6: save2 Where There Is a Childhood Friend, There Must Be a Heaven-Sent Love Interest
"..."
Lu Lele seemed to understand why the Strange God chose midnight as the start of every attempt.
The long night was the best time to think problems through.
The first two attempts both ended in failure. Lu Lele was a little lost, but she soon cheered up.
Or rather, the incident of being counter-killed and ravaged by Liu Lili just now made Lu Lele feel very unwilling to accept defeat, which instead stirred up her high fighting spirit.
Liu Lili, I will definitely make you my possession!
With this obsession, Lu Lele finally started to take things one hundred percent seriously in the third attempt.
In the first two times, Lu Lele had a somewhat nonchalant attitude. After all, the Strange God hadn't set any failure penalties or limits on the number of rollbacks. Lu Lele had no pressure, so naturally she couldn't get serious. She felt that just making a plan and following it would lead to success.
After failing twice, this time, Lu Lele decided to learn from her lessons and prepare seriously.
Lu Lele seemed to have returned to those nights accompanied only by 2D characters, searching for the path to a happy ending among one option after another.
It was just that this time, she needed to write the options herself, and the yandere was no longer the target she was trying to conquer, but herself.
However, Lu Lele carefully savored the experience and discovered that Liu Lili actually seemed to have a bit of a yandere shadow? At least the psychological quality of being calm in the face of danger and the slightly twisted performance after the counter-kill felt very yandere-like.
Before transmigrating, Lu Lele was a galgame enthusiast, with dozens of various galgames installed on Steam. As long as it was a galgame she had played, it was inevitably a full ending plus full CG collection. If you asked why, it was her OCD.
Lu Lele asked herself and considered herself a veteran galgame player. She could easily handle girls with attributes like tsundere, kuudere, or genki. But she really couldn't figure out how to play yandere-type galgames. She completely couldn't understand the brain circuits of yandere girls.
But after two rounds of personal roleplay, Lu Lele seemed to understand a little bit.
"Making the person you love your own possession," this was the driving force behind all actions of a possessive-type yandere.
To raise the Acting Value, she needed to take actions that helped promote this matter.
And once her behavior or the consequences of her behavior deviated greatly from this goal, the Acting Value would drop. If it dropped to a negative number, it would roll back and start over, just like now.
Lu Lele spent a lot of time reviewing her first two attempts in her brain and successfully summarized some experience.
First, Lu Lele found that she had underestimated her childhood friend too much. Or rather, she took too much for granted.
Compared to her peers, Liu Lili was much more mature, and she was unusually calm in the face of sudden situations. Even if she had no defense against Lu Lele, wanting to successfully control her was not that easy.
Liu Lili was not an object she could easily manipulate. The failures of the first two attempts had already proven that as long as Lu Lele underestimated the enemy, she would lose thoroughly. Last time, not only did she lose her panties, she even lost her first time.
But Liu Lili also had weaknesses. Deep down, she liked to pursue stimulation, and she belonged to the constitution where she couldn't touch a drop of alcohol. She could use the cocktails at home to get her drunk. This was also considered important intelligence.
Second, the relationship between Liu Lili and her parents didn't seem to be very good, and her parents... seemed to love money very much. She could use money to exchange for Liu Lili's time to be with her from them.
Lu Lele didn't want to use words like money-worshiping or profit-oriented to describe Liu Lili's parents, because she didn't know the deep-seated reasons behind it. Just like how Liu Lili was also very strange in Lu Lele's eyes at this moment.
The closer you are, the stranger they are.
She felt that she still knew too little about Liu Lili. Even though they grew up playing together, it still only stayed on the surface. Liu Lili's family, her family members, and her inner self were all covered in a layer of fog for Lu Lele, waiting for Lu Lele to blow away and dig up.
Since she wanted to make a person her possession forever, then she should make her transparent to herself from head to toe, from body to soul. This was the conclusion Lu Lele reached after thinking.
Because only in this way could she formulate the most perfect hunting plan for the "prey."
Therefore, a brand new idea formed in Lu Lele's brain.
"Hey, Strange God, I know you are watching the show. I have a question I want to ask you." Lu Lele actively contacted the Strange God in her mind.
Since the other party was a god and could directly hit information into her brain, it was extremely reasonable that he could hear her inner voice too.
And the result was not unexpected. Almost in an instant, the Strange God replied:
[Ask.]
Lu Lele then asked without hesitation:
"If I plan to spend time to understand Liu Lili more deeply, instead of kidnapping her directly, will the Acting Value be cleared?"
The Strange God pasted a few big words directly into Lu Lele's brain:
[What is there to ask about this? The rules are there. Go try it yourself.]
"Okay."
Lu Lele got an answer that wasn't an answer and nodded.
She decided not to be so anxious anymore, but to take it slow and spend time increasing her understanding of Liu Lili.
...
...
The familiar morning, the familiar school cafeteria. Lu Lele carried her tray and sat next to Liu Lili again.
"Are you still angry?" Halfway through the meal, Liu Lili asked the familiar question.
This time, Lu Lele didn't skip it lightly, but nodded:
"Of course. I cried all afternoon yesterday. Lili, you must tell me, who is that girl you like?"
Lu Lele of course knew the answer to her question. She just wanted to see if there would be any different changes by getting a different answer, just like saving a game and switching options when playing a galgame.
The result was beyond Lu Lele's expectations. Liu Lili said slowly:
"Ling Lianlian."
"What? Ling Lianlian?"
Lu Lele almost thought she heard wrong and asked subconsciously:
"It's her?"
Liu Lili didn't look at Lu Lele. She lowered her head and pretended to eat while saying:
"Mm."
Ling Lianlian was the energetic girl in the class, the very lively and cheerful type. She had a pretty good relationship with both Liu Lili and Lu Lele. She was the so-called heaven-sent type.
The three of them were all members of the manga club, and they all liked reading shoujo manga that described the friendship between girls. Therefore, every time there was a club activity, they would gather together to read and chat.
The naturally affectionate Ling Lianlian quickly integrated into the two of them, and from then on, they became friends with the same hobbies.
"Lele..."
Liu Lili seemed to notice Lu Lele's stiffness and asked cautiously:
"We are still good friends, right?"
"Ah, of course." Lu Lele smiled, though the smile wasn't very natural.
This time it was really unnatural. Lu Lele almost couldn't control her expression.
When she heard the name "Ling Lianlian," a raging fire rose in Lu Lele's heart for no reason, burning her into a daze. She almost exploded on the spot.
Lu Lele, who had inherited the unforgettable love for Liu Lili, could not accept anyone possessing even a single hair of Liu Lili.
Even if Liu Lili was just using Ling Lianlian's name as a shield, it was the same. She couldn't accept it, she couldn't accept it at all. Just thinking about it made her so angry she could die.
It took Lu Lele quite a while to calm the surging emotions in her heart, and she walked out of the cafeteria with a dark face.