The door opened in less than half a minute.
"Ce..."
Siegfried practically blurted out, but closed his mouth the next second. The person who opened the door for him wasn't Cecilia, but a blonde, blue-eyed teenage girl who looked serious and humorless.
Brits?
This girl indeed seemed to have a bit of a British vibe, featuring distinct Western facial characteristics while also carrying a slight touch of Eastern delicacy.
"Who are you?" the girl asked, looking very puzzled. "If you're here to sell things, I don't need anything here."
"Ah... this..." Siegfried awkwardly said, "Um... sorry, wrong person."
"Well, do you happen to know if there's someone named Li Pu here..."
"Sorry, don't know them." The girl dropped those words uninterestingly and slammed the door shut with a bang.
Left empty-handed and feeling foolish, Siegfried could only rub his nose awkwardly and walk away.
"Eh? That's not right!" Having just walked out of the apartment building, Siegfried suddenly felt that... why did the girl's gaze feel a little off?!
It felt...
It felt just like the way Cecilia looked at him the first time they met at the academy.
Mm...
No! No!
Siegfried turned back, ready to go back up and check again, but after thinking about it briefly, he gave up. It was better to patiently wait for now; perhaps the campus would be better than here.
"Mm... hard to say." Siegfried pinched his chin and thought, "I can go apply for a job."
In a girls' school, although it sounded a bit whimsical, it wasn't entirely unrealistic.
Meanwhile, back in that apartment.
"Holy crap!" The blonde, blue-eyed girl said, looking somewhat nervous. "How did this Siegfried manage to track me down?!"
"Is he that desperate for a freebie?! And the kind of freebie that doesn't even pay!"
This girl was naturally Li Pu.
To be honest, the transformation dance given by the system was not only easy to learn, but the standard for transforming wasn't high either. Basically, as long as the movements were consistent and the aura matched, it counted as a success.
It could be considered quite simple.
Simple movements were very easy to learn, and as long as your chūnibyō was slightly severe, you could achieve the aura.
Once you let go, transforming became extremely easy.
And what he transformed into this time was.
"To be fair, though." Li Pu stood in front of the full-length mirror, spinning left and right, and said, "The Bed King's figure is actually pretty good."
Seemingly a characteristic of female heroes, alongside the gentleness and beauty a woman ought to possess, there was also a sense of strength that ordinary women lacked.
Looking closely at the person in the mirror, she really was quite a striking and formidable rose.
"And I always feel like~"
Li Pu rubbed his shoulders, casually swinging his arms twice, and said, "It seems full of strength!"
He felt as though a lot of things had suddenly popped into his head, which he could easily observe.
These must be certain skills?!
System prompt: Equipment quest completed.
Obtained title: My Character, I Get It!
Obtained one chance at a lucky draw.
Right at that moment, the system's voice appeared right on cue.
Chapter 47 A New Round of the Draw, Duck
I can actually still get a lucky draw chance from this?!
Li Pu entered his system and said with some surprise, And I even get a title like this.
What's the use of this title?
"Equipment success rate increased by 10%," the system replied. "As long as you can obtain a title, you get a chance at a lucky draw. As for titles themselves."
"Some are useful, and some are useless."
"Basically, the early-stage ones are all useful, but it's hard to say once you reach the later stages."
"Eh?" Li Pu said with some curiosity, "What kind of titles are there in the early stages?"
"How do you use them?"
"Just equip them," the system said. "You just need to tell me when you want to equip them, and you can equip three at a time."
"As for what titles exist, you have to explore that yourself. Anyway, I'll give you a hint when you get a title."
"There are many ways to acquire titles in the early stages, and they're very messy. You might even trigger a title by flipping through a toilet a hundred times."
"Lying is bad," Li Pu said, refusing to believe it. "I've been in this world for three years, and I've flipped through toilets a hundred times already."
"I've never seen you give me a title."
"That was just an example," the system explained. "Anyway, I'm just telling you that early-stage titles are easier to get. The further along you get, the harder this stuff is to obtain. Although some are useful and some useless, once a title is useful, its utility is huge."
"The boost to your strength is still quite obvious."
"How do I equip them?" Li Pu thought for a moment. It seemed he had obtained a title before that had never come in handy. Now he got another one, and the system said he could equip three.
So how do you use these three?
"Just tell the system," the system said. "It's very convenient. Whichever one you want to equip."
"Just tell this system, and this system will help you equip it. It doesn't require any cost or anything."
"Then just equip all the titles I've obtained." Li Pu said without hesitation.
"Understood," the system answered almost simultaneously. "All equipped."
"Crap? That's it?" Li Pu said in disbelief, "Why do I feel like nothing happened? I don't feel a thing! They're equipped just like that?"
"Of course," the system said. "You can take a look with a mirror, right on the back of your neck."
"You can see your titles."
"Though it's not text, but patterns."
"Really?" Li Pu immediately exited the system, grabbed a small mirror, and stood in front of the full-length wardrobe mirror to check. Sure enough, two strange patterns had indeed appeared on the back of his neck.
One pattern looked like a bird, and the other was a diamond. These two suddenly lined up in a single row on the back of his neck.
Why does this feel a bit like stigmata?
Li Pu muttered to himself. Although he felt no changes, since they were equipped, they should have an effect—it just hadn't manifested yet.
I'll slowly test it out later. Li Pu muttered, re-entering the system. Speaking of which, didn't I get a lucky draw chance?
I want to draw...
Li Pu was just about to say he wanted to draw a character, but stopped with his mouth open. Should he draw a character?
Although it wasn't out of the question to draw a character, the problem was he already had two.
Would drawing another character be a bit redundant?
Or rather, redundant at this stage?
"What are you drawing?" Seeing Li Pu stall midway through his sentence, the system eagerly asked, "If you're going to speak halfway, draw quickly if you want to draw, or hoard it if you aren't."
"Draw! I'll draw equipment!" After a brief moment of thought, Li Pu made up his mind and said, "Let's draw equipment once."
"Draw equipment?" The system asked, somewhat puzzled, "Aren't you drawing a character?"
"You can't chew what you bite off more than you can handle," Li Pu said. "Draw equipment; maybe I'll get something I can actually use right now."
When he drew characters previously, Li Pu felt that character directives were very clear, allowing him to rapidly boost his strength and possess a certain level of self-preservation capital. But when drawing equipment, the scope of equipment was simply too broad, including weapons, armor, vehicles, and more. With such a broad range, if he failed to pull a usable weapon, it would be a total waste.
And drawing side quests merely meant drawing an unlocking opportunity.
If he failed to draw one, it would be equivalent to wasting a chance.
That was what he thought before, but looking at it now, things weren't entirely like that. Using characters well required quite a bit of homework, and he already possessed two characters.
If he drew too many more without knowing how to use or understand them, pulling them would be useless anyway.
Better to draw equipment and see what came out.
Who knew, maybe he'd even get the exact item he wanted.
"Fine, go ahead and draw then," the system said. "You better not regret it, though. Keep in mind that equipment covers an overly broad scope; what you draw might not be useful or good."
"If you pull junk then, this system won't do buybacks, you know."
"If you wanted equipment, you might as well have used it on side quests."
"Tricky as they are, the returns are high!"
The system wasn't talking nonsense on this point. When it came to drawing equipment, the return on investment really wasn't all that high.
"No problem!" Li Pu said with great confidence. "As the king of savvy, I still have a lot of confidence in my own luck."
"Just start it."
"Then let the draw begin," the system said. "There are ten large boxes in front of you; just pick one and open it."
"In reality, oh."
In reality?
Li Pu opened his eyes. Right there in his living room, which was probably a little over forty square meters, sat ten boxes, neither too big nor too small! And these boxes looked awfully familiar.
"This... aren't these the standard supply boxes from Honkai Impact 3rd?" Li Pu looked at the boxes in front of him, slightly speechless.
My system really is a copycat master.
Or rather, a Frankenstein's monster.
Drawing characters used Onmyoji, and drawing equipment actually used Honkai Impact 3rd.
Still, Honkai Impact 3rd was fine too.
No harm in it, right?
Li Pu looked at the ten boxes in front of him, each about half a meter square. After hesitating for a long time, he finally picked the supply box that had been sitting right in front of him the moment he first laid eyes on them.
The moment his hands touched it, the other boxes suddenly turned into specks of starlight and vanished.
This box opened in true Honkai Impact 3rd fashion as well.
The object inside the box floated right there in midair out of thin air.
"Holy crap! It looks like I pulled something extraordinary!" Li Pu widened his eyes as he stared at the item in front of him and said, "This thing is..."
It was a long spear! A crimson-colored long spear ranging anywhere from 1.9 to 2 meters in length!
Entirely crimson, with a sharp spearhead, and strange red patterns carved along the shaft.
One look and you could tell it was good stuff!
"Ahahaha~" Li Pu eagerly grabbed it. "This thing is truly..."
"Yee-heh? Demon-Breaking Crimson Rose?!"
Chapter 48 The Most Useful Junk ### "How should I evaluate this..."
"This really is the most useful piece of trash."
Li Pu sat on the sofa, with that Demon-Breaking Crimson Rose standing upright in the corner.
When he first got it, he was quite excited and overjoyed. But after a careful inspection, he quickly lost interest.
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