"Kamen Rider Sora Tsuki."
"Cut the crap! Get down here and duel me!"
"Kamen Rider Sora Tsuki."
"...Fine, Kamen Rider Sora Tsuki, this time I'll reclaim my Dignity with my own hands!"
Hearing the corrected form of address, Bai Chen looked toward them and saw the familiar student council president from yesterday.
"Interesting. Did you bring new Dignity this time?"
Bai Chen smiled with utmost disdain beneath his mask.
"Y-You! Are you kidding? Who goes out without wearing their Dignity!"
Seemingly recalling last night's cold wind blowing up her skirt, the president blushed furiously, squeezed her legs together, and snapped back.
"Then let's begin."
Ignoring the president's complaints, Bai Chen took out the new deck he had carefully assembled last night.
"Damn it... Yesterday, I only threw together a deck roughly. But I studied it carefully last night. Let me show you my Tamashi! Go, Raiden Mei! No, Raiden Shogun!"
The president slapped down the three character cards in her hand, with Raiden Shogun in the center.
"Hmph! Kneel before the shifting stars of the Yuheng Star! You have no chance!"
Bai Chen also deployed his character cards. Let me show you this deck archetype I copied!
"Don't say plagiarism so openly!"
The Thousand Year Ancestor inside Bai Chen could not help complaining.
"As long as you're happy."
The faded Kallen lay off to the side like a corpse. She did not want to face this grotesque scene. That pure child was going to become a pervert who only knew how to steal other people's underwear.
"Don't blink!"
A flash of lightning streaked past, and the president's final character was finally taken off the field!
"No!!! What kind of lineup is this?! You keep switching out my characters and wasting my turns!"
The president fell to her knees again, her face filled with agony. Had she lost again?!
"President!"
The other girls watching immediately rushed over and supported the president, whose face was written all over with defeat.
Then, one of them glared hatefully at Bai Chen and pulled an exquisite box from beneath her skirt.
Wait, where did you pull that out from? Bai Chen doubted his own eyes. Where had she hidden such a big box?
"Kamen Rider Sora Tsuki! If I win, you can't take the president's Dignity!"
"Of course. But if you lose, you must hand over your Dignity as well."
Bai Chen revealed his cards and accepted the challenge.
"Vice President!!!"
"Secretary-chan!!!"
Bai Chen sneered as he clutched the underwear in his hand, leaving behind students crawling all over the floor. The scene was incredibly tragic!
Anyone who did not know better would have thought Bai Chen was really playing a dark game.
Bai Chen looked somewhat embarrassed at the girls on the ground, who resembled corpses. Even real Yu-Gi-Oh! was not this brutal, right? And they were not even using Millennium Items.
Actually... you girls were enjoying this, weren't you?!
"Then I'll be taking your Dignity."
Bai Chen waved the four differently colored pieces of Dignity in his hand and left. Today's hunting time was about over. In two more days, he could complete the system mission. By then, whether they had become proficient or not would no longer matter to him.
On his way home, Bai Chen suddenly sensed that something was wrong. It felt as though someone was following him.
Having returned to his original appearance, Bai Chen looked behind him and saw a pink-haired figure slowly approaching. Yae Sakura?
The moment he saw Yae Sakura, Bai Chen's heart jumped. Yae Sakura? When had she arrived?
"Bai Chen, is that your hobby?"
Yae Sakura asked directly, without beating around the bush. No joy or anger could be seen on her face.
It's over! She found out!
Bai Chen squeezed his eyes shut, his facial features scrunching together. Did all katana-wielding characters come with built-in investigation skills?!
"Uh, Sakura, when did you start watching?"
Still unwilling to give up, Bai Chen carefully asked. Maybe it was just a misunderstanding.
"Ever since you finished saying goodbye to Fu Hua, I have been following you."
I'm dead! Should I just bury myself?!
The Game That Had Already Spread
In the end, Bai Chen returned to the dormitory like a dead dog. After Bai Chen explained the reason, Yae Sakura did not scold him. She only stared at Bai Chen with an extremely strange look.
There was clearly no malice in that gaze, yet it made Bai Chen's spine turn cold.
Suppressing the feeling in his heart, Bai Chen looked toward Yuno in the living room. In fact, he could ask Yuno to help him complete the mission.
But Bai Chen always felt that if he really asked Yuno, it would not end with merely looking at Dignity.
Bai Chen then looked toward Mei in the kitchen and found that Mei was also looking at him. When she noticed that he had caught her looking, she immediately shifted her gaze away. The blush on her face revealed how unsettled she was.
It seemed he really needed to talk to Mei. It was already rather late, and with everyone around, it was not a good time to discuss such things.
Bronya's eyes suddenly sharpened nearby. Something was going on!
When had those two gotten involved without anyone knowing? Bai Chen had been returning much later than usual these past two days. Could there be some unspeakable secret behind it?
Bronya felt that this matter required attention.
After dinner, Bai Chen dragged his exhausted body back to bed. Now, he was looking forward to tomorrow.
Yet the next day, he was shocked. No, more accurately, he was nearly scared to death.
11/20
When he opened his eyes that day, he discovered that the mission progress bar had increased by one!
Because a pink-and-white piece of Dignity lay beside his pillow, and it seemed to carry a faint scent of cherry blossoms.
Holy shit!!!
He did not even need to think to know whose Dignity it was!
But why! There was no reason! His relationship with Sakura could be considered pretty good, but it definitely was not at that level!
At most, because he had saved them, they could be considered friends, right?
No, wait! Bai Chen carefully sensed the concentration of Honkai energy in the room. This level was not dangerous, but it was not normal either.
Could Hiyori be causing trouble again?
A trace of vigilance rose in Bai Chen's heart. First, the Herrscher of the Void had opened a dreamscape, and now the Herrscher of Erosion from the Previous Era was stirring up trouble again.
It seemed that his appearance had indeed changed quite a few things.
But if it really was the Herrscher of Erosion's doing, what should he do?
Hiyori's redemption in the game had been rather absurd. After defeating Hiyori in the Stigmata space, one had to lose to Jizo Mitama once more. Then Hiyori's resentment would disappear, and she would become Himeko.
That whole process was pretty absurd.
Bai Chen pondered with a headache. Maybe he should see whether he could directly enter Yae Sakura's mental space and strangle Hiyori to death. After all, with his special flames, he could be considered skilled in mental matters. It would solve everything once and for all!
Still, he could not bring himself to kill the big sister beast.
Bai Chen softened. Was he being a little too saintly?
Fine, call him saintly if you wanted. After all, now that he was this strong, he could save whoever he wanted. Was that not another form of "I don't eat beef"?
While Bai Chen was lost in wild thoughts, the new day of classes began. This was the third day. In two more days, the deadline for Bai Chen's Dignity mission would arrive. Later, whether his underwear became transparent or not would depend on whether those girls were up to the task.
"Mei, when I came to school today, I felt like several students were looking at me strangely."
Kiana lay sprawled across her desk and spoke to Mei. The looks in those students' eyes on the way here had made it seem as though she owed them something.
No shit! Why do you think we look at you like that? Don't you have any fucking self-awareness?!
Several classmates seated in front of Kiana thought indignantly! Because of you, we had to walk home in the cold wind last night! We almost caught a cold today!
Sob sob sob! Poor President had to walk home in the cold wind for two days in a row!
"Huh? Maybe it's just your imagination, Kiana."
Mei had been absentminded these past few days and naturally had not noticed the looks from some people around her. Her mind had been filled with the image of Bai Chen transforming and looking at underwear.
"No, it isn't. Those looks were obvious!"
Kiana recalled the aggressive gazes of those people. She had seen that kind of look in Yu-Gi-Oh! not long ago.
"Bronya has indeed noticed some strange things these past two days."
Bronya took an exquisite box from her bag and placed it on the desk.
"Wow!? It looks expensive."
Drawn in by the exquisite packaging, Kiana immediately leaned over.
"A tabletop game has become popular at the academy these past two days. Everyone who received it found it beside their window after getting up in the morning. It should have been sent by someone."
As Bronya opened the box, the exquisite cards and dice inside were revealed.
"Huh? Bronya, you got one too?"
Kiana asked curiously.
"No. Bronya got it from another student."
Bronya indicated that she had not discovered an unexpected surprise by her window.
"Hmph! So stingy. None of the people I know got one either. Is the person handing these out targeting us or something?"
Hearing that Bronya had not received one either, Kiana casually picked up several cards from the box to look at them.
Bai Chen, who had been listening from the side, was speechless. Who would dare give one to you two? Everyone he had sent boxes to was a hunting target. If he gave one to them, did that mean he should take their Dignity too? The boxes could track each other's locations!
"Wow! It's Mei! Mei, look, you were made into a card!"
Kiana excitedly displayed the card before Mei.
The purple-haired woman on the card looked seventy percent similar to Mei. Anyone would think the two were related.
"Kiana, that isn't me. The card says Raiden Shogun."
Mei smiled and pointed out the name on the card.
"Even the surname is the same. That unscrupulous card printer definitely based her on you, Mei. Maybe that guy has a crush on you!"
Kiana joked.
When Kiana said that, for some reason, the image of Bai Chen in Mei's mind became magnified again. Her previously calm face was immediately flooded with blush.
"Huh?"
Noticing that something was off with Mei's expression, Kiana suddenly felt a weight pressing down on her head. That reaction from Mei... there was definitely something going on!?
"Mei! You're thinking about something naughty!"
"Huh! No!"
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