Chapter 67: Souls Colliding
Amano: "What, your Fusion Academy dismisses at 3 PM? No evening self-study?"
Kikawayu: "What, Synchro Academy has exams on opening day and evening self-study until 9:30?"
After exchanging information, Amano's mentality somewhat exploded.
Leaving aside Shio's middle school division, even Xyz Academy had normal 5 PM dismissal without evening self-study.
Only Synchro Academy was this intense?
Amano suddenly understood why both students Puppeteer controlled were Synchro Academy students.
Under such high-pressure environments, Synchro Academy students naturally pursued forbidden dark powers more easily.
"Sigh, I'm washing up and sleeping. Tomorrow morning I still need to lead formation running."
Watching Amano's weary back enter his room, Finesse asked, "Kikawayu, still want to transfer to Synchro Academy?"
"I-I'll reconsider..."
Never expected that eighteen years later, he'd re-experience that original high school life.
Amano lay in bed opening his Eva terminal, just like high school back then—habitually playing with his phone before sleep.
Suddenly VSN popped a notification.
[Your friend posted new content on their photo wall.]
VSN—Eden Tower's hottest social media app, combining the two apps Amano knew best from his previous life.
V for chatting and Ins for photo walls.
He only had a few friends—who'd post at this hour?
Checking curiously, actually [Rin Seiya] had just posted at 11 PM.
Amano clicked the friend avatar.
VSN's photo wall, unlike friend circles, more resembled social media apps like Weibo or Twitter from Amano's previous life.
Even non-friends could click in to view.
Clicking into Rin Seiya's photo wall homepage, Amano discovered quite a lot of posted content with unexpectedly high popularity.
However, looking carefully—though Rin Seiya posted frequently, everything was uniformly photographed starry skies, casually captioned with today's mood.
Like under one starry sky photo: caption [Ate yakiniku today, delicious].
Or under another starry sky photo: caption [Bought socks I liked today, very cute].
Posted punctually every night at 11 PM like a diary.
Yet even such seemingly boring content—Rin Seiya's photo wall had thousands of likes per post, comments continuously flowing.
["Where did Seiya-senpai eat? I want to go too."]
["Seiya-senpai, eat more! You're too thin."]
["Want to see Seiya-senpai's socks—any photos?"]
["Guy above, you really want to see socks? I'm embarrassed to call you out."]
["I'm a veteran—let me go first!"]
Clearly most comments were academy students—greetings, jokes, everything present.
Such boring content, yet so many people paying attention.
This reminded Amano of someone—a certain BiliBili uploader who conscientiously uploaded videos daily, varying content to please audiences, yet only had single-digit view counts.
But besides super beautiful girl appearance, Rin Seiya was Academy City's third-ranked, Synchro Academy's top student—high popularity completely unsurprising.
Rin Seiya's newest post—photo still self-photographed starry sky. From the angle, probably taken tonight atop that small hill.
Caption content: [Met someone special today. Perhaps this is fate].
This caption?
Amano's heart suddenly tightened.
Could the beautiful senpai be hinting at him?
Then he checked comments below.
["Special person—is senpai talking about me?"]
["Correct, precisely this humble one."]
["Knew my relationship with senpai would be exposed."]
["Don't envy me—I deserve this."]
Every commenter thought it meant them. Even those not added as friends didn't stop them from claiming credit.
But Amano still felt he'd overthought.
Even with somewhat handsome looks, wouldn't cause goddess-level academy beauty to notice him after one meeting, even specially posting about it.
Besides, the system hadn't triggered affection—definitely no chance.
Rather than this, better consider how to raise academy ranking in first year.
Amano closed his phone, peacefully sleeping.
[Ding ding ding]
Next day, Amano was awakened by Eva terminal VSN notification sounds.
Early morning—received two friend messages.
One from Mizuki.
[Amano-aniki, I think I'm really going viral! When can we discuss collaboration?]
Seemed Mizuki sent similar messages days ago:
[Bro, I went viral! Yesterday my video suddenly got over ten extra views!]
Amano really couldn't bear telling Mizuki—those ten-plus views were all his own watching on the train.
Out of politeness, Amano replied perfunctorily like last time.
[Congrats + thumbs-up emoji]
The second friend message—actually from Rin Seiya.
[Good morning]
Academy goddess sent him good morning?
But considering last night's photo wall activity's heated situation—
Heh, mass message—can't fool me.
But out of politeness, Amano similarly replied.
[Good morning]
Then just ten minutes later, after Amano finished washing and dressing, he received another [Rin Seiya] reply.
One pending photo.
Mass-sent photo?
For some reason, what flashed through Amano's mind was last night's photo wall comments.
Could this be... sock photos?
Just didn't know if pure socks or socks worn on feet.
Amano rapidly accepted.
The photo content—actually a card held in a girl's hand.
A Quick-Play Spell card.
[Souls Colliding]
Speaking of this card, actually quite famous. For Amano's previous life.
A card from Yu-Gi-Oh! card company's event—voting for best duels across anime history.
This card's artwork corresponded to the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's finale—male protagonist Yusei Fudo versus deuteragonist Jack Atlas's final battle scene.
The Red Dragon Archfiend and Junk Warrior colliding on the card face, hot-blooded moment of duelists' souls colliding. The card effect also felt very soul-collision-like—both sides continuously paying Life Points until one fell.
One of Amano's favorite cards back then.
But why mass-send this card?
Unable to understand, Amano simply read without replying.
Checking time—already 6:10 AM. Not leaving now meant missing morning exercises.
Amano, who'd accidentally returned to high school life, didn't know whether this compared to lower district garbage-picking life was good or bad.
Before leaving, Amano didn't forget kicking Kikawayu's door, scaring awake the idiot childhood friend still soundly sleeping with 8:30 AM class start.