In a secret dark room that looked like it was the place for villains, Professor Muna, with a jet black coat that covered his body, revealed himself.
" Is the preparation ready?"
" Yeah… Don't worry. We have sent our members to intercept them. And to make it even more foolproof, we have sent a rank (VI) member that was also genetically enhanced to lead the operation. As of now, without any trouble, we could say that the success chance is as high as 90%."
The answer was so cold and almost without any expression.
But Professor Muna who heard this, sighed a lot of relief as he revealed the pendant that was hanging on his neck.
" Good… my child, soon we will meet once again. And that bastard Cade! I will make him pay to humiliate me!"
. . . . . . . . . . .
Yet without them knowing, the "foolproof" plan was actually already known by a certain person.
' Kid, are you ready? If nothing goes wrong, this will be your first encounter with that group.'
Grigory's voice sounded in Cade's mind.
' Don't worry. In the original game, only the protagonist, his group, and the students go on this trip. But now, I have convinced Isabel to come with us. So there should be no problem. But rather than that.. can you help me a bit?'
' Hyahahaha? Where? I don't see a guy that seemed like he was in dire need of help. Rather, I could only see a guy that is trying his best to hide his boner!'
" ….. "
Sitting on the bus, Cade was actually in an awkward position.
On his right side was Isabel, who was looking at him with a glimmering expression while continuously talking about the Arcane Card.
While on the other side was Luna, who watched him with a very sour expression as he chatted with Isabel.
" *Cough* Everyone please, Hello, I'm the club president, Alice. Today might not be a very formal event, but we still needed to follow some rules, okay. Therefore, I will begin to explain our rules one by one."
While Cade was still stuck in that situation, the Club president, Alice-Senpai came to the rescue.
With her beautiful face and gentle first impression, Alice-Senpai looked around the club members while explaining the rules.
"First, I'll give a short introduction about our research group for our new members."
" As you all know, with the development of humanity and Arcane Card, humans began to strive for more.
Why Arcane Card would breakthrough, how to learn a new skill or even the possibility to evolve.
To be honest, our research group mainly deal with breakthrough and skills, but as a research group, we need to find a bigger goal, and that is the evolution of Arcane Card. Thus the name of Arcane Card evolution research group!"
With a cheerful and proud smile, she took out a piece of paper from her pocket.
"Kuhum. Once or twice a month, we will leave the university to get more familiar with the Arcane Card research center. The purpose is to incorporate new learning methods and learn from the pro, but for today, we will give a free tour session for orientation.'"
Until now, everything perfectly went like what Cade knew. But after this would be the real deal.
With a tense expression, Cade watched Alice-Senpai take out another piece of paper from her pocket.
"And today, to make us know each other better, Instead of traveling alone, we'll split into groups of three. Oh, but since the number of members is not enough, the last group will be a group of two!"
"Then we'll start by drawing lots."
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A while later -
" Cade, come here! Look at that!"
" *Sigh* Is it just my luck, or do you play a trick on this?"
" Tehee…"
Standing in front of Cade was Luna, his partner for today's exploration.
As you expected, the last two-person group fell into Cade and Luna's hands.
To be honest, Cade really didn't know whether it was the will of the world or not, but it seems they tried to keep the timeline as close as possible to the game.
Nonetheless, there were also things that Cade should be grateful for. Thankfully, everything else had remained unchanged. Aurum became a group with Alice-Senpai and Eva, and they should now begin to develop their closeness.
Yet.. thinking that even Alice-Senoai would fall for Aurum..
*Sigh* Really, the charm of the protagonist sometimes made him envy.
But Cade quickly sobered up from those kinds of thoughts. Today was not the right for that.
After all, this would be an essential event for the protagonist.
"Whew, I thought we were lost."
" Geez.. why don't you trust me? I told you to trust my instinct, didn't I?"
Luna said while sticking out her tongue, which Cade could only roll his eyes.
After almost getting lost more than a dozen times and spending almost thirty minutes going nowhere, Cade and Luna finally arrived at their destination. The compartment for Monster Museum.
Monster fossils that were saved for research were displayed in this museum.
Arcane Card and Monsters are, after all deeply related. There were many occasions in which the Arcane Card took the form of a monster, and researchers all over Pangaea agreed that by observing Monsters, they could gain more insights into the Arcane card.
Today, an incident would occur here. With a trembling heart, Cade walked in.
It was a museum, but at the same time, it was a research base, so there were not many people there.
Most of them were researchers or university students like Cade who were in club activities or projects.
And among the people here, there were three people who stood out.
Aurum, Alice-Senpai and Eva.
The three were super good-looking people with more than 99 ratings in charm.
But for some reason, when Aurum saw Cade walking together with Luna, Cade could see that his gaze was a bit distant before slowly he forced a smile to grow on his face as he walked in Cade's direction.
" Hello, we have met before, but it is our first time to introduce ourselves right? My name is Aurum Griffyndor, or to be short, Aurum."