Selling Your Unused Stuff? Davidai Is the Only Choice! South Section's "Top Student" Strikes Hard
At the end of the dark, damp alley, the monster stood quietly beside a few overturned wooden wine barrels.
The thing looked bizarre and highly deceptive.
It had a bloated form, its entire body made of a viscous, green, faintly glowing jelly-like substance.
To show off its so-called "gentlemanly" status, it even wore a bowler hat squarely atop its head.
A black tie was fastened around its neck, roughly where its throat should have been.
Behind it, two pairs of insect-like, translucent fairy wings trembled rapidly, producing a faint hum.
In its right hand, it steadily held a glass of wine filled with green liquid.
When it saw Wei Zhenzu and Paimon enter the alley, the Fairy Gentleman did not attack immediately.
Instead, its jelly-like face formed an exaggerated, false smile full of teeth.
It bent slightly at the waist, tipped its hat in a textbook salute, then held out the glass of green wine.
Though it made no sound, the meaning of its gesture could not have been clearer: Pleased to meet you. Would you care for a glass of sweet wine?
"It looks... kind of polite?"
Paimon poked her little head out from behind Wei Zhenzu and swallowed as she looked at the wine. "That green juice smells pretty good."
"Put those foodie eyes away." Wei Zhenzu fixed his gaze on the Fairy Gentleman's belly. "This sneaky bastard's real goal is to swallow us whole as a snack with its wine."
Beneath the Fairy Gentleman's disguised smile, a huge slit was slowly opening across its bloated belly.
It was a gaping maw filled with green fangs and a long, sticky tongue. Drops of highly corrosive green saliva fell from the mouth in its belly, eating into the bluestone paving and producing sizzling white smoke.
Its disguise exposed, the smile vanished from the Fairy Gentleman's face. Its hat shook violently as it let out a muffled roar and charged straight at them, swinging its thick green left arm.
"Bring it on!"
Instead of retreating, Wei Zhenzu advanced. He spread his legs and planted his feet, then stylishly gripped the single-pull ticket Venti had given him between two fingers and raised it high above his head.
He took a deep breath, struck a textbook chuunibyou pose engraved in every anime fan's DNA, and shouted:
"My turn! Draw!"
With his shout, energetic electronic BGM with a powerful beat suddenly rang out in the alley.
"Doo doo doo doo doo doo! Universe-invincible super tyrannosaurus warrior, evolve! Doo doo doo doo doo doo!"
Wei Zhenzu froze. Where did this music come from? Does the Bus System play sound effects out loud when you pull cards now?
He turned his head suspiciously and saw Paimon floating in midair with a portable vinyl record player on her shoulder, who knew where she had pulled it from. She was bobbing her head wildly to the music and shouting into a little microphone.
Wei Zhenzu's eye twitched. He stared at her, speechless. "Can you get rid of that thing? Do you have any idea what's going on right now?"
Not only did Paimon refuse to stop, she got even more fired up and shouted a catchy advertising slogan into the microphone:
"Selling unused stuff? I only trust-ow!"
Before she could finish, Wei Zhenzu reached out and flicked her squarely on the forehead with a loud snap.
"Waaah! That hurts!" Paimon clutched her forehead, tears welling in her eyes. She and the record player tumbled twice through the air before she floated over to a distant wine barrel to watch, looking aggrieved.
"Fine, I won't play it! You'll lose Mora for interrupting someone's ad deal!"
With the noise gone, the single-pull ticket at Wei Zhenzu's fingertips instantly transformed into a dark blue light.
Within the light, a slightly languid voice, full of mature older-sister charm, rang out in Wei Zhenzu's mind:
"Ah, me?"
Immediately afterward, a system notification appeared.
[Identity Extraction successful: Rodya - Dieci Association South Section 4]
"The sea of learning is boundless, and hard work is the boat, or something..."
The languid voice sounded again, and the moment her personality overlaid his, Wei Zhenzu's red Dante-style coat flashed and transformed into a heavy, long black coat bearing the Dieci Association's emblem.
His hands were encased in sturdy tactical gloves, and in his right hand, an enormous codex as thick as a brick appeared out of thin air, its cover edged in metal.
The interference with his mental state followed.
Wei Zhenzu's taut nerves suddenly relaxed, and a strange sense of confidence welled up in him: I don't want to study, but I'm definitely not afraid of a fight.
Against the Fairy Gentleman, whose coins all dealt blunt damage and whose body was incredibly tough, South Section Rodya, who had extremely high blunt resistance and dealt nothing but blunt damage, was the perfect counter. His luck was simply off the charts this time.
Bang!
The Fairy Gentleman's thick left arm slammed into Wei Zhenzu's shoulder.
Yet Wei Zhenzu, empowered by the South Section Identity's stats, only swayed slightly. A blunt attack of that level posed no threat to him.
"That's all you've got?" Wei Zhenzu rolled his neck, producing a series of crisp cracks.
His eyes sharpened, and his right hand clenched into a fist. The metal knuckles on his tactical glove scraped together with a grating sound.
"Let's make them understand right away."
[Wisdom of the Ignorant]!