Chapter 18 Bai Ye: Can I live until You Yu arrives?
Under Linglan's control, all the students in the class stopped talking. Seeing this, Youyu stood up and walked to Bai Ye, who was sitting in the second to last row by the window, quietly reading a textbook.
"You have great lighting here, Byakuya-san."
Ignoring Bai Ye's confused expression, You Yu sat down next to Bai Ye with a smile. The colorful morning light shone through the icy glass from the window into the classroom, almost dyeing the boy's hair golden.
"It's really thanks to you that I found such a good seat. I will explain it to Sister Hongxin later. I will be your deskmate from now on. Please give me your advice."
You Yu extended his hand to Bai Ye quite formally.
Shuise in the front row silently retracted the foot that was about to step forward. Linglan, who was still at the door, suffered from the disadvantage of distance and turned back to go to Baiye's position, and sat silently next to Shuise.
The boy and girl looked at each other and saw dissatisfaction in each other's eyes: Damn squid, running so fast! They seem stupid!
Bai Ye was stunned, and the memories that had just died began to revive. Belatedly, he realized that he seemed to be isolated?
Before the Rye Town incident, Bai Ye, who had always been the center of the class because of his outstanding grades and looks, had always been very self-aware. He knew very well how disgusting a juvenile offender like him who attacked law enforcers was to the Solomon Academy, which had more or less connections with law enforcers. So he was prepared to be bullied. However, it has been two days since he transferred to the school, and the biggest "bullying" he has received is just whispering, at a volume so loud that he can't hear it at all, as if they were afraid that he would be troubled after hearing it.
To be honest, the treatment he received was completely different from what he had imagined before coming to Solomon Academy, so much so that he didn't even have time to react and realized that he seemed to be being maliciously targeted.
Bai Ye raised his eyes to look at You Yu. Not only was this famous high school detective and devil game player humble, but including this time, You Yu had been helping him in various ways almost since he transferred here.
The black-haired boy's eyes swept over Mizuiro and Linglan in the front row. As a die-hard fan of Squid Detective Agency, he clearly remembered that Mizuiro and Youyu were deskmates before.
If it were anyone else, Bai Ye would have to suspect whether the other party had any ulterior motives. But if it was the three guys from the Squid Detective Agency whom he had been watching live broadcasts and grew up watching, there was only one reason for doing such a thankless task.
Because someone needs help, we have to lend a helping hand. This is their logic of action, even if the other person is a monitored person who is suspected to be born evil.
"Okay, my new deskmate, please give me your guidance in the future."
Bai Ye raised the corners of his mouth. That smile was no longer distant, polite, and indifferent. For the first time, his cobalt blue eyes had real warmth, sparkling like the stars, ethereal and ethereal, as beautiful as a clear summer sky, which made You Yu slightly stunned.
Although he had sensed something was wrong from clues a long time ago, it was the first time that Youyu looked this new classmate in the eye. Those were a pair of eyes that definitely did not look like those of a villain.
"Classmates, class! Today we will continue to tell the history of demons in the other world—"
The young female demonology teacher pushed her glasses and knocked on the blackboard with her stick. You Yu said nothing more and waited quietly for the arrival of the most special educational method of Solomon Academy - "The Moment of Demons" after the morning class.
Bai Ye was quietly recording the key points of the class, with lines of neat handwriting left on the open transparent notebook, which formed a sharp contrast with You Yu who was leisurely playing with the Rubik's Cube on the side.
Bai Ye looked up and saw the clock in front of the podium ticking quickly. The two classes passed quickly, but the atmosphere in the classroom was unexpectedly joyful.
Everyone in Class 13 of the Game Department's headquarters could hardly conceal their excitement. Their eagerness to try was written all over their faces. It was obvious that what was going to greet them soon was not the ordinary school-arranged running exercises, but something more anticipated.
No way? Bai Ye's face turned pale in an instant. He thought of the scene he saw yesterday when he came to the school to report under You Yu's leadership - a melee competition that everyone with a tag skill must participate in: The Time of Demons.
During the one hour of the Demonic Time, small blood bags will appear on the vital parts of everyone's school uniform jacket, making it convenient for the assistant Red Heart to count everyone's effective attack scores after the Demonic Time ends.
After the Demonic Hour begins, the entire teaching area will be shrouded in a blood-red spider barrier, isolating it in the inner world opposite to the reality of the surface world. Any damage caused will leave no trace in the surface world after the barrier disappears. Similarly, each person's injuries and stains caused by blood bags will not be left behind.
The shocking blood color on Shuise's body yesterday still lingered in Bai Ye's eyes. The collapsed teaching building was still vivid in his mind, like red ink dropped into clear water, quickly staining wherever it reached with a half-real, half-fake blood color.
Such a crazy activity...is it still a permanent one?
Bai Ye felt his heart beginning to ache and he was about to spit out blood in the next second.
To be fair, the skill [Miracle Magician] is really powerful, but it has been used by the pseudonymous Phantom Thief Wonder. If Bai Ye uses it, he will undoubtedly shout with a loud speaker in the Solomon base where everyone is the relatives or successors of the law enforcers: "I am the Phantom Thief Wonder, come and catch me!"
Punished for multiple crimes, he was sent directly into the night tide, saving himself decades of detours.
But if one only uses the tag skill that "Bai Ye" exposed to the law enforcers: [The Unmoved Heart of the Righteous Man of the Black Sun]... then wouldn't he be a blank slate that can be slaughtered at will? He hasn't forgotten that the whole class's attitude towards him is not very good...
Perhaps it was because time seemed to go by very quickly when one was thinking about something urgent. By the time Bai Ye reacted, the teacher had already announced that the homework was finished and started packing up the books.
The atmosphere in Class 13 became heavy, just like before a war.
“Ding—ding—”
A melodious bell sounded from the direction of the office area, like the ringing of a bell for the end of get out of class. As the Westminster bell rang, a blood-red barrier began to spread. Bai Ye could clearly see the huge spider web barrier that covered the entire Solomon Academy. Every strand of spider silk showed a ruby-like transparent texture under the sunlight.
"...Can I not participate?"
Bai Ye looked at his new deskmate and idol You Yu and blinked. His cobalt blue eyes sparkled like a river of stars.
He remembered that the three members of the Squid Detective Agency were all good guys who were easily softened and tried to get away with it.
"No, all students who come to our class have to demonstrate their tagging skills, and Teacher Hongxin said that your tagging skills are best and most intuitive to experience in actual combat!"
You Yu shook his index finger calmly, and the words he said with a smile made Bai Ye feel the last glimmer of hope being shattered.
The Red Heart assistant coach deliberately told You Yu before he left for the business trip... This means that he must find out the details and true strength of this juvenile delinquent during the training at the time of the devil...
Bai Ye sighed. He knew that he couldn't escape this chaotic battle no matter what, so he had to threaten his new deskmate with a fake smile.
"Then you must protect me well. After all, my skill... is a purification type that makes me weak and unable to take care of myself."
Based on different label skills, the DM system divides the game position of each player into the main attack type who is responsible for attracting the attention of demons and fighting demons, the ob (interference) type who is responsible for assisting the main attack and restraining and hindering demons, the auxiliary type who is responsible for assisting the whole team and ensuring the status of the whole team, and the purification type who is responsible for searching for demon relics, purifying the influence of demon power, and cutting off the connection between the inner and outer worlds.
The alphabetical ranking list also sorts players according to these four categories, using the points earned from solving Demon Games and Demon Apostle events in a season as the standard. Players ranked 1-10 are on the S list, 11-50 are on the A list, 51-100 are on the B list, and 100-200 are on the C list.
These four types of players are indispensable for every devil game. As a training school for devil games, Solomon Academy has organized crazy extracurricular activities such as the Demon Hour to provide special training for the cooperation between the four types of players.
Bai Ye thought that the other party would at least hesitate for a moment, but he didn't expect You Yu to nod his head repeatedly: "Okay, okay, then you just follow me, we will team up to kill all of them and win the MVP of today's Demonic Hour!"
The brown-haired boy paused, as if he had thought of something, his obsidian eyes sparkling in the sunlight: "Oh, right! The first ones to be taken out are Mizuiro and Linglan-sister!"
Bai Ye looked at the natural black detective who was smiling brightly and fell silent:...It's true that when there is no danger, you in the Squid Detective Agency are the biggest danger to each other, right?
The blood-red spider web continued to grow, and countless facets blocked out the bright sunlight. All the students in Class 13 were now quietly waiting for the completion of the barrier. At the moment when the inner and outer worlds were connected, they would be randomly teleported to various points in the inner world corresponding to the teaching area, and engage in a chaotic 1v1v1…v1 fight.
In the last few seconds before the blood-red glass was about to close above the teaching area, Bai Ye spoke first, interrupting the quiet atmosphere.
"Actually, I've been wanting to ask you for a long time... There's no need for you to help me. It would affect your reputation in the academy and on the Internet. Why, ever since I transferred here, I've been..."
He lowered his voice so low that even You Yu almost didn't hear it, as if he was prepared that his question would be drowned out by the sound of the bell formed by the barrier.
You Yu looked at her new deskmate with a strange expression: "Someone needed help, so I helped, you don't have to take it too seriously, not to mention..."
The young detective gave his signature chuckle, waved his hand, and put his arm around Bai Ye's shoulders: "I don't think you're as bad as you say you are. Otherwise, why did you subconsciously help us comfort Shuise last time? That's the most unnecessary thing for a born bad guy, right?"
white night:……
What a sharp and scary detective. He never dreamed that his antisocial and inherently bad personality would completely collapse when he subconsciously opened his mouth to help Youyu and Linglan comfort Shuise who was in an abnormal state.
But it is undeniable that after his character collapsed, he actually felt a rare sense of relief that he had never felt before.
Anyway, with Youyu's inquisitive personality, it is unlikely that she will be threatened by the bastard captain Faust. Although it will cause some more trouble, Faust will not make trouble for Youyu for the sake of Solomon Academy and Red Heart.
Besides... Youyu is just speculating about the Wheatfield Town incident now... He is not so moved by this little kindness.
Bai Ye: ...Damn, he is still really touched. That is the kindness his idol is showing to him! How is this different from the beginning of the Redemption Text? !
"If you trust others so easily, I will make you rely on me. So you must keep your word this time, great detective."
Before the blood-red engulfed him, You Yu saw the transfer student with a cold and indifferent temperament raise his lips.
"Of course."
You Yu pressed his beret and said, "I am the most powerful detective in Night City. I will keep my word and will not ruin my reputation!"
Bai Ye: ...He starts pretending as soon as I say something nice...God knows it all, pretending is Squid's only shortcoming.
Blood red covered the entire field of vision, and a faint feeling of dizziness spread from the heart, but it only lasted for a moment and then disappeared.
After the influence of crossing the inner and outer worlds faded away, Bai Ye opened his eyes and found himself in a one-to-one replica of the inner and outer world, except that the color was covered with an ominous gray-red at the main entrance of the teaching building.
In front of him was a girl with sharp and neutral eyebrows and half of her face covered with a plaid scarf. She was holding a huge and heavy key in her hand, and behind her were several students with equally unfriendly expressions.
Bai Ye's heart tightened. Those few people were the ones who started the discussion when he first walked into the classroom. They had a strong disgust and dissatisfaction towards him.
The initial distance was too close, and Bai Ye always had a bad premonition... He turned around and wanted to run, but those people had already seen the figure not far away, and shouted: "Don't go! Teach this guy who attacked the law enforcer a lesson!" and rushed over.
Bai Ye took a deep breath and comforted himself:
It’s okay, Youyu always keeps his word, he just needs to delay for a while until Youyu finds him——
Bai Ye’s confident smile suddenly froze on the corner of his mouth:...Wait, that’s not right! It seems like Youyu is a guy with poor direction.
The detective's lucky default only works for him. He doesn't have the clover now, so...
As a blank slate, can he hold on until Youyu’s support?
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