"I'm saying, Senpai, what are you trying to do again? What you're doing now is playing with fire, you know? And I'm seriously starting to doubt whether you're actually drunk!"
However, he received no answer from Mayumi.
It was not until his hand landed on that lotus-white arm, intending to move it aside, that Mayumi's voice drifted out again.
"Mahiro, stay with me tonight, okay...?"
Volume Two: Black Lolita
Crossing Over, Then Picking Up a High School Girl (5.2K)
"Damn, where the hell did this send me? Is this even Japan?"
The noon sun poured down from overhead as always, while piercing cicada cries echoed around him.
Yet what met his eyes was—
Unfamiliar streets, unfamiliar scenery, unfamiliar clothing on the pedestrians, and the puzzled looks they gave him.
Clearly, Mahiro was no longer in his original world.
He lowered his head to look at the ring on his hand. Its silver surface glimmered faintly in the sunlight.
That engraved memory immediately surfaced in his mind—my cumbersome formalities...
No.
He recalled what had happened before he appeared here.
He still remembered Mayumi the morning after that day: her disheveled hair, her drowsy, half-awake look, and especially the flustered yet bashful reaction she had when she discovered him lying beside her. Even now, it remained vivid in his memory.
A few days later, their trip ended, and they left the Ogasawara Islands.
Tatsuya had also returned after completing his mission.
But he had brought back an excavated holy relic—the Philosopher's Stone.
The military wanted him to decipher the Philosopher's Stone.
Tatsuya could not handle it alone, so he sought out Mahiro and hoped they could study it together.
However, the problem had arisen there.
Just as he, like Tatsuya, was conducting information-body analysis and tracing on the Philosopher's Stone, attempting to