Even though it had only been a day, walking on the road to school gave Leo a feeling as if a lifetime had passed.
Glancing at MEI, who was walking expressionlessly beside him, he enjoyed this hard-won aura of youth. Undoubtedly, before his transmigration, he never had the chance to go to school with a beautiful girl from the neighborhood.
—The current me is simply the male protagonist in a Galgame!
Only... where are my choices?
There should be at least four options!
"What nonsense are you thinking about?"
Seeing Leo staring at her, MEI immediately smelled a scent of childishness coming from him.
"Although I don't beg you to face me with an adult's attitude, your current identity is at least a high school student. Can you be a little more mature for me?"
After speaking, she looked at him with an expression of exasperation, like one hating iron for not becoming steel.
"Student MEI, how do you manage to use a thirty-seven-degree mouth to say such cold words?"
Feigning sorrow, Leo looked as if he was deeply hurt by MEI's words.
"Heh!"
Seeing this, MEI was directly angered into laughing by Leo.
"If you keep acting like this, you can go to school by yourself from now on!"
Helpless, she could only take out her trump card.
"Sorry, please absolutely don't do that!"
Hearing MEI say this, Leo immediately straightened his attitude and apologized hurriedly.
"Hmph~"
Snorting lightly, only then did MEI reveal a slightly satisfied expression.
"Anyway, since I'm going to school with you, you should understand what this represents. Please don't bring shame upon me!"
Although she appeared very calm walking along the way, it was naturally impossible to say she didn't have shy emotions in her heart. Speaking of which, she left school with Leo the day before yesterday, yesterday she asked for leave on Leo's behalf, and now she was going to school with Leo again; she didn't know what her reputation would become.
Although she had already decided on Leo, Leo couldn't make her lose too much face, right?
If the other party kept staring at her like just now while walking into Chiba Academy, she couldn't guarantee she wouldn't blush!
By then, the character persona she had accumulated previously would be completely ruined!
Precisely to save face, she actively attacked Leo.
Of course, she felt she didn't attack wrongly either; Leo was obviously thinking about something childish at the time!
—As her [Bond] with Leo increased, she could gradually understand Leo's thoughts!
"Yes, yes, yes~"
Seeing MEI say this, the corners of Leo's mouth couldn't help but curl up into a pleasant smile. Undoubtedly, he had made MEI shy. And being able to make the rational and strong-willed MEI become like this, he couldn't help but feel a tiny sense of accomplishment.
Now he just wanted to know, when he and MEI have "that night", whether the other party could still maintain this calm appearance before his eyes.
Thinking about it carefully... that would have a unique flavor too!
"Why has your expression become even more annoying?"
Noticing Leo's gaze becoming subtle, MEI cast a dissatisfied look at him.
"Cough!"
Coughing lightly, Leo hurriedly forced a change of subject: "Speaking of which, have you discovered anything abnormal at school?"
To be honest, he didn't go to school entirely to feel the youth. Since the Chiba Academy in the Instance hid this and that kind of evil, he naturally had to see if the Chiba Academy in the Real World had problems too.
"What a stiff topic change."
After rolling her eyes gracefully at Leo, MEI revealed a serious expression and said, "But I have to say, there are indeed problems in our school."
"Previously, my attention was on studying, so I really didn't notice these things."
"Oh?"
Hearing there was actually an unexpected harvest, Leo couldn't help but become interested.
"Do tell."
"Not long ago, a female student in the second year jumped from a building at home."
Revealing a cold expression, MEI said with a slightly heavy tone, "The floor wasn't high, only the third floor. Plus, it wasn't vital organs that hit the ground first, so she was easily saved."
"But until now, she is still in a coma, showing absolutely no signs of waking up."
"As for the reason she jumped, it was caused by long-term bullying by students in her class."
"The school has already spent great effort to suppress this news, so until now, there has been no relevant news outside."
"If I didn't happen to have a relative on the school board, I wouldn't have known about this either."
"To think such a thing happened..."
Hearing this, Leo revealed a thoughtful look and asked, "Do you have that female student's contact information?"
Although he had no evidence, he instinctively felt this matter was related to the Instance.
"You want to go take a look?"
Understanding his implication immediately, MEI said very reliably, "I don't have contact information, but I know which hospital she is in."
"Mn."
Nodding, Leo said, "Let's go take a look after school."
"Although this is just my intuition, but—"
Glancing at the cooldown time required for [Tiny Miracle] which wasn't long, he muttered to himself, "We should be able to gain something."
—It had to be said, this ability is a god-tier skill!
Of course, since it was only a "tiny" miracle, the matter wasn't absolutely guaranteed, which was why he didn't speak too absolutely.
"Alright."
Seeing Leo like this, MEI said again, "Besides this major event, I also heard that students in the third year have gone missing."
"But this matter seems like an urban legend, because I specifically asked for leave to go to the infirmary for this, and I counted the students in each class on the way; the numbers matched up."
She and Leo were both third-year students, and their classroom happened to be at the innermost part of the third floor. Therefore, when she asked for leave to go to the infirmary, she could count all the way past.
"Missing?"
Hearing this, Leo couldn't help but frown slightly.
"There's no smoke without fire. A rumor that can be directly verified like this shouldn't reasonably be able to circulate for so long, right?"
"Indeed, I considered this too, which is why I specifically went to count the number of people."
Nodding, MEI expressed understanding.
However—
"But I did confirm that there were no problems regarding the number of people."
"Then—"
But very quickly, she had another thought.
Almost in unison, she and Leo spoke together—
"It was an entire class of people that was directly replaced!" x2
It had to be said, this conjecture of hers and Leo's was quite astonishing.
After all, let alone the fact that students between classes would have some contact, there were also teachers in the school, as well as acquaintances in other grades.
Therefore, if one wanted to replace an entire class, that would absolutely be a massive project that was almost impossible to complete.
But if supernatural power were superimposed, then it wouldn't be impossible.
Leo hadn't forgotten that the third floor in the Instance—
Was completely empty!
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