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Shame Energy Collection System

Breaking the interpersonal ice with awkwardness

By anminPublished 10 months ago 3 min read

“Congratulations to the host for achieving the 'Jumping New Treasure Island in the Principal's Office' achievement!” I was being held down on the lawn by three security guards when the mechanical voice sounded inside my head. The reward prop [Invisibility Sticker] that I just drew was stuck to the gum in my pants pocket, while a huge picture of my social death was posted on the bulletin board in the distance - underneath it was labeled “Campus Legend +1”.

It all started three days ago when I threw tomato soup on my school grass shirt in the cafeteria. At that time, fireworks effects suddenly exploded in my head, and the guy who called himself the Social Death System announced: [Binding successful! The host will gain survival value by creating embarrassing famous scenes]

“Escape now will trigger the fart spray penalty oh~” the system issued a devilish whisper when I turned around. Seeing the school bully Bai Yiyi's chest swooning with blood stains like soup stains, I stiffly used my sleeve to wipe his pectoral muscles: “Classmate you this clothing... Quite capable of absorbing water, huh?”

The crowd of onlookers raised their cell phone screens to illuminate my pale face. Bai Yiyi suddenly grabbed my wrist, and the favorability bar on top of his head soared from -50 to +20: “You're the first creature that dares to dirty my clothes and still live.”

“Ding! Harvest 100 points of Shame Energy”

“Unlock the newbie gift pack: a fragment of the school bully's secret diary”

That afternoon, I blocked Bai Yiyi by holding up the A4 paper [Sincerely Hiring a Fake Girlfriend]. According to the system's mission requirements, I had to read the diary content aloud vocally, “March 7 sunny, fed the stray cats but got scratched, so being loved also hurts...”

“Where did you see that?” Bai Yiyi's ears flushed red and dragged me into the equipment room, and I suddenly had a suona in my hand that the system had forced me to use: “So what, if you kill me, I'll play a dirge for you on the spot!”

“High-quality embarrassing material detected.”

“Activate Limited Quest: Play the Love Cycle on the oboe.”

In the reverberations of the pipe rack vibrations, Bai Yiyi's expression went from shocked to numb. Until the gym teacher broke down the door, I saw the pink pop-up screen of [Heartwarming Value +30] popping up above his head in the high pitch of the running tone.

The next day the whole school was rumored to be “Shocked! High-cool schoolmaster and oboe spirit の密室play》. The [Existence Elimination Sticker] rewarded by the system was useless - now even the cafeteria aunty would shake the spoon two more times when she was serving food: “Eat more, girl, it takes air to play the tune.”

The most outrageous thing was when the system suddenly released an urgent task during the monthly exam: [Write the answer to the third question of the choice with your ass]. When I twisted into a maggot shape was photographed by the monitor, Bai Yiyi actually kicked open the door of the examination room and shouted: “Teacher! She's doing the knowledge exorcism dance!”

“Shame energy has exceeded the threshold.”

“Unlocking the ultimate skill: the collective wisdom-reducing aura.”

On the day of the school anniversary, I was coerced by the system to wear a Pikachu doll costume on stage. The originally prepared apology speech was muffled by the sweaty headgear with an electric sound effect: “I... Zip... Actually, Zzzz... Like...”

Suddenly the whole school teachers and students' cell phones ringing at the same time, Bai Yiyi black into the broadcasting station cycle playing “piggy back daughter-in-law”. He shouldered me and ran towards the stage, and the moment the doll's tail swept down the principal's wig, I heard the system's final prompt:

“Mission accomplished.”

“Hidden Achievement Unlocked: Breaking the Dimensional Wall with Truth”.

Later, Bai Yiyi revealed in an interview in the school magazine, “In the tomato soup she splashed that day, there was onion juice that I was allergic to.” He shook our hands, “But the image of someone crying and playing a funeral song while confessing... It's kinda hard to say no.”

Today I'm still being victimized by the system on a daily basis, such as suddenly dancing the shuttlecock drill during flag-raising, or using a broom to perm the head teacher's hair. However, when Bai Yiyi made the “Campus Society Death List” website into a couple's homepage, I suddenly realized - those ridiculous marks of shame had been quietly framed by someone as a medal of youth.

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