I loaded the dream game

The alarm rang, and Kirisu Madoka peeked out from under the quilt in a daze. She reached out her hand and fumbled around for a few seconds before turning off the alarm.

The room returned to silence again. Under the floating light of the early morning, she buried her head in the quilt, closed her eyes again, and her breathing gradually became even and gentle.

However, just when her consciousness became hazy and she was about to be enveloped by sleepiness again, she suddenly seemed to realize that something was wrong.

Where did the alarm sound come from just now?

Kirisu Madoka looked up in confusion, and what she saw was a scene that was all too familiar to her.

"Is this... my room?"

She looked around in disbelief, seeing the manuscripts and 907 bags of garbage scattered all over the floor, the clothes and socks thrown randomly on the messy bed, and the mess of books and test papers on the desk. She was finally sure that this was indeed her room.

"Am I... back?"

She blinked blankly, then seemed to think of something, took out her cell phone and took a look, and found that compared with the day she remembered, the time was only one day different.

But she clearly remembered that she spent such a long time in that world.

Could it be that all this was just a dream?

Kirisu Madoka pursed her lips. Perhaps because she had received too much information at once, she felt a little dizzy.

She shook her head and put these things aside for the time being.

However, just as she was about to lift the quilt and sit up from the bed, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something on her chest that seemed familiar to her but shouldn't be there.

A string of light blue crystal pendants.

"This is made purely for you, Mr. Madoka. It is a miracle created just for you. Only by your side can it exert its full power."

The boy's words once again echoed in Kirisu Madoka's ears, making her realize that what she had experienced was probably not just a dream.

“Ring ring ring—!”

Just as she was daydreaming, the noisy ringtone rang again, interrupting her thoughts and making her face change.

"Oh no, I'm going to be late!"

She hurriedly tried to get out of bed, but the next moment, accompanied by a feeling of dizziness and weakness, her vision gradually became blurred, the world in front of her eyes spun, and she slowly fell to the side.

——Ale?

……

"Good morning, Xiazhi."

The girl at the back desk greeted the girl at the front desk who had just arrived in the classroom and was sitting down.

"Long time no see, Kato-san." Xia Zhi yawned and looked like he had not slept well.

In fact, it was more than just that he didn't sleep well. He could be said to have hardly slept at all last night.

I don’t know if it’s because it was the first time they met, but it felt new and interesting. Ai Lu Ke, who usually doesn’t talk much, talked to him on the phone all night last night.

If Xia Zhi hadn't shared the Star God's physique, he would probably have come to school with dark circles under his eyes today.

"Long time no see?" Kato Hui tilted her head in confusion: "Didn't we just meet yesterday?"

"Isn't there a saying that goes, 'One day without seeing you feels like three years' time away'?" Xia Zhi thought for a moment and replied, "That's probably how it feels."

"Is this sentence not appropriate for me?" Kato Megumi showed a slightly troubled expression on her face.

"Just think of it as an ordinary metaphor." Xia Zhi waved his hand and said.

Isn't this sentence originally a metaphor? Kato Megumi wondered.

Soon, the class bell rang, interrupting their conversation.

"If I remember correctly, the first class today should be world history, right?"

It's not clear about other classes, but the world history teacher in their class is undoubtedly their homeroom teacher, Kirisu Mafuyu.

Xia Zhi thought so as he sat back in his seat.

However, to his surprise, the person who walked in with the bell was not Kirisu Madoka, but another unknown teacher. Xia Zhi tried to recall and remembered that this teacher seemed to have taught mathematics before.

"Did I remember the date wrong?"

After thinking for a while, Xia Zhi turned to the girl behind him and asked, "Kato-san, can I ask you something?"

"Of course you can, but..." Kato Hui paused and kindly reminded: "It's better to listen carefully in class."

"Can you tell me what day it is today?" Xia Zhi ignored the second half of the girl's sentence and continued asking.

"..."

Kato Hui was silent for a moment, then sighed and said, "Xia Zhi asked the same question last week."

And if you calculate the time, it’s exactly one week.

"Sure enough, Xia Zhi is teasing me, right?"

Chapter 76 New Side Quest

Later, Xiazhi found out that Teacher Manfuyu had taken a leave of absence today because he was not feeling well.

While he was worried, he also felt a little confused.

Last time, Yukinoshita Yukino was fine after coming back from the dream, so why did something go wrong with teacher Mafuyu?

Is there any other reason, or does it actually depend on one's physical condition?

"Let's go visit him after school."

Xia Zhi thought to himself.

Having said that, if the act of a teacher visiting a student's home to understand the student's situation is called a home visit, then what should we call the act of a student taking the initiative to visit the teacher's home?

Surrender?

"This classmate." The voice coming from behind brought Xia Zhi's attention back from his wandering thoughts. He turned around and saw a strange boy.

"Are you interested in joining the kendo club?" the boy asked enthusiastically.

Club recruiting?

Xia Zhi estimated in his mind and it seemed that the time had indeed come.

but……

"Do I really look like a freshman?" Xia Zhi complained.

"Eh?" The boy then noticed the red tie on Xia Zhi's chest, which represented the second grade, and an embarrassed expression appeared on his face:

"Sorry, sorry. I thought anyone still wandering around the school at this hour must be a freshman looking for a club to join."

Summer Solstice: ?

What is this talking about? Can't old students just hang out?

I feel so angry and cold. When will the old man be able to stand up?

"No, I wasn't wandering around either?" Xia Zhi suddenly reacted.

"But it doesn't matter. We welcome senior students as well." The boy seemed not to have heard Xia Zhi's complaints, and continued with a smile: "If this student is interested, he is also welcome to visit our Kendo Club."

"Sorry, I'm not interested in kendo." Xia Zhi waved his hand and walked past him.

"Don't say that." The boy caught up with him and said, "If you don't try it, how will you know if you are interested in it? Maybe after trying it, you will find that you are very talented in this area."

Seeing how persistent he was, Xia Zhi suspected that he was about to fail to meet his KPI for recruiting new members, so he planned to just pull someone in to make up the number.

After thinking for a while, Xia Zhi said to him seriously, "To be honest, I have mastered the swordsmanship. I have reached the end of the sword path and have no desires."

"..."

The boy shut his mouth.

After all, although he is recruiting new members, his target is still normal people, not those with chuunibyou.

"Sorry to bother you." The boy apologized and turned away.

Looking at his departing back, Xia Zhi felt a little strange.

Unlike other small clubs, the Kendo Club is at least a relatively popular club. Logically, it shouldn't have any pressure to recruit new members. I have never heard of anyone in the Kendo Club actively recruiting new members before.

But forget it, anyway, it has nothing to do with me...

[You have triggered a new side quest: Investigate and resolve the cause of the Kendo Club's decline]

[Task Reward: 180 Dream Points]

Looking at the two lines of subtitles that suddenly appeared in front of him, two words caught Xia Zhi's attention:

"decline?"

Is the Kendo Club going to be in trouble?

It is a little hard to imagine that such a popular club would actually have a day when it can be described as "declining". After all, a traditional sports club like this should be long-lasting as long as the president does not do anything stupid.

Or is there some other reason?

Xia Zhi's attention shifted to the rewards for the mission ahead.

180 dream points, if doubled, would be equivalent to the points he got from killing a copper dragon.

Although it is still unclear what criteria the Dream Game uses to determine the amount of reward for a side quest, it can be more or less seen from the side that this quest is not that simple.

· ········Request flowers··· ·

and so……

"Let's talk about it later."

Xia Zhi thought to himself, retracted his gaze, and started walking towards the club building again.

He doesn't have much time and he still has a lot to do.

Therefore, before he has time, everyone in the Kendo Club please hold on and work hard to keep the Kendo Club alive.

……

A few minutes later, in front of a classroom in the club building.

Xia Zhi reached out and gently knocked on the door of the service department's classroom.

......... 0 .......

"Yukinoshita-san?"

After waiting for a while, the familiar cold voice of the girl did not come from inside.

"Not in there?"

Xia Zhi opened the door and looked inside. As expected, the service department's activity room was empty. The beautiful figure was not sitting on the chair by the window waiting for his arrival as usual. No one knew where she had gone.

Since my tutor, Yukinoshita-san, is not here, I might as well just skip today's make-up class.

Just as Xia Zhi was thinking this and was about to leave, he turned around and met a pair of clear ice-blue eyes.

"Why are you standing at the door instead of going in?" Yukinoshita looked at him puzzledly and asked.

"..." Xia Zhi was silent for a moment, then answered, "To be honest, I'm actually thinking about which foot I should use to step in first."

"What do you think, Yukinoshita-san?"

"I don't have any objection. If you like, Xia Zhi, you can walk in upside down." As the head of the Service Club, Yukinoshita gave the boy this privilege and walked past him into the classroom.

Summer Solstice: "..."

He didn't know whether he should be touched by this privilege from the girl.

Chapter 77: An Unforgettable Existence

In the activity classroom of the Service Club, a girl named Yukinoshita Yukino sat under the window, concentrating on reviewing the test paper on the table in the thick afternoon light. Her ice-blue eyes seemed to be out of focus, wandering between the lines.

In the sunlight, the girl's exposed neck was cast in a dark shadow, and her black hair naturally fell on her cheeks, fluttering gently in the breeze.

The shadows of the trees outside the window swayed slightly, and the laughter and playing of students could be faintly heard outside, but the activity room seemed exceptionally quiet, and the only sound could be heard was the rustling of the girl's slender fingers slowly brushing across the white pages of the examination papers.