Anime Crossover: My Part-Time Job as a Giant of Light While Studying Abroad in Chiba

He deliberately used a disillusioned, seemingly naive tone to exclaim, thus attracting Yukinoshita's attention.

"Oh?"

Yukinoshita turned her head to look at Dan Zilian, somewhat surprised.

"Could it be that primitive creatures actually had exceptionally high intelligence?"

"well enough."

Duan Zilian grinned shamelessly.

"It's just a casual test level. Of course, besides Chinese, uh, there's world history... uh, never mind, let's add math too."

Looking at his serious yet nonsensical manner, Yukinoshita sighed helplessly and silently curved her eyes into a smile.

Chapter 73 The class relations between the two schools are highly problematic.

The bell rang, signaling the end of get out of class.

Duanzi Rei and Yukino Yukinoshita walked side by side down the corridor leading to the administration building.

Sunlight streamed through the corridor, casting a warm glow on people.

"On another note..."

Duan Zilian put her hands behind her head and casually asked:

"When I was playing Monopoly in the hospital ward, I heard Miura say that the school was going to hold a monster disaster escape drill in a couple of days. I was still in the hospital then, how come it's only just starting now?"

"There was a problem in the middle, which caused the process to be delayed."

Yukinoshita turned her head to look at Duan Zilian.

"Due to the recent frequent disasters, the school, in conjunction with the Shinomiya Foundation's engineering team, has constructed three underground evacuation tunnels between Sobu High School and Shuchiin High School."

"Therefore, due to the change in terrain, all previous evacuation plans have to be scrapped and rebuilt."

"Really? That's quite a big project, so... all the revisions to the plan are being handled by you alone?"

Duan Zilian tilted her head, somewhat displeased.

"No, there's also Hayama, and several members of the Soubu High School student council."

Yukinoshita answered calmly, her words carrying a hint of helplessness.

"However, I was a little worried that their handling of the details was not thorough enough. In order to prevent the exercise from turning into a stampede, I thought I would do more myself."

"Ah, with great power comes great responsibility. You've really impressed me, Minister."

Duan Zilian looked at her serious deskmate with a touch of admiration.

"Stop talking nonsense. Just help me with more of the work, although I don't expect you to be very smart."

"Hey, I'm pretty strong, both in terms of physical strength and resilience."

Slowly, the two passed by a high school classroom.

From the open back door, the faint sounds of several students discussing something could be heard.

"Hey, why hasn't Banqiao come to class yet?"

"Yeah, his Ultraman Tiga fan club was all the rage online, why did he disappear at this time..."

Duan Zilian suddenly stopped in her tracks.

"Banqiao..."

He murmured the name softly, his chest tightening involuntarily.

Yukinoshita, who was beside him, noticed his unusual behavior and turned to look at him.

"what happened?"

"Oh no, I just remembered something, nothing."

Duan Zilian quickly smiled and waved her hand.

Yukinoshita narrowed her eyes slightly; she had also heard the discussions about Itabashi Mitsuo that had just taken place at the back door.

Yukinoshita and Danzi Rei continued walking, and she caught a glimpse of Danzi Rei looking preoccupied out of the corner of her eye.

Just then, Yukinoshita suddenly spoke up.

“Mitsuo Itabashi disappeared completely after Ultraman Tiga defeated that so-called 'angel'.”

Duan Zilian looked up and glanced at her with some surprise.

Yukinoshita didn't look at him, and continued to explain to Danzi Rei in a low voice.

"There are many rumors at school. Some say he went to explore the ruins left by Tiga, while others say he couldn't stand the monsters and dropped out of school to go back to his hometown."

A hint of pity flickered in Yukina's eyes.

"The school can't contact him, and the police have checked his rented apartment. His belongings are all there, but he's nowhere to be found."

"It's like... vanished from the face of the earth."

Duan Zilian stood in the shadows of the corridor where the sunlight couldn't reach, listening silently.

He knew perfectly well where Itabashi Mitsuo had gone.

His soul had long since departed, and his body, drained of its usefulness, had vanished under the night sky along with that arrogant false god.

That was clearly just an innocent life, yet it became a vessel for aliens to manipulate people's hearts.

"So... what kind of person was he before?"

Duan Zilian asked softly.

Yukino glanced at him and continued.

"In my first year of high school, I was very inconspicuous, an unremarkable boy, perhaps because I was honest and kind. I liked to carry a camera around and take pictures of the scenery."

"Perhaps it was this dedication that led him to become the head of the news department."

After reflecting on it, Yukinoshita gave an objective evaluation.

"But starting from his second year of high school, his behavior became strange and he became a bit neurotic. However, everyone's impression of him was not bad. They all thought he was just a hot-blooded idiot who had gone a little crazy."

"Yeah……"

Duan Zilian lowered her head and looked at her toes.

In the end, even his last remaining influence was played out by that demon.

This world is so cruel.

……

The two continued walking forward, the atmosphere becoming slightly more somber than before.

Ten minutes later, they carried a thick stack of documents out of the dean's office.

What are all these things?

Duan Zilian looked at the heavy bag of documents in her hand, pulled out a few pages and glanced at them.

"The blueprints for the underground structures of the two schools, the emergency evacuation priority tables for each grade... just looking at them is a headache."

Duan Zilian's two helpless complaints.

"Is this really something our Service Department should be dealing with?"

"Let's just consider it a big commission that the Service Department has taken on."

Yukinoshita was also holding a stack of documents.

"A very, very troublesome request."

"It's really super troublesome. The evacuation routes are drawn like a maze. Just looking at them makes my head spin."

"No, Mr. Duan."

Yukinoshita shook her head, a hint of sorrow in her clear, cold eyes.

"Route planning is actually the simplest part of the whole commission; the most difficult part is interpersonal relationships."

"Interpersonal relationships?"

Duan Zilian was stunned for a moment, wondering how they had gotten to this point.

"Yes, interpersonal relationships."

“Duan Jun, you only transferred here in your second year of high school, so there are some things you don’t actually know.”

Yukino walked ahead of Danji Rei, recounting old stories from their school days as they went.

“When we were in the first year of high school, Xiuzhiyuan and Zongwu High School started a joint program.”

"But most of the students at Soubu High School come from ordinary families, while the vast majority of students at Shuchiin High School are the powerful, wealthy, and business elites who stand at the top of the country."

"Two completely different social classes were forcibly crammed into the same campus, causing students from the two schools to secretly dislike each other, even to the point of belittling each other."

She sighed softly.

“There was a huge conflict during the joint sports festival in my first year of high school.”

Yukinoshita's tone turned somewhat cold and hard.

"At that time, the students of Shuchiin Academy disliked the equipment of Sobu High School because it was old and unhygienic, and refused to use it."

"But they just transferred here and don't have any sports equipment. The boys from Zongwu High School told them not to be so fussy and to use it or not if they wanted."

"As a result, they got angry and directly funded the purchase of a whole set of brand-new Olympic-level equipment, and put up a cordon to prevent students from Zongwu High School from touching it."

"This provocative behavior directly angered all the male students of Zongwu High School, and a fierce conflict broke out between the two sides on the playground. Since then, the already bad relationship between the two schools has dropped to a freezing point."

Yukino sighed.

"As a result, Sobu High School felt that Shuchiin High School was arrogant, domineering, and disrespectful, while Shuchiin High School felt that Sobu High School's students were vulgar, rude, and ill-mannered."

"Is that really how it is? That's outrageous!"

Duan Zilian was somewhat surprised.

The faces of the student council members of Shuchiin University couldn't help but appear in his mind.

"But from my interactions with them, even those people in the Shuchiin student council... they seem pretty easy to get along with, right? They don't seem to have any airs at all."

"Duan Jun, in this world, most people just follow the 'air'."

Yukinoshita suddenly stopped and turned to look at Duan Zilian.

Sunlight fell into her clear eyes, as if reflecting what she had been fighting alone all these years.

"As long as the public's 'atmosphere' determines that the other party is the enemy, they will believe whatever others say, and no one will peel back the surface to find the 'truth'."

"Just as outstanding people are destined to be ostracized by mediocre people, there are also people like Shirogane Miyuki who came from humble backgrounds but rose to become the president of Shuchiin through their own efforts."

"However, even if he wanted to advocate for peaceful coexistence and abandon class distinctions, most people at Soubu High School would deny all his efforts and view him with prejudice when they saw his status as the president of Shuchiin High School."

"how so……"

Duan Zilian felt a twist in her heart.

"Therefore, if we want this life-or-death escape drill to be a success..."

Duan Zilian picked up where she left off, her expression also becoming serious.

"The first thing to address is the deep-seated hostility between the students of the two schools. Otherwise, if pushing or shoving or refusal to cooperate occurs during the actual escape, it will definitely turn into a disaster."

When people are not united, they are more deadly than the monster itself when facing it.

"Yes."

The snow beneath her gaze carried a hint of helplessness.

"Hayama-kun had previously tried to use his 'good guy' approach to bring the two schools closer, but it never yielded any substantial results; the barriers were too deep."

Duan Zilian looked at the aloof girl beside her and couldn't help but feel a deep respect for her.

But then he suddenly remembered something and couldn't help but mentally rant.

[Hey! Even a charming and charismatic guy like Hayama couldn't handle this, and you're planning to take it on yourself, Yukinoshita?! Don't you know that, looking at the entire Soubu High School, your interpersonal skills are the most disastrous?!]

However, seeing Yukinoshita's straight back and feeling her seriousness, Duan Zilian swallowed her complaints and gripped the materials in her hand tighter.