Spicy Pills!

In the classroom, Fu Hua's hand still hung in midair, her fingertips trembling faintly.

The light in the classroom suddenly grew harsh, the sunlight streaming through the window casting their silhouettes onto the blackboard.

Ye Li suddenly laughed.

He reached out and grasped Fu Hua's frozen wrist, a warm sensation following. "My dear class monitor, don't look at me with that guilty expression—people will think you abandoned me after leading me on."

"But your body..." Fu Hua turned her hand to press against his pulse, the unique perception of a Fusion Warrior rippling outward. "Why is it so frail?"

The noise outside the window abruptly stilled.

Ye Li looked down at their intertwined hands, memories seeming to return to those years in Shenzhou.

"After the Final Battle ended, I heard an echo from an existence on a higher dimension than the Imaginary Tree."

Ye Li bent his arm and turned to look out the window. "As a reward for saving the world, It asked if I had any unfulfilled wishes."

Fu Hua's pupils suddenly contracted, as if she anticipated the words the man before her was about to speak.

"Hua, you should know that no matter how many years pass or how many things happen, my wish has always been only one..."

As Ye Li spoke, many familiar figures surfaced in Fu Hua's mind, along with that touch of pink beauty.

"Using myself in exchange for everything we have now—a pretty good deal, isn't it?"

Then, Ye Li briefly explained the whole story to Fu Hua.

Looking at the calm-faced Ye Li, Fu Hua finally understood why the world was forgetting him, why even powerful people like Kiana and Kevin couldn't break through the memory seals.

She suddenly pressed down on his shoulder, her expression agitated. "How long has this state of yours lasted?"

"Shh—" Ye Li raised his index finger to her pale lips. "Class monitor, stop asking. If you keep going, I'll have to charge you."

He turned his head toward the back door of the classroom, where Kiana's noisy voice came through, complaining about being hungry and wanting to eat.

Fu Hua took a deep breath, looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar young man before her.

Back then, she had also smiled like that, shielding the heavily wounded him behind her, saying, "Leave the rest to me."

"So, is there anything I can do?" She took off her plain glasses, the flames of the Red Kite awakening in her eyes.

"Of course—pretend nothing happened and keep being my good class monitor. And then..." Ye Li pulled out a crumpled class fee collection slip like a magician. "Help me cover these past few months' fees. Of course, I'll pay you back once I earn the money—as an exchange..."

He suddenly leaned close to Fu Hua's ear, his warm breath brushing against her reddening earlobe. "I can tell you some of Kevin's little-known dark history."

Footsteps in the hallway grew closer.

Fu Hua looked at the young man's reflection on the glass window—that faint shadow appeared eerily transparent in the sunlight.

She suddenly reached out and grabbed Ye Li's school tie, pulling him off balance with surprising force.

"If you ever dare to leave without saying goodbye again," she bit out, her words carrying the frost of Taixu Mountain's summit, "I'll make you taste Inch-Punch Sky Splitting!"

The classroom door slammed open, and Kiana and the other two were stunned by what they saw.

In their eyes, the model student representative, Class Monitor Fu Hua, was actually pinning a boy down on the desk.

And that boy was wailing face-down on the desk: "Class monitor, I'm sorry, but I really don't have the money to pay the class fees!"

Fu Hua pushed up her glasses and slapped the collection slip on top of his head. "Make sure it's all paid before the end of this month."

The sunlight began to flow again, and no one saw the half-piece of crimson feather faintly visible in the girl's hand hidden behind her back.

The edges of that feather were scorched black, like a crest that had just passed through the Fire Chasing.

"So, class monitor, you were just collecting the class fees?"

Kiana stared in shock at Fu Hua, who was eating slowly and carefully beside her, losing her own appetite in the process.

Remembering that she herself owed class fees this month because of reckless spending, Kiana felt a bit uneasy.

"Um... class monitor..."

To prevent herself from being the next one pinned to the desk, Kiana quickly explained, "Sometimes being late on class fees isn't really my fault... or that guy's fault either. Maybe he ran into something?"

After taking a few more bites, Fu Hua put down her chopsticks and looked at Kiana.

Kiana felt a chill under Fu Hua's gaze and asked cautiously, "Class monitor, wh-what's wrong? Is there something on my face?"

Fu Hua shook her head, then turned to look at Raiden Mei and Bronya in turn.

After some probing, Fu Hua had understood what Ye Li meant by "forgetting."

Even though she had clearly told Kiana and the other two Ye Li's name, they would always forget the memories related to him soon after.

Moreover, in Fu Hua's initial perception, Kiana and the others were no different from ordinary people, with no visible supernatural power in their bodies.

But as her perception deepened, Fu Hua still discovered the power sealed layer upon layer deep within the three of them.

"As expected, aside from you, everyone else is the same as before," Fu Hua thought to herself.

Remembering that the peace and beauty she and everyone else now enjoyed were all bought with Ye Li's sacrifice, Fu Hua felt an unbearable ache in her heart.

Recalling the moments she had shared with Ye Li in the past, Fu Hua decided she had to do something for him.

Even if she couldn't share the pain of the world's curse, at least she could make his life a little easier.

Bang!

Fu Hua abruptly stood up, picked up her tray, and prepared to leave.

This sudden move left the three little ones beside her completely baffled.

Watching Fu Hua, who was bustling about ready to go, Kiana asked weakly, "Class monitor, leaving in such a hurry—is something urgent going on?"

Fu Hua didn't look back. She packed up her tray on her own and turned to walk away.

Just as the three exchanged bewildered glances, Fu Hua's voice drifted back on the wind: "I'm going to find Ye Li."

After hearing Fu Hua's words, the three fell into a brief silence.

Watching Fu Hua's retreating figure, Bronya squinted her eyes, sensing that things weren't so simple.

"Based on my understanding of the class monitor, a bookworm like her wouldn't suddenly take an interest in someone for no reason—especially not a guy."

So, the truth is only one!

And that is...

Just then, Kiana suddenly let out a strange yelp, her face lighting up with realization: "Ah! I get it! The class monitor is going to find that guy to collect the class fees!"

Bronya: ...

Ignoring Bronya's expression as if she were looking at an idiot, Kiana continued on her own, "Look, someone as responsible as the class monitor wouldn't forget a single thing, so right after eating, she rushed off to find that guy to collect the overdue class fees..."

Thinking this over, Kiana silently mourned for that handsome guy for a few seconds.

"Ah~ Who told you to go and owe class fees?"

As she spoke, Kiana picked a meatball from Raiden Mei's tray and popped it into her mouth.

But before she could even chew a few times, Kiana suddenly remembered that she wasn't the only one in the class who owed class fees—there was also...

Herself!

Recalling the miserable scene she'd seen in the classroom after school, Kiana's wail echoed through the cafeteria.

"Game over!!!"