The Otherworld Card Collector

"Teacher, I need to pee."

The teacher saw that it was Taisuke Sawagenaga, and thought, oh, it's the guy who was unemployed after graduating from high school. Let him be, he will be an idle person in society that he will never meet again anyway.

Shirou Matou also glanced at it but didn't pay much attention to it.

But after that, Taisuke Sawagenaga never came back.

But no one cared whether he fell into a cesspool or skipped class.

It's because Taisuke Sawaga has been sentenced to death by the teacher and has a bad reputation in the class.

Even after the school bell rang, Taisuke Sawagenaga did not return to the classroom.

It was not Shirou Matou's duty today, so he did not have to clean. As soon as the bell rang, he picked up his schoolbag and left the classroom without hesitation, determined not to become a victim of the teacher's delay.

However, unlike in the past when he would go straight to the school gate after school, this time Shirou Matou did not go to the school gate.

Due to the chain reaction caused by Hiramatsu, he was already hungry in the afternoon and chose to go to the school canteen first.

There are many clubs on campus, and sports clubs account for a large proportion of them.

In order to prevent people from fainting due to over-exercise and failure to replenish energy in time, the canteen will remain open until the club activities are over.

However, most of the products in the store are not what Shirou Matou likes.

This made him decide what to buy, and he was also thinking about asking Guangliu Lingxia to make two lunch boxes, one for him and one for Pingsong.

But if this were told to her, Lingxia would probably be furious.

"I'll just eat my lunch box in the classroom tomorrow."

Although Shirou Matou likes quiet places with few people, the classroom, where the class eats together as a small group, will definitely be noisy, but no matter how noisy it is, it is more tolerable for him than making Koryu Suzuka unhappy.

Um;

that's it.

I'm not going to the rooftop, so how can that girl Hiramatsu stretch her precious legs and come to the classroom to find me?

Matou Shirou nodded slightly.

His mood improved, so he decided to buy a few egg tarts and a box of high-calcium, low-fat milk.

And now, three hot girls have gathered at the door of the convenience store.

Two of them were watching the boys sweating on the outdoor basketball court, and the other one was not very interested, so he spoke up to draw their attention back.

"Hey, Reina, Setsuna, you're not members of the basketball club anymore, what are you still watching?"

"Liuli, who says that as a former member of the basketball club, I can't watch basketball?"

"Uh, it seems that there really isn't one."

Kurumizaka Ruri thought about it, then stuck out her tongue mischievously, and then immediately said.

"I say, you are still so leisurely now, is it really okay?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of Hamasaki Reina and Sasaki Setsuna suddenly became a little bad.

That's right.

The three of them gathered together not to watch people play basketball, but for their studies.

"The midterm exam is coming up soon. If your test scores don't reach the class average, your parents will be called in. That's terrible, isn't it?"

Reina Hamasaki looked unhappy, but the other two did not refute her idea.

Because the three of them are "birds of a feather" in terms of academic performance——

They do not have any special features in their subjects, but rather take each subject as it comes, and most of them are below the average level in that subject.

So there is no miracle that three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang.

In this situation.

"Should we hire someone to help us with our lessons?"

Kurumizaka Ruri raised a finger.

After all, the three of them simply can't tutor each other based on their academic abilities.

But the problem also arises.

"It seems that there aren't any people we know who have good grades, right?"

Unless you are an excellent student, it would be impossible to achieve significant improvement in their grades in just half a month.

"Yes, yes..."

Kurumizaka Ruri couldn't help but sigh when she heard this. She had taken it for granted.

"How about showing your true strength?"

She was actually quite smart, but she deliberately scored so poorly in the exam in order to take care of the feelings of her two friends, which is what the island country calls "atmosphere". Otherwise, she would easily be excluded from the small group.

But she was still very happy when her two sisters really wanted to improve their grades.

So when Shirou Matou walked out of the convenience store, her eyes suddenly lit up.

"Isn't this an excellent student? He's the seventh-best student in the school!"

Thinking of this, Kurumizaka Ruri took the initiative to greet him.

"Matou, you're the only one in your family, right?"

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Chapter 16: Lü Bu vs. the Three Heroes

Shirou Matou was planning to take some bread and milk, watch the activities of the sports clubs, eat them clean, and then go home.

But who would have thought that just after he walked out of the store, he was suddenly questioned by a classmate with gray hair and red eyes, whose clothes and way of speaking revealed a strong gyaru style.

A little familiar, but not much.

Shirou Matou frowned slightly, and for a moment he couldn't remember who called him.

Seeing this scene, Kurumizaka Ruri was stunned for a moment, then she reacted and said with one hand on her waist.

"No, Matou."

"Ok?"

"I say, you haven't forgotten the names of all your classmates, have you?"

“…, not forgotten.”

Shirou Matou looked at Kurumizaka Ruri who was pouting unhappily, but he didn't think that she was being pretentious.

After all, he really didn't remember her name at first, but his powerful memory allowed him to review the situation in the class and quickly locked on the target, and continued with an unchanged expression.

"I just didn't expect you to call me, Kurumizaka."

The reason is also very simple.

"From the time we were assigned to the same class in our second year of high school until now, we haven't had any interactions."

"In fact, I personally think that we will be two parallel lines in the future, not interfering with each other. We may only run into each other occasionally at future class reunions."

Shirou Matou had a cold expression on his face that kept people at a distance.

His intuition told him that Kurumizaka Ruri's sudden visit to him would definitely not be a good thing.

And the reality was exactly what he thought.

"Hey~"

Kurumizaka Ruri suddenly grabbed Matou Shirou's right arm and pressed her whole body against it.

Warm, fragrant, and soft.

"Now, we have something in common, right?"

"No, it's just clinging, not entangled."

Matou Shirou's expression remained unchanged, and he said with some disgust.

"It's summer, don't stick so close to me, it's very hot."

"Ah, you're so composed, Matou~"

Kurumizaka Ruri blinked in surprise. You know, this trick she used to tease the little virgins in the class was always effective, but she never expected that she would be rejected by Matou Shirou.

Kurumizaka Ruri immediately looked towards her two companions for help.

"I knew it."

Reina Hamasaki, the blonde with blue eyes, ruffled her hair, then stepped forward and joined the conversation.

"That's right, Matou."

"We want to find a quiet place to make up for our lessons—"

"——The school library can meet your requirements."

Upon hearing this, Shirou Matou showed his demeanor as a Tai Chi master.

"But you must remember to keep your voices down when you are tutoring each other in the library, otherwise you might be asked to leave by the administrator."

Why do you make it sound like we've never been to a library and therefore don't know the library rules?

Well, it’s true.

The three of them looked at each other and noticed the guilt in their eyes.

It was Setsuna Sasaki, who had the strongest mobility among the three, who spoke.

"Matou, come and be our tutor."

Under the gaze of Matou Shirou, Sasaki Setsuna, who had purple hair and rose-purple eyes, continued.

"Our grades are terrible. Even though we want to push each other to improve, we can't understand the textbooks or solve the exercises. Our efficiency is so low that we can't improve our grades before the midterm exam."

Then came all sorts of other things like if you don't reach the class average, your parents will be called in, your pocket money will be cut in half, you won't be allowed to go out at night, etc.

These were troubles that Shirou Matou had never experienced before.

But here comes the problem;

"What does this have to do with me?"

When Matou Shirou opened his mouth, the three of them were stunned.

"If you don't work hard during normal times, you will cram at the last minute."

It wasn't a condescending look, it was just a simple condescending look, but even so, it gave Kurumizaka Ruri and the other two sudden psychological pressure.

"Damn it, why is it the same feeling I get when I get home from my mom with a 20-point test?"

Kurumizaka Ruri's eyes widened.

Sweat was pouring down.

She realized that calling out to Shirou Matou seemed like a bad move.

After all, although they had no interaction with Shirou Matou before, as a celebrity in the school, Shirou Matou was still well-known.

Among the various news related to Shirou Matou, one of them said that he was difficult to approach and always kept to himself.

Because he often has an ascetic and cold face, he is called "the lonely prince of the academy village" by a bunch of fans who are unknown to Shirou Matou.