The Story of Kyousuke in a certain Takasaka

"Let go of me... Teacher Yukino... let me go..." Teacher Xueran?What are you doing! "The door of the room was opened again, this time it was a blond girl.

Sonia Nevaman, who works as an accountant in the student union, of course Yukino Chisa knows about it.So he let go of his hand, and Ren Zuimu fell to the ground in this posture, and the result was that the dagger pierced her abdomen thoroughly.

"Sister Zuinmu!" The anxious blond girl ran towards Zuinmu, and when she passed by Xueran, she suddenly pulled out a dagger from her arms, but at this moment, it collided with Xueran's weapon. rise

"It's too tender, desperate classmate Sonia." As soon as he provoked, his left hand stretched out and grabbed Sonia's wrist, and immediately there was a twist.

"Your Royal Highness, a super high school-level princess, however, you have used your talents in the wrong place. If you are asked to make a speech outside, you should

Co-authoring such music may really be able to set off a wave of despair.But it's a pity, the student council president won't just sit idly by, so Enoshima-san seems to just want to use you as a surprise soldier against Kyosuke.But even so, you are the same and still can't do anything. Biting the dagger in her mouth, Yukino Chisa skillfully took out the silk cloth from her bosom, and then tied Sonia's hands and feet behind her back to the stool that Sinki Mikan was sitting on

"You, you like him. Although I don't know the specific details, but what Enoshima said to you, I can always guess something roughly. After all, as a princess, you have done things before. Much more than I do. But, on this point, I used to be the same as you. I thought that the despair of life is so terrible, and after indulging in it, I will become unable to extricate myself." Looking at the abnormal eyes The gray-haired girl gently twisted Yukino at the handle of the dagger with a clear smile, and then lightly drew a red line on Sonia's face.

Because it wasn't very painful, Sonia was basically unresponsive.

However, I didn't realize until later that I still have so many things to lose

Knife and knife, as if facing precious sculpture materials, she carefully carved her ideal pattern on Sonia's face.

"I thought I had fallen into deep despair, but later I discovered that I was just a poor drowning person who thought he had reached the deepest point after diving less than ten meters in the 10-meter trench. "It took a full 10 minutes to complete my first draft, and another [-] minutes to repair my work. Finally satisfied, Yukino Chisa took out her The mirror, and then shone in front of Sonia.Then, watching the girl gradually become fearful, disbelief and other vivid expressions, she showed a happy smile.

Very nice isn't it?Although it is the first time to do this kind of thing (Picture: Well, who is the ship C)

077 Well, this chapter may still be a bit like the person in the black mirror, is it me?

It's hard to describe how I feel inside.Originally thought that no matter what, the heart would not be shaken anymore, just because I saw such a picture, I received an unimaginable shock in an instant, and then I understood Chisa Yukino's words in an instant, so I felt that I was already in despair Yes, it's just because you go to too few things.You think you've dived into the abyss, but in reality you're just floating on the surface.Even the frog in the well has a wider field of vision than you. "It's just a face, there's nothing scary about it, Sonia." The man's voice continued to reach his ears, with a slightly strange tone, but he said it like this with a smile on his face The words, "Your body, isn't it hurt? The pain is also, it's just this level. Sonia, she should be able to bear more. If it wasn't because of lack of time, she would Listening to Yukino's voice ringing in my ears like this. Trembling

With trembling lips and trembling body, all he could feel was a blank brain.When the tears ran across the wound, the pain caused by the salt made her consciousness clearer, and what followed was a sense of fear, which is one of the driving forces that can drive people.

"You're really smart, Sonia. From the looks of it, you seem to be able to understand a little bit. You see, people are like this, no matter how well others say it, they won't listen. Only after being done, it's done. Wait until the facts are out of the way." Only when it was in front of my eyes, could I clearly realize that these things were actually too obvious. While talking, Yukino Chisa once again moved the dagger. Only this time, it only cut through the The silk cloth that was tied up. Then I threw my dagger on the ground. Only after losing it will we understand how rich we were once. And how childish the despair we felt in the past, and The funny thing is that in this world, we still have countless opportunities. The irreversibility of time and the irreversibility of mistakes do not exist in such a world purely to make up for past regrets." Some sighed, she said, "It doesn't matter how many times you can do it all over again, for people like us, it's really true."

It's lucky.What do you say, classmate Sonia? "While speaking, she took out a white cloth from the small backpack behind her, wiped her hands clean, and then put on a new set of clean clothes.

Watching Sonia pick up the dagger on the ground, with a trembling movement, it pierced her own throat.Although he is not a member of the Despair sect, Yukino, who cannot be classified as a complete normal person, showed a slightly complicated smile and took a deep breath. The former teacher said: "Sure enough, with Kyousuke Is it exactly the same..."

"Use strength to break skill, use poison to fight poison... What exactly do you want to do?" Amidst Wuchee's slightly frowning questioning voice, came the sound of a key opening the door.The two people who were attracted by such a voice cast their gazes over, and naturally saw Yukino Chisa who was walking quickly with a smile on her face

"In the end, compared to Shiina, did you come back first?

She trotted over, and hugged the student council president from behind.While putting both hands from the neck to the chest

, most of the weight of the whole person passed through the pair of soft cushions on the chest, and then pressed on the young man's body. The temperament is completely different from when he was in a certain room just now. The current Yukino Chisa, She is just a little girl who is acting like a baby with the person she likes.There was no trace of blood and ferocity on her body.

"What, this look of 'it's you', obviously he is very good, okay?" Then she made a noise as if she was really a girl, shaking her body while using extremely fast She said quickly, "Qiansha has completed the task, but she doesn't care about it, she wants a reward, and she wants to kiss her!" After speaking, without waiting for any answer from the student council president, she hugged his body and held him by his side. A kiss on the face.

You're already a kiss, don't use this kind of self-proclaiming when you're such a grown-up person, don't you feel ashamed in front of your own students?

"Before becoming a teacher, Xiaoqiansha must first be a woman. Why should she be ashamed to swear the ownership of the main palace in front of the vixen?"

"Ha...so the vixen is in the palace or something...Forget it, I can't tell you clearly." The young man stroked his forehead, and after speaking half a sentence in a knot, he decisively decided to give up.

He planned to continue arguing with her on this topic, but instead said, "So, you came to find me, you must have made some progress. 9"

"Two people! One of them is your important student union secretary." Putting up two fingers, as if asking for credit, Xue Ran said, "How do you thank me?"

"So, how do you want me to thank you?"

"Then I... want two babies!"

"...Don't make trouble. The woman who saw the speechless expression on the student council president's face immediately puffed up her mouth, her eyes widened, and she said with a fierce expression, "It can't be less! "So the student council president could only sigh without answering, so he said, this is not a question of being stingy or not... After all, in this kind of place with no past and no future, how could new life be born? .

So it took a full half an hour to get rid of the constantly noisy Yukino Chisa here, feeling that Xiao Shiina is much more well-behaved, and he only has time

Continue to communicate with the fog cut here.It just so happened that Li Huazuo also finished his homework, so soon, only the student council president and Kyoko Kirikiri were left in the room sitting on their own armchairs, with their feet riding on the chair dedicated to the student council president. Close your eyes and meditate on the mahogany square table.After about 5 minutes, Kyoko Kirikiri asked, "What did Mr. Yukini say about that?"

"What does what mean?" Classmate Sonia," she pointed out the name, and then asked, "What happened? ,"

"That's why I said that you don't know what despair is at all, and you don't understand what it means to tell you." Maybe you will suspect that I am the party of despair who do this kind of thing, so that is to say, as long as I understand despair Now, can I know what you do, and the cure for despair? "For the first time, instead of using the usual "elimination", the word "healing" was used. Kyoko Kirikiri looked at the student council president seriously.

If that incurable disease can really be cured, then many things will become much simpler.However, they tried their best before they were alive, but they couldn't find a cure.Just a glimmer of possibility is already exhausted

I did my best.

oh? "So, he opened his eyes, looked at the girl with light gray long hair with a half-smile, and asked with great interest:'"

You, have that courage? "

"As long as it is a practical and useful method. Even if the price to pay is very high?." After a moment of silence, she said: "Because of despair, I have lost everything, so there will be no greater price." 5 Tsk, it's this kind of argument again. "As if an adult shook his head and smiled when he heard the childish speech, the student council president said, "Just try it if you want to. Although it can cure your so-called incurable hopeless disease, the process may not be as painful as it is. As beautiful as you can imagine. "Just nodded lightly, and after thinking for a while, Kyoko Kirikiri sat next to the computer, tuned up a piece of audio, and put on the earphones.

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Desire, thus losing the motivation to act.Feeling that you can't do it, can't bear it, can't persist, and can't control yourself, which makes people's emotions extremely deteriorated, and they do things that are impossible to do normally.

To put it simply, it is a very idealistic thing.Whether it is strong or weak depends entirely on the individual's mind.

Kyouko Kirigiri is undoubtedly the type with a firm mind, even if it was a deliberate experiment, it was only after the third cycle that her heart began to waver.On the fifth time, the tears began to flow.By the time he tried to strangle the student council president to death, it was already more than half an hour later.

Humans are... very amazing creatures.

Because of their high IQ and complex neural structure, they have developed many complicated emotions, and further produced various mental diseases.Because the relationship is too complicated, it is very difficult to give a clear summary and classification.But in general terms, it seems that it is possible to simply and roughly divide all the people in the world into men and women, and mental illness can also be simply and roughly divided into two types.

Patients with the first mental illness always like to attribute mistakes to

It is often called neurosis in psychology, and the most well-known manifestation is obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Patients with the second type of psychological disease are just the opposite. They like to attribute their mistakes to others and avoid their own responsibilities. Psychology is often called personality disorder, and the most well-known manifestation is the second disease.

However, although it is said to be a mental illness, even if it is regarded as an abnormal manifestation, it is also the product of regulating the individual's heart so that the spirit will not collapse.And when the external pressure reaches the limit of these two mental diseases, people's mental breakdown can no longer be restrained by common sense, and what they get is the hopeless disease spread by Enoshima Shield. But there will never be such a disease in the world. The hurdles that cannot be overcome, all things, the most fearful thing is comparison.The ancients once said that one should not worry about scarcity but about inequality. This is actually the truth

.The root of all problems is just a comparison, so the solution to the problem is just a comparison, just like the reason why the flowers in the greenhouse cannot withstand the wind and rain, it is because the wind and rain are indeed different from the environment of the greenhouse. cruel.But if it is a crew member who is used to the waves of the sea, to

On the inland river, no matter how big the wind and waves are, they will not feel anything.

"So it is actually a very simple thing to free desperate people from despair. Just let them broaden their horizons and realize that there are many things in this world that are more important than What they are suffering now is a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times more terrifying. Then they will look back and look at it, and they will find that what is blocking them is not a mountain, but a mountain. A small pebble. The despair of hope that I once thought could not be seen no matter what, is nothing more than a little bit of frustration

"Your previous practice, you constantly want those patients to show the beauty of the world, and then? They will only be more disgusted with themselves, and sink deeper and deeper in despair. But it is different here, I think they show the cruelty of the world …Well, it’s actually not very accurate to say that. I just told them that there are many more cruel things in the world, which have not been imposed on them. As a result, you see, the hopeless disease you think is unsolvable, is it just Cured?

"This is not treatment at all." Wuqie said calmly

"But the result is good, isn't it? Have I ever told you that I'm actually a consequentialist?" The student council president smiled indifferently, and then said, "Speaking of which, I still have to deal with this matter." Thank you Yanze. If it wasn't for her, I probably wouldn't have realized this. "That's why you did these cruel things to me enough to get you shot a hundred times? "

"No matter what the process is, as a resultant, as long as the ultimate goal is achieved, that's enough." In an indifferent tone, the student council president said, "Look, haven't you recovered yet?" I just want to kill you right now if I can.

"Don't say it so scary." The student council president smiled indifferently, and said, "However, you can't do it anyway." Only on this point, you have such confidence in yourself

"There are too many things that I have confidence in myself. It's because you haven't had much contact with me, so I don't know." The student council president smiled and shook his head, then looked at her again, and asked, "So, now Wu Qietong, who has the antibody of despair

what are you going to doOf course, don't say things like killing me again.

Picture: This is a girl, maybe I am also a man who aspires to be a warrior of love

078 Perhaps this article is almost over

"Suicide, and then change to a more normal body." As expected of Mr. Wuqiri, he can still think so calmly.You must know that Qiansha is about to have a nervous breakdown after being imprisoned by me for ten days.do you need my help? 9" The light gray eyes just stared at the student council president. The silence between the two parties lasted for half a minute before she finally spoke.

Gently spit out a word: Well, let's not mention anything else for the time being, but the fact that after death, he will be reborn the next day as if going back in time, even Wuqie has to admit that such a setting is true. The is very convenient.Although it is said that he obtained some kind of hopeless disease treatment method from the student council president, which can only be described as evil no matter how he thinks about it, Kirikiri himself has to admit that this treatment method is indeed effective.

At least, it is much stronger than the previous method that could only eliminate despair.

But, I will say it anyway.Even if you find a cure

The method of despair, I don't think Enoshima Junko's plan is so simple. "After saying such a sentence at last, his life was ended cleanly.

"Because of these things, I know all of them, right, my dear little Liangzi?" It was still in that dim room, except for a dozen or so huge display screens, there was no other light source .Wearing a single ponytail, a pair of red-rimmed glasses on the bridge of the nose, and dressed like a teacher, Enoshima Junko said: "Although the student council president is indeed very powerful, Chisa's performance is also a bit unexpected. Bian snatched two useless junk. But, it doesn't matter, doesn't it? Our killer weapon is not this in the first place.

"So how long do we have to wait!" Another manic voice sounded

"98%..." Immediately afterwards, there was the voice that seemed to be dying, "There is not one point left, two points left

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How about killing you?Maybe those two points can be put together.

"It's useless, stop me, maniac. No matter what you do to her dead face over there, that statistic won't increase. No matter how much you don't want to admit it, we are all human after all." After saying that , She pushed her eyes again, "Well, there seems to be a little time left, don't you plan to remind him? What's on your mind, you can't hide it from me, Ryoko.

"Because of me, it's you." However, Ryoko Otonashi just continued as usual, without making any response.

The official arrival of Enoshima Dunko's attack came three months after the student council president came to this world.During the evening class, there was a full moon shining in the night sky.Just like the first day the student council president came here, the pale yellow moonlight like a bright mirror was projected from the sky like water waves.Then, under such moonlight, a change occurred in the campus.

At the beginning, I received the news that there were kidnapped students in the middle of the school's big playground. The time when the students were kidnapped should be in the morning because in the afternoon, the student council president received about seven or eight students. News of NPC students not attending class on time.and play

In principle, NPCs generated out of thin air by the system will not take the initiative to do any behavior that violates the school rules. .

When nothing special happened, the absence of students was obviously a man-made incident.Although the other party carefully distributed the absent students evenly in different classes, the president of the student council, who has been paying attention to the movements of each student, discovered this at the first time, and quickly let the executive chairman Cooperating with the newly recruited Kyoko Kirigiri to investigate, it took half a day to get no reply, but he didn't expect it to be so fast, just six hours later at night, those NPC students who disappeared appeared again There should be a problem. "As soon as he received the news, Literati Naoi, the vice president, rushed over and made such remarks. Of course, at this time, everyone can see that there must be some conspiracy in it, but the student union However, Nagao couldn't understand what Ryoko Otonashi's plan was.

It's just that if you don't understand, you don't understand

"No matter what, people still need to be saved."

So under the moonlight, just like what I saw at the beginning, the black shadow miraculously completed the transformation from two-dimensional to three-dimensional.It's just a little different from what I saw the first time, this time it was before all the students returned to the dormitory, just like that, exposed to everyone.

Then, what he had thought about, what kind of reaction would those shadows chasing after him see ordinary NPC students?Such questions will soon have answers.

Like a shark smelling blood, the black shadows stretched their bodies into various strange shapes, and collectively pounced on several NPC students in the middle of the playground.There was obviously no sound, but the continuously surging black matter made everyone who saw this scene feel a chill involuntarily. Then, the number of black shadows increased.

After they dispersed, there was no trace left in the middle...they...

"Eat by...?" "What kind of monster is that?"

Among the students, many who saw this scene showed expressions of fear and panic.And the black shadow after the multiple growth seems to have noticed the teaching building that exudes light in the night, let out a silent scream, and surrounded it.

"This school was established to let those who cannot be reincarnated because of regrets let go of their regrets." At this time, when panic gradually began to spread in the whole school, a certain On the top of a building, a girl with long red hair was just looking down lightly.He muttered to himself, not knowing who he was talking to.

Although it is not known who has the ability to create such a place, what is certain is that the capacity here must be limited.I have been here for so long, but I have never seen a manager, so I might as well make a bold assumption: that is, there is no manager here.I don't know how long ago it has become an abandoned place, but I don't know why the function is still alive, and everything is running independently.

It doesn't matter if we absorb souls like us from the outside world, create companion NPCs, or send away souls that have been completely let go.Among them, all have their own set of systems that operate automatically and have already been set up long ago. "

At this moment, a young man's voice suddenly appeared

"so?"

"So, if the balance that has been maintained is suddenly destroyed, what will happen to the world?" Otonashi Ryoko came back to her senses, looking at the student council president who appeared behind her at some point , smiled softly, "As expected, you can hear what I said."

"Well, a certain ability that was awakened some time ago. If you concentrate, you can hear sounds far and far away, but unfortunately, you have ears with the wind, but the clairvoyance with infinite perspective seems to be a little far away." So the student council president explained his ability a little bit, and walked to the edge of the building while talking.Standing in a similar position, looking down at the scenery that just caught Otonashi Ryoko's eyes like an invisible wave, the black shadows poured into the teaching building, and then spread faster than the virus infection. What they did to NPCs], It doesn't seem to be devouring.Even zombie infection takes a certain amount of time, but as soon as they touch them, or even get close to a certain distance, the NPCs will automatically turn into black shadows that are just like them.It doesn't take even a second of time.

Transformation is the same, as if, black shadow is their first

General form.

"You look much calmer than I imagined.

.According to the original speculation, there is a 60% chance that you will attack me directly. "5 Even if you want to fight, you must speak clearly. I don't like to do those unclear periods. It's better to be clear. Of course, if you want to start fighting directly, I can't do it." So saying, With a shake of his hand, a long sword was created out of thin air.Tapping the sword spine lightly on the shoulder, the head of the student council asked: "So, are you going to continue?" So Otonashi Ryoko smiled, and then continued: "Any system must be It has its own defense or adjustment mechanism. Life forms, social groups, or natural systems. All existing systems have their own operating rules, and they also have their own rules when external forces try to break the rules. Adjustment method. If we compare this school to a filter, the purpose is to purify the soul and eliminate regrets and attachments. Then, if there is a situation where the soul cannot be purified and attachments cannot be let go, what kind of reaction do you think will occur? "The answer, of course, can't be to leave it all the time.constantly have

With the entry of new souls, but nothing in the world is infinite, and the school's capacity and purification ability are certainly no exception.So, if the soul has been unable to output and exceeds the capacity, what will happen?

There is no doubt that the functioning of the school will be destroyed.And if the original designer is someone who can create this kind of place, then it is inevitable that he will not have considered such a situation.

"Those souls that cannot be dealt with in the normal way will inevitably be cleaned up in other ways." Without the need for the student council president to give her own answer, Otonashi Ryoko announced the result directly, "This is almost inevitable. , There will definitely be particles that cannot pass through the filter, and these particles will definitely be removed. One or two may not be a problem, but if there are too many, it will block the evolutionary network, thereby destroying the function of the machine itself. Originally, Zhongcun and the others played the role of these impassable giant particles, but the capacity of this school is much larger than imagined, and the abilities of Zhongcun and others are also much smaller than I imagined. If we say If you continue like this, you will probably be ground into fine particles before you can successfully block the purification function of this school. In the end, the final defense mechanism of this school will probably not be activated and they will still pass through that one. filter screen, at time

Let go of all the past attachments, and finally go to an unknown world.

So, the young man who heard this couldn't help complaining: "So I'm actually a circular mill that pulverizes huge particles?" Then he said: "Although it is not, but it is roughly the same. Circular mill, you may be playing such a role. Dissolve the anger of the students and make the huge particles smaller, so that the school can continue to operate." , instead of using the method that is not the last solution." Then the method you said..." The student council president who was carrying the sword glanced down, and the huge black tide had surrounded the various teaching buildings, and it was still continuing to move. Strategize from bottom to top, "Is it such a thing L?what is that?

"As the saying goes, medicine is three-point poison. If you inject therapeutic medicine from the outside world, you will also be damaged while killing the virus. Of course, if it is possible, this system still hopes that its internal macrophages can solve all problems. , internal digestion is always the most perfect solution. In fact, as the president of the student council, you do have such abilities and means. However, if this continues, according to the unknown

If the script was set many years ago, the world would be too boring. , "So you've decided you're going to make the world sick?

He asked, "So what the hell is that group below, virus?" Skimming the student council president's question again, Otonashi Ryoko continued with the manuscript she had prepared, and said, "Of course before that, What we also need to realize is, what is the world based on to judge whether it is sick or not? Or to use the original analogy, the soul, the size of the purified particle, is judged by what.” And then you come to the conclusion that ,despair? "He thought for a while, then shook his head quickly, negating himself, no, not despair. I understand... so it is like this

·As expected, she is the woman I fancy, but in the end, she still thinks deeper than me.In this place, it seems that I really lost the picture: Aoba Xiaosan

079 Student Council President and Final Act 1 In the school surrounded by green hills, under the moonlight, the unknown Kuroshio is constantly spreading.The chain growth like a virus almost covered the ground with a thick layer of black matter.But at the top of a certain unoccupied building, two teenagers, a man and a woman, were not affected by this scene at all, chatting as if they were drinking tea and chatting.

Positive emotions such as happiness and contentment, etc. can make people feel relieved.People who let go of their past attachments, after passing the judgment of this school, will graduate from here and go to an unknown world.Of course, it is also possible that it simply disappeared.

"Then, according to the simplest logic, as long as you provide the opposite: resentment, pain, fear, despair, all negative emotions that cannot be relieved can affect the school's judgment on students. So in fact, It doesn't matter to me whether the disease of despair is cured or not cured. I've done it once before to infect the world with despair. Doing the same thing over and over again doesn't matter to me. It's boring. I remember, I used to

Seems like I said something similar to you. "

"Uh...this...maybe you have said it?" Frowning and looking at the upper right corner of his eyes, the student council president said, "Well, anyway, I actually think that the previous thing is just a foreshadowing. What? It must be a process of accumulating energy." So Miss Otonashi looked at the student council president with a slightly embarrassed expression, and then sighed softly after a long time.No longer looking at him, but focusing on the black tide that is still expanding below: "The people who exist here, no matter what kind of mood they are in, as long as their obsession can be continuously suppressed Intensified, the school's judgment will be closer to the critically ill patients. When the critically ill patients accumulate to a certain extent, huge pollution particles will completely block the filter screen. The system believes that it is no longer possible to rely on a student president alone. When the problems are solved internally in a short period of time, they will appear to have achieved their ultimate goal, but there is still not much excitement. There is only a faint smile on Otonashi Ryoko's face, which seems a little disappointed, as if And it seems that there is no: "As you can see now, the final defense

The mechanism is like this.The shadow under the moonlight was created based on the various negative emotions that the students had in this school.Things like cancer cells inside the human body can activate cancerous factors inside normal cells after reaching a certain critical point.Phagocytosis of normal cells, as long as they get enough nutrients, they can proliferate indefinitely, then clear everything, and finally reset.I think this school should have completed this procedure countless times before today.

"But looking at the secondary posture, the 'big cleaning' probably won't last long. Few people can survive such a battle. If they can escape tonight," she turned her head and glanced at the people behind her. President of the student council, that long sword disappeared at some point.

"You, probably can continue to exist." So what about you? "The student council president asked and tilted his head, Otonashi Ryoko asked back: "Do you care about me?" "

"A little bit, roughly, one-tenth of the degree." The student council president gestured for a length with his fingers, and said with a smile, "Bi Jing, are you also a student under my supervision?" of students wiped out

most? She asked, showing a group of innocent expressions, and said sarcasm without a mocking tone, "Do you think I need the care of a loser like you?"

"This mouth, you really are not forgiving at all.

. "The president of the student council smiled and didn't take it seriously, "Although I'm sorry, it still makes me feel a little sad to judge me as a loser so quickly.What's more, I think, before saying this, it's better to look up and see how under the originally bright moonlight, a dark shadow enveloped it at some point.The huge floating battleship floated above the sky, blocking the moonlight.A circular hatch was opened at the bottom of the ship, and a soft rope ladder was lowered.

It has been hanging down in front of the two of them.

Then the student council president looked at Ms. Otonashi, who had a slightly surprised expression and a bit of stunned expression, and there was a bit of complacency in her smile: "Go up by yourself, or should I pull you up? "When is 5?" "