All subjects were finally finished by next Wednesday.
Jiang Jian Yue returned home, hurriedly washed up, and walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel, one hand holding a tool, the other gripping a bottle filled with a milky-white liquid.
She sat in front of the computer, lips pressed tightly, struggling to pour a small mouthful of the liquid into her mouth.
The faintly sweet, light liquid spread through her mouth, and Jiang Jian Yue seemed to use all her strength to swallow it down her throat.
“Ugh!”
The taste wasn’t unbearable, but a psychological barrier deep inside kept triggering violent gagging.
Looking at the little remaining liquid in the bottle, every swallow felt torturous.
In the end, she dug out half a box of unfinished strawberries from the fridge, tossed them into the blender to make a pulp, and poured it into the bottle.
Strawberry milk, OC~
Once the concept of “strawberry milk” took root in her mind, it went down much easier than the original concentrate.
Jiang Jian Yue hadn’t planned to collect it with a tool before, but the traditional virtue of thrift and saving in Chinese households… or maybe some other thought, made her feel it was a shame to waste it.
Originally, she wanted to ask the head maid Akimoto Miki to handle it.
But after she spoke, Akimoto Miki started drooling, and Jiang Jian Yue instantly changed her mind.
This guy, at her age and still not married—she must be into girls!
“Haa…”
When the last bit of pink mixture vanished into her mouth, Jiang Jian Yue finally collapsed into the chair, exhausted, eyes closed and gasping, her bangs sticking to her sweaty forehead, the bath towel slipping even more.
She habitually lifted her hand, pressing tentatively through the towel, the slight swelling pain making her feel annoyed.
The computer screen glowed faintly, and she irritably grabbed her phone.
LINE’s “Special Attention” five-person group chat was flashing with red notifications for new messages.
Kaori Onishi was passionately forwarding video articles, like “Shocking! The Ultimate Secret of the Universe is Actually in XX Constellation” from marketing accounts.
Yamanoi Yayoi, whose avatar was a kitten, was extremely polite, commenting on every forward:
“Ah, Kaori-san’s shared material is so profound! So many specialized astronomical terms…”
–Such a cute kid, but isn’t this supposed to be the undercover operation chat for the supernatural club?
How did it turn into a normal girl friends’ gathering!
Yuki Asahi with the default avatar and Saori Saiyonji with a pure black avatar squeezed in a few words amid the barrage of forwarded messages.
Saori Saiyonji was still in contact with the organization that approached him, of course, as an undercover.
When he decisively agreed to Kaori Onishi’s wild proposal for the “My lord” idea, Jiang Jian Yue was a bit surprised.
“I… I also want to become a Hero like Yuki.”
When Saori Saiyonji said this, he showed a shy expression for the first time.
Jiang Jian Yue felt a bit uneasy, various doujin books and fanfics flashing through her mind.
Yuki Asahi and Saori Saiyonji have no sexual tension, right? Two bottoms never end well.
Browsing the exchange of undercover information between the two boys, she couldn’t help but worry out of habit.
These kids are putting their own lives at risk—so reckless.
She took risks because she was an adult, how could it be the same?
Jiang Jian Yue’s fingertips hovered over the screen, almost bursting out laughing when she saw Saori Saiyonji say he was given the codename Afrodite.
The name of the goddess of love and beauty—it seems they also thought Saori Saiyonji looked rather… delicate.
She clicked on the blurry photo Saori Saiyonji sent, enlarging it to examine the white candles.
They weren’t decorative scented candles, but ceremonial ones that burned more slowly.
A strong aura of forced mysticism and attempted religious imitation hit her.
That obsession with insects and faith was probably the style of the Saints—in Jiang Jian Yue’s eyes, it was just low-quality cosplay, clearly not their true face.
Saori Saiyonji also noticed the strangeness, and in his chat with Yuki Asahi, concluded he hadn’t truly infiltrated the organization called the Society of Truth.
Saori Saiyonji’s vigilance and pragmatic attitude were unexpectedly clear-headed and reliable, easing her worries a bit.
She had no interest in joining this undercover frontline report meeting, intending to quietly leave, but then caught sight of the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen.
The time had jumped again.
Jiang Jian Yue abruptly sat up straight, gripped the mouse, and swallowed a bit of saliva that still tasted faintly of strawberry milk.
Episode 8, the shameless challenge, finally arrived!
With anxiety, she opened Pink Software, started watching Episode 8, patted her burning cheeks, and put on her headphones.
The beginning of Episode 8 was confusing, jumping straight to a scene of a man coughing up blood and about to die.
[How did this happen to me?]
[There’s more content after the ED in the previous episode, pay attention]
Jiang Jian Yue quickly opened Episode 7.
That night, she’d left after seeing Ikeda Yukishin’s bug awakening, too anxious to finish watching.
There were two small parts after the ED in Episode 7.
The first was several police officers returning from patrol to find everyone else in the station missing.
The second was the missing officers being sucked into a space by Ikeda Yukishin, discovering that everyone except themselves had vanished.
The man at the start of Episode 8 was among the police officers.
The barrage roughly speculated about Ikeda Yukishin’s ability.
Jiang Jian Yue blushed a little—even though she had suspected at first, her thinking had diverged, dragging Yuki Asahi off track with her.
The man was the last of the police to survive.
A series of quick flashbacks showed how the officers died—mostly due to leaks from nuclear power plant generator shutdowns and chemical pollution from factory explosions.
[It exploded]
[There’s actually an anime that dares mention nuclear plant leaks in the plot, BIG guts!]
[It’s a Netflix anime, so it’s fine]
In the end, the last man on earth—or so he believed—ended his suffering after dozens of days by swallowing his gun.
A gunshot rang out, launching the OP.
This episode’s OP still had no new silhouettes, and Jiang Jian Yue skillfully skipped it.
It began with Yuki Asahi returning home, “intimate interaction” with his sister, and without a word, tossing both her and the blanket out.
[Sigma Man]
[If you had a sister like this, you’d be annoyed too]
[Rather, isn’t this the normal relationship between siblings?]
[Where exactly is it normal, may I ask]
So this was the situation when she saw Funae Amuro wrapped in bedding at the door.
Afterward, it fast-forwarded to Amuro Kazuhiro’s way home, without showing his contact with Yuki Asahi via LINE.
Amuro Kazuhiro came out of 711, carrying a plastic bag, heading home slowly.
Lexus appeared, the cool girl stopping skillfully in front of Amuro’s house.
Seeing this, Jiang Jian Yue finally realized she’d forgotten to mention this to Morita Aoya.
Seven days had passed in that world, and she’d completely forgotten upon returning.
[LX600?]
[No way, how does a high school student have a driver’s license?]
[Emi-chan is actually an adult]
[Pervert]