Don't use Type-Moon references in Oregairu!

Fujimaru Ritsuka turned and went upstairs, intending to relax a bit.

At that moment, he unexpectedly saw Abby watching a video on her phone, so he curiously went over to her.

[Shocking! Faced with naked men, this female teacher actually did this!]

...Fujimaru Ritsuka had been holding back for a long time, and all she wanted to do was shout "Awesome!"

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178. What? Everyone next door is a Superman trainee?

It wasn't the video title, which had a distinctly UC-esque feel, that shocked me. After all, Fujimaru Ritsuka was a seasoned veteran and had long been accustomed to such ridiculous clickbait titles.

...He was simply shocked that Abigail would see such an authentic and distinctive feature on YouTube's homepage.

"Captain, you're here too! Look, look! Hiratsuka Shizuka looks especially cool in the edited photos."

To be honest, that's true.

The video features a catchy soundtrack throughout, perfectly complementing Hiratsuka Shizuka's swift and powerful movements through hordes of zombies, delivering devastating headshots and visceral punches that are truly exhilarating.

After watching nearly five minutes of the brilliant montage with Abigail, they reluctantly jumped to the comments section.

As expected, the comments section initially had a bunch of uninformed bystanders. For example:

"Wow, this is amazing! Is it a trailer for an upcoming movie this year?"

"I feel like the special effects are a bit too much; it's more like a trailer for a game."

Only later did the parties involved or those with inside information begin to boast about the truth:

"Da Xiong's information is really outdated~ This is a real shot, a true story."

"You can check out the full version on this YouTuber. It's more like you haven't even paid attention to this. Don't you guys usually use Instagram or Twitter?"

Those who were skeptical went to do their own research and then exclaimed in disbelief.

Following the timeline of the comments, it's clear that within just two days, everyone gradually began to realize the truth of the matter. Aside from a small number of stubborn individuals, most understood the world's strange changes.

In a sense, the most bizarre thing is that every country has a large number of conspiracy theorists, and what happened in Chiba City was exactly what the authorities had concealed, which made most people quickly accept this fact.

Paranormal events that were previously deleted from online posts are now less restricted in their spread online.

Fujimaru Ritsuka took out her phone and quickly searched for a bunch of related posts.

Posts about an eight-foot-tall woman who specializes in crushing and abducting children, a mysterious ghost that disappears and takes away anyone who sees her, and a bound spirit that wanders through abandoned school campuses have sprung up on the internet like mushrooms after rain.

Similar to Japan, other countries also have similar situations, but Fujimaru Ritsuka, on a whim, searched the Chinese internet and discovered an even stranger phenomenon.

[Shocking! What happened yesterday when I beat someone to a pulp with the new version of radio calisthenics after getting on bus number 44?]

Netizens are posting silly stuff again. Let me see what these adorable silly monsters are up to this time.

Fujimaru Ritsuka clicked in with great interest, then exited in a daze.

The poster was indeed using clickbait titles. The radio calisthenics only allowed him, a high school student, to hold off the other side for a while before he was rescued by the officials there.

But... are radio calisthenics really effective?

He searched extensively, refusing to believe it, and found that the situation was completely different from the widespread suffering in other countries.

While there were posts asking for help after encountering paranormal events, a significant portion of them boasted about how they escaped such misfortunes by diligently studying the official exercise routines issued in recent years.

What's going on here?

Abigail noticed Fujimaru Ritsuka's confusion and curiously leaned closer: "Captain, Captain, what are you looking at? Why do you look so strange? Hmm, those are unfamiliar characters. Can you tell me? I'm really curious."

No one can resist a little girl's sweet talk! Nobody!

Fujimaru Ritsuka had no choice but to lift Abigail onto her lap and open her phone to translate what he was seeing word by word, which drew a lot of screams.

Exhausted, Yang Nai carried a pile of documents into the living room, intending to find Fujimaru Ritsuka.

In the past few days, Chaldea's forces have been working with other organizations to hunt down and eliminate any remaining survivors in Chiba City, so all the non-combat matters have piled up on Haruno's shoulders.

The details of the incident needed to be compiled for the authorities and the Special Affairs Bureau, the distribution of spoils needed to be coordinated with other organizations and the private individuals who came to help, and there also needed to be arrangements to track down possible enemy strongholds in Chiba City, as well as deal with and appease the cooperating organizations. It was incredibly busy.

After working for quite some time, she finally finished most of the work and now she only needs to give some documents that require a signature or that she is unsure about to give to Fujimaru Ritsuka so she can take a break.

When she entered the living room, she saw Abigail sitting in Fujimaru Ritsuka's lap with her back to her, uttering strange lines such as "Impossible! You can defeat such a big monster?" "Wow, that's amazing!" "The captain is so great!" and moving around from time to time.

She quickly circled around to the sofa, startling the two people, one big and one small, who were huddled together looking at their phones: "Hey? Yang Nai-jie, you're here."

"Ah, I'm here." Yukinoshita Haruno glanced at the two of them discreetly.

Although Abby was wearing a dress today, it revealed her harem pants, indicating that the kind of thing she imagined was simply impossible.

(Forgive me, Abby. Your Haruno-nee has become a filthy adult, always thinking about all sorts of nonsense. And Fujimaru couldn't possibly be that kind of beast. It must be that she's been working overtime lately and it's damaged her brain. Ah, wake up!)

"Hey? Yang Nai-jie, why is your face so red?"

"Because you're full of energy, Abby." Fujimaru Ritsuka hugged the soft little thing and looked at Haruno with a mischievous smile. "Haruno-neechan works hard and needs to use her brain a lot, so the blood often flows to her."

"I see." Abby, whose biology level had reached the junior high school level, nodded in agreement.

But from this guy's wicked smile, Yang Nai realized that Fujimaru Ritsuka had guessed a little bit of what she had been thinking.

But the company was definitely not going to die. Haruno, who shared the same shamelessness as Fujimaru Ritsuka, nodded nonchalantly: "That's right. Speaking of which, what were you guys looking at so intently just now, making all those noises?" And it was especially easy for people to misunderstand.

“It’s this, Yang Nai-neechan.” Abi held up her phone with both hands and showed her the Chinese page. “The leader just translated some network information from the neighboring country for me. They’re amazing! They were able to defeat such a huge monster with almost no civilian casualties. The leader is also great! She can even learn such a difficult language.”

"Let me see?" Yang Nai put the documents in his hand on the table, bent down and took the phone.

"As expected, they succeeded." Yang Nai's tone was complex, a mixture of joy, excitement, regret, and pity.

As a top student and once the face of the Yukinoshita family, she diligently taught herself Chinese after learning certain secrets, so she could naturally understand all the relevant content on the phone.

Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Yukinoshita Haruno, who was staring blankly at her phone, with surprise. She stroked the now quiet Abby in her arms and waited quietly for Yukinoshita Haruno to come to her senses.

It's like recalling a distant and beautiful dream, but you can't have anything except for the tears that flow unconsciously.

After standing there for a while, Yang Nai finally handed the phone back to Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"What's wrong, Yang Nai? I sense that you're feeling down."

Yang avoided answering and instead brought up another matter: "Fujimaru, you've only had extraordinary powers for less than three months, right?"

"Indeed, I transferred to Zongwu High School in April and was forced to get involved in all sorts of things, big and small. It's not even July yet. I'm really grateful for your help, sister."

Haruno teased Fujimaru Ritsuka's feignedly mournful tone: "Stop it. You're saying nothing bad will happen if Yukino and Hachiman don't come looking for you. With your trouble-making personality, how could you possibly avoid running into trouble?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka felt utterly slandered. "I, Fujimaru, have always been kind to everyone, how could I possibly be dragged into all sorts of trouble?"

His words really amused Abi and Yangnai.

"Do you know that in the eyes of other organizations, you have a jinx nickname?" Yang Nai clutched her stomach and fell over laughing on the sofa.

Abi lay on Yangna's stomach, laughing heartily: "Captain, whether it was before or now, it's either you who goes looking for trouble, or trouble comes looking for you."

"Isn't it always those treacherous subjects who want to harm me?"

"Ha ha ha ha..."

Once they had both finished laughing, Yang Nai's faint sadness from before had completely disappeared.

She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and straightened up: "Oh, Fujimaru, you really know how to tell corny jokes. I'll find a chance to hear them a few more times later."

You two have such low standards for humor!

Yang sat up, patting her chest, and said, "Fujimaru, you should know. I used to desperately, desperately want to gain supernatural abilities. Just because I wanted to live a good life."

"Actually... the Innovation Association had this idea from the beginning—to enable ordinary people to gain extraordinary abilities, and even those who are not qualified to adapt to material fusion should be brought up, so that everyone can advance and retreat together."

"Huh? So the Reform Society is an organization with such lofty goals? I feel like it's just..."

"It's like a mutual aid platform for middle-aged and elderly people? That's what it is now." Yang Nai began to tell the story in detail.

Although in the publicly available records, most of the extraordinary materials, strange phenomena, and demonic caves are products that have only slowly appeared in this world two to three years ago.

But no one knows the specifics.

All the extraordinary individuals knew was that not long after the large-scale mutations began, several extraordinary individuals stepped forward.

They did not initially represent any official background, yet they possessed terrifying power just as dawn was breaking.

The initial history has been sealed away layer by layer, and even Yang Nai, who has tried every means to investigate, cannot know how many of these initiators there were or who their true identities were. But by chance, she learned that the leader seemed to be from the Celestial Empire and was suspected to be an Awakened One.

From the outset, their goal was to gather pioneers with extraordinary abilities, to act as forerunners of this era, and to ignite a new flame for others amidst the coming changes.

"The goal of the Reformation Society was to enable all of humanity to keep pace with the changing times. Unfortunately, it failed."

Yang Nai recounted the history she had investigated, and although she was talking about things that happened two or three years ago, it sounded like she was reminiscing about people from the past.

"And then they failed, right?" Otherwise, you wouldn't use that tone.

“That’s right. Do you remember? The closer you get to the supernatural, the easier it is to get caught up in it.” Yang Nai gave him a deep look. “Just like you. After getting involved in the case of the Bamamon Cult at the beginning, you got deeper and deeper into it. And even now, you all seem to be dealing with the Seven Deadly Sins, who have mastered the supernatural power.”

Fujimaru Ritsuka pondered, "Indeed, although we've dealt with quite a few other small fry on a regular basis, to be honest, all the major incidents are directly or indirectly related to them, except for the Spirit Tomb incident, right?"

"That's exactly why the Reform Committee suffered back then." Yang Nai carefully opened a secret document on his phone, the location of which was unknown, and let them browse it.

In the history of this world, a terrible natural disaster occurred more than two years ago, causing a massive tsunami that even submerged a small island in the ocean.

However, according to Yang Nai's records, that was not a coincidence.

In the early days of the Reform Society, without having reached a complete consensus with the authorities, they would certainly not rashly reveal the truth about the supernatural, otherwise it would only cause social unrest.

So, through internal decision-making, they invited many extraordinary individuals and ordinary people who knew about the situation to participate in a small-scale pilot program.

The so-called six degrees of separation theory suggests that even a poor child in a small African country can still connect with the Lion King in America by going through just six intermediaries—conversely, it means that as long as one is willing to expand, a small number of people can use communication networks to include a large number of strangers in their information transmission scope.

Therefore, their experimental island welcomed a group of residents who firmly believed in the Reform Society's ideals.

At this time, they discovered what strange causal relationships were.

Once you know this, it's easy to fall into a deep trap, and the more people fall, the greater the karmic entanglement becomes.

The so-called natural disaster that affected the world was nothing more than a duel between a few members of the Reform Society and a certain strange entity.

In the end, the idea of ​​making everyone extraordinary failed. Apart from the leader, most of the others chose to cooperate with the government or other people, split off and jointly create small but excellent organizations. The Reform Society changed from a large organization into a platform between organizations.

Which one returned to his hometown in the end, and now it seems that he may have forged his own path?

Fujimaru Ritsuka, wearing a mask of pain, looked left and right, then turned to Haruno thoughtfully: "Haruno-nee, you haven't been fooled, have you? Lately, hasn't someone come up to you claiming to be from a long-hidden savior organization, seeking revenge for their founding of the Reform Society, and now they're taking everything back? As long as you're willing to pay 648... Ouch!"