Chapter 159: Chapter 158: All the Time to Duel

It didn’t take me very long at all to find my way to the door to Udona’s room. A part of me remembered back when I was visiting the Admin Room during my voyage, when they mentioned that she had ‘redecorated’ her room… Well, now or never.

Opening the door, the first thing I thought when I got inside was quite simple… Soft… The entire floor of Udona’s ‘room’ was covered in blankets. No, to call it a room wouldn’t be accurate anymore. She had done more than simply redecorate, she had expanded. Her area was a hill of blankets, atop which sat what I assume was meant to be a log cabin.

Only, the cabin itself was made entirely out of pillows. Stacked pillows, held together by some unimaginable force to form the walls and ceiling. Even the door was a tall, wide body pillow. Each pillow and each blanket had a variety of mixed patterns. Some were blank white, some were a dark color, others had patterns of flowers or rivers.

“Well… this is interesting.” I said to myself, glancing around to see if there were any other changes. At first, I didn’t particularly notice the sky, because it seemed fairly normal. However, upon closer inspection, I realized that it was actually just a massive television screen that covered the horizon of her little landscape.

Aurivy must really love it here. As I thought that, I moved towards the pillow-door of the log cabin. I considered knocking, but just how much noise would knocking on a pillow really generate? “Udona, you in there?”

“Hmm? Oh! Dale! Yeah, sure, come on in.” Udona called out from inside, seeming surprised by the sudden intrusion. Taking the invitation, I walked inside, where unsurprisingly I found everything to once again be made of either pillows or blankets. The wallpaper along the pillow walls were simply blankets hung up, the chairs were large fluffed pillows big enough to sit on. Perhaps the only thing different was the TV screen I saw.

Udona’s cabin only had one room, so it was easy to see everything at once. In one corner, there was a pillow table with pillow chairs, and in another was a bundle of pillows arranged like a nest, which I assumed was the bed. In the center of the room, perhaps the most ordinary feature, was a pillow fort. A pillow fort within a pillow house atop a mountain of blankets.

And in front of the pillow fort’s one opening was a large, wide-screen television that had a scene from some television show I didn’t recognize paused. Seeing that I knew Udona was inside, but couldn’t see her, I walked towards the pillow fort. “Sorry about popping in like this, but I wanted to get an update on your world.”

Sure enough, Udona poked her head of golden hair out through the opening of the pillow fort. Aside from when we were playing Keeper’s Cards before, this was perhaps the most awake I had ever seen her, her eyes wide and shining. “Oh? Didn’t expect you to come around about that for a while yet. Well, thankfully I have learned a few interesting things, though the world itself is still in the stone age.”

As she said that, she pulled her head back into the fort, and stuck a hand out to usher me in. Raising an eyebrow, as the pillow fort was clearly not big enough for two, I moved closer. Once I lowered my head and squatted down to crawl into the fort, I was surprised to find that it led into a rather large room.

This room appeared more like a theater than anything else, and one not made of either pillows or blankets. Rows of seats sat facing me, Udona in the front row at the very middle. The entrance that I was crawling through seemed to be the viewing window for the television in front of the fort.

“Okay, I’ll hand it to you. This is creative.” I muttered, moving to sit in one of the seats next to her. “So, you were saying?”

“Ah, right.” Udona nodded, seeming a bit distracted. “Sorry, I was organizing something.” She lifted a hand, inside of which was a remote, and pressed a button. On the screen outside the fort, which now looked positively massive, the anime scene faded. Instead, there was a rather ordinary-looking, large wolf frozen in time walking through a forest.

“So! I have been spending the last couple days researching into the possibilities and limitations behind the systems we set up Deckan with. And I’ve found a few things. Tricky little secrets, hidden away behind the system’s explanation of the cards.” Udona grinned mischievously, as if she were a child solving a mystery.

“First, the cards that are dropped from the bodies of the dead are not really random at all! Well, they are in a way, but not as one might expect. Take a look at this.” She hit another button on the remote, and an information panel appeared in front of the wolf.

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