Chapter Eighty-Four: Chu-Han Simulation / Chapter Eighty-Five: The Chief Designer of the Kuaiji Type Zero Makes a Grand Entrance

Olga Marie seemed to realize something as well and immediately stopped resisting.

The two of them began enjoying Fujimaru Ritsuka's antics.

"Hehehe~" Fujimaru Ritsuka became even more convinced that this was a lucid sex dream and promptly did whatever she pleased. First, she wildly licked Bai Ming's muscles, then ran her hands all over him, then instructed Olga Marie to do the same with her, and even demanded that Bai Ming comfort Olga Marie.

Caught between shame and the urge to laugh, Olga Marie cooperated with Bai Ming and followed Fujimaru Ritsuka's orders.

Soon afterward, Fujimaru Ritsuka felt the time was right and moved on to the main event.

By the time the dream was about to shatter, Fujimaru Ritsuka wore an expression of utter bliss.

However, Bai Ming reminded her at that moment, "Fujimaru Ritsuka, I have to tell you something. This place was never a dream."

"Stop joking, Senpai Bai Ming. You and such a proud Director Olga Marie both listened to my orders. How could this possibly not be my dream...?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka still looked utterly unconvinced. Beside her, Olga Marie shook her head with a flushed face. Some people simply would not repent until death was staring them in the face.

Fujimaru Ritsuka woke up to the sound of drizzling rain. The sheets were already soaked through, and she thought, I knew it was a dream... Is Senpai Bai Ming really such a mean-spirited person in my heart?

Just as Fujimaru Ritsuka was tidying up the room, there came a knock at the door, followed by Olga Marie's voice. "Fujimaru Ritsuka, I'm coming in."

After entering, Olga Marie directly shut the door.

"Is something the matter, Director?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka thought, I just dreamed about Senpai Bai Ming, the Director, and me making love together, and then the Director came looking for me. Could that have been a lucid prophetic sex dream after all? More importantly, what's with that smile on the Director's face?

"It's nothing major. I brought you a copy of a recording. It must have been hard for you to pretend to be a normal girl."

"Eh... eh?!!"

Seeing herself in the recording toss every piece of clothing off her body in the blink of an eye, Fujimaru Ritsuka's brain completely froze.

"Waaaaah! I can never show my face again!"

Chu-Han Simulation

"I deeply apologize for becoming the other woman between you and Senpai Bai Ming!"

At that moment, Fujimaru Ritsuka fully demonstrated the spirit of a Japanese bow artisan. She first bowed to the subtly expressioned Olga Marie, then dropped into a dogeza to confess her sins.

Olga Marie was speechless for a moment. She could only forcefully drag Fujimaru Ritsuka up from the floor. She had to admit that this woman truly had a flair for drama.

"In the world of magi, it's perfectly normal to cultivate Magic Circuits, marry many wives, and have many children."

"Huh?" Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Olga Marie with clear, innocent eyes, seemingly trying to process her words. Then she asked, "Are magi really that promiscuous?"

"You haven't seen the poor ones who have to sell bodily fluids."

Olga Marie rolled her eyes at Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Magi aren't as clean as you imagine. So even if something so... so absurd happened, I wouldn't care. Only half-baked magi would fuss over such things."

"So the Director and Senpai Bai Ming aren't clean either?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka truly had a talent for choking people with her words. Olga Marie immediately felt the urge to fight her on the spot, but ultimately held herself back.

"I don't know about Bai Ming." Olga Marie said irritably, "I, Olga Marie Animusphere, am one of the Twelve Lords of the Clock Tower, one of the three great Western mage associations. I am a noble. I have no need for such low-class matters."

"Oh, never heard of it."

Fujimaru Ritsuka was merely telling the truth, but that honesty left Olga Marie feeling stifled. She was a noble magus, yet Fujimaru Ritsuka was not even a little surprised after hearing that?

"If you want to know what Bai Ming did before coming to Chaldea, I suggest you ask him yourself."

Olga Marie checked the time and said, "Go eat quickly. Then Roman will teach you about magecraft and combat. For the time being, I'll supervise you in Bai Ming's place."

"Then what is Senpai Bai Ming doing?"

"Going into seclusion to train."

Meanwhile, in Bai Ming's room, Bai Ming lay quietly on the bed.

Simulation beginning. Talents generating.

Seven Killings: Brave, mighty, and ruthless. When faced with killing, discuss killing first. Fierce and extreme.

In the Name of 'Brando': You would stop at nothing for peace of mind and stop at nothing to achieve your goals. This was your deepest nature. Humans had limits, and immortal output had limits too. So, St. George, I will no longer be human or immortal!

Pleasure-Seeking Outsider: You were an outsider, a distorter of history, and a driver of history. Yet the motive behind everything you did was that you always treated life as a game, and you wanted to clear it in one life. Everything you did was simply because you found it interesting.

Era: Qin-Han Era

In 221 BC, there was a man whose virtue matched the Three Sovereigns and whose achievements surpassed the Five Emperors. He bore the Ying clan name, the Zhao lineage, and the personal name Zheng. He was the first to bear the title of Emperor.

It was at that very time that Bai Ming appeared in some unknown wilderness somewhere in China.

"The Qin-Han Era spans quite a long time... Judging by how dry the air is, this looks like somewhere around Shanxi or Henan."

Bai Ming muttered to himself as he walked across the boundless wilderness.

His clothing had also changed into attire suited to the Qin Dynasty.

Bai Ming walked at an unhurried pace, pondering the three entries from this simulation.

Seven Killings was presumably Seven Killings Star. Combined with the power of the Army-Breaking Star and Greedy Wolf Star that he already bore, once the time came, it would likely form the Three Harmonies and Four Alignments configuration of Killing, Breaking, and Wolf.

As for "In the Name of 'Brando,'" that described his essence. The driving force behind everything he did was to live with peace of mind, and for that, he would use every possible means. If that trait had been highlighted, then this simulation would surely involve some unexpected disaster coming to kill him.

Bai Ming did not care much about the final entry. Other than wanting to live peacefully, what he did most was play through the world—otherwise, he would not have turned into Queen of Sheba to lay one trap after another for Roman.

Just as Bai Ming was wondering what kind of unexpected disaster he would encounter during the Qin-Han Era, he felt as though he had bumped into something.

Bai Ming immediately stopped and looked at the woman before him, whose disheveled hair hung loose and whose body was barely covered enough to preserve her modesty.

The woman also stared blankly at the tall, valiant man before her, whose blood and vitality were overflowing. She could not help thinking, Why didn't I sense this human's presence just now? And that vigorous blood and vitality...

Bai Ming inwardly rejoiced. Hey, isn't this Akuta Hinako from over two thousand years ago? No, she should be called Consort Yu or Yu Meiren now. No wonder she insisted that Marisbury get me into Team A in the future. So this cursed connection began through such a cycle of cause and effect.

The still-nameless Akuta Hinako looked at Bai Ming. "Human, you seem rather happy to see me."

"I am quite happy, actually. But I have a question for you." Bai Ming asked, "Have you always dressed like this?"

"I have been like this ever since I first gained consciousness. You are the first human to see me. If there is nothing else, then pretend you never saw me."

For some reason, she, who had always hated and feared humans and avoided them, spoke a few more words than usual to the human before her.

Even she herself found that behavior surprising.

Bai Ming thought, So old Akuta hated society, hated the world, and hated human civilization from the start? Looking at it this way, she actually changed quite a bit for the better by the time she became what she was in the future.

Let's see if I can make this unlucky, gloomy shut-in girl a little better.

Thus, Bai Ming said, "Since I've seen you, I can't just leave you alone."

"What is wrong with you, human?"

Ignoring her irritation, Bai Ming asked, "Do you have a name?"

"No. I have no interest in human culture."

Though she said that, the woman who had originally intended to leave stopped at that moment, as though she wanted Bai Ming to give her a name.

They were currently in the region north of Xia County and Pinglu in southern Shanxi Province, the former site of the Yu State of the Ji clan.

In the pre-Qin era, women were generally addressed with their given names before their clan names. Therefore, in the year Qin King Zheng unified the six states and declared himself Emperor, Bai Ming maliciously gave the female elemental spirit before him the name "Consort Yu." He also told her that both Yu and Ji could serve as surnames and let her choose for herself. However, Consort Yu gave no answer, merely accepting the name Consort Yu.

Bai Ming then intended to leave, but Consort Yu simply followed behind him. Her body was now covered by an extra layer of tightly wrapped, lined clothing, though her messy hair remained untied.

"Didn't you tell me to pretend I had never seen you?"

"Human, I do not understand your actions, so I will follow you and find out why you gave me a name." Consort Yu spoke coldly. "Now, tell me your name."

Talent Pleasure-Seeking Outsider activated.

"I have no name. At least, I have no name in this era. If I have to be called something, Traveler or Wandering Drifter will do."

Consort Yu's tone remained cold. "But those are not names. Since you are human, you should have your own name."

To Consort Yu, names were extremely important. Thus, she desperately wanted to know the name of this strange human.

Kuaiji Zero's Chief Designer Makes a Grand Entrance

In the end, Consort Yu still failed to get Bai Ming's name from him. She only felt that Bai Ming kept his mouth extremely tight, so she could only follow behind him as they wandered through the wilderness together.

By the end of 220 BC, the two of you had traveled from the wilderness of Pinglu in Shanxi to the wilderness of Xianyang in Shaanxi.

Consort Yu had traveled on foot with you for nearly a year. Of course, she still looked icy and spoke sharply, but she did not resist a certain degree of physical contact with you.

"You intend to enter human society, don't you?"

Watching the direction Bai Ming was heading, Consort Yu could not help asking. Her face was filled with resistance. Bai Ming nodded. "I'm human, so naturally I have to return to human society."

Consort Yu said coldly, "But your strength, physique, speed, and even your magical energy have nothing to do with humans."

"If you do not wish to go, then return now. Even lovers like Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai only escorted each other for eighteen li. You and I have wandered east and west all this way. Forget eighteen li—we've traveled at least five hundred and forty li."

"What are Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai? And what are lovers?"

"Their story will not emerge until the Eastern Jin. In short, it is about being unable to love and unable to obtain."

"Oh. That sort of romantic love is boring."

Consort Yu had no interest whatsoever in that. By then, she had roughly guessed the meaning of lovers, but she merely thought, This human is quite dull. He teases me with words, but in the end, he will be nothing more than a mound of yellow earth.

"A sorrowful elemental spirit who knows nothing of love."

Bai Ming shook his head with a sigh, then entered Xianyang City.

Consort Yu looked at your resolute departing back and ultimately decided to follow you into Xianyang City.

After displaying your abilities, you successfully entered Xianyang Palace with Consort Yu and became the chief court sorcerer. This action drew protests from the entire court.

Talent Seven Killings activated.

You beat up the entire civil and military court in front of the Emperor. The many civil officials together were not even a match for one exchange against you. The weaker generals lasted no more than three exchanges, while the stronger ones fell after five. There was nothing more to say about the process.

Since ancient times, there had been no first in scholarship and no second in martial arts.

The generals of the entire court admired you wholeheartedly.

Wang Jian, Wang Ben, Li Xin, Neishi Teng, and numerous other generals greatly increased their favorability toward you.

The civil officials refused to accept this and debated you in literature. With a smiling face, you used later generations' classics, common moral blackmail, and keyboard warrior tactics to render the civil officials speechless. Some narrow-minded individuals were even cursed by you until they vomited blood and fainted on the spot.

Most civil officials' favorability toward you decreased.

Skill learned: Verbal Abuse

Skill learned: Smiling Eyes

The First Emperor felt that merely serving as a court sorcerer was beneath your talents. In light of your fluent old Qin accent and the fact that so many generals sincerely admired you, with the First Emperor's support, you exceptionally received both a civil and a military office.

You became Great Qin's Protector of the Army Commandant and Remonstrance Grand Master, directly under the First Emperor's command. Of course, the only purpose of your office as Remonstrance Grand Master was to curse people on the First Emperor's behalf. Your primary duty remained that of court sorcerer.

You caught the attention of Zhao Gao, Li Si, and Feng Quji.

You became acquainted with Lu Sheng, Han Zhong, Xu Fu, Hou Sheng, and other Confucian scholars and alchemists. After Xu Fu saw you and Consort Yu, she briefly checked the permissions in the Thought Key Patterns and was so frightened that half her soul nearly fled her body.

Two true immortals had slipped into a group of half-baked people. With a single word from you, these Confucian scholars and alchemists would all die.

Xu Fu's attitude toward you changed to "Fear," but because Consort Yu appeared unconcerned, Xu Fu's attitude toward Consort Yu changed to "Enthusiasm."

Xu Fu, also known as Xu Shi, courtesy name Junfang, was said to be Guiguzi's final disciple.

She was a girl with unexpectedly powerful communication skills. Other than before the First Emperor, she spoke to everyone with complete abandon. But upon seeing Bai Ming and Consort Yu, Xu Fu added two more people to the list of those she could not act recklessly around.

She was a beautiful girl with a somewhat gloomy personality, outwardly insecure but actually extremely confident.

When Bai Ming looked at Xu Fu, her entire body shuddered.

"Come here, Xu Junfang."

"C-Chief! W-what are your orders?"

Because he was the chief sorcerer, all the Confucian scholars and alchemists addressed Bai Ming as Chief. Xu Fu, who had been called out, stood trembling before Bai Ming, while the scholars and alchemists who had not been called wore expressions of eager amusement.

Before Bai Ming arrived, Xu Fu had been an immensely prominent alchemist. Furthermore, except in the First Emperor's presence, Xu Fu often spoke without restraint. Combined with her gloomy personality, insecure yet arrogant demeanor, she had offended quite a few scholars and alchemists.

Seeing Bai Ming call on Xu Fu first, they assumed that the new official was lighting his three fires and intended to make an example of Xu Fu—to kill the chicken and scare the monkeys.

At once, the thoughts of the Confucian scholars and alchemists became active. Once Xu Fu was punished, the others could devote themselves fully to currying favor and fighting over wealth and glory.