Shi Xiaobai did not realize the strange gazes from everyone, because at this moment, a familiar and fiery voice was resounding in his mind.
"Absolute Choice completed. Congratulations to the Host for obtaining an 'E-level reward'—A-level reward fragment (10%). Currently, the amount of A-level reward fragments you possess is 10%!"
Shi Xiaobai immediately experienced mixed emotions. Although the accumulation of lower level rewards could combine into a higher level reward, he had not received any substantial reward, making him unhappy; but then again, he had managed to hit the hundredth target by luck after all, so he could not help but feel a little excited.
"There is indeed nothing This King can't do!"
The confidence Shi Xiaobai nearly lost was restored and had even increased. As he praised himself happily in his mind, he finally recalled an unforgettable agreement he had with Riko. Upon recalling how the Violent Girl had said "I'll agreed to anything you want", Shi Xiaobai's heartbeat began to palpitate. He immediately turned to look at the seats on the right, but he saw a girl walking towards him.
Shi Xiaobai was still unaware of the strange silence in the room, as well as the complicated looks everyone had. He only had eyes for the girl with the ponytail, as a fiery voice slowly spat out from his mouth.
"Girl, from this moment onwards, you are This King's person!"
The silence in the room was immediately shattered.
...
As the people in the room considered the various anomalies during Shi Xiaobai's ability test, they naturally came to the conclusion that Shi Xiaobai had machinated a meticulous scheme. However, there were two doubts they could not shrug off from their minds. One of them was how did Shi Xiaobai manage to pull off his anticipatory shot? Thankfully, the three older people—with their rich experience—revealed the truth to everyone. Everyone was extremely astonished, as they began to realize how they couldn't comprehend this silly youth who proclaimed himself "King".
Hence, the second doubt immediately became the thing that held the greatest suspense—What was Shi Xiaobai scheming? What request did he want Riko to fulfill? Towards such a young and beautiful girl with such a good figure, what sort of request would he have? Could it be...
As everyone's hearts were filled with suspicion, Shi Xiaobai revealed the truth himself!
Shi Xiaobai had said to Riko—"From this moment onwards, you are This King's person"! Holy shit. This person was actually coveting Miss Riko! Fuck, this kind of silent sexual predator was the worst. He acted silly and dumb, but he secretly had a mind more corrupt than anyone. And most critical of all, this pervert was an uber-genius with dual S level natural endowment and Perception of God! Fuck, this world is so unfair!
Everyone affirmed their guesses in their hearts, as they immediately gave Shi Xiaobai strange looks.
The one with the most intense reaction was naturally Riko. She had not spent much time with Shi Xiaobai yet, but she refused to believe that Shi Xiaobai would make any corrupted requests. However, she did not expect Shi Xiaobai to immediately claim her as his own. Riko was immediately extremely embarrassed.
Realizing Shi Xiaobai was about to open his mouth to speak again, she was afraid he would say something dreadful. Riko immediately charged at Shi Xiaobai like a ferocious beast!
Using the fastest speed in her life, Riko charged straight in front of Shi Xiaobai and grabbed his neck with one hand, covering his mouth with the other. At the same time, she shouted, "Shut up!"
While breathing rapidly, she leaned towards Shi Xiaobai's ear and gnashed her teeth and, in a mild voice, she said, "If there's anything you want to say, do it later!"
Riko did not want to embarrass themselves any further in front of everybody. Besides, if Shi Xiaobai made an excessive demand, she could not resort to violence in front of so many people. When they were alone, she could then brazenly "reject" Shi Xiaobai.
While fantasizing how she would bash Shi Xiaobai up to the point of him begging on his knees, pleading for mercy, Riko did not realize how suggestive it looked with her grabbing Shi Xiaobai by the neck from the back. Her well-developed chest was tightly adhered to Shi Xiaobai's back, squeezed tightly like cotton.
Shi Xiaobai felt a soft and extremely elastic feeling and could not help but turn to look at the girl's weapon.
"Is this the legendary magic—Ball Dribble Charging*? I heard that this magic attack can weaken the vitality of male biological beings! Oh, does Violent Girl want to harm This King?"
Shi Xiaobai was panic-stricken as he immediately wanted to shout "distance yourself from This King", but as his mouth was covered, he could only produce muffled "Wu Wu Wu" sounds as his body kept struggling.
Shi Xiaobai's struggling immediately caused their bodies to rub. Finally, Riko realized something odd and, tracing Shi Xiaobai's gaze, she realized her chest was tightly clinging to Shi Xiaobai's back and, due to Shi Xiaobai's struggling, was even...
"Ah~ Pervert!"
Riko's face immediately turned red as she retreated backwards while screaming. She stretched out her hands to cover her chest, as she realized how this sacred area, which had never been touched before, had just been nudged here and there by this thirteen-year-old youth. Immediately, she was too deep for tears.
After a moment of embarrassment, she grabbed Shi Xiaobai by the collar and directly dragged Shi Xiaobai to the door. She coldly said to everyone else in the room, "The test is over. We will be leaving first!" With that, she dragged Shi Xiaobai out of the room with a face full of murderous intent.
After the duo left, the people left in the room remained in their petrified states. The things that happened today were just too weird, shocking and fucking capable of rendering you speechless!
After a long while, only when the elder said, "Let's disperse," did everyone disperse with preoccupied thoughts.
The elder sighed. Regardless of Shi Xiaobai's personality, he was destined to be a talent [Gaia] would develop with all it had. The organization would not interfere with his private matters, but Riko Minamiya's status was somewhat special. This matter was probably going to be very complicated!
...
Shi Xiaobai was pulled to a dark corner by Riko with a bewildered look. Just as he was about to ask what had happened, he realized the girl's eyes were reddish, and tears were beginning to well up.
"Girl...You.." Shi Xiaobai was stunned.
"Shi Xiaobai, I said I would agree to anything."
Riko's voice was so cold that it seemed like a slab of ice from the Arctic. "Say it now, what is your request?"
Riko stared intently at Shi Xiaobai. She was originally extremely angry, but the more she thought, the more depressed she felt. She did not hate that silly young boy who had eight-grader syndrome and was even very willing to be his friend. So even up to this point, her heart still retained the last bit of trust. Of course, now was the moment she gave Shi Xiaobai the benefit of the doubt. If she heard words that made her disgusted from his mouth, then she did not mind educating this misguided child.
Shi Xiaobai could sense Riko's seriousness and earnestness from her eyes and mannerism. As such, his expression also gradually turned serious. He said with a bitter heart, "Girl, as expected, you still aren't willing to sign a contract with This King?"
"Ah?" Riko froze.
Shi Xiaobai sighed and said, "You said that you would agree to any request from This King! This King doesn't have many requests, all This King wants is to sign a contract with you!"
Riko finally realized that something wasn't right. She asked curiously, "Signing a contract.. What...does it mean?"
Shi Xiaobai's eyes lit up and used a fiery voice to say, "Becoming an aide of This King, joining Xiaobai's Hero Squad, so as to save the world with This King!"
Riko was dumbfounded as she asked, "Then, just now, when you said I am your person, what did that mean?"
Shi Xiaobai revealed an expression that said "are you a retard" and said, "By joining Xiaobai's Hero Squad, you are naturally This King's person!"
Holy shit, so that was the meaning!
Riko was at a loss whether to laugh or to cry. The ice in her heart melted. In her heart, she came to the realization that the youth in front of her was indeed—an idiot!
Shi Xiaobai sensed that Riko was intending to go back on her words, so he hurriedly said, "Girl, don't you go back on your words!"
Riko rolled her eyes at him and after a little hesitation, she said softly, "I agree to it."
Shi Xiaobai was stunned, before he roared with laughter, "Girl, from this moment, you are This King's person! You are not to use violence against This King!"
Upon hearing this, Riko, who had just raised her fist, burst into laughter.
Just like the sudden spring wind that blew in the night, it blew away all the pear flowers away.
* Dribble Charging originally refers to a foul in basketball, but has been used as a term describing a girl using her breasts to deliver a deathblow.
In the afternoon, Riko brought Shi Xiaobai around Steel City. Steel City was divided into five zones. The jurisdiction zones of the four Divisions were separately the north, south, east and west. In the middle was a joint area with buildings for meetings as well as shared facilities.
[Gaia]'s reputation was now in decline, but it had once been brilliant in China. [Gaia] Base had been established back in its glory days, hence, the facilities in Steel City were considerably adequate. It could be said it had everything. It had restaurants, supermarkets, karaoke bars, bars and other entertainment outlets. It even had a game arcade.
However, this world's "virtual reality" was surprisingly well-developed. Every game was basically a "virtual game" meant for training the abilities of Heroes. Shi Xiaobai's eyes glowed immediately as he yearned to try them out. Riko did not have that much time to waste with him at a game arcade, so she pulled him away. Shi Xiaobai lamented in pity as he decided that he had to find an opportunity to play every game in the game arcade in the future.
It was unknown where Riko obtained a car from. The duo drove around and walked around, traversing most of Steel City in its entirety. Of course, the main introduction was [Annihilation]'s jurisdiction zone.
[Annihilation]'s jurisdiction zone was located to the south of Steel City. The facilities it had were not any different from the other three jurisdiction zones'. The main thing Riko wanted to do was to let Shi Xiaobai understand the structure of the jurisdiction zone, so that he would not get lost while outside. As for whether Shi Xiaobai was listening attentively or not, that was unknown.
The results of the Rookie Evaluation Test were out in the afternoon. A few text messages were sent to Riko's cellphone. Shi Xiaobai had naturally received first place for [Annihilation] in this batch of rookie evaluations. He also became this year's second S– Class rookie. If Shi Xiaobai had received one more point in the ability test, he could have had a chance to achieve S, or even S+ Class. After all, his dual S Class natural endowment was something that only appeared once in several years in the entire world, while he was the first in [Gaia] ever since its establishment.
There was another text message which was quite thought-provoking. According to the organization's investigation, Shi Xiaobai's identity came up completely blank! This meant that even [Gaia]'s intelligence agencies were unable to obtain any information about Shi Xiaobai. There were only two possibilities for this to occur. Either the confidentiality of Shi Xiaobai's identity was above [Gaia]'s clearance level or Shi Xiaobai had appeared out of thin air. The former was unbelievable, while the latter was preposterous.
But in any case, [Gaia] would not easily let a rare uber-class rookie disappear from their grasp. Even if they had to resort to brainwashing techniques, they would do so just to make Shi Xiaobai have a sense of belonging to [Gaia].
This matter resulted in two conflicting text messages. One of them was sent by the upper echelons of [Gaia]. It vaguely hinted to Riko that while protecting herself, she should try her best to make Shi Xiaobai have a sense of belonging to the organization. It implied a request for Riko to play with Shi Xiaobai's feelings, making Shi Xiaobai fall for her. On this matter, it made Riko unsure whether to laugh or cry, but at the same time, she was infuriated.
The other text message had healed her hurt heart. It was a message sent from her father. Her father's text message cussed at Shi Xiaobai, sternly requesting Riko to distance herself from Shi Xiaobai. He also expressed that he would settle any problems that came from the organization's upper echelons. He wanted Riko to focus on her own matters and to not make any compromises.
Riko immediately replied her father's text message, explaining the misunderstanding. She also depicted her understanding of Shi Xiaobai. After Riko's father received the text message, he immediately responded with—"There's really such an idiotic child?"
Riko immediately laughed in stitches as she began tapping noisily at her cellphone, producing a large passage mentioning how silly Shi Xiaobai was. Immediately, her mood turned better.
After that, Riko sent another text message to the organization's upper echelons. She explained that Shi Xiaobai was a pure and kind child, and that she treated Shi Xiaobai as her younger brother.
The reaction from the upper echelons was swift. They immediately responded with a text message that gave Riko a headache. In summary, the organization decided that Riko was to play the role of Shi Xiaobai's rookie counselor. Also, as there were not enough room in the rookie dormitories, Shi Xiaobai was to temporarily stay with Riko, and they had even used "a younger brother living in his elder sister's house is completely reasonable" as the corresponding reason.
In accordance with established practices, [Gaia] would specially match a corresponding counselor to rookies at A Class or above. The counselor would guide and help the rookie in the beginning stages. The counselor was typically assigned to a young staff member of the organization as a side job. However, Riko's status was extremely special. Not only was she the daughter of the Minamiya family, she was even this generation's Oceanic Pontus. With her status, there was no need for her to shoulder the responsibility as rookie counselor. This was clearly arranged deliberately by the upper echelons.
As for there not being enough room in the rookie dormitories, that was even more preposterous. As a famous Hero organization in the country, and even internationally, how could [Gaia] lack a dormitory room? This excuse was too perfunctory! It was clearly forcing Shi Xiaobai to live with her!
Riko was so furious that she nearly threw her cellphone. Actually, with her status, the upper echelons could not do a thing if she directly rejected their request. If not, the upper echelons would not have used a negotiatory tone, or even have the need to use such a lame excuse.
However, Riko did not immediately reject them. After she sank her thoughts to ponder over it, she finally decided to agree to the upper echelon's request. Firstly, Shi Xiaobai was recruited by her, so she had a certain amount of responsibility. Secondly, she did not hate spending time with Shi Xiaobai. Besides, Shi Xiaobai was still a child. The place she stayed at did have many spare rooms. Thirdly, she was afraid that after her rejection, the organization would find another beauty to seduce Shi Xiaobai. When the time came, she would feel sorry for the beauty that had been coerced by the organization.
For the organization's upper echelons to go so far for Shi Xiaobai showed how stunning his natural endowment was. Riko did not wish for Shi Xiaobai to become a war victim amongst the rotten management of [Gaia]. She felt that it was her duty to protect this thirteen-year-old boy, just like an elder sister.
...
Along the way, Riko's mind was weighed down by various thoughts, while Shi Xiaobai had problems on his mind too. Back when he first met Riko, the scene of Riko instantly slicing the calamity fiend, Sahadun, to pieces was imprinted in his mind. Back then, he told himself—This Girl is the Heroine he had always been looking for. He definitely needed her to join Xiaobai's Hero Squad.
Now, he had finally gotten his wish, and because of that, another wish rose up to the surface of his heart.
However, due to his reservations as King, Shi Xiaobai forced himself not to say it. Neither after dinner, nor after he followed Riko back to her home—a warm house constructed in steel encasings—and even when she turned on the television and watched the flashy fighting program about the Heroes league on a forty inch crystal display. Only when Riko was about to go for a shower did he lose his wits, unable to hold it in any longer. He tugged at her hand and let out the words buried deep inside his heart all along.
"I want to become stronger. Please help me."
Shi Xiaobai was not aware of how his future would be hallowed, or of how many organizations and the interests of a select few would pursue him. He only knew that he was still an ordinary person at this moment in time. He was still the same weakling who was powerless in front of that Sahadun. And because of that, he wanted to become stronger. And the girl in front of him was a member of Xiaobai's Hero Squad, his ally. He wished that she could help him.
At this moment, Shi Xiaobai no longer called himself "This King". His eyes were as bright as the stars and as deep as the starry sky.
At this moment, while looking into this youth's eyes, Riko was very glad that she had chosen to agree to the organization's request.
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