After sitting motionless like an old monk in meditation for quite a while, Bai Chen finally seemed to make up his mind. He pulled down his pants and stared at his underwear...
Not a mission target
Damn it!!!
Tears streaming down his face, Bai Chen punched the hospital bed. He had wanted to make up the numbers, but it simply wouldn't work!
No! It was too early to give up! There was still a chance!
Armament Loadout · Dawnbreaker
Stop! Don't use your abilities in that kind of place! Miss Kallen shouted within the inner world, but Bai Chen had no reason to stop what he was doing!
When Bai Chen had seen Mei's Dawnbreaker form before, he hadn't noticed it. Looking at it now, Dawnbreaker had a translucent... skirt? Hem? Whatever it was, it was incredibly sexy!
After transforming, Bai Chen once again lifted his clothes and revealed the divine artifact.
Mm, black!
Mission completed: 1/20
Seeing that he had successfully completed one mission, Bai Chen revealed a satisfied expression.
"Bai... Chen?"
The moment he heard that familiar, gentle voice, Bai Chen's body instantly stiffened.
He rigidly looked up and discovered that Mei had somehow appeared in the doorway, staring in his direction with shocked eyes.
"I-I was worried about you. I-I thought you were hurt."
Mei's voice trembled as she explained why she was there. The more she explained, the redder her face became.
"Bai Chen has grown up too. It's fine, there'll be a day... You go on with your business, I'll leave first!"
After stammering through those words, Mei fled as though her butt were on fire, even using the Herrscher of Thunder's authority.
Leaving only a completely petrified Bai Chen standing there in a daze.
Dignity
No!!!
Snowflakes drifted through the air
Bai Chen collapsed onto the bed and returned to his original form, stretching out a hand as though trying to call back the faraway Mei.
"Bai Chen..."
Inside Bai Chen, Kallen watched everything with a complicated expression. Though she wanted to comfort Bai Chen, she had no idea how to do so right now!
This was way too absurd! Why would Bai Chen suddenly do something like that?!
As the person who had spent the longest time with Bai Chen, Kallen knew that he would not do such a thing without a reason. Was there some reason behind it?
Could it have something to do with that mysterious space?
That was the only explanation she could think of, but it made her head hurt.
Bai Chen lay on the bed like a corpse, only moving once the bell signaling the end of class rang.
"Hehehe, hehehehe, hahahaha!"
A trace of a smile appeared on his formerly devastated face. Then the smile gradually widened until a wild grin filled Bai Chen's face.
"Bai Chen?"
Kallen called out worriedly. She was now somewhat concerned about Bai Chen's mental state. Had the side effects of his damaged soul finally arrived?!
"Don't worry about me. I've merely realized that only when you truly give up on some things can you truly possess them!"
A sharp glint flashed through Bai Chen's bloodshot eyes. He had never felt so refreshed.
At night, a St. Freya student was walking back to her dormitory. It should have been the most ordinary thing in the world, but tonight, it would not be ordinary.
Under the moonlight, a white figure stood atop a nearby staircase. Moonlight filtered through the silver strands drifting in the evening breeze, and for a moment, the student felt as though she had seen the goddess of the moon.
"Kiana?"
The student clearly knew Kiana. Though she had been stunned for a moment by that unique aura, she recognized the person before her.
"No, the Hunter of the Night! Kamen Rider Sora Tsuki!"
Having transformed into Kiana, Bai Chen suddenly turned around and revealed those azure eyes. However, he now wore a black face mask.
"Who are you trying to fool?! Does putting on a mask make you a Kamen Rider?!"
The female student could not help but complain.
"Worthy of being a qualified Valkyrie trainee—you saw through the essence of things?!"
Bai Chen said in shock.
"Do you think you're wearing Superman glasses?! Undoing your hairstyle and putting on a mask doesn't hide anything at all!"
The student could not help continuing her complaints.
"Hmph! I'll have to show you my true skills!"
Bai Chen grabbed the orange-and-white tracksuit jacket and flung it away, revealing the White Comet bodysuit underneath.
"Duel me! The loser leaves behind their Dignity!"
As the jacket fluttered over the student's head in the wind, a box fell from it.
The student hurriedly caught the box and discovered it was an ornate metal case. Driven by curiosity, she opened it and found several exquisite cards and multi-sided dice inside!
"?"
"I will teach you The Seven Sacred Calls. It will become the nightmare you cannot wake from. Tonight, I will take your Dignity!"
Was it an illusion? Why did Kiana's blue eyes seem to have turned golden?
No... a tabletop game?
If it was a tabletop game, then as the president of the tabletop games club, I absolutely could not refuse!
"Come on, Kiana. I may have never seen this game before, but I'll teach you how to respect your seniors!"
"!!! No!! My Klee!!"
The club president fell painfully to her knees. Watching her final character shatter beneath Maguu Kenki's blade, tears of unwillingness flowed from her eyes.
"Loser! You shall lose your Dignity!"
"No! That's impossible! You cheated! Why did every one of your rolls give you all elemental dice?! I want to switch dice!"
Unwilling to accept it, the club president stood up again and angrily demanded another match.
"Interesting."
After swapping dice, Bai Chen started another round.
Seeing Bai Chen agree to swap dice and play again, the club president could not help revealing the smile of someone who had escaped disaster.
There's a chance! I'm the tabletop games club president! I'll stake my pride on this! Draw cards!
"Blade follows shadow!"
"Pugh!!!"
The club president's final character card was taken out, while not even one of Bai Chen's characters had died.
"How could this be? Even if it's my first time playing, I shouldn't be this strong!"
The club president stared at the cards in her hand in disbelief. It had to be a problem with the deck!
"I want to adjust my deck! I want to...!"
"You have no chance."
Kiana's voice suddenly brushed past the club president's ear. Then she felt a chill below her waist, as though something had been taken away.
"I gave you a chance today. If you want to reclaim your Dignity, bring new Dignity and wait for me!"
After leaving those words behind, Bai Chen vanished in a flash. Even the tracksuit jacket that had been lying on the ground disappeared!
"Wait! Kiana, give me back my Dignity—no, give me back my underwear!"
The club president cried out in embarrassment, clamping her legs together. She had suddenly taken away her underwear! How had she done that?! She had not even lifted her legs!
That night, several students found an exquisite box outside their windows. Those were Bai Chen's next targets!
Standing beneath the moonlight, Bai Chen held the Dignity in his hand up toward the moon and carefully examined every detail.
6/20
It seemed that completing this objective would be easy. Sure enough, there were gains only after sacrifices.
Inside the dormitory, after the club president returned to her room, her strange expression was immediately noticed by her friend.
"President? Didn't you go shopping? Why do you look so awful?"
The club president recalled Bai Chen's mask and the way he had taken her Dignity, and her face reddened even more.
"I lost a dark duel to a Kamen Rider on the way here!"
In the end, the club president did not directly say that it was Kiana.
"?"
Hearing that complicated answer, her friend felt her brain shrink. For a moment, she wondered whether the club president had gone insane.
After Bai Chen canceled his transformation and returned, he found that Mei was avoiding him. In fact, she had been like that all day, and Bai Chen felt rather helpless.
After all, being caught transforming into her and looking at underwear was not a small shock.
He had to find an opportunity to explain things to Mei. He had never explained his abilities in detail before, but if necessary, he could tell her.
Back in the dormitory, Bai Chen adjusted the cards in his hands. He had created them using the Herrscher of Reason skill card, and now he was preparing to use them to complete the mission.
Mission in Progress
The Seven Sacred Calls was an in-game minigame from Genshin Impact in Bai Chen's previous life. Its main gameplay involved using a wide variety of cards to destroy all of the opponent's character cards and claim victory.
Bai Chen had not been an expert at The Seven Sacred Calls in his previous life. After all, with four Mihoyo games installed on his computer, he really did not have time to put much effort into it.
However, he had still experienced the competitive meta of later versions and copied several PvP decks from content creators. Using those to bully newcomers was not a problem.
What was more, after Bai Chen transformed into Kiana, he never rolled fewer than six elemental dice. Duels against people unfamiliar with The Seven Sacred Calls were far too easy.
That night, after bidding Fu Hua farewell at the training grounds, Bai Chen did not return directly to the dormitory. Instead, he found an inconspicuous area and hid there.
Yae Sakura, who was also at the training grounds, watched Bai Chen's departing back thoughtfully. Then she walked up to Fu Hua and asked:
"Don't you feel that Bai Chen has been a little strange lately?"
"Has he? Maybe it's just your imagination?"
After synchronizing memories, Fu Hua's expression darkened upon hearing Yae Sakura's question. She turned her head away and answered somewhat guiltily.
Because Feather was inside Bai Chen's body, Feather could sense Bai Chen's emotions.
When Fu Hua synchronized memories, she could clearly feel Bai Chen's thoughts whenever he looked at those Dignities. That feeling was even stranger!
Fu Hua now felt as though the cabbage she had raised had grown into a pig. Bai Chen had once mentioned something called a system, so then... who on earth had made that system?! Why did it issue such socially fatal missions?!
Yae Sakura gave Fu Hua, who had fallen into a mental storm, a strange look. So they really were hiding something. When she had talked to Kallen about it at noon, Kallen's face had turned as red as an apple, and she could not say anything clearly either.
It was not Kallen and Fu Hua's fault. How could they tell anyone about something like that?
Bai Chen transformed into Kiana at night and acted as a dark knight, hunting other people's Dignity?
If Kallen and Fu Hua had not been able to understand the truth for special reasons, anyone else who learned about this would only see Bai Chen as a pure pervert.
What? You asked whether Bai Chen handing out Dignity after dark duels was not perverted enough? Sorry, but there were distinctions even among perverts!
It was still that familiar place. With his back to the moon, Bai Chen raised one hand to cover half his face. His loose silver hair twisted like silver snakes beneath the evening breeze.
Soon, familiar and unfamiliar people alike gathered around Bai Chen. Looking at Bai Chen, who radiated the aura of a BOSS, there was not the slightest goodwill in their eyes.
"Kiana! I'm here to take back what I lost!"
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