Flies Rubbing Their Hands

"New rules?"

After tucking the note away, Bai Yuze walked over to Yamauchi Haruki and tapped him.

Yamauchi Haruki merely rolled over, making no move to get up.

"With sleep quality like that, you wouldn't even know how you died."

Without a shred of mercy, Bai Yuze kicked Yamauchi Haruki.

"Ah! Who's there!"

Yamauchi Haruki shrieked as he scrambled up, glaring at Bai Yuze with fury.

"Who the hell are you! Why did you kick me!"

"Still sleeping! We're about to die!"

Yamauchi Haruki looked around, and only then did he notice the strangeness of his surroundings.

"What's going on? I was sleeping in my dorm, how did I end up here?"

Yamauchi Haruki began to shout and holler, his incessant chattering grating on Bai Yuze's nerves.

Just as Bai Yuze was about to silence him, Yuigahama's voice rang out from behind.

"Xiao Ze, what happened here? And... who is this?"

Bai Yuze was about to explain, but Yamauchi Haruki instantly changed his tune.

He flashed in front of Tuanzi, beaming with a radiant smile as he introduced himself.

"Hello, my name is Yamauchi Haruki, a student at Advanced Nurturing High School. I was a star baseball player in high school, though I retired due to an injury. It's a pleasure to meet you."

The Yamauchi now was a completely different person from the one shouting a moment ago.

As for his words, even Tuanzi could tell he was bragging, but due to her personality, she forced herself to play along.

"That's amazing! I'm Yuigahama Yui, nice to meet you too."

Having received a response from Tuanzi, Yamauchi acted like a golden retriever, excitedly reaching out to grab her hand. On the surface, he was offering a handshake, but his lecherous intentions were written all over his face.

"Hello, I'm Bai Yuze. We go to the same school, nice to meet you."

Yamauchi's grubby hand was seized by Bai Yuze. He looked at Yamauchi Haruki calmly, though his mind was racing.

"Y-you... hello."

Yamauchi seemed to realize his lewd behavior was inappropriate—certainly not because Bai Yuze's grip was too strong.

"Yamauchi, can you explain what you were doing before you passed out?"

Logically, it should be impossible for students from the same school to be teamed up in this first dungeon, so in what capacity did Yamauchi Haruki enter?

"Oh! I remember I was working out in my dorm, then I suddenly felt dizzy, and the next thing I knew, I saw you, Bai..."

This was a lie. In reality, Yamauchi Haruki had finally found a documentary and was halfway through "paying his respects" when he suddenly blacked out.

Such a clumsy lie was full of holes. Setting aside his scrawny physique, one look at his dark circles and sleazy aura was enough to judge his general behavior and daily habits.

Seeing that there were no clues to be found here, Bai Yuze turned to ask Tuanzi.

"Did you find any clues on your end?"

"Eto, we found a few things. They're with Xiao Xue right now, I'll go get them."

Yuigahama left, partly because she needed to retrieve the clues, and partly because Yamauchi's leering gaze made her uncomfortable.

"Hey, hey, friend, that girl just now was a ten. Is she your girlfriend?"

"No, we just met a few days ago."

Upon hearing an answer to his liking, Yamauchi rubbed his hands together in excitement.

"Since she's not your girlfriend, I'm going to make a move!"

"You? Do you think she'd ever look at you?"

"Heh, my looks can charm thousands of women. Didn't you see her run off just now? She must have been too shy to look me in the eye!"

Yamauchi Haruki preened his hair as he spoke, acting as if he were some kind of heartthrob.

Bai Yuze was left speechless by Yamauchi's baffling confidence, though once he remembered it was Yamauchi Haruki, everything made sense.

"Buddy, don't be discouraged. Based on your conversation, there seems to be another girl. If nothing else, I'll let you have that one. Yui... hehehe... such a pretty name."

Yamauchi chatted away about his lewd thoughts without a care in the world. Given his self-delusion and limited brain capacity, he was naturally incapable of being wary of others.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so easily played for a fool by Sakayanagi in the original story.

"By the way, where are we exactly?"

Only now did Yamauchi Haruki remember he was in an unfamiliar place. Bai Yuze explained the situation to him as tactfully as possible.

"So you're saying we're trapped here? And the whole reason is that damn school?"

Yamauchi stared blankly for a moment before reverting to his previous shouting state.

"Quiet down, don't you still want to pick up girls?"

Bai Yuze suppressed the urge to take action and tried to pacify Yamauchi Haruki.

"Are you kidding me! You need to be alive to chase girls, right! I don't want to die! I want to go home!"

Yamauchi Haruki cried out in a breakdown.

"What happened?"

A cold voice filled with confusion reached their ears, and Yamauchi Haruki turned his head, instantly stunned.

A super cute, icy beauty wearing a JK uniform was standing outside the door. To Yamauchi Haruki, she felt like a white snow lotus blooming on a high mountain, something to be admired from afar but never touched.

However, a man has two great hobbies: dragging good women into the mud and persuading fallen women to turn over a new leaf. Especially for Yamauchi, the supreme masterpiece of the dark room, facing a clean, flawless sheet of white paper, all he wanted to do was leave his mark on it recklessly.

And so, Yamauchi Haruki stopped crying, dropped his crazed expression, and instantly transformed into a composed gentleman.

"Did you find any clues? Also... who is this lecherous, rutting ape?"

As everyone knew, Yukino was sharp-tongued but wouldn't lash out at people randomly, unless someone offended her.

"I found new rules and a note. As for him... he's my classmate."

"The fact that your classmate looks so sleazy makes me doubt whether you attend a proper school."

"Uh... I suppose it doesn't count as proper?"

Bai Yuze pondered. After all, what kind of proper school starts by making students play a life-or-death game?

"Greetings, beautiful lady. My name is Yamauchi Haruki, and I am a student at Advanced Nurturing..."

"Could this rutting ape-man please stay away from me? Your lecherous gaze and sleazy expression make me feel persecuted, and I'm afraid I won't be able to stop myself from attacking you."

After saying this, Yukino took a step back into a defensive stance, her face showing a look of disgust that even Bai Yuze had never seen before!

In contrast, Yamauchi Haruki stood by, feeling quite pleased with himself.

He was already overjoyed in his heart; the more iceberg-like a woman was, the greater the sense of achievement in conquering her.

Yamauchi Haruki had already made his plans. Perhaps he would be trapped here and lose his life, but before he died, he would transform from a boy into a man!

Since there were no laws to constrain him here, he could act as recklessly as he wanted with the two women before him. As for Bai Yuze standing to the side, Yamauchi Haruki didn't even take him seriously.