"What do you think!"
"Why did it have to be my senior year of high school? Third-year coursework is the hardest, and everyone around me already has their own little circles. Transferring in halfway through at a time like this—senior year is the toughest school year, isn't it?" Lin Yan had merely followed along with Yoru Akatsuki's words.
"...Of course it is, isn't it?" Yoru Akatsuki's tone suddenly changed. He was not always so frivolous.
After all, he was from the institute.
And he was no rookie, either.
"I think I told you already. The ReLIFE Project exists to test an experiment that gives NEETs a new life. What meaning would it have if it were too easy?"
His gaze was incomparably solemn.
A smile curled at Lin Yan's lips, and that smile made Yoru Akatsuki's heart skip a beat.
Romance
This time, Yoru Akatsuki might truly have encountered someone difficult to handle. This did not seem to match the information in his files, either. If he had not already verified it, he would have suspected that he had found the wrong person.
"You're not wrong."
"Thank you for understanding──" Yoru Akatsuki returned to his earlier expression, though inwardly, he had already formed a much higher opinion of Lin Yan and decided to pay special attention to him from now on.
"Ah, right! Besides me, there's another transfer student, isn't there?"
"Yeah. I think her name is... Onoya?"
"Could she... also be a test subject?"
"Why not ask her and find out?"
"Huh!?"
"Excuse me, are you participating in the ReLIFE Project?" Yoru suddenly raised his voice.
"That came out of nowhere. I'm not some weirdo!"
"All right, jokes aside, we choose schools that are easy to blend into for the ReLIFE Project, where transfer students are common. Maybe because