The next day, in the classroom.
“Hahaha!
Su Yu, what’d you go do?
You trying to cosplay Naruto or something?
Hahahahaha!”
Kaeya clutched his own eyepatch, pointing at the three scratch marks on Su Yu’s face, laughing without stopping.
Su Yu looked at the laughing Kaeya without a word, just gazing single-mindedly at the quest panel only he could see.
[Today’s Quest: He’s Triggered?
He’s Triggered!]
[Quest Content: Make one person lose composure and break down]
[Reward: Oni physical constitution]
Looking at the quest before him, Su Yu could only say that Paimon was still too good to him.
Extra meal, definitely extra meal, must add two chicken legs!
It only said to make one person break down, but didn’t say who.
Really, there wasn’t a single restriction.
This reward was basically free for the taking.
Completing it was actually quite easy; for example, randomly pick some unlucky guy and tell him the teacher wants him, or find some guy who has a girlfriend and secretly tell him his zipper’s down.
The costs were all very low, and the success rate very high, but now Su Yu had a new idea: to select Kaeya, this old buddy, as the target.
Besides, the company was developing hot now, precisely the time when talent was needed.
Though Kaeya was a bit two-faced, Su Yu still quite acknowledged his abilities.
But this guy’s day-to-day slacker level was no less than his own.
Not that it was a big problem anyway.
This was simply too wasteful; better to have him shine and contribute as a member of Sufu Company.
The still-laughing Kaeya, upon noticing the ambiguous smile on Su Yu’s face, gradually reined in his laughter.
He was no fool, and had suffered losses at Su Yu’s hands more than once.
When Su Yu smiles, life or death is hard to tell.
Kaeya turned his head back, carefully watching Su Yu’s movements out of the corner of his eye.
Su Yu said softly to Kaeya: “How about we make a bet.”
“I’m irreconcilably opposed to gambling and drugs, don’t come to me for a bet.”
The moment Kaeya heard Su Yu’s words, he raised eighteen-fold vigilance, shifting his stool in the opposite direction.
Su Yu, paying no mind at all to Kaeya’s movements, continued: “It won’t be too late to decide after you hear me out.”
“Let’s make a bet.
I won’t touch you, I’ll do nothing within your line of sight, and I won’t trip you up in any way visible to the eye.”
“But you will suffer great misfortune over the time to come.
If you really do suffer misfortune, then you’ll unconditionally agree to one thing for me, and I won’t retaliate for the matter of you pointing at my nose and laughing just now.”
After hearing Su Yu’s words, Kaeya kept complaining inwardly.
“Then what if nothing happens?”
After carefully weighing every word of Su Yu’s, Kaeya too became a bit interested.
This looked like a sure-win no-loss deal no matter how you sliced it, better than being eyed for revenge by Su Yu.
After all, there are those who thieve for a thousand days, but none who guard against thieves for a thousand days, and this person was Su Yu, a guy who’d maxed out his talent at messing with people.
“Then in the future, no matter how you trip me up, I won’t retaliate against you.”
“Really?
This bet’s a bit big, isn’t it?
Could it be that I’m your brother from a different father and mother, and you don’t want to mess with me anymore?”
Kaeya couldn’t help but widen his eyes, an expression of disbelief.
Right under his nose, doing nothing, and still make him suffer misfortune?
Joking, this was a scientific world!
Er, Teacher Alice excepted…
“Just say whether you’re betting or not, with Diluc as guarantor.”
“Mm, this bet is quite interesting.
I accept, and I’ll accept on Kaeya’s behalf while I’m at it.”
“Hey!
Don’t go making decisions for me!”
“Then are you betting or not?”
Looking at Diluc’s faint smile, Kaeya helplessly nodded.
Though it was clearly an advantage, Kaeya always felt a chill down his back.
Seeing Kaeya agree, Su Yu couldn’t wait to throw one of his only Bad Luck Cards on him.
[Bad Luck Card: Within one hour, lets you enjoy a series of unlucky events like flat-ground falls, undeserved disasters, etc.
All who’ve used it say it’s great]
Though Su Yu only had this one card, he didn’t have any other enemies, and Kaeya counted as the only candidate whom he wouldn’t feel guilty using this card on.
“Hmph, I’d like to see just how you could make me suffer misfortune, I…”
“Kaeya!
The teacher wants you in the office!”
Before Kaeya’s tough words could finish, a girl with crossed purple twin-tails stood at the doorway, shouting into the somewhat noisy classroom.
The moment the words fell, Kaeya’s expression changed, all the rule-breaking things he’d done on campus flashing through his mind in an instant, but he was certain he’d done them quite secretly.
Even Diluc didn’t know.
But this timing was a bit too coincidental; Kaeya couldn’t help but grow suspicious.
Yet upon seeing the teasing expressions of Su Yu and the other, Kaeya braced himself and stood, saying: “Maybe he’s just calling me to ask some random topics or other; it’s happened before.
Don’t really think you’ve got a sure win.”
Watching Kaeya’s somewhat staggering and slow steps, the twin-tailed girl at the door also hardened her expression: “What are you dawdling for?
Don’t you know time is money?”
After Kaeya left the classroom, Diluc quietly asked Su Yu: “Is this a coincidence or…”
Su Yu didn’t directly answer Diluc’s question, only speaking mysteriously.
Previously he’d always cursed riddlers to die, but riddlers: only whoever plays the part knows.
Before long, Kaeya returned to the classroom with a long face; those unaware would think someone owed him five million and wasn’t paying it back.
“From the start of school till now, every time I dozed off in class has been recorded.
They said it’s a little experiment from above, wanting to see the degree of correlation between students’ study pressure and dozing off…”
“Diluc, how many people are in our school again?”
“Didn’t count, but plenty anyway, should be around a thousand or so.”
“Then to put it exaggeratedly, Kaeya here counts as a one-in-ten-thousand Super High School Level luck.”
“Pfft!”
Su Yu and Diluc joked back and forth; among the three, only Kaeya couldn’t laugh.
“That purple-haired girl just now, do you two know who she is?”
“She looks kind of familiar.
Who is she?”
“I’m not clear either, but she should be from the Disciplinary Committee.
Just now she called me out and asked for my student ID, and then the moment I walked out of the office I received news my credits were deducted.”
Kaeya continued with a tragic expression, then shook Su Yu’s shoulder, wailing: “Do you know how important credits are?
Do you know how much time it’ll take me to earn back the deducted credits?”
“I should have done nothing, right…”
Su Yu wasn’t about to take the blame; he had “really” done nothing.
(laughs)
“Uh…”
“How about you just concede, Kaeya?
The punishment isn’t very severe, just agreeing to one request.”
“No, this must be a coincidence.”
Kaeya, who’d just been about to concede, upon hearing Diluc’s persuasion, immediately shook his head.
Won’t fight over a steamed bun but will fight over a breath of pride.
In front of Diluc, this face couldn’t be lost!
“Kaeya!
The teacher wants you!”
“No!!!
My credits!!!”
[Ding, quest complete]
[Quest Reward: Oni Constitution, distributed]
Ten minutes later, Su Yu released the Bad Luck Card early, and also gained a workhorse-level employee with a mourning face.
Presumably after this bet, Kaeya wouldn’t dare slack off too obviously anymore.
Su Yu touched the three nearly-vanished scratch marks on his face, happily humming a little tune, forming a stark contrast with Kaeya not far away, whose soul had been drained, heavily slumped over the desk.
Now his body was filled with inexhaustible strength; probably a single kick at a tree, not exaggerating, and a stay in the hospital of ten days to half a month should be enough to recover.