A duelist never gives up!

"Ouch! It hurts! It hurts! What are you doing?" Xuefeng said angrily.

"Hehe, not only the voice and appearance, but even the feel is exactly the same. I say, you are not a clone, are you?" The woman said jokingly while pinching Xuefeng's little face.

"Oh! I know I was wrong. Please let me go, sister!" Xuefeng said in a crying voice with tears in his eyes due to the pain.

"Huh? Didn't you say you recognized the wrong person?" the woman chuckled.

"Xuefeng lied. Xuefeng apologizes to her sister." Xuefeng blushed and said softly.

"Hmph, you're smart." The woman let go of her hand and said to the bewildered waiter, "I'll pay. Give me the food."

As he spoke, he turned to Xuefeng and Yuan Qi and said, "Would you two mind having a cup of coffee with me?"

Xuefeng nodded quickly, and Yuan Qi also nodded slightly when he saw this.

If I refuse, I feel like something bad will happen.

So, not long after, the three of them sat down in a coffee shop.

Probably because it was still early, there weren't many customers in the store at the moment.

"Could you please have a cup of Black Forest coffee?" the woman said as she sat opposite Yuan Qi and Xuefeng.

"Milk." Xuefeng raised his hand.

"Then I'll have milk too." Yuan Qihe said. He didn't like coffee very much because it was too bitter.

"Let me introduce myself first. I am Shirahara Shigure, Yukikaze's sister." Shigure said to Hara Nana.

"I'm Yuan Qi, Xuefeng's friend." Yuan Qi introduced himself.

"Okay, then next question." Shi Yu suddenly turned his head to Xuefeng and said lightly, "Isn't it school season now? Why did you return to the capital?"

"Um... I... I'm actually here to represent the college in the National College Competition!" Xuefeng said timidly.

"Oh, the National College Competition..." Shi Yu frowned at first, then relaxed, "Nowadays, colleges and universities also bring cheerleaders to participate in competitions."

"They're not cheerleaders, they're regular team members!" Xuefeng puffed up his cheeks in dissatisfaction.

Shigure was silent for a moment, his eyes, the same sky blue as Yukikaze's, sizing him up, then he held out his hand and said, "Give me the deck."

"Huh?" Xuefeng was stunned, not knowing what Shigure was going to do.

"Let me see what you've built." Shi Yu said unhappily.

"Oh." Xuefeng stretched out his hands and presented his deck.

"Well……"

Shigure took over Yukikaze's deck and began to slowly and methodically flip through it one by one. His pretty face was filled with seriousness and carefulness. After a long moment, he sighed and said, "It's not much different from what I gave you back then."

"Well... I still added a lot of powerful cards..." Xuefeng muttered unconvinced.

For example, breakthrough skills, hay fever, and Rikka's thin ice.

"There are just a few more trap cards. There are still a lot of meaningless junk in the deck, and the overall construction idea is not clear enough. Is the Duelist Academy's requirements for the main players so low now?" Shi Yu said lightly.

Xuefeng bit her lower lip and said nothing, but she felt a little sore in her nose. She clutched her skirt tightly with both hands.

"Ah, aren't you just randomly throwing in a bunch of cards because you thought this card was cute?" Shigure scratched his head helplessly and said, "You've always been..."

"That's enough!" Xuefeng stood up suddenly, her eyes red. "Sister is always like this, treating me like a child who knows nothing. That's why I don't want to tell you about this!"

After saying that, Xuefeng snatched the deck from Shigure's hand and ran out.

"Eh?" Shi Yu seemed to have not reacted yet, but Yuan Qi had already hurriedly caught up with him.

Although Xuefeng looks like a weak girl, as a duelist, her body has been tempered and can run faster than a rabbit. Yuan Qi took a lot of effort to grab Xuefeng's slender arm from behind and stopped her.

"I say... where are you planning to run to?" Yuan Qi said breathlessly as he stood in front of Xuefeng.

Xuefeng's rosy lips moved slightly, and she said in a hoarse voice, "I don't know."

"I'm unfamiliar with this place. What should I do if you run away?" Yuan Qi continued to ask.

"My sister is here, you can go find her." Xuefeng kicked the pebbles at his feet and muttered softly.

"No." Yuan Qi shook his head. "You promised to take me around the capital today. Don't go back on your word."

Xuefeng lowered his head and replied softly, "Yeah."

"Where are we going next?" Yuan Qi continued to ask.

"I want to go to...Herme Park." said the girl.

Thus, a young man and woman appeared in the sunny park.

"When I was a child, my sister often brought me here to feed pigeons. At that time, I followed her closely and learned to do whatever she did. My parents didn't have time to accompany us, so most of the time it was my sister who played with me." Xuefeng squatted on the smooth floor, holding up his little face, looking at a group of pigeons pecking at food not far away.

"Back then, her favorite thing to do was point at a flock of snow-white pigeons and lie to me, 'Actually, Mom, Dad, and you and I are all transformed from pigeons. If you don't believe me, look, isn't our hair as white as the pigeons? So, these are our future brothers and sisters.'" Xuefeng said this, tangling a few strands of white hair with her fingers and smiling at Yuan Qi, "Look, aren't the colors very similar?"

"You really believe it?" Yuan Qi said in shock.

"Yeah, I believe it." Xuefeng nodded and said, "From then on, every time I feed the pigeons, I will tell them to eat more, eat more, grow up quickly, and become my younger brothers and sisters to play with me."

"Later, other kids found out and started laughing at me, saying things like, 'How can a pigeon turn into a human?' and 'Xuefeng knows nothing and is a complete idiot.' Some even gave me nicknames like 'pigeon spirit' and 'pigeon monster.'"

"...Your sister did something wrong." Yuan Qi said after a moment of silence.

"But after my sister found out about this, she beat them all up," Xuefeng added.

"..."

Chapter 41: Do you have to solve everything with a duel?

Yuan Qi fell silent again.

To be honest, he has no brothers or sisters, so he can't really understand Xuefeng's feelings.

Simply helping Xuefeng scold her sister?

It doesn’t feel right either.

Then let her forgive her sister?

Hiss...something doesn't seem right.

Fortunately, Xuefeng didn't want Yuan Qi to answer, and continued, "My sister always likes to bully me. She always thinks I'm stupid and foolish, and I don't know anything, just like a child."

"So she doesn't let others bully me."

"But I'm 16 years old now. I've grown up." Xuefeng sniffed at this point, "I feel... I feel that I can't continue to hide under my sister's protection, so I secretly applied for the Duelist Academy."

"Originally, my sister planned to send me to the Royal Academy because it was in the capital and within her sight."

"When my sister found out I applied to the Duelist Academy, she wasn't angry at all. She even gave me the Rikka deck. I thought...she also thought I'd grown up and wanted me to be independent..." Xuefeng choked up a bit as she spoke. "The reason I didn't tell them I was returning to the King's was because I wanted to wait until I won the competition to surprise them, to tell them I'd grown up and improved."

Having said that, Xuefeng paused for a moment, and said a little embarrassedly: "I lost... I won't talk about it anymore."

"..."

Yuan Qi, who was originally somewhat moved, suddenly felt that the girl in front of him became silly again after hearing these words.

He thought for a moment and said, "In your parents' eyes, you will always be a child. In your sister's eyes, you will always be the little sister who followed her around and learned how to feed pigeons."

"Then in her eyes, won't I always be a silly, stupid, and ignorant child?" Xuefeng pouted in dissatisfaction.

"No." Yuan Qi shook his head and said, "Of course she knows you're not a child anymore. She's just afraid you'll get hurt, so she's unwilling to let go."

"Besides, hasn't she already let go?" Yuan Qi laughed. "Otherwise, you would be Xuefeng from the Royal Academy now. Oh, no, if it were the Royal Academy, you would be our Duelist Academy's opponent. I should call you Xuefeng."

As he spoke, Yuan Qi extended his hand and said, "Hello, contestant Xuefeng, please be sure to show mercy to me during the game."

"Pfft." Xuefeng couldn't help laughing, "I don't want to go to the Royal Academy."

"So, your sister just hasn't adapted. She hasn't adapted to the fact that you have grown up." Yuan Qi continued.

"Hmm...really?" Xuefeng asked uncertainly.

"Of course it's true." Yuan Qi nodded.

"Did I do something too much just now?" Xuefeng started to regret it, holding his head.

"I don't know if it's excessive or not, but your sister must be very sad." Yuan Qi said seriously.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!" Xuefeng screamed in pain, then suddenly stretched out his palm and shouted at the air:

"Time! Turn back!"

"...What are you doing?" Yuan Qi asked in confusion.

"I'm trying to turn back time, because maybe there is a power in my body that can reverse time!" Xuefeng said seriously.

"No." Yuan Qi held his forehead and said.

"Yes!"

"No."

"Yes! Yes!"

"That kind of power can't possibly exist."

"That's it! That's it!" Xuefeng said coquettishly.

Yuan Qi sighed and said, "Well, you do have the power to reverse time in your body, so go ahead and reverse it now."

Xuefeng reached out his hand again, frowning and shouting, "Time! Turn back!"

"Clap!"

Yuan Qi didn’t know whether time had been reversed or not, but the pigeons not far away had been scared away.

"Wow... I can't reverse it, what should I do?" Xuefeng said in frustration.

"Go back and apologize." Yuan Qi chuckled, "Since you are a family member, you will definitely be forgiven."

Xuefeng nodded, a bright smile on her face: "Yeah!"

"That's perfect, apologize." Shi Yu appeared from somewhere with a lollipop in his mouth.

"Eh? Eh!!!" Xuefeng fell to the ground in shock.

Yuan Qi also looked at her in surprise, not understanding where this person came from.

"What are you sitting here for?" Shi Yu said, opening her arms. "Why don't you hurry back to your sister's arms?"

"Ah!!!" Xuefeng hugged Shigure.

So, after some sisterly communication, the two finally reconciled.

However, before leaving, Shi Yu called Yuan Qi aside.

"Anyway, thank you for this time."

Under the big tree in the park, Shigure said to Hara Nana while holding a lollipop in his mouth, "To be honest, I really need to change my attitude towards Yukikaze."

"No, I'm here for Xuefeng." Yuan Qi shook his head. "You called me out alone. Is there something you want to tell me?"

"Well...how should I put it, it's not a coincidence that I met you today." Shi Yu said lightly.

"Have you noticed that Xuefeng has returned to the capital a long time ago?" Yuan Qi asked curiously.

"Wrong, I came to see you today." Shi Yu said, subconsciously glancing at Xuefeng. After confirming that she couldn't hear from that place, he continued, "It was you who made the report call before, right?"

"Yes, that's right, it's me. What's the result?" Yuan Qi asked expectantly.

"All five of us investigators are dead." Shi Yu sighed.

Yuan Qi's body stiffened slightly, and his black pupils suddenly dimmed. "Sorry."

"We were the ones who didn't take the information you provided seriously. You don't have to feel guilty." Shi Yu stopped him, "I came to you because I was afraid you would be retaliated against by those guys from the Anti-Duelers Alliance."

"Are you alone?" Yuan Qi said with a strange look on his face.

"I can take on ten of them by myself," Shi Yu said confidently.

"..."

"But after following you all the way here, I found that no one seemed to be following you, so I'll let these two people protect you. I'll go track them down first." Shi Yu said, and snapped his fingers crisply. Two men and women in black suddenly appeared behind Shi Yu.

"Are these two people also worth ten?" Yuan Qi asked.

"No, the two of them probably can't beat one." Shi Yu saw that Yuan Qi's face was not right, and hurriedly said, "Don't worry, they are not duelists."