Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

Yotsuya Miko put on an appearance of puzzled incomprehension.

“Isn’t it a wonderful thing to eat a meal lovingly prepared by the girl you like?”

“Wonderful is wonderful…”

On such a crucial matter, Yozora naturally couldn't afford any slip-ups, so he first acknowledged her statement before softly adding.

“But this time, there's actually something important to discuss.”

Hearing his tone, Yotsuya Miko realized he wasn't trying to find an excuse to slip away, nodded, and then quietly asked.

“Do you need any help?”

“It’s fine, you guys continue working.”

After saying that, Yozora left the home economics classroom.

Judging from Yotsuya Miko’s reaction, even she, with her Eyes of Bewitchment, couldn't perceive the time loop or the changes in the worldline.

While Miko can control who retains memories after a time rewind, that only applies to time rewinds initiated by her, not time loops or worldline shifts caused by unknown reasons.

“A solitary ‘observer’…”

Yozora walked slowly through the Sobu High School corridor, heading towards the first-year classrooms.

“This time, I shouldn’t be alone.”

… …

Later that day, in the classroom of Class A in the second grade…

A petite girl with fair skin, short light-chestnut hair, and a cute hair accessory was hugging her phone, hiding under the teacher’s podium.

Although she appeared calm, her eyes and expression were clearly tense, and she kept taking deep breaths, as if she were hiding, even burying her head low.

Just then, the classroom door was pulled open.

“So, it was you after all.”

Hearing the sudden voice, the girl subconsciously wanted to stand up, but she bumped into the podium, making a sound that sounded painful. She covered her head with her hands as she stood up, looking cautiously at the boy who had entered.

“Um… you’re Yozora-senpai from the second grade… I haven’t mistaken you, have I?”

“Nonsense.”

Yozora replied with slight impatience.

“I'm probably the only boy who would be in this classroom, right? Besides, everyone at Sobu High knows me.”

The girl was stunned by his words, then laughed sheepishly.

“As the rumors say… your personality… is a bit… something…”

“Great? I understand your meaning, I possess a great personality.”

“That’s not the adjective from the rumors… never mind, never mind, that’s not important.”

The girl approached Yozora, cautiously opening her mouth.

“Um, I am…”

“Koga Tomoe from the first grade, I know you.”

“Eh?”

Koga Tomoe couldn’t help but be stunned, surprised.

“You know me?”

Hearing Koga Tomoe constantly using polite language with him, Yozora couldn’t help but retort.

“Just speak normally, don’t make it sound like you’re talking to an elder.”

“Um… okay.”

Seeing Koga Tomoe agree, Yozora nodded in satisfaction, then suppressed his smile and said faintly.

“So, why did you hide in our classroom? Did you come to plant explosives, or to install eavesdropping devices?”

“Your thought process is too strange, Senpai.”

Koga Tomoe first ran over and closed the classroom door, then shrank under the podium again, curling up her petite body like an ostrich, a look of sadness on her face.

“It’s like this, I want to avoid someone… and in the entire school, only your class’s classroom is independent, and usually no one dares to approach it… so I thought hiding here would prevent me from being discovered.”

“I see.”

Yozora nodded noncommittally.

“So, what’s the specific situation? Explain it in detail.”

“This…”

Seeing Koga Tomoe hesitate, Yozora chuckled and said.

“If you don’t tell me, I’ll kick you out.”

“Senpai, you’re too heartless…”

Koga Tomoe first sighed slightly, then opened her mouth with a somewhat heavy expression.

“It’s like this, the person I’m avoiding is actually a third-year senior from the basketball club, named Maezawa. Senpai, do you… do you have any impression of him?”

“None.”

Yozora shook his head, looking completely unconcerned.

“I never bother to remember the names of those vulgar people I have no interest in.”

“I see…”

Koga Tomoe responded, hugging her knees and lowering her head to speak softly.

“I have a good friend named Reina, she likes Maezawa-senpai, so she often pulls us friends along to watch the basketball club’s practice. But later… Maezawa-senpai said he wanted to confess to me… Whether I accept or reject him, if Reina finds out… it will definitely affect our friendship, and I might even be ostracized by the class, seen as the shameless girl who steals her best friend’s crush… So, I had no choice but to hide here…”

“Yes, as boring as I expected.”

Yozora first offered this evaluation, and before Koga Tomoe could retort, he suddenly asked a question that made her face change.

“How many times have you relived today?”

“Eh?”

Koga Tomoe hesitated, but ultimately answered cautiously.

“The… second time…”

“Me too.”

Yozora nodded, then said righteously.

“Koga-san, do you even understand the painful situation you’ve put me in? It’s practically a cycle of hell.”

“Eh? Is it my fault?”

Looking at Koga Tomoe’s surprised and unexpected expression, Yozora rolled his eyes.

“Could it be my fault? Your problem is too big. You’re sick, the academic term for it is adolescent syndrome. The specific situation is very complicated, but to put it simply, it’s because your subconscious wants to avoid the awkward situation of being confessed to by the person your friend likes, so this day keeps repeating. If this situation can’t be resolved, then congratulations, the two of us are essentially trapped in this Monday forever.”

Koga Tomoe’s face changed.

“Is it really that serious?”

“Too serious.”

Yozora looked very serious.

“In short, you need to find a way to resolve it. If you can’t resolve it, then next loop, you're coming to home economics class with me.”

Yozora's suggestion could be considered a solution.

He didn't believe that, facing the combined cooking offensive of those three, Koga Tomoe would still subconsciously want to relive it again?

Then go ahead and relive it, we'll both die together.

“This… this…”

Koga Tomoe didn’t know how to respond, but suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

“Eh, Senpai, if I avoid Maezawa-senpai today, won’t we be able to reach tomorrow smoothly?”

“And then?”

Yozora had a speechless expression.

“You’ll come to our class’s classroom to hide every lunch break and after school? And then what? What about the weekends? Hiding forever isn’t a solution.”

“That’s true…”

Seeing Koga Tomoe at a loss, looking troubled, Yozora thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said.

“Alright, when the next loop starts, or rather, when we reach the timeline of tomorrow, invite your friend to watch the basketball club’s practice after school.”

“Eh?”

Koga Tomoe asked in confusion.

“But the basketball club doesn’t practice on Mondays and Tuesdays, right?”

“If I say there is, there will be.”

Yozora said this first, then followed up immediately.

“But your friend, and that Maezawa from the basketball club, both have something wrong with their heads.”

Hearing this, Koga Tomoe frowned slightly, disagreeing.

“Reina isn’t…”

“How long has the school year started? Has she even talked to that Maezawa? She just thinks he looks cool playing basketball, and then claims to like him, right? This kind of liking is too superficial. As the harem god of pure love, I strongly condemn it.”

Yozora didn’t give Koga Tomoe a chance to retort, shrugging his shoulders and continuing.

“As for that Maezawa… he’s even more of an extreme case. A third-year student wants to confess to a first-year freshman who he hasn’t even spoken to. He just thinks you’re cute and easy to manipulate. Having someone like that at Sobu High is practically slapping the principal’s face, equivalent to slapping my butt. The righteous me must take action.”

Koga Tomoe was silent for a long time, then a faint blush suddenly appeared on her fair cheeks, and she asked somewhat shyly.

“Um… Senpai, do you think I’m cute…?”

“Just be normal, I’m begging you.”

Yozora sighed helplessly, thinking, we're already stuck in a time loop, and she's still hung up on romance?

What a terrible girl.

“Senpai, can I ask, why are you helping me?”

Faced with Koga Tomoe’s curious question, Yozora seemed to suddenly realize something and said.

“That’s right, why am I helping you? Never mind, I’m not helping.”

Hearing this, Koga Tomoe looked flustered.

“Eh, don’t…”

“Just kidding.”

Yozora waved his hand, smiling.

“I’m the president of the Supernatural Quantum Mechanics Investigation and Research Society. Your incident definitely falls under the category of supernatural phenomena. Since that’s the case, I’ll just resolve it. Besides… I really don’t want to repeat this day again.”

After saying this, Yozora stood up and waved his hand.

“Alright, I’m leaving first. If you want to hide here, then hide here, bye-bye.”

“Um… Goodbye, Senpai.”

Seeing Yozora leave the classroom, Koga Tomoe sighed in relief, curled up under the podium, and muttered to herself.

“Adolescent syndrome… Senpai seems like… he’s not encountering this kind of strange thing for the first time…”

Just then, Koga Tomoe suddenly thought of a sentence Yozora had just said.

“I never bother to remember the names of those vulgar people I have no interest in.”

Then, she recalled what Yozora had said to her when he entered the classroom.

“Koga Tomoe from the first grade, I know you.”