Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

“No, I don’t. I watch Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura,” Susie said. “But… well, since the president has already decided, I support her and I’ll participate too.”

"Thank you, senior brothers and sisters," Lu Mingfei said decisively.

“Don’t get too excited yet. Although we will help the Equipment Department promote within the Lionheart Club, it’s hard to say how many people will be willing to participate,” Susie said. “And don’t forget, you’ll have to persuade not only us, but also Caesar, the president of the student council. That guy is practically a delusional chuunibyou who thinks he’s an emperor. You’d have to be at least as brilliant as Zhuge Liang to convince him.”

"Is it that complicated?" Lu Mingfei was a little uneasy.

Susie nodded seriously.

Chu Zihang thought for a moment and said, "Caesar has always wanted to compete with me. If I go with you, the results might be better."

Susie: ...

President, the extent to which you favor Lu Mingfei makes it hard not to suspect that you've already decided to appoint him as president when he graduates.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Chu," Lu Mingfei said. "By the way, may I ask which faction you would choose if you participated?"

Lu Mingfei thought Chu Zihang would think about it for a while before speaking, but to his surprise, Chu Zihang immediately said, "I think I will choose the mature woman camp."

"Oh? Oh—" Lu Mingfei drawled, glancing at Su Qian, who was slender, graceful, and elegant, standing to the side.

That's right, Senior Sister Susie is definitely the mature and sophisticated type, both in appearance and personality.

Susie also understood Lu Mingfei's meaning, subconsciously glanced at Chu Zihang, pursed her lips, and suppressed the upturned corners of her mouth.

"What about Senior Sister Susie? Which faction are you planning to join?" Lu Mingfei asked.

“I’m on the same side as the president,” Susie said decisively.

"This is just a game; you can choose according to your own preferences," Chu Zihang said.

“Well…” Susie hesitated for a moment, “I’ll choose the loli camp.”

"Huh? Senior sister, you like lolis?" Lu Mingfei was taken aback.

"Hmm... if I had to choose between the two, I'd choose loli, because I prefer cute little girls," Susie said.

If a grown man said this, Lu Mingfei would call the police, but it sounds perfectly natural coming from a beautiful senior sister.

……

In front of the student council president's office.

The student council member who was leading the way brought Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang to the door and knocked on it.

Lu Mingfei surveyed the interior decoration of the corridor. This flamboyant and slightly extravagant style, as if even the toilets were inlaid with gold, subconsciously reminded him of Tony. However, the decoration here had many more elements of ancient Roman style, such as the stone column reliefs on the walls that were scaled down from the ancient Roman Colosseum.

"Come in." A deep, resonant voice came from behind the door, like a lion lying down to rest.

Lu Mingfei instantly understood why the person in the room could be Chu Shixiong's formidable rival; their aura alone was something that ordinary people could not possess.

The student council member leading the way opened the door and gestured "please" to let Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang in.

The enormous office and luxurious decor were within Lu Mingfei's expectations, but what surprised him was that besides Caesar, there was another person in the office, someone he knew.

A slender, tall figure sat on Caesar's ivory-white desk, devouring a bag of red bean bread, her red hair cascading down her shoulders like a waterfall.

Nono is the girl Lu Mingfei met when he last visited Kassel College. She is Susie's best friend and also Caesar's girlfriend.

The student council members who had opened the door for Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang closed it. After the soft sound of the door closing, the office fell silent, except for the sound of Nuonuo eating bread.

"You've arrived." Caesar sat behind his desk, looking at Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang expressionlessly.

His gaze was mainly focused on Lu Mingfei, because he had clashed with Chu Zihang many times and knew each other well, but this was the first time he had met Lu Mingfei.

Although Senior Brother Chu is the president of the Lionheart Society, Caesar's aura clearly has more of a lion's meaning, as if the overlord of the grasslands is inspecting his territory under the rising sun. His shadow is infinitely magnified by the rising sun, covering every blade of grass and dewdrop. His bright golden hair is like a lion's mane shining brightly in the sunlight.

If you ignore the girl on his table who was eating a red bean bread with gusto, Caesar's solidity does indeed have a certain imposing presence.

Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang stared at Caesar, and the atmosphere around them gradually shifted towards a sense of confrontation.

"Crash-"

Nono, who was eating red bean bread, made a loud plastic noise from the packaging bag because of her large movements.

Like a crow cawing as it flies overhead during a standoff between herds of beasts, the serious atmosphere in the office irresistibly slid into a farcical abyss.

“Sorry, sorry, please continue,” Nono jumped off the desk. “I skipped school yesterday to go cycling along the Chicago River over the weekend, and I haven’t eaten all day. I need to replenish my energy now.”

Despite saying sorry, Nono ate at the same speed, only moving her eating spot to the sofa.

"Please have a seat," Caesar said, seemingly used to Nono's antics. He looked at Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang and asked, "The S-class freshmen from the academy and the president of the Lionheart Society have come together. Is there something important?"

Lu Mingfei sat down with Chu Zihang: "Ahem, to be precise, I'm here representing the Equipment Department this time."

Caesar's knee, which was hidden behind his desk, twitched, and he almost blurted out "Show him out."

185. Chapter 184: Norma's Source Code?

Kassel College, Student Union Office.

Lu Mingfei, Chu Zihang, and Caesar moved to the sofa in the reception area, and Lu Mingfei briefly explained the situation.

“I see,” Caesar nodded in realization. “The Armaments Department wanted to use the Day of Freedom to quell the internal conflict of World War I.”

How could you call this kind of cerebellar deficiency an act of war? Even children playing house is more meaningful than this! Lu Mingfei thought to himself, while feeling that his first impression of Caesar was perhaps a little too true.

"Could you guys be any more boring?" Nono complained after finishing her red bean bread.

So there are still normal people out there.

Lu Mingfei looked at Nuonuo with relief—in this school filled with otaku, lunatics, mentally ill people, perverts, and chuunibyou (middle school syndrome), it was rare to find someone who was relatively normal.

But Nuonuo returned Lu Mingfei's well-meaning gaze with a less-than-friendly look—because of Lu Mingfei, she was punished by having to write three papers by hand, even the diagrams were hand-drawn. After finishing them, she almost developed tenosynovitis, not to mention the damage to her brain cells.

“How could it be boring? This is a clash of ideologies between men!” Caesar said earnestly. “No matter how ridiculous the ideology may seem, as long as a man acts in accordance with it, he deserves respect!”

Did you run out of some shonen manga set? But you're a blond guy, you should be in a different manga set more often! Lu Mingfei thought to himself.

“Tell the Equipment Department that I’m participating,” Caesar said to Lu Mingfei. “I will also inform the entire student council.”

Although he seemed incredibly immature, he didn't appear to be a bad person. Lu Mingfei's impression of Caesar changed somewhat.

"Then I'll participate too," Nono said.

"Don't you think this kind of game is boring?" Lu Mingfei asked, puzzled.

“Although I’m bored, I happen to have nothing to do lately. My advisor, Professor Mans, found out that I was sneaking out to play. He said that if he finds out that I’m sneaking out to play again this semester, he’ll add two handwritten papers to my final assignments,” Nono shrugged. “Now I’m just looking forward to having some fun during my free time.”

At this point, Nono glanced at Lu Mingfei with a look of regret—he suspected that Lu Mingfei was the catalyst that led Professor Mans to discover that "handwritten papers" could also be used to punish students.

Lu Mingfei looked at Caesar: "By the way, Brother Caesar, may I ask which camp you will choose?"

Caesar glanced at Nono before saying, "I choose the mature woman camp."

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

If Caesar and Senior Brother Chu both choose the mature woman camp, then wouldn't the loli camp be doomed to lose?

Besides, aren't these two mortal enemies? If they choose the same side, then there's no way they can be compared.

Out of good intentions, Lu Mingfei reminded him, "Senior Brother Chu also chose the mature woman camp."

Caesar was indeed taken aback for a moment, then said with a look of regret, "It seems that the outcome will not be decided until next year, Chu Zihang."

Chu Zihang nodded expressionlessly.

Hmm... let's mourn for the loli camp for a second.

Lu Mingfei thought to himself.

……

That night, in Lu Mingfei's dormitory.

Lu Mingfei pushed open the door and walked in. Fingel was playing StarCraft with headphones on.

Since Senior Brother Ye Sheng has graduated and left, his dormitory was naturally assigned to other students. According to the college's rules, Lu Mingfei's current roommate is Fingel, because their mentors are both Guderian.

When Lu Mingfei first returned to school, he came to the dormitory to put down his luggage and naturally met with Fingel. It was still dawn when Fingel was playing StarCraft on his computer. Lu Mingfei complained that this unreliable senior was up so early to play games. Fingel replied with a smug look that he wasn't just up early to play games, but had been playing until now and hadn't gone to sleep yet.

Lu Mingfei had seen many different types of abnormal people at Kassel College, and compared to them, Fingel, who was a severe internet addict, was actually quite normal.

Seeing Lu Mingfei return, Fingel ripped off his headphones, looked at Lu Mingfei, and pointed at the screen with a wronged expression: "Junior brother, someone bullied me! Help me get revenge!"

Lu Mingfei twitched the corner of his mouth: "Okay."

Fingel is also a StarCraft player. In Lu Mingfei's opinion, his skills are so-so, a little worse than Lao Tang's. Although he can be considered a "master" in the StarCraft channel, he certainly can't win every battle. So it's normal for him to occasionally get crushed by a pro.

When Lu Mingfei arrived at the dorm that morning, he chatted briefly with Fingel, who was playing StarCraft. He mentioned he also played StarCraft, and Fingel insisted on playing a round. Unable to refuse, Lu Mingfei agreed. However, in his haste to find Su Xiaoqiang, he went a little overboard. A few minutes later, to Fingel's stunned gaze, his Broodmother was reduced to a pool of blood. Lu Mingfei first closed his laptop, then helped Fingel close his mouth, and left the dorm.

So now that Fingel has been brutally defeated, he turns around and asks Lu Mingfei for help in getting revenge. Even though it's only their first day as roommates, this guy acts like he's been clinging to Lu Mingfei's coattails in the gaming world for years.

Fingel scurried up from his chair and asked Lu Mingfei to sit down.

"Junior brother, want some late-night snacks?" Fingel bowed deeply, his face full of flattery. "This fried chicken and beer was specially bought from the cafeteria by your senior brother with borrowed money. Consider it a thank you for helping me get revenge."

Lu Mingfei subconsciously recalled the days when he went to internet cafes to play games in high school. Some people in the internet cafes would get beaten and then buy him nutritional drinks and Magician instant noodles to hire him to help them get revenge. He would beat them every time.

"Wait a minute, you need to borrow money to buy a late-night snack?" Lu Mingfei noticed something was amiss.

"To be honest, I'm in serious financial deficit right now," Fingel said with a shy expression. "Forget about late-night snacks, I have to borrow money to eat a proper meal, or I can only eat the free lunch at the cafeteria."

"The cafeteria even has a free lunch?" Lu Mingfei was taken aback.

In his mind, Kassel College was the most prestigious of all academies. All those "royal colleges" paled in comparison to Kassel. How could such a school provide free "love lunches"? Who could possibly need that? Even mixed-race people shouldn't be so poor that they couldn't afford to eat. The average hourly wage for part-time work at the school was even higher than the average hourly wage in New York.

“It wasn’t originally there, but I was good at sweet-talking and made the cafeteria manager happy, so she added it,” Fingel said. “To my shame, it seems that I’m the only one who eats it now, but the charity lunch is always mashed potatoes with meat soup, and it gets boring after a while.”

You say you're ashamed, but your face shows a smug expression. Lu Mingfei's lips twitched.

While casually crushing Fingel's opponent, Lu Mingfei chatted casually with Fingel.

As they talked, the conversation turned to the Equipment Department's plan to turn "Freedom Day" into a "Battle Against the Lolita".

Fingel's eyes lit up instantly.

"Junior brother, is this 'Battle of the Ivy' open to all students in the school?" Fingel asked.

Lu Mingfei nodded: "Yes, you can just register at the Equipment Department. But people from the two major clubs can also register through their clubs and submit their names together. What, you want to participate too?"

"Of course, I will dedicate all my strength to the Loli camp!" Fingel said with a fanatical expression.

"You want to join the loli camp?" Lu Mingfei asked.