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

"Seriously, when is that kid coming back? Does he have to ride a horse and eat a whole roasted lamb on his way to Inner Mongolia?"

Hong Kai glanced at his watch; it was already nine o'clock at night.

"It should be soon." Future rubbed his hands anxiously, his eyes serious.

"No, I can't wait any longer, I have to go out and find that..."

Just as Hong Kai was about to get up, a familiar wave of light energy suddenly swooped down from the sky.

"bump!!!"

A deafening crash came from overhead, followed by the dull thud of flesh hitting the floor upstairs.

"?"

Hong Kai and Wei Lai exchanged a glance and hurried up to the second floor.

Pushing open the door, one sees a large hole smashed into the already flimsy ceiling, and Duan Zilian lying on the floor, grimacing in pain.

Seeing the two people enter, Duan Zilian reluctantly turned over and gave an awkward smile.

"The energy... is not enough, so we are flying a little slowly, Kaisan, Mirai-san... I'm exhausted."

Hong Kai and Wei Lai exchanged a glance, their hearts finally at ease, and they couldn't help but laugh out loud.

The two men lifted him from the floor onto the bed, one on each side.

"Seriously, you always make your entrance in such a unique way, and you even smashed a huge hole in the ceiling of the future. You can forget about getting paid this month."

Hong Kai patted his head.

"Duan Jun, are you alright? Are you seriously injured?" Wei Lai carefully examined his wounds.

"Ah...it's nothing serious, just that my bones feel a bit broken, plus I got pecked on my left shoulder."

He lay comfortably on the bed, his gaze fixed on the hole he had smashed in the ceiling.

In the clear night sky, a bright moon was perfectly positioned inside the hole, casting its silvery light.

"But... it's pretty good too."

Duan Zilian looked at the moon and let out a satisfied chuckle.

"This cave... is in the perfect spot; you can see the moon just by lying down."

Chapter 90 Summer Skies: Beware of Fire

"Is this... hell?"

Duan Zilian found herself immersed in boiling lava.

The scalding lava seemed to engulf his entire body, especially his head, which felt as if it were being roasted on a furnace, his hair about to catch fire.

"Aaaaaah!! It's so hot, so hot, so hot!"

Duan Zilian suddenly sprang up from the bed, covering her burning cheeks with her hands and panting heavily.

He looked up and saw the sunlight streaming through the hole he'd made the night before, shining directly onto his pillow.

"Seriously, you reap what you sow! I can't take it anymore... it's almost cooked, it's really almost cooked."

Duan Zilian felt he was almost fully cooked. He jumped out of bed, rushed down the stairs, and plunged into the coffee shop.

He finally let out a long breath as the cool air from the air conditioner, as sweet as dew, wafted over him.

"They're alive...wait, where are Kaisan and Mirai-san?"

Duan Zilian looked around; the empty shop was completely deserted.

He walked to the bar and saw a note on the table, held down by a wine glass.

He picked up the note and looked at it; the handwriting was in Future's neat style:

【Duan Jun, Kai Sang said he calculated that the sun today is just the right amount to wake you up. The weather is really abnormal. Let's go out and investigate the unusual heat source nearby.】

Be careful, and try not to get injured lately. Kaisan suspects a new 'Demon Beast' is about to appear.

[Hong Kai's Note: Be careful with fire in the summer heat.]

"A new Demon Beast..."

Duan Zilian's heart tightened suddenly as she looked at the bracelet on her left wrist.

He instantly recalled the wind demon beast Magbasa that had chased him all over the sky above Chiba City about a month ago.

"How did you defeat the Demon Beast back then?"

Duan Zilian rubbed her left shoulder and thought for a moment.

"It seems like he relied on Tiga's muscle memory to fight. I wonder if he can hold on if another one comes along this time."

"Forget it, let's deal with whatever comes our way. Let's enjoy the air conditioning first."

He picked up a wine glass from the bar and filled it halfway with ice and cold water.

The cool, sweet water slid down his throat, instantly quenching his parched soul.

Duan Zilian drank the water in one gulp, then slammed the empty glass heavily onto the bar.

"boom!!"

"Cool!"

Hiratsuka Shizuka placed the empty cup on the table beside her and wiped the water stains from the corner of her mouth.

She crossed her arms and shouted urging at the students who were fleeing from the school building.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! The monster won't wait for you to tie your shoelaces before it comes out to stomp on you!"

The first and second periods this morning were postponed because of the monster's reappearance yesterday afternoon, and the school conducted its first evacuation drill.

As expected, the exercise was marred by a lot of mishaps. Some people went down the wrong stairs, some tripped and fell, and a few boys almost got into a fight because of pushing and shoving.

Surprisingly, these things were quickly evaporated by the damn temperature.

The students from both schools didn't even have the energy to exchange harsh words or glare at each other; they were all like wilted eggplants, moving along their original routes.

Even the stray dogs on the roadside were too lazy to bark, lying under the shade of the trees with their tongues lolling out, radiating heat.

"Surprisingly good. In such a short time, you successfully evacuated a large group of people in staggered shifts." Hiratsuka Shizuka looked at the stopwatch and nodded in satisfaction.

Beside Hiratsuka Shizuka, Tono Susumu wore a pair of dark sunglasses, concealing his fanatical eyes.

His gaze was fixed on Duan Zilian, who was swaying and clutching her left shoulder from time to time in the fleeing crowd.

"Hmph." Di Yejin let out a cold laugh that was hard to decipher, and no one knew what he was thinking.

……

"Seriously! When will this awful weather ever end? It's already 40 degrees Celsius!"

As soon as she entered the classroom, Miura Yumiko tugged at her collar in frustration.

Although the air conditioner in the classroom was running at full capacity, the golden ripples outside still made people uneasy.

Others also complained incessantly about the damn heat.

Duan Zilian sat by the window, staring blankly outside.

During the drill, he saw that there were already many water trucks working back and forth on the street, but the water sprayed onto the asphalt road turned into a cloud of water vapor in less than three seconds.

"Demon King Beast..." Duan Zilian murmured softly.

"This heat is unbelievable." Sakuta Azusagawa lay sprawled on the table, looking like a dehydrated salted fish.

Duan Zilian casually responded, looking at the sky, lost in thought.

Yeah, this weather is really weird. Even when there are occasional clouds blocking the sun, the heat doesn't lessen at all.

"It's like..."

"It's like some kind of high-temperature energy is constantly spreading through the air, and it's getting hotter and hotter."

Inside the TPC meeting room, Horii stood up and spoke to the GUTS team members beside him.

"So you mean that the manifestation of that high-temperature energy is hidden somewhere in the Kanto region, and it is very likely some kind of unknown monster?"

Captain Megumi crossed her hands and rested them on her chin, scrutinizing the calorie graph on the large screen.

“That’s right, Captain.” Horii pointed to the thermal imaging map on the screen.

"Based on my experimental observations and feedback from ground-penetrating radar, this energy source is currently hidden underground! It is radiating heat through cracks in the earth's crust. When it awakens, the air temperature will be so high that it will make people faint."

"Is there any way to find its trail? Find its coordinates and then bomb it in a targeted manner."

Deputy Captain Zong Fang asked from the side.

"No, it's impossible. It should be hiding tens of thousands of meters underground right now. We can't hit it."

"What should we do then? Do we just have to wait for it to come out on its own?"

Lina asked sullenly from the side.

"Yes, it seems like this is the only way."

After saying that, Horii suddenly and mysteriously took out a cylindrical, specially made bullet from his uniform pocket and placed it on the table.

"So, in order to deal with this extreme situation, I prepared this overnight."

Everyone at GUTS turned their attention to it, curiously examining the object on the table.

"This is a cold-shrink bullet that I specially developed to suppress high-heat monsters." Horii proudly puffed out his chest.

"As long as it is loaded into the Victory Hyper Gun, the moment it is fired, it will simulate an absolute zero liquid nitrogen pulse through a rapid endothermic reaction, which is specifically designed to suppress this high-temperature monster."

"Wow, Horii, you're really quite capable." Shinjo rarely praised Horii from the side.

"Of course! I used to be the chief scientist of the Shinomiya Foundation, with a brain ten thousand times smarter than yours!"

Horii patted his head smugly.

"Hey! I'm clearly praising you, you fatso, you have no sense of propriety!"

Shinjo jokingly punched Horii on the shoulder, slightly easing the somber atmosphere in the conference room.

……

After school in the afternoon, although the weather was still hot, there was an occasional breeze, which was much better than in the morning.

Duan Zilian followed behind Shirogane Miyuki and toured the entire Shuchi High School campus as she had wished.

Although many students from Shuchiin High School were still pointing and whispering about him, an "outsider" from Soubu High School, no one dared to provoke him openly, given that President Shirogane was personally leading the team.

Fujiwara Chika continues to lead her Star Expeditionary Force tirelessly to conquer the other classes at Soubu High School, determined to carry out the Ice-Breaking Operation to the end.

Just when Duan Zilian thought the visit was going to end uneventfully, he suddenly spotted two incongruous figures in a park not far away.

Sakuta Azusagawa and Yuu Ishigami sat side by side on a park bench, each holding a handheld game console and frantically pressing buttons, engrossed in a game, while several Shuchiin students watched nearby.

"Hey, what's going on? Azusagawa, why are you here?"

Duan Zilian's eyes twitched.

Sakuta Azusagawa lazily turned his head, revealing a smug smile:

"What, is this place only for transfer students like you to be a target? I saw that the signal was good here, so I came over to use the Wi-Fi."

Duan Zilian was stunned. Looking into Sakuta's all-knowing eyes, he instantly realized that this guy had seen through his little plan long ago. The two of them were obviously there to support him.

Yu Ishigami simply turned his head silently, nodded slightly to Ren Duanzi, and then continued to immerse himself in the game world.

"Hey, Azusagawa-kun, look at the screen! You're about to get strangled to death by Ishigami's Mai Shiranui combo."

On one side, a student from Shuchiin Academy frantically reminded him.

"Oh, that damn Ishigami, how shady!" Sakuta Azusagawa quickly turned around and started operating the handheld console.

"That's called making the most of every opportunity, Azusagawa-senpai."

Seeing this, Duan Zilian inexplicably felt relieved.

Gradually, it seemed that everything was getting back on track because of that imperfect exercise.

"I didn't expect things to go so smoothly."

Walking ahead, Shirogane Miyuki straightened his collar, looked at the students gradually dispersing, and turned around with a smile, saying...