Chapter 173

Noticing the new member's excitement, all the group members were stunned.

Only Lin Yu felt a slight stir in his heart, realizing that world was indeed not as simple as it had just appeared!

【Su Su Haoming: Young man, don't get excited, speak slowly.】

【Su Su Haoming: Everyone here has undergone strict training; no matter how funny it is, we won't laugh.】

【Xiang Yunye: Unless we can't hold it back.】

【Bai Bai Zeming:???】

【Bai Bai Zeming: @Xiang Yunye Big Shot, could you be the Marquis of Lantian?】

【Xiang Yunye: Oh?】

【Xiang Yunye: Have you heard my story?】

【Bai Bai Zeming: Your name is written full of stories.】

【Fan Xian: Very good, you can pick up the joke, saving us a lot of trouble.】

【Bai Bai Zeming: Young Master Fan?!】

【Bai Bai Zeming: You're here too?】

【Bai Bai Zeming: What about the others?】

【Su Su Haoming: I come from the world of "Tang Dynasty Strange Tales", and I am the cousin of the protagonist Su Su Wuming.】

【Bai Bai Zeming: So it's Tang Gui, my apologies, my apologies!】

【Su Su Haoming: @He He Jingfeng, this one is from "The Outcast".】

【Bai Bai Zeming: Awesome, when you have time, help little brother get the Heavenly Grandmaster's autograph!】

【Su Su Haoming: @Li Li Shimin, judging by the name, you probably don't need me to say much, right?】

【Bai Bai Zeming: Good morning, Your Majesty!】

【Li Li Shimin: No, no, no!】

【Li Li Shimin: Here, Li Mou is not the Emperor; if you don't mind, Little Brother Bai, just call me Brother Li!】

【Bai Bai Zeming: Then little brother will respectfully follow your command!】

【Lin Lie: My turn, my turn!】

【Lin Lie: I am Lin Lie, from Marvel, do you know it?】

【Bai Bai Zeming: Could it be the famous Master of the Fuxi Sword?】

"Hiss—"

All the group members sucked in a breath of cold air, not expecting this guy to actually know.

It seems this newcomer's background is quite complicated!

Watching the messages constantly flooding the group chat, Bai Bai Zeming said modestly, "Polite, polite, I just had a broad range of interests in my past life; famous novels, comics, anime, American dramas, British dramas... I've basically seen them all!"

【Su Su Haoming: Bad, my title of Bai Xiaotong might not be safe!】

【Xiang Yunye: When did you ever have that title?】

【Su Su Haoming: Can't I just claim it myself?】

【Lin Yu: Alright, stop fooling around, let the newcomer introduce himself first.】

【Lin Yu: Oh right, almost forgot, I am Lin Yu, from "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End".】

【Bai Bai Zeming:!!!】

【Bai Bai Zeming: Big Shot! Please accept my bow!】

【Lin Yu:...】

【Su Su Haoming: Not bad, great taste, picking out the thickest thigh in the group at a glance.】

【He He Jingfeng: With the word "Administrator" hanging in front, isn't it hard to pick the wrong one?】

The group members habitually bantered, and after a while, they all fell silent, waiting for the newcomer's self-introduction.

Bai Bai Zeming took a deep breath and finally sent a message: "Little brother's surname is Bai, given name Bai Zeming, twenty years old, a high school sophomore, a unlucky transmigrator from the Man World..."

Man World?!

Lin Yu was stunned first, then suddenly realized, finally understanding why that world had elements of school anime.

【Su Su Haoming: Is the Man World also called unlucky?】

【Bai Bai Zeming: Brother Su, you don't know!】

Bai Bai Zeming poured out his grievances in the group: "When I first transmigrated, I thought I was just living a second life, transmigrating into a high school exchange student whose parents both worked in the Island Nation..."

"Don't laugh at me, in my past life I was also a light otaku, quite longing for the school romance in Japanese anime."

"Plus, in my past life I was weak and sickly, abandoned by my parents, sitting in a wheelchair since childhood, not to mention dying of a terminal illness at twenty, truly remaining single since birth for a lifetime."

"Therefore I swore that in this second life, I must live wonderfully; not saying anything about great wealth, but at least I want to date a Sakura girl and have a sweet school romance!"

Group members: "..."

Is this the wonderful life you speak of?

The requirements are too low, right?

The group members all complained in their hearts, but did not interrupt Bai Bai Zeming's speech.

After all, the past life he had casually skipped over just now did sound a bit miserable; even Ainz, who had been silently lurking, couldn't help but feel sympathy for this fellow group member.

But then again, with such a miserable past life, what he cared about was being single since birth...

What kind of optimistic mindset is this!

The group members sighed while continuing to read on.

【Bai Bai Zeming: Ideals are plump, reality is skinny.】

【Bai Bai Zeming: Just as I was full of hope for the future, following the former owner's memories to the high school campus, I discovered that the school I had just transferred to was called Hebereke Academy.】

【Bai Ze Ming: And my classmate, a very righteous fellow with a fitting name, is Shirou Emiya...】

【Lin Yu:...】

【All Group Members:...】

When they saw the school's name, the group members didn't react much.

But upon seeing this famous Partner of Justice, Su Su Haoming and the others instantly understood, and even Ainz was no exception.

【Su Su Haoming: The Fate world?】

Bai Ze Ming sighed deeply: "If only it were that simple!"

【Lin Lie: Does that mean it's more complex than Fate?】

【Bai Ze Ming: Much more complex!】

【Bai Ze Ming: Anyway, only after arriving at the school did I realize I lived in the peaceful city of Fuyuki...】

At that moment, Bai Ze Ming immediately felt the urge to transfer schools, but soon, this urge was replaced by another emotion: an longing for supernatural power.

This wasn't surprising; after all, having transmigrated, one would naturally feel like the protagonist.

Bai Ze Ming was just like that; he believed he might possess a magician's talent, so he gritted his teeth and stayed, hoping to extract the method to become a magician from Shirou Emiya and Rin Tohsaka.

But unfortunately, before he could turn his thoughts into reality, the Holy Grail War began...

That night, to boost Shirou Emiya's favor, he stayed at school to help Shirou Emiya clean the Archery Club; the more he cleaned, the stronger his sense of déjà vu became.

Only when the intense clash of swords and blades echoed through the campus did he finally realize something was wrong.

But by then, it was too late to escape; the blue-armored Lancer, who was fighting Archer, spotted them and immediately gave chase, ending both his and Shirou Emiya's lives with a single spear thrust...

【Su Su Haoming: Wait!】

【Su Su Haoming: So you died back then?】

【Bai Ze Ming: Correct.】

【Xiang Yunye: Then how are you still alive now?】

【Bai Ze Ming: Sigh, listen to me continue.】

【Bai Ze Ming: After being stabbed to death by the Lancer, I lost consciousness; when I opened my eyes again, time had actually returned to the moment I had just entered the school that day!】

【Lin Yu: Oh?】

【Lin Yu: You can rewind?】

【All Group Members: Isn't that invincible?!】

【Bai Ze Ming: I thought the same back then...】

So there was a twist?

The group members were speechless again and could only continue reading.

【Bai Ze Ming: I thought I possessed the same rewind power as my neighbor, Subaru Natsuki, so I felt capable again and planned to use this ability to rerun the Fate dungeon once more.】

【Bai Ze Ming: This time, I already knew the timeline, so I forcibly dragged Shirou Emiya away and, before the Lancer caught up, guided him to summon the King of Swords...】

【All Group Members: And then?】

【Bai Ze Ming: And then I died, killed by the residual impact of the battle between Saber and Lancer.】

【All Group Members:...】

【Bai Ze Ming: However, this time, Rin Tohsaka was also present; she used the ruby necklace that resurrected Shirou Emiya in the original story to pull me back from the brink of death.】

【Su Su Haoming: That's not bad!】

【Lin Yu: Is it really that good...】

【Lin Yu: The fact that Bai didn't rewind immediately after dying indicates that last time, when Rin Tohsaka faced him and Shirou Emiya, she chose the latter without hesitation.】

【All Group Members:...】

Hearing this, it did indeed sound rather tragic.

【Bai Ze Ming: I realized this point as well.】

【Bai Ze Ming: But I can understand it; everyone has selfishness. If it were me, I would probably also choose someone more familiar and abandon an unknown stranger.】

【Lin Yu: What happened after that?】

【Bai Ze Ming: Sigh, the past is too painful to recall; I won't go into details.】

【Bai Ze Ming: Anyway, I experienced three rewinds and five deaths.】

【Bai Ze Ming: Among them, the Lancer was the MVP, killing me twice in total; the Berserker killed me once, Medusa killed me once, and the Golden Flash killed me once...】

"..."

The group members were speechless again, feeling both sympathy and admiration for this fellow.

Calculating carefully, his first death occurred before the rewind, the second and third after the rewind, and the fourth and fifth deaths happened during the second rewind.

Looking at it this way, Rin Tohsaka saved him during both rewinds, which was more than enough kindness...

【Su Su Haoming: Wait!】

【Su Su Haoming: According to your account, you only experienced three rewinds, and after the third rewind, you lived continuously until now?】

【Bai Ze Ming: Correct.】

【Su Su Haoming: How long did you live during this third rewind?】

【Bai Ze Ming: About a year.】

【Su Su Haoming: Then the timeline doesn't match!】

【Su Su Haoming: Didn't you say you waited four years?】

【Bai Ze Ming: That's right...】

【Bai Ze Ming: As long as you count the first two rewinds, there's no problem!】

【Su Su Haoming: What do you mean?】

【Lin Yu: His meaning is that a year has already passed before the reload.】

【Lin Yu: Counting from his first death to the first reload is one year, then to the second reload is another year, so by the third reload, three years have passed.】

【Lin Yu: Calculated this way, from the moment of transmigration until now, four years have indeed passed.】

【Bai Bai Zeming: No wonder you're a big shot, truly impressive!】

(End of this chapter)