Ross finally accepted reality: even leaving Wushan Town had not freed him from the clutches of the demon queen Annie.
After gathering the shattered pieces of his heart, Ross prepared to find Linley and the others. They had agreed to meet at Linley's dormitory, 1987, after unpacking. Since he had a dormitory with its own private courtyard, he had no roommates to meet. He casually tossed his bundle into his room and prepared to head out to find Linley.
"Hi, hello! Are you a new student who enrolled this year too?"
Rhodes had barely stepped outside when a voice came from behind him. Ross looked back and saw a blond boy with an exceptionally sunny air standing behind him.
What made Ross somewhat uncomfortable, however, was that the sunlight, which was not particularly dazzling, fell across the boy's brightly smiling face and made Ross feel, for a moment, as though he were looking at the sun.
That's a little too sunny, Ross silently grumbled.
"Hello, my name is Ross. Yes, I enrolled this year." You could hardly hit someone who greeted you with a smile, much less a boy whose smile was so "sunny."
"My name is Andrew Ishudale. Just call me Andrew. I live next door to you, in dormitory 2024." After introducing himself, Andrew flashed Ross another radiant smile.
In truth, it was not that Andrew's smile was particularly sunny. Rather, the system he had arrived with after transmigrating had rewarded him with a passive skill, "Sunny Boy," which made him beloved by everyone and made flowers bloom, because he had finally established contact with an important character from the original story.
Whenever he smiled, other people would feel sunshine. The damned catch was that they would actually feel "sunshine."
And because it was a passive skill, Andrew