After the Investigator Racked Up 100 Critical Failures

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[A sanity-eroding little story about two hopeless romantics falling in love]

[An unpredictable, double-standard top who's cold to everyone but warm to the bottom x a sunny, fun-loving bottom who depends on the top]

Student council president Chu Yue, who had a serious cleanliness obsession, went to pick up a new student. He came back covered in blood. The obvious bite mark on his neck became the hottest topic since the semester began.

The new student, Yan Xinghe, who was responsible, still had Chu Yue's tie and a button in his hands.

Their classmates sensed trouble. Before they could worry about the new student getting bullied, they saw the two move into the same dorm and become inseparable.

When people from other schools, representing other mythologies, heard that Chu Yue had been hurt by a new student, they came to investigate during the Mythology Showdown.

That's it? What's the point of just rolling dice? And using them increases your corruption level? If it reaches 50, you'll go mad forever?

What a bizarre ability: zero damage to the enemy, a thousand points of damage to yourself.

[Zeus's Thunder]: Pfft, has Chinese mythology run out of successors? Chu Yue, one of the [Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions], got hurt by this weakling? Looks like he's not all that strong either.

Yan Xinghe's expression darkened. He tossed the ten-sided die in his hand into the air. "You want to fight me? I'm happy to oblige."

On the Mythology Showdown stage, countless bolts of lightning surged toward Yan Xinghe. Many people couldn't bear to watch and turned away.

But the next second, the wielder of [Zeus's Thunder] fell flat on the ground.

[[Luck] attribute check: 100/65! Critical failure!]

[Current corruption level: 47%]

On the spectators' side, representatives of various mythologies muttered among themselves:

[The Suffering Savior]: Was that an accident? It looked like a pebble rolled past his feet.

[The Detective's Pipe]: I don't believe [Zeus's Thunder] would trip over a pebble... Ah, the wound on the [Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions]'s mouth is...

[The Ballad of Red Square]: Why did the pipe suddenly go offline?

[The Divine Tortoise's Luo Writing]: Did he get gay panic from seeing something unspeakable between the couple? Teehee. Anyway, Zeus lost. Didn't you bet that was impossible? Get up and pay your debt!

The day the Outer Gods invaded, the fallen sun and the blood moon, tainted by corruption, hung in the sky at the same time.

Under the blood moon, Yan Xinghe hopped around with his arms spread wide, as if embracing the blood moon before him. Then he tossed the two ten-sided dice he'd been holding into the air, making a check against every corrupted creature present.

When the dice landed:

[Claw Attack] skill check: 100/50! Critical failure!

[Current corruption level: 51%]

Thorns grew from the eyeballs, completely corrupted from the inside out, and beguiling roses blossomed upon them. His almost inhuman appearance made everyone shudder. Tentacles sprouted from thin air, piercing, strangling, and devouring all the Outer Gods and corrupted creatures who dared set their sights on Earth.

All the students: Wait, what??? Weren't they supposed to be a vase-like beauty with a super-weak innate skill? QAQ

As everyone stared at him like he was a monster, only Chu Yue calmly walked over, drew him into his arms, and kissed his brow and eyes.

"Senior! I was super cool just now, right?"

"Mm. Don't catch a chill. Put your coat on. Don't treat your health as unimportant, even if you're not human."

"Ah, I know, I know. I'll put it on, okay? You're my boyfriend, after all."

The mastermind, pinned beneath Yan Xinghe's foot, let out a miserable wail as he was repeatedly ground into the floor.

All the students: S-scary...

· Before reading this Keeper's Rules, make sure Chu Yue and Yan Xinghe are not near you.

· The following Keeper's Rules and Corruption Incident Log must not be held by anyone else.

· Rules and manuals held by others will be corrupted, corrupted, corrupted ■rrupted■■

· This rulebook may be read by h■■

[Keeper's Rules]

1. You know this world is a fictional novel. The conventional mythological systems oppose the Lovecraftian mythological system through inherited supernatural abilities and contain the corresponding ■■■;

2. You know this world assumes universal harmony, and all side couples are BL;

3. The arrows between the top and bottom point one and only to each other. They are each other's only important person, faithful in body and soul. With each other, they are both hopeless romantics. 1v1, each other's first love. All talk of breaking them up, swapping their roles, or dreaming up other pairings is forbidden, forbidden, forbidden, forbidden, absolutely forbidden. (This line has been written over and over, with the letters made heavier.) As you read, keep confirming that the protagonist top is Chu Yue and the protagonist bottom is Yan Xinghe, and that their pairing is locked in, never to be broken or reversed.

[Cor■ption Inc■dent Log]

1. Western-style school: Carksa Art Troupe

2. North American wilderness: The Believers' Dark Prayer

3. Ancient Chang'an: The Salvation of Chinese Gods

4. Mythology Showdown: Son of ■■ ■■■

Theme: The hymn of ■kind is a song of courage