"Let's take a break, it's already noon," Yu Luo suggested first. Having just arrived in this world and already experiencing such a thrill, he felt sore all over and his stomach was completely empty. He needed to rest and fill his belly.
Kiana lowered her head, looking at her strange phone, and said to Yu Luo, "I'll re-plan our escape route. I hope we can leave here before nightfall."
"Gurgle..." A strange sound came from Kiana's direction. Yu Luo suppressed a laugh, forcing himself not to look at Kiana's expression.
"Teacher, why don't you go find something to eat? I remember the supermarket in the school is near the student dorms."
To Yu Luo's surprise, Kiana didn't blush shyly like the girls in novels. Instead, she entrusted Yu Luo with a matter-of-fact tone. Her tone reminded Yu Luo of his roommates, who always acted like this when they asked him to bring them food while lying in bed.
So, girls in reality and girls in my imagination are two different species, Yu Luo sighed, looking up at the sky. I should have been disappointed with the game 'Life OL' long ago.
"Stop rambling, Teacher," Kiana said, drawing a simplified map of Senba Academy on the ground with her head lowered. She urged him on, "Go quickly and come back quickly. Be careful."
"Okay, Dad's going now." Yu Luo misspoke, using the habit he had when bringing food for his roommates. As soon as the words left his mouth, he knew he'd messed up and quickly bolted out of the classroom.
Kiana resentfully put her drawn twin guns back to her waist. "Hmph, you're fast enough!"
Yu Luo cautiously peeked out from behind a pillar. A Kendo Girl was slowly patrolling in the distance. The moment the Kendo Girl turned her head, Yu Luo quickly took small steps, like a rabbit, and ran to the next blind spot.
Along the way, Yu Luo continued to nervously dodge the Zombie Girls' line of sight. The originally hundred-meter path took him more than ten minutes before he finally spotted the supermarket.
Yu Luo didn't rush in immediately. Instead, he crouched by the supermarket wall, peeking his head out slightly to check the situation inside.
Just as he expected, inside the supermarket, the cashier and sales assistants, who had turned into Zombie Girls, were wandering around unsteadily. There were only three or four of them. For Kiana, with her combat prowess, dealing with them would be a piece of cake. But for Yu Luo, a shut-in, facing these few Zombie Girls unarmed was practically asking for the impossible.
The battery energy for Sasaki Kojiro's Card was running low, only 40% left. It wasn't enough for Yu Luo to fight another battle like before. Moreover, the noise made during transformation was extremely loud. Using the Heroic Spirit transformation would attract all the surrounding zombies, making it impossible to get food.
"Looks like I'll have to pull off a perfect infiltration," Yu Luo muttered to himself. He carefully observed the Zombie Girls' movements inside the supermarket. Spotting an opening when they passed each other, he quietly opened the supermarket door and slipped behind a shelf, avoiding their sight.
"Why are you so skilled?" The System had picked up Yu Luo's habit of complaining. "Did you practice this by sneaking out to internet cafes at night and dodging security guards?"
"No 'white study' allowed!" Yu Luo first explicitly forbade the System's 'white study' behavior, then retorted to the System's words, "Stop slandering me. I was a model student in school. As an Assassin's Creed player, aren't these basic skills?"
"Even though you smoke, drink, fight, and perm your hair, you were a good student?"
While bickering with the System in his mind, Yu Luo's hands didn't stop. He grabbed a large pile of chips, cookies, chocolates, and other snacks, and also took a few cans of drinks.
"Huh? What kind of drink is this? They're really playing with fire," Yu Luo said in surprise as he picked up a peculiar-looking drink. The peculiarity was that the bottle was labeled with two large characters: [Imouto Juice]. In the upper left corner was the trademark, reading "ME Corp."
"Take one bottle. I haven't tried Imouto Juice yet." Driven by a morbid curiosity, Yu Luo decisively picked up the can.
"Tsk tsk tsk, otaku are so sad," the System said, looking at Yu Luo with extreme disdain.
"You're looking down on otaku again?" Yu Luo picked up a large pile of food and was about to quietly leave again, ending his stealth mission. However, Yu Luo had underestimated the clumsiness of these Zombie Girls. A Zombie Girl near the supermarket entrance tripped over her own left foot and spectacularly fell flat on the ground.
Yu Luo and the clumsy Zombie Girl stared at each other. The remaining two Zombie Girls also looked over at the sound, and the situation became extremely awkward.
"Awooo!" The Zombie Girl who fell flat on the ground howled and lunged at Yu Luo. Yu Luo instinctively dodged to the side, avoiding the pounce. However, the [Imouto Juice] he was holding wasn't so lucky. It flew straight out, landing on the floor more than ten meters away, spilling a transparent, unknown liquid everywhere.
Yu Luo seemed to have suffered a major blow, with visible black energy emanating from him. The snacks he was holding dropped to the ground. He casually grabbed a mop, took the handle, and slowly approached the clumsy Zombie Girl.
"You ruined my desired [Imouto Juice], so you'll have to compensate me!" Yu Luo's low-pressure voice came out. His eyes, hidden by his hair, seemed to emit an demonic red glow. The three Zombie Girls actually retreated in fear.
"I have to admit, you're more like a zombie right now," the System's complaint sounded in Yu Luo's mind.
Yu Luo walked back to the teaching building with a look of regret, still thinking about the bottle of [Imouto Juice] that had met its demise.
"Sigh, there was only one bottle in the entire supermarket, and I didn't cherish it," Yu Luo sighed in his mind, only to be met with the System's merciless ridicule:
"Pfft, an Assassin's Creed player? Even your stealth got discovered."
"Who said my stealth was discovered? Do you understand 'all things are permissible'?"
"What do you mean?"
"If I kill them all, then no one will discover my infiltration."
"..." The System was silent for a moment, then said earnestly, "As expected of you, an Assassin's Creed player."
"Stupid teacher, why are you back so late?" The first thing Kiana said to Yu Luo was a scolding. Yu Luo felt touched, thinking Kiana was worried about him. Just as he was about to say something, Kiana snatched the snacks from his arms, roughly tore open the packaging, and stuffed them into her mouth.
"I'm so hungry!" Kiana complained incoherently while chewing on chips, shattering the moved feeling Yu Luo had just felt.
As expected, you can't have expectations of an idiot. Yu Luo deeply realized this problem again. At the same time, he grabbed a bag of chocolates and started eating, filling his hunger.
"Kiana, have you planned the next route?" Yu Luo asked, biting into a chocolate.
Kiana finished her chips and grabbed a bottle of drink, gulping it down before answering Yu Luo's question. "We'll leave from the path behind the mountain. We'll have to pass by the dormitory building." When she mentioned the dormitory building, Kiana's face visibly became heavy.
Yu Luo understood immediately and tentatively asked, "There are a lot of people at the dorms, right?"
"Mm." Kiana frowned and nodded. "The path from the dormitory building to the back mountain is the most difficult. Once we get past this section, we can leave Senba Academy directly by following the path behind the mountain."
"Rest well. We'll act according to the situation when the time comes," Yu Luo comforted Kiana. Then, ignoring her reaction, he closed his eyes and sank his consciousness into the System.
The interface for Master information had changed. Two of the boxes, which were previously filled with gray question marks, had lit up. They were Sasaki Kojiro and Billy the Kid. Sasaki Kojiro's box showed 1%, while Billy the Kid's box showed 0%.
"What does this mean?" Adhering to the idea of enjoying after-sales service, Yu Luo directly asked the System.
The System was impatient with Yu Luo's behavior. "Aren't you a Fate Order player? How can you not know about Bonds?"
"What the heck, I'm not a player of your 'X' server, how would I know!"
"Bonds. See that energy bar when you transform?"
"That battery icon?" Yu Luo recalled the previous transformation.
"Yes. Your actions, combat, and releasing Noble Phantasms consume energy. When the energy bar reaches zero, you cannot use that Card to transform again until the energy bar is refilled."
"Just as I suspected, it has the feel of a domestic system. Does the Card energy also replenish automatically?"
"Congratulations, you've even learned to answer before I finish speaking. Initially, it takes a full day and night to replenish. The higher the Bond, the longer the energy lasts and the shorter the replenishment time. Once the Bond is maxed out, there are no such restrictions." The System explained, unusually patiently.
Yu Luo firmly committed this information to memory and asked a question that would impact his escape from Senba Academy that day: "So, as long as I have enough Cards, I can keep myself in a combat state by transforming in turns? You wouldn't be that generous, would you?"
"Uh..." The System was momentarily stumped by Yu Luo, then retorted with a hint of annoyance, "That's right. You can only transform six times a day. Even if the energy isn't depleted, voluntarily ending a transformation counts."
"Is that so? I understand."
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