I Don't Like People, I Like Dogs-Dogs Are Obedient, but People Aren't

Kujo Ryuko.

A Third Sequence Blood Ability User.

A top-tier Six-star Operator.

Whether it was her strength as a Six-star Operator in the game, or how alluring her character art, CGs, and interactions were.

She was absolutely T1-tier.

Whether as an Operator or an "Operator."

Kujo Ryuko was an absolutely practical presence.

If Su Youzi had encountered a wild Kujo Ryuko in the game, she would have recruited her without a second word or the slightest hesitation.

But... reality was different.

Reality really was different.

The girl looked like her sexiness was off the charts, yet her heart had long since completely fallen apart.

Obsessive and insane.

If she could... Su Youzi wanted to turn around and leave right now, getting as far away from this sadistic yandere as possible.

Unfortunately, she could not.

She glanced at her mission.

There was no penalty for failure.

The only issue was that if the system's mission for her was part of a chain, then failing to complete the current mission would probably prevent the later ones from being issued.

That would have quite an impact.

But... she could choose to treat Kujo Ryuko the way she had Yamabuki Nanako or POI.

Unlock the Operator, but not raise her.

She could simply keep Kujo Ryuko there as a pretty "warehouse manager."

Whatever Kujo Ryuko wanted to do was up to her.

As long as Su Youzi did not try to raise her affection or "develop" her, there would be no problem.

She could even keep a slight check on her "points."

She could keep Kujo Ryuko's affection for her at a relatively low level.

She just did not know how this recruitment was supposed to work.

Would it be like with Saotome Yukina back then?

Would they unlock her simply by meeting, with Saotome Yukina calling out her name? Or were there other conditions?

Su Youzi tightened her grip on Saotome Yukina's small hand, which was tense enough to be sweating warmly.

She tried her best not to make eye contact with Kujo Ryuko.

Kujo Ryuko's scarlet eyes swept over Su Youzi, showing a barely perceptible spark of interest.

She really did look like her Older Sister.

Only, compared to Soga Toyura's washboard figure, her Sister's body was far more slender and shapely.

Those splendid red eyes, the trademark of the Soga Family... made Kujo Ryuko feel slightly inclined to pinch the girl's face and watch her tremble pitifully with her eyes wide open.

A hint of sadistic desire rose in her heart.

But Kujo Ryuko quickly wiped it away.

"Just a First Sequence Altered User—how did you end up here?" Unohana Chiyo looked at the maiden before her with a trace of pity in her heart.

She saw her own shadow in Kujo Ryuko.

Kujo Ryuko called Unohana Chiyo Teacher.

That was because she had once been a student at Shiritsu Megumi Garden Academy.

Standing respectfully before Unohana Chiyo, Kujo Ryuko actually carried a bit of the air of a delinquent student.

"That is no ordinary First Sequence Altered User."

Kujo Ryuko looked at Unohana Chiyo.

A First Sequence Altered User was an Altered User whose Altered Ability level fell between Level 10 and Level 19.

No matter how weak they had been before becoming an Altered User.

After being corrupted and falling into an Anomalous state, their strength would be raised to at least Level 10—the First Sequence.

If she had merely been an ordinary First Sequence Altered User, she would never have drawn the Fourth Action Department, much less Kujo Ryuko.

The maiden picked up a document envelope from the conference table.

She pulled out a file. On its first page... was the blackish-purple eye totem Su Youzi had once seen, drawn upon a girl's lower abdomen.

"She belongs to Eye of Insight."

"She does not belong to Eye of Insight. She is a student of Huiqun Garden Academy—" Before Kujo Ryuko could finish, Unohana Chiyo forcefully cut her off.

"Your junior."

Scarlet eyes lifted and stared directly at the mature beauty before her.

The terrifying pressure emanating from Kujo Ryuko could be felt even by Su Youzi and Saotome Yukina standing behind Unohana Chiyo.

Su Youzi tried hard to recall Kujo Ryuko's information.

After advancing to the Third Sequence, Kujo Ryuko had obtained the Innate Ability [Deterrence].

[Deterrence] continuously inflicted psychological pressure upon enemies.

And... it made enemies more likely to fall into negative states such as panic and cowardice.

Su Youzi had intended to comfort the Little Rabbit beside her, but she unexpectedly discovered that, in the face of Kujo Ryuko's pressure, the Little Rabbit had actually gritted her teeth and endured it resolutely.

"I... don't want to embarrass myself in front of Senpai."

Girls naturally sweated easily.

Her back was already soaked through by the cold sweat pouring out in streams.

Yet... with her hand clenched around Su Youzi's so tightly that her palm seemed about to cramp, Saotome Yukina stubbornly held on.

Su Youzi clasped Saotome Yukina's hand in return and pulled the girl into her embrace.

"Sometimes..."

"The Little Rabbit can choose to rely on me a little too."

Kujo Ryuko regarded Su Youzi more highly.

Before her former teacher, she rarely softened her stance. "Fine~~~ even if... she does not belong to Eye of Insight."

"She must have had contact with Eye of Insight before."

Her voice sounded as though she were acting cute, yet it was so cold, utterly devoid of emotion.

Kujo Ryuko handed the information to Unohana Chiyo. As Unohana Chiyo flipped through it, her brows furrowed tighter and tighter.

Eye of Insight was a rather troublesome cult that had only recently begun to grow active.

They believed that Altered Users were the correct direction of human evolution.

"Black stockings are justice. Not."

This cult was devoted to artificially achieving the possibility of "Anomalous state."

However... they had encountered a rather major problem.

Those who could successfully enter an Anomalous state... seemed to be girls only.

After combing through every ancient text, the only Altered User in history who might have been male was the Seat of Evil, buried forever in the depths of the ocean alongside his lover.

And even that was only a possibility.

Eye of Insight wept bitter tears.

Angry, shaken, cold!

Could this world be some bizarre Butter World?

Why did even something as depraved as entering an Anomalous state come with a girls-only label?

And that was not all.

Even ordinary girls' attempts at entering an Anomalous state had gone quite poorly.

Test subjects were constantly on the verge of mental collapse.

However... judging from Sakai Miho, the girl who had entered an Anomalous state at the combat training grounds earlier.

Eye of Insight's experiments.

Seemed to have finally made a little progress.

"Even so, there was no need for you to come in person, was there?" Unohana Chiyo looked at Kujo Ryuko.

Kujo Ryuko sat back down in the seat at the head of the conference table.

The girl propped both arms against the chair's armrests, resting the back of her hand beneath her small face hidden in shadow.

Within the shadows, only those scarlet eyes shone brightly.

Kujo Ryuko lightly swung her crossed legs.

Her voice was quite cheerful.

"That is because..."

"According to our investigation into Eye of Insight."

She raised her head, and her scarlet eyes met Su Youzi's.

Kujo Ryuko's lips curled upward in a wild smile.

"Although we do not know why they chose the discarded child of the Soga family."

"But..."

"The target of their attack..."

"Was you from the very beginning—"

"Soga Youzi."

"No..."

"Su Youzi."

[Ding—]

[Mission completed: "Chance Encounter."]

[Ding ding ding ding ding ding!]

[Reward obtained: Operator acquired—Kujo Ryuko.]

[☆☆☆☆☆☆]

The maiden's character art froze in place.

With her back to the window, the maiden was clearly bathed in sunlight, yet her delicate little face was shrouded in shadow, impossible to make out clearly.

The only things visible were the nearly crazed smile on her lips and those scarlet eyes.

Her legs were crossed.

Her left leg was raised slightly, as though she wanted to step beyond the frame of the character art.

"I don't like people—"

"I like dogs."

"Dogs are obedient."

"But people aren't."

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