The magic cards I made are absolutely flawless!

Dekan stood up and paced around the reception room like a homeroom teacher, before posing this question.

When faced with this problem during evening self-study, most teachers would fly into a rage and become impotently furious, or simply reprimand the entire class, at most resorting to some superficial collective punishments that don't address the root cause, only to have the students repeat the same mistake next time.

But Dekan is no ordinary person.

He wants to discuss it on a case-by-case basis.

If it were summer, and Dekan was in a good mood, he might just turn off the air conditioning in the classroom and turn on the heating instead.

But even if it's not summer, Dekan isn't in a good mood.

Then Dekan wouldn't be so merciful.

Dekan stopped and stood to the side of the void gate, lowering his voice as if giving a lecture:

"The answer is to catch the student who broke the rules the moment I entered the classroom and punish him to death."

"And they blamed all the chaos in the class on him alone, and punished him many times over."

“He clearly didn’t deserve this crime, but so what? He was just unlucky that I saw it, that’s all. As long as he’s not innocent, that’s enough.”

As soon as Dekan finished speaking, the Void Gate began to tremble violently.

It finally realized what it had messed with.

Meanwhile, Chloeux, who was standing to the side, rested his chin on his hand thoughtfully after hearing Dekan's words.

It seems likely that this could be applied to his teaching at Hevenlitt College.

Upon seeing the Void Gate, he was so terrified that he almost crumbled into pieces.

Dekan felt that it should have already come to terms with the situation, so he said to it again:

"Gateway to the Void, you don't want to be brutally passed through by millions of people, do you?"

The Void Gate was still trembling unstablely.

"But this is the punishment you deserve. What can we do? If we don't punish you, what if other Void Gates do the same thing? Wouldn't that create even more victimized challengers in the world?"

Dekan's eyes became bright and clear, and his voice became strong and resonant.

Just as he was not acting for himself at all, but selflessly working for the well-being of the world's challengers!

"Someone like me who has the ability to stand up cannot sit idly by and cannot discourage the challengers from all over the world!"

Dekan finished expressing his extortionate intentions in a righteous and stern manner.

If the Void Gate could speak, it would probably be cursing Dekan.

But after calming down and thinking about it, I realized I didn't dare at all.

Because it is convinced that this human is the type to do what they say, no matter how outrageous their plans may be.

Finally, as if using all its strength, it displayed a piece of text on the blue-black vortex mirror surface:

What will it take for you to let me go?

Even though this proactive communication with humans is a serious violation of the rules.

But for it now, the seriousness of the problem is no longer whether the rules are rules or not.

"Oh my, you're finally willing to communicate with me. It seems you have a high level of affection for me. I knew my strategy was working!"

Dekan said happily, "It's just like a player who successfully gets a girl in a visual novel to confess her love to him."

【? ? ? 】

It always felt that its understanding of humans might be flawed.

"I always believe in repaying evil with kindness. If you can become our friend, we will naturally not make things difficult for our friend."

Dekan concisely and politely expressed his intentions.

【…】

The Void Gate naturally understands Dekan's slang.

It has now been forced to break the rules by this human...

If it continues, it will either be completely erased by the rules, or it will become increasingly entangled in its communication with this human!

But will the latter be a glimmer of hope or a bottomless abyss...?

"To be honest, I'm still missing a really cool pet. If you're willing to become my pet, I might be willing to feed you some natural magic cards produced in the Shadow World. You should really like eating those, right?"

Seeing the Void Gate's hesitation, Dekan finally laid his cards on the table.

Whenever Dekan thinks of the little flower from his past life, he feels that he should find an equally cool pet in this life.

Unfortunately, even if the Destruction Dragon existed in the real world, there wouldn't be a suitable environment to properly care for it.

Then let's catch a Void Gate instead.

No one else has this.

【? ! 】

The Void Gate was both angry and shocked.

On one hand, I felt insulted and wondered if this human had gone mad; on the other hand, I was amazed that such a good thing could happen.

"With my financial resources, feeding you three or four level 8 natural purple cards every month is no problem. If you perform well, I can even buy epic cards to feed you!"

【? ! 】

Indeed, anyone who can defeat a ninth-tier Shadow World will never be poor in the real world.

Moreover... once it has tasted the flavor of natural magic cards, it will never forget it.

Now there's a chance to consistently get cards?!

Isn't this better than continuing to work a normal job?!

Accepting bribes from humans is unprecedented for any Void Gate.

But now it seems there's no going back...

"Deduct 1 to receive a natural epic card".

Ultimately, the Void Gate struggled repeatedly.

It made a choice:

【1】

Dekan smiled with satisfaction, just like a trainer who had acquired his desired Pokémon.

"Very good, you are a clever Pokémon and made the judgment that a good child should make."

After saying that, he didn't forget to add a sentence.

"I told you you don't need Poké Balls to catch Pokémon."

384. Dekan's German-style pet-raising methods

The Void Gate listened to Dekan's ramblings.

I have a feeling that either this person drank fake alcohol.

Or their last shred of dignity was cruelly trampled upon.

What are Pokémon?

"The underworld used coercion, and it was extremely effective," is that right?!

It has never suffered such injustice since its birth.

Despite still wanting to consume the Natural Epic Card, I couldn't help but feel angrier and more aggrieved the more I thought about it.

It should be a cooperative relationship, not one where you unilaterally treat me like a pampered child...

Just as these words appeared on the swirling mirror of the Void Gate.

Dekan casually interrupted its message.

"I believe you're just being arrogant. If you really understood the current situation."

He spoke while staring at the void gate.

But his empty and indifferent eyes seemed to completely lack the words of the Gate of the Void.

Only its own essence.

【…】

This reaction sent a chill down the spine of the Void Gate!

It didn't quite understand the slang that Dekan was using.

But it knows that if this man were put as the male protagonist in a dating simulation game, any female character who dares to reject him would likely face a bad end!

I, I didn't...

It had to succumb to its survival instinct and pretend that it was being arrogant just now.

Instead, they are not genuinely pursuing equality...

"Hmm, don't let me find out you're just pretending to be tsundere, okay? Otherwise..."

Dekan stopped there, leaving a lingering question, and did not continue to elaborate on the consequences.

【I'm not being arrogant! What are you talking about?!】

Its response seemed to outpace its thought.

It then realized that in order to survive, it was willing to abandon all sense of shame.

"That's good. So you don't have any ideas about pets, right?"

Dekan seemed to be asking it a question, or perhaps talking to himself; he wasn't really asking it at all.

No, I won't!

It seemed to be its last act of defiance, a display of pride delivered in one smooth motion, while also expressing its truest thoughts.

however.