A duelist never gives up!

"Okay, I get it now."

Then he slowly walked out of the alley.

"I seem to have heard something I shouldn't have heard?"

A cold voice sounded, and Nero turned his head suddenly. A familiar figure was standing outside the alley, looking at him with a complicated expression.

"It doesn't matter. It's nothing worth hiding." Nero looked at the newcomer and said calmly, "But why are you here? Do you want to sell me the deck?"

Yuan Qi looked at the girl in front of him, shook his head and said, "No, I'm here to invite you."

"Invitation?" Nero's long eyelashes trembled slightly. "What invitation?"

"I'm inviting you to join me in dealing with the Red Lotus Society," Yuan Qi explained his purpose. "You don't look like someone who's short on rare cards, do you? Why would you stay in a club that's all about gambling?"

"You just bet your own deck on a duel with me?" Nero looked at Yuan Qidao in confusion.

Yuan Qi was slightly stunned, then said helplessly: "To be honest, when I first came to this academy, I heard that there was a club that was doing a lot of illegal things in the academy through gambling card duels. I actually thought it was quite funny."

"For something like gambling cards, isn't it okay as long as you don't agree?"

"No matter how persistent the other party is, using threats or inducements, if they don't agree, you can't just rob them outright, right?"

"But recently, I understand why some duelists would agree to such ridiculous card-betting duels."

The image of that young girl appeared in Yuan Qi's mind, and he said seriously, "Because sometimes, you can't retreat."

"As a duelist, no, or as a friend, or anyone else, when you encounter something you want to protect, you cannot and will never back down."

"So, are you willing to help me fight against the Red Lotus Society? If you agree, I can return your deck to you." Yuan Qi took out Nero's deck and handed it to Nero.

Nero lowered his head and remained silent for a moment, then pushed Yuan Qi's hand away and said calmly:

"No, I refuse."

Chapter 45: Omniscient and Omnipotent Ai

"I say, Ah Qi, you are not a straight man, right?"

Ai said this in the quiet dormitory late at night.

"What standards do you use to define it? Is there really such a standard? This kind of inexplicable standard?"

To be honest, this is the second time Yuan Qi has heard the word "straight man" from a woman. The last time he heard a girl call herself a straight man was probably in... high school?

You're in high school now, right?

However, judging by his age, Yuan Qi should be in his third year of high school now.

"Thinking about it this way, it feels like I've gained two years of time."

Not really.

Time will not flow backwards because of time travel.

"Standards? I don't know the exact standards, but you're just saying a bunch of nonsense in front of a girl, then extending your hand and saying if you want to return your deck, you should join me right away. Such arrogant and rude words make it natural to be rejected."

"If you want to ask for help from others, you should just say: Please help me." Ai poked Yuan Qi's forehead and said.

"Didn't I say that?" Yuan Qi looked shocked.

"No, I only saw a villain holding a deck of cards who wanted to threaten the little girl." Ai's whole body fell over, just like a person hanging in culture medium that Yuan Qi had read about in a light novel before. Even the light blue dress wrapped around the delicate body did not turn over in violation of physical mechanics.

"But I also like this kind of Ah Qi. He has that naughty vibe. Maybe that little girl's heart was pounding when she was charmed by him."

Of course Ai was joking, and you could tell from her little face that she couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, laugh if you want to." Yuan Qi rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"The problem now is how to get five people together." Yuan Qi tried to get the topic back on track.

"No, that's not right...it's not five." Ai stretched out five white and tender fingers to Yuan Qi, then broke off a thumb, thought for a moment, and broke off another index finger: "It's three, one for you, one for Xuefeng, and three more."

"Snowwind? I don't really want to..."

"Are you going to hide such an important thing from your friends?" Ai interrupted Yuan Qi.

"No, I didn't intend to hide it. It's just that if I succeed, it's fine. If I fail... I will definitely be targeted by those guys." There is no such thing as a 100% certainty in the world, and no duelist can always win.

So be prepared for failure in advance.

"So Xuefeng can just cheer for us in the audience, right?" Yuan Qi said uncertainly.

"If that's the case, wouldn't it be very pitiful?" Ai said in a deep voice.

"Pitiful?"

"She must be feeling guilty for not being able to help, feeling powerless just standing in the audience... watching a few Duelists you found who knows where fighting alongside you. It would be fine if she were unrelated, but she's also a Duelist, right?"

"..."

"Ai."

Yuan Qi was silent for a moment and then spoke.

"Ok?"

"Are you such a delicate fellow?"

"Huh? Who do you think I am? I'm a god." Ai raised his chin arrogantly and said, "And from what I've observed, Xuefeng is not weak. At least she's capable of fighting."

"Well, that means we are short of three." Yuan Qi nodded.

"If you add Julie in, there are still two missing." Ai broke off another finger.

"Julie? Will she agree?" Yuan Qi acknowledged Julie's strength, but unlike Nero, he did not have the reward that would make Julie agree to his request.

"Idiot, as long as you have the right attitude, she will definitely agree." Ai finally couldn't help but dislike her partner.

"why?"

"Just go."

"..."

"That's just the way it is."

The next day, Hara Nana told Xuefeng everything that happened yesterday, of course, excluding the part about Ai.

It's not that I don't trust Xuefeng, but I subconsciously feel that it's better not to tell anyone about Ai's affairs.

"Oh, so that's how it is... Wait? Eh?!" Xuefeng replied calmly, but soon her face became flustered.

"Hara-shichi-san wants to bring down the Red Lotus Society?!"

"Five-on-five head-to-head match?"

"You want me to help too?!"

Xuefeng was completely confused. After patting her slightly bulging chest several times, she regained her composure and said, "Hara Nana, aren't you afraid that I'll hold you back?"

"No problem, Yukikaze, didn't you almost beat that Nero classmate?" Yuan Qi cheered for Yukikaze.

"But, Nero is a first-year student. The Red Lotus Society should send a third-year student by then, right?" Xuefeng said weakly.

"It's okay, I believe you can win."

"really?"

"real."

"Do you really believe I can win?"

"I really believe you can win."

"Is it really not just because you want to find someone to make up the numbers?" Xuefeng looked at Yuan Qi with tears in his eyes.

Yuan Qi looked at the girl in front of him, and a sense of guilt grew in his heart.

Do you really believe that Xuefeng can win?

"I..." Yuan Qi was about to give the answer when an index finger gently blocked his lips.

"Okay, no need to say it, of course I will help you." Xuefeng looked pitiful just now, but now her face is full of smiles. It has to be said that girls are really strange and unpredictable creatures.

"But if I lose, Yuan Qi, you are not allowed to get angry at me." Xuefeng said with a playful wink.

"How could I do such a thing?" Yuan Qi shrugged.

"Okay, okay... Next we should go invite senior Julie, right? Let's set off without further delay." Xuefeng said, and without giving Yuan Qi time to react, he gently turned around and walked forward, leaving only a faint fragrance in the air.

"What were you about to say?" Ai couldn't help but ask.

"I was going to say I believed Yukikaze would win," Hara Nana said.

"Serious?" Ai asked, tilting his head.

"Why are you not serious?" Yuan Qi asked back.

"Is that so..." Ai looked at the departing Xuefeng and murmured.

Ai is a god, an omniscient and omnipotent god.

So she saw it.

The girl flinched at that moment, afraid to hear the answer.

Whether it was the cruel truth or a white lie, she probably couldn't accept it.

But even so.

Even so, she responded to Yuan Qi's request.

Because I want to help, because I can't just leave it alone.

But is it really okay for such an unconfident girl, such a timid yet brave girl, to face such a powerful opponent?

If she loses, what kind of burden will her delicate shoulders bear?

Ai didn't know.

Omniscient and omnipotent gods are false.

That is a fake created by humans.

Chapter 46: A powerful duelist must be able to defeat a duel elf.

Duelist Academy seems to give preferential treatment to top students.

No, it should be said that every school gives preferential treatment to top students.

When the teacher saw that the people who asked for leave were Yuan Qi and Xue Feng, who had recently become famous in the class, he didn't even ask the reason, but just said goodbye and said that he would approve the leave.

He even took out a TT from his wallet and forced it into Yuan Qi's hand.

This made Xuefeng blush for a long time.

However, what Yuan Qi didn't expect was that when they found Julie, she was sitting in the corner of the library flipping through an unknown book.

"This is not some unknown book. It's the Duel Elf Record written by the famous Duel King xxx. It contains the living areas of various Duel Elfs, methods of taming them, and the effects of Duel Elfs." Julie said unhappily.

"Who is xxx? Also, are you planning to go into the wild to capture duel elves?" Yuan Qi complained.

"I heard it's the dialect of the Duel King's hometown. Since there's no official written language, he created this unique language himself." Julie squinted at Yuan Qi. "If I can't gamble on cards, I can only obtain powerful cards by capturing Duel Spirits."

"Inka?" Yuan Qi suggested.

"Haha, do you think everyone is like you?" Julie sneered.

"Then...how about using credits to exchange them at the store in the academy?" Xuefeng tried to interrupt.

"You mean spending precious credits to exchange for a bunch of card packs that don't give you anything?" Julie sneered.

You can redeem the card with credits within the school.

However, they weren't selling cards with clearly marked prices, but rather... selling card packs.

Although there will be some patterns drawn on the card pack to indicate the general themes of the card pack...what you get depends entirely on your luck.

To put it simply, those who suffer from drought will die of drought, and those who suffer from floods will die of floods.

"Eh? I feel okay. I just opened a card like Book of the Moon."