Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Roar of the Weak

Chapter 349 Hope

But the Snow Maiden with the Demonic Scheme still couldn't stop crying.

So Di Xing gave the weeping Ghostly Snow Woman a huge ice cream, then hugged her and went to the corridor to look at the stars.

"Look at the Snow Maiden, the starry sky is so beautiful, don't cry anymore, okay? Tomorrow I'll ask Xiao Hong to make you a more exquisite statue."

The Snow Woman silently murmured, "...name."

"what?"

"I want you to give me a name, just like Sister Leixi's."

"Oh, I see." Calling her by her card name directly felt too formal. "Let me think about it."

Di Xing began to think seriously. Seeing Di Xing racking his brains, the Ghostly Snow Maiden stopped crying.

Di Xing suddenly had an idea. "How about the name 'Xue Ji'? It means the sky clears up after the snow stops!"

"Xue Ji?" The Snow Woman's large blue eyes sparkled with excitement as she nodded happily, seemingly quite pleased with the name.

After finally calming Xueji down, Di Xing tentatively said, "Xueji, please don't be angry with the Ghostly Snowman, okay? It probably didn't do it on purpose, and the ice sculpture she made for you was actually quite beautiful."

"I'm not angry with it, we're good friends," Xueji said, taking small bites of her ice cream.

Di Xing suddenly remembered a gossip story he had seen in a cartoon, and his gossipy heart was rekindled.

"Xueji, you actually like Ghostly Scheme, right? So you only consider Ghostly Scheme Snowman as a friend."

Xue Ji looked at Di Xing in surprise, then shook her head.

"Isn't that so?"

"No," Xue Ji said earnestly, looking at Di Xing, "I like you."

"Huh!!!?"

Before Di Xing could react, Xue Ji leaned down and kissed him on the cheek.

"Oh my god!" The biggest enemy of the CP I was just thinking of shipping turned out to be myself, but this feeling is not bad!

Just as Di Xing was frantically trying to organize his thoughts...

"You scumbag, you starfish!"

Melo swung a wet broom and smacked Di Xing on the head.

As the saying goes, a mop covered in poop—whoever it pokes dies; a broom covered in water—whoever it hits screams.

Di Xing stood up angrily, his hair still wet, picked up Melo, and prepared to spank her.

Melo struggled desperately, and the two wrestled together.

"Pfft," Xue Ji chuckled softly. That was precisely why she liked Di Xing.

Seeing Xue Ji smile again, Di Xing and Melo, who was clinging to her like a koala, both stopped what they were doing.

Isn't it so cute?

"Oh, right," Di Xing remembered something, "Xue Ji, where is your original owner's grave?" He was about to convert her house into a school; he should go to her grave and tell her.

"Her grave is in this house~ It just so happens that she also wants to see you," Xue Ji said in a very calm tone, revealing something that sent chills down Di Xing's spine.

But she still gritted her teeth and followed Xue Ji into the complicated basement of Youquan Pavilion. As soon as she entered, Di Xing heard a beautiful but sad song.

Melo clung tightly to Di Xing in fear, her voice trembling as she said, "This...this song is so sad. The singer seems to be trapped in a veil of sorrow from which she can never escape."

Melo, who was also a skilled singer, understood the emotions in the song, but she was still afraid.

The three of them wandered through the basement, turning left and right, and after activating a very well-hidden switch, they finally arrived at the deepest hidden room in the underground of the Ghost Spring Pavilion.

The room was empty, with a tattered portrait of a woman hanging in the center. Although only her chin and mouth were visible, it was still clear that she was a beautiful woman.

"Our master ultimately transformed her body into elven power and vanished. We will use this fragment of her painting as her tombstone."

Xueji said sadly, "However, her soul seems to still be here, because I heard her voice just yesterday."

"You've arrived?" A strange elven energy suddenly coalesced in the middle of the room, forming a blurry humanoid figure.

"This is the second time I've seen you," the humanoid voice was extremely pleasant. She looked at Xue Ji standing next to Di Xing. "You've taken very good care of them. I knew I hadn't misjudged you."

After the "senior" actually appeared, Di Xing wasn't so nervous anymore. "Excuse me, I've converted your house into a school."

"Hehe, isn't that a great thing? I only have one request."

"what?"

"Could the school be called Hope Hall?"

"It's possible, but why?"

"Because my life is full of despair," the humanoid figure seemed to be looking up into the distance.

"A freak who didn't fit in with his family, a madman who sacrificed everything for freedom, a banished sinner, a phantom singing in a secluded mansion, a cuckoo weeping blood every day, a...dream that he could never fulfill until his death."

Self-pity in human form

"So I hope you can fulfill my dream for me."

The humanoid figure slightly raised its hand, and a card from Di Xing's Ghostly Scheme deck flew out—it was [Upgraded Magic - Starlight Power].

The card hovered in the air, projecting a golden pendant.

"This is a fragment of the Savior's power. I finally found it after a long and difficult journey, but it has fallen into slumber, and I, who have spent my entire life with despair, am powerless to awaken it."

"But you are different. You are full of hope even in dire straits. You should be able to awaken its true power."

"Holy crap, a savior? Isn't this the pendant of the cult leader Yuma? Its true power? Could it be...?"

The humanoid voice continued, "Hold on tight."

Without hesitation, Di Xing reached out and grabbed the pendant.

Instantly, the pendant emitted a dazzling starlight, followed by a strange fluctuation throughout the room. Three beams of light shot out from the pendant, creating three jet-black Spirit-Giving Cards. The power within the pendant was then completely exhausted.

"This, this is NO. 39 Hope Royal!"

"I hope you can bring hope to the Ghosts, hope to all of Duskwood!" Leaving this final request, the humanoid figure vanished completely from the world.

Di Xing knew that although her life had been filled with long periods of despair, today, at the end of her life, a flower of hope had finally bloomed.

"Waaah," the sentimental Melo began to sob softly.

Di Xing gently stroked her hair. "Let's go, we need to complete her request."

......

Rugal was furious, truly furious. That lowly, lowly planetary being—Di Xing—had actually ignored his invitation and chosen to hold his ascension ceremony three days later before heading to the third level.

According to reliable sources, that bastard has already met with Ms. Mi Nuo and successfully opened a business association.

It's important to know that opening a merchant guild requires at least 15,000 gold coins. For someone from the third tier to open a merchant guild is unheard of in the long history of Durum. The foolish Lepard family actually lost so much money to him!

What angered him most was that he had been waiting for Di Xing in the cold wind for four hours. Where was that bastard? Wait, didn't he say he was going to participate in the star-ascension ceremony?

Just then, a figure walked over in a nonchalant manner.

"You rude man, how dare you keep this old man waiting here for so long!"

"Hey old man, you've mistaken me for someone else. I'm Xiao Yi."

"What? What about Di Xing?"

"He...he already set off for the third floor a long time ago, and he's probably even bought the house by now."

"What!?"