-  2 weeks later in the Vermillion residence-

  " Please, Rena… After everything, we went through together. We can still talk things through together."

  ??

  " I'm sorry, Ray. But it's for the best…


  " I'm begging you, Rena. Don't do it.

  " It has to be done, Ray…"

  " Rena, please…"

  Rena, placing a draw 4 card. " Uyes, Tehee"

  " NOOOOO!!"

  It was a normal day in the Vermillion residence, with Rena, Aiko, Jean, and Ray sitting together playing Uyes.

  " Guys, could you stop dramatizing things? It is just a game."

  "*Sigh* You never know the feeling of almost winning only to get a +4 card, Aiko."

  " … "

  Ray drew 4 cards, and the game continued.

  [Reverse] " You again, Ray. By the way, how're things going?"

  [combo pair] " Nothing much, Kentucky and Alice has reached the Mid-commander level, while Vampy had almost broken through the Low-general level.

  During the past weeks, Ray has explained some of the system's functions to them. And one of them was the dungeon function that enables Ray to power-grind the spirit beast. The dungeon system's only disadvantage was that Ray couldn't bring other people with him, so even though the spirit beasts got stronger, their synergy with their owners during the battle didn't grow much.

  [Reverse, and also her last card] " Isn't that already good? From what I've heard during the class, breaking through new levels was hard for a spirit beast."

  Rena, who had already win the game, stood up and move to Ray's lap. This girl had been on a 5-game winning streak. It seems the power of female lead was too strong in a game of U-yes.

  [Draw a card] " Hey, can't you guys stop targeting me? I have not won any game since we start playing, you know. On the other's side, I have told Kyouko about her Skye, and it seems they have been progressing their relationship pretty well."

  Since Kyouko's affection for him had reached 100, Ray didn't even have a thought that Kyouko would betray him. In fact, Kyouko would be his greatest ally in dealing the last blow to Skye.

  [Put a single card] " Hoo, I can't wait for the time when you reveal that you are Kyouko's lover to Skye."

  [Put a single card] " Uyes, and by the way, couldn't you guys stop discussing such an important matter over a game of Uyes."

  This time, it was Jean who sounded her opinion. She lived with the Vermillion after Ray kidnapped her from her house, so she was pretty familiar with them.

  [Place a draw 2 card] " Uyes too. It's okay, Jean, you need to chill down. You don't want to repeat the disappointment in your face when you realized that you wouldn't be asasdsfdgdsf"

  " Stop talking, Aiko!!"

  Jean's face was beet red, and she used her hand to covered Aiko's mouth.

  [ Draw 2 cards ] " *Sigh* Couldn't you guys let me win one game?"

  The game then continued with Ray wasn't able to win any game. He had despaired and try to use the Lucky-boy special skill. But to be against the 3 blessed child of the plane in a game of Uyes? Ray vowed that he would never play this game with the three girls again.

  During the past few weeks, 3 important things have happened. First was, Ray just kept continuously grinding the three girls' spirit beasts. His target was to each of the spirit beasts reached at least low-General level.

  The previous meeting with Arthur had refreshed his view of this world. At first, he thought he was pretty strong. But after seeing Arthur, he knew that the Daoist family has laid low for many centuries and mustn't be underestimated.

  The second was that a letter came to Jean's old residence and stated that Jean had a fiancee. It also stated that her fiancee was the first rank in their school spirit beast ranking.

  In the game, where Jean didn't have anyone, she wanted to hold on tight to her fiancee, which resulted in her harassing the female protagonist. However, he had Ray and the Vermillions this time, so she just brushed off the fact that she had a fiancee and would be really glad if their engagement was canceled.

  And the last important thing to happened was the blue-Argon emperor that Ray planted had eventually grown almost to its maturity. It would only take another 2 or 3 days before Ray could make a contract with it.

  At first, Ray was very excited when he unlocked the spirit beast Ranch, but now he realized that his level was still too low to fully maximize the benefits of the ranch.

  [ Hehe, how about this. Does the host remember the mission of making the SkyGold Shop go bankrupt? The host could choose to complete the mission in 3 months, and Aina will give the host an early payment of the rewards.].

  [ Make the Goldsky spirit beast shop go bankrupt.]

  [ Reward: Spirit beast knowledge Vol.1 ]

  [ Early payment: Unlock the rental beast nourishing in the ranch, 5 random boxes of spirit seeds, 5 random iron grade spirit beast eggs.]

  [ Penalty: Your dancing video in the classroom will be uploaded into Thytube.]

  [ Time limit: 3 months]

  [ Do you wish to confirm?].

  Ray hesitated a bit before eventually agreed to Aina's term. If he could optimize the spirit beast ranch better, he would cope with the future danger. Ray knew the game's true villain hasn't appeared yet, and since he had chosen to protect Jean, he would soon face the true villain.

  After the game of Uyes ended, Rena, Aiko, and Jean asked Ray to went into the Maple-leaf city spirit beast battleground.

  It was the public facility of Maple-leaf city, where Daoist could utilize to train their spirit beast in battle with another Daoist. They could either pay and rent a stadium or use the public one, which was free of charge. The battleground was more than 400 km2, and many Daoists would come and go every day.

  The public facility also has a guild where Daoist could take missions and earn money. Since the spiritual awakening, stray spirit beasts started to frequently appear, and the Government decided to seek the help of the Daoist in handling this matter.