Chapter 256: New Meaning
Hearing this, Ayumi became serious.
She suddenly understood why Amamiya-sensei always seemed abnormal.
So... was it something like this that caused his mental problems?
"What do I do then?" asked Ayumi, also anxious.
"Call Yuka and the others quickly, they should be working with Ren," Sakura hurried to say. "Don't let Ren find out about this news on the internet."
"Alright, I'll call now."
Ayumi nodded quickly.
Then she hung up the phone and called Yuka directly.
In Ren's apartment.
"Da Lang Da Lang Da Lang Da Lang~!".
Yuka's cell phone suddenly rang, interrupting Ren, who was drawing the manuscript and the storyboard.
"I'm sorry... Sensei," said Yuka with some embarrassment.
"It's okay, answer it."
Ren, not getting angry at all, replied with a smile.
"Okay, sensei."
Yuka looked at the caller ID on the phone screen and said in surprise, "It's Editor Ayumi."
It's not that Ayumi had called her before, but it's a bit strange for her to call now.
"Hello, is this Editor Ayumi?" Yuka answered and asked with curiosity.
"It's me, Yuka."
Ayumi glanced at the news circulating on the main forums and official websites on the computer screen and asked with concern, "Is Ren with you?".
"Ah, I'm here with the sensei, who is working on a draft."
Yuka suddenly felt a little strange. It seemed she was looking for Ren, but she called her? Calling Ren wasn't difficult. Could it be that the sensei's phone was accidentally silenced?
Hearing that, apparently Ayumi was looking for Ren, Hiroki, Akutami Yuta, and Ren himself looked at Yuka with curiosity.
"Editor Ayumi, are you looking for the sensei?" asked Yuka immediately.
"No."
Ayumi hurried to say, "Yuka... Can you ask Hiroki and Yuta to go out with you to answer the phone? Don't let Sensei Ren follow you."
"Huh?" asked Yuka, feeling even stranger. She asked the three of them to go out to answer the phone, and specifically warned them not to let Ren follow her.
"There's something very important."
Ayumi said seriously on the other end of the phone, "You must do as I say."
Yuka took a deep breath, looked at Ren, who was watching her with curiosity, and then said, "Alright...".
She covered the phone and said to Ren, "Sensei... Editor Ayumi asked me to go out with Hiroki, Yuta, and the others to take a call."
"Well... Does it have something to do with you three?" asked Ren with curiosity. Could it be Ayumi who wanted them to debut now?
But since Ayumi said so... Ren had no reason not to let them go.
"Then you guys go."
Ren waved his hand and said.
"Thank you, sensei."
Yuka quickly greeted Hiroki and Akutami Yuta and said, "Hiroki, Yuta, come out with me."
Hiroki and Akutami Yuta hesitated for a moment, but they followed Yuka.
Upon going out into the hallway, Ayumi asked them on the phone to pay attention to whether Ren was following them.
After getting an affirmative answer, she asked Yuka to activate the speakerphone and continued, "Actually, this time I asked you to keep a close watch on Sensei Ren."
"Have you seen the news on the internet?".
After the three of them clearly expressed their ignorance, Ayumi immediately told them the news on the internet and Ren's situation.
After hearing Ren's tragic past, Yuka and the other two began to feel sorry for him.
"...So try to prevent Amamiya-sensei from touching network devices. If you can't stop him, then prevent him from browsing forums, official websites, B Station, and Twitter."
Ayumi said, "I'm counting on all of you! If Amamiya-sensei remembers the past, his illness could relapse."
"We understand."
Hearing this, Yuka expressed her full understanding, and even her heart, like the protagonist of the manga, was burning with a fiery flame. She said, "We will definitely protect the sensei!".
Hiroki also suffered his second illness. He clenched his fists and said, "Don't worry, we will protect the sensei!".
Akutami Yuta also looked determined and said, "We will protect the sensei. After all...".
"We are the sensei's assistants."
After receiving the affirmative response from the three, Ayumi was relieved and said, "Then I'm counting on all of you! Thank you very much!".
Yuka also hung up the phone and planned to return to the apartment with Hiroki and Akutami Yuta to strictly protect Ren.
However, when Yuka and the others returned to the apartment with great ambitions, it was...
Ren had no drawings, but was browsing the new version of the tablet... Forum? Huh? Forum?
"Sensei... you..." asked Yuka and the other two, stunned, with hesitation.
"Ah, I suddenly wanted to wait for you to come back before working, so I'll fish for a while."
Ren looked at them and immediately gave a thumbs up, showing his big white teeth, and said.
They panicked for a moment, but Akutami Yuta, who calmed down first, stared at Yuka and Hiroki.
Yuka and Hiroki seemed to catch what Akutami Yuta meant in his eyes, "Maybe Sensei Ren hasn't seen the news on the internet, so let him put down the tablet."
"Hehehe..." said Hiroki hastily with an awkward smile. "Then, sensei, let's get to work, work is more important, work is more important."
He also slowly approached Ren, intending to see what Ren was observing on the tablet.
But upon seeing the content, Hiroki's awkward smile immediately stiffened.
Then, his smile became uglier than crying.
Yuka and Akutami Yuta saw that smile, even uglier than crying, and immediately felt a bad premonition.
Ren was stunned for a moment, but uttered an inexplicable word, "Oh, so the original body was so miserable?".
A series of question marks suddenly arose in the minds of the three.
Half an hour later, Sakura and Ayumi finally took a taxi to the ground floor of Ren's apartment. Sakura, in particular, was very worried that Ren would feel really... stimulated by the news on the internet.
"Sakura... Don't worry, I've asked Yuka and the others to keep a close watch on Sensei Ren."
Ayumi immediately comforted Sakura upon seeing him.
"Well, that's good..." said Sakura, relieved.
As long as we can watch Ren for now and prevent him from getting excited, that's enough.
Next... In fact, she couldn't think of any good way to deal with it.
How long could they hide it from Ren? But at that moment, the sound of a vehicle braking at high speed came from behind Sakura.
She turned and saw that it was Hiroki Sato and Kaito, father and son.
They were also driving directly from the other side of Tokyo and were very nervous about Ren's current situation.
"Sakura (sister-in-law)."
Hiroki Sato and Kaito saw Sakura and shouted directly.
Sakura responded quickly. Now she was also worried about Ren and completely ignored Kaito's "sister-in-law."
"Ayumi notified Ren's assistant and tried to keep him away from the internet."
Sakura said, "But in the current situation, the truth can't be hidden. What should we do?".
But she quickly replied, "Forget it, why don't we go up to see Ren first?".
"Alright."
Obviously, Hiroki Sato and Kaito had no other idea, so they nodded.
The four of them immediately took an elevator up and arrived together at Ren's apartment. But when they entered and saw Ren...
Sakura and Ayumi noticed that the faces of Yuka, Hiroki, and Akutami Yuta were uglier than crying.
A bad premonition overcame them.
Then they saw Ren looking at them and saying, "Sakura, Ayumi, and Uncle Kaito, you're here...".
"Don't worry about me."
Then he scratched his head and said, "Well... I don't feel anything about the past."
Sakura, Ayumi, Hiroki Sato, and Kaito heard his words, shocked and terrified.
Did Ren... really know about the past? Yuka and the other two looked at them with tears in their eyes, saying that they were really helpless.
Who would have thought that when they went out to answer Ayumi's call, Ren would go online to find out everything clearly?
However... After learning all this, Ren acted unusually calm.
It was as if these things... really had nothing to do with him, and it wasn't something that had happened to him in the past, but rather something that happened to an unrelated passerby.
Ren said... Really!
This is the past of the original body, not his past.
Although he occupied the original body's body, he really didn't feel anything.
At most, he would express compassion and pity for the original body that was no longer with him.
But this has nothing to do with Ren himself! "Oh, don't worry."
Ren continued to extend his iconic thumbs up and said with a smile, "The past is over, and now I have everything new that I cherish."
He observed Sakura, Ayumi, Hiroki Sato, Kaito, Yuka, Hiroki, and Akutami Yuta, as well as the traces he left in this world in the apartment: the single volumes of Edgerunners, Fire Punch, and Chainsaw Man.
"So I will survive," he said with a smile.
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