Captain's Situation

Chapter 14: Captain's Situation

Naturally, Caesar and Lu Mingfei could not find Chu Ke. That afternoon, when they arrived at the location of his shop, all they saw was a vacant lot that had been abandoned for years and was awaiting construction. Even asking around only got them the answer that there had never been a Stationery Store there.

Even the artificial intelligence from their school that Caesar had called upon yielded the same result.

In the end, with no other choice, Caesar returned to the school to report the situation, leaving Lu Mingfei behind to start school there in June.

Although Lu Mingfei could sense people nearby watching him afterward, this was meant to prove to the so-called "Board of Trustees" that he was harmless, so he cooperated with the act.

He still went to school as usual, but lately Lu Mingfei felt as though time passed especially quickly. During class, he studied how to exert force and throw punches. After class, his familiar Chu Ke dragged him off to eliminate monsters like the one in that alley last time.

He had also learned from Caesar that these monsters were called Dead Servants, people who had transformed after losing control. Their minds held nothing but a thirst for blood. More detailed information could only be obtained after enrolling and signing a confidentiality agreement.

At first, Lu Mingfei had been scared out of his wits. But after discovering that Dead Servants could not withstand more than a few punches from him after transforming, he gradually stopped being afraid. He even felt a little excited every time.

The only issue was that a man turning into a Magical Girl was just too deranged. Lu Mingfei still could not accept or get over that. Every time he fought monsters, he had to spend hours checking whether anyone was nearby, then finish the battle in five minutes.

He had been researching ways to exert force precisely so he could end battles faster and avoid being seen.

Just imagining someone seeing him like that made Lu Mingfei want to sign up as a Mars Immigrant Test Subject that very afternoon and flee Earth overnight.

Also, the clearly suspicious lovepower, or LP for short, had gradually accumulated to 40 points over the past few days.

It should have been higher, but Lu Mingfei had recklessly tried exchanging it for the "magic" Chu Ke had mentioned.

After all, aside from its ridiculous activation method, the "Memory Erasure Spell" had been extremely effective. Even now, Nono still believed that Caesar and she had gone all out together to kill that Dead Servant.

Lu Mingfei still remembered the scene. When facing a Dead Servant no weaker than the one from that alley, he chose to spend 10 LP to exchange for a Fireball Spell.

Come on, what man did not want to make a fireball with his own hands? Even while wearing Magical Girl clothes, Lu Mingfei still thought it was cool.

Who knew that his damn familiar would vanish with a pop, telling him to wait a moment.

Lu Mingfei could only keep the Dead Servant occupied and wait ten whole minutes.

Then that bastard came back holding a one-yuan roadside lighter, with the change he had gotten still clutched in his hand.

Looking at the tiny flame it produced, then at the Dead Servant built like an iron tower over there, Lu Mingfei hurled the lighter to the ground.

"You call this a fucking Fireball Spell!?"

"Does it have fire or not?" Chu Ke crossed his arms, wearing an expression that said, Come hit me if you dare.

Lu Mingfei desperately wanted to curse him out, but he held it in. Still unwilling to believe it, he exchanged for another spell, "Thunderous Might"! Chu Ke lowered his head, picked a ceramic piezoelectric igniter from the shattered lighter pieces Lu Mingfei had thrown to the ground, blew off the dust, and handed it to him.

Yes, it was the kind that, when they were kids, a bunch of children would use to shock the crotch of whichever kid had angered everyone enough to get tied to a utility pole.

Perhaps noticing that Lu Mingfei was about to explode, Chu Ke added, "Fun fact: the piezoelectric igniter in a lighter generally outputs between 3,000 and 20,000 volts, so the name Thunderous Might isn't wrong."

At that moment, Lu Mingfei understood two things. First, when people were rendered speechless to the extreme, they could laugh in resignation. Second, never use LP to exchange for so-called magic.

"You need to understand that from the moment you become a Magical Girl, you are destined to be accompanied by your fists and hammer." Chu Ke explained helplessly, "Only a body tempered through countless trials is truly worth relying on."

"Fuck! Then what kind of Magical Girl am I!?" Lu Mingfei smashed the staff into the ground again. The gust it kicked up lifted his cute little skirt, revealing his hairy legs wrapped in white stockings. "And you finally admitted it's a hammer, not a staff!"

"Slip of the tongue." Chu Ke's eyes darted away.

Chu Ke's home had not disappeared. He had simply moved the entire place to another city and made slight adjustments to the memories of the people nearby.

Today, Chu Ke was idly chatting in the group as usual when Fundamental Forces suddenly sent him a message—the Multiverse Chat Group had finished accumulating energy.

That meant every group member other than him could now freely travel between one another's worlds.

So Chu Ke mentioned it in the group and suggested that everyone get together.

So far, Chu Ke had only met Kaneki Ken. The other three were still merely online friends.

(To save words and make things easier for readers to identify, real names will be used in place of usernames below.)

[Steve: Then how about we get together in My World?][V: It really is My World.][Chu Ke: No homophone jokes.][Kaneki Ken: Sure, things have only just settled down on my end too.][Chu Ke: Oh? Did you join Anteiku?] Anteiku was a "peaceful faction" in the ghoul world, made up of ghouls who were relatively friendly toward humans compared to other ghouls. Its manager was the SSS-rated ghoul known as the Non-Killing Owl from many years ago. It could be said that the place was full of talent.

While other ghouls divided the city's alleys into separate hunting grounds where they preyed on humans, the ghouls of Anteiku chose to collect corpses from areas with high suicide rates to satisfy their most basic hunger.

[Kaneki Ken: Yes, the manager is a very good person.][Chu Ke: Then what are you planning to do?][Chu Ke: Those two bags of seeds I gave you could save all the ghouls in the world.] Kaneki Ken fell silent for a while before typing.

[Kaneki Ken: This time, I wanted to ask Mr. Chu whether I can give those two bags of seeds to the manager.][Chu Ke: As long as you've made your decision, that's enough. Go ahead and do it. Everyone has your back.] If nothing unexpected happened, handing those two bags of seeds to an organization like the government might allow humans and ghouls to coexist peacefully by relying on the properties of those plants. But the problem was that in the ghoul world, an entity called the Washuu Clan had already infiltrated the upper ranks of Japanese society. Even the CCG, the official organization dedicated to hunting down ghouls, was under their control.

For the sake of power, the Washuu Clan would never allow something like this to enter the market beyond their control.

Kaneki, who knew the plot well, still seemed to have chosen to oppose the Washuu Clan.

Therefore, seeing Chu Ke's words, Kaneki was deeply moved.

[Chu Ke: By the way, why haven't we seen Captain talk lately? I remember he's in the group.] Chu Ke checked the group member list. There really was a Steve with the nickname Captain.

After that message was sent, the group fell unusually silent for a moment.

[V: Chu Ge, you joined the group late, so you might not know what happened to him.][V: Sigh, we're getting together anyway. We'll talk when we meet.] Chu Ke raised an eyebrow. There was more to this?

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