Resonator with No Bottom Line

"Inner demon?" Lu Guan sneered. "You're twisting the concept, trying to cloud my own perception. Is that your ability?"

[Don't you feel even the slightest bit of remorse?]

"Remorse? For what?" Lu Guan scoffed. "You don't expect me to reflect on my actions, do you?"

"Morality, ethics, the law?"

"I'm willing to abide by them because I respect the people here, but that doesn't mean I have to be bound by them."

"My heart and actions are as clear as a mirror. Everything I do is justice!"

"You thought you could twist my will with a few words..." Lu Guan flashed forward and seized the "dark side" by the throat. "You're too stupid, too ridiculous, and you've underestimated my purity far too much..."

"Come out! Fractsidus... president!"

"How long are you going to stand there watching?"

[Hahaha... how interesting. What made you guess the truth?]

The "dark side" let out a villainous laugh, then turned into a mass of shadow and slipped from Lu Guan's hand. When it took shape again, it had become a rabbit, which hopped into someone's hand.

It was the president's avatar, disguised as Napomo.

Lu Guan looked at the president before him and spoke slowly. "Simple. I'm confident enough that even if I did develop an inner demon, he'd approve of everything I've done."

"What an interesting answer." Napomo circled Lu Guan as though inspecting some rare treasure. "But how did you determine who I was?"

"Did that bad child Dania tell you?"

Lu Guan grinned and, looking utterly harmless, raised his clenched fists in a stance before him.

"Furube..."

"Yura yura..."

"Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga!"

A towering, deathly pale figure with a wheel above its head slowly emerged from the dark shadows, appearing behind Lu Guan with an imposing presence.

Napomo's eyes widened in shock. A spy she had planted in Huanglong had previously sent back information about this thing.

Supposedly, the Sentinel Kang had barely managed to kill it, at the cost of serious injuries. Who would have thought it was merely a summon belonging to this utterly ordinary-looking young man, whose only distinction was his handsome face!

"Wait, can't we talk this over?" Napomo asked, her eyes full of bewilderment. "You don't take any pressure at all? You just open with your ultimate?"

"Gyahahahaha!" Lu Guan raised his head confidently and flashed a toothy grin. "I'm off to die first. Do your best!"

The moment he finished speaking, Mahoraga punched Lu Guan flying. He smashed through several walls and slumped limply against a crumbling low wall, his life or death unknown.

After dealing with Lu Guan, Mahoraga turned to the president before it.

"Tsk... what a pain. I can't abandon this avatar just yet." The president clicked her tongue, tossed aside the rabbit in her hand, and transformed into "Charon."

Ten minutes later, Mahoraga dissipated.

The president had won in the end, but she was in terrible condition. Barely able to maintain Charon's form, she was forced to change back into Napomo.

"What a troublesome thing... adaptation, was it? No wonder the Ming Court's Sentinel was badly injured. After all, he wasn't at his peak..."

"I didn't expect that summon to attack its summoner first. But that makes sense. It would be far too unreasonable for such a powerful summon to come without a corresponding price..."

"Once I dispose of this guy, Dania will surely fall into even deeper darkness... I just need to wait until that person returns to the academy..."

But at that moment, Lu Guan's voice rang out in front of her.

"Yo, long time no see!"

Napomo stared as though she'd seen a ghost. "Seriously? How are you not dead yet?"

"Absolutely!" Lu Guan thumped his chest, producing a deafening sound. "I'm still alive and kicking!"

Napomo looked as though she'd just eaten a whole bowl of minced-meat noodles made with deep-fried flies. "You were playing dead after that hit?"

"Exactly right!" Lu Guan spread his arms and laughed wildly. "The moment Mahoraga sent me flying and I fell into suspended animation, I succeeded in mastering the core of Resonance Power!"

This was the most fiendish part of Lu Guan's resonance ability.

Take pressure → summon Mahoraga → play dead → master the core.

It looked like he wasn't taking pressure, and in fact he really wasn't taking any at all, because the so-called pressure was merely his reason to summon Mahoraga.

He remained a Resonator with no bottom line. The only thing he needed to consider was the enemy being unable to beat Mahoraga, but if they really couldn't beat Mahoraga, Lu Guan still had one more move: "You've fallen for it! This is my escape route!"

Thus, all his actions formed a closed loop. All Lu Guan had to pay was the pain of being sent flying by Mahoraga's elbow, and he could happily acquire an incredibly powerful fighter while strengthening himself yet again.

This was the true core of Resonance Power that Lu Guan had mastered!

After listening to Lu Guan's explanation, Napomo smiled in resignation. It wasn't because she was excited; that bastard had made her so angry she laughed.

"Now that I think about it, you really would be a good fit for our Fractsidus." Napomo's expression abruptly changed, and she extended Lu Guan an invitation. "Would you consider joining us? I can give you a position at the overseer level."

"Fractsidus?" Lu Guan sneered. "You make joining a terrorist organization and becoming enemies with the national powers of all Solaris sound so casual. Someone who didn't know better would think it was some school club."

"Cut the crap. Let's settle this with our fists!"

"Although I'm not in good condition right now," Napomo said with a frown, transforming back into "Charon," "even so... you might not be able to beat this avatar of mine!"

"Oh?" Lu Guan gave a sinister laugh. "It seems you still don't have a clear idea of just how low I can go!"

"What on earth gave you the illusion that I'd fight you head-on?"

A chill ran down the president's spine. She had a bad feeling about this.

"What are you going to do?"

Lu Guan pointed at the president and said, "Get your period!"

"Ngh...!" The president's pupils contracted sharply. Unable to maintain Charon's form, she was forced to turn back into Napomo.

Cold sweat beaded on her forehead as she cursed through gritted teeth.

"Shameless bastard!"

"Hmph~ I'll take that as a compliment." Lu Guan raised an eyebrow and made another gesture. "In return, I'll give you a reward too."

As soon as he said that, Napomo cried out. Her cheeks flushed red and she squirmed, forced to sit down with her legs folded to either side.

"Guh... hh... haa... I... I really didn't expect you could go this far, Lu Guan!"

"I didn't expect your self-control to be this poor either, Napomo." Lu Guan looked down at the ground, struggling to keep his composure.

An avatar actually has normal physiological functions? Why the hell does the president insist on realism in a place like this?!

Just one command turned you into this? Come on, lady, have some consideration for how this looks! Don't be a bad influence on the kids! If a cleaner comes by in a minute, I'd like to see how you explain yourself!

"What do you gain by humiliating one of my avatars like this?" Napomo said through gritted teeth. "If Dania finds out what you're really like..."

"How rude. What we have is pure love!"

"She'll love me even more, won't she?" Lu Guan replied with a smile. "My love for her is absolutely genuine, and so is her love for me... there's no possibility of that ever being overturned!"

"Besides, can you really hold your head high about what you did to Dania?" The moment Lu Guan recalled the manipulative lines the president had used on Dania in the game's original story, anger boiled up inside him. He simply rushed forward and kicked her several times to vent.

"Hehehe... impotent rage."

"The next time we meet, I'll pay you back for this humiliation! Make sure you stay alive and don't go dying on me before then!"

Napomo suddenly seemed like a patient who had just escaped from a psychiatric hospital. Every pore on her body let out an eerie laugh, and her bones began to twist. Before long, she had turned into something indescribable.

With an explosive bang, the president's body burst apart. Bloody-smelling fluid splashed all over Lu Guan's face, nearly making him vomit.

"Fuck... couldn't you have made a more dignified exit?"

"Making it this disgusting-you did that on purpose, didn't you?!"

After finding a pool and washing all the filth off his body, Lu Guan began exploring the "dark side" with his upper body bare.

He called it exploring, but in truth, he couldn't find his way out.

Lu Guan sighed. "All I can do is pray that Principal Lacerta or Doctor Lu finds me soon..."

But wandering aimlessly wasn't a good idea either. Heaven knew what might come darting out of some strange place in the academy's dark side, even if everything was calm one moment.

At that thought, Lu Guan decided to make a big commotion.

So he opened his mouth and began singing "Remembering Teacher Luo."

Meanwhile, Lacerta and Lu Hes were searching together for the source of the disturbance in the academy's dark side when they suddenly heard faint singing.

"Teacher Lacerta~ I still remember you~"

"Line by line~ you pulled me out of the mist~"

Lacerta: 0.o?

Lu Hes: I admit those lyrics were a little bizarre for my tastes, but I could easily keep a straight face through that much.