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Chapter 1378 NO.284: Interlude. Antinomy
It happened in the evening.

Some people would choose a room to talk in groups of two or three, while other horse racing girls who worked with the same trainer day and night would gather in the room diagonally opposite.

Thanks to the original intention of "creating 12 residents who each have their own unique skills and can amaze everyone", the bedrooms here have strong sound insulation performance.

However, these girls did not realize this. The reason they appeared here was just to find a secluded gathering point to dump their own mud.

But the bedrooms here seemed to be unlocked and could be opened just by pushing the door.

Seeing that several drunkards were sent to their bedrooms, the most creative member of the small group, Airi Suzuko, took the lead in finding an empty bedroom and pushed the door open.

On normal days, this would result in the teahouse trying to dissuade her, while Bourbon and Aori would each lend their support, and everyone would work together to dissuade Hayako from doing such a disrespectful thing.

But today, the overall mood in the room was not very positive.

At the moment, some of the adults were genuinely drunk, but the high school horse girl who was being closely watched by her trainer didn't have that chance.

Therefore, they are not qualified to use alcohol as an excuse to do something that is particularly bold compared to usual.

Although the Caligula effect is prevalent in the hearts of every boy and girl, so that Shen, who is a monster of nitpicking, is always keen on running around in buildings like schools, the emotions surrounding the girls at the moment are not the pain of not getting what they want.

Rather, the pain had been reversed half an hour ago - when more than one person tried to sneak away and launch an attack, the lowly women's race that should have made everyone stunned, nervous, and gnashing their teeth became a complete joke.

It was a false alarm - although I should say so, it was hard to feel good watching those 'old women' taking advantage of the trainer while I couldn't find a reasonable excuse to intervene.

"Captain Orihime, are you going back?"

"…Do you still want to stay here?"

Packing up her perhaps somewhat incongruous plush shoulder bag, Aimu Orihime glanced at Bourbon unhappily, then at the two noisy teammates.

"Get out of the teahouse!"

"...No, you're throwing a tantrum again..."

"What do you mean by throwing a tantrum? It's only natural for a horse race girl to not want her trainer to waste his time with a messy woman!"

Perhaps this gave her a reasonable excuse. Although this excuse was reasonable but also a bit crazy, it was consistent with everyone's impression of Airi Hayabusa.

This is not the first time she has made good use of her bad image, but as long as the plan works, who cares about repetition?

Aimo Orihime had nothing to say about this and did not go to help the tea table. She just continued to sort out the bags to make sure nothing was left out.

"We still have classes tomorrow, and Senior Qi Shi will be making rounds tonight, so everyone should go back as soon as possible. Don't count on the trainer to send you back."

"That's right! We can also ask him to take us back!"

Although he was still in a standoff with the teahouse, his ears were still sharp. Souzi stood up immediately and looked at Aiori with great appreciation: "Not bad, Orihime-kun! Now we can drag the trainer directly to the school gate!"

When there is trouble, Orihime-kun is a guinea pig. When there is nothing to do, she abuses herself. The one who loves Orihime is already used to seeing Miss Hayako's impoliteness. When she sees it, she just thinks it's just another troublemaker. She sighs weakly:

"…What's the point? Did you forget that he can teleport?"

"Well, that is indeed a problem."

"And he gave us those monster cards for everyone's safety, so he doesn't have to be as careful when picking us up and dropping us off as he was in the past."

"Damn it! Guinea Pig-kun! You're treating us like trouble!"

“…Aren’t you just trouble…” Teahouse, who was unambiguous in the direction of attacking Speed ​​​​Zero, also sighed in her usual calm and low tone, “Today’s trainer is already very tired. If you go up again, it will only backfire.”

"You haven't seen me perform yet!" Suzi seemed very confident in his newly-minted idea, "Get out of the way, let me give those old women a good beating!"

"..." Seeing her speechless, Aizhi turned around and asked, "Bourbon, can you open the door for me? My sister hasn't gotten up yet."

"Yes, received."

Her practice of summoning spirits has now progressed to the stage of containing spirits in her body, which is more of an enhancement than the usual possession. The acquisition of the Love Ghost Card has greatly advanced her progress.

Ghost Lover...

Subconsciously looking at her trouser pocket, Aizhiwei, who always carried the card with her, wanted to put it in her bag today.

The reason is simple. The atmosphere at the banquet tonight makes it more lively than ever before.

Even now it is still trembling, and I don't know what will happen if I let it go.

Will he attack those women and trainers?

It was as hot as a red lotus, as if it was going to burn through the love and resentment in each other's hearts. Precisely because they understood each other well enough, they were even more unsure of what it would do.

Anyway, let's leave first...

Looking at the door that Bourbon held open for her, Aiori took half a step forward and turned back to ask.

"Do you want to go together?" "..." Bourbon heard this and turned his head to look at the tea table and Suko.

"Even the trainer can trust them, but you are not?"

Understanding the meaning of this glance, Aizhi helplessly held her forehead with her hand, but suddenly looked back - not only her, but all the girls present pricked up their ears, and then followed her gaze and looked out the window.

"Akane—"

Although his communication style was somewhat mechanical, Bourbon was the second most extroverted person in the team after Hayate. He subconsciously wanted to greet the trainer's girlfriend who was running over, but he saw her running past him with her head down and ignored him.

"What's wrong with her?" Aiori asked from the side, and turned back to look at Hayabusa, who seemed to be most familiar with the other party.

Although my vision was blocked by the bangs while running, so that I couldn't see the runner's expression clearly, but seeing the other person running like that, I could still feel that something was wrong in the atmosphere.

Especially the cards in my pocket seemed to jump more violently.

"I don't know." He stroked his chin with his fingers and looked at the retreating figure of Suzi. He was very righteous and said, "I'll go find her."

However, he was stopped by the teahouse.

“…No, don’t go.”

"..." The hand on her shoulder was unexpectedly strong. Suzi was somewhat aware that the situation at the tea table was unusual. He did not forcefully break free from the other's hand. Instead, he turned around to look at her, narrowing his eyes slightly.

"Why? You don't want to tell her to be alone, do you?"

“…Do they have a new conflict?”

Aiori, who smelled a new scent of gunpowder from just one sentence, asked Bourbon in a low voice, but the latter just stood there with his head tilted.

It seems she doesn't know either.

This was as it should be. After all, before this moment, Suzi had never shown such hostility, such... hostility towards the current teahouse.

She knew that the teahouse was gradually becoming different from the past.

Just like Omar would think about the hidden dangers behind the improvement of the compatibility between the teahouse and the Gatanjea card.

Since she spends more time with Teahouse, she has more opportunities to pay attention to Teahouse's Speedy Son than the trainers, and she also collaborates with Akane to study monster cards.

Some experimental deviations that reflect the inner heart, some decisive changes that are different from the past, and some small spaces that are gradually becoming secretive - in the past, she always longed to have friends, and as long as the other party wanted, she would not hesitate to show them the teahouses of those worlds, but now there are places that she is not allowed to touch.

Honestly, this isn't a change worth being hostile to.

It can only be said that the awareness of individual differences finally belatedly manifested itself in the teahouse. However, when such a secret is always more or less related to guinea pigs, when the suspicious Suzuko went to the feathered serpent to obtain information and then noticed the coincidental existence of the teahouse, she already had a lot of guesses in her mind.

However, the time was still short, and Tachyon had not been able to produce any real and solid evidence to speak out, so he could only keep his speculation at that until tonight's banquet.

She still had no conclusive evidence, but she had a much better opportunity than before, and was able to observe the performance in the teahouse from beginning to end in a physical sense.

There was nothing wrong with the expression, only a hint of joy in the subtle reaction, which made Tachyon realize a discovery:
The teahouse enjoyed the scene very much.

Are they enjoying the grand scene of the host and the guests having a good time? Are they enjoying the different topics in the circles? Or are they enjoying the embarrassment of the guinea pig being tossed around by those women? Or maybe...

She was enjoying this phenomenon, and was content with the countless darknesses gathering together?
Holding the card of the Dark Giant's leader, the enchanting warrior Carmilla, just as Aiori can feel the undercurrent at the banquet through Koiki, Tachyon, who has a higher adaptability to her card, can even share the Dark Giant's vision without any expression.

This vision is different from that of Koimonari to Aori and that of Kingobori to Bourbon, but she believes that the teahouse can see it more clearly and meticulously than she can.

86.8%, the aptitude tested last week is still slowly climbing, plus the Ruler of Darkness, Gatanjea - the highest-level existence in the monster card of this team. Ali Tacho, who is both a fellow traveler and a researcher, can lock the extreme of the other party's vision in the professional field even if he does not know what the other party likes.

No matter how high it is, it can't be higher than this level; no matter how bad it is, it can only be this bad, just because to Tachyon, this is not a big deal.

She already has a demon trainer and she herself has the dark giant's card, so why would she care whether her colleagues are dark or not.

She has always been regarded as the most dangerous member of the team. If she can confirm the changes in the tea house, she can perform a scene of "I am glad to be your friend", but that is on the premise that her other friends are not involved.

At this point, looking back at those pale golden eyes, she was able to confirm her guess because they were so calm without any ripples.

"You are the first one in the team to cross the line... Should I be surprised or not?"

Always the most taciturn, the most awkward, the most well-behaved, and the most sincere to others...

When these characteristics are combined together, they lead to the sigh that Tachyon is making at this moment.

Then, this researcher who thinks he has figured out everything will be met with surprise in those eyes.

"…what are you saying?"

"I told you not to go because the new universe has passed, and...have you forgotten...there has always been...Keliv-san at Qian's place."

"Uh……"