Captain, You Can't Rest Yet~

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What outrageous laziness! It had been 3 hours, 32 minutes, and 51 seconds since this video was released, yet the uploader still hadn't updated!

Even a production team's donkey didn't get this much rest!

"Damn it~ Why was this video so short?! I haven't gotten enough cuddling with Mei yet!"

Even Kiana, who was usually so carefree, had to admit that this video had completely thrown her emotions into disarray.

And perhaps because the footage was so realistic, Kiana even felt as if she had truly experienced these events before, only to forget them afterward.

Ring-ring~

As the dismissal bell rang, Kiana ignored the history teacher who had yet to leave the classroom. She grabbed her phone and sprinted toward Raiden Mei at top speed.

"Mei, Mei! I've got something great to show you! Come on, come on!"

However, just as Kiana reached Raiden Mei's side and prepared to replay the video, a fiery-red figure suddenly appeared beside them.

"Student Kiana, what are you watching that's so interesting? Could you let your teacher have a look too?" Himeko, their homeroom teacher, asked with a "kind" smile.

With her mind entirely on Mei, Kiana waved impatiently. "I'm busy right now! If you want to watch it, go look on P-site yourself. It's number one on the trending list—"

Suddenly realizing who the voice belonged to, Kiana froze completely, as though she had been hit by a petrification spell.

Seeing that Kiana had already crashed, Himeko showed no intention of letting her off.

"Oh? Is that so? But what if your teacher doesn't have a phone? How about lending yours to me, Student Kiana?"

With a "Hand it over!"

Himeko waved her hand, and the phone in Kiana's grasp vanished in an instant.

"Ah! My phone!" Kiana cried. "No, Himeko! I haven't finished showing it to Mei yet!"

Seeing that Kiana still showed no remorse, a vein visibly popped up on Himeko's forehead.

"Kiana Kaslana! Are you ever going to stop?!"

Himeko's furious roar echoed through the classroom. "Using your phone during class would have been bad enough, but what makes your teacher the angriest is that you made a mistake and still don't feel the slightest shame or remorse..."

"You really are... such a disappointment to your teacher!!! Move it! Come to the office with me!"

With that, Himeko held Kiana's phone in one hand and tugged on Kiana's ear with the other, dragging her out of the classroom.

She left behind a baffled Raiden Mei and the other students, all standing there in complete confusion.

However, on the other side of the classroom, in the last row by the window,

a handsome boy watched Kiana being dragged away by Himeko with a smile, as though the entire scene was immensely entertaining.

Just as the boy watched their retreating figures and sank into his memories, a cool female voice suddenly sounded beside him.

"Student Ye Li, sorry for the trouble, but please hand over last month's class fee. You've owed it for many days already, and if it's convenient, this month's class fee as well..."

Ye Li, pulled from his memories, followed the voice and saw a gray-haired girl wearing red glasses.

Ye Li broke into a smile, rose from his seat, and walked toward her. "Class monitor Fu Hua, I think you're a little strange today."

Fu Hua looked puzzled and instinctively touched her cheek. "Student Ye Li, what's strange about me?"

"Strangely cute." With that, Ye Li coolly left the classroom, leaving Fu Hua's face flushed red.

It was a long while before Fu Hua pulled herself out of her embarrassment. Then, seeing the empty seat before her, she finally realized...

How had he slipped away again!!!

Meanwhile.

Ye Li wandered aimlessly through the campus, feeling the gentle breeze and hearing the heartfelt laughter around him.

What a beautiful world~

Of course, it would be even better if I were financially free...

At that moment, groups of girls passed by Ye Li, chatting about the hottest topic on campus.

"Princess Kiana was so cool! I really want to cuddle with her!"

"Me too, me too! Young Lady Mei is great too. I want to cuddle with both of them!"

"You're dreaming! Still, I'm curious. How did those two busy campus celebrities even find time to shoot a movie in Canghai City..."

???

Shoot a movie? What the hell?!

It had been an entirely normal conversation, but Ye Li was suddenly dumbfounded as he listened.

Since when had Kiana and Mei gone to Canghai City to shoot a movie?

And from the sound of it, they had filmed some special-effects blockbuster that had even made P-site's trending list?

Could it be that, while I didn't know, those two little ones had secretly debuted as idols?

Ye Li pulled out his phone in confusion and opened P-site as he walked.

However, when he saw the title of the number one trending video on P-site, his breathing immediately quickened.

After taking several deep breaths to prepare himself mentally, Ye Li shakily tapped open the video.

When he saw that the uploader's ID was miHoYo's First Idol Ai-chan, Ye Li still refused to give up and comforted himself. Maybe it was just someone with the same name?

However, when Ye Li saw his white-haired self appear in the video and slaughter Honkai Beasts left and right, the heart he had been holding onto finally died.

The blinding sunlight fell over him, yet Ye Li could not feel the slightest warmth.

Vaguely, Ye Li seemed to see a girl with two green cabbages atop her head grinning at him.

"Captain, you can't rest yet~"

Ye Li: Aminos!

After confirming the video's authenticity again and again, Ye Li weakly leaned against the corridor wall, staring out the window with lifeless eyes.

He had originally just been an ordinary shut-in on Earth, living a plain and ordinary life every day.

Every day, he made sure to go to bed no later than eleven and drank a glass of milk before sleeping to ensure a good night's rest.

He neither smoked nor drank, and at most, he played a few games.

Yet because of that hobby, gaming, he had been chosen by the World Will as a savior and embarked upon a road of no return.

After many years of striving to save the world, he had finally been able to retire and become an ordinary high school student.

But now, an exposed video had caught him completely off guard.

I was such a fool, truly.

Ye Li had thought he could peacefully enjoy a quiet life, but in the end, he still could not escape the exploitation of that black-hearted capitalist, the "World Will."

And what terrified Ye Li even more was that

as more and more exposure videos appeared, the curse called "forgetting" that he carried would gradually fade away.

That also meant that he would no longer be able to peacefully remain an inconspicuous nobody whom people easily overlooked.

Moreover, those connected to him were very likely to recover their memories of him...

Just thinking about all the emotional debts he had accumulated in the past was terrifying enough.

So...

To ensure his personal safety, should he flee to the South Pole or the North Pole next?

Or, more drastically, run to the moon?

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