Chapter 155 (2/2)

She pushed asideher way past the 200s

“B-but! She cheated to raise her rank! Yeah, she definitely got soeon battle and the inn fees Rokuko received froot as tips, he wasn’t necessarily wrong

—crap, was that illegal?

Rokuko was even more flustered now

“Foolish… then shouldn’t you just raise your rank the sa]?”

“Haah!? W-what’re you saying!? Are you stupid!?”

Core 650 shouted, saying it was out of the question

Meanwhile, Core 666 sinized by father, it isn’t cheating, right? Is it cheating to earn DP through means you can’t do yourself? Even if the pretext is extreets No 6-sama’s leftovers like how Rokuko does, so it’s not like she would speak again here huh, soooorry, hohoho”

“…”

With a flash, Core 666 pointed a ic sword clad in flames towards the middle of Core 650’s eyes It happened in an instant, so Core 650 wasn’t able to react in the slightest

“If you insult Jiji-sa!”

“Hiii!? W-what!? Kill!? Y-y-you wouldn’t actually—!”

Even while saying that, Core 650 (the snake) quickly retreated to Core 651 (the frog) and hid behind him Core 666’s sword suddenly vanished and she spoke with a nonchalant look on her face

“So the snake is a wimp? What do you think, 695?”

“Eh? Ah, un, you could… say that?”

“Yeah… So, wih you’re just 695!”

“Eh, wait!? Why did it turn intothat!?”

Hmph Core 666 snorted

Core 666 somehow laid the blame on her, but for some reason she felt less nervous

—By some chance, did she just help me?

“… Oh?”

Core 666 just noticed so at, it was the red ruby and orichalcu on her left hand

“… 695 That’s a beautiful ring”

“Eh? Ah, this? Ehehe, in truth, I got aas a present from him!”

“Heeh, fro… that’s orichalcuht?”

“Eh, ah, un Yeah”

“Could I take a closer look?”

“Eh? Nnn, c-can you see it like this?”

Rokuko co fro behind Core 651, and held her hand out to Core 666

She took her hand and looked at the ring… it was a ring that encased an orichalcum band with pure ruby, one without any mars Core 666 observed it carefully 50,000,000 DP wouldn’t be enough, it was a treasure worth at least 100,000,000 DP

“Why didn’t you turn that ring into DP?”

“Eeh!? No way, t-this ring is iot it from my master There’s no way I could!”

“But if you did, wouldn’t your ranking go up quite a lot?”

—Even more than mine

Core 666 stared at Rokuko intensely

As for Rokuko, she knew that Kehma had made it with a small amount of DP, so she didn’t think that it would turn into much DP Well, she didn’t intend to do that since it was her ih

“No, don’t wanna”

Hearing Rokuko’s answer, Core 666 let go of her hands

“So wasteful, 695 Really, just a bit… just a tiny bit, I want to break you”

“Please don’t!? It doesn’t sound like a joke coh it was like how humans would refer to someone by their first na bad [1]

Instead, she laughed with a smile on her face

Then, she spoke

“Therefore, 695 I request to have a duel with you”

Footnotes:

Remember that in japan, it’s mostly presumptuous to call so froeon cores’ names are structured with 第xxx番 for the nu 第 as the [No] portion of the naeon cores’—culture, it is like an extra honorific (like san, kun, etc) that is used toso, so sorry about that