After You Wake Up

Gakuen Island.

In just three months, no trace of time has been left on this artificial island that has been built for who knows how many years.

Under a clear sky, gentle sunlight streamed down, illuminating the Gakuen Island, which borders the Empty Land Island, revealing its slender and peculiar shape.

Originally built as an airplane runway, the artificial island remains unchanged today, sitting quietly on the coast.

Not long after, a shooting star streaked across the sky and fell towards the direction of Gakuen Island.

It is currently afternoon.

In about an hour, evening will fall.

"At this time of day, Armed Detective High School should be dismissed by now, right?"

Fang Li walked down the street, adjusting her breathing.

Adjusting your breathing is because you've used up too much energy.

As mentioned before, using the Hermes Long Boots ' flight effect consumes an equal amount or even more stamina. Therefore, Fang Li almost completely exhausted his stamina after flying here from the sea at top speed.

Right now, it's only recovered a little bit.

"Fortunately, it wasn't very far, otherwise we might have died of exhaustion at sea."

As he said this, Fang Li headed towards the direction of his own boys' dormitory.

At this moment, Fang Li had changed into the Bulletproof Uniform of the Armed Detective High School. Even though he had been in Fang Li Black Ring for quite some time, the suit-style student uniform had not left any traces of time.

Then, as evening fell, Fang Li finally returned to his room.

"Click..."

With a soft click, Fang Li used his long-preserved Key Card to open the door and stepped into the entryway.

Three months later, Fang Li's room seemed to have remained unchanged, without a speck of dust, just as before.

Seeing this, Fang Li could be certain.

"It must be Shirayuki who has been cleaning my room, right?"

Fang Li a wry smile, Fang Li tiptoed into the room.

Fang Li was the only person living here to begin with.

Although it had been three whole months since he had returned, no other person had moved into the room.

In a regular school, if a student hasn't returned to their dormitory for three months, even if they aren't expelled, the dormitory might be reassigned to another student.

But Armed Detective High School is not an ordinary school. Even though three months is equivalent to a semester, nowadays, the first semester is probably almost over. However, there are examples of high-level armed detectives taking this long to go out on missions. As long as you have enough credits, there will be no problem.

Fang Li, as one of the few S-Rank Armed Detective at Armed Detective High School, has always been very active in carrying out missions due to his past Main Quest. He is a well-known workaholic and has already earned enough credits.

As long as there are enough credits, the Armed Detective High School would not simply let a supernova who could become an S-Rank Armed Detective in his student days leave the school.

Therefore, this room still belongs to Fang Li.

"Um?"

Just as Fang Li was about to return to his bedroom to charge his dead phone so he could make contact, a rhythmic breathing sound in the living room caught his attention.

Is anyone there?

Fang Li was somewhat surprised.

Because there are only two people who possess the Key Card to Fang Li's room.

One is Shirayuki.

However, S-Lab courses are generally the type that end relatively late, and in the evening, it's usually not even time for classes to end yet.

In other words...

Fang Li slowly walked into the living room.

The next second, Fang Li saw it.

On the sofa in the living room, a young girl was lying on her side with her head on her arm, her eyes closed, lost in a dream.

Pink twin tails.

A petite body.

A youthful face.

Cute appearance.

Who else could it be but Aria?

At this moment, the girl lay on the sofa, asleep, muttering in her sleep, unable to hide her exhaustion and helplessness.

"Fang Li..."

The extremely faint yet crystal-clear sound left Fang Li speechless.

Under these circumstances, Aria's eyes seemed to well up with a few tears.

"Come back soon..."

The sound was like she was about to cry, which was incredibly heartbreaking.

Fang Li then lifted Fang Li feet and slowly walked towards Aria's direction. He squatted down in front of the sofa, reached out, and smoothed Aria's bangs.

Looking at Aria's exhausted and powerless state, Fang Li sighed.

"It seems I really came back too late."

The time ratio between the Main God Space and the Instance World is inherently variable. Only when someone applies to enter Personal World will the ratio be set at 1:10.

Therefore, sometimes the time flow in the Instance World is slower, while the time flow in the Main God Space is faster.

Therefore, it is possible that Fang Li returned to this world, but less than a second had actually passed.

The only thing that can be said for sure is this.

That is, no matter what, once you enter a Instance World, unless there are special circumstances, when you enter again, the timeline will not be earlier than when you left, and you will not be able to go back to the past or travel through time.

When a Main God Envoy returns to the same Instance World, the shortest time will be only one second, and the longest time will be no more than one year.

Therefore, Fang Li was not worried that he would return to find that hundreds of years had passed and everyone he knew had turned to dust.

That's why Fang Li wasn't in a hurry to come back.

However, what Fang Li saw before him told him the Fang Li.

Regardless, those who are going to worry about you will still worry about you.

"Sorry..."

Softly murmuring, Fang Li wiped away the tears from Aria's eyes.

"Hmm..."

At this moment, Aria finally let out a soft moan, her lovely brows furrowed slightly a few times, and then she slowly opened her eyes.

As Aria kneeling in front of her, wiping the Fang Li of her eyes.

Aria was stunned.

Just as Fang Li was wondering how Aria would react, Aria said something to herself, as if talking to herself.

"Were you dreaming again?"

In one sentence, he revealed a heartbreaking truth.

Under these circumstances, Aria gently propped herself up and rested her forehead against Fang Li's chest.

Immediately, he rose in a low voice.

When are you finally coming back?

Upon hearing this, Fang Li finally fell silent.

So Fang Li reached out and slowly embraced Aria.

He murmured softly to Aria, who was in his arms.

"After you wake up."

These words, which sounded like words of comfort, prompted Aria to respond with a sense of relief.

"You can't lie to me..."

"Otherwise, I'll make holes in you..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Aria's breathing became steady once again.

He had obviously fallen asleep again.

Fang Li did not speak again.

He simply held the sleeping girl in his arms, remaining silent.