As soon as the New Year passed, Fang Wuwei and the others returned to their normal lives.
During holidays, high schools in Neon also held Club Activities organized by the club leaders. Nibutani's Drama Club was one such club that held activities during the holidays.
If someone from the association had to return to school, the others wouldn't leave her alone. Under Rikka's organization, everyone gathered at the school's Club Activities room.
Actually, they were just bored from staying at home for too long, so they gathered to play. Anyway, they didn't have much in the way of activities to begin with.
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of a certain prominent family, their activity room was equipped with a heater, allowing them to play around inside without having to bundle up thickly and huddle under a kotatsu, far surpassing other associations.
And so, Koushou was still sleeping curled up in the kotatsu, Nibutani went to participate in the Drama Club's activities, Totsuka and Rikka were engaged in a chuunibyou duel, Yuta was absent, and Ikenouchi Maki was researching the ninjutsu books that Fang Wuwei had copied from the Naruto world earlier…
Everyone had something to do, only Fang Wuwei was sprawled on the floor, doing absolutely nothing.
He lay face down on the floor, his face practically pressed against it, motionless…
"I'm here, ha… Whoa, what is this?"
Nibutani, dressed in a costume, rushed in, pushing open the association door after finishing her Drama Club activities. It was really cold outside, and the Drama Club didn't have such good heating arrangements. She was already frozen stiff…
After quickly entering the activity room and closing the door, her body warmed up, and she let out a deep sigh. Then she saw Fang Wuwei sprawled on the floor like a corpse, which startled her.
"I don't know… Has he suffered some kind of blow?"
Koushou opened her eyes and looked over with some concern. Fang Wuwei had been lying on the floor for an entire day, not moving at all…
"Hey—Wuwei-san—"
Hearing Nibutani's call, Fang Wuwei twitched his ears to indicate he heard, seemingly waiting for her next words to see if there was anything important.
Nibutani walked over and poked Fang Wuwei, but he didn't react. Even after more pokes, he only wiggled his body in protest, showing no intention of getting up.
Strange, this shouldn't be happening.
She turned to look at Ikenouchi Maki, who was engrossed in her book. Nibutani waved to get her attention, then pointed to Fang Wuwei sprawled on the floor.
She was asking her why Fang Wuwei had become like this.
Ikenouchi Maki didn't know either. She shook her head, her eyes full of ignorance.
No one knew why, and since Fang Wuwei was so uncooperative, Nibutani had no choice but to leave. She then slowly walked to the kotatsu and crawled in. It was indeed concerning, but since he was unwilling to communicate, the most important thing right now was to warm up first.
"Let's ask Togashi-kun when he comes. He should know more…"
"Yes… He was fine yesterday…"
Speak of the devil and he shall appear. Yuta, wearing thick winter clothes, pulled open the association door and squeezed in.
"I'm here… Whoa."
As Yuta opened the door, he saw Fang Wuwei sprawled on the floor. His face showed surprise, which then turned into helplessness and a hint of disdain. He nonchalantly walked into the kotatsu and crawled in.
From that subtle expression, Nibutani and Koushou could tell at a glance that Yuta definitely knew something.
"Hey, hey, Togashi-kun."
As soon as Yuta sat down, Nibutani called him. Then, under his somewhat puzzled gaze, Nibutani pointed to Fang Wuwei on the floor.
Yuta followed her finger and saw Fang Wuwei, but he didn't understand her meaning.
"What?"
"What's wrong with him?"
Upon hearing this question, Yuta's face immediately filled with helplessness and annoyance. He turned his head, picked up an orange from the table, and kept Fang Wuwei out of his line of sight.
"Don't mind him! Just let him lie there!"
This reaction was off. Did they have a quarrel?
"What exactly is going on?"
Nibutani raised an eyebrow, her tone a bit worried. She had never seen Fang Wuwei so passive.
"Don't mind him. He's been like this ever since my dad went back abroad yesterday."
"What does your dad going abroad have to do with him?"
"My dad took my mom and sister with him. Now I'm the only one left at home!"
Yuta was quite helpless. He silently peeled an orange and stuffed it into his mouth, speaking indistinctly.
"Starting today, the rest of my family will be living in Jakarta. I stayed behind alone because I have to go to school."
Nibutani understood. Her eyes suddenly filled with excitement and gossip.
Hearing Yuta say this, Fang Wuwei finally showed some movement. He turned his head to look at Yuta, his face filled with a sense of utter despair.
Actually, he wasn't passive because of this… at least not entirely. The real reason was that he couldn't go to the inner world.
The day before yesterday, the Ikenouchi family used the Morisa Summer Elves' magic to set up a Magic Power Enhancement barrier to repair their damaged Magic Circuit, so that Ikenouchi Toyohiko would have the ability to condense magic crystal. For this, he spent a large sum of points to buy high-grade materials. But then the Ikenouchi couple were informed that these magic powers could not be used to restore their Magic Circuit at all.
Furthermore, due to the Elves' exclusion of the Ikenouchi couple, the two couldn't even use these magic powers, which meant the plan fell through.
Fang Wuwei was inevitably a bit disappointed, feeling heartache over the points and upset about not being able to proceed to the next step.
But that was still fine. Although he was incredibly lost, he could still accept this result. At worst, he would just wait until he drew suitable skills or items; it wouldn't be too late then, and it would also allow him to make more preparations.
After all, that Ye Tian was very likely a transmigrator who had developed for nearly thirty years and was suspected of having a cheat. Making full preparations was essential. What if he really was an enemy?
Then, he immediately received the news that Kuzuha was going abroad. With a double blow coming at once, Fang Wuwei's defenses crumbled.
On the day the Togashi family left, he was even more upset than Yuta, the son himself…
Although he knew Kuzuha would return alone in the spring, he was still upset. No, the focus wasn't Kuzuha… ahem.
Anyway, he just felt uncomfortable… He felt that everything was going wrong for him, and he was incredibly upset.
Fang Wuwei, sprawled on the floor, just let Nibutani and the others look at him with gossipy and pitiful eyes, and he remained completely unresponsive.
Only Rikka, seeing him pitiful, went up and poked him… As someone who had been separated from Yuta by distance before, she understood the pain of parting.
"Akame, you are so decadent. Is this good? This is not good."
Fang Wuwei remained unresponsive. Rikka stroked her chin, contemplating a solution… She remembered that Fang Wuwei loved to read magic books. Although she didn't have magic books as fully conceptualized and beautifully illustrated as Fang Wuwei's, she had another one…
"Do you want me to share Yuta's dark notebook with you?"
The dark notebook? What's so good about it? Isn't it just like Nibutani's dark scripture, filled with Yuta's chuunibyou dark history settings…
Settings? The dark notebook?!
Fang Wuwei instantly perked up, his eyes shining. He immediately propped himself up from the floor.
That's right! He was able to discover the Special Point because Yuta's notebook mentioned that a Special Point existed there! So, perhaps Yuta's dark notebook really did contain other things?!
Oh my god! There's hope for going to the inner world!! And maybe there will be other gains… This is the same kind of thing as the "dark scripture" that benefited him immensely!
Yuta and Nibutani saw Fang Wuwei instantly recover to full health, his face beaming with excitement. They exchanged glances, both seeing speechlessness in the other's eyes…