If the dare and truth game were so closely linked, what would her dare be?

Nivalis’ answer effectively implied she had agreed to "betray." Therefore, her dare forced her to act on that betrayal.

But what about Rita’s answer? Had she unknowingly accepted the idea that power could change one’s race? Would her dare be related to her changing her own race?

Was there any connection between these choices?

Was the Soul Catcher testing their hesitation, or was it simply malicious fun? Or was it designed to make the one who answered confront the consequences of their own decision?

Too many possibilities, too many questions.

But at this point, Rita wasn’t going to give up on the Curio so easily.

She had only played the truth part and got the location of the Reverse Scale. When she checked the coordinates earlier, she found it was deep underwater in the Pacific Ocean. If she were to search for it herself, how long would it take?

She needed to see if the reward from the dare was worth the effort before deciding how to handle it.

Before proceeding, Rita made sure to have Nivalis use her skill to rewind time. After Nivalis did so, they found the hand bone weakly lying on the table, just like before the game started.

Rita and Nivalis both sighed in relief, but after some discussion, they decided to try the game again, to see if the dare would change and to find out what rewards they would get after completing a dare.

When Nivalis grabbed the hand bone and started the game once more, another line of tiny, glowing text appeared above it:

"Betray your friend, at least once."

Was the dare still the same? It seemed that the connection between dare and truth was indeed very strong.

Rita comforted Nivalis for a moment, then, taking control of the situation, she directly made Nivalis play the game, forcing her to "betray" her.

Unfortunately, Soul Catcher wasn’t fooled.

They went to the apartment dungeon, where Rita gave Nivalis unlimited Aurora Shields and full permission to attack. Rita removed all her equipment, drank 10ml of Daughter Red to weaken her stats, and intentionally slowed down her reactions. She attracted hundreds of monsters to attack her, deliberately setting up the worst possible conditions. Then, she let Nivalis attack her.

They simulated various scenarios, even pushing Rita’s health to only 10%. But still, it didn’t work—the hand bone kept tightly gripping Nivalis’ dragon claw, growing or shrinking with Nivalis’ size.

Back at the villa, standing in the yard, Rita looked at the silver moon and sighed deeply. "Looks like we have to go all in."

Nivalis flicked her dragon claw and, although the hand bone didn’t hurt, it was starting to annoy her. Hearing Rita’s words, her eyes lit up. She looked at Rita, full of expectation: "Did you come up with a plan?!"

Rita nodded calmly, reassuring Nivalis. She asked, "Do you have any other friends?"

Nivalis: "......"

The Dragon Ancestor above, what kind of language is this? It sounds so cold when said to a dragon!

They stared at each other for a while, and Nivalis answered: "Holy Cup, North Year, Snow Pile, and that strong dragon, Wind Cutter, and the Emperor Dragon Umbrella, are all my friends."

All tough characters, and all elders. Rita grabbed Nivalis’ hand and said earnestly, "I forbid you from being friends with them. I’m your only friend."

Nivalis: "..." What now? I suddenly really want to practice free fighting with Rita.

Finally, Rita thought of Skylar, the one who had once betrayed her in a similar manner in their previous life.

After each of their "betrayals," those two would always wait for a moment, wait for the pursuers to come, and only then would they start running. Sometimes they would even get injured, instead of fleeing immediately after revealing information.

So, wasn’t it essential to bring unexpected harm to the other person without them knowing? It couldn’t be "scripted."

Like the setup they had before, where Rita knew full well Nivalis would attack her—it didn’t feel like betrayal at all. It was just a situation where Rita had earned it.

Just as Rita was about to share her analysis with Nivalis, Nivalis suddenly dove toward her head, aiming right at Rita’s nose, and hit her with a rocket-like headbutt!

Rita couldn’t avoid it in time. Nivalis’ headbutt struck her squarely on the nose, and with a loud thud, Rita’s head snapped back. For a moment, her brain was buzzing, and it took a while for her to recover. Slowly, she turned her head, eyes dazed, holding her nose, staring blankly at Nivalis as blood slowly dripped from her fingers.

That hit had caught her completely off guard, and the damage was enormous—it took away 3% of her health.

"My Holy Cup, that felt so good!" Nivalis relished the sensation, rubbing her head for several seconds. Then, she waved the hand bone that had released her dragon claw and laughed to the sky. "It’s done!!!"

Rita: "......"

That night, Rita and Nivalis spent their time practicing free fighting. Explore new worlds at novelbuddy

Nivalis continued to savor that hit: "That was a righteous backstab! You asked for it!"

After cleaning up the blood from herself and the ground, Rita began her revenge: "Traitor! Spiral Bomb!"

Nivalis: "Hmph! Mega Evolution!"

"Z move!"

"Ice Beam!"

"Self-sacrifice Impact!"

"Slap-chain!"