I really don't want to have a girlfriend.

After a moment, he seemed to have changed his opinion of her slightly. He chuckled and quickly composed himself, then began to think intently.

A short while later, Tenkuji Yu's eyes suddenly lit up, and she tentatively asked the black-haired girl who was shaking her long, white legs:

Do you still remember Yukino Yukinoshita? Or rather, Yukino Yukinoshita?

"...Under the snow?"

Snapping out of her thoughts, Kasumigaoka Utaha tilted her head and asked, somewhat puzzled, "You mean that aloof, arrogant little sister and that scheming, flirtatious older sister, the Yukinoshita sisters?"

"Huh? What kind of cringeworthy comment is this..." Before she could pay attention to anything else, Yuu Tenkuji couldn't help but frown, a strong feeling of displeasure welling up inside her, and she really wanted to open her mouth and retort fiercely.

"Don't glare at me. I just overheard this. It's just comments from women who are jealous of how popular they are with boys—from students to teachers. Feel free to drag all those gossipy women out and teach them a lesson."

Kasumigaoka Utaha shrugged, indicating that she was also a victim and there was no need to talk bad about them behind their backs: "What's wrong with them now? Are they the masterminds behind this, or did they put some kind of curse on you? You can prove it to me by showing me the heart-shaped markings on your body?"

He said, "No, they disappeared."

"???"

Under Kasumigaoka Utaha's incredulous gaze, Tenkuji Yu took out his phone and showed her the list of faculty and staff and the roster of second-year students that he had casually photographed after researching, while explaining:

"Unlike your memory, there are no teachers or students with the surname Yukinoshita at Toyonosaki Academy, and the current head of the Yukinoshita family has no children. This should be substantial enough evidence, right?"

"If you don't believe these lists, you can ask any students or teachers you know. The answer will be the same: I don't know them, there is no such person."

"A school nurse and a beautiful high school girl simply vanished from the world without leaving any trace of their existence... That's why I'm in such a hurry to get information from you."

"Because the next one to disappear could very well be you."

The words fell softly to the ground. Outside the window, the warm sun was surrounded by dark clouds, and the room suddenly darkened. The cold air aggressively climbed onto the skin.

Their breathing was barely audible, as if an invisible pressure was choking them, making it difficult for them to breathe.

Yuu Tenkuji closed his eyes to calm himself down. As the girl rapidly scanned the pictures on her phone, he asked with some curiosity, "Speaking of which, I didn't expect you to accept my explanation so quickly... You demanded that I provide evidence to prove it without saying a word, was it to force yourself to believe reality?"

He guessed, "Could it be that you've recently encountered something strange that's hard to explain?"

That's why the acceptance rate was unexpectedly high.

Before Kasumigaoka Utaha could answer, Tenkuji Yuu checked off his previous doubts and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

—This Kasumigaoka Utaha in front of me is clearly the real deal.

My guess was right. The fact that she still remembers the Yukinoshita sisters even now is either related to the special nature of this world or to me!

Once I realized things were going wrong, rushing over to confront her face-to-face was definitely the right choice.

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Kasumigaoka Utaha silently returned the phone to him.

She lowered her head thoughtfully, her cascading black hair casting shadows on her face. Her full yet delicate body swayed, as if struck by a sudden and cruel reality, making her appear somewhat unsteady.

Before Tenkuji Yu could even ask what was going on, the girl grabbed her forehead with a claw, her slender, white fingers pressing down on her head like iron clamps. Her breathing became heavy, and she let out a low growl that was unlike any girl's.

"Stop joking..."

Tenkuji Yu was taken aback.

"I still have their memories in my head, I saw her in the infirmary just yesterday... Did she really just disappear? Is it that simple? Do they really think we're NPCs that can be deleted so easily!?"

Her voice trembled, and her cold laugh was full of self-mockery: "Heh, that's true... If this world was created, let alone treating humans as data that can be added or deleted at will, even if Mount Fuji erupted and wiped out 70% of Japan's population, it would be something that the mastermind behind the scenes could do with a flick of their finger, right?"

As Kasumigaoka Utaha continued her somber, muttering negative thoughts, Tenkuji Yu remained silent for a few seconds, waiting for her emotions to calm down before finally speaking:

"Aren't you going to call someone to confirm?"

"No, unless you call the school's private jet. But I'm too lazy to look for a phone."

The implication is that she has no contact information for any of her classmates or teachers—not counting someone who is still on her blacklist.

Kasumigaoka Utaha answered calmly, wiped her face, and looked up at him expressionlessly. Her eyes were dark and calm, yet seemed to burn with some kind of cold fire.

No matter how intense the emotional turmoil in her heart was, she would not show any weakness or waver in front of a man she did not know or who was even hostile to her—unless she really couldn't help herself.

With her soft lips pressed into a line, Kasumigaoka Utaha said softly, "Consider yourself lucky. If you had told me something like this yesterday, even if you stuck the evidence in my face, I would only think you were crazy."

Tenkuji Yu quickly understood what she meant: "So, something really happened today that made you trust me?"

She nodded, took a deep breath, and turned to take a notebook from a locked drawer.

The black cover, devoid of any patterns, resembles a cheap item bought from a bookstore—a simple and unpretentious notebook.

"I found this notebook when I was packing my bag last night."

Concealing the complex emotions in her eyes, Kasumigaoka Utaha flipped to the inside pages. After casually glancing over the content she had already read, she reached out and caught an item tucked inside before it fell out.

"Then, this thing was sandwiched inside."

She handed it to Yuu Tenkuji and said to him, word by word, "It's the paper butterfly you were talking about earlier."

"This……"

Unable to hide his surprise, Yuu Tenkuji accepted the beautifully folded paper butterfly with a somewhat dazed expression.

Indeed, it was very similar to the one I saw in the music room during the trial, the only difference being that one could move and the other could not.

He hesitated for a moment, and although reason told him it was best to observe it more, his fingers involuntarily began to disassemble the butterfly.

Carefully, he unraveled the paper butterfly into an A4 sheet of paper.

However, the content above was different from what he had seen before.

Of those five names, the places for "Yukinoshita Haruno" and "Yukinoshita Yukino" that he had seen before were now unnaturally empty.

I remember there was another name, "Yuki Asuna," on the second line, but it seemed to have been erased by someone, leaving only "Natsukawa Masuzu" and "Kasumigaoka Utaha" on top.

The last sentence, "The keys have been gathered; let them serve as the door, and let us create a miracle that changes our destiny!", has completely disappeared without a trace.

Staring blankly at the note for a long time, Tenkuji Yuu finally looked up and met Kasumigaoka Utaha's gaze. Suppressing the inexplicable flutter in his heart, he asked rather solemnly:

"How is this going?"

"I was about to ask you something too, but look for yourself." Kasumigaoka Utaha handed over the notebook again.

With the note between her fingers, Yuu Tenkuji opened the notebook and saw her name in the lower left corner of the cover page.

"Did you write this?"

“Perhaps, but I have no memory of it.” She pressed her temples, seemingly having given up trying to understand the complicated and bizarre situation before her, and simply sighed, “Yesterday I thought you had secretly slipped it to me, but there were many things that didn’t make sense… In the end, I decided to ignore it and lock it in the drawer.”

"This is the first time I've ever seen... a black notebook like this." Yuu paused unnaturally, thinking of the white-covered notebook that looked like a mission record on her desk in her room during the trial. It seemed that the only difference between this one and the one in her hand was the color.

He shook his head, putting aside the differences for the moment. The most important thing now was what was written in the notebook—perhaps it was a record left by the original Kasumigaoka Utaha, which might be of great help to them now.

Just looking at the first page, Yuu Tenkuji couldn't help but frown, and then quickly flipped to the next two or three pages.

"What's wrong?" Seeing his increasingly furrowed brows and the increasingly rapid turning of the pages, Kasumigaoka Utaha's heart skipped a beat, and she asked somewhat uneasily.

Yuu Tenkuji flipped through the pages one by one. Even though each page of white paper only flashed before his eyes for less than 0.5 seconds, he could still clearly capture the content on it.

It captured... nothing at all.

"Your notebook is completely blank."

"Huh?" Kasumigaoka Utaha gasped in surprise, her mouth agape. She stood up in disbelief, pointing at the notebook he had flipped to the back of the page. "How is this possible? I saw a whole bunch of things in there..."

She had only gotten halfway through her sentence when she suddenly stopped, "Wait, answer me a question first—what was written inside that paper butterfly?"

Without pausing or looking up, Tenkuji Yu said, "Originally, it was five names plus the sentence, 'The keys have been collected. With these as the gate, let's create a miracle that changes our destiny!' Now, only your name and one other person's name remain."

Kasumigaoka Utaha's eyes remained wide open, shimmering with light, as she murmured, drawing in a breath of cold air, "But I... I didn't see anything written on it at all..."

“You mean…” Tenkuji Yu paused, frowning as he looked at her constantly changing expression, “We can both see things that the other can’t?”

Just as he finished speaking, he turned to the last page.

Yuu Tenkuji glanced at it subconsciously, thinking it was still blank and he would skip it, but he found a line of small print at the very bottom of the page.

The secret to unlocking the game is...

[Please shout it out loud: Kasumigaoka Utaha is my wife! She's the true heroine!]

"..."

What the heck is this?

Tenkuji Yu fell into a brief silence, then gave Kasumigaoka Utaha a subtle look.

No matter how you look at it, it should be something she originally wrote down...

To be on the safe side, before Kasumigaoka Utaha had recovered from her surprise, he turned the notebook over and pointed it out to her: "Here... do you see what's written here?"

"I've looked, the last page is completely blank." Kasumigaoka Utaha let out a slow breath, tapped her foot in frustration, and clicked her tongue. "I only knew that the first few pages were filled with a bunch of headache-inducing dialogues, but I didn't expect you to be able to miss them... The most ridiculous thing is that my name is clearly written all over this notebook, so why is there something I can't see?"

After venting her frustrations, she asked Sky Temple Yu, "What does it say? It's not something terrible, is it?"

"Hmm..." Yuu Tenkuji didn't know how to answer.

To be honest, it felt like I was confessing my feelings to her, which was really unpleasant...

And the more important question is, why did Kasumigaoka Utaha originally write these two lines on the last page of a completely blank notebook?

What is the motivation? What are the reasons?

Is this guy, like the other beings from different dimensions in the video, also in love with me?

After thinking it over, Yuu Tenkuji finally decided to use his thick skin and give it a try.

"The secret to unlocking the miracle begins with this sentence."

"The first sentence?" Kasumigaoka Utaha was taken aback, then her eyes lit up. "Could it really be a hint to clear the game? Is it something left behind by the 'original me' you mentioned?"

"I don't know, it just made me shout out a certain phrase afterward, and I'll only know what the effect is after I try it," Tenkuji Yu shrugged and answered calmly.

Kasumigaoka Utaha urged, "Then hurry up! Don't worry, I won't laugh at you no matter what cringeworthy lines you say."

"Fine, I was forced into it anyway." Tenkuji Yu cleared his throat, turned his face toward the window, and didn't look at her.

Then, taking a breath, he spoke in a loud voice, clear and weighty, that could echo throughout the bedroom: