Her consciousness was being dragged away.
It felt as if an invisible hand had grabbed the back collar of Su Yuzu's mental tentacles and was hauling her backward.
Su Yuzu could only watch helplessly as the dark architectural block resembling the movie theater drifted further and further away from her.
The seven-colored halo and the beautiful silhouette of the young girl's curves, symbolizing Sakura Mai, were drifting further and further away.
For the first time, Su Yuzu felt like her face was streaming with tears.
'Complaint!!!'
'I want to file a complaint!!!'
'This is persecution!'
'This is absolutely persecution!!!'
'I clearly saw Sister Mai's shadow!'
Sakura Mai, in the Limited Pool, was only a step away from her.
Su Yuzu could almost visualize the scene of herself hugging Sakura Mai's waist and nuzzling against it, feeling the lines of the girl's fit and beautiful lower abdomen.
But the result... her consciousness was forcibly yanked out.
Even knowing that the Operator she was about to obtain would inevitably be a top-tier six-star Operator.
But... the disappointment and grief in Su Yuzu's heart could absolutely not be made up for by a six-star Operator.
'Had I not seen the Sun, I could have borne the shade. But Light a newer Wilderness My Wilderness has made.'
Su Yuzu's head was now filled with the sorrow of her pool being spooked.
Rather than the joy of actually pulling a six-star in a single ten-pull.
"There is no love left."
"No matter how good-looking you are, you can't heal the pain in my heart."
"..."
Su Yuzu's consciousness passed through the campus of Keigunen Private Academy, passing through the Assault Department girls' dormitory that Su Yuzu was familiar with.
She perceived the direction her mental tentacles were rushing toward.
'This direction is...'
'The Healing-type girls' dormitory?'
A seven-colored halo bloomed before Su Yuzu's consciousness.
She could feel her consciousness passing through the walls.
In a dark world bereft of color, where only shapes remained, Su Yuzu saw curling mist rising continuously.
Splash—
The sound of water being disturbed in a bath.
"Gulp—" Su Yuzu's throat swallowed subconsciously.
She watched the girl's slender limbs rise from the bath, stepping toward her, extending an arm to pull down a bath towel hanging nearby.
Eyes of nearly brilliant gold opened.
The world was rendered in bright and beautiful colors in an instant.
The sorrow in Su Yuzu's heart was instantly healed by the angel before her.
Yes... an angel.
Standing before the bath, the gentle and demure young girl, gathering the bath towel before her, was just like an angel descended to the mortal realm.
The girl's brilliant golden eyes looked somewhat awkwardly in Su Yuzu's direction.
In her haste, the bath towel only covered half of the girl's body.
Although not a single bit of skin that would fail a censorship review was exposed... the girl's fair and beautiful lines on the side of her body were completely visible to Su Yuzu.
She was a girl of a completely different style from Sakura Mai.
Slender, yet voluptuous.
Water droplets had not yet slid down her shoulders.
The character art froze.
[Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!!!]
[☆☆☆☆☆☆]
[Operator: Lyudmila]
[Level 9 - Sun Esper]
[Talent: Light Descends Here]
[Talent: Revelation]
[Inherent Ability: Holy Light]
[Inherent Ability: ■■■]
[Favorability: 19 (Wary)]
"Lyudmila?" Su Yuzu still had a deep impression of this name.
The Little Rabbit's roommate.
That girl who gave a gentle and polite impression at first glance; her lines were indeed very beautiful too.
It was just that she seemed somewhat frail, looking very light.
Although Su Yuzu had already faintly premonished that the girl would sooner or later be recruited by her as an Operator when she met Lyudmila in front of the training hall.
After all, Lyudmila's appearance was right there.
Her umbrella was also still in Su Yuzu's dormitory.
It would simply be a reckless waste of heaven's gifts if such a good-looking girl with such a good figure didn't become an Operator.
But... Su Yuzu hadn't expected it.
That this day would come so quickly.
And Lyudmila's rarity was actually even higher than the Little Rabbit's.
It was just that... Su Yuzu looked at Lyudmila's Inherent Ability named [Holy Light].
Then she looked again at the girl's character art, which didn't expose any vital parts at all.
Su Yuzu had the illusion that if that bath towel were to slip just a tiny bit, a holy light would flash and blind her eyes.
She's not easy to handle.
Golden eyes looked at Su Yuzu with slight awkwardness.
"The sun guided me to your side."
"To cleanse the filth in your heart."
"Ugh..."
"Hey!"
"This isn't an item included in the oath."
"..."
After Lyudmila's entrance line ended, Su Yuzu's consciousness quickly returned to the movie theater.
Meanwhile, inside the Healing-type girls' dormitory... Lyudmila clutched the bath towel with both hands, looking around somewhat warily, especially at the bath.
Just now, she had felt that strange mental fluctuation once again.
It reminded her of the colossal throne she had seen in her "Revelation."
After she finally couldn't resist forcibly following that strange mental fluctuation... Lyudmila suddenly felt as if she had been scrutinized inside and out by a pair of invisible eyes.
But just as Lyudmila became so embarrassed that she was ready to unleash her Holy Light.
Those eyes vanished just as abruptly.
"Student Lyudmila?" Knock knock knock, the bathroom door was gently tapped, and Saotome Yukina's voice came from the doorway.
Hearing her cute and obedient roommate's worried tone, Lyudmila tightened her grip on the bath towel. "I'm fine."
"It's just that I seemed to see... um... a bug."
"Eeeek!!!" A even more terrified voice came from outside the bathroom.
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Consciousness returned to the movie theater.
Sakura Mai looked at the young girl who was straightening up from her bow.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but Sakura Mai felt that after the girl bowed, her mood seemed to have dropped a few notches.
She completely failed to realize that the reason for Su Yuzu's low spirits was that she hadn't been able to sign a contract with her, and thus turn her into a Combat Records production princess to persecute Sakura Mai alongside Soga Yura.
What she thought in her heart was... although Sister Yuzu looked a bit 'less than innocent' when she was teasing that mad woman from the Fourth Action Division just now.
But... she was indeed still very obedient... and cared very much about Soga Yura.
Whether it was how she addressed Soga Yura when that guy wasn't around, or her current dejected appearance.
It all seemed to corroborate Sakura Mai's inner thoughts.
"Sister Yuzu, just call me Mai~" Sakura Mai revealed a bright and hearty smile to Su Yuzu. "You can come to me for anything in the future too."
"If that jerk Soga Yura bullies you."
"Big Sister can help you get revenge!"
"Ha... Hachoo..." Soga Yura, who hadn't walked more than a few steps while supporting herself against the wall, suddenly felt a chill run down her back.
It was as if someone was speaking ill of her.
"No need." Su Yuzu shook her head gently to refuse.
"However..." Hesitating, she looked up at Sakura Mai.
"Sister Mai, can you let me hug you?"
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