1.12 – Staircase Of Death – Crimson Academy

The next day, Bing Shi and Alisa met up in LéCaffe. They sat down together and ordered some drinks and desserts.

"How is it going?" Bing Shi glanced at Alisa, whose face flushed red.

"He talks a lot more now. You are wonderful!" Alisa praised her.

"I know. This is the last time we are seeing each other, so don't contact me anymore," Bing Shi grinned happily.

░I like praises. Praise me moore ♪♫░

"Is Olivia coming back?" asked Alisa in tears. Miss Olivia was like a prophet who knew things which shouldn't be known. Without miss Olivia, she would be unable to read Xavier as easily.

"Oh, so you noticed, no wonder from a scholarship student. You are smart. This is our little secret," Olivia chuckled at herself, well she did give hints here and there that she was not the real Olivia.

"It was nice to meet you, can I know your name?" asked Alisa hopefully.

Bing Shi brought out a pepper spray, which she bought in a weapon shop; writing her name on it, she gave it to Alisa.

❝Kuro, Don't you feel like I just gave her an autograph?❞

❰LOL, I have no feelings.❱

Alisa looked at the girl who suddenly burst out with laughter. She accepted her signed gift and started to laugh too.

░Dear, I'm so good, I even taught my system how to make jokes.░

❝Good one Kuro!❞

❰Thank you.❱

"Miss Olivia, What about the debt?" asked Alisa.

"It's cleared. But it'd help me if you won a couple of the year contest."

"But I couldn't beat him in studies," she said sadly.

"Aren't you better at cooking? You are better than him in many things. Like...kissing, for example?" Olivia quickly thought of a reason and grinned at Alisa, trying to hold in her laughter.

"Oh. I see," Alisa giggled, remembering her first kiss with Xavier.

When they finished their meeting, they quickly went home to prepare for the masquerade ball.

While Grace was picked up by Mark, Bing Shi alone in a beautiful black dress, drove to school with her chauffeur. Instead of a masquerade ball, she walked into the school hallway, reaching the school staircase, she stopped at her steps.

❝Kuro, you have to be always alert around staircases. Because lots of accidents happen around them, I call them staircase of death.❞

She said as she reached the staircase and sat down at the bottom of the staircase.

░But I wonder what would happen if I sit near the ground. Now, points come at mee ♪♫░

❰I'll be careful.❱

She pulled a phone out from her clutch and started to watch videos while waiting for her points to come.

❰Host someone is coming.❱

❝Prepare yourself Kuro. We are leaving!❞

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"So, you were here the whole time," a cold voice called out of nowhere. Victor appeared in front of the girl who suddenly stood up from her sitting position.

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Before he could continue, he felt his eyes burning. The pain quickly transferred to his skin and his throat. He closed his eyes and clutched his throat, finding it difficult to breathe, he started coughing. Everything burned him so much. He couldn't even open his eyes. When he forced his eyes open, he couldn't see anything. Her stupid pepper spray blinded him!

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""Nora, help me!""

{ I don't know how!}

He tried to calm down.

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❰Hidden quest success: Alisa and Xavier become a couple of the year +1000p.❱

❝Yaay! My points, you calculated it well Kuro. Good job!❞

"Sorry for hurting you, but you can't suddenly appear before a girl. It would scare her away," a girl's voice called out.

"..." Victor held his face, growling in pain.

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"Do you like Olivia? I doubt it. You were not sincere at all," she said in disappointment.

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"..." His throat was burning, unable to answer her.

"I'll take it as a no then. I wish you happiness," she giggled. "Sorry! It was out of reflex! Let's not meet each other ever again," she apologized hastily, "Bye-bye."

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After she finished her last sentence, she disappeared, leaving behind Olivia's body, who fell asleep on the ground. Olivia would sooner or later wake up with amnesia.

When the pepper spray cooled down, Victor could see again.

""Did you see her system?""

{ No, for safety reasons systems can't track each other in case of rebellion, But this world is strange I can't monitor anybody. It's like something is blocking me. Host, how did you notice she had a system?}

""Her speed pill.""

Zhang Wei, aka Viktor Egerton. His system was a revenge type of system. His task was to take revenge on his father and his family. Nevertheless, Viktor Egerton's second wish was to get together with his fiance.

Viktor picked up the girl on the ground and took her to the hospital. Not even once did he look at her. When the girl woke up, he turned on his acting mode, ready to seduce her.

He didn't even have to try, and she fell to his arm readily, his ego raising up, but when he thought about that untouchable woman, his ego turned below the zero until it reached negative.

When he came back to his space, he returned to his original body. A dangerously handsome man with a well-trained body. His hand went through his fiery red hair. He closed his eyes, each of different colors, and called for his system, "Nora, Next world."

Somewhere in the system space...

"Did you hear?"

"That system came back and finished the task successfully!"

"Yeah, that system which never could find a host as nobody was compatible with it."

"Is its host powerful? Why is everyone talking about it?"

"Yeah, she must be! Kuro always spoke about how cool she is. His host is called Bing Shi."

"When it came back, it started to talk about how its host never treated it bad! And started to LOL at everyone!" (ノ｀Д')ノ彡┻━┻

"I want a host like BingShi too! She sounds cool! My host is always bullying me. Wuwuwu."

"Me too! My host always says how useless I'm. But she never asked for my help, always acting cool."

"My host is terrifying! I'm scared of her."

"Bing Shi even taught me how to laugh, LOL."

Everyone wanted to punch Kuro when they heard its LOL.

"Bing Shi even taught me how to protect her, I'm the most useful system she said, LOL."

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╔════ Author's note ═════╗

I was often sad that the second male lead always ended up alone. You could call it "A second male lead syndrome", or "Unfulfilled ships". That's how this arc came to life.

So... What we learn from this arc?

Summarizing it up, it sounds a lot like those shoujo mangas I read during my childhood.

(＾∇＾)ﾉ♪

The heroine is a yandere.

The male lead is a man with no EQ.

The second male leads is a stalker.

The villain is a tsundere.

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