I'm a weird expert in Japan

"I've told you, he's a little nervous now, so please bear with me, Touma-san." Shiyu smiled slightly.

"...Who are you to him?" Hesha narrowed her eyes slightly.

She didn't expect that someone would apologize on behalf of Si Tiao Lian.

"For the time being... I want to be his assistant, but I haven't been officially recognized yet." Shiyu sighed in a resentful manner, "You see, he is really too much. He neither considers me a friend nor acknowledges me as an assistant. He doesn't even give me a title and keeps me hanging."

"Is it stupid or not?" Kazusa expressed her thoughts frankly, and she was once again convinced that there was indeed something wrong with Kasumigaoka Utaha's brain.

Then he left without looking back, leaving behind a contemptuous back.

Shiyu looked at the contact sent by Xuecai on her mobile phone, copied the address and sent it to Lian.

"Then it's time to get to work."

Chapter 93 Chapter 2 Just Smile at This Time ()

Earlier, outside the Art Department.

"Eh? Did Di fall ill?"

Lian leaned against the wall and looked at Shizhu. "I can't say I'm sick, but I still came to tell you. As for visiting you, don't even think about it."

Always thinking about Di's situation, the uneasy Lian had to end her work of coaching Touma Kazusa in the second music room early and prepare to return to Shijo's house to look after her brother.

As a result, I met Shizhu on the way and talked to him outside the Art Department about why he didn't come to school today.

"I think..." Shizhu spread his hands.

If you are close to the people of Shijo family, you can fool the main family by saying that everyone goes to the same school and they will see each other every day. But if you go directly to Shijo family to visit the future heir, it would be really in a compromising situation. Even if you jump into Tokyo Bay, you can't clear the suspicion that Shijo is colluding with the branch family.

And then again, the Shijo family wouldn't say that they would let him in just because Shizhu was on good terms with Shinki and Tei.

"Okay, I know you are worried about him. I will convey your good intentions later." Lian Dan closed his eyes and waved his hand.

"But this is really bad. Now that our ace player Di has fallen, the football team won't be able to continue participating in the competition, right?" Shizhu said at this time.

Lian was surprised. "You know this so clearly?"

"The Private Toyonosaki Academy is my courtyard. No matter it's as big as which female teacher got pregnant by the principal, or as small as a student in that club breaking his finger, there is nothing I don't know." Shizhu smiled proudly.

"A big example... it's really a big one..." Lian took a long time to squeeze out a sentence, "No, is it okay for you to say something like this to slander the principal here?"

"For example..." Shizhu laughed loudly.

"Okay, okay, I know you have an extensive intelligence network. You're worthy of being a member of the Shinomiya family." Lian teased.

"Thank you very much~~~~" Shizhu responded modestly.

"Ugh..." Lian pretended to vomit for a while before saying, "What do you think about the football club?"

"What else can I do? Just admit it. Anyway, I don't know why it turned out like this. I was sick, asked for leave, and left early." Shi Zhu spread his hands, "And we just had a joint training before returning to school..."

"Really?" Lian was suddenly a little depressed.

In fact, he deliberately chatted a few more sentences because he wanted to see if Shizhu had heard anything.

"Oh, I was just bragging to you. I know a lot about school affairs, but it doesn't mean I know all the details like who ate how many bowls of rice yesterday." Shizhu patted Lian's shoulder.

"That's right... after all, it is related to weirdness." Lian said it without hiding anything, but lowered the volume to avoid being heard by others.

As soon as these words came out, Shizhu was stunned, and looked at Lian with wide eyes, "Are you serious?"

"Is it necessary for me to tell you this here to scare you?" Lian raised his eyebrows.

"Is that so..." Shizhu pursed her lips.

He had never asked about the matter with Ogi So Setsuna before, but judging from what Eriri described, it was most likely related to something weird.

As a result, less than a month later, strange things happened in the school again.

"By the way, Lian, do you have any idea? About the weird thing?" Shizhu turned around and leaned against the wall side by side with Lian.

Lian looked at the ceiling. "I don't know, but with such a large-scale impact... I hope it's not the Fire Bees that are hunting."

"Hunting Fire Bees? The one recorded in the Eastern Chaos Illustrated Book?"

"Ah."

The strange stories recorded in that illustrated book, the strange things of the Muromachi period mentioned.

Simply put, it is an infectious disease of unknown cause.

This is the truth.

This truth is then interpreted by the world as weird.

Even if it is a misunderstanding, weirdness is born from it.

This infectious disease causes the sufferer to have a fever so high that he cannot move, and is ultimately fatal, and in fact hundreds of people did die until the famous Yin-Yang master stepped in to quell the epidemic.

The illustrated book recorded the entire process of the plague and described that the disease would make the patient feel as if he was stung by invisible bees and burned by fire.

"But if it was really a hunting fire bee, he should at least have a high fever, right? But you said that the Emperor didn't have any symptoms, he just fell down and fell into a coma." Shizhu questioned.

Of course, it is not ruled out that some people did have a fever, and others simply had bad associations and stopped club training out of concern.

The Fire Bee Hunt was originally created when the plague was treated as a freak.

In other words, this weirdness exists like a plague and can gradually affect the people around it.

Araragi Koyomi's sister, Araragi Karen, was once subjected to a fake hunting fire bee by Kaimu Nifune, so direct contact is required to transmit the weirdness.

But if it is true, there would be no need for so much trouble and it would spread on its own.

And it is no longer a plague, but a strange thing that looks like a plague.

"That's why I hope not. Besides, Di doesn't have the energy to explain to me who he met and what the condition of the person was." Lian forced a smile.

"What an ugly smile." said Shizhu.

"Uh……"

"I'm not complaining about you, it's just really hard to see." Shizhu shook her head, "Don't force yourself to relax. If you feel worried, then worry as much as you can. He's your brother."

"Do I need you to teach me?" Lian glanced at his phone. Shiyu had sent him an email, so he stood up and left. "Thank you."

Don't forget to thank Shizhu.

When it comes to the relationship between brothers and sisters, Shizhu can certainly empathize with Lian's feelings.

If something like this happened to his sister Kaguya... he would definitely be so worried that he wouldn't be able to eat or sleep.

After saying goodbye to Lian, Shizhu returned to the Art Department, looked at how others were practicing, then opened the door of the second preparation room to go in and prepare a new entry.

"Ah... Shizhu, you're back..." Ying Lili stood up hurriedly.

"I talked to Lian for a while, and it seems that Di is sick. That guy is obviously very worried, but he is still pretending to be fine in front of me."

“Is that so…” Eriri put her hands behind her back.

"What's wrong? Do you know anything?"

"No, I'm just... regretting it. Why not just let him be your model and paint a portrait of you?" Eriri forced a smile. "Why did you let him go home?"

"I can't stop him from visiting his brother, can I?" Shi Zhu said helplessly, "It's like you're willing to stop me from going home to visit my sick sister?"

"That's not possible." Ying Lili agreed and shrank her neck. "Okay, okay, let's start working on the draft quickly. There are only a few days left!"

"Oh...okay."

Shizhu smiled, pulled over a chair and sat down obediently.

Eriri, on the other hand, quietly stepped back with her hands behind her back, then quietly stuffed a fist-sized ball of paper between the glove compartments and hid it.

Chapter 94 Chapter 1 Old Tool Man.JPG ()

Later that night, in a cafe half an hour away from Toyosaki Private Academy.

Shijo Renzheng and Ogiso Setsuna were staring at each other.

"It's been a few days since we last met, Shijo-kun..." Setsuna, who was equally surprised, gave Ren a bitter smile.

We haven't had any contact since we met on the first day of Golden Week.

Although her parents always told her to get along well with Ren from Uncle Shijo's family and take care of each other at school, Setsuna readily agreed.

But she couldn't find any way to do it.

Not to mention that the two were not familiar with each other before that, and there was even some strange misunderstanding.

Even though she had been helped by the other party, Xue Cai could clearly feel that Lian did not lend a helping hand to her out of gentleness and kindness, but rather, she seemed to have a posture of helping her because she had no choice.

And it's not because of any noble motive like a sense of duty.

It would not be appropriate to use this as an opportunity to contact her. Besides, not to mention that Setsuna herself was the center of attention at school, Ren was even more noticeable than her.

An ordinary girl born in an ordinary and harmonious family, she was misunderstood as a young lady because she was a little pretty. She had to work secretly to maintain this "vanity" - although now she was caught by Lian and Teacher Hanekawa.

Lian is from the Shijo family and is a violinist who became famous at a young age.

Compared to him, I seem ordinary.

"Well, long time no see..." Lian shrugged, "By the way, why are you here?"

"Well, I actually have the same question." Xue Cai continued with a wry smile.

She had clearly exchanged contact information with Kasumigaoka Utaha, and sent an email with the intention of making a new friend...

Even though we knew that Shiyu and Lian knew each other, it was too strange that Lian was the one who came.

Lian sat up a little, "Kasumigaoka sent me an email and told me to come here."

"As expected..." Setsuna was not surprised at all.

"What is that girl doing?" Lian drank the water with a bit of dissatisfaction, "If she made an appointment with you to have coffee, why did she invite me along?"

"To be precise, it wasn't Kasumigaoka-san who made an appointment with me, it was me who asked her out," Setsuna explained embarrassedly.

"Oh, I see." Lian nodded, "Are you friends?"

"Huh? Ah, that..." Setsuna became increasingly embarrassed.

It’s not that I don’t want to answer “yes”, but our relationship really hasn’t reached that level yet.

"Well, that guy is quite autistic anyway, so it would be good to make more friends with him." Lian said again.

Setsuna couldn't stop laughing dryly, "Ahahahaha... Shijo-kun is so rude..."

"No way, it's Kasumigaoka who is really rude. You've experienced that, right?" Lian denied it frankly.

"That's true." Setsuna couldn't help laughing, and she thought back to what happened that night. "It's said that Shijo-kun cares about Kasumigaoka-san a lot, and he pays attention to her interpersonal relationships and stuff..."

Xue Cai's original intention was just to find a way to open the topic, but she didn't expect Lian to deny it so straightforwardly.

"Friends? No."

"Huh?" It was the first time she saw someone deny it so straightforwardly.

They seem to be close friends no matter how you look at it...The scale of the joke was so large that Setsuna couldn't help but feel envious.

"Anyway, it would be best if you could be friends with her, so she doesn't have to come to me all day long." Lian spread her hands helplessly, "Even if you're heartbroken, you can't just find another man as a substitute and pester him to be friends, right? Xiao Museng, don't you think this is problematic?"

"Uh... this..." Xuecai was stunned for a moment and kept winking at Lian.

"What? You think there's something wrong with what I said?" Lian tilted her head. "Well, I did go a little too far, but the truth isn't that far off. After all, are all girls so curious?"

"No, at least I think girls' curiosity varies from person to person—"

Suddenly, without any warning, Kasumigaoka Utaha's voice rang out.

"You're here. I thought I would have to wait a long time." Lian calmly put down the water.

"You'll know it once I enter the store anyway." Shiyu sat down without hesitation and pushed Lian inside. "You dare to continue to say bad things even though you know others are here. Should I say Lian is worthy of not understanding people's hearts?"

"Compared to you, I really don't know how to gather people's hearts." Lian blinked and smiled, "After all, I'm a man. I don't have the hardware equipment."

"You said that on purpose for me to hear?" Shiyu ordered her coffee and said after the waiter left, "Such harsh words can easily make people angry, but they don't work on me."

"Tsk...are you a masochist? If I had known I would have said it more harshly." Lian said that she felt like a failure.