After showing off a few times, Yuji continued walking around the various training grounds with Elysia.
Every so often, Elysia would take out a new weapon for Yuji to try.
Sometimes she would even demonstrate first.
Yuji thought to himself that she truly lived up to being Elysia.
She was extremely skilled with every kind of weapon.
Compared to someone like him who was cheating, Elysia was much purer.
Then… the skill “Weapon Master lv.4” appeared on Yuji’s skill list.
“No more, no more! Why are you so good at everything the moment you pick it up, even though you’ve never touched these before?”
Elysia felt a little frustrated.
She had originally wanted to teach Yuji something, but after going through the entire training ground she realized there was nothing left she could teach him.
Never mind.
It was not a bad thing that Yuji knew all this.
It would only help him protect himself better.
Elysia’s frustration did not last long—it did not even last a second.
Suddenly she covered her stomach and turned to ask Yuji.
“Yu, do you feel a little hungry?”
Yuji checked himself and realized he did feel a bit hungry.
“A little. Looking at the time, it’s already lunchtime.”
“Yay! Let’s go! Yu, I know what good food they have at the cafeteria. Let’s eat together!”
Elysia and Yuji arrived at the cafeteria and found that not many people were there.
Elysia walked up to the counter and skillfully chatted with the person serving food.
In the end she got a big full tray of dishes.
Yuji also got quite a lot by following her.
“Elysia, you eat this much… won’t you get fat?”
“Yu! You can’t talk about a girl’s weight!”
Elysia instantly became alert.
Today she had carefully measured her weight—exactly 54 kilograms.
Rounded down, that was 50.
Yuji knew he had said the wrong thing and quickly apologized.
“…Sorry.”
“Hmph hmph～ I have to properly punish you. Your punishment is… to eat all these extra dishes!”
As she spoke, Elysia divided a large portion of the dishes from her tray onto Yuji’s.
“What kind of punishment is this?” Yuji laughed and said the punishment was too light.
While eating, Yuji thought of the two people in the laboratory.
He remembered clearly that Mobius and MEI would never honestly sit down to eat.
He just did not know when Klein would come to get food.
While Yuji was thinking, Klein was currently attending a meeting in Mobius’s place.
Being stared at by a group of people, Klein could only grit her teeth and report the research results of their institute.
Fortunately, most of the data had passed through Klein’s hands, so she explained everything in an orderly manner.
Back on Yuji’s side, after finishing his meal he no longer cared when Klein would come.
He sent her a message saying he would bring food, then packed a few portions.
“Yu, come a little closer.”
Elysia called Yuji over and motioned for him to lower his head.
Then she used a napkin to wipe the oil stain that had gotten on the corner of his mouth.
“Alright, now Yu is clean again!”
They returned to the changing room.
After changing back into his own clothes, Yuji and Elysia parted ways.
“Yu, I have something very important to do this afternoon, so I can’t accompany you. Before I leave, give me your phone.”
“Okay.”
Yuji took out his phone and handed it to Elysia.
She operated on it for a while, then returned it to him.
“Bye-bye! If you miss me, remember to call me!”
As soon as she finished speaking, Elysia bounced away.
Yuji watched Elysia’s leaving figure, smiled, and then walked toward the laboratory.
The moment he entered, he saw Mobius and MEI carefully observing a non-human living body that had been infected by the Honkai.
“I’m back. Look what I brought—lunch, and some freshly bought milk tea.”
MEI’s observation movements remained meticulous.
Mobius, on the other hand, started teasing.
“Isn’t this the Yuji who plays the pig to eat the tiger? If MEI hadn’t told me about you, I would still think you really couldn’t do anything.”
Yuji did not care at all.
After all, he had never said anything.
“I didn’t say anything. That was all your own imagination. Are you going to blame me for that?”
“Fine, fine, everything you say is right. Give me your phone.”
“What else? The Flame-Chasers isn’t some capitalist company. It actually pays wages. I’ll help you set up the Flame-Chasers’…”
While answering Yuji’s question, Mobius had just opened the phone when she suddenly stopped speaking.
Her expression turned a little dark.
“Yu, did you go find Elysia?”
Yuji was a bit surprised.
Don’t tell me Elysia set her own photo as my wallpaper?
It actually made Mobius know at a glance that he had gone to see Elysia.
Yuji moved closer to Mobius.
What came into view was not the photo of Elysia he had expected, but a photo of Mobius.
However, the Mobius in the photo had her eyes closed and was wearing a pink dress.
Mobius could not hide her anger.
After all, this was a clear black history for her.
When the phone was opened, Elysia’s photo appeared in the center of the screen.
Mobius looked at the smiling Elysia in the photo and almost could not hold back from smashing the phone, but Yuji stopped her.
“Mobius, calm down! This is a newly bought phone!”
MEI watched the farce between Mobius and Yuji, shook her head, then stared at Yuji, thinking about something unknown.
In reality, MEI clearly understood what Yuji had done.
Although she felt a little jealous and a little angry, she would not stop him.
After spending so much time together, MEI had long made some guesses about Yuji’s origins.
What she needed to do now was add more chips on her own side.
“I’m sorry, Yu. I’m also selfish. I only hope that when you make your choice, you can pay a little more attention to our side…”
“MEI, don’t just stand there. Come eat with us!”
Hearing Yuji’s call, MEI walked out of the storm in her mind and came over with a smile.
“Coming, coming.”
After eating, Yuji watched from the side.
He noticed that Klein was not there.
“Strange, why isn’t Klein here?”
“Oh, you’re talking about Klein. She should be in meetings right now, right? Looking at the time, she still has three more meetings before she can finish.”
That many?
Yuji did not even need to think to know that Mobius had skipped the meetings and dumped them all on Klein.
While waiting for Mobius and MEI to finish eating, Yuji immersed his consciousness into the system.
“System, I still remember that the last mission reward was a ten-pull, right?”
“Ding, correct, Host. Do you wish to use it now?”
“Use it directly.”
The familiar gacha interface appeared, followed by streams of light.
“Ding, congratulations Host for obtaining Skill Upgrade Card ×3, Talent Upgrade Card ×1, Ability Upgrade Card ×1, Ability: Ammo Storage (Blue), Ability: Instant Modification (Blue), Ability: Flame Control (Purple), Talent: Agility (White), Talent: Weapon Crafting (Blue).”
Looking at what he had drawn, Yuji had to admit that the Skill Upgrade Cards were the most useless for him right now.
He was currently limited by this world.
No matter how much he upgraded skills, he would not exceed the limits of this world.
Ability: Ammo Storage Description: You can store the ammunition of any weapon.
Ability: Instant Modification Description: You can instantly modify the structure of a weapon.
Due to the quality limitation of the ability, you can only modify something the size of a palm.
Ability: Flame Control Description: You can create flames out of thin air and enchant weapons with them.
Talent: Agility Description: You can run very fast.
Talent: Weapon Crafting Description: You have considerable talent in weapon crafting.
This time his luck was not as good as the first gacha.
Yuji did not see a single gold.
However, having a Talent Upgrade Card was already quite good, not to mention there was also an Ability Upgrade Card.
One Talent Upgrade Card was enough to create a gold.
Adding the Ability Upgrade Card, that was equivalent to two golds.
Because of the special nature of red talents, they could only be obtained from missions.
Therefore, after a purple quality was upgraded, it became gold.
Yuji’s current panel:
Name: Yuji
Talents: Agility (White), Weapon Crafting (Blue), Endurance (Blue), Archery Genius (Blue), Dual Wielding (Blue), Adaptability (Purple), Combat Instinct (Purple), Contemplation (Red), Learning Ability (Red)
Skills: Basic Life Skills lv.5, Science lv.4, Combat lv.4 (Weapon Master has been merged into Combat)
Abilities: Immortality (Gold), Healing (Purple), Flame Control (Purple), Ammo Storage (Blue), Instant Modification (Blue)
Backpack: Weapon: Severing Bow, “Two Books”, Skill Upgrade Card ×4, Talent Upgrade Card ×1, Ability Upgrade Card ×1
Missions: Main Mission 1, Side Missions: None
Gacha: None
Overall Evaluation: Lower-tier ordinary Honkai Beasts cannot do anything to you.
(Talent ranks from low to high: White, Blue, Purple, Red, Gold)
(Skill levels: 1 = Beginner, 2 = Proficient, 3 = Master, 4 = Peak, 5 = Unparalleled, based on the standards of the current world.)
There were many things he could upgrade, but he felt he should prioritize combat.
So Yuji used the two upgrade cards on Combat Instinct and Flame Control respectively.
Talent: Combat Instinct Description: You can even foresee danger in advance and sense combat threats.
You also have a faint sensing toward people you care about.
Ability: Flame Control Description: Your flames are enough to burn everything.
Yuji noticed that the descriptions had changed after the upgrade.
Especially Flame Control—the description was only one sentence, but its value was extremely high.
As expected of gold quality.
After Yuji finished dealing with the gacha, Mobius and MEI had also finished eating.
Then for the entire afternoon, Mobius kept sticking to Yuji, wanting to see whether he was really as much of a genius as MEI said.
“You bastard, your learning ability is truly terrifying!”
Mobius looked at Yuji, who had learned everything she taught him in just half a day, and sighed that he was simply like a monster.
She still had more things she had not taught Yuji.
It was not that Yuji could not learn them, but that Mobius taught slowly on purpose.
She deliberately slowed down so that Yuji could spend more time with her and improve their relationship.
“Doctor… I’m finally back…” Outside the door, Klein had finally finished the last meeting and returned carrying a large pile of meeting records.
When Klein put down the meeting records, Mobius handed her the milk tea Yuji had bought.
“Thank you, Yuji, and Doctor! Mmm～ I’m alive again!”
When Klein returned, she had seen the message Yuji sent, so she naturally knew the milk tea was bought by Yuji.
Even if she had not seen it, she clearly knew that the Doctor would never casually go out.
“Welcome back, Klein～”
Not good!
This tone… Klein’s action of drinking the milk tea instantly stopped.
She suddenly felt something was wrong.
“Doctor, is there something you want to say?”
“How could there be… Klein～ I’m just too grateful to you. It’s just that the recent research has been too tiring… so…”
Klein understood.
Dr. Mobius wanted to relieve some stress.
“Sigh, I understand, Doctor. I’ll go…”
Still drinking the milk tea, Klein left the laboratory again.
The curious Yuji followed her.
“So… what did Mobius mean?”
“The Doctor has been very irritable recently.
It seems the continuous meetings have made it impossible for her to focus more on research, so the Doctor often does certain things to relieve stress.
“Alright, we’re here.”
While Klein and Yuji were chatting, they walked to the front entrance and found their own packages among the large pile of packages on the ground.
“What’s this?”
Yuji looked curiously and found that the things were not very heavy.
“It’s the bubble wrap the Doctor asked me to buy. The Doctor likes to sit alone on the sofa and squeeze it for an entire day when research is not going smoothly.”
Ah… it seemed he had heard something rather amazing.
“…Yuji.”
“Ah, what is it, Klein?”
“You and the Doctor… are you in a relationship?”
“Hmm… no…? It’s hard to say. It should be that Mobius is unilaterally craving my body. Is there a problem?”
“No… it’s just that this is the first time I’ve seen the Doctor make that kind of expression.”
Yuji fell silent.
The first time… huh…?
“I can feel that Miss MEI does not intend to interfere too much. Perhaps you already know that.”
Indeed, Yuji clearly understood MEI’s meaning.
He could also figure out why MEI was doing this.
“What I mean is, I hope you will not let the Doctor down… I know this request might be a little forced.”
“But… if… if I use myself…”
Seeing that Klein was acting as if she was about to offer herself up, Yuji quickly stopped her words.
The two of them returned to the laboratory in silence and found that the laboratory had already been closed.
“At this time, the Doctor should have gone home. I’ll leave these things with you.”
Klein placed the package into Yuji’s arms, then walked toward her own dormitory.
On the way back to Mobius’s dormitory, Yuji’s phone suddenly vibrated.
It was a message from Klein.
Klein: “What I said just now, I was serious. I hope you can think about it.”
Yuji really had not expected that Klein would do something like this for Mobius.
Meanwhile, on Mobius’s side.
After opening the wardrobe and discovering that it had been stuffed full of pink dresses, Mobius angrily clenched her fists.
“Elysia!!!!!!!!!!”