Regrettably, I still couldn’t become human.
Witnessing the final scene of episode two, where I showed a chilling, terrifying smile to the camera, Jiang Jian Yue shed tears.
Let’s turn the clock back a few hours.
Jiang Jian Yue walked out of the master bedroom’s bathroom, feeling a bit guilty as she looked at Yuki Asahi, who was making a bed for himself on the floor.
This… seemed like the spot she missed cleaning yesterday.
It should be cleaned properly. Mm!
Yuki Asahi heard footsteps at the bathroom door but didn’t turn around.
After laying out the bedding, he sat and played with his phone.
“LINE?”
Jiang Jian Yue sat down beside him, shaking her phone screen.
Yuki Asahi stiffened, nodded mechanically, and the two added each other on LINE.
“Senpai… you’re too close.”
Yuki Asahi moved his lips and squeezed out these words.
At school, Jiang Jian Yue wore the fairly modest autumn uniform, so leaning on his shoulder didn’t feel like a big deal.
But now, the girl’s body was wrapped in a loose robe that looked like it might slip off her shoulders at any moment.
Gomen ne, your Jiang Jian-senpai always forgets she’s a JK.
Yuki Asahi had finished showering before her, wearing a men’s robe dug out from the home storage, barely fitting.
Jiang Jian Yue lowered her gaze, noticing how he curled up his legs to hide his O, finding it amusing.
Hehe, little chick boy.
She’d heard that virgins would stand up just from kissing.
She wondered if it was true—Jiang Jian Yue had never dated in her past life.
Not teasing Yuki Asahi any further, she returned to her computer desk and, with no guard up, opened the computer screen.
She noticed that the time displayed on the computer had moved forward a week, meaning episode two had already been updated.
Before that, she opened Penguin and browsed the private message Sugela sent a few days ago:
“I asked for you. This Chongzhong is indeed strange. Over at Netflix, it’s managed by a newly established subsidiary. My friend couldn’t find out more.”
“Thanks, sorry to trouble you.”
Sugela’s reply came quickly: [Hurry up, let me see yours]
Fugo had also become sexually repressed.
Ignoring the group’s jokes, Jiang Jian Yue opened the pink app and clicked on episode two of .
A thunderous opening—the first image was a room covered with densely packed bugs, startling the barrage users trying to grab the front row.
[I can’t take it, I’m out]
[Pervert]
[Thunderous opening]
A pale arm extended from outside the frame, and a shrunken bug crawled onto the hand wearing a strange Armwatch.
Jiang Jian Yue recognized it as the bug that pierced hosts.
The scene switched to the hallway of a cheap apartment, with the door labeled 318 slowly opening.
A Bald Man stepped out, tugging at the long sleeve on his right arm.
Jiang Jian Yue picked up a notebook and pen and jotted down: Armwatch, bald, 318, cheap apartment.
This person was highly likely the culprit.
The next scene showed the Bald Man waiting for the subway at the station.
A train with a blue main color and red stripes pulled in—the train he was waiting for.
The station’s electronic board showed the time as 10:35.
[Mita Line?]
A single line of barrage stood out among the crowd, caught precisely by Jiang Jian Yue.
Though she’d lived in Tokyo for a while, she had never once ridden the city’s famous railway lines.
After searching for Mita Line on her phone and comparing it to the animation, she confirmed it was indeed the Mita Line and noted it down.
Thanks to the barrage gods. Thanks to the railway enthusiasts.
With this, the range narrowed from all of Tokyo to the area around the Mita Line—still a lot!
After getting off, he walked a distance and stopped at the gates of Tokiwagi High School.
“What am I even doing?”
A close-up of the lower half of the man’s face, muttering to himself.
Suddenly, the screen went black, then golden light burst from the center—it was the OP.
The theme song was J-pop with rap, sounding trendy, but it didn’t suit metalhead Jiang Jian Yue’s taste.
There was nothing particularly notable in the visuals, with too much abstract content mainly related to bugs and butterflies.
Jiang Jian Yue noticed that she only appeared in a single frame during the theme.
But even that one frame made her uneasy.
In the image, Jiang Jian Yue wore a school uniform, stood in a dim, unpainted building, looked sideways at the camera, and wore a blank expression.
But as the music hit the chorus, her shadow on the wall suddenly transformed into another version of herself, neck bandaged, and she flashed a twisted grin reminiscent of Yagami Light’s “just as planned” expression.
Ahhhhhhhhh!
There’s no way I’d make such a twisted face!
What is this OP editing? It turned me into a villain.
Objection!
After the theme, the main POV returned to Yuki Asahi, who tossed and turned in bed.
Jiang Jian Yue turned her head, glancing at Yuki Asahi, who was staring at his phone.
How strange—the anime’s protagonist in her own home.
The following scenes were mundane: going to school, meeting Jiang Jian Yue, chatting in front of the shoe lockers.
[So she’s a silent type?]
[Pervert]
[What’s with the bandage]
[In the last episode she was choked by a bug, and seeing the OP, she’s probably been possessed]
Yuki Asahi was distracted in class, even hallucinating about police storming in and handcuffing him, startling the barrage.
[Alright, so that’s how it is]
He wasn’t as calm as imagined. This kid is really good at pretending to be tough.
At noon, he planned to sneak off to destroy the surveillance during lunch break.
But a petite, golden-haired girl blocked his path.
Through their conversation, he learned that the girl was named Kaori Onishi, class rep of first-year group three.
She approached Yuki Asahi to ask about Maeda Kaiichi.
Bringing up the very topic he didn’t want to face.
Yuki Asahi struggled to handle Kaori Onishi’s questions, and by the time she left, he was drenched in sweat.
Kaori Onishi also appeared in the OP. Did she have superpowers too?
Jiang Jian Yue wrote Kaori Onishi’s name on another page.
The story advanced to the destruction of the surveillance camera. Jiang Jian Yue tailed behind, analyzing calmly through her memo and breaking through his psychological defenses.
[This woman isn’t a good person]
[Pervert]
[Front row, I’ve tolerated you long enough]
[??? Just hugged like that?]
[?]
[Wow, the male lead isn’t a good person either]
[Let me take his place!]
With elbows on the table and palms covering her cheeks, Jiang Jian Yue stared at the barrage, her feelings mixed.
The following scenes were just the two of them experiencing things together, nothing worth analyzing.
However, the barrage’s suspicion that “Jiang Jian Yue” wasn’t a good person soared again due to the Morita Butler’s calm actions.
When she fell asleep on Yuki Asahi’s shoulder, the barrage split half “sweet sweet sweet” and half “there’s a conspiracy, run!”
The scene returned to the flowerbed after Jiang Jian Yue issued a suspicious cohabitation declaration and the two left school.
The Bald Man held a cage, opened the lid, and firefly-like luminous beetles crawled out.
The Light Bugs slipped under a waterproof sheet, and soon, the bulging sheet flattened at a visible speed.
The Bald Man wiped sweat from his forehead, ignored the Light Bugs, pressed the Armwatch on his hand, and vanished instantly.
[Experiment?]
A line of barrage matched Jiang Jian Yue’s thought.
The Bald Man’s actions seemed like continuous testing of Yuki Asahi’s abilities.
But his residence didn’t resemble a technological organization.
He couldn’t possibly be Yuki Asahi’s stalker, could he?