With winter's arrival, the atmosphere throughout the school had become unusually heated. There was only one reason for it...
Valentine's Day!
"Big brother, Valentine's Day is coming up again soon, you know?"
After Fang Zheng returned home, Mikana even specifically reminded him of it. Hearing her words, his expression changed slightly.
"Mikana, please prepare some stomach medicine for me."
"Sure, no problem."
"...???"
Eve and Laplace looked rather curious as they listened to Mikana and Fang Zheng's conversation.
"Mikana, what are you talking about? Valentine's Day?"
"Ah, Eve, you didn't know?"
"I've read about Valentine's Day in books. It says it's Saint Valentine's Day, and it's..."
"That stuff written in books is completely meaningless."
Fang Zheng sat on the sofa and waved a hand wearily.
"It's like Christmas. Who cares what it was originally supposed to be? Now everyone just treats it as an ordinary holiday."
"Is Valentine's Day the same?"
"Valentine's Day is when girls give chocolate to boys they like."
Mikana cheerfully explained it to the two of them.
"Actually, ever since elementary school, big brother has always received lots of chocolate from girls."
"I couldn't turn it down, and I couldn't throw it away. I had to eat all of it... Back then, I was really afraid I'd get diabetes."
Thinking back on those days made Fang Zheng shudder all over. He had often received chocolate in other worlds before, but back then he had been in dragon form. In this world, however, he was just an ordinary person. The amount of chocolate an ordinary elementary school student consumed... Fang Zheng had truly feared he would get chocolate poisoning and drop dead on the spot.
He hadn't been poisoned, but he had gotten cavities several times afterward. Going to the dentist was every human's worst nightmare, and