Zongman, start your journey to godhood by saving the heroine of anime

You said you'd study hard?

Don't be ridiculous. It's just elementary school knowledge. Before Bai Ye awakened his memories, he was already the top student in the entire grade, and he was even admitted to Shuchiin Junior High School ahead of schedule due to some experiences.

Not to mention now that he has regained his memories and obtained the Holy Lance and the system.

Bai Ye felt that even if he were to take the entrance exam for a Japanese high school right now, he was confident that he could get full marks except for Chinese literature and history.

In short, the current studies are of no use to Bai Ye.

Chapter Six: Why is there so much bullying in your school?

Bai Ye slept incredibly soundly.

Coupled with the combined lullabies of a math teacher and two history teachers on the blackboard, Bai Ye felt she had never slept so comfortably, not even in her own bed.

Bai Ye slept soundly until the bell rang to signal the end of lunch break, when everyone took out their lunchboxes to prepare for lunch.

Stretching, Byakuya habitually thought of taking out the bento box that Mrs. Izumi had made for him and enjoying it alone on the rooftop.

However, something unexpected happened.

"Bai, this is a bento I made for you. Since it's my first time, it might not be very tasty, but I hope you'll accept it."

All I saw was Shoko, her face flushed, handing me a notebook.

After confirming that she had read all the words in the notebook, Shoko slowly took out a pink bento box with a bear pattern from behind her and placed it in front of Byakuya. She looked pitiful, as if she was afraid that Byakuya would refuse, which Byakuya found very cute.

"Haha, perfect timing! I forgot my lunch today, Shoko, you're a lifesaver!"

Silently, she quietly stuffed the lunchbox she had just taken out halfway back into her hand. Bai Ye simply reached out and took the lunchbox that Shoko handed her, then replied in Shoko's notebook.

(Note: To avoid padding the word count, I will not mention the notebook again. All subsequent dialogues will be assumed to take place on the Glass Notebook.)

"Come on, Shoko, I'll take you to the place where I usually eat bento boxes. You'll come with me today."

Holding Shoko's soft little hand, Byakuya ignored the strange looks from his classmates and walked out of the classroom.

......

At this moment, in the classroom next door.

Eriri also took out and opened her bento box.

Should we go find him?

"What if he finds me annoying and doesn't want to eat lunch with me?"

"It would be too strange for a stranger like me to just approach him like that. Will he dislike me because of it?"

The golden-haired loser is torn between whether or not to go next door and invite Bai Ye to have lunch together.

However, Eriri didn't notice that just as she took out her lunchbox, the red-haired girl who hadn't bullied Eriri yesterday because she went to see a play suddenly winked at the girl sitting next to Eriri.

Eriri's deskmate nodded, and then pulled out a dead baby cockroach from somewhere.

While Eriri wasn't looking, her deskmate actually threw a cockroach into the bento box that Eriri had just opened.

Immediately following was Eriri's piercing scream.

"what!!!"

......

Switching back to Baiye's perspective

Byakuya was walking along the corridor leading from the classroom to the rooftop with Shoko, who was obediently following him.

While teasing the blushing Shoko, Byakuya was also looking forward to Shoko making him a bento. But unexpectedly, a golden retriever? A puppy?

Isn't that Eriri?

Eriri's eyes lit up when she saw Eriri falling on top of her.

I was just thinking this morning about how to find some friends for Shoko.

I never expected to find a little golden retriever while just going out for a meal.

That's right.

Byakuya had already planned it all out. He intended to use the excuse of having bumped into her and needing to apologize to her, so that Eriri could become Shoko's first friend.

But when he saw the tears in Eriri's eyes, Byakuya's expression immediately darkened.

Looking at the bento box that Eriri was holding, Byakuya saw a bug inside that looked like a dead cockroach.

This is clearly another scene of school bullying.

Byakuya vaguely recalled that Eriri in the original work was ostracized by her classmates in elementary school because of her love for anime and manga, but it shouldn't have been that serious in the original work.

Eriri shouldn't have been bullied after she broke off her relationship with that guy named Aki Tomoya!

"No! This is a crossover world where different anime and manga worlds merge."

Bai Ye covered her face with her hands, finally realizing what she had overlooked.

The butterfly effect means that, according to the original timeline, Eriri and Tomoya Aki should never have appeared at the elementary school that Shoko Nishimiya attended.

The bullying incident that occurred in Eriri's original elementary school might not happen, but in this crossover world, especially in the school where Shoko was bullied so badly in the original story, it's not surprising that Eriri is being bullied now.

Thinking of this, Bai Ye looked at Eriri with a hint of pity in his eyes.

He extends his left hand towards the girl on the ground. (Why not his right hand? Because his right hand is still holding Shoko's hand! Haha!)

"Are you OK!"

Eriri raised her already wet head. When she realized she had bumped into someone, Eriri was already prepared to be scolded.

But when she looked up and saw Bai Ye's handsome face, which she had longed for all morning but hadn't dared to approach, Eriri finally couldn't hold back and threw herself into Bai Ye's arms, bursting into tears.

"good!"

"It's okay! Don't cry, don't cry!"

"Eri is the best girl!"

Looking at the golden retriever who had jumped into his arms, he felt the girl's body temperature rising as she pressed against him, and her body trembling slightly, as if she were afraid of something.

Bai Ye gently stroked the girl's head as if comforting a baby.

And so, she nestled in Bai Ye's arms and cried for a little while.

Whether it was from crying herself to exhaustion or from feeling a sense of security emanating from Bai Ye, the girl suddenly stopped trembling and crying. With teary eyes, she looked up and weakly met Bai Ye's gaze.

"Can...you also become my king's...friend?"

The word "prince" was too embarrassing, and even with the current atmosphere, Eriri didn't dare to say it. In the end, she changed it to "friend" and asked the question she had hesitated to ask for so long.

"Okay!"

Bai Ye accepted the friend request from his two-dimensional wife without even thinking.

Seeing Eriri staring at him blankly after hearing his quick agreement, her cute, slightly chubby face displaying an incredulous expression, made Byakuya regret not taking a picture.

That adorable, slightly bewildered expression on Eriri's face—as if she'd never expected that such a difficult task, which she'd hesitated over for so long, would be completed so easily by a simple coincidence—would be quite a sight if she kept and shown it to her grown-up, arrogant, and seemingly defeated self.

"never mind."

Glancing at Eriri's bento box with bugs in it, Byakuya suddenly remembered the bento box that he had secretly put back in Shoko's bag earlier, and Byakuya made a decision.

"Since we're friends from now on, Eriri, why don't you have lunch with us today?"

"I...but...I!"

"Gu~gu~"

Eriri glanced at her bento box, now contaminated with cockroaches, and then, to make matters worse, her stomach growled loudly.

"Then it's settled."

Without giving the blonde loser any right to refuse, the dictator Byakuya snatched Eriri's bento and dumped it into the trash can next to him.

Then, with a glass in her right hand and Eriri in her left, under the increasingly strange gazes of her classmates, she went back to the classroom, retrieved the bento that Mrs. Izumi had prepared for her, and handed it to Eriri.

Ignoring Eriri's flushed face, he continued to lead the two little girls, Huang and Xiao, up to the rooftop.

"As expected of the Great Demon King Baiye, he has snatched another loli in such a short time."

"That looks like a girl from the next class. I remember she was a rich girl, but I didn't expect she couldn't escape the clutches of the big devil."

"Shh! Keep your voice down. The Demon King isn't far yet. Aren't you afraid of getting beaten to a pulp if he hears you?"

"..."

Regardless of the fact that Bai Ye was already seen as a delinquent boy who bullied men and women in the eyes of his classmates, Bai Ye, now holding the pink and gold loli, had arrived at his loyal rooftop.

"Eri, right? You're lucky. I had an extra bento box today, so you can have it. But in exchange, you can make me a bento box every day from now on."

"Oh...okay...okay!"

At this moment, Eriri, the little loli, was being led away by Bai Ye's hand the whole time, and in front of everyone, her naturally arrogant and proud self was already overloaded and burning out. Hearing Bai Ye speak, she nodded in agreement without even thinking.

"Since you agreed so readily, then let me add one more thing: from now on, I'll have Eriri do all my homework every day."

"Ah!" Eriri snapped out of her daze.

"Don't bully Eriri!"

Seeing that Bai Ye had been teasing Eriri, who was powerless to resist, as soon as he got to the rooftop, Shoko immediately took Eriri's hand and protected her behind her.

"Shoko, we were the ones who met first, why are you siding with outsiders?" Baiye questioned Shoko with a grin.

"White Night...bad!"

Upon seeing the big "bad" on Glass's notebook, Byakuya laughed even more heartily.

Actually, Shoko had been silently watching everything the whole time when Eriri bumped into Byakuya.

Shoko, who had been bullied before meeting Byakuya, immediately recognized the plight of the blond loser in front of her.

And being able to empathize deeply, Shoko also felt very sorry for the little girl in front of her.

So when she saw another girl hugging Byakuya and crying, Shoko watched the two of them silently with gentle eyes the whole time.

Shoko believed that the hero who saved her could also save the little girl in front of her.

Although this hero does have some quirky sense of humor.

"Tch, they're already so close even though they've never met?"

"Since Shoko wants to protect this golden retriever, then from now on, Shoko will take over the task of making me lunch every day!"

"Also, I'm entrusting my new friend to you. You'd better protect her, or I'll still secretly bully Eriri when I get the chance." Bai Ye pretended to pout, but his ultimate goal was indeed to strengthen the relationship between the two.

"Yes, I will be friends with Eriri." Shoko nodded, clutching her little notebook tightly.

"Then let's start with introductions! I'm Byakuya, the pink-haired girl next to me is named Shoko, and you are Eriri, which I already know, so I don't need to introduce you."

"Eri and I have just become friends. Now all that's missing is Shoko. You two, shake hands now. From today onwards, you two will be my wings."

"Ah! How did you know... Oh... Shoko-san... Hello Byakuya."

Eriri sensed Shoko and Byakuya's kindness, but she was a little confused as to how Byakuya knew her name. However, she was too timid to ask.

Finally, Eriri came to her senses and obediently reached out and held Shoko's little hand.

Looking at the two little ones holding hands in front of him, Bai Ye felt very happy. The task of finding friends for Shoko and the work of collecting heroines for himself were progressing at the same time.

"System... never mind, I'll just call you Little Saint from now on. Little Saint, can you check if Eriri has been added to my heroine conquest progress list?"

"Heh, yes, host."

Hearing Xiao Sheng's feedback, Bai Ye couldn't help but smile.

As expected of Eriri?

I originally thought that I needed to completely resolve the bullying incident before I could finish gathering my feelings for Eriri. But I didn't expect that even before I had resolved the problem, Eriri was won over just by verbally becoming friends with her.

I would call you the easiest woman to handle in any anime/manga world, no, a loli...

"Okay, that's enough. I'm starving after wasting so much time."

"Began to eat!"

In this cheerful atmosphere, Byakuya opened the bento box that Shoko had prepared for him and began to enjoy it.