“Ding. Congratulations, Host. Side Quests Evolution and Ascension and Beginning of Paradise have been completed. Rewards have been issued.”
After hearing the System’s notification, Yuji could not feel happy at all.
After all, the rewards from these side quests were completely useless to him.
Elysia as a reward was one thing, but Learning Ability was completely outclassed by the System’s own skills.
“Strange…” Elysia, who had finally managed to come out, followed Yuji and the others to Chiba Academy.
While walking on the road, she suddenly felt that something was off, but she could not say exactly what was wrong.
The moment they entered the campus, Elysia, who had never attended school before, looked at the girls full of youthful energy in Chiba Academy and sincerely offered her praise.
“What a wonderful campus life!”
Hearing this sentence from Elysia almost made Yuji laugh out loud.
If Elysia experienced it herself, she would not say that.
Elysia also felt Yuji’s urge to laugh.
She walked over next to Yuji, specially stood on a stone, then lowered her head, put her hands on her hips, and said nothing, just staring at Yuji.
“What’s wrong, Miss Elysia?”
“Call me Ellie.”
“Eh, alright, Ellie.”
Stare———————
MEI watched the somewhat childish Elysia staring at Yuji and could not help shaking her head.
She then said to Yuji, “I’ll go to the principal’s office with Dr. Mobius first. After this, you lead Miss Elysia on a tour of the campus.”
After speaking, she left with Mobius.
“Ellie, you’ve been staring at me for so long. Is there a problem?”
“Can’t I look at you if there’s no problem?”
Yuji thought about it.
Could it be that the earlier urge to laugh made Ellie think he was mocking her for never having attended school?
Thinking of this, Yuji hurriedly explained.
Yet Elysia continued staring at Yuji, staring until he felt embarrassed.
“…You’re acting strange.”
“I think I’m very normal. There’s nothing strange.”
“No. I’m talking about your existence.”
That single sentence almost startled Yuji.
Could Elysia have discovered something?
But if it was only Elysia who discovered it, there did not seem to be much to fear.
“Haha, how could that be? Is there a problem with my existence?”
“Yu, you’re not a person of this world, right?”
Damn!
How did she know?
On the surface Yuji remained calm, but behind the scenes cold sweat was already pouring down.
(Sweating buckets, Jordan Peele sweating meme.GIF)
“You’re nervous.”
No way, can she read minds?
How is this any different from cheating?
“I can’t read minds.”
…Wow.
Yuji had already given up.
How was he supposed to play this game?
One sentence of “I can’t read minds” directly silenced Yuji.
What difference was there between “I can’t read minds” and actually reading minds?
“Alright. What do you want to know, Elysia?”
“Call me Ellie.”
Yuji directly sat down next to the stone Elysia was standing on, like a salted fish being exposed to the sun, without the slightest thought of resisting.
Yuji did not know how Elysia had managed to do this, nor did he know why Elysia was doing this, but he knew that if he did not satisfy Elysia’s curiosity today, she was truly capable of staring at him for the entire day.
“From just now I felt something was off. Yu, you admitted that you wanted to laugh, right?”
Yuji thought about it.
There was actually nothing much to think about.
Just now he had already explained why he wanted to laugh.
“But you didn’t laugh out loud, right?”
Hearing Elysia’s words, Yuji suddenly understood what she meant.
“Call me Ellie.”
“No, even in three-dimensional space you can…?” (Can’t you play properly?)
“You mean you can currently feel my emotions?”
Elysia (call me Ellie) lightly wiped the stone she had just stepped on, then plopped her butt down.
“Not only… your melancholy, your hesitation… even… your unease… I can feel all of it.”
Ellie’s heart felt Yuji’s heart.
Because of Yuji’s influence, she also became a little unhappy along with him.
“Since you’re unhappy, then let’s go do something happy together!”
As she spoke, Elysia pulled Yuji and left the campus.
On the other side, MEI was still handling procedures with Mobius in the principal’s office.
“What, it’s only been a short while since you left your little boyfriend and you’re already distracted?” Mobius looked at MEI, whose brows were already tightly furrowed, and chuckled lightly.
“I’m sorry, Doctor. I just suddenly have a bad premonition.” MEI shook her head and did not pay too much attention to it.
While MEI and Mobius were busy, Yuji was also “busy” with Ellie.
“Wow~ I’ve wanted to come to this amusement park for a long time. I just never had the chance.”
“Come on, I’ll take you to the attractions I’ve always wanted to try.”
Then Yuji was pulled by Ellie to the claw machine.
Yuji watched Ellie insert two coins and then catch nothing.
“So hard. But it’s really interesting♪”
“Let me try.”
Elysia immediately gave up the spot and then pointed at a pink plushie below.
“Yu, I want this one!”
Yuji slowly controlled the claw.
In just a few moves he easily pulled out the plushie Ellie wanted.
“Wow, so amazing! ヾ(Ő∀Ő๑)ﾉ”
Strange… in the past I clearly… At this moment how could Yuji not realize it?
It was all because of the System rewards.
“System, I admit I spoke a little too loudly earlier.”
If according to Yuji’s current learning ability, those three books could completely raise Yuji’s skills to at least Lv.4.
Unfortunately, each person could only read them once.
“Let’s go, let’s go. It’s still early. Let’s go play some other attractions.”
“Let’s go, let’s go, set off!”
Yuji had already been infected by the lively Ellie and had become someone who could not live without Ellie.
Sorry MEI, I can’t go back anymore.
…
“Achoo!”
MEI, who had just finished handling the complicated procedures, had just walked out of the office when she felt a wave of chill.
“Hm? Why is that bad premonition getting stronger and stronger? Forget it, let’s go find Yu first.”
Meanwhile, the Yuji that MEI was thinking about was currently passionately racing with Ellie in the bumper cars.
“Roger, Ellie! Full speed ahead!”
With his learning ability rapidly increasing, Yuji mastered all the playstyles of the bumper cars the moment he started.
With extremely powerful driving skills he left the other bumper cars in the dust, completely surrounding all the other cars with a single vehicle.
“That was so much fun ヾ ^_^♪! Next let’s go experience the roller coaster together!”
“Sure, Ellie, let’s go!” The currently happy Yuji felt like he had forgotten something, but no matter what it was, nothing was more important than playing with Ellie.
Back at school, looking at Yuji who had still not replied to any messages, MEI finally understood where this bad premonition came from.
“Haha, it seems your little boyfriend has already completely forgotten about you and gone off to play with that Elysia.”
Mobius had taken everything in.
She knew how difficult Elysia was to deal with, but she had not expected that her wall-climbing skills were also this deep.
They had only known each other for such a short time and she had already hooked MEI’s boyfriend away.
MEI furrowed her brows and subconsciously bit her finger.
Although her relationship with Yuji was very good, it could not be denied that she and Yuji had not yet confirmed their relationship.
If at this time a familiar-from-the-start, innocent and lively, kind and beautiful, and even very proactive girl directly inserted herself into this relationship…
No, no, I can’t keep thinking about this.
The priority is to find Yuji first.
As for Elysia, since she likes beautiful girls so much, if a beautiful girl cooks for her, she definitely won’t refuse, right?
“Let’s go, Doctor. I know where Yuji is.”
Then Mobius personally witnessed MEI open a certain app on her phone and directly locate Yuji’s position.
“!!! No way? This MEI girl actually installed a tracker on her boyfriend?”
MEI took in Mobius’s reaction completely and knew she had misunderstood.
This tracker had been set up by Yuji himself, precisely to prevent situations where he might get captured.
Who would have thought it would be used at a time like this.
Still unaware that he was about to be caught, and Elysia, who was unclear about the disaster she was about to encounter, had just gotten off the roller coaster.
One of them was holding an ice cream tub and sitting on a bench eating.
“Yu, let me taste what flavor yours is.”
“Ellie, you’ve already tasted it three times. If you want to eat it, just say so.”
“Then I won’t hold back!”
Looking at Ellie who had occupied his ice cream, Yuji could only smile… Wait, did I forget something?
Suddenly remembering, Yuji took out his phone.
What entered his eyes were more than a dozen missed calls, followed by 99+ messages.
It’s over.
An ominous premonition.
Feeling Yuji’s emotions and thinking she was the one who made Yuji unhappy, Ellie also offered her own ice cream for Yuji to taste.
And just as Yuji took a bite, he heard…
“Is it delicious?”
“The taste is not… bad…”
An expressionless MEI was standing in front of Yuji at some unknown time.
Ellie also understood where that earlier emotion had come from.
“Um, MEI, listen to me… I didn’t mean to… mmph!”
MEI did not want to hear any of Yuji’s explanations at all.
She directly grabbed Yuji’s collar, lowered her head, and blocked Yuji’s mouth.
A silver thread formed a bridge and appeared in the air.
Elysia saw this scene and her eyes widened.
She was so surprised that she almost dropped the ice cream in her hand, while Mobius watched this drama with great interest.
“…Is it delicious?”
“The taste… is not bad?”