"The last fragment, it has to come out. Please, I beg you, give me the Railgun!"
The roulette wheel slowly decelerated, the pointer sweeping past dark, dim squares.
The expected electric light did not appear; instead, a deep, serene, void-like azure light emerged.
[Beep! Congratulations, you have obtained Shiki Ryougi (The Garden of Sinners) Character Card Fragment ×1]
Time seemed to stand still.
Alice stared stiffly at that card fragment.
On the card fragment was a short-haired girl wearing a plain kimono with a red leather jacket over it.
She held a short knife in her hand, and those eyes shimmered with a prismatic light that made the soul tremble.
"Mystic Eyes of Death Perception — Shiki Ryougi?"
Alice gasped, her body collapsing heavily back into the sofa.
If it were Shiki Ryougi, she really couldn't complain.
After all, those are eyes that can kill gods, an existence that touches the root.
"But I can't complete the set!"
9/10 fragments for the Railgun, that feeling of being just one step away from ascending, like hundreds of ants gnawing at her heart.
"System, you really know how to mess with my mind."
The last pull, the tenth one.
Alice gritted her teeth.
The last pull.
This is also the pity mechanism for the 10-pull draw.
Alice had already given up hope.
[Beep! Pity mechanism triggered!]
[Congratulations, you have obtained a complete character card — Chisato Nishikigi (Lycoris Recoil)]
Accompanied by a few rhythmic gunshot sound effects, a bright, cheerful red light bloomed on the roulette wheel.
A complete golden card hovered in the center of her consciousness space.
On the card face was an energetic girl with short blonde hair and a red ribbon.
She wore a red and gray Agent uniform that looked like a school uniform, holding a modified M1911 pistol.
She wore a bright, harmless smile, dodging a few bullets that grazed past her, her movements as elegant as an elf dancing in the gunfire.
[Character Card: Chisato Nishikigi]
[Source: Lycoris Recoil]
[Codename: Strongest Chief Clerk]
[Ability Tags: Static Vision (S), Ballistic Prediction (God-tier), Close-quarters Gun-fu (Improved CAR System), Non-lethal Suppression.]
[Description: She possesses eyes that can see the line of death; as long as the trajectory can be seen, she can dodge it. She is the strongest optimistic Agent in history, and also a dessert lover who likes to skip work to drink coffee.]
"Chisato?"
Alice was stunned for a moment; the mood that had been so frustrating it made her want to vomit blood because she hadn't completed the Railgun set was instantly healed by this bright red.
Although she didn't have the World-destroying destructive power of the Railgun, nor the rule-breaking lethality of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, the god-tier ballistic prediction meant that as long as she wasn't caught in a large-scale explosion, she would be invincible in conventional gunfights.
Alice muttered silently: "Load!"
"Click —"
As the character card turned into points of light and merged into her body, Alice walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling mirror.
In the mirror, she still had that exquisite and cold face, with no changes.
But she could feel that some precise fine-tuning was happening inside her body.
Her muscles became more flexible and firm, her core strength instantly increased, and her center of gravity was perfectly optimized according to Chisato Nishikigi's muscle memory.
Even her shoulders, which had been tense from nervousness, relaxed naturally, and her whole person exuded a relaxed, playful composure.
Alice turned her head to look at the server rack running at high speed in the corner.
The rapidly spinning fan blades of the cooling fan seemed, in her eyes, like a slow-motion slideshow.
The dust on each blade, the trajectory of the airflow being cut, and even the changes in rotation speed caused by weak voltage fluctuations were clearly visible.
The World seemed to have slowed down.
She took a deep breath and pulled out a Glock 17 she had bought for self-defense from under a sofa cushion.
The firearm, which had felt a bit awkward in her hand before, now felt like an extension of her arm.
Swish!
With a flick of her wrist, she skillfully performed a beautiful gun spin.
Eject the magazine, pull back the slide to check the chamber, reset, reload, aim.
The whole process was smooth and flowing, so fast that it even left afterimages.
Alice aimed her gun at herself in the mirror, her eyes instantly becoming sharp, while the corners of her mouth unconsciously imitated Chisato, curling into a confident smile.
"Is this the instinct of the strongest Agent?"
The young girl looked down at her hands, feeling the power surging within her.
It was completely different from the biting killing intent of Mikasa, who wanted to cut everything down.
It had a sense of absolute control.
A kind of arrogance and confidence that I can see through any attack, and no one can hit me.
"In this perilous World, survival is the top priority." Alice holstered the gun, the unease in her eyes finally lessening by a fraction.
[Current Holdings]
Complete Character Cards: Kato Megumi, Mikasa Ackerman, Ai Haibara, Chisato Nishikigi.
Character Card Fragments: Misaka Mikoto (9/10), Black Saber (1/10), Flora (1/10), Saya Kisaragi (1/10), Rem (1/10), Rin Tohsaka (1/10), Kasugano (1/10), Mio Akiyama (1/10), Asuna Yuuki (1/10), Hellish Blizzard (1/10), Shiki Ryougi (1/10).
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