Arknights: Operator Performance Code

Because he had nothing, he longed to have everything.

Even if it made his life seem bloated and unwieldy.

Ji Shuju spent years bedridden in his previous life, relying on games to see the world. Now he's arrived in Arknights. Though he still can't move around freely, he can send out clones into different worldlines and experience all kinds of lives.

There's an Amiya dressed in black wandering the lands of sin.

There's Młynar, a corporate drone by day and a demon hunter by night, slacking off on the job.

And there's Ptilopsis, who ran into the prequel to the game Life and started playing a Machine God.

Meanwhile, Kal'tsit is walking alone across a land ravaged by the Pamiresh.

Aside from the fact that the worlds themselves aren't very pleasant, it's practically the life he'd always dreamed of.

Ji Shuju thought life would go on like this forever, until a notification popped up while he was playing a roguelike one day.

[Amiya has joined the game]

Ji Shuju: ?

An intense negotiation and a series of probing questions...

"My Arknights actually has a normal world setting!?"

"Then what are all those high-difficulty worldlines and hellish worlds I opened?"

A passing clone: "It means your main body can turn history books into fine dining."