"Damn little bug!" Mei roared irritably, annoyed by Yu Luo's flitting around. "I'm tired of this game. Just turn to ash already!"
The thinning thunderclouds in the sky rapidly shrank, covering an area of only about twenty meters centered on Yu Luo. They were so dark they looked like they were about to drip ink. Even a slight wisp of their aura was enough to send Yu Luo's heart into high alert. Without hesitation, he activated his preserved skill, Mind's Eye A (Fake).
Mind's Eye (Fake) is a precognitive or legendary sixth sense, a danger-predicting ability belonging to innate talent. Sasaki Kojiro's Mind's Eye (Fake) at A-rank was already close to the realm of predicting the future.
"Lightning, explode!" With Mei's furious roar, white lightning fell like a torrential downpour, indiscriminately targeting the area. Not an inch of space was spared. The air itself produced a foul odor, and Yu Luo's exposed skin tingled.碎石飞溅, as if the ground had been carpet-bombed.
The scorching white lightning completely enveloped the area. Even Mei herself couldn't see through the blinding white light. She could only see shattered debris, faintly crackling with electricity, flying about. All the zombie girls in Senba Academy stared blankly at the lightning-filled area, too afraid to move, as if they were witnessing their queen.
I said, that's enough!
"Ah!" Mei, who had been leisurely waiting to admire her masterpiece, suddenly clutched her head. Her wings flickered in and out of existence behind her, her pupils shifting between red and purple. Her state was extremely unstable.
"Damn it! Weren't you utterly disappointed with this world?! Then just destroy it! Why are you resisting my power!" Mei roared. The changes on her body intensified, and her body, floating in mid-air, began to sway precariously.
"Insects, just you wait!" Mei finally spat out a parting threat, then flapped her pair of shaky, translucent purple wings and flew away. The condensed thunderclouds in the sky, now without their master's control, slowly dissipated, revealing the figures of the two people who had been engulfed.
"Hoo... hoo..." Yu Luo collapsed weakly on the ground. His long blue ponytail quickly vanished, returning to his original black short hair. His light purple kimono and katana also disappeared, reverting to his original attire.
"That was... close..." Yu Luo looked at Kiana, who had fallen to the ground beside him, with lingering fear. In his vision, Sasaki Kojiro's card energy had just been completely depleted. His bond had jumped from 1% to 3%. It seemed the amount of bond increase was determined by the intensity of the battle.
"Teacher, how are you?" Kiana asked, concerned about Yu Luo's condition. If Yu Luo hadn't been protecting her just now, she would probably have turned to ash along with that berserk general, Hoshina.
Yu Luo tried to sit up, but he couldn't muster any strength. He lay back down weakly. He then looked at the road, which was nearly two meters higher than where they were, and said feebly, "Let me rest for a bit. I'm a little exhausted."
Kiana walked up to Yu Luo and easily lifted him onto her back. The previous battle with Mei had been almost entirely Yu Luo's effort, so Kiana's stamina was well-preserved.
"Let me carry you. We don't have time to waste. Mei from earlier could come back at any moment, so we need to leave here as soon as possible!" Kiana was surprisingly reliable, her usual hint of silliness completely gone.
Yu Luo smiled at Kiana's demeanor and said, "Stick your head over here. I'll give you a buff." As soon as he finished speaking, Kiana shook violently, startling Yu Luo into grabbing her neck tightly.
"I was trying to carry you to get going, and you still want to bully me? This is just a small warning!" Kiana said indignantly. "Next time, I'll just throw you down and make you walk yourself!"
"I'm innocent, Your Highness!" Yu Luo cried out in protest. "You saw my abilities, right?" Yu Luo finally brought up the topic they had both deliberately avoided.
Yu Luo knew that future battles were inevitable. Even if Kiana was an idiot, if he kept acting evasive, this issue would eventually become a thorn in both their hearts. It was better to address it directly now, but he needed a good reason.
"Teacher, are you talking about those cards?" Kiana asked curiously.
"Yes!" Yu Luo's voice was serious, and Kiana couldn't help but become serious too. "Those cards aren't ordinary cards."
Nonsense, can ordinary cards transform? the System couldn't help but interject. Yu Luo sent it a mentally eye-rolling emotion and continued his deception, or rather, explanation.
"Those cards are actually made of a special quantum material. When I use the cards and make certain movements, my quantum fluctuations change. When the frequency of my quantum fluctuations matches the quantum fluctuation frequency of a historical hero, I gain the power of that hero."
"Oh, I see." Kiana said with a tone of sudden realization, but her face was full of question marks. She understood the individual meanings of Yu Luo's words, but when they were put together, she had no idea what he was talking about.
In fact, Yu Luo didn't know what he was talking about either. He was just rambling. When in doubt, quantum mechanics!
To bully such a silly... innocent child, doesn't your conscience hurt?! The System was heartbroken, as if mourning for having such a wicked host.
"Were you about to call me an idiot just now?" Yu Luo asked, "Don't try that with me. You, a stingy system, talking about conscience."
"You misheard. The thunder must have been too loud, and your eardrums are a bit damaged. Let me check for you." The System chuckled awkwardly and went back to lurking.
"So, here's this for you." Yu Luo held a Noble Phantasm Card between his fingers. It depicted abstract weapons like swords, spears, and halberds, with the words [Struggle] written on it. "This card is fully broken. It can make your attacks a little stronger."
Kiana curiously took the Noble Phantasm Card and examined it from all angles. "Teacher, how do I use it?"
"Hold it in your hand, draw a circle in the air, and shout, 'Balala Power, Little Fairy Transform!'" Yu Luo explained with a straight face, trying hard to suppress a smile. If he laughed now, Kiana would genuinely get angry and throw him down.
"Hey, it's illegal to bully the mentally challenged!" the System righteously opposed Yu Luo's actions of bullying Kiana.
"A great Ice Fairy once said that those who call others mentally challenged are the ones who are mentally challenged," Yu Luo easily shut the System down.
Kiana, however, had already believed Yu Luo. She made a circular motion in the air and shouted, "Balala Power, Little Fairy Transform!"
Yu Luo, suppressing his laughter, activated the Noble Phantasm Card's effect. The card in Kiana's hand dissipated, turning into a bronze light that entered her body, almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
"Is that it?" Kiana felt a strange, faint power surge within her. She clenched her left fist and punched the air forcefully, creating a strong gust of wind. She said uncertainly, "It feels like it's improved a bit?"
Yu Luo rolled his eyes. You're like a physical monster. For an ordinary girl, this card would at least allow her to hold her own against a regular taekwondo practitioner. Yu Luo had used this Noble Phantasm Card to break through the zombie girl horde earlier.
"Let's go, we don't have much time. We don't know when that girl named Mei might come back," Yu Luo said from Kiana's back, interrupting her experimentation with her new toy and urging her on.
"Got it, you nagging teacher." Kiana stuck out her tongue, easily hoisted Yu Luo onto her back, and with a few leaps, she was back on the road. Only then did she get a clear view of the environment ravaged by the lightning strike.
All the glass windows of the dormitory building were shattered, but there wasn't a single piece of broken glass on the road. However, the once-flat road had become a crater more than twenty meters in diameter and over two meters deep. The two of them had been lying in the very center of this pit.
More than half of the zombie girls in the dormitory building had been annihilated. Only a small portion remained, still immersed in the terrifying aura from before, trembling and too scared to move. Suddenly, the most difficult part of their escape route, from the dormitory building to the back mountain, was completely clear.
"Ah, Mei is such a good person." Seeing this scene, Yu Luo directly gave Mei a "good person" card. "She even cleared the road for us. I must thank her properly next time I see her."
Kiana ran with Yu Luo on her back down the empty road, saying, "It's just that her voice, it sounded..."
"Very despairing, right?" Yu Luo said he had also felt the deep despair buried in her words. He pushed up his non-existent glasses. "It seems she has a hidden story. Maybe it's a common situation from novels."
"What situation?" Kiana asked curiously.
"I won't tell you. Mortal wisdom."
"Teacher, if you keep indirectly calling me stupid, I'm really going to throw you down!"
"Why are you so smart in this regard... Ah! It hurts! Hurry up and pull me up, I was wrong, I won't say it again!"
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