Chapter 1140 - 637: Alice Wants to Learn Dueling_2

Chapter 1140: Chapter 637: Alice Wants to Learn Dueling_2

"Uh... once I got into the groove I just couldn’t hold back." Shen Sui felt like he could explain himself.

Alice shot Shen Sui a pissed-off glance. "Duel me and every damn game you go full tryhard on me, huh?"

"Now that I think about it, the fact I can still like this game up to now is honestly a miracle." Alice propped her chin on her hand and looked out the window.

"Anyway." Shen Sui decided to stop dwelling on that topic and changed course. "By the way, where are your Soul Cards now? Saint Soaring Music Academy?"

"Yup~ Didn’t expect it, right? Turns out there’s Extraordinary Power over there." Alice lifted her head, excitement glinting in her eyes. "I’ve been roasting giraffes every day lately."

Goddamn roasting giraffes every day.

"That guy’s just like you, super weird." Alice got pissed just mentioning it. "He loves watching women fight... no, in his own words it’s ’the stage of destiny’ or something. But it looks exactly like women catfighting!"

"You sound like you’re not very into it?"

"No shit! Would you enjoy having a bunch of women fighting for you?"

"The hell! So they’re stepping onto that so-called stage of destiny for you?!" Shen Sui couldn’t help spitting.

"Aaaahhh! Drop it already, I’m sick of hearing about it! That woman keeps saying I snatched her Soul Card, too." Alice flopped down on the desk, complaining.

A Life Card Master at Saint Soaring Music Academy...

Shen Sui actually did know one: Tang Lili.

I remember her Soul Card was called... what was it again...

"Sawaragi Kaoru?" Shen Sui tried to recall, muttering.

Alice snapped her head up the moment she heard that name. "How do you know that woman’s Soul Card’s name?"

"Huh?" Shen Sui was dumbfounded. "You’re gonna Duel Tang Lili?"

"Oh~! So her name’s Tang Lili." Alice suddenly understood.

"You’re already set to Duel her and you don’t even know her name?"

"I usually call her Dead Catgirl."

"That’s kinda rude, you know."

"She’s the one who keeps calling me a horny mouse!"

"Okay, fair..."

"I’m a rabbit, not a mouse, alright?!"

"So you’re not denying the horny part at all!" Shen Sui choked right there.

Alice lifted her head proudly. "If liking big boobs counts as horny, then what’s wrong with me being a little horny?"

As she said it, Alice made sure to glance at Shen Sui.

With the look in her eyes, Shen Sui was genuinely worried her next line would be: So you don’t like them?

If she really asked that, Shen Sui honestly had no idea how he was supposed to answer.

So he hurriedly changed the subject, pulled out his Dueling Device and opened his card library.

Shen Sui quickly found the card he wanted in the library.

"If you really are going to Duel Tang Lili... take this card." As he spoke, Shen Sui placed a Life Card on the table.

Alice picked up the Life Card curiously. "This is..."

"I’ve got an agreement with Tang Lili about this one."

"No way, right? You don’t strike me as someone who’s into this type..." Alice frowned.

"Uuugh~" Alice took a heavy blow to the head from Shen Sui, clutching her skull with teary eyes.

"I’m talking business with you here." Shen Sui shot Alice an annoyed look, then continued, "Back then we exchanged cards. I wasn’t planning to actually take hers... but now I probably won’t have time to fulfill that agreement."

Next up, Shen Sui was planning to head into the Mythical World.

This time, he wasn’t planning on bringing Alice along.

There were too many over-spec combatants over there; he wasn’t sure he could guarantee Alice’s safety.

It worked out anyway—Alice needed to prep for a bunch of upcoming Duel exams, so he had a perfectly valid reason not to take her.

Alice looked down at the Life Card in her hand.

"[Stage Ready]... yeah, that really does feel like her style." Alice was starting to believe Shen Sui’s story.

"After the Duel, give that card back to her. It’ll be returning it to its rightful owner." Shen Sui said with a smile.

"Alright, I get it." Alice nodded, stashing [Stage Ready] away, still muttering, "I’m gonna use this card to absolutely humiliate her when the time comes!"

"Hey, don’t go overboard." Shen Sui sighed, out of snark.

"Hmph! If she’s got the skill, she can use the card I gave her to humiliate me too!" Alice giggled.

In the Soul Card World, Alice had helped Tang Lili grind out quite a lot of Life Cards.

The next day, Shen Sui set off on the trip home with Ye Zhou’Er and Alice.

With Shen Sui’s report backing it, the Huaxia Exploration Bureau quickly released their investigation report on the Tokyo incident.

After pointing out the existence of monsters and the Fantasy Realm, every country sent in specialists to start clearing out the monster threats across East Japan.

Of course, monsters like Tsumura Chiba and the others who chose to cooperate with North America were in the exempt category.

Shen Sui stopped bothering with the filthy business of humans. As soon as he got home, he asked the Exploration Bureau for all available information on the Mythical World.

Haral’s head was something he was determined to obtain.

He’d already collected so many fragments of Haral that it would be way too tragic if he ended up missing just the head at the end.

As for a springboard to enter the Mythical World, contacting Zhang Fang should make it easy enough to find one.

Shen Sui’s relationship with the Mythical World was actually really complicated.

Strictly speaking, it wasn’t a world built on a single game’s setting.

If he guessed right, there were at least four or five different games mixed into it, all from Legendary Studio.

Aside from the mobile game represented by Tsumura Chiba and the others, the rest were all single-player titles in the ’Dark Myth’ series.

Just hearing that series name, you can tell it’s basically a shameless clout-chasing franchise.

But to be fair, as hack-and-slash games go, those Dark Myth single-player titles were actually pretty decent. At least Shen Sui had a blast slaughtering his way from Journey to the West to Greece, then from Rome all the way to the Norse pantheon.

Whether it was because of the overall atmosphere in the domestic gaming scene or something else, after putting out a few single-player titles with fairly good reputations, Legendary Studio got cocky and tried to make a gacha-style anime game to suck money hard, and that’s how Tsumura Chiba and company were born.

Who could’ve imagined the drama behind that mobile game would end up way more entertaining than the game itself.

The reason Shen Sui got scammed into it was because the character art had originally been drawn according to female character designs.

But the game writers decided to not be human and stuffed in tons of their own private fetish crap. The censors were blind as bats, and never noticed they’d actually written the characters as men. So when it launched, it immediately crashed and burned.

Of course, some players got even more hyped after hearing the characters were men. —Rumor has it the proportion of male players in that crowd was even higher.

He pulled his thoughts back to reality.

According to intel from the Exploration Bureau, this time the main battlefield was in the Norse region.

After the Indian Gods were driven back, Haral’s head directly sparked internal chaos within the Norse Divine System.

Shen Sui even suspected this had been Theis’s intention all along.

The Eastern Pantheon still remained calm during this World No. 2 upheaval, aside from a few Immortals going overseas to sweep East Japan once.

Shen Sui carefully ran through the things he’d done in the game back then, especially the Journey to the West content.

He wasn’t worried about the other Divine Systems—he’d beaten them all anyway.

But when it came to the Saints of the Eastern Pantheon, Shen Sui really didn’t feel secure.

They were very likely not going to get involved in this kind of affair, but you always have to prepare for that tiny chance.

Most of what I fought were historically famous monsters; there shouldn’t have been any that involved the Saints.

Yeah, as long as the Saints don’t make a move, even if others really want to make things hard for me, they still won’t be able to do anything to me.

Shen Sui felt his heart settle a little.

But it was still best to finish things quickly. Otherwise, given the power levels over there, it wouldn’t be surprising if the fighting lasted for hundreds of years. Shen Sui certainly couldn’t handle that.

"Aaaaahhh! I don’t wanna!!!"

Just as Shen Sui was mulling over matters related to the Mythical World, Mo Suo’s figure shot up from the basement.

"I don’t wanna Duel anymore!"

"Don’t you run!" Alice shouted, chasing right after him. "One more match! I’ve got a new idea!"

"We’ve already Dueld over a hundred times today, have mercy on me, milady!"

Mo Suo tried to struggle, but was mercilessly subdued by Alice.

Dragging Mo Suo by the leg, Alice happily headed toward the underground Duel arena.