"...What the **** is going on?! I don't understand at all!"

"What's the matter? Misaka-senpai?"

The sudden complaint made Uiharu Shiri confused.

"...Mr. Yong Ye, why did you resign? Why did you go to the river to drink wine that you never drink after disappearing? Why did your attitude and atmosphere change as if you were a different person? Why in the end..."

"Ah, ah~ Misaka-senpai, why did you suddenly tell me so much, I don't understand..."

Without waiting for Misaka Mikoto to finish speaking, Uiharu Shiri, who had a bitter face, interrupted her in a low voice, making her return to reality as if she had come back to her senses.

"Anyway...I can't accept it. It's just random, suddenly appearing and suddenly disappearing...Even if the teacher meets him next time, he must punch him in the face!"

"Well~ Misaka-senpai, calm down, the teacher may have his own difficulties."

"Even so! Then why..."

In the Discipline Committee Branch, there was only one Discipline Committee member in charge of logistics, and the girl who was full of unwillingness re-discussed the unresolved matter in this room.

The conversation between the two didn't make much sense. Misaka Mikoto would not stop searching. She wanted to find Yongye, and then punch him in the face, or give him a lightning bolt to wake him up, um... This is something she secretly decided in her heart.

At the moment when the dusk became deeper, Yong Ye lost the white windbreaker and replaced it with a black one, pulling down the hood to cover his face, and when walking on the street, he also paid attention to using his ability to disable the surrounding monitoring.

Although it was a bit strange to dress like this in the summer, it didn't seem too strange compared to Index's outfit.

The reason why he stayed away from Misaka Mikoto and the others wasn't because he wanted to completely keep people away, but because he didn't like that feeling...the feeling of going back to the past.

In addition, he also knew that what those students hoped to see was not him like he is now. If those students found out that all those tenderness were lies, and all the beautiful things had already collapsed, it must be a blow, right?

In this case, in order to avoid the child's disillusionment, he naturally chose to stay away.

The original dream has long been trampled on the ground by reality, so naturally he should not be immersed in meaningless daydreams, no matter how dirty the future is, he doesn't care, it's just... He doesn't like his own affairs involving others .

After all, the living environment and the things he faces are completely different. Living in a peaceful campus, facing gentle and kind children, and standing in a world called despair, facing all kinds of monsters He is very different from a terrible enemy, whose dreams have been shattered and his life has changed beyond recognition.

In the beginning, when he lost his choice, was shrouded in darkness, and was swallowed by irresistible despair, no one came to save him... In this way, it is normal for him to change.

He didn't stop by the river, he came to the street, in the crowd of people dyed red by the setting sun, probably because he was alone, it was night, although Academy City was still brightly lit and people came and went, but But it made him feel a sense of loneliness and melancholy that he was used to and could no longer get used to.

In the endless stream of people on the road, walking silently all the time, this scene inevitably creates a sense of isolation and isolation.

However, at this time, a girl came across from the opposite side who broke the barrier and let the surrounding pedestrians disperse automatically.

The blond girl in Tokiwadai's school uniform came over as if passing by, then stopped in front of Yongye, making Yongye turn his head involuntarily. Feeling a headache.

Just like Misaka Mikoto can find Yongye through Uiharu Shiri, she regards Tokiwadai Middle School and the school garden as her own "courtyard", and in the five schools in the school garden, students are pre-set with their abilities In other words, any prestigious school with cooperation and competition has hidden her spies.

For the pre-set students, some of the key information they see will be intercepted by Shokuhou Misaki. The students she set up on the street noticed Misaka Mikoto, a key figure, and then carefully observed Yong Ye. The set student, she finally found Yong Ye.

Arriving here in a hurry, Shokuhou Cao used his ability to cut off the people on the street and expelled everyone around him.

At this time a few days ago, Yong Ye kicked her out of the dessert shop and waved goodbye with a smile on her face as usual... This routine made her so accustomed to her that she didn't notice anything at all.

And Yong Ye suddenly disappeared the next day, which made her feel shaken. At the beginning, she could barely control herself, but then it became more and more unacceptable.

Suddenly there is a guy around me who cares about me very much and has to interfere in everything. Sometimes I feel very annoying. Although he will say things like getting in the way, annoying, and don’t care about me, he is really gone. There is an empty feeling.

The previous time, because it existed for granted, was taken for granted and did not need to be taken seriously.

At night, Yong Ye should be on patrol as usual, and come to the dessert shop she often goes to, push her gluttonously as usual, and drive her away from the shop.

But these days, she went to the dessert shop as usual, but no one chased her away. At the beginning of the first day, she might feel that she was finally free, but after a second, she would feel strange, and the things she used to do no longer appear. It was the same for three days, and it became unbearable.

Finally, she let go of her restraint and let people search for Yongye's whereabouts on a large scale. This unknowing and subconscious behavior is difficult to explain. It's just that when I'm alone, I really want to see that person, and even if I'm with someone, I really want to see it. This indescribable feeling made her unbearable.

And now... it seems that I can finally break out, and I can complain about it.

The girl standing in front of Yong Ye closed her eyes first, then adjusted her emotions and opened it again, leaning down to reveal a template-like smile of a young lady.

"Guian, Teacher Yong Ye, where have you been these past few days? Can you tell me about it?"

"...So, you are mistaken."

Facing this former student who was perfect on the outside but quite childish on the inside, Yong Ye wanted to sigh as much as before, and he did walk around her with a sigh, intending to leave.

However... Before Yong Ye left here as before, after passing by and out of sight, his hand was suddenly grabbed by using super powers that could not be easily exposed.

"—What are you talking about? Teacher? Are you trying to escape?"

Shokuhou Caoqi grabbed Yongye's wrist, leaned over the hood and looked up from the bottom with a triumphant smile, and then...the smile froze.

"Hey??"

The exact same face, even she felt that it was the same scar that she made to pretend to be handsome, but for some reason, she seemed to be looking at another person.

Something I've never seen before in Yong Ye... On his unsmiling face, there seems to be a sense of nothingness like a dark flame in his eyes, but when he looks at him, he feels as if he's not looking at him, so cold that it's completely like he's looking at a stranger.

"...I said, you got the wrong person."

Even the voice was equally indifferent, neither changed nor wavered.

Truth and hypocrisy are always separated by a fine line, Shokuhou Caoqi put on a reluctant smile on his face, but opened his mouth but couldn't say it.

"Is that all you have to say, if there is nothing else, I will go first, goodbye."

The gloomy sky, the silent street with no one, Yong Ye broke free from the girl's hand without waiting for a reply, and passed by the girl, with the sound of goodbye gradually disappearing, the shadows under the street buildings slowly engulfed his figure. .

"...Unforgivable."

On a deserted street, after the footsteps disappeared, Shokuhou Caoqi felt that something broke out in his heart. If he was not careful, his mood became more and more unstable. Probably the first time.

That emotion is anger.

Now this situation, she is very familiar, familiar enough.

Shokuhou Caoqi is the "psychological mastery" of the strongest superpower in the spiritual department. In terms of people's hearts, as literally, no one can do it better than her. Judging from her experience, someone has tampered with Yongye's memory and put himself deleted from his memory.

Someone is actually playing with the memory of the person closest to her...

The excitement generated by the cherished things being trampled on and ravaged by others makes it difficult for her to control herself.

But... minutes passed by, but the blonde girl under the setting sun was always standing there. How long it lasted, even the parties themselves did not know.

The night wind was desperately cold, giving the illusion that it would pass through the body.

She was helpless.

She can't break through Yongye's solid spiritual barrier, to peep into Yongye's heart, to see what happened, and what to do. She doesn't know, and the person who tampered with Yongye's memory may be an existence stronger than herself, since that's the case... What do you do with an ordinary teacher?