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"…Rinko!"
Looking at the blonde glasses girl in the carriage, Ijichi Nijika immediately became excited.
The meaning of travel?
Sorry, it's meaningless.
The purpose of the Otherworld adventure has always been only one: to find cousin.
After experiencing so many dangers and hardships, now finally seeing her, Ijichi Nijika had only one thought at this moment:
Go home!
Quickly take cousin home!
However, the blonde glasses girl just sat in her seat, eyes tightly closed, motionless, as if she had fallen into some kind of coma.
"Cousin, are you alright?"
Ijichi Nijika worriedly called out twice and gently patted the blonde glasses girl's shoulder, but unfortunately, it had no effect.
"Don't worry, she's still breathing." Kitahara Makoto placed his finger under the blonde glasses girl's nose, then felt her carotid artery. "Her heartbeat is also fine, she might have just fainted."
"Should we ask the answer book?" Kita Ikuyo said excitedly, "Anyway, cousin has been found, we can leave soon."
Kitahara Makoto nodded, took out the answer book, and handed it to Kita.
"Ahem, it's finally my turn~"
Kita Ikuyo eagerly stretched out her small hand and placed it on the answer book:
"Mirror, mirror, tell me quickly, how can I wake Rinko?"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
The answer book flipped on its own, without any wind, and began turning pages.
[Take off the necklace]
"Eh?" Kita was surprised, "Didn't you say she fainted? Why would taking off the necklace wake her up?"
Yamada Ryo said expressionlessly: "That shouldn't be an ordinary necklace."
"We'll know once we take it off…"
Ijichi Nijika said this while reaching to take off the necklace.
"Nijika-senpai, let me take it off." Kitahara Makoto stopped Nijika and said softly, "That necklace might be dangerous."
Ijichi Nijika did not try to be strong, and obediently stepped back half a step:
"…I'll leave it to Kitahara-kun."
Kitahara Makoto nodded slightly, stepped forward, and took off the necklace from the blonde glasses girl's neck. Fortunately, nothing unusual happened during this time.
As the necklace was removed, the blonde glasses girl's eyelashes soon fluttered, and she opened her eyes blankly:
"Eh… Nijika?"
"Cousin, you're finally awake."
Ijichi Nijika was overjoyed and stepped forward to hug the blonde glasses girl.
"No, this is the Otherworld, how could I see Nijika…"
The blonde glasses girl's expression changed slightly, wanting to break free, but she was quite weak and had no strength at all.
"Cousin, it really is me." Ijichi Nijika stepped back half a step, raised her hands, and explained the whole story. "Ever since cousin disappeared, I saw your diary in your apartment, and then…"
The blonde glasses girl asked a few more questions from her childhood, and only then did she finally believe Nijika's identity. Her gaze shifted to Kitahara Makoto and the others:
"Who are they?"
"They're all my friends…"
Before she could finish speaking, a rumbling sound of hunger suddenly rang out.
"Cousin looks starved." Ijichi Nijika quickly said, "Why don't you eat something and drink some water first?"
"You, you brought water and food?!"
The blonde glasses girl immediately became excited.
"We brought a lot of things." Ijichi Nijika opened her backpack and took out water and food from it. "We weren't prepared the first time we entered the Otherworld, but we learned our lesson later…"
Seeing the water and food, the blonde glasses girl's eyes immediately brightened. She didn't care about her image at all, snatched a bottle of mineral water, and chugged it down, clearly extremely thirsty.
"Cough, cough, cough…"
Because she drank too quickly, the blonde glasses girl even choked and coughed, but she still didn't stop, drinking all the remaining water in one go, then said expectantly:
"I'm so hungry, I want to eat."
"Cousin, don't rush." Ijichi Nijika handed her a chocolate bar. "Let's leave the Otherworld first, then you can eat slowly. Cousin probably hasn't eaten for a long time, if you eat too quickly, your stomach will hurt."
Hearing this, the blonde glasses girl paused, a bitter expression on her face:
"I can't go back…"
"Nijika… you shouldn't have come to the Otherworld to find me." The blonde glasses girl's expression was apologetic. "Once you step onto this subway, unless you break the rules, you can never go back."
Kita Ikuyo raised her chin:
"Don't worry, Rinko, with Kitahara-kun here, we can go back anytime."
"…What do you mean?"
"It means Kitahara-kun is super amazing."
Kitahara Makoto: "…"
Quickly change your habit of praising people!
Kitahara Makoto looked down at the Beast Eared Girl: "Can we open a door on the subway?"
There were no doors in the subway tunnel earlier, but there are doors everywhere on the subway.
Hearing the question, the Beast Eared Girl looked up with her small face:
"Consumption, big, twenty, small cakes."
If you can open a door and go back, let alone twenty small cakes, I can buy you two hundred small cakes!
"We'll buy small cakes for Hana when we go back." Ijichi Nijika breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. "Don't worry, cousin, Hana said we can go back, so we definitely can."
The blonde glasses girl, who had not witnessed Hana-chan's ability, clearly did not believe it, and her tone was bitter: "That kind of thing is simply impossible..."
"More talk is useless." Yamada Ryo folded her arms across her chest and said calmly, "Kitahara-kun, let Hana-chan open the door directly."
Kitahara Makoto nodded: "Hana-chan, open the door and let's go home."
The girls all cast their votes in agreement.
After experiencing the infinitely looping subway tunnel, they now only wanted to hurry home, take a comfortable bath, and rest.
But at this moment, the lights in the carriage suddenly went out, and the entire carriage became pitch black.
"Eh, eh, why did it suddenly go dark?"
"The lights went out."
"S-someone touched me!"
The girls' panicked exclamations suddenly rang out.
Kitahara Makoto said in a deep voice:
"Don't be nervous, stand still and don't move. Everyone, turn on your phone flashlights for illumination."
While speaking, Kitahara Makoto quickly took out his phone and turned on the flashlight function.
Fortunately, the subway lights going out did not affect the phone's illumination function. As the lights came on, the girls quickly quieted down and took out their respective phones.
Yamada Ryo suddenly said:
"That middle-aged bald uncle is gone."
"Hmm?"
Kitahara Makoto swept his phone over and indeed saw that the middle-aged bald uncle, who had been sitting quietly by the door, had disappeared without a trace.
"He's really gone." Kita Ikuyo became nervous. "Where did that uncle go?"
At this moment, a small hand suddenly reached Kitahara Makoto's waist and gently tugged at Kitahara Makoto's shirt.
"Hitori-chan?"
Kitahara Makoto turned to look at the Little Miss Anxiety behind him.
Bocchi-chan's eyes were wide, her small face full of tension, and she stammered in a low voice:
"Two, two Nijika-senpais..."
"What?"
Kitahara Makoto raised an eyebrow and quickly looked over, indeed seeing two identical Nijika standing not far away.
"How can there be two Nijikas?"
Yamada Ryo also noticed the anomaly at this moment.
"Eh, eh, eh?" Kita Ikuyo was startled and quickly retreated behind Kitahara Makoto. "Nijika-senpai turned into two people!"
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