Chapter 195: Who Is Eikou?
[Yu Ji-senpai wants to secretly enter Eikou Club, kindly helping you scout out the situation a little...]
[However, the number scale of Eikou Club is now different from before, and now wanting to join this club requires passing three rounds of tests.]
[This is what they call maintaining purity!]
Noon of June 5th, in the activity room of Eikou Club.
"The first round is a written test,"
As the president, Jeanne d'Arc said seriously to the two candidates sitting below the podium.
"If you want to participate in the group activities of our Eikou Club, then at the very least you must have the same awareness and understanding. In contemporary terms, it's called 'matching frequencies', so this written test is to check whether your awareness matches that of the outside world."
"They're all very simple common sense questions, so don't worry too much. To confirm whether your frequencies match or not, examiner Melusine will also do the test with you."
"..."
Are these things you call common sense really something that can be called common sense? Yu Ji thought to herself.
She couldn't help wanting to back out, wondering whether she could really match the frequency of this group of crazy women. If she answered correctly, wouldn't she definitely become an idiot just like them?
'Can I even do this...'
Completely opposite to Yu Ji's nervous uneasiness was Britomart beside her, full of confidence.
"Leave it to Britomart." The fairy girl smiled firmly. "I memorized all the questions last night, and today I'm fully prepared!"
You're way too diligent, but do you really need to put so much effort into something this boring?
Yu Ji thought helplessly.
"Alright, please look at the questions."
Jeanne d'Arc opened the PPT, and the questions and images appeared before them.
"Among the following images, who is Mochizuki Eikou?"
D, none of them.
"What kind of question is this, there's no one who is Mochizuki Eikou in the pictures. Even if it's a common sense question, don't make it too easy, you couldn't find images that might at least cause confusion?"
Yu Ji slammed the table, unable to hold back.
D, it could only be D. The first one was Tezcatlipoca, the second dinosaur was Kijyo Koyo, the third was Angra Mainyu, all instantly eliminated, so none of the images are correct!
This question is way too common sense, what do they think this is, a kindergarten IQ test?
However, Yu Ji also let out a sigh of relief—so she had overestimated these idiots after all.
"Because this question is relatively difficult,"
Jeanne d'Arc said with a serious expression,
"You may go back and think about it, answering tomorrow won't be too late."
This question is clearly not difficult, why would they need a whole day to think? Who are you looking down on? I'll answer it for you right now!
Yu Ji grumbled inwardly, then helplessly wrote D on her paper.
Meanwhile, Britomart suddenly raised her hand, her expression serious as she asked: "Can I use outside assistance!"
"??"
Do you think this is some quiz show like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Why don't you just contact Eikou directly instead.
Yu Ji thought. The question is this simple, and you still need outside assistance—what on earth did you review last night?
Britomart's request was rejected, while Yu Ji glanced toward Melusine doing the test beside them.
"..."
The latter, when no one was looking, secretly opened cheating materials.
What the hell, the question is this easy and you still need to cheat?!
Do you people actually know Eikou or not? Why is even this kind of stupid common sense question so difficult for you!
After a while, everyone finished writing their answers.
"Hm..."
Jeanne d'Arc looked at their answers and shook her head,
"All three of you got it wrong!"
Bang!
Hearing that, Yu Ji instantly stood up in frustration,
"Impossible, how could I get this wrong, clearly it's you who made the wrong question!"
"No, our question definitely has no problem." Jeanne d'Arc said seriously.
"Then tell me, among those images, which one is Mochizuki Eikou?" Yu Ji asked, unconvinced.
"It is this one..."
The tip of Jeanne d'Arc's spear slowly pointed at the third image.
"This is 'Mochizuki Eikou covered entirely in black, COSing as Angra Mainyu.'"
Damn it, who the hell could answer that!
"Do you still remember what I just said? What we are testing is 'matching frequencies', meaning we are checking whether your wavelength aligns with that of Eikou Club. And since Eikou is always getting dragged into all sorts of strange incidents, we must use the special common sense of Eikou Club to understand things. It's very common for him to COS as a Servant."
"Turning Babbage-sensei into 2B, or suddenly crawling into Britomart's mech—behaviors that go against normal common sense are actually the common sense here. I hope you can think beyond the question itself."
Nonsense, Eikou has never COSed as other Servants before, don't go adding random settings to him!
Yu Ji helplessly rubbed her hair.
So this turned out to be a brain-twister type frequency question. Trying to measure these people with normal human common sense was useless after all.
Fine, she would accept being tricked this time.
"Oh no, so it was a trap, Britomart great failure..."
Britomart on the other side lowered her head gloomily as she stared at her answer.
"You also fell for it..."
Yu Ji was just about to comfort the fairy girl a little so she wouldn't feel bad, when she saw her answer—A.
"..."
In your eyes, Eikou looks like that???
You really are a natural-born idiot, what kind of trap did you fall into? I can't see any sign that you studied at all!
"Wait, following this way of thinking, my answer should be correct."
Melusine raised her answer board.
"I believe this is Mochizuki Eikou."
"?"
Yu Ji froze.
Wasn't that just a dinosaur? It didn't look like Mochizuki Eikou at all. Don't tell me this is Mochizuki Eikou from America's Lostbelt, I absolutely won't accept such a stupid explanation!
Melusine straightened her back and declared boldly:
"That is 'Mochizuki Eikou wearing a dinosaur suit, COSing as Kijyo Koyo!'"
"Huh??"
Jeanne d'Arc's eyes sharpened: "It seems that you have understood the essence of this question!"
Britomart's eyes lit up immediately, "In that case, mine should be 'Mochizuki Eikou-sama wearing armor and a mask, COSing as Tezcatlipoca'!"
"Very good, both of you have grasped it!"
Yu Ji: "Huh???"
How could such a stupid question end up eliminating only me?!
Jeanne d'Arc looked at the two of them, then at Yu Ji who was stunned like a statue.
"It seems that in this round, only Assassin-san has failed..."
"..."
"Don't be discouraged, Yu Ji-san, there are still chances ahead..." Britomart smiled and comforted her, "Let's work hard together, I'll stay by your side."
Pitied. She was being pitied by this group of idiots? Why do I have to accept their pity, this is too humiliating!
Yu Ji no longer had the strength to complain.
It was only the first test, and she already felt like she couldn't go on.
Is this Eikou Club… always like this?
"Mama~,"
Jeanne d'Arc smiled and encouraged her,
"It's fine if you didn't pass the first written test, the next two rounds are still full of chances. Let us begin the second test~"
"L-let's… begin..."
Yu Ji answered weakly, already wanting to go home.
"Alright, the first written test was to check your understanding of Eikou, while the second test is to examine your tolerance and affection for him, which means..."
Jeanne d'Arc took out a box of poker cards and placed it on their test table,
"Let's play poker!"
This has absolutely nothing to do with love or tolerance, you just want someone to play games with you!
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