The Crucifixion Cross

"Hi, I'm a new student admitted to Takato."

After hearing Su Fei's self-introduction, the girl who was still tense at first relaxed her expression slightly:

"Gao Teng's student...so that's the case, is he a junior?"

"Oh, hello, senior!" Su Fei perfectly played the image of a 'good junior', and asked cautiously but without losing enthusiasm: "I heard from other seniors that there seems to be a road leading to Gaoteng's gate here. The way? If the senior sister also knows, can I trouble you to give me some pointers?"

"It's okay to give advice, but..." The fashionable girl's eyes lingered on the expensive bicycle behind Su Fei for a moment, then she frowned slightly, and whispered with some doubts: "Those who can afford this kind of bicycle Student, do you really need to take a shortcut?"

Su Fei pretended not to hear the fashionable girl's words, but kept a warm but restrained smile, and at the same time cast her gaze behind the fashionable girl as much as possible.

At this moment, the fashionable girl seemed to have given up on the original question, turned around, and asked the person behind her:

"Hey, Long Er, do you know the road he mentioned?"

"Shortcut?" The voice almost identical to Su Fei thought for a while and said, "I know, but it's useless even if I tell him? After all, this place will be demolished soon..."

When the word "demolition" was mentioned, a certain sad emotion spread outward like a virus centered on the idiot of vitality. In just a blink of an eye, the atmosphere of joy and celebration in the coffee shop disappeared completely. Jing, replaced by a deep sentimental.

Some guys with a strong sense of protagonist might have started asking what is going on at this moment, and then a series of new sidelines or main storylines will be opened logically, but Su Fei doesn't care about demolition or not. , when several people were busy feeling sentimental, all his attention was focused on the space behind the fashionable girl's turn——

Through the dim lights in the coffee shop, Su Fei could see a short wooden staircase.

The slight 'creaking' sound from there made his heart beat a little faster.

The moment the girl's familiar figure appeared in Su Fei's field of vision, a strange sense of loss made Su Fei sigh softly.

At the same time, the chestnut-haired girl who just came down the stairs also turned her gaze to the door of the coffee shop.

At the moment when the four eyes met, the god of time was finally willing to slow down a little, so that the young girl who had stepped into the two worlds, after more than a month of parting, once again confirmed the look in each other's eyes.

Regardless of whether he/she at the end of the field of vision is the right person (Mr.Right/Miss.Right), at least at this moment, there is no other person in the hearts of the boy and the girl.

"Student Bai Yu?!"

"Sure enough, it's Asuna-san..."

"Knot...huh?!"

Chapter 38. Girls, Coffee, and the Phantom Thieves

"acquaintance?"

The suspected bad blond boy 'Long Er' was startled slightly, his eyes subconsciously swept over Su Fei, the guard at the door, and Asuna, who was inside the door.

"Acquaintance...?"

The mature and beautifully dressed girl tapped her plump red lips, and looked at Su Fei and Yai with strange eyes.

"acquaintance……?"

Mei blinked, the expression on her face was as calm as ever, but her light-colored eyes, which gradually lost their brightness, showed that her mood at this time seemed far less calm than it seemed on the surface...

"acquaintance……"

Asuna on the stairs looked at Mei and Su Fei whose distance between them was infinitely close to zero, the joy when they first met slowly faded into an indescribable indifference.

"acquaintance!?"

Su Fei swallowed silently, suddenly felt very cold...

Guilty?

Yes or no...

It's hard to use one word to accurately describe Su Fei's mood at this time, after all, his girlfriend in name is neither Mei by his side nor Asuna on the stairs, but probably rolling on the sofa at home watching TV to kill time Time's Qiyana, but these two girls played more roles than childhood sweethearts in Su Fei's life...

If the "Love Challenge Difficulty" that Su Fei faced when facing Mei and Qiyana at the same time was set at 10, then there is at least a level of 7 or higher now, which can be said to be quite a headache for Su Fei.

However, while having a headache, Su Fei also noticed something - the moment Asuna said 'Bai Yu classmate', somewhere behind her, there was a small mournful cry and slightly flustered footsteps.

Obviously, besides Asuna, there is a high possibility that at least one person who knows him or Su Fang is 'hidden' in this coffee shop named LeBlanc—"White Feather" is not a common surname, it is a surname that Asuna knows The only peers of 'Bai Yu' are him and Su Fang.

Who would that person be?

Su Fei couldn't help thinking about this question in his heart, but before his thinking really 'wronged', his rationality and sensibility worked together to draw Su Fei's attention back to Asuna in the coffee shop and Mei behind him body.

After looking at each other for a short but long time, Su Fei exhaled lightly, sorted out her messy thoughts, and showed a familiar smile to Asuna on the stairs:

"Every time I see you, I feel more beautiful than the last time I met~"

This familiar yet unfamiliar opening remark (Chapter 3 of the first volume) caused Asuna's eyes to be in a daze for a moment, and then she couldn't help but burst out laughing "噗嗤", her delicate and fair face flushed slightly, with a bit of a smile on her face. With the girl's unique coquettishness and shyness, she said helplessly:

"Student Bai Yu, you are here again..."

If there were no "strangers" standing in front of and behind Asuna, and if Su Fei's Mei was not her "Sister Mei", perhaps the next topic between the two would naturally turn into a stage that Kazumi Mishima liked to hear. Maybe, but unfortunately, even if the blond boy and fashionable girl named Ryuji consciously entered the role of bystanders, Mei's strong sense of presence still made it difficult for Asuna to immerse her thoughts in the usual way. In the world of two with Su Fei.

She turned her eyes to the calm Mei Yi behind Su Fei, and her tone was a bit complicated:

"—Long time no see, Mei-senpai."

Asuna's address gave Su Fei a dazed look.

Theoretically speaking, Mei, who is in the same 'class' as Su Fei, should also go to school in Shengxiang, where countless wealthy and nobles gathered, but after the incident ten years ago, Raiden Ryoma began to alienate and 'inside' intentionally or unintentionally. Not only did she abandon the plan to teach Mei's "Qi", but she even arranged for her to go to Gaoteng Academy, which is controlled by the Far East government behind the scenes.

As for Asuna...

As mentioned above, Asuna's choice is Koto Academy - for the "upper class" who has a certain "social background" but does not belong to the "nobility" like Su Fei, Koto Academy is the best choice for their children. none of them.

In other words, now that Mei has not completed the transfer procedures to Qianyu Academy, the relationship between the two is indeed "senior sister and junior sister", but Su Fei still doesn't understand one thing——

"Speaking of which, how did Mei and Yu Cheng know each other?"

The original intention of Su Fei's question was to understand how the two met, and by the way, why did Asuna appear in such a place that seemed completely out of tune with her style of painting, but whether it was Asuna or Mei, their All attention was focused on what Su Fei called the two of them——

What about Mei and Yuuki sang...

The stylishly dressed beautiful girl nodded thoughtfully, and looked at Asuna with some indescribable sympathy and pity - it seems that she regarded Asuna as a "Loser" in the "love field" 'It's over...

However, Asuna did not enter into a depressed state because of the difference in the address—although the somewhat tidied title of "becoming a classmate" still made her feel a bit of loss and regret uncontrollably, but after going through a lot After what happened, the current Asuna is far more mature than the Asuna a month ago.

"Mei-senpai helped me a lot in the past." Carefully hiding her envy and loss in her heart, Asuna said with a smile: "When I just moved to Takato, thanks to Mei-senpai for helping me guide the way, about the school Many of the 'rules of life' were also taught to me by Mei-senpai..."

When Asuna said the word 'law of life', both the blond boy and the fashionable girl showed very complicated expressions--for Takato's students, this is a matter of course.

After all, Gaoteng is no better than Shengxiang and Qianyu, and its school atmosphere is the worst among the three major schools.

Qian Yu's background is mysterious, but most of the students are 'common people' with strong academic ability, not to mention Sheng Xiang, with the two great gods Su Fang and Su Fei guarding him, who would dare to make trouble?But Gao Teng is different. Gao Teng adheres to the principle of "elite competition". The elite children from various "worldly wealthy families" simply regard the campus as a battlefield, and do everything they can to "fight" for fame and profit.

In such an environment, young girls like Asuna who are not 'hard' in the backstage and have too 'hard' in appearance can easily be drawn into the dirty political vortex unknowingly and become elites fighting against each other. offerings.

Su Fei originally planned to make some arrangements for Asuna after returning to the Far East—Gao Teng’s backstage is the Far East Government, but don’t forget, the Far East Government itself lives by watching Mishima’s face. He is not qualified to resist Su Fei—but now it seems that Mei Yi has helped Su Fei do these things in advance.

Just when Su Fei was thinking about whether she should continue to intervene, a hoarse but magnetic young female voice suddenly came from a certain corner:

"I'm sorry to bother you, do you have to stand outside the door and chat? Although I don't think there's anything wrong with this, don't you think it's awkward? If you don't mind, please come in and have a cup of coffee... ...I'm not bragging, but I'm pretty confident in blending coffee, huh?"

Chapter 39. Girls, Coffee, and the Phantom Thieves

Different from the first impression, although this coffee shop named 'LeBlanc' is located in a dilapidated alley, the furnishings in the shop are indeed old, revealing the old sense of the times everywhere, but it is surprisingly not annoying .

Compared with those places that Su Fei visited in her previous life where she wrote "Qing Bar" but actually played higher than ordinary bars, LeBlanc is much more pleasing.

However, although his impression of LeBlanc has changed, when Su Fei walked into the door of LeBlanc, he still couldn't help but raised the question, "I can't break through the barrier of dimensions, from three-dimensional to Two-dimensional." Bar? ' Such an absurd feeling - there is no other reason, the 'Two-dimensional flavor' in LeBlanc is too strong.

Although the furnishings in the store are all very ordinary, a few teenagers and girls who seemed to be holding some kind of celebration party, there was a 'tide' flying up.

As mentioned earlier, the real world is no different than animated novels, and there are not so many people born with rainbow-colored hair. At least Su Fei has only Kiyana around her——Su Fang, Mei, Mishima Kazumi, and Su Fei herself are all innocent. The natural and pollution-free black hair and black eyes, the light golden long hair of the beauty in the OL outfit, which is so light to almost transparent, is also natural, and Asuna's long chestnut hair is dyed.

Even including Yuuji Sakamoto, who has been in hiding for a long time, there are only two people around Su Fei with hair colors that are very different from ordinary people, but in LeBlanc, there is almost no one with normal hair colors-- Asuna's long chestnut hair, Dragon's Er's short golden hair soaring to the sky, the beige long hair of a fashionable girl, the dark blue short hair of a literary young man...

Looking at Su Fei separately, he didn't think there was anything wrong, but when they appeared together in Su Fei's field of vision, the 'Two-dimensional' aura that rushed to his face almost overwhelmed him.

The only exception in this group is the black-haired girl who claims to be 'confident in mixing coffee'—

"It's our first time meeting you. My name is Lai Qixiao." Sensing Su Fei's gaze, the quiet girl who was grinding coffee beans pushed up her black-rimmed glasses, raised her head, and said with a smile, "Nice to meet you, Bai Yu... younger brother?"

(Although the animation version uses 'Amiya Ren', I prefer the manga version of 'Lai Qi Xiao'...By the way, the character map has been uploaded, if you can't see it, please try to refresh it a few times)

"No..." Seeing the teasing and playfulness in her eyes, Su Fei rubbed her nose, a little embarrassed, "Actually, I'm not Gao Teng's student, I just go to Gao Teng to do some things..."

"Do something?" Beside Lai Qixiao, Asuna, who was wearing thick oven gloves, tilted her head, her eyes seemed to glance over Mei's body inadvertently, and asked curiously, "Is it for Senior Mei?"

"Well," Su Fei nodded and admitted, "You also know that Mei will transfer to Qianyu next semester. This time, I came here to help Mei pack her luggage."

The intimacy in Su Fei's words caused Asuna's hands to pause slightly—she originally wanted to take out the dessert from the oven, but now she only opened the oven door, and her right hand wrapped in a thick glove was like this. Putting it on the handle, it tightened unconsciously.

The strange thing is that Asuna is just an ordinary young girl, but the sturdy oven handle is slightly distorted due to her movements...

Su Fei didn't notice the dent on the oven, and the girl's voice, which sounded the same as usual, also covered up all the strangeness:

"Bai Yu, are you familiar with Mei-senpai?"

"My childhood sweetheart...well," Yai said softly before Su Fei could speak, "For now, let's just say it."

'Right', 'currently', 'for the time being', 'sort of'—these words are full of uncertainties, causing Asuna's eyes to flash with suspicion, but before she can ask, she introduces herself as ' Kitagawa Yusuke's boy suddenly spoke—that familiar voice that couldn't be more familiar made the expression on Su Fei's face even weirder.

"Speaking of which, Bai Yu Su Fei... the name always sounds familiar..." Yusuke Kitagawa, who has an artistic temperament, stroked his chin, and looked at Su Fei curiously, "Not only the name, but also the appearance... Could it be that we had met once before?"

"Well..." Su Fei laughed, but didn't tell Yusuke Kitagawa that he knew herself because Su Fei used to work for "The Assassin" when he was bored (shouldn't he forget it? It's Su Fei) Fei wrote the original novel in this life) and specially organized a large-scale solicitation event for young painters under 30 years old. Yusuke Kitagawa was one of the participants in this solicitation event.

The reason why Su Fei remembers Kitagawa Yusuke's name is not because his painting happened to be selected, but because Su Fei specifically noted that 'the painting style and composition must conform to the mainstream aesthetics of contemporary teenagers', As a contestant, Kitagawa Yusuke ignored this most important rule, and sent a picture with a strong artistic atmosphere to Su Fei—in many cases, "artistic atmosphere" and "does not conform to the mainstream aesthetics of contemporary teenagers" ' can draw an equal sign.

Kitagawa Yusuke's "willfulness" made Su Fei immediately think of this young man who didn't take an unusual path after hearing his self-introduction, but obviously, Su Fei who was not handsome enough to shock the world and cry ghosts and gods couldn't get in for the time being. The young painter's eyes, so Yusuke Kitagawa forgot about Su Fei in such a gorgeous way...

Su Fei wouldn't feel embarrassed or anything else because of such a trivial matter, he was simply curious about how this young artist, who was rated as a "bright future" by many real artists, got along with Asuna, a big entrepreneur. The intersection of the only daughter?

Not only that, but also the bad boy (suspected) Ryuji Sakamoto, the fashionable and beautifully dressed Anko Takamaki, and Akatsuki who claims to be 'confident in blending coffee'...

How did these seemingly irrelevant people get together?

Su Fei felt an unstoppable curiosity, but at this moment, Lai Qixiao, who had been concentrating on blending coffee before, said softly, "Okay~".

The strange thing is that Lai Qixiao didn't deliberately increase the volume, but whether it was Kitagawa Yusuke and others who were so dazzling with their "character aura" that they were definitely not ordinary people, or Su Fei and Mei who had just met her, After Lai Qixiao opened her mouth, she subconsciously turned her gaze away.

This feeling, as if she has some strange attraction...

The moment she realized this, a sudden realization dawned in Su Fei's heart - so it turned out that these seemingly hard-to-get-together boys and girls were all brought together because of Lai Qixiao...

Just as Su Fei was thinking about these things in his heart, a strong smell of coffee suddenly penetrated into the tip of his nose.

"Please use~"

The soft voice came to her ears, and Su Fei turned her head in surprise, only to find that Xiao had stood behind her at some point, showing him a gentle smile.

Smiling sweetly, looking forward to beautiful eyes—these two poems inexplicably emerged in Su Fei's heart.

Chapter 40. Feeling excited?nonexistent……

Smiling sweetly, looking forward to beautiful eyes - this is a poem in "The Book of Songs·Wei Feng·Shu Ren".

The full text was too long and difficult to pronounce, and Su Fei couldn't remember it clearly, but he remembered these two sentences clearly - because it was simple and expressive.

Seeing the girl's smiling face at this moment, Su Fei subconsciously came up with these two poems.

"thanks……"

After taking the coffee from Xiao, Su Fei said softly.

He was not very rude and kept focusing on the girl, carefully hiding the surprise and doubt in his eyes.

As early as when he was training with Fu Hua, Su Fei discovered that there really existed a martial art state of 'harmony between man and nature' in this world.

A martial artist who has reached the realm of 'Heaven and Man' is integrated with nature in every move, and will disappear silently from the sight of others if he is not paying attention, just like using the wind walk of a sword master , directly transferred from Saber to Assassin, the bug doesn't work.

If it weren't for this, Su Fei wouldn't have fallen into a disadvantage when he first fought with Fu Hua.

It's not surprising that Fu Hua can reach such a state. After all, he has lived for more than 5000 years, so it's only natural for him to be strong. But, how did Lai Qixiao do it?

Even if Su Fei doesn't keep his full attention in daily life like in battle, Su Fei's perception of the external environment is not so dull that he can't even notice a living person walking behind him To the point - in fact, if it wasn't for the strong smell of coffee that exposed Xiao's location, maybe Su Fei didn't know that she was standing behind him until Xiao opened her mouth.

Normally, Su Fei would have exploded at this moment - even Su Fei herself thought that he must calmly lift the table and grab the collar and ask loudly, 'Who are you! ? ' and so on, but in fact, he just said 'thank you' in a very ordinary way, and then... and then nothing.

It was a weird feeling, but unexpectedly, Su Fei didn't hate it.

Just like what he noticed just now, this girl named 'Lai Qi Xiao' seems to have a wonderful quality that makes people involuntarily get close to her and trust her.

Even if she broke through Su Fei's 'defense circle' silently, Su Fei couldn't feel too much hostility towards her...

This strange sense of intimacy made Su Fei confused for a moment.

It was as if his rationality and sensibility had been separated. Rationality was crazily warning him that there was a "big problem" with this seemingly ordinary girl, but his sensibility waved his hand nonchalantly, telling him that he just had to believe.