(Heartfelt thanks to Yunqi Qinggu, Xin Hun Luopo, and Youcai Luobo for their rewards!)
(The support in July didn't seem very strong. Had this really started going downhill? It was already nearly three million words... [teary-eyed]...)
When Wu Yan and the others returned to the Itsuka Household and stepped through the front door, they were greeted by Shiori, who came charging out with a face full of terror, looking as though she had seen a ghost. Everyone was startled.
After a chaotic commotion, Shiori finally calmed down enough to tremblingly explain to Wu Yan and the others what had happened...
Only after Shiori finished explaining did Wu Yan and the others realize, drenched in cold sweat, that the root cause of why Shiori had looked as though she had seen a ghost was actually them...
This was an Instance World, where the time ratio compared to the Sparlier World was 100:1. If Wu Yan left the Instance World, time within it would stop flowing...
Therefore, Shiori had no idea that Wu Yan and the others had already been gone from this world for quite some time!
The problem was that when they left this world, Tohka and Yoshino had been with Shiori!
Thus, time in the world of Date A Live had remained at the moment when Shiori, Tohka, and Yoshino were still chatting...
But in the Sparlier World, Wu Yan had summoned the four Spirit girls. Tohka and Yoshino, who had been with Shiori, had left her side. When they returned to this world with Wu Yan and time began flowing again, the result was...
Tohka and Yoshino had suddenly vanished right before Shiori's eyes!
Poor Shiori had been happily chatting with Tohka and Yoshino one moment, only for two living people to disappear before her eyes the next.