"Sigh, I suppose this is the only way..." Itsuki Koizumi smiled helplessly. For now, their world was still perfectly normal. Aside from the Closed Space that was supposed to exist, there were no little monsters invading Tokyo, no aliens visiting Earth, no districts suddenly overflowing with vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings.
Everything... was still fairly normal.
As for Jiu Ming, the strange part was simply that Haruhi's luck was absurdly good. She had gone to the bathroom and somehow ended up where Jiu Ming was.
"But come to think of it, I've never been to another world before. This is a rare chance for a trip, isn't it?" After grumbling for a while, Kyon returned to normal. Since he no longer had to worry about something utterly screwed-up happening to this world... at least not for the time being, he began thinking about other matters, such as other worlds. "Didn't you say before that we couldn't go?"
"That was before," Jiu Ming replied. "I did a little summarizing. The reason you can't go to other worlds is the unique repulsive force each world possesses. My place is like a transit station—you can stay there, and you can return to your own world, but you don't have a 'pass' for other worlds, so naturally you can't enter them."
"So you got us passes?" Kyon asked.
"No!" Jiu Ming answered without even thinking.
Kyon gulped hard. "I think this world only has three days left to live... I'm taking my family and emigrating! Your place is huge, right? A few more people definitely won't be a problem, right?!"
"Why are you getting so worked up? I haven't finished speaking yet. Yuki, how did it go?"
"Very smoothly. Next comes the practical test." Yuki raised the hands she had kept beneath the