"Damn it!" Haruhi Suzumiya rubbed her butt and muttered under her breath.
No one could harm anyone else inside the bar, so Haruhi Suzumiya had not actually been hurt at all, nor did her butt feel any pain.
But the God-Beating Whip's deterrent effect on Haruhi Suzumiya was probably like... someone terrified of caterpillars seeing a basin-sized ball of countless caterpillars writhing together.
And now Chen Luo was using that giant caterpillar ball to smack her butt.
Every time the God-Beating Whip touched Haruhi Suzumiya, she felt a chill rise from the depths of her soul.
It did not hurt, but it was genuinely awful.
"Come to think of it, haven't you been skipping school for several days?" Chen Luo suddenly recalled.
"Wait, don't hit me! I'm telling you, I wasn't skipping class, the school's on break!" Still haunted by what had just happened, Haruhi Suzumiya hurriedly defended herself before Chen Luo made any move at all.
"Just yesterday, the school announced a break. It seemed to be called the Carbon-Based Lifeform Festival. We get seven days off." Haruhi Suzumiya explained.
"..."
Chen Luo froze for a moment.
What kind of ridiculous holiday was that?
But he quickly understood. This had to be Haruhi Suzumiya's doing. She had probably wanted a vacation badly enough to explore Different Worlds that the entire world had suddenly gained some bizarre new holiday.
Carbon-Based Lifeform Festival... Chen Luo really wanted to know whether aliens and the like celebrated it too.
Then again, it was actually a pretty good holiday.
There was no need to worry about things like what the children would do with a holiday suddenly appearing, or whether they would stop studying.
Before World Destruction, those were all minor concerns.
What if Haruhi Suzumiya hated going to school so much and wanted