Episode 6: The World Crisis is Close At Hand, Part One
Ah, now is not the time to be appreciating the view under my skirt.
Since I found her, let’s hurry over. Otherwise, if she goes somewhere else again, I’ll have to spend more time looking for her.
Oh, before that, I need to go back to the classroom. I almost forgot about that.
After running back to the classroom to grab something, I immediately sprinted towards the rooftop.
I should make it in time, right?
Ling said she wouldn’t be moving around frequently now. When I saw her earlier, she should have already known I was looking at her.
If she were deliberately avoiding me, she wouldn’t be… Ah, good, good.
When I arrived at the rooftop, I found Lou Yi still there, maintaining the same posture as before, her hands not on the railing, just gazing up at the sky.
I walked over to Lou Yi, leaned against the railing, and said to her.
“That’s quite a relaxed posture.
Although people might think Lou Yi is contemplating suicide if they saw you.
However, even if you did jump, Lou Yi would absolutely not die.
It’s not that your body can withstand it, but this world would inevitably protect you from harm. After all, you are the world itself and can manipulate fate. The word ‘danger’ doesn’t exist in your vocabulary.
“Are you ‘looking in a mirror’? Or are you just ‘checking your body’?”
“I’m just looking at the sky.”
I didn’t expect such an ‘ordinary’ answer.
“Do you like high places?”
Or is it because your name is ‘Lou Yi,’ you have an attachment to rooftops?
It shouldn’t be such a stupid reason, right?
This time, Lou Yi didn’t reply to me. But she didn’t turn her head to look at me either. She just asked.
“Human, you’re looking for me about that matter before, right?”
Human, huh.
Does she not need to differentiate us into individuals at all?
“Yes, it’s about that matter before. But before that, let’s all—”
I took out the bento I went to the classroom to get earlier and said.
“Before that, let’s eat first?”
Only then did Lou Yi turn her head to look at me.
“Eating is a…”
“Alright, alright, I know. It’s a form of energy intake only humans need, right?”
I’m tired of hearing you say that.
Because you don’t need to eat, you won’t eat?
Because you don’t need to sleep, you won’t sleep?
If that were the case, Ling and I wouldn’t need to do anything at all.
“You yourself are human too, aren’t you?”
She didn’t deny it.
Then, let me repeat it one more time.
“Let’s eat lunch!”
In the end, I successfully pulled Lou Yi back from the edge of the roof and then, pulling her hand, walked towards the courtyard.
She doesn’t reject humans, she just separates herself from them.
Sitting on a bench in the courtyard, with some couples eating around us, this place is indeed bursting with ‘normie’ vibes.
But now, I’m a normie too!
Ah, there isn’t much lunch break left. Let’s eat first.
I opened the bento box and picked up a piece of fried chicken. Mmm, it’s preserved pretty well. Just as expected of me.
Of course, I can’t just eat by myself. I need to take care of the person beside me.
After all, she doesn’t seem like the type to initiate eating lunch herself.
“Here, open your mouth.”
“You’re going to feed me?”
“Yeah, are you going to eat it yourself?”
“If you think you can win me over with this 213-calorie piece of fried chicken, I advise you to give up. I have no intention of paying for human eating habits.”
“No, just consider it as me having a special hobby.”
“A hobby of raising human females?”
“Now that you put it that way, even I feel like something’s wrong…”
Raising human females?
That phrasing sounds a bit lewd.
I scratched my head, considered my words, and changed my approach.
“Alright, it’s not really a hobby. Just consider it as me wanting to share food on a whim, and to show off my cooking skills. How about that?”
“On a whim? What’s the point of doing that?”
“There’s no point.”
…Incomprehensible. If an action is inherently meaningless, why undertake it? Your reasoning is contradictory.
“Ah, this is so annoying! You’re too stubborn! If you overanalyze everything, life will be boring! Now, taste this!”
How long am I supposed to hold this chicken wing in my hand!
Just eat it obediently!
Regardless of whether Lou Yi wanted to or not, I directly put the chicken wing into her mouth.
She didn’t spit it out, because there was no need.
Since it was already in her mouth, she started chewing.
I don’t even know what to say… Lou Yi’s personality is truly strange. Not cold, nor emotionless, yet she seems indifferent to everything.
I feel like I’ve met someone like this before, but also like I haven’t. What’s going on…
As I was wondering, I heard the sound of swallowing.
It’s strangely alluring…
“Delicious?”
“Ho, that’s quite straightforward.”
“I see, so it’s for this feeling of satisfaction. I understand now.”
“Do you want more then?”
“No need. Since I’ve understood the necessity of eating, there’s no need to repeat…”
“So much nonsense.”
I picked up another piece of stir-fried beef and put it in her mouth.
Through the chopsticks, I could feel a strange sensation of touching something soft.
Oh, this is kind of addictive.
“Advance notice, even if you continue feeding me, I won’t be able to provide the information you want, because…”
“I know. You’re not telling me because you can’t.”
“It seems you’ve done some analysis.”
“Yes.”
In fact, by analyzing Lou Yi’s personality, one could reach this conclusion.
When I asked her before and she brushed me off, I thought she didn’t want to tell me. But that wasn’t the case.
Whether she tells me or not is a meaningless matter to Lou Yi.
Since it doesn’t matter to her, there’s no reason for her to deliberately make things difficult for me.
Rather, from her perspective, telling me quickly so I’d stop bothering her would bring her peace.
So, the conclusion is simple.
It’s not that she doesn’t want to tell me, it’s that Lou Yi doesn’t know either.
“Then you should have told me earlier… You also don’t know where Xue Qing and Xuan’er are.”
“Negative. It’s not that I don’t know, but the search parameters have not yet been clarified. That’s all.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“Just by name isn’t enough, the search range needs to be refined further.”
“I see!”
Now I understand.
Lou Yi doesn’t not know, it’s just that the search conditions haven’t been clarified. If you just say a name, there could be people with the same name, right? How can we confirm it’s the one I’m looking for?
Alright, mission updated.
I need to narrow down the search scope first… Hmm, it would be best if I had something related to them.
But unfortunately, I don’t have anything like that right now.
“If related events can be known, then based on your fate connection with the F Witch, the person you are looking for can be traced.”
“Oh! So, any clue is enough?”
“If the clues provided are true and reliable.”
“OK!”
“As a reward for clarifying the necessity of eating for me, I can help you once.”
After saying that, Lou Yi stood up and walked towards the school building.
I was about to put away my bento box and head back to the classroom, only to find that Lou Yi had eaten all the bento.
At that moment, Lou Yi suddenly stopped and turned back to say to me.
“Thank you for the meal.”
I froze for a few seconds before I started laughing.
She’s becoming so human-like, isn’t she?
After tidying up, I stood up, stretched, and looked up at the sky.
It feels like the weather has become much brighter?
