"Sorry, but we can't casually disclose students' personal information. If you're really friends, you shouldn't have had to come all the way here..."
Faced with the staff member's puzzled gaze and questions, Tara and Chen Mingming didn't say much. They casually gave a couple of replies before hurriedly leaving.
They had said they were looking for that person, but all Tara had thought to do was check the information he had registered with the library, then come to this school to look for him.
In the university district, however, students could generally enter and leave different schools freely, so it hadn't been difficult for the two of them to find this university's administrative office.
When they came, Tara had boasted confidently.
"Sorry... I really didn't expect him to have already dropped out."
Chen Mingming shook his head without saying anything.
This had originally been a very strange matter, and it had been somewhat beyond Chen Mingming's expectations for how daily life should proceed... just like that mysterious place he had once visited. Both were filled with the feeling of the unexpected.
He was someone who planned everything carefully. He had always believed that as long as something had been planned out, even if deviations occurred, they should still be controllable.
Tara sat down somewhat dejectedly on a chair in the walkway beneath this school's staff building. Half joking and half helpless, she said, "Well, there we go. You borrowed the books that person had read, and now you've even learned how to leave the country!"
Chen Mingming lowered his head, seemingly lost in thought.
Without a doubt, Tara was a girl full of fanciful ideas... or rather, she had very few restraints. She squatted in front of Chen Mingming, propped her chin up with both hands, and looked up at