"Ah, sumr vacation is so nice~"
In early May, Linn had not fully heated up yet, but the sunny days had already beco much more frequent.
The glass exteriors of the skyscrapers in the Kyogo Ward reflected the blue sky and white clouds, allowing the streets nestled within the concrete jungle to be nourished by the sunlight.
Last night's High Table Dinner had concluded perfectly, and the very next day, the students of Far Moon Academy officially welcod their sumr vacation.
By the street, Yurianna sat at an outdoor coffee shop, spreading her arms to embrace the sunlight from above.
"Sigh~"
Imdiately after, she heard a heavy sigh.
Turning her head to look at Yan Huan, Yabashi Ki, and Ashley behind her, her eyes darted around before quickly locking onto the person who had sighed. She could not help but reveal a speechless expression.
"Say, President, why do you look like you have been drained dry today, half-dead and all... Hehe, confess honestly while Sakuramiya isn't here. Where exactly did you and Sakuramiya go for the second half of last night?"
Her mother had seen the video of Sakuramiya Hitomi dancing with Yan Huan yesterday. She insisted that Hitomi must have gotten better and dragged her off to the hospital for a check-up.
She will probably be quite late, right?
As she spoke, she seed to think of a certain possibility. She imdiately put on a gossipy expression, covering her mouth as she looked at Yan Huan like a little devil.
"..."
'Hitomi?'
'Is she joking?'
Yan Huan carefully recalled how Sakuramiya Hitomi had fallen asleep leaning on his shoulder yesterday, remaining drowsy even when he took a taxi to drop her off at ho, and could not help but sigh.
Although it was indeed a good thing that Hitomi's main body had returned, but...
With her frail body that would faint just from a kiss, Yan Huan was truly quite worried.
True, she could enhance her physique through her Jiejiè, but that was an unorthodox thod in the end. Using it constantly would only make Sakuramiya more dependent on the Jiejiè...
'No matter how strong you are inside the Jiejiè, it is all an illusion.'
"Heh, why should I tell you."
"Honestly, President!! Aren't we the best in the world together?!"
Slumped in his seat, Yan Huan glanced at her, propped up his chin, and silently looked away, which only made Yurianna even angrier.
"President, what is with that look of hesitating to speak?!"
"Sigh~"
Yan Huan could not be bothered to entertain her. Instead, he looked at the true source of his pain:
His mobile phone.
At this mont, on the first day of sumr vacation when everyone from the Student Council had co out for team building, his phone's plane app was still displaying his chat interface with Ye Shiyu.
On it, he had not been blocked, nor had his contact been deleted...
But there was no reply either.
Indeed, from last night until now, Yan Huan had sent nurous ssages to Ye Shiyu...
Not a single one had been answered.
He had given Aunt Ye a call, and although she was busy over there, he managed to inquire a bit. Shockingly, she had not noticed anything unusual about Ye Shiyu at all.
"Shiyu? Ah... Yes, she is doing perfectly fine. She is quite normal... By the way, Xiao Huan, how was your ball yesterday?"
"Ahaha, it was quite nice, Aunt Ye..."
'Aunt Ye did not even know about the ball?!'
Listening to Ye Lan's voice, sweat began to drip down Yan Huan's forehead.
He suddenly rembered that he still had a Modifier item.
That movie poster that recorded Ye Shiyu's status!
"ow?!"
However, as soon as he took it out, even the illusory Myau-chan on Yan Huan's shoulder was dumbfounded.
Because the poster was densely scribbled all over with black ink.
Nothing...
...could be seen anymore.
The original poster image, the words 'Turn Over a New Leaf' and 'Pure Love' written on it...
...were all completely blackened out, the scribbles so forceful they seed to pierce right through the poster.
But...
...there were no new negative traits added.
It was still 'zero'...
Still a pitch-black expanse, still complete silence.
"Gulp."
Seeing this, Yan Huan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, unable to stop himself from sweating like rain.
At this mont, he had fallen into a terrifying vortex known as 'Schr??dinger's Ye Shiyu'...
Because he was completely unable to determine what state Ye Shiyu was currently in.
If he observed her, his intuition told him that he would very likely be hit directly by the most terrifying hypnosis in history...
But if he did not observe her, Ye Shiyu would remain in an interdiate state between 'turning over a new leaf' and 'stopping her reform'...
"..."
Now, Yan Huan felt like he was truly dood.
And the situation on the other side was no better.
Yan Huan shakily raised a finger and opened his chat interface with Bai Yi.
At the end of Bai Yi's continuous bombardnt of ssages last night, Yan Huan had only sent a 'trembling' cat emoji...
It was not that he did not want to send more, but he had been stopped by the red exclamation mark to the left of that cat emoji.
"ssage sent, but rejected by the receiver."
Yes, our scumbag man Yan Huan had been happily blocked by Bai Yi.
However...
Actually, judging by the fact that he was only 'blocked' instead of 'deleted as a contact', even though Bai Yi was angry, she had still left so leeway.
If Yan Huan could bypass the 'obstacle' she had set up—naly, the block—attempt to contact her, and explain himself, then there might still be a chance to salvage things.
"Say, President, have you decided where you are going for your internship this sumr vacation? I didn't see you on the school's internal referral files..."
Beside him, Yabashi Ki looked at Yan Huan and asked.
"I'm going to Ye International. I'll be responsible for handling so sort of business docking with the Jinshi Group, though I don't know the specifics... But I didn't go through the school's internal referral quota."
"Ye International! President, I got internally referred there too!"
Yan Huan glanced at Yurianna, who was rubbing her head and smiling foolishly, unsure whether to be happy or sad.
"What about Yabashi and Ashley?"
"The two of us... are going to the Jinshi Group."
There were actually quite a few famous enterprises available for internal referrals, but he had not expected them to all be the top two.
"..."
Seeing this, Yan Huan could not help but rest his chin on his hand and nod.
"Hitomi is also going to the Jinshi Group, and I'm responsible for coordinating with them... It seems our Student Council will be opening a branch there over the sumr vacation."
"Hehe, isn't that great? Yesterday I was still worrying about what to do going to an unfamiliar place. With you guys around, I can ride on your coattails and slack off in peace!"
Everyone cast scornful glances at the unambitious Yurianna.
Only Yan Huan was suddenly reminded of sothing:
During the sumr vacation, he was going to be doing his internship alongside Ye Shiyu!
"You had better hope you don't get assigned to the sa departnt as , it will be very dangerous."
"Huh? President, you just want to shake
off, don't you..."
Yurianna shaped both of her hands into a pistol shape and continuously fired at Yan Huan.
"It doesn't matter, being by the President's side is definitely going to be sa~fe~!"
"..."
'Is it really?'
Yan Huan smiled faintly, though that smile was quite like Agni's bitter smile.
"Ah, the end-of-term grades are out."
Right at this mont, Yabashi Ki glanced at an email and spoke up.
"It's been a week, so that's about right."
Yan Huan nodded, not entirely surprised. He still opened his email, planning to take a look while drinking his coffee.
He was not checking his own, but Spencer's.
Did she...
...manage to pass?
"Sixty-one points, sixty-nine points, sixty-five points... and then eighty-two points?!"
She passed!!
Furthermore, her final subject is actually this high?
'Is this real?'
Yan Huan blinked and looked several tis, confirming that he had not misread the score for Spencer's final subject.
"Ah, I'm only in nineteenth place?"
"...Only nineteenth place? Yabashi, are you serious? You academic show-off!"
This ti, it was Yurianna's turn to cast a scornful glance.
"How am I an academic show-off... Wait, sothing's not right. How did our class's Bai Yi... Ah? First in the class?"
"Pfft!!"
Hearing him say this, Yan Huan instantly spat out the milk tea he was drinking.
"Eek!!"
"President!!"
Faced with Yurianna, who had almost been splashed, Yan Huan did not even look at her. Instead, he stared at Yabashi Ki in sheer disbelief.
"Who did you say you lost to?"
"Bai... Bai Yi. She ranked eleventh in the entire grade level, first in our class. Wh... what's wrong?"
"...She used hacks, didn't she?"
Yan Huan's mouth twitched stiffly; he could not even believe his own ears.
Yabashi Ki closed the email and scrolled through the class group chat.
"I think so too... However, it seems the Academic Affairs Office also felt the sa way. They apparently called Bai Yi to the school this morning... I just don't know if the review will uncover anything."
Just as Yan Huan was about to speak, a transparent shockwave akin to a nuclear explosion instantly erupted from the direction of Far Moon Academy.
"Tick... Tock..."
"Crack, crack, crack!!"
In an instant, everything within Yan Huan's sight was completely frozen.
"ow?!"
Myau-chan looked at the surrounding space in astonishnt, unable to help but blink.
"..."
And Yan Huan was also left dumbfounded in place.
Well, there was no need to say anymore.
'You even activated your ti stop. How could they possibly fail you now?'
"Crack, crack..."
Bai Yi, who had just blocked him and initiated a cold war—the sa girl who previously refused to alter her weekly exam grades—had instantly gone bad, resorting to altering her grades and using ti stop to cheat.
Being remotely frozen, Yan Huan was also left speechless. He could only wait for her to finish cheating bit by bit.
It should not take long. Far Moon Academy rely wanted to test her proficiency; they probably just gave her a problem to solve on the spot or sothing similar.
"Crack, crack, crack..."
Sure enough, it did not take long before that invisible wave freezing everything slowly retracted.
Everything returned to normal, and no one else had noticed a thing.
Only Yan Huan looked speechlessly in the direction of Far Moon Academy.
At this mont, his location was only a ten-minute taxi ride away from Far Moon Academy.
Yan Huan glanced at his phone. Seeing that there was still no news from Sakuramiya, he suddenly had an idea.
"Um, you guys sit here for a while, I have so business to attend to." "Eh? Alright..."
Yan Huan hastily stood up, then went to the roadside to hail a cab.
His destination was none other than Far Moon Academy.
Far Moon Academy, inside a won's restroom.
"Blergh!!"
Bai Yi was hunched over the sink, dry heaving incessantly.
This was the price of using ti stop; she had always been terrified of this kind of pain.
But now...
...she felt like she had to use it once, as if to punish herself.
She clearly had never thought about activating Indifference to change her end-of-term exam answers, nor had she ever considered using ti stop to search for answers during her interrogation...
But she had done it anyway.
"Cough, cough..."
Bai Yi wiped her lips. Looking at her pale face in the mirror, she could not help but pout.
Afterwards, she turned around and walked out of the restroom.
Right next door was the Academic Affairs Office.
"Teachers, may I leave now?"
Inside, several teachers were reviewing the quiz she had just completed.
After carefully checking it over, they looked at Bai Yi and nodded.
"Yes, there are no issues."
Bai Yi had flawlessly completed the questions they randomly selected from the question bank right in front of them. Since they did not know ti had been stopped, how could they possibly suspect anything?
"Thank you."
Bai Yi wiped her lips again and turned to leave.
However, walking down the empty corridor, she still felt terribly nauseous, her stomach aching so much she could barely walk.
She leaned against the wall, clutching her stomach as she slowly slid down to sit on the floor, tilting her head back and panting softly.
"Haha..."
Looking at the sunlight outside the corridor, she pouted and could not help but murmur,
"What am I doing, violating the school motto like this... It's like I'm trying to take revenge on him for being the Student Council President... What an absolute idiot..."
"Tap, tap... tap."
But in the next second, amidst the painful tinnitus ringing in her ears, the crisp sound of footsteps echoed like a hallucination.
She blinked and turned her head, only to see Yan Huan standing nearby, panting as he looked at her.
Bai Yi stared at the Yan Huan before her. In the next second, however, she shook her head and mocked herself,
"Honestly, I'm already in so much pain I'm hallucinating, but the person I see is still him..."
"What's wrong with seeing ?"
'Oh, this hallucination can even talk.'
"Hey, you're a hallucination, so act like a proper hallucination, okay! How dare you talk back... You, take off your shirt. Let
see your abdominal muscles."
"..."
Seeing Bai Yi pouting and issuing orders to him, Yan Huan's expression stiffened slightly.
Then, he slowly crouched down, looking at the breathtakingly beautiful girl in front of him, and said helplessly,
"A hallucination? How about you pinch yourself?"
"Oh, the hallucination can even realize it's a hallucination, not bad, not ba—"
In the next second, the expression on Bai Yi's face instantly froze.
As if realizing sothing, she instantly got ruffled and sprang to her feet, stumbling back several steps.
"Y-Y-Y-You! You're really Yan Huan?!"
"Who else? You blocked . I saw the Class B group chat discussing your grades, and I knew the school called you in for a review, so I figured you must be at school..."
'If I rember correctly, doesn't Yan Huan live... live in the South Ward?'
'He ran all the way from the South Ward to the Kyogo Ward, such a long distance, just to find ?'
'Could it be...'
'...that what happened last night was just a misunderstanding?'
'Between us...'
'...is there still a chance?'
Thinking this, Bai Yi's nose seed to flush red again.
"No, no, no!"
But in the next second, she shook her head again, puffing out her cheeks and entering her pink pufferfish state.
She glared at Yan Huan and demanded angrily,
"Save it! What are you looking for
for? Last night... last night you danced with Sakuramiya Hitomi in front of the whole school! And... and you even..."
Originally, Bai Yi wanted to say that after the Jiejiè shattered, ruling out the possibility of Sakuramiya Hitomi influencing his consciousness...
However, she refrained from exposing anything regarding superpowers, correcting herself,
"...You looked so willing! You looked so happy... What do you take
for?!"
"The things you said to
before, that was clearly the atmosphere of a confession, right?!"
"And the things you did before, claiming you were my fan, that you liked my songs, and... and even doing those things for
at the ani convention..."
Bai Yi bit her lip, unable to stop herself from doubting everything,
"I thought you liked , which is why... But, was it all fake?!"
"I just want one clear word from you right now. No more of those twists and turns!"
"Was it real, or fake?!"
Saying this, her beautiful eyes stared straight at Yan Huan.
Clearly, she only needed one answer.
But facing her interrogation, Yan Huan fell silent for a mont.
Looking at Bai Yi in front of him, he could not help but recall how he had forged a bond with her.
From the very beginning, he had done all those things for her solely to resolve the Modifier.
Naturally, the answer she sought was unspeakably cruel...
An answer that, once she heard it, would definitively spell ga over for Yan Huan.
So, Yan Huan spoke up,
"It's true, Bai Yi."
"..."
Hearing this, Bai Yi's eyes flickered slightly, the starlight within them reappearing.
The corners of her lips subconsciously curled up, but she then realized that she and Yan Huan had not made up yet.
Thus, she maintained her sour expression and said to him,
"Fine, then prove it to ! You... announce us officially on your Monts! And then... let
think, oh! Cut off all contact with Sakuramiya Hitomi afterwards!"
"..."
But hearing those words, Yan Huan was truly out of options.
In truth, when he chose to dance with Sakuramiya Hitomi, it already ant he was heading toward a dead end.
No matter which he chose, it was bound to explode.
So, he had chosen Sakuramiya Hitomi.
The girl he had liked from the very beginning, and whom he still liked even now.
Therefore, he could only remain silent.
Seeing Yan Huan suddenly fall silent, the faint joy that had just erged on Bai Yi's face imdiately faded away,
"...You... Agree to it. Why aren't you agreeing?"
"I'm sorry, Bai Yi."
Yan Huan took a deep breath. He could only look at her and say softly,
"I cannot do that."
"...Huh?"
Bai Yi stared at Yan Huan in disbelief. She instantly realized the reason...
It was because of Sakuramiya Hitomi.
"She... You... Ugh... Yan Huan!"
Her defenses completely broken, she bit her lip and took a step back, inevitably lowering her head and murmuring,
"I... I knew it! Yeah, the Sakuramiya family is so rich, and her mother likes you too... Anyway, I have nothing. Without you, I couldn't even do the things I love... So... so I'm inferior to her, right?"
"Bai Yi, I don't—"
"You do!"
Yan Huan wanted to explain further, but right now, Bai Yi was not listening to a single word.
Like a machine gun, she continuously fired off her grievances, clearly having had her defenses completely shattered,
"To think I kept believing you liked , waiting for you to confess! To spare your feelings, I didn't even dare rush you... But in the end... Wuu... Wuuu wuuu wuuu... this is how you treat !"
"Bai Yi, calm down first..."
For every step Yan Huan took forward, she took a step back.
For every word Yan Huan spoke, she would furiously shoot back with red eyes.
It was exactly like arguing with a child; she could not take in anything Yan Huan was saying.
Although...
...this was also due to Yan Huan feeling guilty about having deceived her.
If only he could be a bit more ruthless.
That way, maybe he could have deceived her even harder right now, without carrying any psychological burden?
"Yan Huan!! You liar! You scumbag man! Wuuu wuuu wuuu..."
Tears streaming down her face, Bai Yi pointed at Yan Huan, tearfully denouncing his cris.
"Crack, crack..."
Yet, because of this violent emotional fluctuation, Fragnts resembling green sli were actually slowly dropping from her body.
"Fragnts! Wow, it's Fragnts, ow! We just got so many yesterday, and now there's more today! We've struck it rich, ow!!"
"..."
'Do you really have to say things like that at a ti like this, Myau-chan?!'
Yan Huan was originally focusing intently on Bai Yi, whose face was covered in tears. Myau-chan suddenly speaking up so jubilantly caused Yan Huan's face to darken entirely.
anwhile, Bai Yi had already made up her mind,
"Yan Huan, just hurry up and chase after Sakuramiya Hitomi's wealth and power!!"
"Let
tell you, I might not have certain things now, but I will definitely have them in the future!!"
"You will definitely regret this!!"
Spouting lines akin to 'Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, don't bully the young and poor,' Bai Yi wiped away her tears, then turned and stomped off.
After a few steps, she abruptly turned back and looked at Yan Huan.
Seeing that he was still standing there, neither coming to chase her nor forcefully pulling her in his arms...
Bai Yi's small face flushed beet red, her defenses broken once again.
"Yan Huan!! We are completely finished!!"
Clenching her fists, she scread this sentence with her beautiful voice, imdiately spinning around—
"Wuuu wuuu wuuu wuuu wuuu!!"
Howling and bawling, she ran further and further away under Yan Huan's gaze.
Even after her silhouette had completely vanished, the sound of her bawling continued to echo like a large bell throughout the entire campus.
"..."
Left standing there alone, Yan Huan gripped his mobile phone, casting a speechless glance at this ssed-up world that had been subjected to the Modifier Invasion...
...And at the plump black cat, who was agonizing over the ground full of incredibly juicy Fragnts that it could not swallow right now because they were toxic.
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