I was the fourth disaster in Yokohama and was loved by everyone.

Do I kill myself?

She turned around and stuffed the paper into the bottom of her backpack.

She had no concept of the passage of time in the game, only that in the blink of an eye it was time for the next Kyoto sister school exchange meeting.

At the last sister exchange meeting, Xia Youjie had not yet defected. A year later, Tokyo Vocational College has lost a powerful member.

At this time, Zhu Yu and his friends were promoted to the fourth grade.

The students from Kyoto School were eager to win, believing that their chance to beat Tokyo School might have come—who knew that their school hadn't won since Six-Eyes' class enrolled!

Most of the students enrolled at the Kyoto school came from ancient families of sorcerers. They generally believed that sorcerers of commoner origin were of lowly blood, and now they were being thoroughly humiliated by the Tokyo school, which mainly recruited commoners. They found it hard to tolerate.

Therefore, the students from the Kyoto school increased their training intensity before the exchange meeting, intending to take this opportunity to redeem themselves.

The exchange meeting arrived as scheduled, and Zhu Yu encountered that NPC who was difficult for her to understand at the meeting.

Chapter 155 Who is this?

This NPC is quite strange. When she met him at the exchange meeting in her second year, he was mocking Nanami and Haibara.

Upon seeing her emerge from behind Nanami and the other two, the NPC's expression immediately changed. He muttered a string of things to her, such as "Gojo-kun's classmate... he's actually quite capable," and "Don't associate with weaklings..."

Zhu Yu didn't listen to what he was saying at all; she just stared at his face, lost in thought.

Wait, who is this NPC?

I feel like I've seen this somewhere before. Why is it talking to me like this? Have I met it before?

Looking at the "???" above the NPC's head, although the NPC's model looked somewhat familiar, Zhu Yu always recognized people by their features and names. The other party was wearing the uniform of Kyoto School, and among a bunch of Kyoto School NPCs with "???" above their heads, she could hardly tell who was who.

Thinking this way, she asked the question aloud.

"who are you?"

As a result, the NPC with short black hair turned bright red instantly, staring intently at her as if trying to bore a hole through her.

"You...you actually dared to forget me!"

Hey, don't make the players sound like heartless people.

Zhu Yu remained expressionless: "I want to know what your name is?"

The NPC suddenly fell silent, staring intently at her for a long time before finally speaking: "...Zen-in Naoya."

"Remember this name."

After all, he had never forgotten her name. Even if she was a woman, as a strong person, she was still... worthy of his remembrance.

Recalling that haughty gaze from his memory, Zenji Naoya instantly became excited.

Great guy!

Defeat her! Defeat her! Defeat her! Defeat her—

His pupils dilated slightly, and the tip of his tongue gently swept across his teeth.

He is looking forward to it!

*

After saying he wanted to defeat her, the NPC Zenin Naoya glanced at Nanami and the other two and left.

He, Nanami, and Haibara were actually in the same class.

In team battles, there are no grade restrictions; the entire Tokyo school team will face off against the entire Kyoto school team.

During her first year of college, that exchange meeting was dominated by Gojo Satoru and Natsumi Yuki.

Zhu Yu noticed that the opponents were all green-named, so he naturally didn't bother to fight and instead busied himself exploring the area and picking up items.

Although Gojo Satoru and Natsuyu Suguru were somewhat disappointed that they couldn't crush the opposing sorcerer along with their peers, they confidently declared, "We'll win back what she and Shoko got!"

Zhu Yu waved his hand and squatted down behind with Xiao Zi.

In second grade, I thought it would be like the previous year, where she would just explore the map and that would be the end of it, but—

The Zenji Naoya NPC suddenly appeared while she was picking [the fruit], shouting something like "Let me see your power!" and rushed up to attack the player.

Seriously? They're using the red-name system on green-name users too?

Automatically enters [Battle Mode], Zhu Yu absentmindedly knocks the person to the ground with a single basic attack.

This NPC is extremely persistent, like an unkillable cockroach, and frequently interrupts her [Gathering] progress.

Zhu Yu: ???

This was the first time Zhu Yu had ever been annoyed by the green-named NPC. As he wished, Zhu Yu used his special ability to beat him up severely. The NPC was now miserably bound by vines and collapsed on the ground.

Given the NPC's pretty face, she deliberately avoided hitting her face.

She grabbed the NPC's chin and warned him fiercely not to follow her anymore.

The NPC stared at her, looking disheveled and strange.

For some reason, Zhu Yu had a bad feeling. After making the threat, she left immediately, forgetting about the NPC.

*

The moment her fingers clamped down on his chin, pain ripped through the chaos like an electric current. The pressure of her thumb against his jawbone was just enough to make his vision go black, yet it stopped just before he lost consciousness.

An incredibly humiliating posture.

Forced to look up, her backlighting angle caused shadows to creep across half of her face, revealing the victor's coldness hidden in her eyes beneath her eyelashes.

"Stay away from me."

The sound pierced directly into his ears, yet it sent an unusual tingling sensation through his lower back.

The metallic taste in my mouth suddenly became rich and fragrant.

It's about to be crushed...

Pain crept into my body.

Even though he was completely suppressed and unable to move, he found his soul trembling with excitement.

That's it, absolute power!

The pain of being crushed by the desired, absolute power is the real pain!

The shame of defeat and a strange excitement stirred deep within his bones, and long before he realized it, he had already bowed down to the embodiment of an irresistible force.

Unbeatable, impossible to defeat...

His eyes were red and moist, but the corners of his mouth were twisted and turned upwards, making him look like a defeated dog whose spine had been broken but was still wagging its tail.

But he was completely unaware that he had already shown a terrible expression, and instead stared fervently at the person who was suppressing him.

It's that look in his eyes...

That's the look!

His breathing became rapid...

*

Oh no, I've been harassed by a strange NPC.

Zhu Yu belatedly realized that her partner on missions during this period seemed to have a high probability of being the NPC Zenjiu Naoya.

Normally, she didn't care who she was assigned to, but the frequency with which he appeared, especially his ominous remarks upon first meeting her, made it hard for Zhu Yu not to have any ideas—

It seems that I'm being harassed by the other party on my own.

She had always treated the green-named creatures well, but the appearance of Zenin Naoya still made her lose her composure.

She strongly suspected that this NPC might have some special setting, such as being mentally unstable or something.

Every time she finished hitting him in frustration, he would show a fanatical expression, as if she had done something incredibly great.

Zhu Yu: ......

To be fair, he hadn't done anything particularly detrimental to her; he'd just said some strange things in front of her and provoked her younger relatives—"The Zen temple is your true home," "You shouldn't be focusing your attention on those good-for-nothings"...

The NPCs are beautiful, but they're really annoying.

Zhu Yu simply took on a long-term mission and went far away.

I didn't see him again until the next sister school exchange meeting.

As a result, Zenji Naoya seemed to sense this and stopped approaching him so directly.

After all, he wasn't really a masochist.

But every year at the exchange meeting, he would repeat the same routine, repeatedly trying to make his presence known, just at a point that wouldn't annoy her to the point of knocking him out.

As he grew older, Zenji Naoya was no longer as impulsive as before. At this year's exchange meeting, as a senior from the third year of Kyoto School, he deliberately acted more restrained when greeting Zhu Yu and the others in order to set an example for the younger generation.

With a perfectly timed smile and a slight nod, he did indeed possess the air of a noble family from a Zen monastery at first glance.

"Long time no see, Wujun, [Meichuan] Sang."

As for the others, they were naturally ignored by him.

Gojo Satoru lazily raised his eyes and responded.

Zhu Yu stared at him in surprise, blinked, and for the first time took the initiative to get closer to this NPC.

Chapter 156 updated again.

The NPC has changed its skin after a while.

He now sported short, blond hair, with a few rebellious strands sticking up as if breaking free from some invisible constraint. His already upturned eyes appeared even more flamboyant due to the change in hair color, and the earrings on his ears flashed a cold light as he lowered his head.

If it weren't for the name still above his head being "Zen-in Naoya," Zhu Yu would have suspected that it was a different person.

Suddenly he went from being a rich young master to a cool and trendy guy...

Zhu Yu was about to step forward to take a closer look at the NPC's new skin when she was pulled back by Gojo Satoru's arm around her neck.

"Alright, alright, don't get too close!" Gojo Satoru said seriously. "If you're interested in blonde hair, I'll dye it myself sometime."

As he spoke, he pinched a handful of his hair, as if imagining what he would look like with blond hair, but then he became dissatisfied with the thought of having the same hair color as Zenin Naoya.

"Blonde hair... I don't want to be like everyone else, how about I dye it a different color?"

Hearing his mutterings to himself, Ieiri Shoko: "..."

Zhu Yu perked up and pondered, rubbing her chin: "Then I want a colorful one too."

Does this mean players can now change their skins?

Ieiri Shoko imagined what it would be like to have two big rainbow heads standing in front of her, and silently said, "...Please think it over."

The three of them left together, completely leaving Zenji Naoya behind, who wanted to chat a little longer.

Zenji Naoya gritted his teeth: "...Damn it!"

*

The venue for this exchange meeting was provided by the Kyoto school. The format of the team competition is determined by the organizers each year. This year, students were required to enter a well-prepared deep mountain to exorcise the cursed spirits that had been released in advance.

The higher the level of the exorcised spirit, the higher the score.

Participating students can choose to act alone or in groups.

Originally, defeating students from rival schools would also earn points, but given that this rule was added in previous years, Gojo Satoru and Natsuyu Suguru would focus entirely on targeting members of the Kyoto school—after all, quickly eliminating all opponents would count as a win for them.

By doing this, before many of the cursed spirits deployed by the school could be exorcised, all the students from the Kyoto school were eliminated, and the Tokyo school easily won.

To prevent such a situation from happening again, the organizers removed this rule, just to avoid the entire team competition ending abruptly and turning into an individual show.

Because of this rule change this year, Gojo Satoru excitedly invited Zhu Yu to compete with him to see who could kill more cursed spirits.

"...I'm not going to participate. I'll just stay with Haibara and the others."

Glass had already made a statement earlier.

Zhu Yu... looked at the pop-up task prompt and nodded emphatically.