The next day, Fang Zheng arrived at the gate of the school garden early in the morning, and after meeting Lei Zi and Hatsuharu, the three of them entered the school garden together.

However……

"What's going on?"

Looking at the large wet patch of Lei Zi on the skirt, Fang Zheng was a little confused, while Lei Zi stuck out her tongue embarrassedly.

"Haha, that... I was a little too excited when I came out..."

"Forget it, let's go in first."

He shook his head helplessly, then Fang Zheng led the two of them into the school garden.

Although they are all in the seventh school district, the school garden does not allow ordinary people to enter at will. After all, there are five private girls' schools here, and they are all aristocratic girls' schools. The students are either rich or noble. If outsiders are allowed to enter at will, it will inevitably cause trouble. Therefore, the external security of the school garden is also very strict.

However, Fang Zheng himself had given himself a very high level of authority using the tree diagram designer, and Hatsuharu and Ruiko were invited, so after verifying their identities, the three of them entered the school garden.

"Wow, this is the school garden. It looks so different from the outside. So beautiful..."

Walking on the antique-style streets, Hatsuharu looked around with sparkling eyes, and felt that she couldn't see enough. Leizi also looked around curiously, looking left and right from time to time. It's no wonder that compared with the modern atmosphere outside, the design of the interior of the school garden is closer to the Western classical style, and it looks like being in another world.

Most of the people coming and going are girls, and not only that...

"Ah, Mr. Fang Zheng, hello."

"Hello, Mr. Fang Zheng, what brings you to the Garden of Learning?"

"Saten-san, you came to the school garden? Why didn't you tell me?"

Along the way, people kept talking to Fang Zheng and Lei Zi, which surprised Chuchun.

"Saten-san? How do you know the eldest lady here?!"

"Ah... because they often go to listen to Mr. Fang Zheng's class..."

Hearing this, Leizi also smiled bitterly and spread her hands. Many young ladies in the school garden had attended Fang Zheng's lectures, so they naturally got to know Leizi. Since Leizi has always been popular, she became friends with many people.

"That's great! I can be friends with the young lady..."

When Hatsuharu heard Ruiko's answer, she immediately became upset.

"But I still have work to do as a disciplinary committee member. If I didn't have work, I'd also like to go..."

Having said that, Chuchun looked towards Fangzheng.

"Mr. Fang Zheng, can I go and listen too?"

"sure."

Fang Zheng nodded and added with a smile.

"If you don't have discipline officer work to do."

“…”

Early spring, sinking.

Afterwards, the group arrived at the entrance of Tokiwadai and reunited with Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko. Here, Ruiko changed out of her previously soiled uniform and put on Tokiwadai's clothes - this again made Hatsuharu, who was suffering from a love-crazy lady, jealous.

It was not until she arrived at the cake shop that Hatsuharu finally perked up and stopped dwelling on these trivial matters. Instead, as if to make up for her broken heart, she ordered several cakes in one go.

Not afraid of getting fat.

"The school garden is so different from the outside world. It's really great..."

After taking a bite of the cake happily, Hatsuharu felt like she was about to cry.

"Yeah... I always feel like I'm in a foreign country..."

Ruizi also held her chin with one hand, looking at the scenery outside, with a deep tone in her voice. Seeing her like this, Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko looked at each other in confusion. They didn't know why, but they always felt that Ruizi's behavior seemed to be different from before.

"hehe."

Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng smiled and shook his head. Then he glanced at a corner of the cake shop and spoke.

"By the way, while you're bored, let me tell you a story."

"Eh? Story?"

After all, they were still little girls. Upon hearing this, the four girls became interested and looked at Fang Zheng curiously.

"What's the story?"

"Well... it's a horror story. It's from a horror novel I read before."

Having said that, Fang Zheng picked up the coffee and took a sip, then he smiled at the four people and continued speaking.

"The protagonist of this story is called Bit, a very ordinary white-collar employee, who goes to work and goes home every day, living the same life. Bit has little presence in the company, and no one pays much attention to him. He is ignored like a nobody, and Bit has gotten used to this kind of life. Then one day, he found that the situation had changed..."

"Why has it changed?"

Hearing this, Lei Zi's eyes widened with excitement and she came closer.

"He found himself being ignored... well, not in the ordinary sense. No one seemed to see him, as if he was invisible. He had clearly come to work and worked diligently at his desk all day, and his superior had assigned him a task. But when he found his superior, his superior said that he had not seen him come to work today and had not given him any tasks."

"What's going on?"

"Is it his superior who is deliberately bullying him?"

At this moment, Heizi and Hatsuharu also started to ask questions out of curiosity, while Fang Zheng just shook his finger and continued to speak.

"At first, he just couldn't see it, but then the situation got worse and worse. Bit even found that everyone seemed to ignore him. Even the work he did was attributed to others. This made Bit very angry. He even thought about dancing in the office to attract everyone's attention. But no matter what he did, no one looked at him, as if this person didn't exist at all."

"Could it be that Bit has awakened some kind of ability?"

Mikoto also expressed her opinion, and Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders.

"In short, Bit couldn't stand this kind of life. Finally one day, he went berserk. He made himself up as a ridiculous clown and walked into the company with a kitchen knife. However, even so, the company security guards and employees didn't even look at him. Then Bit came to the office and killed the colleague who stole his performance and credit!"

“——!!”

Hearing this, Misaka Mikoto trembled, and the others were also shocked.

"So was that bit caught?"

"No."

"Why……?"

"Why?"

"Because he was ignored by everyone. In fact, everyone had forgotten about Bit's existence. Even his parents didn't remember Bit. Although the police found the body and classified it as a murder case, they completely ignored Bit standing at the scene with a knife in his hand. This made Bit very desperate, and he left the company. However, just when Bit was about to commit suicide to end it all, suddenly, a person appeared in front of him."

"Gurgle."

Hearing this, the four of them swallowed their saliva.

"Is he a good guy or a bad guy?"

"Could it be an angel or a devil?"

"He was a man named Philip. In fact, he was also a neglected person like Bit. He told Bit that there were many neglected people like him in the world. They were forgotten and ignored by everyone, just like living invisible people. According to Philip, there was a city belonging to the neglected people in this land. Everyone there was a neglected person like Bit, so Philip invited Bit to go there and start a new life, and Bit agreed."

"…So what happened next?"

"They successfully reached that city and started a new life."

“…This isn’t scary.”

Hearing this, Shirai Kuroko commented in a boring tone, while Fang Zheng chuckled.

"Yes, it's not scary at all. After arriving here, Bit found his beloved one and felt that he could start a new life. Then... Bit discovered one thing, that is, he began to be ignored again."

"……Why?"

Faced with this unexpected turn, everyone was stunned.

"Yes, he was ignored again. Among a group of ignored people, Bit found that he was still ignored. And this time the situation was even worse than before. When the people around him began to forget him again, he found that he was gradually disappearing!"

"Woooooa ...

If the previous story didn't seem particularly scary to the girls, then when they heard this, their hair stood on end.

Being forgotten and ignored by the vast majority of people is bad enough. After finally finding your companions, you find that even among a group of ignored people, you are still the ignored one?

And it will disappear?

This is really horrible.

"And at this time, an accident happened. Philip, who brought him to this city, came up with a bold idea. As revenge on those who ignored them, Philip wanted to use a special method to announce their existence, which was to occupy the political center of their country, which was the White House."

"Why?!"

At this moment, everyone including Misaka Mikoto was shocked.

"So they succeeded?"

"Of course they...failed."

"???"

“They are just ignored.”

Looking at the four confused girls in front of him, Fang Zheng smiled and spread his hands.

"They didn't have the ability to become invisible, nor did they disappear from the world. They were simply ignored. But when they drove tanks and carried guns on the streets, only a blind person would ignore their existence. In front of the army, these people were naturally powerless to fight back. They thought they could walk in and capture the president directly, but the reality was obviously completely different from what they thought. Most of them were killed, and the rest were captured."

"And what about Beetee?"

At this moment, Lei Zi couldn't hold back the doubts in her heart and asked.

"He was not captured. Although he joined the 'war' in the hope of proving his existence, he was completely ignored. Both the army and his companions forgot about him. In the end, he stood alone in the middle of the battlefield, and then... disappeared."

“Disappeared?”

"That's right."

Fang Zheng clapped his hands.

"If no one remembers him, he no longer exists."

“…”

After hearing this story, the girls all had complicated expressions. At this moment, suddenly, Hatsuharu's phone rang. She picked up the phone, and then her expression changed slightly.

"You have a job?"

Seeing Uiharu's expression, Shirai Kuroko knew immediately, and Uiharu nodded.

"It seems that this is all we can do today."

With a helpless sigh, Kuroko stood up and bowed to Fang Zheng, Ruizi and Mikoto.

"Well, onee-sama, as well as Saten-san and Mr. Fang Zheng, we have something important to attend to and must leave first. Bye."

After saying this, Kuroko and Hatsuharu quickly left the coffee shop, and only then did Ruiko breathe a sigh of relief.

"I feel so sorry for that guy named Bit. He was clearly the one being ignored, but he was ignored again..."

"Being ignored is not a good thing in itself, but it is not an excuse for you to do whatever you want."

Fang Zheng put down the coffee cup in his hand and looked to the side.

"What do you think, young lady?"

As Fang Zheng finished speaking, suddenly, a young girl appeared silently out of thin air in front of them.