Could there really be anyone in this world capable of refusing a big-sister type from the Limited Pool—one who's gorgeous and hits all your kinks, with a stunning figure and her power stat maxed out to boot?
Su Yuzu didn't believe it.
In any case, she couldn't.
She had to admit... ever since that [Ding——] sounded beside her ear and Tsukiyomi Fuya's Limited Pool had opened, she'd been itching to start pulling.
What a pity that Su Yuzu didn't have a single Recruitment voucher on hand.
And the paid top-up channel had become a complete decoration ever since her rebirth.
Otherwise... Su Yuzu would surely have already shown off her Cash-Powered prowess as a paying whal—... a gacha king, and married Tsukiyomi Fuya straight home.
Toward the big-sister types in the Limited Pool who existed to swindle whales, Su Yuzu held forever one single attitude.
I can leave her undeveloped, but I absolutely cannot do without her.
What's more... she really did look so tantalizing.
Su Yuzu had already begun mulling over the possibility of not going through Ten-Pull Headhunting, and instead using open Recruitment—a Recruitment method similar to the way she'd lured Sister Mai home.
But... even to this day, Su Yuzu still didn't understand the working mechanism behind open Recruitment.
She only knew that when two people made physical contact, there was an extremely small chance of triggering it.
At the same time... that trigger probability also seemed to rise as the relationship and intimacy between the two people grew closer.
Though the odds of triggering it were slim.
Still... that slim possibility seemed far greater than the chance of fishing Tsukiyomi Fuya out directly with a single ten-pull from the Limited Pool.
Damn it... what on earth was she letting her mind wander to!
She was a gacha king, after all!
Ever since obtaining the little rabbit's [Dragon King] ability, she was a gacha king worthy of the name.
"Although her power is very strong..."
"the impression Teacher Tsukiyomi usually gives off is that of a patient, gentle researcher." Soga Yura's lips moved faintly beside Su Yuzu's ear.
A voice constructed on the foundation of 「Mind Control」 was delivered into Su Yuzu's ear.
Honestly speaking... the sensation of a girl murmuring beside her ear, that gentle voice reaching straight into her cochlea and even into the depths of her soul, made all the fine hairs on Su Yuzu's body feel as though they were about to stand on end.
It wasn't that she disliked it.
Rather... it was that Su Yuzu, likewise an inheritor of the Soga clan's excellent bloodline, had nerves that were just a touch too keen.
Only at times like this would she reveal, ever so slightly, a hint of weakness before Soga Yura.
What a pity... this weak point of the girl's could only exist as a true weakness if it were grasped by a woman like Sakura Renxin.
Soga Yura...
It wasn't that Su Yuzu looked down on her.
Even if Su Yuzu were to spot her thirty rounds, the one to finally lay down her arms and surrender would surely still be Soga Yura.
Unless Soga Yura teamed up with the other girls.
Otherwise... she really wouldn't be much of a match.
"Compared to a world where human hearts and desires are unfathomable, and a land overrun by Aberrant Catastrophe, Teacher Tsukiyomi prefers the starry sky." Soga Yura's voice even carried a note of yearning.
If she could, she too would have liked to be like Teacher Tsukiyomi, roaming freely among the countless shimmering stars, together with... Yuzu, unfettered and unshakable.
"After that incident at 「Tsukimisato」 last time... the school has been very worried about my safety."
"That's why they invited Teacher Tsukiyomi to serve as the teacher in charge of this operation."
Soga Yura glanced at the woman resting against the edge of her seat up ahead, taking a brief nap.
"Inviting Teacher Tsukiyomi is actually a very difficult thing..."
"Because of the nature of her research."
"Teacher Tsukiyomi's schedule is often flipped, day and night reversed; she only falls fast asleep once the stars have set."
"It's only because I happen to be her student, and my grades are passable..."
"that Teacher Tsukiyomi was willing to leave her observatory."
An observatory, huh...
Struggling faintly amid Soga Yura's murmuring breaths, Su Yuzu even felt her own consciousness growing a little hazy.
The unique, stimulating thrill brought by that ASMR-like murmuring was, all the same, a touch too pleasurable.
What's more... Soga Yura's voice was truly, literally soul-piercing.
Its Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response was far more intense than that of ordinary ASMR.
But——
Su Yuzu still caught hold of the key information.
Tsukiyomi Fuya loved the night, loved the vast starry sky, the boundless stars.
Through Soga Yura's description and the details in the Limited Pool's character art and introduction, Su Yuzu gradually sketched out Tsukiyomi Fuya's image in her heart.
Romantic, world-shunning.
Perhaps... that dress, which looked almost excessively risqué, was the woman's bone-deep longing for beauty.
She gazed upon the stars, and she herself was as resplendent as a star.
Untrammeled, and beautiful.
"By the way, though..." Soga Yura's gaze shifted from Tsukiyomi Fuya over to Unohana Chiyo.
"Teacher Tsukiyomi..."
"seems to hold Ms. Unohana in great respect."
「Hasn't Sister ever investigated Ms. Unohana before?」 Su Yuzu was a little puzzled.
Going by Soga Yura's personality.
Forget the people around herself—even down to what material her own clothes were made of, what style and color her underwear was, Soga Yura ought to have long since investigated it all crystal clear.
"Of course I investigated."
"Ms. Unohana is a member of the Death Squad who was pulled back from the Abyss Battlefield."
"In that battle seventeen... eighteen years ago to intercept The Abyss of Eternal Smiles, she even suffered very grave injuries."
Soga Yura manifested file after file before Su Yuzu.
"But... Ms. Unohana is only a Second Sequence Metal Manipulation User, so she shouldn't have been on the main battlefield."
"What I'm curious about is that Teacher Tsukiyomi's respect for Ms. Unohana is absolutely not as simple as it looks."
[Not on the main battlefield?]
Su Yuzu suddenly recalled the first time she had awakened, when Director Saionji, in order to test her ability, had tried to make her twist that black feather.
The expressions on both Director Saionji's and Teacher Chiyo's faces as they looked at that feather had been very peculiar.
Judging from numerous details, that feather was very likely the very culprit that had destroyed Teacher Chiyo's arms... and even destroyed one of Teacher Chiyo's eyes.
And the owner of that feather... seemed to go without saying.
Not on the main battlefield?
Not necessarily.
Even to this day, Su Yuzu—who had already broken through to the Second Sequence—could still sense the astonishing aura of danger hidden beneath Unohana Chiyo's gorgeous exterior.
Su Yuzu looked at those files on Unohana Chiyo that seemed to gloss over everything in light, offhand strokes.
「Teacher Chiyo's past is absolutely not as bland as these files describe.」
"This is bland!?"
[Let me put it this way...]
「The debt Teacher Chiyo carries on her shoulders... is calculated in units of 'Medical Units.'」
Soga Yura and Su Yuzu exchanged a glance.
They suddenly, simultaneously, felt just how seriously Keigunen Private Academy and Imperial Capital University took their safety.
But... this seriousness might not be a good thing for them.
The secret on Yuzu's body was too heavy.
So heavy that Soga Yura didn't want even one more person to know it.
Creak——
The school bus suddenly came to a stop.
They'd arrived.
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