Redo of a Romanceless Author’s Life Devoid of Love; Another Chance at Youth Chapter 317

Chapter 317. An Unexpected Encounter. (4/6)

“Did you ever once consider you’re the one ignorant to the greatness of low quality?”

“Ignorant? How so?”

“Will sothing high quality ever improve as ti progresses?”

“Hmm… well, that’s a good question. It might.”

“No. It will not. As ti progresses, sothing high quality will typically lower in quality. The natural course is for it to beco watered down and for it to deteriorate. It will not improve, or at the very least, it is extrely difficult, to near impossible to improve on.”

“However, with sothing low quality, it can always be worked on and easily improved. You can always transform sothing low in quality into sothing high in quality with the correct ingredients and process. Those ingredients don’t even need to be high in quality. Low-quality ingredients mixed together can yield sothing high in quality. It’s cooking at its finest. Variety is the spice of life. Things high in quality can not exist without the low-quality foundational building blocks they are built upon.”

“Is that how you’re going to go about defending your girlfriend?”

“Sure, why not? People are free to say or think whatever they want about her. I don’t care. What matters is what I think of her, not what others think of her. At least, in my eyes, she’s better than any girl you’d ever get.”

“I don’t agree.”

“Then I guess we’re at an impasse.”

“I may have failed with both Alicia and Ri… no, Izora, but I’ve got my next target in sight.”

“Already? How the hell do you guys bounce back so fast?”

“When there’s such a perfect high-quality woman in the city, it’s pretty easy to get back up on your feet. There are countless fish in the sea after all. This one just so happens to be the cream of the crop.”

“Cream… of the crop?” Ugh, it was obvious who he was talking about.

“You probably are ignorant of it, but the big fish… whale, no, make that leviathan I ntioned is attending this inauspicious university. Though this university may not be so prestigious top institution or a very big deal, it’s still above average and in the top 1% of universities globally. I don’t need to put in nearly as much effort to get into this university, in fact, it’s pretty much guaranteed I get in. If I can snag this leviathan, or at least get on good terms with them, my future connections will be limitless. It will be an all-you-can-eat buffet of high-quality goods. Hehehehe…”

His chuckle sounded sowhat sinister. It definitely didn’t fit the charming image he always portrayed in front of the ladies. He was a man with ambition, perhaps overly so. What a troubleso guy.

“You’d make a good devil in a movie with a laugh and deceptively attractive face like yours.”

“A devil?” Zale questioned.

“Yeah.”

“What if I said I was a devil?”

“I’d think you’re full of shit. Devils don’t exist.”

“Certainly. Devils don’t exist.”

Had I actually co across one when I least expected it?

“Soone I know once said a real devil would never admit to being one if they were one. Are you actually a real devil?”

“Hahaha! Of course not. Whoever said that to you was definitely ssing with you.”

“Yeah.”

“Yo Zale, what’s up?”

I redirected my gaze toward the person who greeted Zale.

“Haha. Nothing much, Ray. It seems I got here pretty early before everyone else.”

“Who’s this? He looks kind of familiar.”

“This? His na’s Ran. He’s Rosa’s boyfriend.”

“Oh! From the Valentine’s Day school dance! Right, right. I rember now. The ballsy boyfriend who made out with Rosa under a spotlight as everyone watched.”

Is that how I’m being rembered by the third-year students? I facepald and lanted over the sort of weird image everyone had of now. I wanted to imdiately run away and find sowhere to hide.

“Uh… I guess that’s ?”

“What are you doin here though? Aren’t ya still in your first year?”

“He’s got a date with her here apparently. I dragged him away from their etup spot to ss with her.”

“Haha! Sounds like sothing you’d do. You two really can’t stand each other.”

“She always got in my way when it ca to Alicia, of course I can’t stand her. It infuriates to no end whenever I rember it.”

“She’s a tough one. Hahahaha! That ti she slapped you silly in front of everyone in the class at lunch with Alicia when you tried to put the moves on her was hilarious though.”

Rosa did that? I wasn’t aware of that at all. I kind of wish I could have seen it.

“Don’t remind . I still feel that burning sensation on my cheek to this day.”

“Hey, do you have a video of it?” I couldn’t stop myself from asking.

“Yeah, man, you wanna see the guy who tried to pick up your girlfriend get slapped silly?”

“Yeah, I do actually.”

“Ray, I thought I got you to delete that!”

“Haha. I did delete it, but I was able to restore it with so software.”

“Delete it now.”

“I’ve already made backups. There’s no way I can let that embarrassing scene be lost to the sands of ti. It was the first ti you suffered a setback from a girl. It was so satisfying for all us guys in class. It gave us hope that justice existed in the world. This guy here is a beacon of hope for us ungifted guys in class who were always overshadowed by you. He’s a true war hero for taming a girl like that.”

“What do you an a girl like that? She’s just a low-quality girl with trashy taste in n.”

“Low quality for you maybe. For every other guy in our class, she’s top quality.”

Ray took out his phone and turned it to . A video started to play.

Rosa had grabbed Zale by the tie with her left hand as she rcilessly slapped Zale’s cheeks. She alternated between left and right with each syllable she spoke.

“I’m” slap “not” slap “in” slap “-ter” slap “-est” slap “-ed” slap “ass” slap “-hole.” Slap!

“What” slap “part” slap “of” slap “that” slap “do” slap “you” slap “not” slap “un” slap “-der” slap “-stand?” Slap!

Each slap from her was crisp upon impact with his cheeks. From the redness, it was clear her slaps packed a punch.

“She’s the most brutish woman I’ve ever co across. I’ve never t such an infuriating woman in all my life,” Zale spat out as he gnashed his teeth with a nacing glare.

“Just how the hell did you ta that brutish unpleasant woman?” Zale shot an inquisitive look my way.

“How? I… don’t think I did anything special. I ignored her and did what I could to get her to leave alone. Things sort of… developed on their own I guess.”

“So she’s the type that prefers to chase than be chased. Is that what you’re saying?”

Ah. She’s an assassin. It makes sense if you know that detail about her. Assassins would hate to be chased down and are the ones who are always chasing their targets down.

“Well… maybe that’s the case.”

“Why the hell did she chase after you?”

“I refused to give her my corner seat at the back of the class on the first day of school when she asked for it.”

“Huh? That’s… it?” Zale hesitantly asked in disbelief.

“Yeah. Eventually, I caved and tried to give her the seat so she would stop bugging . I even moved to the opposite corner of the classroom, but it was too late by that point. She apparently found so strange sort of weird pleasure in bugging . I guess it was like she discovered a fun toy to play with.”

“What the hell? Why can’t I have so of that dog shit luck with such a hotty?” Ray grumbled as he disgruntledly sat down beside Zale.

“Alicia, Rosa, and Izora. Why are so of the best girls from our school all taken? And what the hell’s with you Zale? You had Izora in the bag but she got snatched away by so first-year brat. Isn’t that just too embarrassing? Seriously, who knew Izora was wearing a wig all this ti to hide her dyed hair. That was a real shock.”

“Haaaaah. Yeah… it really was a shock. I’m eating a bitter pill of defeat right now because of it. She’d always been imitating Alicia to try and appeal to , I never thought she was hiding so much of herself from everyone this entire ti despite her being around for such a long ti. For a first-year brat to see through what she was hiding in such a short period of ti when I couldn’t in years, I can’t even face that girl now.”

I couldn’t help but discreetly chi in, “You sound as if you liked her.”

“Liked her? Hmm… well, maybe yes and no.”

“What do you an?”

“I didn’t like her.”

“Then why say yes and no?”

“Without realizing it… I guess… I was probably starting to take an interest in her recently. If asked the sa question two months ago, my answer would be different. It would have been a definite no. I had zero interest in her when all she did was try to beco a cheap carbon copy of Alicia. Haaaaah. Really now. I always considered her low quality.”

“Are you saying you think she’s high quality now?”

“I guess. Turns out she even got close to a big fish when I failed miserably. Just who’s really high quality and low quality here? I don’t even know anymore. I’m supposed to be destined for success and great things. But now I feel like I’ve completely lost to that girl who was always chasing behind my back. For the first ti in my life, I feel so la it’s not even funny. I’ve just been taking L after L these days.”

Oh? What’s this? Did his over-inflated ego finally pop thanks to Izora?

“Screw you man! You’ve been doing nothing but winning from everyone else’s perspective,” Ray vehently retorted.

“Winning? How?”

“You got all those scholarships, bastard.”

“Haaaah. Oh, that. Sure, I got all those as a consolation prize, but I couldn’t even win a girl over when they liked from the start. She got snatched up not even by the infuriating guy I was originally competing against, but by a first-year punk right in front of and I couldn’t even react because of how shocked I was at the ti.”

Shocked by the revelation, Ria was Izora.

“Haaaah. I really had the rug pulled out from under my feet. Well, I guess it was her revenge for stringing her along for so long, giving her false hope, and not rejecting her properly. She probably hates now.”