A duelist never gives up!

"I don't think a starting pick is more important to her than her own deck."

The face under Honglian's mask was slightly moved: "Did this happen before?"

"But this matter really has nothing to do with me." Honglian shook her head and denied it. "If you're curious about the reason, how about asking her in person?"

This is a lie.

The reason why Nero joined Yuan Qi's team was entirely because of Honglian's own instigation.

"Then let me change the question." Yuan Qi continued, "What kind of person do you think Nero is?"

"What kind of person is Nero... Is this question very important?" Honglian said lightly.

"Since we will be partners in the same team in the future, we must get to know each other better," Yuan Qi said.

"I'm afraid I'm disappointed," Honglian said. "I don't know the Nero you mentioned. What I said last night was just a casual remark. You're overthinking it."

"Is that so?" Yuan Qi looked at Honglian suspiciously.

"That's right." Honglian said softly, "And how can hearsay compare to seeing it with your own eyes?"

"With your own eyes?"

"Why don't you just use your own eyes to see what kind of person Nero is?" Honglian said.

The masked girl in front of me was right.

Instead of dwelling on it here, why not just go and see what kind of person the duelist named Nero Arisa is.

"Thank you for the advice."

"Is all you can do to thank me?" Honglian sneered and took out a deck from his deck. "Will you practice with me?"

"Okay." Yuan Qi reached for the card box on his waist.

"Use your real deck - Magic Dessert." Honglian glanced at the two boxes of card decks on Yuan Qi's waist.

"Please allow me to decline this." Yuan Qi took out his Demonic Proto-Dragon hybrid deck, "Unless you also use your real deck."

"Tsk, that's it." Honglian looked at the duel disk that appeared on Yuan Qi's arm and frowned slightly, "Wait, let's duel without the duel disk."

"Then how do we duel?" Yuan Qi didn't react for a moment.

"I brought a pen. Let's draw a grid on the ground." Honglian took out a black marker and said.

"...Okay." Yuan Qi hesitated for a moment and agreed.

"duel."

"duel."

So, on this quiet night, the two of them squatted on the ground and played cards for an hour or two.

Chapter 99: Children from rich families must eat golden buns for breakfast!

Nero Arisa, the youngest daughter of the Arisa family, is rumored to have not attended a single class since the start of the school year. She appears and disappears mysteriously on weekdays, and no one knows where she is.

"So... is this the reason why we have been hiding in the bushes outside the girls' dormitory since early morning?" Ai's cherry lips opened and closed as she yawned, looking very sleepy.

"That's right. No matter where she goes, she still has to go back to the girls' dormitory to sleep every night." Yuan Qi explained. After all, there are only a few weirdos like senior sister Sera who directly move their bed to the activity room.

At the same time, he looked at Ai, who was lying on his back, in confusion. "Speaking of which, don't gods need to sleep? Why do you still look so sleepy?"

"But think about it, wouldn't it be boring if you didn't sleep?" Ai's voice was soft and sticky, like a fresh rice cake, making you want to take a bite. "So I've been trying to learn to sleep recently, and since my body is in good shape, it has naturally developed this function of "sleep."

"I could have canceled it, but I found it quite comfortable to sleep on, so that's it."

"That's it."

The man and the god waited until about seven o'clock, when a beautiful figure appeared at the door of the dormitory building.

"Huh? Xuefeng?" Yuan Qi rubbed his eyes. "Does she get up so early every day?"

"Mmm, Mmm, Mmm..." Xuefeng muttered some unknown sounds, swaying left and right in the breeze like a light leaf.

"This guy hasn't even woken up yet." Ai complained.

"Hey, wake up, it's very dangerous." Yuan Qi stood in front of Xuefeng and stopped her.

"Eh?" Xuefeng tilted his cute little head, opened his squinting eyes slightly, and then let out an "Ah!" and fell backwards with a red face.

"Yuanyuanyuanyuan...Yuanqi-san?!" Xuefeng gently patted her fair cheek, which made her suddenly sober up. "Why are you here like this?"

Yuan Qi explained to Xuefeng, but did not mention the masked girl.

"I see. I think that's a good idea too." Xuefeng stroked his chin thoughtfully. "Nero-san does go back to the first-year girls' dormitory every night, but... Hara Nana, if you keep waiting, you might miss your morning classes."

"Well, I've asked for leave." Yuan Qi waved his hand.

"Asking for leave?! What reason do you give?" Xuefeng asked in surprise.

"The teacher agreed without even listening to the reasons I prepared," Yuan Qi said.

That’s right, Duelist Academy is actually quite tolerant towards its students.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be people like Sera and Nero who don't attend classes at all.

Although Yuan Qi himself had not been there many times.

"Well then..." Xuefeng lowered his head in disappointment, "I'll go to class first."

"Well, go ahead." Yuan Qi continued to stake out.

As group after group of girls in black school uniforms walked by, Yuan Qi couldn't help but start to feel sleepy.

"She wouldn't...really be sleeping in the Red Lotus Society like Senior Sister Sera, right?" Yuan Qi couldn't help but guess.

"Then she must be a spy sent by the Red Lotus Society." Ai said.

Just when Yuan Qi was considering whether to give up, Nero slowly walked out of the dormitory building.

"Here we go," Ai said. "Shall we just go up and talk to him?"

"No, let's see what she does first." Yuan Qi decided to follow the girl for a while to see what she did every day when she was not in class.

Nero first stopped at the fork in the road for a while, then walked towards the cafeteria with his calves.

"The cafeteria? Going to have breakfast?" Yuan Qi said, stroking his chin. Well, to get to know a person, you should start by asking what she likes to eat.

Nero came to the cafeteria. At this moment, there was no one else in the cafeteria except a few aunts. She walked to the window and looked up at the menu. After a while, she bought four big meat buns and slowly sat down on the chair.

"Four... four?!" Yuan Qi couldn't help but feel embarrassed. He didn't expect that Nero, who looked so small, had such a big appetite.

"They're probably growing," Ai said uncertainly. "Isn't that what children are like? Their stomachs are like bottomless pits."

"That doesn't mean..."

Just as the two were whispering, Yuan Qi suddenly felt someone poking his back.

"Who is it..." Yuan Qi turned around curiously, and then... he saw Nero's expressionless little face.

"..."

"Do you want to eat it?" Nero asked, holding up the meat bun in his hand.

"When did you...find out?" Yan Huan, one of the seven former strong men, laughed. What's wrong with this guy? Can he teleport?!

"At the beginning." Nero said calmly, "I bought too many buns. Do you want to eat some?"

"……Thanks."

So the two of them sat face to face and started eating breakfast under the strange gazes of a group of aunts.

You two first-year students, is it really okay for you to skip classes and eat here?

"Do you like meat buns?" Yuan Qi asked curiously. You know, Nero is from a wealthy family, and breakfast should be...

Hiss, Yuan Qi, who had never been rich, suddenly couldn't imagine what the children of a big family would eat for breakfast.

Buns made of gold?

"Well, because it's delicious." Nero took small bites of the bun, but his speed was not slow. Before Yuan Qi finished half of it, Nero started to prepare to eat the second one.

"Honglian promised me that I could take Kiritani Aki's place in the National High School Competition," Nero said suddenly, "but she broke the promise."

"Is this the reason?" Yuan Qi asked.

"Well, that's the reason." Nero nodded.

"Who helped you come up with this?" Yuan Qi continued.

"What do you want from me?" Nero politely refused to answer.

Yuan Qi's expression turned strange.

He can't say that everyone suspects you are a spy sent by the Red Lotus Society, so I came here specifically to check on you.

So he changed the subject and said, "I think since you joined the team relatively late, you might feel unfamiliar with the others, so today I'm taking you to meet each of them and get to know them better."

"No... No, just do as you please." Nero was about to refuse, but suddenly remembered Honglian's instructions to him, and quickly changed his words.

"Okay, Xuefeng is probably in class now, and senior Sera may still be sleeping in. Let's go find Julie." Yuan Qi said after thinking for a moment.

"Senior Julie? Where is she?" Nero still had some impression of this, after all, she was a member of a club before.

"The library," Yuan Qi said without hesitation. "I actually didn't think reading those weird books all day would improve her dueling skills, but she insisted it would help."

"Is that so?" Nero nodded.

"By the way, don't tell Julie this."

"Ok, I know."

Chapter 100: Only children think that there are only two emotions in the world: hate and like.

Unlike first-year students, the courses for second-year students at Duelist Academy consist of majors and electives, which means that students can freely choose the courses they need and can fully and reasonably plan their free time.

Julie's choice was to spend time in the library reading.

As the oldest academy on the continent, the Duelist Academy's entire library covers an area of ​​38277 square meters and has five floors. It has a collection of 112.32 million books, making it the library with the largest collection on the continent. However, every time Julie stood in front of the bookshelf to choose books and looked at the rusty nails embedded in the bookshelf, she often worried that the bookshelf in front of her would collapse and the heavy books and the heavy wood would press down on her, causing her to bleed.

This library is too old, and the few people inside seem to suggest that it is entering its twilight years. When Yuan Qi brought Sera to the library, apart from the administrator, Julie was the only one on the first floor, sitting in a corner holding a book and flipping through it gently.

"What book are you reading again?" Yuan Qi pulled out a chair and sat opposite Julie.

"A Quick Start Guide to Synchro Summoning." Julie held up the book and showed the cover to Yuan Qidao.

I have to say that the authors in this world have quite simple ideas. They just use a simple cover with black text on a white background and the author's name. It's not like Yuan Qi's original world, where they use fancy covers to attract readers and even have a bunch of long titles.

That’s right, I’m talking about you - "Robinson Crusoe"!

However, novels and tutorials cannot be generalized, and this is just meaningless association.

"You have a Synchro Monster?" Yuan Qi asked in surprise.

"We're preparing for a rainy day. Besides, I've been able to control the coherent particles for a long time, but I'm still a little unskilled." Julie said this, glanced at Nero who had been silent, and then looked at Yuan Qi, as if asking what was going on.

"Well...wasn't it because it was too late yesterday? Nero had just joined us and we didn't have time to introduce ourselves to everyone before we disbanded. So I brought her here today to officially meet everyone."

"Is that so? But we've known each other before, right?" Julie closed the book, Nero's petite figure reflected in her dark red eyes. "When we were in the Red Lotus Society."

"Yes, Senior Julie and I have known each other for a long time." Nero nodded.

"But it's just that simple, calling each other by name, right?" Yuan Qi did not comment.

"Yes, that's true." Julie agreed with Yuan Qi's statement and handed the book to him. "In that case, Yuan Qi, could you help me put this book back to its place?"

"Have you finished reading it?" Yuan Qi took the book and stood up. Every book has a number on the spine. The number of this book is 1033204071209, which means that this book should be placed on the 4th floor, bookshelf 07, row 12, position 09.

"I think I understand it now. Now all that's left is to practice the steps."

After casually sending Yuan Qi away, Julie's originally calm eyes became sharp. She looked at Nero and said, "Now it's just the two of us. So, can you tell me why you joined us?"

"The board of directors disagrees with giving me senior Kiritani Aki's spot. I'm doing this for the regular selection spot..." Nero brought out the same excuse again, but it was obvious that Julie, who was sitting opposite her, didn't buy it at all.

"You may be fooling yourself, but you can't fool me," Julie said calmly, "You and Honglian have a good relationship, right?"

"You're not short of rare cards, and you rarely interact with others. If it weren't for Honglian, you wouldn't stay in that place at all."

"How could someone like you stand against Honglian just for a so-called regular selection spot?"

Nero was silent for a moment, then said, "So, are you going to drive me away?"