"It's like this, sir. I may be young, but I'd say I've seen a bit of the world and met all kinds of people."
"I also know I'm pretty good-looking. When I'm walking down the street, people ask for my contact info. Sometimes they're even more direct—asking if I'd be their girlfriend. All of that I can understand. Really."
"But… how do I put this?"
Lungmen. The "Hee-Hee-Ha-Ha" Dessert Shop. A window seat.
The red-haired Sankta stared at the black-haired young man sitting across from her—and at the apple pie he had brought—lost in thought.
"Trying to get into my pants with a single dessert? You're the first."
"Get into your pants?" The young man froze for a beat, then waved his hands frantically. "N-no, no, Miss Exusiai, you've misunderstood! I don't have such filthy thoughts. I'm just—purely—inviting you to fuse with me, that's all."
"Changing the wording doesn't change the fact it's sexual harassment." Exusiai sighed. "What is going on lately? It's not even spring. How repressed do you have to be? What, your hand's gone numb or something?"
"So I'm telling you, you really misunderstood. I'm not some sexual-harassment freak—"
The young man tried to keep explaining, but Exusiai had already lost interest.
"Mm-hmm, sure, I got it. Don't worry, I can understand." She stood up. "But sorry—I've got work. Can't keep you company. I'm taking this pie, though… call it compensation for the harassment."
She picked up the apple pie and turned to leave.
"Wait." The young man instinctively grabbed her hand.
Exusiai's eyes narrowed immediately. "Oh? You planning to get physical now? Do you know what my relationship with Officer Ch'en from the LGD is?"
He jerked his hand back in panic. "W-what relationship?"
Exusiai stuffed a bite of pie into her mouth and answered through full cheeks, "Fugitive. She's arrested me a bunch of times."
The young man blanked.
Before he could process it, Exusiai waved cheerfully.
"See you around, Mister Repressed."
And she strode out of the dessert shop as if she owned the place.
By the time the black-haired young man came back to his senses, Exusiai was already outside—and the small text floating on his retina had changed from "Fusion target detected" to "No fusion target detected."
"Like I said, it's a misunderstanding…" he sighed. "I really just want to fuse."
…
His name was Lin Ji. A transmigrator.
He had been in this weird world for a while now.
Weird, because he didn't actually know it very well—only vaguely remembered it was one of those cute-girl mobile game worlds.
Which was ridiculous. He was a real man. He grew up on Ultraman. How could he possibly play some shut-in's waifu game?
If he had to get isekai'd, couldn't it be to an Ultraman world, or a Kamen Rider world, damn it?
Lin Ji fumed.
But maybe the heavens had heard him—because when he was thrown into this world, he was given a system, the kind that fit his "Ultraman or Kamen Rider" dream perfectly.
The only problem was…
It was Ultraman Ace.
Or rather…
It was Kamen Rider W.
In simple terms, he did have extraordinary power—but he needed another person to use it. The kind of teamwork that felt like activating a Fusion card.
Yet ever since arriving here, he'd never found that person. The system's status in his vision stayed stuck on "No fusion target detected."
For a long time, Lin Ji honestly believed the damn heavens had screwed up—that his Minami Yuko and his Philip simply weren't in this world at all!
Until the day he met the person from earlier.
Lin Ji knew almost nothing about the game, but he still recognized Exusiai a little—because she was one of those characters famous enough to break out of the fandom. He even vaguely remembered seeing her in an Alipay ad.
And according to his system, she was a "viable fusion material."
That made Lin Ji realize he hadn't ended up in the wrong world at all.
It was just that the "fusion materials" he needed were probably named characters from the game. And since the system had dumped him into Lungmen—a city of a million people—he simply hadn't run into any of them.
But now that he'd finally found one, there was no way he could let the chance slip.
In that hazy memory of his, she seemed to love apple pie.
So he used that as his hook, went to great lengths to set up a meeting…
And then, just like that, his Minami Yuko—his Philip—treated him like some kind of sexual-harassment creep.
Damn it. At a time like this, shouldn't she be saying, "I've been waiting for you, partner"?
…Sigh.
Fine. Next time, then.
Lin Ji walked through an empty alley, mood heavy.
The reason he was so desperate to fuse with Exusiai was simple:
He hadn't come to this world alone.
Some other… very strange things had come with him.
Rustle… rustle…
Lin Ji stopped and looked deeper into the alley.
A black vortex hung in midair, slowly spinning. Sludge as thick and dark as crude oil dripped from it, pooling on the ground and rising into a human-shaped mass of mud.
The sludge lifted its head, staring at Lin Ji with hollow eye sockets.
Lin Ji sighed.
Yes.
This was the thing that had followed him into this world.
He knew it wasn't native to this place because only he could see it. Locals reacted to it like it didn't exist.
It would spawn out of corners at random and attack him.
Its core was weak—like right now, where a single brick could easily smash it apart.
But if a living person happened to be nearby, it would immediately possess them. The possessed would lose all reason and attack Lin Ji on sight.
And the stronger the host, the stronger it became.
It didn't even need to be that strong. Once, it possessed an old granny—and that old granny nearly killed him.
So Lin Ji didn't dare hang around crowded areas. He even lived in a remote alley, just so he could deal with this thing more easily.
Thankfully, it had spawned again.
Lin Ji pulled a brick from his pocket out of sheer muscle memory and headed toward it.
No one was around.
This time, he'd smash it dead.
But just as he thought that—
A booming shout exploded from above:
"Penguin Logistics scum! Stop right there!"
"That won't work. Even our boss can't make me stop~ Watch your step, old man."
That familiar voice made Lin Ji's heart sink.
He looked up—
And sure enough, a striking red figure flashed across the rooftops. The unmistakable halo and wings glittered under the sun.
"Hop!" She landed lightly, then stared at Lin Ji in surprise. "Huh? Mister Sexual Harassment—what are you doing here?"
Before Lin Ji could say anything, another thunderous crash shook the alley.
A fat man with a face full of brutish flesh tumbled off the roof, smashing into the ground right in front of them.
"Told you to watch your step," Exusiai said with a grin.
In Lin Ji's field of view, the fat man had landed right beside the puddle of black sludge.
Almost instantly, the sludge swallowed him whole.
"Holy—!"
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