After reuniting with Asuna, the two walked side by side towards the school gate of Kuoh Academy.
However, when Hiro and Asuna were still some distance away from the school gate, a brown-haired student ran past them, cursing under his breath.
"That old hag is so annoying! By now, Issei and the others should have already started, right? I missed the opening credits, damn it! That damn old hag!"
Hyoudou Issei? I was just about to look for him, and he appeared right in front of me.
What a coincidence.
Noticing the "4" mark above the person's head, Hiro raised an eyebrow slightly.
However, as the Red Dragon Emperor's host and one of the original protagonists of this mixed world, why does he only have a "4"?
"Steal."
Opportunity knocks.
Before Hyoudou Issei walked too far away, Hiro quickly shouted in his heart.
"Ding! The time required for this extraction is 1 minute. Do you wish to begin?"
"Begin."
"Current task: Observe Hyoudou Issei's back for one second. Remaining time reduced by 1 minute."
One minute...
this Hyoudou Issei is weak.
While thinking this, the system task had already been completed unknowingly by Hiro.
"Ding! Fourth-Tier luck extraction completed. Congratulations host for obtaining: One Random Pet Summoning Card (this world limited).
The lower limit of the summoned pet's strength is a mid-class devil, with no upper limit. Loyalty is automatically locked to the maximum value."
This thing...
seems not very useful? Or very useful? However, for something that completely depends on luck, I really don't have much confidence...
...
However, much to his surprise, in just over a second, Asuna on his right had already noticed where his gaze was fixed, looking at Hyoudou Issei's back with some confusion and asking:
"Nanamiya-kun, is there something wrong with that person? Is he an acquaintance of yours?"
Since all the male uniforms of Kuoh Academy High School were of the same type and hadn't changed in recent years, Asuna couldn't tell whether Hyoudou Issei was a first-year, second-year, or third-year student just by looking at his appearance and clothing.
Unless, she had the ability of absolute memory like Hiro...
"Acquaintance? No, I'm not servant with him at all, and I don't want to get involved with him in any way."
Looking at Hyoudou Issei's receding figure, a hint of disgust appeared in Hiro's eyes.
He seriously instructed Asuna beside him:
"Asuna, you too, if you see that person, you must stay far away from him and don't get involved with him in any way. He's one of the three perverts of Kuoh Academy High School. Just hearing that nickname, you should be able to guess how terrible his personality is. The other two are the bald guy and the bespectacled guy who often walk with him. You'll see them sooner or later."
"One of the three perverts...?" Before Hyoudou Issei's figure completely disappeared around the corner, Asuna gave him one last look, a very strange expression on her face.
"If his personality is so bad, why hasn't he been expelled by the school?"
"Who knows? Maybe the student council members are more open-minded and think that the three of them haven't crossed the line yet, so they still have value to be saved?"
Hiro thought of the "insider" in the student council who had a good relationship with Hyoudou Issei, clicked his tongue, and said casually.
A look of understanding yet not quite understanding appeared on Asuna's face.
She nodded and said nothing.
Returning home, Hiro immediately locked himself in his room and took out a square, pure white small card from the system's item bar.
Just as he was about to use it, he suddenly realized an important issue:
The pet's lower limit is a mid-class devil, with no upper limit.
Doesn't that mean that big shots like Ophis, Great Red, Jörmungandr, Tiamat, etc., are also possible?
If that's really the case...
Looking up at the white ceiling only about three meters above, Hiro silently stuffed the card back into the system's item bar.
Anyway, things won't disappear if I leave them there.
It would be really troublesome if the ceiling got a hole in it.
Even though the Kirigaya residence now had a spare guest room besides the rooms used by him, Nanamiya Yasuko, and the mother-daughter pair Kirigaya, Yasuko might pull him to sleep together with her under the pretext of "strengthening mother-son feelings"...
After all, even if there was no problem with the house, such precedents had already occurred more than once.
After thinking for a while, Hiro changed into casual clothes, left his room, and planned to take a stroll in Saitama Prefecture at night.
"Aunt Kirigaya, I'm going out. You don't need to prepare dinner for me tonight."
Sitting on the genkan before the doorway, Hiro shouted towards the living room at the back.
"Okay, Hiro-kun, be careful when you go out at night. Don't go into those deserted alleys, understand? According to the news reports, just yesterday two people were killed and eaten alive by ghouls here. It's terrifying."
"I know."
You don't know, I was actually at that scene yesterday...
Muttering inwardly, the prepared Hiro stood up and opened the front door of the residence... ...
Night fell, in the Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo, a warehouse district where almost no one would pass by.
Hiro took out the "Random Pet Summoning Card" from the system space again, looked down at the white card in his palm, and silently muttered "use."
The moment the thought fell, the paper-like card instantly disappeared from his palm.
Subsequently, a jet-black circular pattern, or rather a summoning array, with a diameter of five or six meters, quietly appeared on the concrete ground in front of him.
A summoning array~~ such a cliché method, but looking at this scale, it doesn't seem like a small pet.
Should I say I'm lucky? Or was my judgment accurate?
Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~
A gale, centered on the summoning array in front of him, suddenly rose without any warning, causing Hiro, who was nearby, to instinctively squint his eyes.
In less than two seconds, the howling gale abruptly stopped, and a huge figure about 8 meters tall, with one eye, two legs, and no arms, appeared in front of Hiro, causing his pupils to suddenly contract, his heart filled with shock:
This, this, this, a Heavy Laser-class BETA??!!
Good heavens, is this world really that difficult?
So, am I here to be a savior?
P.S.: A normal Laser-class (right small) is 3 meters tall, 12 meters long, and 16 meters wide.
A Heavy Laser-class, judging by appearance, is about 8 meters tall?
For those who haven't seen it, just think of BETA as Zerg, the kind of Zerg that has evolved for countless years and devoured countless galaxies in the Mahayana stage, perhaps even stronger...