Restricted Fantasy I Chapter 283: Operation Reconciliation

"Sakuramiya Hitomi, why are you here?"

Looking at Sakuramiya Hitomi, who had appeared out of nowhere, Bai Yi asked with a face full of suspicion.

"I'm just strolling around the mall since I have nothing to do this weekend. Is that not allowed?"

Sakuramiya Hitomi smiled slightly as she replied.

However, Ye Shiyu stared at her with an expressionless face and asked in return,

"Strolling around in a nursing room?"

Hearing this, Sakuramiya Hitomi glanced at the envelope in her hand, which had the words "To the Children" written on the cover, and furrowed her brow slightly.

'This is...'

'Who wrote this letter?'

Sakuramiya Hitomi thought this to herself, but she didn't show it on her face. Instead, she smiled, opened her arms to the two girls in front of her, and said with profound maternal affection,

"If you don't mind, I can call you my babies too~"

"Screw you!"

Hearing this, Bai Yi's face darkened. She cursed at Sakuramiya Hitomi for taking advantage of them in a very unladylike manner, pointing at her and declaring,

"We clearly just saw your rat-headed clone. This is obviously your Reality Barrier, isn't it?

"We agreed that none of us would use our superpowers, yet you're sneaking around using yours. Shaless!"

Even when confronted, Sakuramiya Hitomi wasn't annoyed in the slightest. Instead, she laughed and said,

"Didn't our agreent only state that we wouldn't use them on the President? And if we have any morals, we shouldn't use them on ordinary people either.

"I'm usually in poor health, so isn't it perfectly normal for

to open a Reality Barrier in advance to teleport and save so walking ti?"

Bai Yi was left speechless by Sakuramiya Hitomi's logic.

"Oh, right... I'm sorry..."

"..."

anwhile, Ye Shiyu simply stared at Sakuramiya Hitomi with an expressionless face, her thoughts entirely unreadable.

Looking at their reactions, a hint of malice suddenly flashed beneath Sakuramiya Hitomi's smile.

Although her original intention in coming here was to chase those two rats, since she had run into them, she figured she might as well advance her previous plan.

One of the reasons she had secretly spread the rumor about the President choosing a dance partner to create public pressure was:

To make these two expose their ugly sides in front of the President out of jealousy, overconfidence, and other factors, thereby ensuring the President wouldn't even consider them as dance partners.

As for the other two girls...

An Le and Spencer.

One was destined by her own personality never to beco a dance partner in the spotlight, and the other probably didn't even know what a dance partner or dancing ant.

As such, all four girls had already lost their qualifications to compete.

Even in the worst-case scenario, if she failed to kill the Inferiority Sakuramiya, the President would highly likely realize:

That she was the most suitable candidate for a dance partner.

Surely the President couldn't choose Yurianna, could he?

"Ahaha, I have no chance~"

In her mind, the hot air balloon of the giggling idiot Yurianna instantly exploded, and Sakuramiya Hitomi revealed a faint smile.

"Sorry about this, but I'm going to pick out so formal attire for the dance, so I won't be joining you~"

Imdiately after, she gently tucked the envelope into her clothes and waved her hand as if she didn't care, preparing to leave.

'A little hint~'

Now that the rumors had been secretly spread, the words "dance" and "ball" had beco highly sensitive keywords, instantly stimulating the fragile nerves of Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi.

Why would Sakuramiya Hitomi be buying formal attire for a dance?

How incredibly hard to guess~

"!!"

Hearing this, the expressionless face of Ye Shiyu instantly grew a few degrees colder, and her entire body began to exude a dangerous aura.

"..."

'Could it be that, in private, Xiao Huan has already...'

'Agreed to let Sakuramiya Hitomi be his dance partner?'

'Wouldn't that an my efforts were declared a failure before I even took action?'

'Was my self-discipline ultimately just an exercise in futility?'

'What should I do?'

'I really want to use my Hypnosis on Xiao Huan to confirm...'

'Otherwise...'

"Hey, hey, hey, Ye Shiyu, you... calm down a bit."

Sensing that sothing was wrong with Ye Shiyu's condition, Bai Yi swallowed a mouthful of saliva and hurriedly called out to remind her.

"Ding-dong~"

Right at that mont, the mobile phone in Ye Shiyu's pocket suddenly rang.

Her darkened gaze flickered slightly. Then, she lowered her head and took out her phone.

Xiao Huan: "[Cat Waving Paw]"

"[Brocade Clothing Video Share]"

"Sister Shiyu, can the finished product really be this expressive?"

"I just feel like you would look really beautiful wearing this kind of clothing, Sister Shiyu."

Seeing the ssages appearing on the screen, Ye Shiyu's eyes cleared up a little.

'Xiao Huan...'

'That's right, my... my self-discipline and hard work will definitely be rewarded.'

'If I am too eager for quick success and only care about using Hypnosis like before, it won't be turning over a new leaf at all. Instead, I'll beco exactly what Mao Li Hina said...'

'I haven't lost yet!'

'I can still thoroughly reform myself!'

"..."

Ye Shiyu gripped her phone tightly. She hesitated for a mont, but ultimately said nothing. She simply stepped aside, intending to let Sakuramiya Hitomi leave.

"Yes, farewell. We still have so shopping to do, so we won't go together."

Ye Shiyu's expressionless and indifferent words made the smile on Sakuramiya Hitomi's face stiffen slightly. anwhile, Bai Yi's right eyelid twitched as she looked at the calm Ye Shiyu in surprise.

'This girl...'

"..."

Seeing this, Sakuramiya Hitomi clenched her feminine fists slightly tighter, but she still pretended to act naturally as she brushed past them.

However, just as she was about to press down on the door handle, she suddenly turned her head back and smiled at Bai Yi,

"Student Bai Yi, aren't you going to pick out a few dancing outfits? You would surely look lovely in them, wouldn't you?"

"I..."

Hearing this, Bai Yi was initially sowhat moved. After all, just thinking about wearing a beautiful dress and dancing under the spotlight with Yan Huan in a suit was enough to make her excited.

But...

'Would Yan Huan really choose

to be his dance partner?'

The previously rejected confession, the unliked Monts posts, the flowers that were never sent out...

Especially at this mont, standing right in front of her was the turned-over-a-new-leaf hexagon warrior, Ye Shiyu, along with Sakuramiya Hitomi, who might already have an invitation.

Even soone as confident as her couldn't help but feel a bit of cowardice.

'I promised myself I would take the initiative to invite Yan Huan, but I also have to consider the fact that he might reject .'

'I already agreed with myself that even if he rejects

this ti, I absolutely must accept it. After all, last ti I also...'

"I... I'll pass for now. You go pick sothing out. Ye Shiyu and I are going to buy so milk tea and then just wander around aimlessly..."

After pondering over it, she pursed her lips and spoke thus.

"..."

Looking at Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi, Sakuramiya Hitomi's breathing couldn't help but stall slightly.

Simply because their reactions were completely outside of her expectations.

Originally, she had already envisioned how she would clean up the ss after they exposed their ugly sides.

How she would get them to reconcile with the President afterward, and how she would stop them from furiously using their superpowers to flip the table.

But now, it made Sakuramiya Hitomi feel as if she were matching wits and courage with thin air, utterly futile.

Their calm and normal behavior instead made Sakuramiya Hitomi think:

'They might actually have a chance to beco the President's dance partner!'

"Mhm... Alright then... We'll leave it at that for now."

Sakuramiya Hitomi clenched her feminine fists a little tighter, maintaining her smile as she pushed the door open and left the nursing room.

However, the mont she stepped through the door, the smile on her face gradually turned cold.

Since Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi weren't falling into her trap, she now had only one path left to take.

Quickly kill the Inferiority Sakuramiya and secure the initiative over the President!

"..."

Just as she raised her eyes to glance at the upper floors, planning to continue searching for the whereabouts of those two rats, she couldn't help but frown.

"Wait, why are there so many Reality Barriers in this mall?"

At this very mont, the two nursing rooms on every single floor of this mall had actually been transford into Reality Barriers?

These dozen or so Reality Barriers were exactly like rabbit holes deliberately set up to confuse her...

"Interesting..."

She muttered, then retrieved the letter she had just obtained from her clothes.

Tearing open the envelope and reading a few lines, her eyes beca tinged with scarlet.

Imdiately after, she sneered, her gaze falling upon the signature at the bottom of the letter as she coldly murmured a certain Sakuramiya's na,

"Mama... Sakuramiya?"

Rewinding the ti slightly, Yan Huan put down his phone, a light layer of cold sweat forming on his forehead.

On the Plane app's interface were the exact ssages Ye Shiyu had received earlier.

Yan Huan was currently two floors above them, so naturally, he had no idea what they were specifically talking about.

But he had a cheat.

That's right, it was that poster.

Ever since he saw Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi approaching the nursing room where the Rat Sakuramiya had appeared, he had been keeping a vigilant eye on the poster representing Ye Shiyu's status while accompanying An Le around the mall.

When he suddenly saw the tags for "Practicing Self-Discipline" and "Turning Over a New Leaf" on it start to flicker, Yan Huan knew he had to intervene.

Based on the fact that Ye Shiyu had dressed up today, he deliberately steered the topic in that direction, and it seed the effect was outstanding.

"I finally managed to save it... Ye Shiyu's rare human tag..."

Watching the tag beco solid once again, Yan Huan honestly felt that this was harder than guarding the stock market index.

"Xiao Huan, are we really going in?"

At this mont, An Le had been led to the entrance of that bookstore by Yan Huan, feeling incredibly embarrassed.

The tightly shut door and the highly conspicuous R18 notice unambiguously indicated the contents of this store.

Right now, as long as An Le pushed the door open, she would be able to see the surprise that Yan Huan, Spencer, and Miyake Fufu had prepared for her.

"Yeah, let's go take a look."

Yan Huan smiled and took a step back as he spoke.

"Then... alright..."

An Le pursed her lips, then turned around and gently reached out to grasp the door handle.

"Click~"

As the door was pushed open, warm light spilled out from inside, accompanied by a barrage of colorful confetti bursting forth towards her face.

"Welco, Teacher Pingxi!!"

Inside, Teacher Miyake Fufu and many people from the circle were holding party poppers and smiling as they shouted, giving An Le such a fright that she subconsciously took a few steps back.

"Eh? Eh?"

Fortunately, Yan Huan was behind her. He reached out in ti to support her back and asked softly,

"Are you okay?"

"I... I'm fine, it's just..." An Le blinked, her previously stunned mind gradually beginning to process the situation.

She turned her head to look inside the bookstore. The shelves that usually held various books were now completely covered with posters of the collaborative works she and Teacher Miyake Fufu had created in the past.

All around, white banners displayed the various pseudonyms she had used before, along with comnts from the forums.

At the very top hung nurous colorful balloons, inscribed with supportive remarks from the internet:

"Teacher Pingxi, you absolutely must keep drawing!"

"lol, I grew up reading Teacher Pingxi and Teacher Parfait's works! (Happy)"

"Waaah, will I ever get to see the third installnt of the Dark Childhood Friend series in my lifeti?"

An Le's eyes widened, and her breathing hitched for a mont.

She hurriedly turned to look at the broadly smiling Yan Huan. Seeming to realize sothing, she asked,

"Xiao... Xiao Huan, today you were..."

"Mhm, Student Yan has been secretly planning this with

for a long ti."

Yan Huan smiled slightly but before he could respond, Miyake Fufu stepped forward and took the initiative to say,

"Well, even though having you go to the Tokyo event earlier was to let you see that your works are actually very popular, and to encourage you to keep creating... well, you disappeared halfway through, and I thought..."

At the ntion of that, an awkward expression couldn't help but appear on An Le's face.

She couldn't exactly explain that she had left halfway through to run to the Skytree and blast all of Tokyo with her tentacle cannons.

"Earlier when we were in Tokyo, I read through all your works. They're drawn really well. Also, you drew the art for the fan support website, didn't you? So I thought it would be too much of a pity to just give up halfway like this..."

Yan Huan placed his hands on An Le's shoulders and gently pushed the dazed girl through the doorway as he smiled and spoke.

"Eh? Xiao Huan read... read all of them?!"

An Le's small face flushed bright red as she finally recalled sothing.

It seed that one night, Xiao Huan had indeed used a rather creative position that felt extrely familiar to her...

Only now did she vaguely rember that she had drawn it in her doujinshi before!

"Uuu..."

Thinking of this, her face couldn't help but turn even redder.

"Teacher Pingxi, we have a cake over here!"

Ahead of them, a milky-white cake was pushed forward. It was surrounded by a circle of candles, but the center was pure white and clean.

Standing to the side, Miyake Fufu smiled and picked up a piping bag filled with colored frosting, inviting An Le to draw on the cake once again,

"Ah, we've got everything ready. Here, do you want to draw whatever you like on it with the frosting?"

Seeing this, An Le pursed her lips and cast a nervous yet excited glance back at Yan Huan.

After seeing his smile, she finally seed to muster up the courage to take the piping bag that Miyake Fufu handed her.

"I... Yes... Thank you."

On her shoulder, Little Finger also seed influenced by the atmosphere, flicking its tongue as its form materialized.

After sweeping a glance at the surroundings, Little Finger muttered in boredom,

"Hoh, so it's a surprise party. You even made it quite ceremonial..."

However, as An Le reached out, squeezed the colored frosting, simply drew a chibi character's head on the round white cake, and then left the signature "Pingxi" below it, everyone around them began to applaud.

"Clap-clap-clap!"

"Aweso! We can start eating!"

"A cake blessed by Teacher Pingxi! Hurry, hurry, get ready to hand out the cake!"

An Le took a step back. Watching the lively surroundings, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.

But as she laughed, she inevitably turned back with a smile, looking at Yan Huan as she softly said,

"Xiao Huan... Thank you."

Little Finger flicked its tongue, curling its lips in a complaining tone like a comntator,

"Tsk tsk tsk, thanking my ass. Just flick your tongues and wrap around each other like I do already... Why make it so complicated..."

"Crack."

But right in the middle of speaking, Little Finger's body suddenly stiffened.

Then, it looked down in disbelief at its own body, which was gradually developing cracks.

"No... No way, right?"

"Crack!!"

An Le had dropped Modifier Fragnts!!

"No! I... I'm just here for the gossiping! I... Aaaargh!!"

In the next second, realizing sothing was wrong, Little Finger didn't even have ti to run. The entire snake fell off An Le's body, convulsing in pain like it had been electrocuted, bouncing around continuously on the ground.

"Aaaaaaargh!!"

"Hehehe..."

Off to the side, a black cat manifested its figure, gloating over the misfortune as it looked at Little Finger, who was rolling all over the floor in agony.

"Little Finger (Indifference)?"

"Your mom!! Aaaaaargh!!"

Myau-chan wagged his tail and ignored Little Finger. Instead, he raised his tail, wiggled his rear, and elegantly picked up the Snake Scale Fragnts.

Then, he blew on the Snake Scale Fragnts with his mouth and happily called out from the ground,

"Look, Yan Huan, I found fragnts, ow!!"

"..."

Yan Huan couldn't help but laugh. He ignored Myau-chan and simply continued looking at An Le, saying,

"Actually, it wasn't just

and Teacher Miyake. There's soone else who helped out a lot."

"There's... soone else?"

"Mhm."

Yan Huan nodded and glanced at Miyake Fufu.

Miyake Fufu smiled slightly and gave an "OK" gesture. Then, she turned her head and shouted toward the bookstore's storage room, which was being used as a temporary dressing room,

"Is the cosplayer ready over there?"

"Coming, coming!"

The makeup artist's voice drifted over, and Yan Huan smiled as he took a step back, leaving An Le to stand at the front alone.

Hearing this, An Le paused slightly and looked toward the changing room.

It wasn't long before she saw a young girl wearing a pink wig and the familiar cosplay outfit of the Chang Gan Li forum's mascot girl walking out of the wide-open changing room, looking incredibly embarrassed.

She wore her hair in twin-tails and held a calligraphy brush cosplay prop in her hand. However, it seed to be her first ti wearing this kind of attire, making her appear a bit reserved.

Even though she was wearing a skirt that went past her knees, her legs—wrapped in white socks—were inevitably pressed tightly together, standing as stiff as bamboo poles, not daring to move an inch.

It seed that the feeling of the draft beneath the skirt made this cosplayer extrely uncomfortable.

After all, despite being a girl, she had never actually worn a dress before.

Because of this, even the heavy makeup couldn't conceal how flush her cheeks had beco.

Yet, even through the thick layers of makeup, An Le imdiately recognized the newcor.

After all, her Caucasian facial features were simply too iconic. Not to ntion, they had been so familiar with each other in the past...

That was...

Spencer?

"The line, say the line..."

From behind her, Miyake Fufu whispered a soft reminder.

Spencer pouted, ultimately deciding to just go for broke.

She tightly squeezed her eyes shut, raised the calligraphy brush in her hand, struck a particularly cute pose, and used all her strength to shout cutely at An Le,

"H-Hand over your story, rawr!"

"..."

An Le opened her mouth, standing frozen in place for a mont.

Yan Huan also nervously watched her reaction, terrified that their plan for the two of them to reconcile would fail.

He was honestly quite unsure about this.

He had even started praying to Myau-chan and turned around, wanting to close the store door out of fear that An Le might just turn around and walk away or sothing...

But just as he turned around, he suddenly looked through the railings outside the store door and saw Sakuramiya Hitomi, dressed in a high school uniform, holding a dagger as she pushed open the door to the nursing room on the lower floor across from them.

And as that door was pushed open, Yan Huan clearly saw the faint outline of a Sakuramiya Hitomi with rat ears inside the nursing room!

"..."

Yan Huan couldn't hear if the dagger-wielding Sakuramiya Hitomi said anything. He only saw her raise the gleaming silver dagger and ferociously charge inside.

"Bang!!"

Then, the nursing room door violently slamd shut.

"!!"

However, this scene was so horrifying that it caused cold sweat to instantly break out all over Yan Huan's body.

'Crap!'

He shuddered, his heart imdiately leaping into his throat.

He glanced back at An Le behind him, his face pushed to the absolute limit of hesitation.

But the mont he thought of the bloodstained birth certificate in the equipnt room from back then, he knew exactly what was about to happen.

So, after pondering for a mont, he gritted his teeth, gently pushed the door open, and walked out of the bookstore.

Inside the bookstore, everything was completely silent.

"..."

An Le looked at the extrely nervous Spencer, pursed her lips, and couldn't help but reach out to clutch her own chest.

She seed to want to say sothing, but after taking a deep breath, she still subconsciously turned her head to look for Yan Huan.

Lately, the increasingly dependent An Le would always confirm Yan Huan's presence before doing anything.

Only this ti, there was no one behind her.

"Xiao Huan?"

She revealed a confused expression, and the words she had been about to say montarily stuck in her throat.

An Le frowned and subconsciously pushed open the store door to search for Yan Huan's figure.

But after walking out the door and sweeping a glance outside, she didn't see Yan Huan at all.

"..."

Just as she was about to take out her phone to locate Yan Huan, Spencer, with her twin-tails tied up, mustered up her courage and rushed out of the bookstore behind her.

"An Le!"

"Eh?"

An Le's action of taking out her phone paused slightly, and she subconsciously turned around.

She saw Spencer standing in the doorway, panting heavily as she looked at her. Clenching her fists, Spencer said with a trembling voice,

"I... I really want to reconcile with you, rawr! I honestly didn't an to do what I did before, and I've always considered you my friend, rawr!

"Yan Huan and Teacher Miyake Fufu were planning to do this today anyway. So even... even if you don't want to make up with

today, you absolutely must keep drawing!"

Looking at Spencer in front of her, An Le's pupils couldn't help but shrink.

For a mont, she stood frozen in place, devoid of any further movent.

Only the hand gripping her phone began to tremble slightly.

"..."

The surroundings were extrely quiet, as if they were the only two people left in the entire world...

Oh, wait. There was also a snake.

At this mont, watching An Le's reaction, Little Finger—who had only just managed to catch its breath on her shoulder—imdiately tightened its sphincter in panic,

"Hey, hey, hey!! What are you doing?! Don't... don't drop anymore! If you drop any more fragnts, I'll..."

"Aaaaaaaargh!!"