My love game is too abstract

“I… I’m back to normal.”

Serena gazed at her fair and tender arms, like lotus roots, her fingers slender, no longer the rough paws of a bear.

She touched her cheeks, no longer covered in shaggy bear fur, but smooth and delicate skin.

Even her voice was no longer the deep, harsh growl of a beast, but light and melodious.

She stroked her reborn body, her pupils trembling, a tear tracing a path down her smooth cheek. The sudden joy was so overwhelming that she could hardly believe it, wondering if it was all a hallucination.

“You’ve got to be kidding me.”

Looking at Serena, who had transformed back into a human, Alyssa’s expression gradually spiraled out of control, the muscles in her face twitching.

“You’ve got to be kidding me!! My curse magic, the curse magic I’ve spent most of my life researching, why, why… you bastard, what the hell did you do!”

She roared furiously at Yarrow, but as soon as she looked over, she saw him raise the iron shovel, step forward, and bring it down hard on her head.

With a dull thud, Alyssa fell straight to the ground.

“Ha, this chick’s magic attack is maxed out, but her defense is so weak.”

Yarrow raised the iron shovel again, aiming for her head, but this time it was blocked by a suddenly appearing magic array, the tip of the shovel melting in an instant.

This was Alyssa’s protective spell, triggered to protect its master after she lost consciousness.

He couldn’t kill her immediately now. Yarrow quickly dropped the shovel and ran towards Serena.

The girl hadn’t yet recovered from her surprise, still dazedly touching her cheeks.

“Stop touching your face! Your teacher is about to wake up, run!” Yarrow grabbed her shoulders and shook her violently.

Serena finally came to her senses. She tried to stand up, but she hadn’t yet adjusted to her newly restored slender legs, and she stumbled and fell.

“G-grab me… I’ll use a teleportation spell.” Serena struggled to support herself.

But before she could begin, Alyssa had already gotten up.

Her mage’s hat had fallen to the side, and she clutched her bleeding forehead, swaying as she stood.

“I really… misjudged you. I didn’t expect a little piece of trash like you to have such abilities…”

Alyssa’s face was twisted with a smile, her pupils contracted as she stared intently at Yarrow.

“I’ve changed my mind. You… will also become one of my collectibles!”

She suddenly raised her hand, and instantly, a rope made of magical power wrapped around Yarrow and Serena’s bodies, binding them tightly.

Yarrow lost his balance and fell to the ground. Then, Alyssa raised her hand and began chanting a curse spell at him.

The four lines of the incantation were completed in the blink of an eye, and a dense, purplish-black aura emerged from her palm in the shape of a snake, instantly pouncing towards Yarrow.

It’s over. I wonder if this system has a master protection mechanism…

The thought flashed through Yarrow’s mind, and the next moment, he saw a figure suddenly lunge forward to block him.

It was Serena. She had actually rushed forward at that moment to shield Yarrow from the curse magic.

The purplish-black aura wrapped around her body, engulfing her.

Alyssa snorted coldly, “Did you become stupid after turning back into a human? Serena, using your body to block my magic?”

However, when the purplish-black aura dissipated and Serena’s body was revealed, it had not caused her the slightest change. She was still a girl, with a pair of furry brown bear ears on her head.

“Huh?”

Serena looked down at her still-human body, unable to believe it. When she had lunged forward, she had been prepared to turn back into an animal, but Alyssa’s curse magic had not had any effect on her.

“Heh, this is a spell that even Ze西亚, the Dragon King, couldn’t undo. What can your little curse magic do?” Yarrow sneered inwardly.

Alyssa couldn’t believe that her magic had actually failed, and for a moment, she was stunned.

Her brief daze gave Yarrow an opportunity. The ability he had obtained from Peach Fox, Pseudo-Cultivation, had now finished cooling down.

He immediately copied the curse magic that Alyssa had just used, and then immediately cast it on her.

Although his hands were tied tightly to his chest, it didn’t prevent him from casting the spell. The copied ability didn’t even require chanting. That purplish-black aura this time condensed in Yarrow’s hand and shot towards Alyssa.

“Wait, this is my…”

Alyssa had just recovered from her daze when she saw the spell that originally belonged to her coming towards her.

The purplish-black mist engulfed her, accompanied by a shrill scream. The magic ropes on Yarrow and Serena’s bodies disappeared.

They watched the surging, dense purplish-black mist. After it dissipated, only Alyssa’s clothes remained on the ground.

A moment later, the clothes stirred, and a calico puppy crawled out from inside.

“Ah ha, you really deserved it.”

Yarrow stepped forward, grabbed the scruff of the dog-shaped Alyssa, and lifted her up.

“Woof! Woof woof woof!”

The calico dog barked fiercely, its four little short legs flailing in the air.

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“What are you barking at!”

Yarrow raised his hand and knocked her head hard, leaving only a whimper.

“You… who exactly are you? Why do you know Teacher’s curse magic?” Serena’s voice rang out from behind.

Yarrow turned his head and glanced at her, casually threw away the calico dog, came to Serena, and opened his hand to her:

“Give it to me.”

“Wh-what?”

Serena looked at his palm, not understanding what he was saying.

“That Lost Spell, didn’t we say before? I’ll change you back, and that thing will be mine.”

Serena looked at him, suddenly feeling a little speechless.

“You really are a persistent man…”

She sighed, took out the iron sheet, and handed it to Yarrow.

Yarrow carefully put it away, regaining the happiness of the second half of his life. He breathed a long sigh of relief.

“You, I… I still don’t know your name.” Serena asked a little awkwardly. From the beginning, she hadn’t paid attention to Yarrow’s existence, so she hadn’t even asked his name.

“Yarrow, or you can call me by my nickname, Yanzu.” Yarrow put away the Lost Spell and said to Serena.

“Yarrow…” Serena repeated the name, and then asked, “You… what did you use to change me back?”

Serena asked. This man, whom she had never paid attention to, suddenly became mysterious and reliable, not only lifting her curse but also defeating the powerful Alyssa and saving her.

“Why should I tell you? Didn’t you think I was a lunatic before?” Yarrow snorted.

He was actually trying to verify his previous guess, his guess about the system choosing a female lead to bind to.

The system’s prompts for designated targets were random, but to successfully bind in the end, certain conditions were still needed.

Before, when facing Ze西亚, Ji Xiaofei, and Peach Fox, although it wasn’t very obvious, there had been strong emotional interactions.

Ze西亚 wanted to kill him at the time, Ji Xiaofei felt that she was going to be eaten by him, and Peach Fox had expectations of successfully begging for a title.

As for Serena, when they first met, although his reaction was quite strong at the time, Serena’s attention was all on that Lost Spell, and she hadn’t had much emotional reaction to him personally.

So he deduced the system’s rule for binding female leads, which was that it would only bind when both sides had strong emotional interactions.

But he certainly wouldn’t tell Serena these things. She was different from Ji Xiaofei and Peach Fox. She was originally human and had her own life. This time, saving her was also for that Lost Spell.