Chapter 513: To a Dialogue‑Stutter, Language Output Is Just a Normal Attack

Ying Duo just stared at him silently, making Qi Junyi feel embarrassed, and finally could only quietly shift his gaze away, silently cursing himself for having just asked such a stupid question.

Pointing at his naturally colored hair, he asked which salon he had dyed it at?

Is he having bad luck today? It's one thing to be sent back and forth by the teacher, but now he's been assigned specifically to pick someone up.

The cute younger brother is still hoping that, since school hasn't fully started yet, today he can bring back something tasty for him.

As a result of this task, he was forced to return to school early.

Isn't Mitra Academy completely independent? Why, after the last semester, does he still have to be summoned to pick someone up?

And up to now, Qi Junyi still doesn't know who he's supposed to pick up.

"Alright, alright, shall we keep waiting here?"

Qi Junyi scratched his head; they'd been waiting here for a while, and with Ying Duo, the eye‑catching fellow, anyway, as long as people arrive, there should be no reason they can't see them, right?

"Hmm."

Ying Duo gave him a glance; clearly there's a plot for Qi Junyi here, and of course, there's also the risk of being stood up.

Waiting here a bit longer is fine; he might as well ask about the others' situation.

【Ying Duo: Where are you? I am a second‑year student at Mitra Academy, currently at the school gate, to pick up a student with a special status for enrollment.】

【Xi Ren Sheng: Partner~ I'm also inside the Academy; I'll come find you in a bit.】

【Meng Kexin:... I'm at the Chen Family, serving as maid to the eldest daughter Chen Xiaoshuang, currently carrying luggage to take her to school.】

【Hua Jian Lei: My birthplace and Lao Bao's are a bit far from you, in the Slum on the ground, and our status should be mercenaries.】

It looks like this instance map is still quite large.

Although it's a role‑playing type map, each character is already preset, so the information that can be gathered is limited.

But the plot must be connected; could the person they're supposed to pick up be Chen Xiaoshuang?

Is the merging of the two worlds related to Chen Xiaoshuang?

As for this person, Yang Yixie has only ever heard the name, never actually interacted; the only time they met was when the other was unconscious in bed while he was trying to steal the family's heirloom treasure.

Of course, in the end he didn't get the treasure and ended up taking the blame.

In short, let's wait a bit first.

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"Partner! I'll be right there to find you!"

Xi Ren Sheng immediately slapped the table and stood up, asking where the school gate is.

He opened the small map of the party system, and with the partner's Aberrant Arts Ba Shi, it was as if the game instantly got a bunch of handy mods.

The Ying Guang Lu arrow pointed toward the gate, but as the saying goes, the straight line between two points is the shortest.

After gauging the general direction from the mini‑map, Xi Ren Sheng climbed onto the window and then decisively jumped down.

He planned to turn into a playing card as he neared the ground, mess with gravity a bit, and then land smoothly.

"Sha—!"

A whooshing sound, and a yellow sword flash sliced through the air, precisely cutting a playing card falling from the sky.

The sword‑eyed, star‑gazed youth's luggage bag fell to the ground; his brows were sharp, and that slash was decisive and ruthless.

The light sword in his hand faded slowly, before he could finish showing off his coolness.

"Dang!"

A very loud clang rang out as two iron heads collided.

Forced to revert from a playing card back to human form, Xi Ren Sheng was only about two or three meters above the ground—a distance he could have reacted to in time, but a tall person below became a flesh cushion, preventing him.

The two tumbled into a heap; on the first day of school that was naturally very conspicuous, but perhaps because the instance lacked many NPCs, the others just passed by expressionlessly.

Yue Chengzhang raised his head with a bewildered expression, as if he didn't understand why, after just slashing a card, a person ended up smashing onto his head.

And he hadn't even noticed the other's approach.

Xi Ren Sheng also slowly covered his head and stood up, thinking, is this Little Ghost's head made of iron? So hard?

"Pay up!"

Xi Ren Sheng, who usually argues irrationally but loudly, immediately pointed at Yue Chengzhang's nose and shouted.

"Why is your head so hard? You even slashed my playing card!"

Yue Chengzhang was a bit stunned by his combo; the newly enrolled, inexperienced youth promptly apologized.

"Uh... sorry?"

He slashed the other's playing card... although he didn't know how the other fell from the sky, it seemed he really caused trouble.

"I'm truly sorry!" Yue Chengzhang spoke swiftly; before Xi Ren Sheng could continue his rant, a sincere little combo already landed on Xi Ren Sheng's face.

"I've been doing special training lately, maybe I had a stress reaction... I'm really sorry, I overreacted and swung my hand to cut your card."

"How much did your deck cost? Where did you buy it? Should I go buy a set now to compensate you? Or just pay you the money?"

"You're not hurt from the fall, are you? Let me take you to the infirmary. Don't worry, if anything happens, I'll cover all medical expenses."

Yue Chengzhang apologized at a breakneck speed, even answering all the excuses Xi Ren Sheng was about to use to act cheeky; his sincerity was so extreme that Xi Ren Sheng was left speechless.

"How about just paying money?"

Xi Ren Sheng scratched his head, what did that NPC just say?

Should I ask my partner whether he can enable a text‑recall function? Dealing with fast‑talking NPCs is a bit torturous.

"Sure thing, how much roughly? I only have fifty on me; I just ran into a girl and had to compensate her for a Rune device, which cost a lot. If that's not enough, I'll give you the rest later. Are you a senior? Which year are you in?"

Yue Chengzhang kept talking nonstop, completely opposite to the decisive sword‑wielder earlier; he's truly a chatterbox.

"Then that's fifty."

Xi Ren Sheng decisively approved; normally he also deliberately spouts a lot of words to bother others, so he can still roughly pick out the key lines.

"Is fifty really enough? You don't need to worry too much; that playing card was definitely pricey, the pattern looks custom‑made. Why not just tell me the actual price..."

"Just fifty." Xi Rensheng chose to interrupt the casting.

Facing these chatterboxes, you just can't give them a chance to show off.

Although in many comics or games these chatterboxes might be intelligence officers, dealing with intelligence officers is still best left to Hua Jian Lei.

It's rare to meet someone who actually uses the chatterbox skill as a basic attack.

Yue Chengzhang finally dug out the money, handing the only fifty coins he had to Xi Rensheng.

"Sure enough, I'm unlucky today—just started school and already ran into so much misfortune..."

Yue Chengzhang had already begun rambling nonstop about his bad luck today, and Xi Rensheng decisively slipped away, sprinting toward Yang Yixie at the distant school gate.