"I couldn't find her around the school either."

A magical girl flying high in the air pierces through the clouds, leaving a void in her wake caused by the impact of water vapor in all directions.

"It's going to cause trouble, Rin-san."

She continued to search for the suddenly disappeared Rinko Hori while reporting on the current situation.

"I didn't go home, and the phone didn't work...... Don't look for it anymore, you can come back first. ”

Li Wu pinched his forehead with some headaches, and Shiratori Maki appeared in the seat next to him in a phenomenon similar to the flickering of the TV screen and shook his head: "There are no ...... anywhere in the school I should have followed her. ”

"You can't keep an eye on her - don't get depressed, it's not your fault."

The object of the second half of the sentence had just entered the door, and the look of self-reproach on his face was indiscriminate.

You don't have to guess to think that with her character, most of the blame for the light run away is on herself, and if any pressure is put on her at this time, the relatively most vulnerable vampire girl will probably not be able to bear it first.

Although he shared the same concerns, perhaps even more acute, than theirs, he must not show them at such times.

And judging from the last sight Shiratori saw, Hikari should have been the school he had left on.

Based on Li Wu's perception of her, although it is not impossible to say that Guang will suddenly run away because of awkwardness, she should not be so willful that she will not say a word, and she will not give him a chance to find herself at all.

"What does that mean?"

The one who asked this question was Aoi Hoshikawa, who had already returned to the activity room.

"For example, one summer when we had a quarrel, she left me and ran to the nearby mountains to catch unicorns, but before that, she deliberately stuffed a painting into my house that didn't look like an insect at all, so it was barely a tacit understanding."

In retrospect, it was amazing to be able to find the other party with this kind of artistic garbage that is too famous as a draft.

"I think it's already quite capricious!"

Hoshikawa Aoi hugged his arm obviously not very happy, and Shiratori nodded subtly as if in agreement: "I actually wanted to say it a few times before, is Li Wujun sometimes too ...... to the light Accommodating a little. ”

Seeing that she was about to digress, Arisa asked in time: "So Xiaoguang left you any information?" ”

Li Wu secretly gave her a "good job" look: "I also just thought of it, don't forget what we came to the activity room for?" ”

Shiratori Mao reacted first: "The third seal!" ”

Originally, yesterday's trip was to pick up the main body of Shiratori in the original world, and by the way, to relieve the fatigue of continuous combat - although the latter can hardly be said to have achieved its goal due to various accidents, but today's original plan was indeed to continue the strategic operation of the Quadruple Seal.

"If Xiaoguang enters the third seal alone, there may be danger, let's rush over now!"

Airisa believed his judgment without thinking.

"Shiratori will take me first, and you will follow."

The message board created by Hikari seems to have disappeared due to the gradual correction of the distortion, but fortunately, the original information about the location of the Quadruple Seal is still stored locally, and there is no risk of getting lost.

In the case of long-distance movement, Shiratori Mao's current ability is still safer to bring another person, so he quickly made a choice.

After the two of them disappeared suddenly, Arisa looked at Aoi Hoshikawa, who had remained in place, and found her talking to herself with her head down.

For that reason, it was determined where she was going...... Hmph, is this what is called tacit understanding? ”

"Huh? That, Hoshikawa ......"

"Good! Let's go, Erisa! ”

As if she was hallucinating, the other party switched expressions the next moment, and carried her out of the window directly, leaving behind a series of screams stretched by the Doppler effect.

Just as they were rushing to the third seal, Li Wu, who had just undergone a spatial transfer, had already switched scenes without opening his eyes as before.

He was standing on the platform of a subway tunnel, surrounded by no one except for Shiratori Maki, who was dressed in a dress remodeled from a conductor.

"Is it pretty?"

She spun around and lifted the hem of her black and red skirt.

"You know I'm not in the mood to do anything else right now, right?"

Li Wu waited for her to give an explanation.

"Don't worry, it's just a visual image of the movement process that I originally 'clicked', and for the outside world, we still arrived at the destination at once."

Shiratori said eloquently, "As I said before, I really worked hard to practice in the days when everyone didn't see me, and it was only under the advice of those magical girls in the countermeasures bureau and the superpower of the ninth lesson that she seemed to be an old acquaintance with you that I completed the technique of making the originally abstract process of observing the boundaries of space more precise. ”

"It's remarkable...... But I'm not concerned about the principle, can't you just jump over it like you used to? ”

"Can't you just boast a little more?"

Shiratori Mao sighed and pointed to the faint white light in the distance, "Let's get in the car first, I just want to talk to Li Wujun about this matter alone." ”

With a whistling sound, a streamlined train sped into the platform where they were.

"What is your habit of stamping your last name on?"

Li Wu pointed to the glittering three big characters of "White Bird" on it in disbelief.

"You take care of me!"

She pushed her glasses with a rare blushing face, and walked into the carriage first, and the door that opened after Li Wu followed was immediately closed, and the signs inside the subway that were supposed to mark the route out of the platform were replaced with various real-world pictures.

This should be the result of what she said about the process of figurative observation.

"I don't know what happened after you and Hoshikawa-san went to look for Hikari last night, but judging from the current results, it's definitely not very good, right?"

Shiratori sat down in the seat across from him, his hands pressed on his pantyhose-wrapped knees under the gown, leaning forward slightly.

“…… It's a fight, indeed. ”

Although Li Wu agreed with her point of view, he was a little uncomfortable with this riddler's style, "What the hell do you want to say, Shiratori?" ”

"I'm not going to speculate on the exact reason, but can you guarantee that this time you find the light, it won't happen again?"

She stared into his eyes.

"Unnecessary worries about the future are a disease, and there is an idiom called worrying about the sky."

"There's also an idiom called planning ahead."

The literary girl fought back fluently, "As for whether it is necessary, Li Wujun should have his own judgment, right?" ”

She suddenly stood up and sat down, and the train began to move forward with a long noise.

"I remember what you said to me on the moon before."

Mai Shiratori habitually pushed her glasses, "I want to think about it...... What am I to you? 'A woman who can be my mother'? ”

"Don't be kidding at this time."

"Hey, is that referring to Hoshikawa-san?"

Li Wu stared at her wordlessly, until the other party raised his hand and surrendered under pressure: "Okay, okay, I just want to say that you rejected my proposal at that time, thinking that you can treat everyone differently and maintain the status quo...... How does it feel to practice now? ”

She put on a mocking smile and didn't let go of the other because of her silence.

"Lovers, friends, childhood sweethearts who regard them as family...... This kind of classification may not be a problem for Li Wujun under normal circumstances, but they are not collectibles that can be easily labeled, but girls who will be equally equal and willful in their relationship with you, right? ”

"I didn't have that thought."

Is there really none?

Li Wu repeatedly asked his heart.

Since the awakening of the ability, it has brought not only the power used in battle, but also the power of seeing words, which usually does not have a high sense of existence, but has actually played an important role.

You don't need to know each other, you don't need to have deep contact to see the essence of an existence - but to put it mildly, it's actually a label that someone else puts on his own initiative, but it just happens to match the real situation.

What if, in the process, his way of thinking and mentality are subtly affected by his ability? It's like getting used to getting to know a character in a story game with simple faction selection and quantified favorability values instead of character and story background?

Shiratori Mao naturally didn't know how far he ran out in an instant, and continued: "I believe you don't, but in fact, whether it's Airisa or Hikari, the relationship they crave has deviated from Li Wujun's thoughts. ”

Li Wu sighed: "If Shiratori wants to preach about the mistakes I made, I promise to let you criticize them as much as you like when we find the light." ”

"No, at least Li Wujun's misunderstanding is not the same as my misunderstanding."

She crossed her fingers to make an X-shape, "The real mistake you made was to make up your mind to Hoshikawa-san too early. ”

Li Wu looked at her with the eyes of rare birds and beasts.

"It's because of this move.,The original balance was broken.,Airisa and Hikari will quarrel.,If you want to maintain the original relationship without breaking down, you shouldn't confess to her - it's like a light early stage with harem elements.,Isn't it good to enjoy the ambiguity with everyone first in pretending to be confused?"

"You...... What exactly do you want to say? ”

I don't know when it started, Li Wu felt that the current state of the white bird was not normal, and even creepy.

The windows on both sides of the train reflected each other's silhouettes, and the pupils of those staring at themselves under the lenses seemed to contain some kind of wriggling madness, burning like flames.

"It's Li Wujun's fault, it's all about it, including what I'm going to say next. If you had agreed to my proposal at the time, cut off this muddy human relationship in time, or had not forcefully brought me back, I would not have fallen into it. ”

The girl's voice echoed softly in the silent carriage where there were only two of them, "Now that we've come to this point, there's only one way to make amends." ”

"What is it?"

His instincts told him that he shouldn't go any further, that he couldn't go any deeper into Pandora's box, but the voice was already running out of his throat.

She briskly seemed to be saying what she should choose for dinner: "Please leave Hoshikawa-san, and stay with me." ”

The train made a sudden turn and made a loud noise against the tracks.

Li Wu turned his head and looked straight ahead: "I'll just be joking with you, I haven't heard this sentence." ”

"You just ignored my first confession!"

"If you were serious, you wouldn't be reacting this way now, would you?"

"Not necessarily."

Her tone seemed to be dismantling a difficult problem, "Judging from the results of my observations in the past two days, Hoshikawa-san's current can only tolerate you maintaining the original relationship with Hikari or Airisa, but they have gradually become unable to accept this, which is the real reason why Hikari is awkward?" ”

"And if it's me, it doesn't matter, whether it's Airisa or Hikari, even if it's Hoshikawa-san, who will be kicked out at that time, it doesn't matter."

"Because you're crazy."

Li Wu felt an even stronger sense of absurdity than when he saw the monster for the first time, "Why? ”

"Because I'm in love with you. Could it be that Li Wujun hasn't felt it after going to my house once? ”

Shiratori Mai was a little apologetic, "I'm sorry, I also know that now is not the right time, but if you miss the opportunity for Hikari to run away and let Li Wujun return to his daily state, there is no way for you to think about this problem properly." ”

Perhaps only she, who had talked to him alone on a satellite far from the earth, and who had also changed from an ordinary person to a superpower, could realize the duplicity of Li Wu.

The sudden power will have a violent impact on the personality, unlike the existence of being born a vampire or becoming a magical girl at a young age, on the one hand, he stepped into a transcendent world that completely overrides the daily secular ethics, and is vaguely aware of that sense of transcendence, so he can not fight at all like a high school student, and even kill; On the other hand, the social personality formed over the past ten years will unconsciously restrain him in daily life and follow universal values.

I'm afraid that Li Wu himself didn't realize how deviant what he said to her when he was on an alien planet far away from human society.

Therefore, only at this time of "non-routine" can he face up to ...... A solution that could be called a crooked path.

Of course, it would be better if I could really kill Hoshikawa-san by the way!

While she was making a small calculation, a prompt sound sounded in the carriage.

"We're here, Li Wujun can keep the answer first, I'll always look forward to it."

Mai Shiratori stood up with a smile, bending down to leave words in his ear that were warm and cold.

The doors open to both sides, and the train, the tunnel, and the white bird disappear at the same time, replaced by a solid mountain path and a huge hole that seems to run through the mountain in front of you.

The appearance of the third seal is a huge cave, and under its influence on the surrounding environment, the crater that could not have appeared here is floating hot air into the sky, and the location of the seal entrance is halfway up the mountain.

Shiratori Maoi, who was close at hand, kept the same movement as he set off, and shoved his hand into his palm.

Li Wu let go of his hand and suppressed the chaotic thoughts like a volcano in front of him.

"I'm not going to do what you say."

He couldn't see any expression on the other party's face, "But I'll bring the light back first, just like I did with you back then." ”

"I'm very happy."

Mai Shiratori smiled sincerely, as if a gardener who saw the seeds being sown in the spring.

(End of chapter)