The losers in daily youth have all become witches

As if to echo his words, hissing sounds were heard everywhere in the shadows of the school courtyard. The courtyard, which originally looked very normal, was now filled with many snakes.

This is also the application of [Snake], one of the two spells mastered by Li Mo.

If commanding a native snake still required a tiny amount of magic power, then he could control the snake created by the spell as easily as using his own arms, without consuming any magic power at all.

If his moral sense was weaker, it would only take a few minutes to get a set of school uniforms by using these omnipresent snakes.

He snapped his fingers lightly, and the snakes all hid in the shadows again. It was difficult for ordinary people to detect their presence without careful observation.

"It's still not as big as the time when Gogen Ruri..."

Although Li Mo did not lie when communicating with the girl, he also did not say many things.

For example, if he guessed correctly, the girl's spell could not only control cats, but even the pack of stray dogs that wanted to attack her at that time and the crows that covered the sky were summoned by her.

After sorting it out, the whole incident should be like this: Gokage Ruri's magic power went out of control, turning her into a cat. After turning into a cat, she was accidentally bitten by a dog, which led to the girl's subconscious thought, "Stray dogs are going to attack me." The stray dogs nearby were affected by the power of the spell and responded to the girl's subconscious and ran to attack her. Gokage cat asked other cats for help, and the cats also fell under the spell and began to protect her. Then she saw crows glaring at stray cats on the road, and she thought, "Crows are enemies too." This eventually led to a riot by the stray animals in Chiba...

In fact, until now, Li Mo can still hear the sound of sirens whistling outside the school from time to time. It seems that the aftermath of the previous commotion has not completely subsided.

From this perspective, the power of the spell when the girl's magic power went out of control was quite astonishing. At least the area covered was so large that Li Mo could hardly imagine it.

"I don't feel like cooking anymore..."

Li Mo, feeling more and more annoyed the more he thought about it, sighed again.

Having lived alone for two lifetimes, he is naturally better at managing his daily life than other boys of his age. He is not particularly good at cooking, but he can certainly make some good dishes.

It's a pity that most Chinese cuisines focus on the aroma of the wok. Even takeout that is only a dozen minutes later than the wok will have its texture and taste downgraded, not to mention the bento that will make all the dishes cold. So he doesn't make bento very often. For lunch, he either eats in the school cafeteria or buys some bread to solve the problem. He can be regarded as adapting to local customs.

Too lazy to go home and cook, he stopped by a family restaurant called Wagunaria on his way home from school, intending to have something to eat at this restaurant, which seemed to be the family restaurant of Salia's twin sister, judging from the name.

Picking up the menu, Li Mo quickly selected what he wanted to eat.

Steak is very cheap, 80% of it is synthetic steak. Hamburger patties look good, but if the chef's skills are not good enough, they will easily become dry. Pasta is the biggest safe bet. No matter how you cook it, it will taste like tomato meat sauce, so you won't regret it.

In addition, there is the classic hamburger and fries combo. Before Li Mo traveled through time, many people said that these were junk food, but in fact, there is a lot to it.

Hamburgers are typically made of bread, a patty, vegetables, and some ketchup or mayonnaise. Taken separately, they don't seem like junk food at all, and indeed, that's the case. "Junk food" more often refers to French fries, which, as fried foods, produce harmful substances like acrylamide and are high in oil and salt. Hamburgers are often considered junk food simply to protect French fries from the fries.

"Give me a hamburger combo."

But French fries are delicious, so eating them occasionally is not a big deal.

"Okay. Please wait a moment, sir."

For some reason, the squinty-eyed waitress with a katana smiled and wrote down Li Mo's order before leaving.

Looking at the customers in the store who were trying to make way for her for fear of being stabbed by the other party's sword sheath, Li Mo always felt like there was something stuck in his throat and he didn't know whether he should spit it out.

Just as Li Mo was slumped on the sofa, planning to relax, he suddenly heard youthful words coming from not far away.

"This won't do, Sosuke!"

Note: Before the male protagonist traveled through time, he had seen a short video of "Oregairu", which was the kind of "I'll show you XXX in 5 minutes", so although he didn't remember the specific content, he still recognized the characters. However, because he traveled through time relatively early, he had not watched "Loser".

Chapter 11: The Loser Wants to Become a Partner

Li Mo looked in the direction of the voice and saw a man and a woman sitting face to face in the corner of the family restaurant, chatting about something.

The man's name was Hakamada Sosuke, and the woman was exactly Yanami whom Li Mo had mentioned before.

Li Mo had almost no impression of his classmates. The reason why he recognized these two people at a glance was simply because they were both conspicuous in the class.

Not to mention the enthusiastic and cheerful (and seemingly easy to deal with) Yanami, even Hakamada Sosuke always had some strange sparks with another transfer girl in the class.

Even though school had only just started, Li Mo already felt like he had watched at least 12 episodes of a youth romance drama with her...

Li Mo calmed down and inquired a little, and he almost grasped the current specific progress.

In short, the girl who transferred to the school is about to transfer away again. The male protagonist, Hakamada Kusuke, is hesitant for various reasons. So the female supporting character, Yanami, who likes the male protagonist, gives him an assist, allowing Hakamada Kusuke to make up his mind to go and bring back the girl who transferred to the school.

Because the development of the 'plot' was so straightforward, Li Mo felt that they were probably characters from some animation, but he had never read the original work.

Perhaps the protagonist, Hakamada Kusuke, was inspired by the loser female supporting character Yanami, and regained his motivation, stumbling out of the family restaurant. In the end, only the girl who pushed the person she liked to someone else was left lonely in the booth.

Li Mo Moran took a sip of his drink.

In general, animations at this time will naturally focus on the male and female protagonists who are having repeated passionate affairs. The vigorous love affair is the key to making it unforgettable.

On the contrary, the audience never gets to see the loneliness of the supporting characters, because it is not important to the "plot" itself. The supporting characters' love is just sprinkled on the passionate feelings of the male and female protagonists, like sesame seaweed for seasoning - it can increase the flavor, but it doesn't make much difference whether it is there or not, and it will never steal the show.

However, all of this is reality now. The parts that cannot be seen in the animation undoubtedly exist in reality.

Li Mo was also filled with emotion:

He felt that the problem was caused by the lack of homework assigned at school.

Perhaps as the protagonist of an anime, these tangled love stories are quite interesting, but when he becomes a bystander of the story and can look at the love affairs of these teenagers from a more neutral and objective perspective, Li Mo naturally feels a little embarrassed and cannot understand why people make such a fuss over trivial matters.

At this moment, facing the booth where only his girlfriend was left, Li Mo could only support her mentally and continue to watch the fire from the other side of the river...

It was not until he saw the girl stealthily pick up the drink that originally belonged to Hakamada Kusuke and placed in front of him, and tried to deliberately engage in an indirect kiss like a nympho, that Li Mo could not help but let out a "hmm".

No, sister, this is too stupid!

Perhaps his surprised voice was too obvious, so the girl, who was already feeling guilty, looked towards him immediately.

After the confusion in the girl's eyes faded away - she obviously recognized Li Mo as a classmate - the girl quickly came to the opposite side of Li Mo and sat down silently.

"Well..." Li Mo suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

If his meal hadn't been served yet, he would have probably quickly retreated with a laugh.

"It's not like that!" the blue-haired girl said loudly with tears in her eyes.

"I haven't said anything yet..."

"I just think drinks shouldn't be wasted!"

"Even if you explain it to me this way..." Li Mo laughed dryly.

The girl and Li Mo looked at each other for a moment.

“Crack, crack…”

"Don't start eating my fries without saying anything!"

"Amu, amu, if I remember correctly, you are Asakura Naima-san, right?"

"I remembered it wrong. It's Asakura Takuma! It's not the kind of name that sounds like just a thickened version!" Li Mo protested.

"It's just a small problem, whatever..."

"Don't talk while eating! The French fry crumbs are spraying out, it's so dirty!" Li Mo leaned back and avoided the girl's spitting attack with a look of disgust on his face.

"Asakura, what did you just see?" The girl stared at Li Mo with her intimidating electric eyes.

"...Actually, you don't have to take it so seriously. This kind of thing is just like a primary school boy secretly taking home the recorder of someone he likes. It's quite common." Li Mo's eyes wandered.

"Are you saying my level of perversion is only at the level of an elementary school boy? Ah, waiter, give me a hamburger, please..."

"Why would you be so defensive about your own perversion? Besides, the tastes are pretty much the same."

"I just use food to ease the pain in my heart!" the girl argued confidently.

"Since there's no place to put it, why not just throw it away..." Li Mo suggested.

"A girl's love isn't something so easy to deal with! It's fickle, fragile, yet incredibly soft..."

"Slime?"

"That's right, Slime... No way! Why are you describing my heart as a small fry that can be defeated with the best sword in the village!"

"はじゃのつるぎ..."

"What are you talking about?" The girl looked at Li Mo in confusion.

"The spell of resurrection." (Note)

"I'm not defeated! Even slimes have roots!"

"But after the root is activated, the health is only left at the last point."

"So I'm not a slime," the girl muttered, only to find that Li Mo had already started eating his hamburger and seemed to be ignoring her.

After a moment of silence, she began to speak to herself: "Cao Jie and I have been childhood sweethearts..."

Li Mo licked his mayonnaise-covered fingers and thought, oh no, it seemed like a long cutscene was about to begin.

However, when he saw the girl's "slime looking at him with eyes that wanted to become a friend (Note 2)", he finally said nothing and just waited quietly for the girl to tell him about her past.

In fact, the plot is not that complicated. It is just a very common story of a childhood sweetheart who cannot resist the one who comes from heaven and has his love stolen by his childhood sweetheart.

Note: The classic resurrection spell in the FC version of "Dragon Quest" is the password used to continue the level. It has a total of 48 words and was spoofed as an Easter egg at the beginning of "DQ11".

Note 2: This is also a Dragon Quest meme. If you choose yes at this time, you can get a monster partner.

Chapter 12: The Landlord Has No Surplus Food

"Thank you, Asakura-san, for listening to me whine."

After pouring out her entire emotional journey of having her love stolen from her, Yana saw that Kyoko had an "I feel relieved" expression on her face, and she drank the Coke in front of her in one gulp with great generosity.

Li Mo, who was treated like a trash can and forced to listen to a classic love story, finally breathed a sigh of relief - thank God it was finally over. He had already finished his hamburger and could hardly sit down.

If it weren't for basic courtesy, he would have run away when the girl started chattering about how he and her childhood sweetheart were in kindergarten and how she wanted to be your bride in the future.

"Asakura-san, would you like to eat something else?" the girl asked.

"No, it's getting late and I'm going back." Li Mo showed a standard business fake smile: "Is Yanai meeting classmates?"

"Well, I'd like to order some Yubari melon soda, but I'm already at my limit both in terms of my wallet and the calories..." The girl sighed, looking a little frustrated. "Sorry, Asakura-san, I ate a lot of the fries you ordered. Let's split the bill."

You ate almost all of it, okay?

Although Li Mo wanted to complain, since he ordered a set meal, the price of the fries was much cheaper than a la carte, almost half buy half get free, so he had no objection to the girl's suggestion.

"No problem, just as you say."

The two of them stood up together and walked to the cash register to pay.

Just after Li Mo took out his wallet and paid his share, he found that the girl next to him seemed to be frozen.

"What's wrong, Yanai-kun?"

He asked out of politeness.

"Um..." A few drops of sweat broke out on the girl's forehead. She gave an awkward smile, "I don't think I have enough money. Could Asakura-san help me pay for it first?"

She clasped her hands together towards Li Mo, begging desperately: "I promise to return the money to you soon!"

The landlord's family has no surplus food.

Although Li Mo really wanted to reject her like this, after all, if it weren't for the phosphophyllite that the system rewarded him after completing the task, the living expenses he could freely use every month would only be a few thousand yen.

You have to know that in today's world, even working in a convenience store can earn at least hundreds of thousands of yen a month. With only a few thousand yen left and without working part-time to earn extra money, the only thing Li Mo can eat every day is probably bean sprouts, which are extremely cheap for some reason.

But at this point, if he refused, it would become even more troublesome. In order to prevent the time and energy he had previously spent on listening to boring stories from going to waste, he finally had no choice but to pay the girl's share of the money.

After returning home, Li Mo wanted to put everything behind him and go to bed directly with a shower.

A lot of things happened today, which really made him feel exhausted.

However, after lying paralyzed in bed for more than ten minutes, he relied on his strong willpower to get up again, sat back at the desk, took out the Sorting Hat from his schoolbag and put it on his head. With the help of it, he started to do his homework, reviewing and previewing at the same time.

Even though this was his second time in high school, rebirth did not change Li Mo's talent. Just like in his previous life, his academic ability was only above average. If he didn't work hard, he would soon be left behind by the top tier of his age group - in this regard, the Sorting Hat gave him a lot of help.

Some people may wonder, since he is already a winner in life who has mastered supernatural powers and has a system in his body, is it necessary for him to continue to spend time and energy on learning something that seems dull and boring?

Only Li Mo would answer without hesitation, it's worth it.

Perhaps because he died inexplicably in his previous life, he lacks the necessary sense of reality and security in many things.

Supernatural powers? Could this supernatural power, which required absorbing the magic power of others to use, truly be considered one's own? If I couldn't absorb it like before, wouldn't it be completely useless?

The system, or the nameless magic book? If it suddenly disappeared one day, or its power was suddenly exhausted, then I, who was used to relying on it, would probably fall into a state of confusion for a long time, and might even be unable to pick myself up again.

In contrast, after studying hard, the knowledge you have learned will not disappear, but it will completely belong to you. Even if the extraordinary part of yourself disappears one day, the scores will not deceive you. At that time, you at least still have the choice of continuing to study and go to higher education, and becoming a winner in life in the general sense.

But after a period of intense and exciting study, Li Mo suddenly realized: When he was in the family restaurant before, could he use the money that the other party owed him as an entry point to ask Yanami Anna for one of her school uniforms?

After all, students at Sobu High School have to buy new uniforms every year, so Yanami should still have her first-year high school uniform there.