On his second day in Kyoto, after finishing a day of special training, Ze Zenin received a text.
"Is it her?" Ze Zenin smiled as he recalled that girl who loved money.
"Then let's meet at a café. It's been ten years since we last saw each other..."
Ze Zenin typed out his reply and sent it, then began strolling through the streets of Kyoto.
It was his first visit to Kyoto in either of his lives. Looking at his surroundings, he couldn't help thinking of two other cities in his memories.
"Chang'an and Luoyang..."
For some reason, Ze Zenin found it strange. "I seem to have memories of living in China. I never thought of myself as Japanese, either."
"Forget it. Once everything here is over, I'll go back to China and have a look."
There was also that cold, mechanical voice in his head. He kept feeling as though some force was slicing apart fragments of his memories. His memories of before he came to this world were already hopelessly jumbled...
With those thoughts in mind, Ze Zenin arrived at an upscale café, sat beside a street-facing window, and idly began playing with his smartphone.
"Seems there's nothing to do except browse posts..." Ze Zenin sighed and said helplessly, "There really aren't enough ways to entertain myself."
"What's this?"
Ze Zenin was surprised to see a crow suddenly fly into the café. "Are crows that smart? They even know how to come into cafés?"
While he was marveling at it, a girl in a school uniform suddenly walked up beside him. She looked about eighteen.
Ze Zenin frowned, sensing trouble. He noticed a man still sitting at the girl's original table, looking so vicious that an ordinary person probably wouldn't dare glance at him.
The girl stood before