Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Players open a new Qingxue dungeon! ...

"Moshimoshi, Yukimura...this is Yanagi,"

At the weekly report call at Kanei General Hospital, Yukimura was watering the plants on the rooftop, his phone tucked between his shoulders as he asked softly,

"Renji, is the school ranking tournament over yet?"

"Yes, it's finished." Yanagi answered while opening the club activity log and recording, "The roster for the Kanagawa regional preliminaries has been basically arranged."

Yukimura smiled upon hearing this and said, "Even when I'm not here, the department is running smoothly. Thank you for your hard work."

Liu's expression did not change as he continued to report on all the major and minor events that had occurred within the department during the week.

But as the conversation went on, the focus of the topic inevitably shifted to a certain character.

Yukimura: "Renji, have you already fought that kid?"

Liu Susu paused slightly while writing, "Hmm."

Yukimura sensed a deeper emotion in this brief answer and raised his eyebrows slightly, "So, Renji's feelings are..."

“…It will never end.”

Yukimura repeated softly, "It will never end..."

"By the way, Renji, has Yagi done anything recently?" Yukimura quickly changed the topic to something lighter, tapping the receiver of the phone with his slender knuckles, reminiscing.

"Until yesterday, some members still called to complain."

willow:"……"

The silence on the other end of the phone undoubtedly deepened Yukimura's suspicions. He said helplessly but gently, "Although sometimes Yagi's actions are a little... hard to understand."

Thinking about the time when he visited his junior every two days and gave him a tulip, even the usually fair Yukimura couldn't help but feel a little partial.

"Well, but his words... should not be malicious. Everyone... maybe you can be more tolerant of him?"

Liu suddenly said, "Jingshi,"

"Uh-huh?"

Liu: "Get well soon."

Yukimura: "?"

Saying this at this time, why does it feel like... I want him to go and see for himself what Yagi has done.

Shaking off the strange associations in his mind, Yukimura coughed, "So...did Yagi do something?"

Liu slowly stopped writing and looked out the window of the conference room.

In the distance, beside the quiet student dormitory, a tall silo was erected at some point.

as well as……

Liu organized his words: "Yagi, he built a chicken coop...inside the school."

Yukimura stopped watering: "..."

Yukimura listened again, and after a long moment of reflection, he slowly repeated, "...chicken coop?"

Liu calmly revealed: "Yes, Jing City."

"Yagi has started raising chickens now."

“…”

Find the construction NPC through the task bar, and the chicken coop and the necessary silo will be refreshed next to the student dormitory in just one second!

Efficient! The player also bought some chicks from the NPC, naming them from Chicken No. 1 to Chicken No. N, petting each one. Seeing Chicken No. N's high mood, the player happily went to the back mountain to cut grass with a sickle.

The player cut the grass and picked up green onions from the ground to eat until the system prompted that the silo was full, and then he reluctantly went down the mountain.

As soon as I arrived at the student dormitory, I was surrounded by NPCs.

The NPCs kept chattering and blocked the player's way.

"It really is a chicken coop... Mom, has Rikkai University started to develop in all directions now?"

"No, that's not the point! The point is—why did a chicken coop suddenly appear next to the student dormitory?!"

After this shout, there was silence for a while, and then someone suddenly spoke weakly:

"But a chicken coop next to the student dormitories...is that a problem?"

"Hmm... Now that you mention it, the student dorms popped up all of a sudden, so a chicken coop popping up doesn't seem to be a problem, does it?"

"In that case...it seems quite reasonable that something would appear near the student dormitories..."

After successfully witnessing the NPCs' left and right brains fighting each other, the player remained silent and turned away.

Go, go, the NPC here is abnormal.

In short, only on the first day when the chicken coop first appeared, everyone in Rikkai had doubts about it.

But when I think about the owner of the chicken coop being Yagi Kei...

The man who could catch a three-meter-tall sardine at the school gate, search through forty-three trash cans in a single day, and even do a double jump followed by a backflip and run a hundred laps effortlessly...

Everything seemed to make strange sense.

"Since it was Yagi who did it... then he must have his reasons..."

The chicken coop incident was ultimately brushed aside with this ambiguous statement.

Players now live a fulfilling life every day.

Raising chickens, farming, training, daily check-ins, visiting special NPCs and fishing - success makes players happy.

Everyone in the tennis club...lives a similarly painful and fulfilling life.

I have gradually been influenced by the work and rest schedule of a junior. From the original gathering at 7:30 to now before 7 o'clock, everyone in the tennis club has lined up to start morning training. It only took one month.

Marui was a little melancholy. "It's Sunday today, but we have to have a practice match. I haven't slept in once since the start of this semester. I don't know whether to say this is good or bad..."

Kuwabara was silent for a moment, then asked a fatal question: "Bunta... can you really still sleep?"

Marui: "..."

Silence, silence is Rikkai University today.

As soon as he closed his eyes, his mind was filled with thoughts of the younger generation who would do all kinds of earth-shattering things, and Marui Bunta was the first to feel tired.

Right now, I'm fine. I'm only at Rikkai University, on campus...

If he goes out one day...

Marui and Kuwabara, who had successfully shared their brains, couldn't help but shiver.

Marui immediately skipped the topic and glanced at him, "Speaking of which... where is Keito? Normally, he would have come here to supervise training by this time. Besides, today is a practice match with Kakigi Junior High School. Sanada reminded him repeatedly yesterday, but why didn't he show up..."

Jack Sangyuan quickly looked around when he heard this, but he didn't see the usual sheepdog chasing people around like a grandson. He panicked.

"No, no, Bunta... doesn't seem to be here. How about asking someone else?"

As soon as he said no, Marui Bunta flew out, "Over there—have you seen Kei today?!"

Jack Sangyuan suppressed the tension in his heart and felt a little anxious. For some reason, his right eyelid couldn't stop twitching, and a bad premonition came over him.

"Maybe I'm just overthinking it. After all, today is Sunday... It's not impossible for Yagi to oversleep occasionally..."

Jack Sangyuan kept reminding himself in his heart and quickly went to the student dormitory to search.

Student dormitory, no!

There is no chicken coop or silo next to it!

On the way, he met up with Marui who had searched the other half and confirmed the information.

There are no restaurants in the back mountain or the student cafeteria!

There is even no beach in front of Rikkai University!

Even the forty-three trash can locations...are nowhere to be found!

Even after all the other regular players in the club finished their meeting and came over, Kuwabara, who ran back to the tennis club panting, still didn't see the figure that was supposed to appear here.

Sanada and Yanagi approached while talking. Niou whistled and glanced casually with a tennis racket in his hand. He just happened to see Marui running around and Kuwahara breathing heavily with big beads of sweat rolling down his forehead.

Ren Wang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "puri~"

After Sanada and Yanagi finished their practice match schedule, they both looked up, noticing that Kuwabara and Marui were not in the right state.

Sanada said in a deep voice, "What happened?"

Under the gazes of several people, Kuwabara wiped his face and said, "No, no...it's just..."

He glanced around, but still couldn't see the familiar figure. When he thought of a certain possibility, he couldn't suppress the despair in his heart and said,

"Yagi... he hasn't come to the club yet..."

Everyone: “…”

Everyone: “…”

Marui also ran over at this time, his whole body tense and nervous, "No, no one in the department has seen Kei since this morning!"

Ren Wang narrowed his eyes and said, "Student dormitory..."

Kuwahara: "I've already checked. I've even checked the chicken coop, the silo, the student cafeteria, and the trash cans!"

Marui: "The uncle in the cafeteria also said that Yagi didn't go this morning!"

I calculated all the possible places where the younger generation might appear, and compared them one by one, but I still couldn't find the figure that should be there.

Everyone fell silent.

Marui felt a headache: "So where did Kei go?"

Kuwabara covered his face with his hands. "Rather, I'd say... where exactly is he going?"

Yanagi, who was holding a notebook, and Sanada, who was crossing his arms, looked at each other, and they both thought of the same person.

"beep--"

"This is Yukimura," a gentle and clear male voice came out, "Calling so early in the morning, what happened?"

"...I'm sorry to bother you Yukimura right now, but the situation is so urgent that we really can't do anything."

Marui squeezed in next to the receiver and spoke so fast that it almost became a jingle.

Yukimura, who was reading a storybook to the children in the next ward, nodded at them shyly, slightly covering the receiver and whispered, "Tell me slowly, Bunta, what happened?"

"Yukimura—Kui! Kei is missing!! QAQ!!"

Yukimura: "..."

There was a rustling sound, as if someone else had taken the phone away.

"This is Sanada," Sanada Genichirō lowered his eyes slightly, "Yukimura, I'm calling to ask if Yagi has appeared at your place."

Yukimura quickly said, "No, but he came to visit last night."

Everyone felt a sinking feeling in their hearts when Yukimura wasn't there.

Sanada: "What about the visiting time last night?"

"Around eleven o'clock, Yagi usually comes to visit... around this time."

Although everyone wanted to complain about this strange visiting time, other things were more important at the moment.

Yukimura paused and said, "Everyone... doesn't have Yagi's contact information?"

“…”

The atmosphere suddenly froze.

Because I was used to my junior being a boarding student and seeing him appear in front of me on time every day, I even forgot about his contact information.

Everyone was silent.

In the silence, gradually, the sound of someone answering the phone was heard not far away.

"What? Overslept?? Then where are you now?"

"Today we have a practice match with Kakigi Junior High School! Akaye, you little brat—"

Everyone looked over and saw it was the coach.

The coach was startled by Yi Shui'er's stare and quickly explained, "Yes, it's Chiye."

He muttered, "This kid actually said he accidentally overslept in the car and didn't even know where he was."

Sanada frowned, his brows furrowed as one problem after another arose. "Too lax!"

Having lost one junior and another one gone astray, even the usually cheerful Ino couldn't be happy now.

Marui was tired, "It's more important to find one now. Aka can't lose again."

He leaned over and took the phone from the coach, "Akaye—"

"Ah! Marui-senpai!"

The younger student on the other end of the phone suddenly became more positive. "I really didn't oversleep on purpose! It was completely accidental—accidental—"

Marui wiped his face and said, "It's okay. Just look around you first. Kei is already lost, and I can't lose you, Akaya..."

"What the—!?! How did Kei get lost?!"

The sound fluctuated so violently that everyone around could hear it clearly. Jack Sangyuan sighed, "I just don't know why I can't find it..."

Liu made a point, "Akaye, look for a prominent landmark nearby."

"Yes... yes..." The person on the other end of the phone murmured for a while, "It's a prominent landmark..."

"Ah! I see it—it says 'Seishun Gakuen Junior High School' here..."

'Youth Academy', catching the key words, several people looked at each other and felt a little relieved.

“Eh…”

“——Huh?!!”

The sound in the receiver suddenly exploded, and Marui, who was closest to him, was stunned by the sudden increase in volume.

"W-What's wrong...Akaye?"

Kuwabara was a little worried, "Did something happen! Akaye——?!"

Even Yanagi and Sanada took a step forward.

"No, no, senpai!!"

On the other end of the phone, Kirihara Aka looked in the direction of the school gate sign in a daze, and immediately saw a tiny figure jumping and running towards them with a trash can lid on its head.

Even with chicken feathers on his head.

Kirihara Akaya wiped his eyes again and again, pointing with a shaking finger in disbelief, "Yes..."

“——It’s Kei!!”

Rikkai people: "..."

Rikkai people: “???”

Kirihara Akaya was almost doubting his life: "Kei, Kei is right in front of the gate of Seigaku now!!"

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Rikkai University people: ...It's over, Rikkai University's reputation is in danger.

The Qingxue people who still didn't know what they were going to experience were like: Why are my eyelids twitching so fast all of a sudden...