This is not the date I wanted.

After school, lying on the rooftop, Shidao looked at the note in his hand. He breathed a sigh of relief, and the tense string in his heart instantly relaxed, and he felt his eyelids become heavy.

(Well…after all, I didn’t sleep all night last night.) 　

……

Just like that, Shidao fell asleep unconsciously. When he woke up again, the sky was already dyed red by the setting sun. 　

"Not good. I still have to go back and prepare dinner for everyone... huh?"

He rubbed his eyes and muttered to himself in confusion. Suddenly, Shidou felt a sense of disharmony. Unlike the hard touch of the floor on the rooftop before going to bed, there was a subtle soft touch under Shidou's head.

"Ah, what a cute sleeping posture, Mr. Shidou."

In Shidou's confused vision, a black-haired woman with strange eyes and ponytails of different lengths appeared.

"...Kyousan?" 　

"Well, it's me." 　

Kurumi smiled and nodded, gently stroked Shidao's hair, and said, 　

"You look very tired. It must have been hard to change the world, Mr. Shidou."

Hearing what Kurumi said, Shidou couldn't help but widen his eyes. As for changing the world, he had never mentioned it to anyone else except to Kotori once in a joking tone. 　

"——Kyousan?" 　

"Yes, I remember everything. Whether it's the things in the old world, origami, or--"

Nodding slightly, Kurumi looked at Shidao and gave him a meaningful smile.

"In this world——the things about Liang Yi Meng Yue."

"——!?" 　

At this moment, Shidou felt that he was completely awake.

05 The two people in Kuang San's eyes

==============================

"Kuang San, do you know Meng Yue?"

"Yeah, of course."

Kuang San smiled and nodded.

After getting a positive answer from Kurumi, Shidou could no longer hide his anxiety and asked urgently.

"Then tell me quickly, how is Meng Yue now? Is there anything wrong? Where is she now? Why is her spiritual power not sealed in this world? Why did she hide her identity from everyone? Is it related to the origami turning into an elf? What on earth is this world——"

"Hey - that's it."

Hitting Shidao's head with the butt of the flintlock pistol, Kurumi couldn't help but sigh helplessly.

"Calm down, Mr. Shidou. You've thrown so many questions at me all at once, and I don't know how to answer them."

"Hug, sorry..."

After calming down a little, Shidou lowered his head slightly ashamed.

Since the history was changed, everything that happened in this world has deviated from Shidao's memory. Since there is no one with the same memory to share these problems with, Shidao has been thinking hard by himself for the past two days. Now seeing Kurumi who has the same memory as him, his emotions are a little out of control for a while.

"It's okay. I understand that you are confused now, Mr. Shidao. After all, it is natural that you would be worried and lose your appetite when your friend of the opposite sex you have been keeping an eye on mysteriously disappears after you wake up~"

"Ahem, ahem——Kyousan…"

"Just kidding~"

Looking at Shidao's embarrassed expression, Kurumi curled up a playful smile.

"First, let me answer the question that Mr. Shidao cares about the most. Miss Mengyue is safe now."

"That's it..."

Hearing this answer, Shidao's shoulders relaxed involuntarily and he breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what happened, Meng Yue was safe and sound, which was better than anything else.

"Kyousan, does Mengyue have the same memory of the changed history as you?"

After feeling relieved, Shidou asked a question that had been on his mind for the past few days.

During the two days of investigation, Shidao had a general idea of ​​what happened to Origami in this world, although it was not fully understood yet.

Among these, Shidao did not see any factors that could affect the history related to Mengyue.

Maybe I missed something, but compared to using the changes caused by the butterfly effect due to historical changes, it seems more convincing that Mengyue took actions that were different from history based on her own consciousness.

"Yes, that's right."

Kuang San nodded without denying it, then seemed to feel something was wrong, tilted her head and corrected it,

"Although she does have the memories of the previous world, Miss Mengyue's situation is slightly different."

"What does it mean?"

Kurumi replied with a shrug.

"Well, I don't know where to start if you ask me to explain, but in my opinion, this is not something that Mr. Shidou needs to worry about."

"?"

Shidou scratched his hair in confusion. Although he was a little concerned, Kurumi said it was okay, so Shidou didn't ask any more questions in this regard.

Rather, he has more important questions to ask now.

"Since she has memories... then why did Meng Yue leave... why did she hide her name from everyone?"

As he spoke, Shidou pursed his lips unconsciously, and a bitter sound escaped from his mouth.

"Isn't this...her home?"

"...Really? These two people...they say the same thing..."

Kurumi muttered quietly and sighed helplessly.

"Regarding this question, Mr. Shidao, you should wait until you meet Meng Yue and then ask her in person."

Hearing what Kurumi said, Shidao couldn't help but show surprise in his eyes.

"Kuang San, do you know where Meng Yue is now?"

"Yes, I know." Kuang San nodded gently and replied, "Ms. Meng Yue is in Tiangong City now."

Mengyue is in Tiangong City?

Shidou felt his body trembling slightly, and he bowed his head to Kurumi and pleaded.

"Please, Kuang San, can you take me to see Meng Yue?"

"No."

Kurumi's words instantly made Shidou's excitement plummet to the bottom.

"Even if you look at me with such an aggrieved expression, I am still embarrassed, Mr. Shidao." Kuang San smiled bitterly and shook her head, "It's not that I want you to meet Miss Mengyue, but even I only know that Miss Mengyue is staying in Tiangong City, and I don't know the specific location."

"You don't know either, Kuang San?"

"Yes, even I, who was scattered throughout the city, couldn't find Miss Meng Yue's whereabouts. What a terrible hiding skill."

"That's it..."

Shidou nodded to show that he could accept it. In his impression, Mengyue did have many skills that were not related to elves, but also slightly out of line with daily life. Disguise, voice change, if he used hacking technology to invade the surveillance cameras in the city, as long as Mengyue didn't want others to see it, even Kurumi wouldn't be able to find it.

"Besides, Mr. Shidou should be more concerned about Miss Origami than Miss Mengyue."

"Forehead--"

Shidou was speechless. Indeed, although Meng Yue's whereabouts were unknown, there was no need to worry about it at the moment. On the contrary, Origami's side, the reversal spirit and so on - could not be ignored as a small matter.

"Indeed, I am a little confused."

After taking a deep breath, Shidou gradually calmed down and prepared to ask Kurumi again.

"Kyousan, do you know what happened to Origami--"

——"Satan (The Savior of the World)."

At this moment, an ominous voice sounded in Shidao's ears.

Time goes back a few seconds——

After school, Origami returned home and suddenly found that the hairpin on her head was missing.

Although it was just a worthless trinket, if it was lost, one could find a similar one in the store. But since it was a gift from her deceased mother, it was a different matter.

I walked back to school along the route I remembered, searching the school gate, corridors, classrooms, elevators and other places.

Finally, Origami arrived at the entrance of the rooftop where she had talked with Gokawa Shido during lunch break.

"Ah—I found it."

In the corner of a staircase, Origami found her hairpin.

Origami picked up the hairpin that fell on the ground, wiped the dust off it, and put it preciously into the pocket of her school uniform.

It seems that it fell off after talking with Shidou. At that time, I knew that the other party was the younger brother of the boy at that time, and he asked me out on a date. I was so flustered that I didn't notice that the hairpin fell off.

"Eh?"

Through the window glass, Origami saw two figures on the rooftop.

One of them is Shido Gokawa who is in the same class.

The other one is the elf "Nightmare" wearing a black and red skirt.

"——————————————————!"

The moment I realized this fact.

Tobiichi Origami's vision was eroded by the turbid darkness.

Back to the present————

"Origami?!"

Turning around suddenly, Shidou saw Tobiichi Origami standing at the entrance of the rooftop.

However, the Origami at this moment was not the Origami that Shidou had talked to before.

Countless dark particles like dust gathered towards Origami from the atmosphere, as if night had fallen around Origami in advance, and the darkness like a spider web wrapped Origami in it.

The next moment, Tobiichi Origami changed into a long black dress that looked like mourning clothes.

"Spiritual outfit..."

Shidou stared at Origami's clothes with wide eyes.

Spiritual outfit, the absolute armor that protects the elves.

Shidou had seen this spiritual outfit before. There was no doubt that this was the spiritual outfit that Origami, the reversed Origami, wore in the world before history was changed.

Shidou gritted his teeth and spoke bitterly.

"As expected - the Devil is you... Origami. Even if I changed history, you still can't be saved?"

"..."

Origami didn't make any reply. No, strictly speaking, she didn't hear what Shidou said at all. Her dull eyes were now looking straight in the direction of Kurumi.

At the same time, the dark "wings" floating in the sky also followed Origami's line of sight and pointed towards Kurumi.

"——Kadour!"

Kurumi jumped into the air, and several rays of light emitted from the front of the "wings" shot towards the place where Kurumi had been standing until now, destroying the school building, pushing straight towards the guardrail and breaking through the guardrail.

"That's a rather rude greeting indeed."

As she spoke, Kuang San pulled the trigger of the pistol in her hand, and instantly a bullet like a black shadow shot out from the muzzle and attacked Origami directly.

However, the "wings" surrounding Origami formed a shield, blocking the incoming bullets.

The remaining "wings" rushed in front of Kurumi and shot a pitch-black laser at her who was completely defenseless.

"Kyouzo" was absolutely certain that she would be dismembered into pieces by the light and then die.

however--