NEET Receives a Dating Sim Game Leveling System
chapter-346

Translator: imperfectluck Editor: vb24

Ryuuno Izawa wasn't seriously injured .

He said that he could carry on battling and urged his master to continue the game . However, Kanna adamantly refused .

Kanna Fujihara decided to forfeit the game . Although it would give her a bad reputation in the Yin-Yang Master society, she didn't care .

Kanna's family had forced her into coming to this party . At heart, she was an otaku girl who didn't care at all about such venues . Nor did she care what others in the Yin-Yang Master society thought of her . At most, her family would scold her about it .

Izawa was resting on a bed in a guest room . Kanna, seated on a nearby sofa, began reading a light novel .

Rather than being together with other Yin-Yang Masters, she felt that this was far more relaxing .

Kanna felt that the only good thing about this entire party was that she had become acquainted with Natsuya Yoruhana .

She never expected to meet a girl of similar status and similar interests at such a party .

Kanna wanted to continue chatting about anime and manga with Natsuya and invite her to the upcoming otaku doujinshi convention!

'I'll try talking to her again later,' Kanna mused . 'It'd be nice if she agrees to go . '

Izawa suddenly sat up on the bed . "Master, I would like to observe the remaining rounds of the game . "

"Eh? Why?"

"Because I have my attention on . . . Yashuu-san and Shiroya-san," Izawa said with a solemn expression .

Kanna was rendered speechless .

This fujoshi girl's mind nearly exploded!

'To think that my own handsome Spirit-branded Retainer has his attention trained on two other boys!'

Various fantasies of boys' love scenes flashed through her mind: love-and-hate relationships between the three handsome boys, uke and seme , secret feelings for each other, intimate contact, and a love triangle were all included in her fantasies . . .

Kanna coughed mentally . 'Perhaps I'm getting a bit too excited . . . '

Kanna did her best to suppress her fantasies and asked, "Why do you have your attention on them?"

Izawa fell silent for a moment .

"I . . . before I served milady, I met Yashuu-san in the past," he revealed . "At that time, Yashuu-san was a friendly and open individual who took good care of me . Today, when I came here and happened to see Yashuu-san in the garden, I was quite happy to see an old friend .

"However, when I went over to chat with him, not only did Yashuu-san not know who I was, he had a terribly cold attitude, and the look in his eyes seemed abnormal . I was quite concerned about what he must have experienced . I asked him about it, but he refused to talk to me . "

A beautiful past, a coincidental reunion, and an unexpected change! One side was cold and heartless, and the other was struggling to conceal their sadness . . .

Kanna grew even more excited! Her mind started running wild again .

"After that," Izawa continued, "I met Shiroya-san . Although Shiroya-san is concealing his true appearance, after I talked to him, I felt that he is a friendly and open individual .

"He loves light novels, anime, and manga, which matches milady's interests quite well . I feel that he would get along excellently with milady, but he's unwilling to show his true self, which is truly regrettable . "

'Shiroya is an otaku? He complements his master Natsuya so well . . . perhaps he became an otaku because of Natsuya,' Kanna mused .

"After the game began, I saw that Shiroya-san defeated Yashuu-san in their first match . He was quite strong in his other match as well, which was why he caught my attention . Afterwards, I fought against Yashuu-san and was defeated . . . I had a deep impression of Yashuu-san's true strength .

"Will Yashuu-san's master challenge Shiroya-san's master to another duel? If they duel again, who will win? I'd really like to know the answer to this question . "

Izawa expressed his true thoughts, but Kanna misunderstood them .

'I understand, Ryuuno,' she thought, feeling a pang of pity . 'I understand quite clearly . On one side is an old flame that you have deep feelings for, and you were happy to see him again . Even if he rejected you coldly, you still can't let go of your feelings .

'On the other side is your new romantic interest . You received a warm feeling from him on your first meeting—what's new and fresh is always exciting . And now, the two of them are about to fight, so you want to watch them . This is only natural!

'Ahh . . . I can't take this anymore! I can't stop my own imagination!!'

The fujoshi Yin-Yang Master envisioned such an out-of-control scene in her mind that she almost went wild .

She couldn't control her raging heart, and her face flushed crimson .

Izawa was mystified by her reaction . He was about to ask why his master had such a strange expression, when he suddenly saw bright red liquid spurt out of her nose!

"Milady!? You're bleeding!" Izawa was shocked by this occurrence .

"Ahh . . . it's just a nosebleed; no need to mind it . " Kanna covered her nose with one hand . With sparkling eyes, she gave Izawa a big thumbs-up with her other hand and said, "Thanks for the meal!"

"Eh?" Izawa was confused and grunted foolishly; there was no food in sight .

Kanna placed her arms on her hips after she blocked her nosebleed with some napkins . "Alright, let's go back out again and look at your 'lovers . . . ' Whoops, I meant the two people that caught your attention . "

After the second round finished, the judge Ryouta Moritama once again displayed the point rankings .

Natsuya had risen up to claim first place . Akatsuki wasn't doing too badly as well; he was now fourth . The third round began after everyone drew cards again .

For this round's duels, the majority of the Yin-Yang Masters opted to use their cooperative battle cards and left the card table to go assist their Spirit-branded Retainers in combat .

The duels became even more spectacular to watch .

The Yin-Yang Masters cast spells to strengthen or protect their own Spirit-branded Retainers and also attacked or obstructed their foe . The cooperation between master and retainer, the strength of their spells, their timing, their judgment of the situation . . . all of the above was important .

Seiji and Natsuya had never cooperated in battle together like this . Although this put them at a disadvantage, they believed in each other .

Seiji trusted in Natsuya, and she trusted in him as well . Mutual trust was the foundation of unspoken cooperation, so he decided to make up for what they lacked in experience with spirit!

It was now Akatsuki Mitarai's turn . He used both his duel card and cooperative battle cards to target Natsuya .

He came for them as expected . Not only did Seiji and Natsuya expect this, the others were also anticipating it .

"As expected, Mitarai-kun wants his 'revenge . ' I'm looking forward to it . "

"Yep, I'm curious to see whether Hanyuu Yashuu or Shiroya-kun will emerge victorious when both are fighting seriously . "

"I'm curious about Shiroya-kun's true appearance . I hope that his disguise gets unveiled during the course of battle . "

The Yin-Yang Masters laughed and chatted about the upcoming duel .

Some people asked Natsuya just who Shiroya was and why he was unwilling to show his true appearance . Natsuya politely responded by saying that it was a secret .

When they heard this, the Yin-Yang Masters refrained from inquiring . As for how many people among them cast spells to see through the disguise and discovered the truth for themselves… that was unknown .

It was just as Seiji had told Izawa before . His own action was meaningless as many would be able to discover his identity . It was his attitude that was meaningful .

'It's fine if you find out who I am . Just don't say it out loud in public, because I want to avoid trouble . '

If someone intentionally said it out loud, then that would be intentionally going against him . For the time being, nobody did such a thing .

Natsuya also used her cooperative battle card against Akatsuki Mitarai's challenge .

"It'll be really interesting to watch Mitarai-kun and Yoruhana-san cast their support spells as well . "

"That's right . I really want to know who will do a better job between them . "

"Mitarai-kun likes Yoruhana-san, so perhaps he'll go easy on her . "

"No, with Yoruhana-san's personality, she probably wouldn't like that . Mitarai-kun should display his true power . "

"I agree . It's wrong to go easy on her . They should go all out . "

The people involved in the duel didn't hear these discussions .

Both pairs had left the card table to head for the dueling arena . Seiji entered the arena and stood facing Yashuu .

Natsuya stood behind Seiji outside of the dueling arena . Akatsuki similarly stood behind Yashuu .

Shunsuke Furukawa checked to ensure that both sides were ready and gestured for the duel to begin .

Battle . . . start!