Tokyo Trickster

"Okay." Sakura Kinomoto nodded and tapped the table with her slender fingers, and all the tarot cards on the table disappeared.

"You are very afraid of the Pearl Tears Lamentation deck. Well, it is the Pearl Tears of the Underworld."

She said, "If you can defeat my present-day Kusha Pearl Tears with your Pendulum Magician, then you can leave directly."

Amamiya Ren quickly opened the address book on her cell phone, trying to find help from Suzumiya Haruhi.

Kinomoto Sakura frowned, "Don't you realize it yet? I came here just to accept Suzumiya-san's request."

"Reality is cruel, why don't you allow me to escape for a while." Amamiya Ren took out the deck that Kinomoto Sakura prepared for him with grief. As a master of Pendulum Magician, no one knows the position of Pendulum in front of Kusha Pearl Tears better than him.

That is the despair that an APEX bronze player feels when facing being hunted in the ranking.

"You have been resisting on purpose. Are you afraid of being divined?"

"It is ignorance that gives me courage." Amamiya Lian muttered, "Forget it, come on!"

He had a resigned expression, "Whether we can win or not, we have to fight to know."

Sakura Kinomoto nodded, "Okay, I'll go first. I Normal Summon the Pearly Lament? Merlot Mermaid."

A fierce battle... after listening to each other's storytelling for a few minutes.

Amamiya Lian put away the deck, looking sad, "Let's do divination."

It was also an expected ending.

Sakura Kinomoto pointed to the three Yu-Gi-Oh cards on the table and said, "Turn over the first one first."

Amamiya Ren did as he was told with a heavy face, and then he was dumbfounded.

Oh, my dear "Joker", how did you get here? !

It was like a broken mirror of "The Fool", with Amamiya Ren's face showing different expressions of joy, anger, sorrow and happiness reflected in countless fragments of glass.

"Because of an accident, you start a new journey. Then you break free from the usual restrictions in life and encounter many opportunities every day full of adventures..."

As Sakura Kinomoto said this, she signaled Amamiya Ren to turn over the next card, which turned out to be the "World" which symbolizes "omnipotence on the planet."

"But fortunately, you have the strength to bear mistakes and risks. You are courageous and always take the risk to seize opportunities to improve yourself."

"But remember, the more you analyze and see the truth, the more likely you are to fall into the abyss, lose your rationality and composure, and make wrong decisions."

"Under the heavy pressure of rules, you have understood the meaning of freedom and put it into practice..."

Kinomoto Sakura smiled sheepishly, "Sorry, this is the first time I'm helping someone interpret this type of divination, so I'm a little confused."

Amamiya Ren had a blank expression on her face, pretending she hadn't heard a word. If you believe in prophecies too much, they will become reality.

Sakura Kinomoto turned over the last card, and it was not a Tarot card.

It is the Xyz Monster [Time Thief Reinventor] from Yu-Gi-Oh! It requires two 4-star monsters to be stacked for Xyz Summoning.

But the strange thing is that the character on the card is not the original picture drawn by K-company... He is Amamiya Ren. And the summoning conditions have changed from "4-star monster x 2" to "Amamiya Ren and Amamiya Ren".

Wearing a red and black phantom thief costume, Amamiya Ren stood between the rotating dials, and the eyes in the white bird mask seemed to look into hers at some point.

Amamiya Ren looked at Kinomoto Sakura, "Miss Kinomoto, what is this?"

"Suzumiya asked me to pass it to you. She said it would definitely help you."

He took the card silently, "Where is Suzumiya-san?"

"She said she wanted to go to the depths of the universe to look for her missing classmates."

Amamiya Ren carefully put the [Time Thief? Reinventor] into her phone case and said, "Thank you very much for your help."

Sakura Kinomoto smiled, then quickly packed up the tables and chairs and left the park.

Her story ended long ago, and she recently planned to travel to China to look for her elementary school classmates who had disappeared without a trace for unknown reasons. But the story of this boy and his friends has just begun.

When the sky is high and the earth is vast.

In a hut in Shibuya, Kitagawa Vsuke, who was playing a fighting game for the first time, had been tortured by "Sekiro" to the point of turning pale.

He had been attacked repeatedly by the red devil for the entire afternoon.

This must be a test from Mr. Amamiya. Yes, the road to art is always difficult.

Kitagawa Vsuke gritted his teeth and chose to fight the red demon again.

(py a book by a good friend, "The Little Devil of Sarkaz", Ark fan fiction, single tweet Lesia, "The Little Devil Looking for His Mother". An old author, very good at writing H, and in urgent need of clicks and follow-up reading during the new book period. If you are interested, please help.)

061. I want to become a master of insect sticks

Before I knew it, it was time for the midterm exam.

Amamiya Ren swaggered into the classroom carrying her pencil bag.

Involulita returned to his loyal examination room.

Amid the rustling sound of pages turning, the test papers were distributed to each student's desk.

A tense and solemn atmosphere engulfed the surroundings.

"The math test lasts two hours," the invigilator pointed to the clock next to the blackboard, "Don't even think about cheating. The school has been receiving a lot of media attention lately, and the instructor from the Department of Literature is watching you right here."

His finger drifted towards the panoramic camera temporarily installed in the corner of the classroom.

This is probably the first time since the founding of Shujin High School that cameras have been installed in the classroom, and there are people sitting in the monitoring room.

In fact, the instructor of the literature department didn't want to come either, because the principal of Shujin had a close relationship with the recently popular Councillor Shido.

However, something concrete had to be done to stop the public's objections, so after some discussion, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology arranged for instructors to enter Shujin High School to conduct teaching research, and promised to make the details of this research mission public.

As for whether the public content is true, I cannot guarantee it.

It took Amamiya Ren only thirty minutes to complete the problem solving and checking. Imitating the classic moves from "Kamen Rider Kuuga", he gave a thumbs up to the camera and handed in the paper early.

If it weren't for 100% accuracy, he could actually speed up further.

With the departure of Amamiya Ren, the candidates who were originally sitting around him suddenly felt extremely stressed, and inexplicably felt that time was running out.

The hour and minute hands on the wall clock were ticking away, just like a medieval executioner sharpening his knife, ready to chop down at the moment two hours were up.

It's over! Sakamoto Ryuji held his head in agony. It was said that the transcript of this exam would be sent to his home.

If I had known this earlier, I would not have given up. Reading a little more could have helped my grades get a little better. He quickly thought of his friend who gave up as well as he did.

So the first thing he did when he walked out of the examination room was to take out his cell phone and try to sympathize with Amamiya Ren.

[The goal is the track and field awards: Amamiya, how did you do in the exam? ]

[I always like cream cake: submit in 30 minutes. ]

[The goal is the track and field awards: Hahaha, so you really don’t know anything? ]

[I always like cream cake: So you slept in class throughout September?!]

[The goal is to win the track and field championship: ... Well, sometimes I read comics. ]

[I always like cream cake: Do you have any friends in class besides me who you can talk to? ]

[The goal is the track and field awards: It seems... not? ]

[I always like cream cake: Well, the last question, have you ever found out which classmate speaks the most every day? ]

[The goal is the track and field awards: Tongyu of the literature club? ]

Amamiya Ren began to wonder if this guy could be saved.

The Line started to jingle again, and Ryuji Sakamoto was chasing after it.

The introvert ignored him and just told him to pay attention to "Amamiya Ren" when he went to the public notice board to check the rankings in a few days.

The young Phantom Thief chose to go home directly after school and had given up on getting the kill in this season of APEX because Respawn updated a big patch last week, claiming to "fix a lot of bugs." As a result, it fixed the biggest ranked match bug in the history of the entire game: some players do not record the in-game kill rewards.

Unfortunately, Amamiya Ren was hit.

Specifically, he won the chicken dinner with 13 kills in the Masters qualifying match, but when the game was settled after the game, only the ranking points increased, and the kill points column showed 0.

This was not a one-off or two-off accidental incident, but had always been the case. At first, Amamiya Ren thought that he had not killed enough and had not reached the bonus point requirement of the new game system, but after fighting for a week, he finally realized the reality:

The reborn mother may never be reborn again.

Amamiya Rendou managed to kill his way out of the Skeleton Sea in the Master Division, but the kill reward was still not calculated.

Suddenly the autumn wind was bleak, and people's sorrows and joys were no longer shared.

Kitagawa Vsuke in a hut in Shibuya.

He put down the controller with a pale face and looked at Madame Butterfly on TV who was dancing back and forth on the silk thread. As she mocked him pitifully, the game screen fell into darkness.

"Oh, it's just a puppy."

(Hot knowledge: Madame Butterfly is the first "nightmare enemy" that new players encounter in "Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice", and she often launches a violent and stormy attack that is difficult to resist.)

In just one week, Kitagawa Vsuke has died thousands of times in this game.

All NPCs are dragon coughing.

Fortunately, "Sekiro" is a game that can be completed as long as you can get started, but the difficulty lies in getting started.

He felt he had a pretty good idea.

As long as you can learn to bounce back...

"V-suke," Madarame Ichiryusai pushed open the door, "It's time to learn how to paint."

"Yes! Mr. Madarame," Kitagawa Vsuke stood up and prepared for today's coloring practice.

......

"Joker, how did you feel about the exam today?" Morgana squatted on the low wall next to the secret base and licked his cat's paw.

"Very easy." Amamiya Lian pushed open the door and walked in. "Is the Sea Cow Gundam here almost finished?"

"We finished the work yesterday!"

He sat down outside on the balcony, opened the half-read book "Story", and continued to think about the work of adapting his debut novel into a script.

The author of Story is Robert McKee, a Hollywood gold medal screenwriter. Unlike other popular monographs on screen playwriting techniques, it discusses forms rather than formulas. Using more than 100 films as examples, Mr. McKee teaches readers a principle of screen playwriting that transcends rigid dogmas and discovers the components of famous works that make them outstanding but are often overlooked.

On the monochromatic cover is a short sentence: "Stories are metaphors for life."

This sentence summarizes the author's unique insights into material, structure, style, and the principles of screenwriting.

"Lavenda," Amamiya Ren suddenly called out to her secretary.

"I'm here," the silver-haired girl, who was wearing a black and white maid outfit, came over with a tray of tea and snacks. "Teacher, is there anything I can tell you about?"

“Let’s play Monster Hunter: World together.”

Amamiya Ren improvised, "I happen to have two friends here. We can form a team of four."

"Hmm... are they Mr. Sora and Ms. Shiro who have been playing APEX with the teacher?"

"That's right," Amamiya Ren had already taken out his portable PS7, created a new file, and named the cat with black hair and blue pupils "Morgana".

He put down his book and lay down on the sofa, and Lavenda sat down next to him intimately.

Amamiya Ren hugged the girl's slender waist and whispered, "Change your name for me later... call me brother."

He was dissatisfied with the fact that the couple, brother and sister, had been showing their affection in voice chats for a long time, and he had to find a way to compete with them.

Lavenda's face flushed red, as if she was thinking of something ambiguous and charming. She whispered, "Okay, brother..."

She kicked off her black leather shoes, and her slender legs wrapped in white stockings gently rubbed into Amamiya Ren's arms. The secretary looked at him closely with her wet amber eyes, and then a bright and shy smile spread across her little face.

"Brother, hug~"

Amamiya Ren, who had originally planned to play with the katana in the novice tutorial, accidentally chose the insect-control stick. Fei Tian hit the little thief dragon with the stick, causing it to spit out a mouthful of colorless and transparent blood.

The thief dragon let out a hissing howl, responding to the continuous blows from the insect stick. It no longer had the arrogance it had at the beginning of the provocation. It staggered and struggled hard, and finally collapsed to the ground, where its skin was peeled off by the hunters.

Having become a trophy, it seemed to have long understood its fate. It was taken back to the camp by the hunter, who allowed him to swing his weapon on its defenseless body.

The bodies of tooth dragons are always very resilient, making them ideal targets for novices to hone their weapon proficiency.

I want to become a bug stick master.

......

An hour later, Lavenda curled up in his arms, sweating profusely, her eyes blurred with tears.

After finally finishing reading the beginner's guide, she turned on the PS7, selected the light and nimble dual swords, and began her own beginner's tutorial.

(There is another chapter to come)