The Dimensional Codex of Destruction 6

Kiana looked at the girl beside her who was wearing a lovestruck expression, giving her a tug to snap her out of her daze.

"Ah, that?"

The girl was good-natured and didn't get angry, kindly explaining to Kiana.

"That's a suitor of Queen Raiden. He's been pursuing her for an entire semester now, bringing a bouquet of flowers to confess every single day. The school security guards have tried to catch him, but they just can't, so they've given up."

"Still calling her Queen Raiden? I heard Raiden Mei is being called a scammer every day now."

Another girl chimed in, "But even so, Prince Charming remains devoted to her."

"..."

Watching the two girls swoon, Kiana fell silent for a moment before rushing off with quick strides.

Meanwhile, Qin Mo had once again completed his daily confession and flower delivery. Although the mission no longer existed, he still persisted out of habit.

The opening ceremony had ended just before noon, so the two of them headed straight for the rooftop.

"I've prepared a bento..."

Mei took out the bento she had prepared along the way. Because the people in her class always tried to sabotage her whenever she wasn't around, she rarely prepared meals, but today was the first day of school and everyone was out of the classroom. Besides, Mei felt that a bento prepared by her own hands would be better.

The young lady who once never lifted a finger in the kitchen had started to become incredibly wifely.

The two sat on the cushions Qin Mo had prepared and began to eat. This wasn't the first time they had tasted Mei's cooking, and the dishes were all quite familiar.

It wasn't really anything...

Bang!

The rooftop door was suddenly kicked open violently.

"Qin Mo!"

Kiana scanned the rooftop and immediately spotted the two of them hiding in the corner.

"Aha! So you were hiding here!"

"Uh, Kiana..."

Although he knew Kiana was here, she and Mei were in different grades, so Qin Mo hadn't been worried about being discovered by her.

Was it really because of her bizarre luck?

"Qin Mo, who is this?"

Mei was startled by Kiana, who had suddenly stormed over with such aggressive momentum.

"She's a friend from my childhood, Kiana Kaslana. We haven't seen each other in over ten years. She just arrived in Chang Kong City, so she's technically your underclassman."

"Qin Mo, have you had a change of heart!"

As Qin Mo introduced her to Mei, Kiana grabbed him and demanded an answer.

"What change of heart?"

Kiana looked at Qin Mo's bewildered expression and said, "Didn't you say you were going to marry me!?"

"..."

Hearing Kiana's words, Qin Mo instinctively glanced at Mei. Seeing that she didn't have much of a reaction yet, he quickly said, "What do you mean 'I said'? I already told you that never happened. That was just to test if you were really suffering from amnesia. Besides, I said you told me you wanted to marry me, not that I was going to marry you."

"Who knows if that's true? Anyway, I have amnesia."

Kiana didn't intend to dwell on the matter and simply flopped onto the table Qin Mo had set up. "Besides, you didn't even call me for lunch. Are we still friends or what?"

"Ha..."

Rubbing his forehead with a sense of exhaustion, Qin Mo said to Mei, "As you can see, she has that kind of personality, but she doesn't have any bad intentions."

Ignoring Kiana's complaints about being described as having "that kind of personality," Qin Mo said directly to her, "This is Raiden Mei, your upperclassman."

"And what is your relationship?"

Qin Mo hadn't expected Kiana to ask such a question, and Kiana herself had asked it instinctively without much thought.

Although Qin Mo's social life had nothing to do with her, she felt a strange sense of discomfort the moment she saw him bringing this girl named Raiden Mei up here.

That was why she had come up to cause trouble on purpose.

"Friends."

"I see..."

Upon hearing they were just friends, Kiana's first reaction was disbelief, but then she thought that being friends was normal—what couple would confess every single day?

"Nice to meet you, Mei. I'm Kiana."

The Kaslana family's penchant for beautiful girls was written into their DNA. After the initial shock, Kiana quickly lost interest in Qin Mo.

Fortunately, Mei had a gentle and kind personality, and with the recent changes in her family, she was better at reading others.

Otherwise, if it had been someone else, they probably would have given Kiana a cold shoulder or two under these circumstances.

It had to be said that Kiana's innocent and lively personality was infectious, and within a short time, she had become familiar with Raiden Mei.

Because she didn't have any lunch, Qin Mo had to take a dish he had previously obtained from a draw out of his backpack to serve as her meal.

Raiden Mei had long since grown accustomed to Qin Mo pulling items out of thin air, but Kiana still circled him like a curious child.

"Alright, isn't the food enough to plug your mouth?"

What Qin Mo had produced was a plate of Golden Finger-Licking Chicken. In reality, it was just a plate of fried chicken, but it was undeniably delicious. The item description claimed it could increase one's attack power. Qin Mo had tasted it once himself; it was quite good, and he felt a surge of energy throughout his body after eating it, though it wasn't the same effect as a stimulant.

It was simply a feeling of being full of vitality.

Qin Mo figured it wasn't particularly useful, so he might as well treat it as a regular meal.

The lunch ended just like that. Following the choice of Steins;Gate, Kiana and Raiden Mei successfully became friends. Qin Mo mingled among them, harvesting crystals, and everything was proceeding on the correct path.

Chapter 10 System Update

Peaceful campus life passed quickly. By mid-March, Qin Mo had once again saved up enough crystals for forty draws.

Adding the ten draws he had done at the beginning, he could push his character card draws to fifty in one go.

Although he was still halfway to the pity threshold, Qin Mo felt that perhaps he wouldn't need to reach it to pull an S-rank character card.

Why? That was obviously because of Kiana!

Qin Mo decided that he would never pull cards by himself again!

After all, his own luck always resulted in hitting the pity, but Kiana? She had hit the pity while also pulling two A-ranks!

As for why he didn't ask her to pull every ten draws, he was worried that doing it too frequently would reveal something, and it was always bad to trouble others too much. As for why he didn't wait until one hundred draws to ask Kiana?

That was because Qin Mo had noticed that Honkai Beasts were appearing more and more frequently lately. It seemed the Great Eruption was not far off.

Actually, if his only goal was to escape the Great Eruption, the correct course of action for Qin Mo would be to take Raiden Mei and the others and flee Chang Kong City.

But this Great Eruption was man-made, and Raiden Mei was the core. Even if they dodged this one, there would be another.

Moreover, they were currently within the scope of the plot, so nothing major would go wrong. Who knew what would happen if they deviated from the storyline?

"Time to pull again."

That evening, when he went to Kiana's place, Qin Mo placed his phone on the table once more.

Kiana didn't refuse; she reached out and tapped the screen for him several times, skipping the card-pulling animations. After all, there were forty draws to get through; who knew how long it would take to watch them one by one?

Qin Mo didn't pay attention to the effects of the cards for the moment, focusing only on their colors.

After the forty draws were finished, Qin Mo looked at the one golden and seven purple light effects appearing before him, so happy he nearly jumped up.

But he held back, saying to Kiana, "Thanks, I'm heading back now."

"Eh? That's it?"

Kiana scratched her head. "What kind of game are you playing? Should I download it and try it out too?"

"Uh, you can't download this game. It was written by a friend of mine. I'll tell you the details later."

Qin Mo quickly made up an excuse. Written by a friend—as everyone knows, whenever someone says "I have a friend," they are talking about themselves.

Returning to his room in a hurry, Qin Mo looked at the results of the draw. Ignoring the blue and white lights, he clicked on the golden card first.

The President (S)

Skills:

D4C: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. By performing an act of "pinching," the user can send objects or people to adjacent worlds, or bring them from adjacent worlds to the base world. When existences other than the user themselves meet in the same world, they will attract each other and merge, resulting in an annihilation phenomenon where they disappear from the world.

Love Train: Generates a wall of light that creates "gaps in space." Only the user and the things they possess can enter it, and it converts all attacks and misfortunes into a form of "misfortune" that is randomly sent to other places in the world.

Description: "My heart and actions are utterly unclouded! They are all those of justice!"

Stand Power!

Qin Mo had watched JOJO and had even been obsessed with it for a long time. Although his knowledge was limited to the first few parts, he knew the names and Stands of the famous villains in JOJO.

The power of D4C itself was only the ability to cross adjacent worlds, while Love Train was the power the President gained after collecting the Corpse Parts.

However, the weakness of Love Train was still quite obvious: things possessed by the user would not be blocked. Qin Mo had read many analyses written by others; the method used to defeat the President in the plot was the rotation power common in that storyline, which utilized gravity.

It was difficult at the time only because that was the only method the protagonists had.

If one knew about it and wanted to counter it, there were still many ways, just like how the invincible Accelerator could theoretically manipulate all vectors, yet there were many ways to defeat him. The simplest was to exhaust the air around him before he could use his superpower to control the vectors of the air—though how many people could actually do that?

Therefore, the strength of an enemy is merely a reflection of one's own weakness and lack of means.

Although he had pulled a BOSS-level character card, Qin Mo felt no waves in his heart.

Because...

He couldn't use it at all!

A level 1 player's cost was only 5, while an S-rank character card required 7 cost! He needed to level up twice to use it.

And so far, he had no way to level up.

After tucking the D4C card away, Qin Mo took out the remaining seven purple cards.

Diavolo, Kishibe Rohan, Josuke Higashikata, Okuyasu Nijimura, Ghiaccio...

Five familiar names. Had he poked a JOJO nest?

Qin Mo remembered that he had previously pulled an item from the JOJO world, The Red Stone of Aja, but because it had no supernatural power, he had left it in his inventory and forgotten about it.

As for the remaining two A-rank cards, one was Kuroro from Hunter, and the other was Credo from Devil May Cry.

Credo is the childhood brother of Nero and the Knight Commander of the Order of the Sword; it wouldn't be fair to call him weak... but one could say he isn't strong enough, his abilities are quite ordinary, and this whole Devil Trigger thing just doesn't seem reliable at first glance.

Qin Mo didn't hesitate to toss this card to the bottom of his storage box. He might have considered it if he had pulled Dante, Nero, or Vergil, but those three couldn't possibly be A-rank by any stretch of the imagination; they would likely be SS or even SSS-rank. Even a fledgling Nero who couldn't use Devil Trigger would at least be S-rank, given that he possessed the strength to trounce Credo.

As for Kuroro, Qin Mo initially thought the system had misjudged him, but then he took a look and realized, oh...

He hadn't collected a single Nen ability.

Kuroro's Nen ability is Skill Hunter, which allows him to steal the Nen abilities of others. His immense power in the story stems partly from his own solid foundation in Nen, and partly from the fact that he had been hoarding Nen abilities for many years.

But the one Qin Mo received now was a blank slate, and this world didn't have Nen abilities yet...

That must be the reason he was rated as A-rank...

As for the final five Stands, Diavolo can erase time, Kishibe Rohan can turn anyone who sees his drawings into a book and modify them at will, Josuke Higashikata can repair anything, Okuyasu Nijimura can scrape away space, and Ghiaccio can generate incredibly powerful freezing abilities.

None of them are weak, and they are far stronger than Ezio, though Ezio is more about utility; after all, an assassin is about more than just killing.

However...

"Goodbye, Ezio!"

Qin Mo didn't hesitate to equip the character card of Diavolo.

A Stand with a red body and white, fishnet-like patterns appeared behind him.

"King Crimson..."

As a deep voice resonated, the surrounding environment suddenly shifted, and the walls of the apartment shattered and vanished as if rising into the air.

Qin Mo felt as though he were standing in the middle of an infinite universe.