Corner-of-the-Street Romantic Drama (Winter Is Most Comfortable When Huddled Under the Covers)

Actually, after dealing with Sakurajima Mai's trouble back then, Duanmu Huai had become interested in the strange phenomenon that had happened to her.

But that interest had gone nowhere, and he hadn't investigated further.

The reason was simple: Duanmu Huai wasn't a theorist.

If Ranni, Rumiere, or Frieren had been there, they might have been able to use theories to explain what had happened to Sakurajima Mai, formulate some kind of hypothesis, and then investigate further.

But Duanmu Huai didn't have that sort of ability. What he was better at was figuring out where to go, who to kill, and how many to kill.

Sakurajima Mai herself had no clue about the situation, so Duanmu Huai naturally had even less. The only thing he could do was keep Sakurajima Mai by his side and observe the situation, like waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump.

He hadn't expected that the rabbit would actually bring him a carrot.

Adolescence Syndrome.

A strange set of symptoms that only boys and girls in adolescence could develop. The number of victims was unknown, but if all the posts on the message board were treated as genuine, then there were quite a few.

The problem didn't end there. As Sakurajima Mai had said, if many people had developed symptoms like hers but had disappeared because nobody had observed them, then this was undoubtedly some kind of threat to humanity.

As an Inquisitor, Duanmu Huai obviously couldn't simply ignore it.

If Duanmu Huai had to guess, he was inclined to think that this might be an effect caused by some kind of Warp Space infiltration.

The fusion of Warp Space and the real world could affect reality. One such effect was turning ordinary people into beings who seemed to possess some kind of