Chapter 39
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In the classroom of Class C of the third year of Romantic Academy, sunlight shines through the window onto the podium.
"My name is Ino Takuma, please give me your guidance!"
Shiori Tadano was looking at her classmate Takuma Ino standing on the stage and introducing himself. His energetic appearance, coupled with the school uniform, made Ino look no different from an ordinary male high school student.
As for why these two people, who are nearly 21 years old, returned to high school, the story started yesterday.
The busy sister school exchange meeting finally ended. The next day was a rare day off. Shiori was sleeping soundly in bed when the phone on the bedside table suddenly rang.
She closed her eyes and fumbled around on the bedside table. She finally touched the phone and picked it up. There was still a nasal sound in her voice, as if she had not woken up yet.
"Hello?"
From the other end of the line came Ino Takuma's rare serious voice, completely different from his usual eccentric tone: "Shiori, I need your help with something."
Shiori rarely heard Ino Takuma speak in this tone, and her sleepiness instantly dissipated.
She subconsciously tried to push Gojo Satoru away from her and sit up, but he hugged her even tighter and asked vaguely, "Who is it?"
Shiori quickly pressed the receiver with her hand and told Gojo Satoru in a low voice, "It's Ino, it seems like something urgent."
Gojo Satoru's arms tightened, clearly preventing her from getting up. Shiori had no choice but to continue lying down and asked the person on the other end of the phone, "What happened?"
Ino Takuma paused on the phone and said, "I'll go to the technical college right now to talk to you in person. I also have something to give you."
"Okay, see you later."
In the high school teacher's office, Shiori stared at the brand new JK uniform on the table: "Is this what you talked about on the phone?"
Ino Takuma, who had been so serious on the phone just now, had now returned to his usual self. He explained with a smile, "I have a mission that requires me to infiltrate a high school for investigation, but Mr. Nanami refused to go with me no matter what. So I had no choice but to ask you for help!"
"Ino, are you serious?" Gojo Satoru said with a smile. "Nanami looks like she could be a high school teacher, but pretending to be a student is too out of place. How many years would it take to repeat a grade to become a high school student his age?"
Ino Takuma suddenly realized: "So this is why Mr. Nanami rejected me!"
Shizhi looked at him belatedly realizing the truth and helplessly held her forehead: "You really want Nanami-senpai to be the DK again..."
This is roughly the reason why the two of them returned to high school and disguised themselves as students.
At this moment, Ino Takuma finished his self-introduction. Shiori walked up to the podium, picked up the chalk, and wrote her name on the blackboard. Then she turned around and smiled faintly at the curious eyes of the students below.
"Tadono Shiori, please give me your guidance."
152.
Shiori's deskmate was a warm and friendly boy with short, fluffy hair who looked a bit like Inumaki Tsuchiya from first grade. She took the initiative to talk to him, "Hori, have we met somewhere before?"
Hori Masayuki: "Probably not?"
Shiori nodded and didn't ask any more questions: "Then I guess I remembered it wrong."
During class, Shiori seemed to be listening attentively, but in fact her thoughts had already drifted away. She was recalling the mission information that Ino Takuma had told her.
In fact, the purpose of Shiori and Ino Takuma sneaking into this school was to find a curse master who was mixed in with ordinary people.
This curse master had previously posted on a forum, threatening that as long as someone handed over the personal belongings of someone they hated to him and paid the agreed reward, he could make that person disappear from the world quietly.
At first, not many people took the post seriously. Everyone thought it was just a casual post by the poster who was having a second-year syndrome attack.
Until someone, with a try-it-out mentality, actually sent the items and rewards as requested in the post. Then, the first disappearing person appeared.
The post was then repeatedly pushed up amidst panic, maintaining its popularity. However, as the number of missing persons increased, the forum, under pressure from public opinion, not only removed the post but even banned the entire forum.
What's even more troublesome is that the curser's delivery address has never been fixed. Sometimes it's a locker at a Shinjuku station, sometimes it's a bench deep in Ikebukuro Park, and sometimes it becomes a very hidden toilet in the Shibuya shopping district.
These locations were all public places with a lot of people coming and going, but he didn't leave even a vague trace of his figure, which caused the tracking work to be deadlocked for a time. In the end, they traced the post to this school by following the IP address.
Takuma Ino originally wanted to ask Kento Nanami to help him disguise himself as a high school student and infiltrate, but Kento Nanami directly rejected the proposal of "being a DK again", so he had to turn to Shiori for a partner.
As soon as the bell rang, the class monitor came over with a smile and said, "Tadono-san, Ino-san, after school, I'll show you around the school, okay?"
Shiori and Ino Takuma exchanged a glance and nodded in agreement. Having someone lead the way was much less of a hassle than wandering around an unfamiliar campus, attracting unnecessary attention.
153.
When the class monitor took them around the campus, Shiori and Ino Takuma were both stunned. There were so many club activities here!
Shiori had never experienced such a lively campus life, and Ino Takuma was a high school student who was admitted because of his family background. He had been studying in a private school at home before and had never seen such a scene either. The two of them huddled together and chattered non-stop.
The class monitor looked at the two of them huddled together and jokingly said, "Are you two a couple? You transferred here together and it seems like you have a really good relationship."
"No!" Ino Takuma hurriedly waved his hands to deny, his voice subconsciously rising a few notches. He didn't want to go back and be carried around by Gojo Satoru because of this misunderstanding.
Shiori also shook her head and added, "We were classmates before, and we just happened to transfer here together this time."
After the class monitor took them on a brief tour of the campus, Shiori patted Ino Takuma's shoulder and said, "When I was looking at the clubs just now, I was particularly interested in one, and I wanted to tell you..."
Ino Takuma immediately responded, "I understand! Tennis club, right?"
Shiori nodded, and the two of them said hello to the class monitor before returning to the tennis club and watching the club activities through the fence.
On the tennis court, the boys gripped their rackets with crisp, clear movements, but the more Shiori watched, the more puzzled she became: "I clearly didn't feel any fluctuations in cursed energy at all."
Ino Takuma echoed with equal confusion, "But how could they perform a move that could deprive them of their five senses?"
Shiori took out her cell phone, recorded the scene on the field and sent it to Geto Suguru.
Shiori: "My Lord, times have changed."
Geto: "Monkey?"
Geto: "I don't want to see it."
Shiori: "... Agatsuyu-senpai, you're really stubborn."
Ino Takuma's eyes widened in shock, "So playing tennis is a high-risk sport! High school students these days are so scary!"
A member of the tennis club happened to be passing by and couldn't help but correct him, "No, they are junior high school students here for exchange, not high school students."
Following the club member's words, Shiori looked towards the field, her gaze landing on the handsome purple-haired boy. He was tall and had a powerful aura. Could he actually be a junior high student?
"That's a tough guy in the junior high school tennis world!" the club member said with admiration, "Their team has won two consecutive national tournaments, and today they're here to compete with our club."
"I see, this popular athletic handsome boy is pretty good too."
Gojo Satoru? !
Shiori and Ino Takuma suddenly turned their heads to look at the source of the voice, only to see that the man was about the same height as Gojo Satoru, and even the voice was very similar, but it was not him.
The speaker noticed their gazes and nodded at them.
Shiori looked at his familiar face, her mind racing. She felt like she was about to remember something, but the words were on the tip of her tongue, unable to come out: "I know you! You're that, that..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the other party open the sketchbook in his hand, quickly signed on a new page, then tore it off and handed it to her.
Shiori looked down and said, "Huh? You're Yumeno Sakiko?"
Nozaki Umetaro looked at her shocked expression with no expression on his face. He said in a flat tone, "So you didn't know."
"Should I know?" Shiori took the signature and complained in her heart, so it was you who drew me so OOC.
A female voice suddenly interrupted: "No, Nozaki-kun, so your autograph is not only for me, right?"
Shiori then noticed that there was a girl standing next to Nozaki Umetaro, with striking orange hair. She remembered everything, it all came back to her: these two were the tandem bicycle duo she had seen before!
Nozaki Umetaro was stunned for a moment: "Huh? Sakura, you want another one, right? Then I'll sign another one for you."
So he turned to a new page, signed his name, tore it off and handed it to Sakura Chiyo.
Sakura Chiyo took the autograph, held it tightly in her arms, and laughed happily, her face full of joy.
Shiori couldn't understand the way they got along at all, but she was deeply shocked.
Nozaki Umetaro then turned his attention back to Shiori: "I didn't expect you to be a student of our school."
Shiori replied, "I'm a transfer student who just transferred here."
Nozaki Umetaro nodded thoughtfully: "Transfer student... this setting is not bad."
Seeing him scribbling in his sketchbook, Shiori turned and started chatting with the girl next to him. After exchanging names, Shiori suddenly realized something was wrong. Where was her classmate, Ino Takuma? Being quiet and reserved had never been his style.
Shiori turned to look at Ino Takuma, who was not far away. Seeing that he was staring down at his phone screen, she asked, "Ino, what are you doing?"
Ino Takuma had actually just taken a selfie of himself in uniform while chatting with everyone and posted it on Instagram. Fortunately, his account was set to private, so only close friends could see it, so there was no need to worry about leaking mission information.
Not long after, he received a message from Gojo Satoru.
Gojo Satoru first enlarged his selfie and took a screenshot, then he deliberately circled the scene in the background of the photo where Umetaro Nozaki was handing something to Shiori and sent it over.
Gojo Satoru: "What are you doing?"
Gojo Satoru: "Deliver a love letter?"
Gojo Satoru: "Ino, tear it apart!"
Ino Takuma stared at the screen of his mobile phone, and a drop of cold sweat silently slid down his forehead - he was careless!
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