Chapter 279: The Outplayed Yae Miko
Are Bai Luo and Yae Miko the same kind of people?
In a certain sense… they actually are.
They both enjoy watching drama unfold, and both enjoy creating entertainment.
But Bai Luo still keenly noticed one difference: this fox only likes watching the fun—she does not like becoming the fun thing herself.
Bai Luo, on the other hand, is different.
Rather than calling him someone who likes fun, it's more accurate to say he's a pleasure-seeking monster.
He thoroughly enjoys the process of the fun he creates, and hardly cares whether that chaos might cause him any losses.
He might even include himself as a target of his own schemes—it wouldn't be impossible.
After noticing this trait in Yae Miko, Bai Luo began setting up a plan.
A plan to give Yae Miko the illusion that the two of them are actually the same type of person.
This way, Yae Miko would start using "putting herself in his shoes" as her method to break every trap he placed.
And Bai Luo, that guy, could really play along—clearly capable of tricking Yae Miko, yet for the sake of this final and most important step, he kept cooperating with her, even at the cost of scheming against himself and getting tricked by her a few times.
Until she developed the habit of constantly thinking from his perspective.
Once the "boiling the fox slowly" effect was achieved, Bai Luo finally revealed his fangs.
Didn't you think we were the same kind of person?
Sorry—but I'm actually a bit more ruthless than you.
You thought the fruit in my hand couldn't possibly have a problem, and that I wouldn't intentionally set myself up?
In reality, I'm the kind of madman who would stab myself three times just to avoid getting beaten up by Morax.
Remember that saying?
Every sentence Bai Luo speaks, every movement, every action—none of them are meaningless.
He may look like he's just messing around, but in truth he has set up numerous schemes, with himself included as part of the chessboard.
Never believe any of his seemingly reliable actions, and never overlook his casual ones.
Because at any moment, he may use a thread so subtle no one else would notice, weaving it into a net large enough to capture an entire fox.
"Ahh, to think… in the end, the loser… turned out to be me."
Seeing Bai Luo spit out the fruit residue, Yae Miko finally understood.
As expected—anyone capable of becoming a Fatui Harbinger is never simple.
She had actually been fooled like this.
Under the effects of the Sunsettia, Yae Miko's yokai energy grew unstable, and faint traces of fur began appearing on her pale cheeks.
"I still have a few small matters to take care of, so I'll trouble the esteemed Guuji to sleep for a while."
Seeing Yae Miko struggling to stay conscious, Bai Luo's smile returned to the one he wore earlier.
But in Yae Miko's eyes, that smile looked extremely punch-worthy.
A shadow gradually covered Yae Miko's face. Seeing the staff in Bai Luo's hand, she let out a helpless sigh and stopped resisting.
Bonk—
With a puff of pink smoke, a soft, pink little fox lay on the ground, her eyes starting to roll back slightly as her limbs twitched.
After picking up the little fox, Bai Luo placed her beside Shinobu.
As a yokai, Yae Miko's constitution might be slightly stronger than a normal human's.
But the strike Bai Luo used just now was enough to knock out Azhdaha for half an hour.
Which meant that during her unconscious period, he could do quite a lot.
After covering the two of them with a blanket, Bai Luo put on his mask and disappeared from the room.
The empty room was completely silent.
Shua—
A moment later, Bai Luo appeared in the room once more.
"No, no… I can stir up trouble anytime, but opportunities like this come once in a thousand years."
He had originally left, but Bai Luo felt dissatisfied just walking away like that, so he rubbed his hands together and came back.
He grabbed the little fox's tail and gave it a few vigorous strokes.
Then he took out a special black face-paint pen from Fontaine and drew markings on the little fox's face—eyes, whiskers, a cross-shaped scar—and finally scribbled a crooked "下" character on her fluffy hind leg.
Mm, he'd only beaten this fox three times, so instead of writing "正," he'd write "下."
After finishing all this, he picked up his Kamera, held the little fox against him, and took a selfie. Only then was he satisfied enough to leave.
Concealing his presence, Bai Luo checked the time, then hurried toward Mt. Yougou.
It wasn't that he couldn't use quantum teleportation. But once he used it, his quantumization would be unusable until the cooldown finished. After being slashed by the Raiden Shogun earlier, his vigilance had risen again.
Quantumization was currently his greatest trump card—his lifeline.
There was no way he would use it recklessly while being targeted by the Raiden Shogun.
It was a pity that the Statues of The Seven and Teleport Waypoints from the game did not seem to exist in this world; otherwise…
Forget it—maybe this world simply isn't the same as the game world.
Or perhaps…
Looking at the barren wilderness around him, Bai Luo felt an idea forming in his mind.
But he couldn't verify it yet—the important thing was his current objective.
Using the ability of his One-Winged Angel, Bai Luo ran across Mt. Yougou as though it were flat ground, reaching the Grand Narukami Shrine in just over ten minutes.
Suppressing his presence and alerting no one, Bai Luo quietly slipped into Yae Miko's room.
Just like the room of any girl, Yae Miko's room carried a faint fragrance.
It's not very large, but warm and cozy in its layout.
The most eye-catching thing was a specially enshrined kagura bell.
Kagura bells were used by shrine maidens when dancing or praying. And that dance was not just any dance—it was one offered to the gods.
It was said that even the Shirasagi Himegimi of the Kamisato clan could perform such a dance.
But since she wasn't a shrine maiden, she could only use a folding fan instead of a kagura bell.
And to this day, her dance had never been shown to anyone except her older brother.
The Catalyst known as Kagura's Verity did not draw Bai Luo's attention—after all, he wasn't a Catalyst user.
What he cared about was… that thing.
After scanning the room, he finally found it.
On the desk by the window sat half-eaten fried tofu; next to the tofu was a light novel that she had read about one-third of the way through.
Inside that light novel, there was clearly something.
He had noticed this thing the last time he visited Yae Miko.
Something so precious, being used as a paperweight—it was simply wasted in the hands of this pink-haired fox.
So… he could only reluctantly take it off her hands.
And to keep her from getting angry, he had even prepared a bookmark beforehand as a "gift" in compensation.
Now… that thing was his.
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