"I... I remember now. You're that idol who disappeared, Franklin!"
After a brief moment of bewilderment, Rockefeller suddenly realized where he had seen this blond young man before.
Wasn't the blond young man before him Franklin, the rising idol who had often appeared on television a while back? His younger sister adored him. When she heard he had disappeared, she had been upset for several days.
"Yes, that's one of the names I used before. You can call me Franklin if you like."
Xia Xiu smiled, tossed the notebook onto the desk, and slowly rose from his chair.
At 1.9 meters tall, Xia Xiu forced Rockefeller to look up at him. After all, Rockefeller was still a student, barely over 1.7 meters tall.
"You..."
The blond young man's presence put so much pressure on Rockefeller that he did not know what to say for a moment. He opened his mouth to ask what had just happened, but the air of mystery surrounding the young man left him unsure how to begin.
"You want to know what happened to you just now, don't you?"
Xia Xiu narrowed his golden eyes slightly. An exceptionally warm smile hung on his lips, making him seem as approachable as a boy next door.
"Y-yes."
Looking at the blond young man's exceptionally warm smile, Rockefeller felt much of his nervousness ease. He silently told himself, He's a good person.
"From the perspective of Thaumaturgy Studies, what happened to you was that you were affected by [entry meme contamination] called [institutionalization]. This [entry contamination] has two sides.
"On one hand, it gradually makes people adapt to and identify with certain rules and systems within a specific environment. On the other, it eliminates those who don't fit into that environment. As for how it eliminates them, you've already