Restricted Fantasy I Chapter 305: The Answer is \

"..."

Looking at Sakuramiya Hitomi, who had finally mustered the courage to speak honestly, Yurianna couldn't help but reveal a gratified expression.

She patted Sakuramiya Hitomi's slightly trembling shoulders and gave her a firm thumbs-up.

"That's the spirit! Just ride this montum straight to the President and give him a romantic confession!!"

"..."

Hearing this, Sakuramiya Hitomi pursed her lips and raised her eyes to look at Yurianna, appearing sowhat hesitant.

That look made the smile on Yurianna's face stiffen. She only gripped Sakuramiya Hitomi's shoulders harder.

"After such a fired-up speech just now, you... you are going to confess, right?"

"..."

In truth, Mouse Sakuramiya wasn't cowering or feeling afraid at this mont.

What she worried about were the broader implications behind the confession.

For instance, she was only one fragnt of Hitomi. Even if she confessed to the President, could she truly represent all of Hitomi?

And furthermore, Perfect Sakuramiya was currently hunting him down, and she had no confidence that she could save the President from her clutches.

Under these circumstances, even if she confessed, she wouldn't be able to stay by the President's side afterward.

"..."

Yet, no matter how heavy or nurous these chaotic thoughts were, they could no longer suppress her urge to pour out her true feelings and thoughts to Yan Huan.

She wanted to tell him in person:

She liked him.

"I... I will confess, no matter what!"

"Yes, yes, exactly like that!!"

Yurianna's eyes lit up, finally letting out a sigh of relief.

"Then let's..."

Just as she was about to drag Sakuramiya Hitomi off to find Yan Huan, she turned her head and spotted Ashley walking past outside, carrying a stack of traffic cones.

"Yo, Ashley! Where are you heading?!"

"Hmm?"

Hearing her na, Ashley turned her head and instinctively replied,

"I'm going to find Baqiao... But wait, why aren't you two working? What are you doing here?"

"Who says we aren't working?!"

Yurianna stepped out, puffing her cheeks and placing her hands on her hips in indignation as she retorted,

"We were just on our way to report our progress to the President!"

"...Alright. Since Vice President Sakuramiya is here, I'll believe you for now!"

"Hah?! You only believe

because Sakuramiya is here? Whatever, forget it. More importantly, do you know where the President is?"

"Hmm... He's over in the Club Building, in one of the classrooms on the second or third floor, but I'm not sure which one. You'll have to look for him yourselves. He shouldn't have left yet."

"Thanks, thanks!"

Ashley had barely finished speaking before Yurianna grabbed the Mouse Sakuramiya behind her and darted off in that direction.

Ashley rely blinked, and the energetic idiot in her line of sight was already far away.

Ashley turned her head back in exasperation, but just as she was about to leave, she belatedly realized sothing and frowned in confusion.

"Wait, didn't Sakuramiya just ask

where the President was at the entrance of the swimming pool? How did I run into her and Yurianna here?"

Ashley looked back, her expression looking as though she had seen a ghost, yet she couldn't figure out the reason no matter how hard she thought.

...

...

"Ah, perfect! The President's side seems to be done; people are heading out..."

At the entrance of the Club Building, Yurianna watched the students steadily filing out. She stopped in her tracks, turned back to Sakuramiya Hitomi, and pumped her fist.

"Good luck! I'll be waiting right here for your good news!!"

"Eh? You... you aren't coming with ?"

Hearing that Yurianna—her source of confidence—wasn't joining her, Mouse Sakuramiya panicked a little and blurted out instinctively.

But she imdiately regretted her words the mont they left her mouth.

After all, this matter was no longer just a simple confession. It involved the Room Barrier superpower, and she shouldn't drag Yurianna into it.

"Eh? Can I really?! Honestly, I really want to watch, but I was worried that a coward like you would lose your nerve if you knew soone else was there..."

Yurianna pinched her chin in thought, but her expression soon shifted into an expected look of mild disdain as she gazed at Sakuramiya Hitomi.

"Ah, after all, that's just the kind of person you are, Sakuramiya..."

"..."

Sakuramiya Hitomi's small face flushed red, but for a mont, she couldn't find the words to refute it.

'Whatever. Since you just helped cheer

up, I'll spare you from having to act like a broken record.'

"Mhm, then I'll be... heading in."

"Good luck!"

Under Yurianna's expectant gaze from behind, Mouse Sakuramiya tightly clutched the hydrangea hairpin in her hand and slowly walked toward the unusually quiet Club Building.

'First floor... The President doesn't seem to be here...'

Mouse Sakuramiya swept her gaze across the first floor, which she could see from end to end, before turning her eyes toward the adjacent stairwell.

"Tap... tap..."

Leaning against the handrail, she climbed up to the second floor and cautiously poked her head out from the stairwell to peer down the corridor.

"President... where are you..."

She squeaked softly like a little hamster, but her voice barely seed to carry more than a few ters in the empty corridor.

So, she had no choice but to step out completely and continue her search for Yan Huan.

"Clack~"

Fortunately, the faint sound of shifting desks and chairs abruptly echoed from a classroom ahead.

Mouse Sakuramiya leaned against the wall and crept toward it, once again poking her head out to peek inside.

Through the closed windows of the classroom, she spotted a young man in a white shirt, his back facing the door as he arranged the desks and chairs.

The mont she saw the young man, the ears atop the previously vigilant Mouse Sakuramiya's head couldn't help but twitch.

She pursed her lips, gradually straightened her posture, and stepped into the classroom, calling out sweetly,

"President~"

Hearing this, Yan Huan's body trembled slightly.

He calmly donned his Mask of Perfect Poise and turned around. Just as he was about to speak, that mask instantly crumbled, revealing a look of genuine astonishnt.

"Wait... why are you at school?"

Indeed, Yan Huan had initially thought Perfect Sakuramiya had arrived, considering their voices were identical.

But when he turned around to look, he was absolutely certain the person standing behind him was Mouse Sakuramiya, even if she had hidden her ears and tail.

Because the cloak-like jacket she was wearing was clearly his hoodie!!

And the ballooning, skirt-like pants she wore were undeniably his own shorts, cinched tight with a belt looped several tis around her waist!!

"Because... because I have sothing very important to tell you, President! You are in extre danger right now!!"

"I'm in danger?"

Yan Huan paused, his mind racing. Due to the gap in information, he still couldn't figure out what was happening and had no choice but to wait for her to continue.

"Mhm, Perfect Sakuramiya is..."

"Crack-crack-crack!!"

Right at that mont, the very instant she was about to speak, the atmosphere in the entire Club Instruction Building shifted imperceptibly.

The bright sky outside the window instantly turned gloomy, and the brilliant sun in the heavens was entirely devoured by a dense, writhing mass of filthy centipedes...

An ordinary person definitely wouldn't have noticed the strange mutation occurring within the building, but neither Yan Huan nor Mouse Sakuramiya fell into that category.

In the next second, Mouse Sakuramiya's pupils shrank. The mouse ears atop her head shot straight up, completely knocking back the hood that had been covering them.

As for Yan Huan...

"Poof!"

He instantly transford into a white cat!

"ow?"

Yan Huan stared blankly at his hands, which had turned into paw pads, and then looked around in confusion at the room now enveloped by the Room Barrier.

"This..."

"It's... Perfect Sakuramiya is here! She's deployed the Room Barrier, but she doesn't know you can transform and hide yourself inside it..."

Mouse Sakuramiya looked at the white cat before her, pursed her lips, and continued,

"This way... you can escape, President!"

Hearing this, Yan Huan seed to realize sothing. He asked in disbelief,

"Are you saying that Perfect Sakuramiya—without knowing I can enter the Room Barrier—changed her target to hunt

down?"

"Mhm..."

Mouse Sakuramiya had originally wanted to explain the details, but the current situation no longer allowed it.

"Bang!"

"Bang!!"

"Bang!!!"

At that mont, the harsh sounds of doors being kicked open echoed from downstairs, pouring into their ears like the terrifying thunder of a grim reaper.

It was Perfect Sakuramiya, throwing open doors to search for him!

"There's... there's no ti to explain, President. You need to run away quickly!"

Yan Huan was still sowhat suspicious of her words. After all, her target had clearly been Mouse Sakuramiya just last night. Why had it suddenly changed to him?

If that were the case, she had the chance to stab him first thing in the morning. Why wait until now?

An Le had finished eting with her and hadn't ntioned any special ergency he needed to be wary of.

But the mont Mouse Sakuramiya showed up, she suddenly made her move?

'Could it be...'

"And also, President, actually... I... I have a little sothing I want to tell you..."

"ow?"

Yan Huan blinked, looking at Mouse Sakuramiya in front of him. Her small face was pale, her lips pursed, and she was staring at him nervously. She hesitated for a second before crouching halfway down in front of the cat-transford Yan Huan.

Imdiately after, she gently pulled out the hydrangea hairpin that Yurianna had given her.

"I want to give this... to you, President..."

'This is...'

Yan Huan stared at the flower-shaped hairpin placed before him, his heart suddenly skipping a beat.

He raised his eyes to look at Mouse Sakuramiya. Watching her breathe nervously, she continued in a trembling voice,

"Even though it's a bit simple... because... I... I didn't have any more ti to prepare...

"Even though during the past year of spending ti with you, President, I had so much ti and so many opportunities to prepare... Yet I waited until now...

"But even so, I still want to use this flower to invite you, President... to the dance at the High Table Dinner. I want to invite you to be my partner..."

A partner for the "Flower Presentation Dance Invitation" at the High Table Dinner.

Yan Huan understood exactly what those words ant.

It was the ultimate invitation—a declaration of love.

Yan Huan stared wide-eyed at Sakuramiya Hitomi, whose face was flushed crimson as she lowered her head. For a mont, it seed hard to believe that those words had co from her.

Because he still rembered that in countless dreams and fantasies before the Modifiers had arrived, he had heard words like these countless tis, and spoken them countless tis as well.

"How about confessing to Sakuramiya after her birthday?"

"I'll confess to her on Valentine's Day..."

"Once this Student Council's term is up, I'll invite her to be my partner at the High Table Dinner..."

"After graduation, once my circumstances improve, I'll..."

"Once the Modifiers are dealt with, I'll..."

"Wait..."

But all those endless waits, all those hypothetical scenarios in his dreams, could not erase the profundity of her words at this very mont...

This made Yan Huan clearly realize: this was not a dream.

And precisely because this sudden reality was not a dream, Yan Huan was taken completely by surprise.

"Bang!!"

But downstairs, the butcher's knife raised by Perfect Sakuramiya was far from romantic.

She was still closing in.

Having said everything she needed to say, Mouse Sakuramiya felt both a sense of relief and an unconscious pang of regret.

She pursed her lips, revealed a beautiful smile, and continued,

"Although... I don't know if you'll say yes, President... And even if you do, I might not be able to attend...

"If... I an, if you do agree, President, could you please keep this promise, so that even if it's the other Sakuramiyas, they can attend in my place...

"Because, it isn't just . All the Sakuramiyas have been waiting for this chance for a very long ti."

These few brief sentences seed to have drained Mouse Sakuramiya of all her passion and energy, so much so that tears inevitably tumbled from the corners of her eyes.

But a second after finishing, she wiped away her tears and stood up.

She glanced toward the corridor outside, gritted her teeth, and sprinted for the door, leaving Yan Huan with a final instruction.

"She doesn't know you can transform like this, President, so hurry up and hide! I'll go lure her away. Once the Room Barrier is lifted, run away as fast as you can!"

Left in place, Yan Huan stared blankly at her as she declared all this, and then stared blankly at the cluster of hydrangea placed before him.

Seizing this mont, Mouse Sakuramiya's sickly and frail body suddenly burst with maximum physical limits. She spun around and charged downstairs, swiftly disappearing from the doorway.

"Hey!"

From behind, Yan Huan's cat-like voice couldn't even catch up to her, for the mont he turned his head, she had already twisted around and vanished down the stairwell.

"Clatter, clatter, clatter!!"

"Haa... Haa..."

Mouse Sakuramiya had made up her mind. She would face Perfect Sakuramiya head-on. Even if it ant being killed by her, she had to ensure the President escaped!

"Haa..."

Jogging down the stairs, she leaned against the wall and turned her head to look down the corridor and toward the main doors in the other direction.

The main doors were currently tightly shut. The spot where Yurianna had been standing earlier was now steeped in shadows, with countless centipedes crawling and writhing over the walls and floor.

As for the corridor on the other side where the classrooms were laid out, every single classroom door was currently wide open.

A young girl clutching a dagger was standing quietly in the very center of the corridor, her hands behind her back.

Only when she heard the approaching footsteps and panting from behind did she turn her head.

Seeing the pale-faced Self-Doubting Sakuramiya, whose forehead was slick with sweat, she gradually tightened her grip on the dagger. The smile on her face turned increasingly elegant.

"Hehe~"

The mont Mouse Sakuramiya saw her smile, a chilling terror crawled down her spine.

She forced down the violent trembling racking her body out of fear, biting her pale lips as she looked at her.

"Perfect Sakuramiya..."

"I truly didn't expect a rat like you to actually show yourself... I thought you would hide in the gutter forever~"

"Cut the nonsense! You... you actually dared to target the President... None of the Sakuramiyas will forgive you, and Hitomi won't forgive you either!"

Hearing this, the smile on Perfect Sakuramiya's face deepened, inevitably tinged with a streak of cruel mockery.

"Although I'd love to explain things to you... since you're already here, it's better if you die ignorant..."

With that said, she gripped her dagger tighter. As she stared at Mouse Sakuramiya—the prey she had been hunting for so long yet could never quite catch—her eyes brimd with bloodlust.

As long as she killed this pest, she could finally take the initiative with the President!

Only by successfully making progress with the President could she permanently replace Hitomi and continue living.

Whether it was the High Table Dinner or the sumr vacation internship, she would be the one to experience it all...

"Whoosh!!"

Thinking this, she finally dropped the act entirely. Her smile twisted into a terrifying, sinister grin.

"Just die for !"

With a vicious glint in her eyes, she raised her dagger and charged furiously toward Mouse Sakuramiya.

Watching the intensely oppressive Perfect Sakuramiya rushing toward her, Self-Doubting Sakuramiya's face went entirely white. Terrified, she collapsed onto the floor and instinctively threw her hands up to protect her face.

But even terrified to such a degree, she still scread out as if risking it all,

"If you're going to kill soone, kill ! Don't kill the President! Wuu wuu wuu!!"

"Slash!"

But Perfect Sakuramiya couldn't be bothered to waste breath. The flashing blade didn't pause for a fraction of a second as it plunged straight for her face.

"Tap-tap-tap-tap!!"

Right at that mont, a flurry of rapid footsteps echoed from the stairwell behind Self-Doubting Sakuramiya.

"Yowl!!"

Following a vicious hiss, a white cat with its fur bristling and a ferocious expression darted out of the stairwell.

Moving with incredible speed, he drifted through a sharp turn in the corridor before leaping up, his silhouette as fast as lightning.

The cat's paws tapped lightly against Self-Doubting Sakuramiya's trembling shoulder. Using her as a springboard to vault over her, he miraculously executed a double jump mid-air!!

"Whoosh!!"

The very next second, right before Perfect Sakuramiya's widened eyes, and right above Mouse Sakuramiya who sat helplessly on the floor awaiting slaughter, the white cat's body miraculously began to expand...

Until it completely transford into a young man!

Kiss God, activated!!

"Swoosh!!"

The pupils of the young man who had abruptly manifested in front of Mouse Sakuramiya narrowed slightly. While still suspended in mid-air, before even touching the ground, the movents of his hands were already as fast as an afterimage.

At the exact instant the dagger was about to strike, he forcefully grabbed hold of the descending blade of Perfect Sakuramiya's weapon.

The blade flashed, and a faint tallic tang accompanied a stream of liquid flowing down.

"Slash!!"

Perfect Sakuramiya's eyes widened, her face full of astonishnt.

"Pre... President? You..."

And Mouse Sakuramiya also belatedly raised her head.

There, she saw the broad back view of a tall young man entirely shielding her from the terrifying flash of the murderous blade that had paralyzed her with fear.

Standing tall and straight, Yan Huan gripped the blade of the dagger that had nearly claid her life, his face expressionless as he forcefully pushed it back up inch by inch.

"Drip, drip..."

Trails of crimson blood burst from his palm, flowing steadily down the lines of his pale arm, running all the way to his bent elbow before gathering and dripping away.

"Pre... President..."

Staring at the falling drops of blood, the rims of Mouse Sakuramiya's eyes unconsciously turned red as she murmured.

But Yan Huan didn't seem to feel the pain. Or rather, it wasn't that he couldn't feel it, but...

At this mont, sothing far more important than pain occupied his heart.

"..."

Yan Huan kept a tight grip on the dagger while slightly tilting his head, using the corner of his eye to look at Mouse Sakuramiya behind him.

Imdiately after, he revealed a faint smile and spoke softly,

"I haven't given you my answer to your invitation yet..."

"Eh?"

Looking at the crying Sakuramiya sitting blankly on the floor, Yan Huan finally took a deep breath and replied with equal unwavering determination,

"My answer is... Yes."

"Drip!"

In the next second after he spoke, whether it was due to his heartfelt reply or because the blood sliding down his arm had finally hit the ground...

Regardless, the mont that drop of scarlet blood fell upon the floor of the Room Barrier...

The entire Room Barrier began to violently tremble, erupting with a terrifying energy that twisted both ti and space!

"Crack-crack-crack-crack!!!"

The entire corridor and the surrounding rooms instantaneously collapsed and distorted, crisscrossing and converging like the shifting lines of a kaleidoscope or a spiraling vortex.

Gravity shifted from the floor to the direction they were facing—the very end of that kaleidoscopic spiral.

"Crack-crack-crack!"

Accompanied by the crashing of collapsing walls and the screech of splintering floors, everyone present instantly lost their balance, plumting into the depths of that spiral.