This is not the date I wanted.

Finally, Meng Yue said slowly.

After hearing Meng Yue's last words, Origami's pupils dilated slightly.

"…………Liang Yi Meng Yue. You hacked into the DEM company's computer a year ago, right?"

After a long silence, Origami did not respond to Meng Yue's words. Instead, he asked.

"Yes what's the matter?"

Meng Yue nodded and replied. But she didn't understand why the other party brought up this matter at this time.

Perhaps only Origami herself knew how determined she was when she said this.

"Did you see a document about five years ago?"

Just when Origami was halfway through her words, everything in front of her eyes went dark, and she saw a burning ruin.

“Ah. Father… Mother… Ahhhhh… Ahhhh…”

In the ruins, a young girl stared at the countless scattered pieces of flesh and broken bones in front of her, and let out a cry from the depths of her throat that was not even a cry or a whine.

Looking up, in the dim sky, the girl saw an unknown being with the appearance of a girl, shining with dazzling light.

That's the culprit of everything.

Unforgivable!

Unforgivable——!

I must kill all the elves with my own hands!

The shouts filled with resentment and anger were like a warning to Origami to let down her guard, and they kept echoing in her mind like a devil's voice.

"Origami! Tobiichi Origami!"

"—!"

Origami suddenly came to her senses when Meng Yue yelled. She suddenly realized that her back was covered with sweat.

Meng Yue asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"Five years ago was when Kotori first went berserk and caused the fire. Do you have any questions?"

"..."

"What's wrong? Are you too tired? Is there any water here?"

Seeing Origami sweating all over, Meng Yue greeted him with some concern. She took out a bottle of water from the shopping bag and handed it to Origami.

"do not come!"

Origami waved his hand suddenly and slapped Mengyue's hand away. The cap of the mineral water bottle fell off in mid-air, letting the water in the bottle flow onto the ground.

"Tobiichi Origami?"

Meng Yue frowned in confusion. She felt that Origami, who seemed to be able to communicate just now, had completely isolated Meng Yue from the outside, and her eyes were full of hostility.

"As expected... it's not possible."

Origami clenched his hands and muttered to himself with feelings that Mengyue could not understand.

"Liang Yi Meng Yue, maybe it's just like what you said. There are no malicious elves in the world. However, the existence of elves is wrong. In order to prevent others from suffering the same fate as me, I will defeat all the elves——all of them!"

As if turning his heart into cold iron, Origami declared mercilessly to Mengyue.

Having said that, Origami turned and left with a grim look on her face.

"…Although I don't know what you were thinking about just now."

Meng Yue scratched her hair unhappily and sighed. She took out the Shizhi photo album she had prepared at the beginning from her bag and asked Origami,

"Don't you want the photo album anymore?"

"..."

Origami turned around speechlessly and took the photo album from Mengyue's hand.

PS: It's really shocking that I still can't be serious to the end. (Helpless)

13 Date, Sushi

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10 month 24 number.

Unlike the pleasant weather, Shidao's mood at the moment seemed a little heavy.

Two days have passed since Shidou received the letter from Nanashi. During these two days, Shidou, under Reine's arrangement, went on dates with the nine people in the photos sent by Nanashi.

Tohka, Yoshino, Tonomachi, Yui, Kotori, Yakuya, Ai, Mii, and Mai. Although some of them did things differently from the past, such as Tohka not eating much at the buffet because she saw on TV that "women who eat a lot can make men unbearable"; Yoshino changed her usual shy and weak attitude and licked the syrup off Shidou's face when eating pancakes with him; in the sauna, Reine asked her to have skin contact with Tonomachi, but she was scared and turned blue and ran away. But based on these alone, it is difficult for Shidou to judge whether the other party is pretending to be Nanashi.

At the same time, Nanashi is also taking practical action to figure out what the words "until everyone disappears" on the postcard mean.

Every day, one person would disappear at night, and if Shidou identified the wrong person on that day, another person would disappear.

Last night, facing Nanashi who suddenly appeared in front of him, Shidou told him about the person he felt uncomfortable with these days - Yoshino.

And today, Ratatoskr informed Shido that two girls, Yoshino and Ai, were abducted by the "fake witch" of the Seven Sins last night.

"Yoshino... and Yamabuki... this is all my fault—"

Shidou couldn't help but mutter to himself with some self-blame.

"That's not the case. You've done a good job with the limited intelligence you have."

Reine's voice came from the other end of the headset. Although her voice was still weak as usual, it seemed that she was trying to comfort Shidou.

"Yeah, it's okay. I know that being dejected here is not a solution. Even if I give up on myself, Nanashi won't be kind enough to tell me the answer. On the contrary, I might be scolded half to death by Mengyue and Qinli."

After taking a long, deep breath, Shidou gradually calmed down and spoke in a slightly joking tone.

"Is that so... Shinya has become much more mature. I was a little worried that the bad luck these past two days would have taken a toll on you. It seems that my worry was unnecessary."

As she spoke, Ling Yin seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Hearing Reine's praise, Shidou scratched his cheek a little embarrassedly.

"Well, let's start today's date."

After patting his cheeks hard, he said with encouragement.

At the beginning of today, the first person that needs to be observed is Miku.

The two of them went to the central square of Tiangong City Amusement Park today. A Halloween costume party was being held there. Miku and Shidou both cosplayed as characters from a girl-oriented anime. Because she was wearing a mask, Miku didn't have to worry about being recognized and causing a commotion.

However, when they were taking photos, they accidentally tripped and fell to the ground. Miku's mask accidentally fell off, and the surroundings suddenly became noisy. In addition, Miku accidentally sprained her foot. Due to various careless factors, Shidao had to carry Miku in a princess hug and run around the entire amusement park.

After breaking through the siege of Miku's fans and security personnel, Shidao did not take a break and went to look for the next person specified in the photo of Nanashi - Teacher Kozue.

Originally, Reine wanted Shidao to meet with Teacher Kozue in the name of "prospective consultation", but after a series of events, it seems that Teacher Kozue misunderstood Shidao's intentions. As soon as they met, she took out a magazine recommending wedding venues and books on parenting education, and even prepared a marriage application form with her signature and seal. She also kept saying that she would meet Shidao's parents together after he graduated, which made Shidao feel pressured.

Finally, after understanding the enormous pressure that an unmarried woman approaching thirty years old carries, Shidao apologized and fled.

Then, it was seven o'clock in the evening.

"what……"

Shidou let out a tired sigh.

"Shen, can you still hold on?"

"Yeah, no problem."

Shidou nodded as if it was no problem.

"So, the next people who haven't been investigated yet are Origami and Mengyue?"

"…Shen, there is something I want to tell you about origami."

"what's up?"

After a moment of silence, Ling Yin spoke slowly.

"Just yesterday, Tobiichi Origami suddenly applied to transfer to the school. She has been missing since then."

"Origami transferred to another school?"

The unexpected news made Shidou open his eyes wide in surprise.

"Rather than saying she's transferring, it's more accurate to say she's dropping out. Tobiichi Origami didn't say which school she's transferring to."

"Why so sudden..." Shidou frowned in confusion, picked up his phone and called Origami, but on the other end of the line, there was only a message saying "The number you dialed is turned off." Shidou couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"Could it be that Origami is also because of the Seven Sins..."

"No, it shouldn't be." Lingyin denied, "If it was explicitly mentioned that she disappeared, Nanashi could have just used a fake witch to kidnap her. If this Origami was Nanashi's disguise, such an action would have added meaningless suspicion to herself. I don't think Nanashi would deliberately do something so suspicious. I'm afraid Nanashi herself didn't expect this situation. The most likely possibility is that Origami left suddenly for some personal reasons."

"Too……"

After hearing Reine's speculation, Shidou nodded with some relief.

Although he was a little worried about what happened to Origami, Shidou was currently troubled by the problem of the Seven Sins, so he had to put this matter aside for the time being.

"Shen, we're almost at our destination."

"……ah,……"

After being reminded by Reine, Shidou raised his head. It seemed that he had walked a long way while thinking, and it was incredible that he didn't bump into anyone along the way.

After taking a few steps forward, Shidou saw a girl with long brown hair sitting on a public chair in the park, silently waiting for him, under a street lamp not far away.

"Then... I'll turn off the wireless first. Shen... you should cheer up on your own."

Meng Yue was very sensitive to radio communications, and it was well known that the girl herself did not like Shidao listening to other people's instructions to date her. So after giving Shidao a leisurely pep talk, Reine hung up the radio.

Shidou took a deep breath and walked towards Mengyue.

"Hey, Mengyue has been waiting for a long time."

The girl was wearing a casual pair of light blue jeans and a brown autumn shirt. Her long brown hair was tied into a ponytail because she was wearing a baseball cap, giving her a cool tomboy vibe.

"Really? Why do you want to go out on a date at such an awkward time as dinner? What on earth are you thinking about, Shidou?"

After seeing Shidao, Mengyue started complaining.

"Haha... Sorry. My schedule is a bit tight lately."

"What have you been busy with recently..." Meng Yue shook her head helplessly and sighed, "Well, I have already saved dinner for everyone at home. Otherwise, if the two cooks at home suddenly disappeared, Shixiang and the others would definitely starve to death."

Although she looks like a handsome tomboy, her words have a sense of being a mother. Shidou couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Well, thank you so much Mengyue."

Shidou scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

"You have to make up for the cooking you did these days later."

"Hi, hi, got it."

During the conversation, Shidou did not feel that there was anything wrong with Meng Yue and Pingri. To be honest, looking at this girl who could express her dissatisfaction to him without hiding it and chat with him about family matters, Shidou felt that it was more like a family out for a walk. He didn't need to be particularly restrained and felt a lot more relaxed.

"What's wrong Shidou? You're looking at me with such a weird expression."

"No, it's just that being with Meng Yue is the most peaceful and relaxing time."

Shidou couldn't help but sigh.

"Should I be happy or upset as a date?"

Meng Yue scratched her hair and sighed.

"Speaking of which, what happened to Yui and Yoshino? They suddenly disappeared in the past two days."

"Sigh... I just went to Lingyin's place for a physical examination."

Shidou said with a guilty conscience.

"Is that so?" Meng Yue looked at Shidao's expression thoughtfully, and just when Shidao thought Meng Yue had seen through his lie, Meng Yue suddenly nodded in understanding.

"Well, let's not talk about Yoshino for now. If Yui disappeared mysteriously, Yakuya would probably be so overwhelmed that he would burst into tears as usual."

After hearing Mengyue's words, Shidao felt a little heavy. Just as Mengyue said, when he was dating Yakuya yesterday, Yakuya even pulled him to a deserted alley and lay on his lap and cried loudly.

It was also at that time that Shidao really made up his mind to find the true identity of Nanashi no matter what.

"So, where are we going?"