Shion’s Stresses
Gideon the City of Duels
“HuUhh?”
One day, during her visit to Altar, the Huang Hean Superior and second in Huang He’s duel rankings, Xunyu, entered a store to buy materials for her Fu, only to see something strange.
“I hate this! I hate this so much! Neeeeeennnghhhh!”
There was Shion Manjushage, making odd, angry noises.
Xunyu wasn’t close to Shion, but they had met when she’d attended an Altarian social gathering for duelists.
What she was doing as she made those noises was...pulling on the gacha machine. This was the store owned by a certain Alejandro—the same one equipped with that curious device—and Shion was endlessly making pulls that cost a hundred thousand lir each.
Normally, the store only allowed one pull before making the puller go to the back of the line and wait for their turn again, but Shion’s intensity had rendered everyone unable to object.
“Guess I gottA get involved,” said Xunyu, feeling she had to do something. “Hey, donchA think you’re bothErin’ the other customErs?”
“Leave me alone!” Shion said before she realized something. “Oh, wait. It is you.”
“You know yoUr wailin’ can be heard all acrOss the store, right? Just whAt the hell happened to yA?”
“Oh, it is simply unbelievable! I lost the event I was in before I even realized what was going on! And I am not getting anything good from the gacha!”
Shion went on to explain what had happened at The Anniversary.
Although she’d been able to defeat a powerful enemy, she’d somehow lost while gathering her spoils.
It had been a surprise attack from Carl that had defeated her, but she still had no idea that was the case.
Being disqualified right after winning a fight had left her sour beyond belief.
Afterwards, she’d went on to talk to Juliet, who’d said that she’d won and received an S-rank gacha ticket. That had motivated Shion to come here and get a natural S-rank pull, which was what she was trying to do right now.
“I came out of all that with nothing to show for it! That is so stressful!”
“I seE...” Xunyu said.
Though, doncha think you’ll get even more stressed if ya burn your money on the gacha? she added in thought.
“All this after I beat a scorpion and a huge elephant! It’s like a compound fracture on my breakable bone!”
“What’s thAt supposed to...? Wait, ‘huge elEphant?’ Was it mAde of clouds?”
“Yes! And I beat it splendidly!” Shion said proudly.
Those words made Xunyu realize something.
Huang He’s strongest clan, Huili Yuminjun, had the so-called “Five Generals,” each of which took a spot in the duel rankings ranging from third to seventh.
From the highest ranked, they were King of Gardens, Saimei Takanashi; Beast General, Anthropos Farma; King of Axes, Wan Zihao; Kidnap Princess, Clobbergirl Fanatic Pie; and the one Shion had defeated—King of Cowboys, Jamie Crescent.
Despite being the lowest in the ranks among them, Jamie Crescent was said to be extremely hard to defeat in open fields, so Xunyu was surprised to hear that Shion had done exactly that.
It sparked her curiosity as a duelist.
“Well, I’m intErested. All right, we’re gOin’ to an open arenA.”
“Whuh?”
As she was caught off guard by what she just heard, Xunyu extended her prosthetics and wrapped them around her.
“Pullin’ the gachA won’t help ya with strEss, anyway. Hang oUt with me for A while.”
And so, Xunyu dragged Shion to an arena and made her spar with her.
Once they were done, Shion’s pent-up competitive spirit was all but exhausted, and she looked thoroughly refreshed.
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