Restricted Fantasy Invasion

Chapter 28

"President, guess what good news I have?" On Wednesday at noon, in the student council office, Yaqiao Mu suddenly pushed open the door, making Yan Huan, who was sitting on the "student council president" throne, look up.

There was only Yan Huan in the office; today, Sakuramiya Hitomi had gone home for lunch, apparently because she saw through the security footage on her phone that the little cat at home called "Meiyue" wasn't acting right.

Sakuramiya Hitomi's house wasn't far from the school, either.

At this moment, Yan Huan was organizing materials to set up the study groups required by the principal.

Of course, he was mainly thinking about how to properly educate those two troublemakers with modifiers.

In the end, there was no progress at all. Bai Yi, that one, never came to school in a million years-who knows if she's using the modifier to do bad things outside school.

As for Spencer, Yan Huan had originally planned to wait for her to make some kind of request, then handle it as it came.

But two days passed, and there wasn't even a single hair of news.

Judging by her IQ of 66 points, she might have already forgotten all about it.

So, Yan Huan decided to take the initiative, especially since that one was forcibly added to the study group.

He hadn't even sent her an email yet when his train of thought was interrupted by Yaqiao Mu's sudden intrusion.

Glancing up at Yaqiao Mu, he saw the excitement on his face that he couldn't suppress, yet he insisted on speaking mysteriously, making you guess.

Following his lead, Yan Huan lazily guessed a reasonable possibility,

"Zhou Bin seems to have converted to the Three Teachings and become a devout and friendly half-blood believer?"

"Uh, that does count as good news, but that's not it. President, guess again!"

Yan Huan sighed speechlessly, then continued,

"Either you got a legendary gacha pull, or the figure you pre-ordered has finally shipped?"

But Yaqiao Mu shook his head, adjusted his glasses, and with a "pa" slapped two tickets in front of Yan Huan.

Looking down, Yan Huan saw written on them:

Linmen Jinghe Game Expo-Admission Ticket Bundle.

After reading the words, Yan Huan raised an eyebrow,

"So?"

"So what?! President, do you even know how big this event is? Look, all the famous game companies in the world are coming! And so many famous guests! It took a lot of effort for me to get these two tickets!"

"I think you're just going for Si Tiao Ai."

Yan Huan glanced at the list of guests on the back of the ticket and, sure enough, found a very conspicuous name in the "2D Zone."

So, Yan Huan said rather speechlessly.

Si Tiao Ai, the voice actress Yaqiao Mu worshipped as a goddess, who voiced the loli heroine in the 18+ galgame "Meeting a Loli After Work at 8:30."

This was one of her earlier works, from the underground scene, and had a lot of restricted content.

But now, Si Tiao Ai had already made it big and was very famous in the voice acting industry.

Basically, in the anime watched in Linmen, you could often hear her iconic, youthful loli voice.

"Am I that kind of person, President?"

Yaqiao Mu looked deadly serious, but Yan Huan didn't know what to say.

"Hehe."

Yaqiao Mu once pulled off a legendary feat.

Last semester, when the school organized a class trip, this guy set Si Tiao Ai's voice as his phone alarm and forgot to change it.

So, when he woke up the next morning, that tsundere loli voice scolded all the boys in Class B.

As he groggily got up to turn off the alarm, he accidentally pushed his phone into the gap in the bed, and couldn't get it out for ages, so the ringtone kept playing right into the galgame's exciting part.

That's how Yaqiao Mu gave the B class boys, who woke up one after another, a taste of true otaku shock.

From then on, he became famous overnight.

No wonder Pu Shuwen and the others in Class C could precisely target Yaqiao Mu's weakness, because he was already notorious.

"If you want to go, just go. Why do you need two tickets and drag me along?"

"Exactly."

Yaqiao Mu nodded honestly and said,

"I bought them from a scalper, they only sold them as a pair. All the other channels were sold out, so I had no choice but to buy both. Anyway, there's an extra ticket, so President, why not come with me."

"I'll think about it."

Although he said that, in reality Yan Huan had little desire to go.

He was already busy enough-dealing with the modifier and everything else had him run ragged. Spending the weekend getting squeezed at such a crowded event was way less appealing than just sleeping at home.

"More importantly, have you made any progress getting in touch with Bai Yi from your class about joining the study group? The student council's emails to her are never answered."

Yaqiao Mu and Bai Yi were in the same class, but he rarely saw Bai Yi come to school either.

At the mention of this, Yaqiao Mu clapped his hands and explained the situation to Yan Huan,

"Can't get in touch at all. She basically never comes to school-not just me, even the homeroom teacher can't reach her. I think the best chance is to catch her backstage at the expo this weekend."

"Backstage at the expo?"

Hearing this, Yan Huan picked up the admission ticket Yaqiao Mu had placed on the desk again in surprise.

Scanning it, sure enough, at the end of the "VIP section" he saw Bai Yi's name.

The others appearing with her were all high-traffic, attractive influencers from home and abroad. Looks like she'd been assigned to the beauty zone too.

Did she take a sponsorship deal?

Yan Huan suddenly became interested, stroked his chin, and started thinking.

Yaqiao Mu also leaned in, as if suddenly remembering something, and said,

"Speaking of which, President, Bai Yi's mother came to school today."

"You actually recognize her mom?"

Facing Yan Huan's confusion, Yaqiao Mu spread his hands and explained,

"Everyone in our class knows her. Someone saw her picking Bai Yi up after school before-mainly because Bai Yi is so eye-catching. Bai Yi herself is pretty friendly, not at all stuck-up like a celebrity. But her mother, she seems like a pretty fierce person."

As he spoke, Yaqiao Mu shook his head and sat down on the office sofa, muttering,

"But this morning, her mother looked really anxious and flustered. No idea what happened."

Mm.

Although he couldn't figure out what was going on, the fact that Bai Yi rarely showed up at school was indisputable. Who knows how far her modifier had developed by now.

If left unchecked, would she be ridiculously overpowered the next time they met?

Thinking of this, Yan Huan reached out and grabbed the game expo ticket Yaqiao Mu handed over, saying,

"I'll go with you this weekend, then. Let's confirm the meeting time and place on plane."

Hearing this, Yaqiao Mu's eyes lit up.

He was actually socially anxious, and bringing a trusted friend along to meet his idol made him feel much more confident.

The main thing Yan Huan didn't know was whether Yaqiao Mu planned to read out that love letter he wrote to the loli heroine from the galgame in front of Si Tiao Ai.

If he did, well, it would definitely take a lot of courage.

"Alright, President. I'll contact you then, we'll-"

"Knock knock knock!"

Just as Yaqiao Mu was imagining the fun times to come this weekend, the student council office door was suddenly knocked on.

Yan Huan looked toward the door and said,

"Come in!"

The one who pushed open the door was a girl from his class who chirped like a sparrow.

"President, something's wrong. Your-your desk seems to be in trouble!"

"Something can happen to my desk? What happened, tell me."

"Aiya, I can't really explain it. Just come back to the classroom with me and you'll see."

"?"

Yan Huan and Yaqiao Mu exchanged a glance, but in the end still slowly got up...

"You mean you went to get some water, and when you came back my desk was like this?"

In Class A's classroom, the sparrow-like girl looked around nervously.

At this moment, only Yan Huan, Yaqiao Mu, and her were in the whole class.

Also, it seemed something had just happened, making her feel especially unsafe.

Yan Huan's desk was splattered with paint in several colors, and even the chair was stained with flying drops, filling the whole classroom with a pungent smell.

On the desk, written in scrawled, talisman-like writing, were the words,

"Go die!" "Disgusting!"

Words like that-personal attacks.

Yaqiao Mu looked at the paint stains on the desk and clicked his tongue in amazement at Yan Huan,

"President, who did you offend? But it shouldn't be possible at school..." "President, you-you must have offended a ghost!"

The girl behind him made Yan Huan almost lose it with her first words.

He turned to look back and saw her covering her mouth, speaking in all seriousness,

"I went to get water from the purifier outside. When I came back for my water glass, there wasn't a mark here. But not even a minute later, when I returned, it was already covered in writing-exactly like what happened to Teacher Zhou. President, you're definitely haunted by a ghost just like him!"

Yaqiao Mu stroked his chin, pondered for a second, then said,

"President, do you think this ghost could be a big-breasted beauty who needs you to purify her obsession at night so she can move on?"

Yan Huan shot a look at Yaqiao Mu beside him, with an expression that said, "You're hopeless."

Actually, even without the reminder from his classmate, just hearing her description of the phenomenon, Yan Huan could already connect it to Zhou Bin's tragedy last Friday.

The culprit could only be the person he and Yaqiao Mu were just discussing:

Bai Yi.

But the confused expression on his face was definitely not fake-he truly had no idea what he had done to offend Bai Yi.

All told, since enrolling, had he even seen her more than three times?

What did he ever do to her, to make her hate him so much?

Yan Huan was completely baffled, but just then, a crisp tapping sound came from the window beside him.

"Ding!"

Yan Huan turned his head and saw a small pebble rolling down the windowpane.

"."

"Ah! The ghost is here! This is definitely a supernatural event!"

That girl hid behind Yan Huan, shouting loudly.

Throwing pebbles at people?

How old are you, aren't you embarrassed?

Do you want to up your dosage together with Ye Shiyu?

But when he looked outside, all he saw beyond the first-floor classroom was a greenbelt blocking the road-there was absolutely no one in sight.

It really was as if some invisible ghost outside was targeting Yan Huan.

Where was Bai Yi?

He didn't see her either.

Either she was really good at hiding, or her modifier had leveled up when he wasn't looking, making his resistance less effective and unable to detect her.

It couldn't really be a supernatural event, could it?

Zhou Bin, are you there?

Can you send me the links to those things on your body? It's urgent.

"Ding!"

Several more pebbles came flying in-this time, even Yaqiao Mu couldn't stand it anymore.

He grabbed Yan Huan in a hug, looking absolutely terrified,

"President, protect me!"

Can you not hug me, Yaqiao? You're really going to make this a zero-leakage incident.

No matter what, Yan Huan activated his Perfect Expression Management skill first.

He took a deep breath, looking just as surprised by the pebbles being thrown from the empty road outside, but still forced himself to stay calm, backing up a few steps as he said,

"You guys leave the classroom first, I'll go take a look outside. Stay away from me-it feels like whatever it is, it's coming for me."

"Ding!"

As Yan Huan was speaking, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a faint, semi-transparent streak of black hair in the bushes to the right of the window.

He took a deep breath, then suddenly opened the window and looked outside.

Right under a tree, he saw a semi-transparent girl squatting there, wearing a bucket hat and sunglasses, holding a small pebble in her hand.

There were larger stones too, but they seemed too heavy for her to throw far, so she simply abandoned them.

It was Bai Yi!

Seeing Bai Yi squatting under the tree like a country girl, Yan Huan adjusted his facial expression even as he felt speechless inside.

He furrowed his brows, looking confused as he shouted to the outside,

"Don't move!!"

With that, he climbed straight over the first-floor windowsill and headed outside.

"President!"

Behind him, Yaqiao Mu instinctively wanted to follow, but his homebody body was as stiff as a rusty puppet.

Even lifting his leg was a struggle, let alone vaulting lightly over a windowsill.

So he had to give up and turned to leave through the hallway outside the classroom.

Bai Yi, gripping a pebble, was just about to throw another one when she suddenly looked up and saw Yan Huan coming out with a cold face over the windowsill.

Startled, she fell straight onto her butt, but suddenly remembered she still had the Indifference effect on her.

So she just sat there, unmoving, watching as Yan Huan chased after her and stopped not far away.

Yan Huan

Sure enough, no matter how many times I see your face, I always find it so annoying.

Bai Yi pursed her lips, her gaze at Yan Huan growing more and more furious.

Staring at Yan Huan's face, a dirty thought suddenly surged up in her mind.

It was such a dirty thought that even with her modifier activated, she felt ashamed.

She sized up Yan Huan from head to toe, not realizing that Yan Huan-pretending to look around in confusion-was also sizing her up.

Sizing up the anger on her face that even the sunglasses couldn't hide.

Yan Huan truly had no idea what he'd done to make her act like this.

Ye Shiyu, at least, could be explained-she could be analyzed. But you, Bai Yi-

Could you really be the randomly insane type?

And in the next second, the semi-transparent Bai Yi suddenly stood up with a cold face.

She pursed her lips and, bit by bit, started walking toward Yan Huan.

Yan Huan didn't know what she was going to do, but his instincts told him he'd better stay away from her right now.

But just as he was about to pretend he couldn't find anything and turn to leave, a police siren suddenly sounded from the school gate.

Yan Huan and Bai Yi both froze, turning to look toward the school entrance.

They saw a middle-aged woman, tearfully clutching her phone, getting out of a police car along with several officers.

"Officer, please help me. My child went out last night and hasn't been seen since. We checked the security footage and couldn't find her at all. I'm so worried, so worried..."

"Don't worry, ma'am, let's take it step by step."

The police?

So Bai Yi-

Ran away from home?

Yan Huan blinked, about to glance behind him for Bai Yi, only to realize she had vanished without a trace-no idea where she'd gone.

In the hallway, Yaqiao Mu, who had just dashed out, was about to turn toward the teaching building when he nearly ran straight into a girl with her head down and her chest out.

"Watch out!"

He quickly dodged aside, then tried to walk past her, only for her to step right in front of him again.

Yaqiao Mu paused, glancing at the girl in front of him, whose fair face was hidden by heavy black hair.

"Classmate, you..."

He was just about to ask when the girl seemed to summon all her courage and handed him a pure white, completely undecorated envelope.

"Um... um... Yaqiao..."

She spoke so softly, like a small animal, that Yaqiao could only look at the letter she handed him.

On it was written,

"For Xiaohuan"

"An Le"

Another love letter for the President, asking me to deliver it?

Normally, Yaqiao Mu might not have known how to reject a girl, even one who seemed more socially anxious and timid than himself.

But right now, the situation was urgent-he didn't have time to worry about that.

So he gently pushed the letter back to her and, under her anxious gaze, hurriedly ran outside.

"President, wait for me!!"

"."

An Le opened her mouth, stammered for a long time but couldn't get a word out, and could only look pitifully at the letter she hadn't managed to give away.

Was the timing wrong?

An Le felt a bit discouraged, but that discouragement was quickly overwhelmed by her desire to reunite with Xiaohuan.

In that case-

I'll just give it to him another time.

An Le mustered her courage and made up her mind in her heart.

But as she turned to head back to class, An Le suddenly saw several girls in the hallway, arms crossed, sizing her up.

At the front was her classmate Pu Shuwen, wearing a mocking smile.

(End of this chapter)