“Elias, here. Wear this.”
After tying the [Key Stone] onto a woven cord, Lucario stepped forward and handed it to Elias.
Their conversation with Zoroark cut off mid-bicker, Elias blinked, then gave a slightly awkward cough.
He’d gotten so caught up arguing with Zoroark that he’d forgotten Lucario was even standing there.
Talking about him losing... right to his face... not great.
“Sorry, Lucario. I didn’t mean it like that,...
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[Over the next few days, your time is split between aura training, exploring ruins with Cynthia, and helping Cogita tend her flowers.]
[It feels like everyone’s taken a piece of your schedule, and yet… when you finally sit down and do the math, somehow you’ve still spent the most time with Zoroark.]
"How do you even manage that?"
Elias set down his pen and paper, turning to Zoroark with a baffled look.
He was starting to suspect ...
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The moment Lucario linked her with [Aura], Zoroark felt like her entire world had been refreshed.
Even though she was still downstairs, she could now hear every sound from the room above with perfect clarity.
She could even make out Elias’s steady breathing.
So this is [Aura]...
She gave Lucario a rare nod of approval.
Lucario snorted dismissively and returned to his meditation.
Meanwhile, Zoroa...
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Discovered. She was discovered!
Zoroark shrank back behind Elias, panic all over her face.
Just moments ago, she'd been basking in triumph—never expecting that in the blink of an eye, she’d be completely exposed.
And worst of all, it had been Irida—the very person she’d been impersonating—who saw through her.
Across from them, Irida stood with her arms crossed. After waiting a few beats and seeing that Zoroark still hadn’t come out, her brow furrow...
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Crimson Mirelands – Cogita’s Courtyard
"Elias, I propose that from now on, you forbid Zoroark from approaching while you’re training with [Aura]."
Lucario stood with his arms crossed, face expressionless as he spoke.
At this point, he was numb.
"Says who?"
"You wanna fight?"
Before Elias could even respond, Zoroark bristled instantly.
She shot to her feet, eyes flashing, glaring daggers at Lucario as if...
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No matter how many times he saw it, Obsidian still thought the Thumb was brutally efficient.
If you were far, it’d shoot you down.
If you were close, it’d smash your skull in with the butt of the gun.
Didn’t matter where you ran. You weren’t getting away.
While Texas was out sweeping monsters from the perimeter, Obsidian stayed behind, managing Doubts as they worked on construction and began setting up a basic border patrol.
Originally, the City’s...
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“No… no…”
Right now, Obsidian was pacing back and forth inside the room, mind clouded with frustration.
On the surface, everything in the City was progressing smoothly. After a full night of steel-scraping, his Doubts had multiplied to twelve units. As frontline defenders and basic labor bots, they were more than sufficient.
By all accounts, his early-game setup was off to a great start.
And yet, every time his awareness drifted back to the shattered remains of...
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“So… Obsidian, got anything you need me to help with?”
Texas had been quiet for a while before she finally spoke. The moment Obsidian heard that sentence, he lit up.
You’re offering to help me do labor?
I’m wide awake now.
Sure, having Texas on the job wouldn’t be as cost-effective as using Doubts—she’d need real resources—but her strength more than made up for it.
There were plenty of things Doubts couldn’t handle that Texas...
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“…Hey, Obsidian. Are you sure this is edible?”
As Obsidian was in the middle of creating his first Doubt, Texas sat staring at a roasted Sweeper, visibly uncertain. After a pause, she looked up and asked the question aloud.
There was just something about this thing that didn’t sit right with her.
“Relax. If the head’s off, it’s safe to eat.”
Obsidian answered casually, which only deepened Texas’s confusion.
Meanwhile, his atten...
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“There’s more to the Thumb and Fixers?”
Obsidian turned his head and looked at Texas, only to meet the curiosity glowing in her eyes.
She now regarded him as some kind of sage—or at the very least, someone worth listening to.
“Heh… You know, this mobile city once had its own civilization.”
He paused for a beat before finally speaking. Texas blinked at that—but then, she accepted it calmly.
After all, in Terra, the ruins of past civilizations weren...
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Tenth Division Barracks.
“These were the questions on the student council recruitment test?”
Shiba Isshin raised an eyebrow as he looked at the two sheets Shiba Kaien handed him, clearly surprised.
“Where’d you get these?”
“I just asked for them,” Kaien replied with a grin. “I am the honorary president, after all.”
Isshin chuckled, but as he scanned through the exam questions, his expression shifted to somethin...
2025-05-14 15:29:15 +0000 UTC
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On the day the written exam results were announced, a large board was set up in the plaza of the Shin’ō Academy, displaying just a few dozen names.
A crowd quickly formed, students squeezing forward to check — some left disappointed, others ecstatic. A few were practically wailing with regret.
Petite and unable to push her way through, Rukia called out to Abarai Renji, who had made it to the front, “Renji, what does it say?”
“Rukia! Your name’s on it — you pas...
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"Rukia, what are you looking at?"
The red-haired boy with a striking hairstyle squeezed through the crowd to stand beside his companion, eyes lifting to the bulletin board.
"They mentioned it during the ceremony — the student council."
Standing next to him was a petite, sharp-featured girl with short black hair that curled at the ends. Her deep violet eyes studied the notice thoughtfully.
"Huh? Are you thinking of joining the student council?" the red-haired boy aske...
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The entrance ceremony for the new students at the Shin’ō Academy.
Normally, only faculty and first-year students would be present at such an event.
But at this moment, Nobu stood among the instructors — right beside Nanada Hideaki.
Headmaster Sasakibe Gyōsō was on stage addressing the newly enrolled first-years. His speech was formal, encouraging the students to study hard, strive forward, and become exemplary Shinigami as soon as possible.
Nobu’s thoughts dri...
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The holiday passed in idleness — the kind of idle that quickly turned dull.
Nobu had nothing to do each day except train. Shūhei frequently came to spar with him, only to lose again and again. Though he kept saying he didn’t want to fight Nobu anymore, the number of matches never seemed to decrease.
[Spiritual Pressure Level: Lv. 14]
[Zanpakutō Unlock Progress: 7%]
[Spiritual Energy Reserve: 20%
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No good. No intel on him at all.
Nahida frowned, pinching her chin in thought as she scoured through five hundred years of memory, even reaching into the Void Archive in search of anything related to this strange young man. But no matter how she searched, she couldn’t match him with anyone she knew.
Before she could think further, Chen Mo suddenly stood up, placed his hands on her shoulders, and stared at her wide-eyed — examining this green-haired shuttlecock-looking...
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At that moment, Amber — who had just abruptly materialized out of thin air — still looked a bit out of place.
Her textures had loaded, but the lighting hadn’t caught up yet. The red of her outfit was a flat, solid red. The whites were pure, detail-less white. Her exposed skin was a single unshaded tone of flesh — like someone had slapped different images onto a blank canvas without blending them. Her entire appearance clashed with the environment around her.
But it didn’...
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“Don’t be afraid. I’m here,” Venti gently cradled Dvalin’s enormous face, comforting the wounded dragon with soft, soothing words.
“Venti! I finally get to see the real you—now let’s settle this once and for all… are you a guy or a girl? Hehehe…”
Unlike the Traveler in the cutscene, who was supposed to hide behind a tree with Paimon and observe from a distance, Chen Mo walked right up to Venti, completely unabashed.
It’s just a cutscene anyway. Ev...
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“You can just swim across~”
In this 1:1 recreation of the Genshin Impact game world, Paimon’s NPC was still diligently running the beginner tutorial. After saying that line, she floated straight across the surface of Starfell Lake and hovered over the little island at its center.
Chen Mo stepped into the shallows of Starfell Lake. Once the water reached his neck, his feet lifted off the lakebed, and his body automatically transitioned into a swimming state.
A ...
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Synopsis:
Alternate title: Genshin, But Everyone’s an NPC
Or: Oops, I Accidentally Got Isekai’d into the Genshin Game, but Everyone in Co-Op Is Themselves?!
I thought I’d transmigrated to Teyvat.
But it turns out... I was inside the Genshin Impact game itself — daily commissions, domains, even the Spiral Abyss were all here.
At first, I assumed this was divine punishment. That I’d died after playing Genshin...
2025-05-14 15:27:56 +0000 UTC
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Hisui — Jubilife Village
Now that they had a place to stay, August, Gardevoir, and Zinnia sat inside the house they had temporarily settled in.
Zinnia glanced left and right, clearly full of questions she was holding back.
August spoke first: “If you want to ask something, just ask.”
As if she’d been waiting for those words—
Zinnia launched into it: “Where are we? I heard people calling this place Jubilife Village... is it re...
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“Flaaffy, [Thunderbolt]!”
As August gave the command, arcs of electricity sparked across Flaaffy’s wool.
Its neck fur puffed up, and a crackling [Thunderbolt] surged toward Kadabra.
The electric strike hit dead-on. Kadabra winced in pain but held firm, raising its spoon to deliver a retaliatory blow.
However—
“[Volt Switch]!”
Flaaffy turned into a burst of electricity that collided with Kadabra,...
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The moment August stepped through the entrance hall, the heavy steel door slammed shut behind him with a clang.
Almost immediately, a pack of Houndour, led by a Houndoom, surged out from all directions, encircling the three of them.
“So this is your welcome committee?”
August looked around, amused. “Pretty underwhelming...”
Compared to the opponents he’d faced before, Carr’s setup was downright laughable. If this was the grand trap he had planned, ...
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Sevii Island
Disguised as an ordinary tourist, August stepped foot onto Sevii Island.
Though it was his first time here, that didn’t change the determined fire in his heart—he was going to uproot Team Rocket from Sevii Island, once and for all.
“August, are you sure she’s reliable?”
As she spoke, Lorelei glanced toward Sird, who stood at a distance, looking out at Sevii Island with a nostalgic expression on her face.
A...
2025-05-14 15:27:31 +0000 UTC
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Gary had left—left with the resolve to grow stronger.
In his own words, he was embarking on a spiritual journey of self-cultivation to heal the heart that had been battered and bruised by August.
To that, August was deeply skeptical.
He knew Gary far too well. That whole “self-cultivation” thing? Yeah, right. The guy was probably off to find Ash just so he could brag about all the amazing stuff he’d done recently.
Still, August had to admit—without Gary, life...
2025-05-14 15:27:26 +0000 UTC
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A room had been prepared for Honjou Nia.
Technically speaking, it was a “room,” but it was sparsely furnished—aside from a bed, there was hardly anything in it.
As Kotori had put it:
“Once Sister wakes up, this room will be hers. We’ll decorate it according to her preferences after she settles in.”
So they’d already decided she was staying?
Melusine remembered that Honjou Nia wasn’t like the other Spirits. Among all of them, she had integ...
2025-05-14 15:27:18 +0000 UTC
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A few days later, just as she had promised, Kotori Itsuka brought the now fully recovered Honjou Nia back to the Spirit Apartment.
And then… a small argument broke out between Kotori, Shidou, and Melusine.
Shidou and Kotori intended to set up a separate room for Nia, but Melusine didn’t see the point in going through all that trouble.
“Wouldn’t it be simpler to just let her stay in my room? That way I can take care of her up close.”
“And where would you sle...
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After defeating Ellen, Melusine didn’t kill her. Instead, she brought both her and Honjou Nia back to the Spirit Apartment.
Nia was placed gently in Melusine’s own room. As for Ellen, she was handed over to Kotori Itsuka—or more precisely, to Ratatoskr.
Melusine, familiar with the plot, remembered that DEM and Ratatoskr were long-standing enemies. This rivalry dated back to the founding of the two organizations by none other than Westcott and Woodman.
Westcott, Woodman...
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As Melusine launched her assault on the Pacific island base, DEM’s Japanese branch had already received word.
More precisely… the one who received the report was DEM’s Executive Director: Isaac Westcott.
A man in his mid-thirties with dull ash-golden hair and blade-sharp eyes, dressed in a jet-black suit that seemed to absorb all light, Westcott cast a cold gaze at the report before him.
“Shall I head over?”
The one who spoke was a girl with long pale-golden ...
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The destroyer was approaching—each footstep drawing nearer was a death knell sounding in the dark.
Deep within the base, more and more personnel succumbed to panic.
And yet, amid the chaos, a feverish excitement ignited in some hearts.
“So this is the power of a spirit…”
One researcher, clutching his chest in anxious breathlessness, whispered deliriously. A grin twisted his face into something grotesque.
“This is a spirit! So powerful, so beautiful… I...
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