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"There's another group looking for her, and she's already discovered them, so she's become more vigilant?" Lu Zizhen guessed, following his words.
Dou Tang nodded and said, "That's what I think too."
At this moment, Huaiyin suggested, "Brother, why don't I go to sleep now and try to use my abilities to find her?"
"no!"
"No."
Dou Tang and Lu Zizhen spoke in unison once again.
Dou Tang turned to look at Huai Yin and said, "Absolutely not. We don't know if your ability is astral projection or something else. If you really use your ability, it's broad daylight now. What if other evil spirits or exorcists find out?"
Huaiyin wanted to say something more, but Doutang had already turned his head back, directly rejecting her suggestion.
Although she knew it was for her own safety, Huaiyin still pouted somewhat resentfully.
Lu Zizhen then suggested, "If you don't have enough Tangdou clones right now, should we call some more people?"
"We're not fighting alone anymore. How about we call our friends to help us?"
"If Tamamo-no-Mae wants to keep a low profile, she can't possibly kill someone in public. People like Old Wolf might not be able to beat Tamamo-no-Mae, but at least they won't be killed by her instantly, right?"
“Then let them act as our eyes and ears, slowly tighten the encirclement, and drag Tamamo-no-Mae out little by little, how about that?” She waved her hand and chopped downwards, “Let’s trap her like a turtle in a jar.”
"It's barely a solution," Dou Tang nodded.
After hearing their plan, Huaiyin suddenly exclaimed, "You two have gone too far!"
She clung to their shoulders, leaned in from the back seat, and said coquettishly with a frown, "You'd rather let Old Wolf and the others take risks than let me use my abilities? I'm much more efficient than them!"
Dou Tang sighed, "This is different."
"They have the ability to save their own lives, but there are still many mysteries surrounding your abilities. How can I be at ease?"
"What? You're clearly looking down on me!" Huaiyin clenched her small fist and lightly punched Doutang's shoulder.
"Oh dear, Huaiyin is unusually proactive today." Lu Zizhen reached out and pinched Huaiyin's face, saying, "Your brother is worried about your safety, you know that perfectly well, so why are you acting all cute now?"
"You just awakened your ability and you're eager to put it to use, right?" Lu Zizhen pinched Huaiyin's face and giggled, "You're so cute. Don't worry, you'll have plenty of opportunities in the future, not just once or twice."
"Bringing in more capable fighters is also to better control the situation in Nikko City. There are still quite a few evil spirits and monsters lurking in Nikko City."
Dou Tang nodded in agreement.
Huaiyin sat back down, looking completely deflated, and said, "Okay... then, next time you can help, be sure to call me."
"Don't worry, I won't forget you," Lu Zizhen comforted her.
Dou Tang then took out his phone: "I'm calling Lao Lang and the others now. Do you need to call anyone else?"
But as soon as he took out his phone, he froze.
Yangping sent me a message.
"Tori-kun, I heard that Yiyan Private Academy is going to hold a school festival! Should we go and support them?"
Dou Tang immediately looked at the calendar. Sure enough... tomorrow is the school festival!
It seems I'm going to miss it...
To be honest, Dou Tang was actually looking forward to the school festival, but right now...
Tamamo-no-Mae's matter is more important.
So he replied, "No need, I have something to do and can't get away, so I won't be going to the school festival this year."
Little did he know that his absence would lead to a series of events at the school festival.
Chapter 218 Before the School Festival
Fake Kiryu stared blankly at the campus in front of him.
Yesterday evening, he received a message from Nagaibuki, saying that the school festival was starting tomorrow and asking if he had time to come and help out in class.
Despite knowing he was at risk of exposure, he still came.
Today was the whole day when each class was decorating for the school festival. Students who didn't have classes were moving around the campus, making noise and commotion.
Along the roadside, a close young man and woman stood together, talking about something.
In the middle of the road, students from many classes who had prepared service programs were distributing flyers.
Upon entering the campus, the central avenue was divided into small stalls by plastic boards. People were already setting up their shops, which were all decided by the classes themselves, and they could do whatever they wanted.
Some students borrowed their own takoyaki hot pot, while others prepared homemade cookies and snacks. Some classes even turned their spots into playground equipment. The fake Kiryu even saw goldfish scooping, a game usually only seen at festivals.
"This school... is it really that lenient with its students?" Kiryu remarked.
"Excuse me, student! Please take a look at this!"
Just as the fake Kiryu was feeling sentimental, a girl suddenly walked up to him, carrying a stack of flyers. She pulled one out and handed it to the fake Kiryu.
The fake Kiryu took the flyer and was taken aback.
"A maid cafe?!"
The girl gave a thumbs up: "That's right! The school festival project for Class 2-G is in the first classroom on the third floor of the teaching building, near the southeast entrance. Please be sure to check it out!"
As soon as the girl finished speaking, she was pulled away by another girl next to her. The girl looked uneasy, sizing up the fake Kiryu but not daring to meet his gaze.
The fake Kiryu glanced at the flyer and looked up again, but the two had already disappeared.
He scratched his head in confusion.
Not far away, the girl was whispering to her companion, "Are you crazy? Do you even know who you just bumped into?"
"Huh? Huh?" The girl handing out flyers was a little confused. "Who is that guy? He looks like a stranger, so I went up to him..."
"He's actually quite good-looking!"
"That's Kiryu Toudou!" The girl patted her companion on the shoulder. "That's the Kiryu Toudou who had a scandal with Kume Chinatsu and supposedly ruled over half of Tokyo's delinquents!"
Upon hearing this, the girl shrank back like a startled rabbit: "Huh?! That person is Kiryu Toudou?!"
"I won't be killed, will I! Waaaaaah..."
It seems that the name Kiryu Tou-Tang has become an urban legend at Yiyan Private Academy.
Soon, the fake Kiryu also noticed this. It seems that there are many people in this school who know Kiryu Toudou.
Moreover, his reputation seemed to be not very good. Wherever he went, people who recognized him would avoid him, and the students who were originally enthusiastic about handing out flyers would not come to him.
Despite being surrounded by the vibrant energy of campus life, the fake Kiryu felt like a ghost that no one could see.
Is this what his life is like?
Loneliness... No one talks to me, no one cares. I enjoy the lamb's awe of the tiger, yet I don't even have a companion.
Suddenly, the fake Kiryu felt that the identity of Kiryu Toudou was no longer as attractive to him as it had been at the beginning.
He walked all the way to the entrance of the teaching building before he ran into Nagaibuki, who was coming out of the building.
Upon seeing the fake Kiryu, Nagaibuki, unlike everyone else around her, waved and ran over excitedly, shouting, "Kiryu-kun! Over here! I'm here!"
The fake Kiryu also smiled: "Ah, Naga-kun."
Nagaibuki approached the fake Kiryu, clearly surprised by his arrival. He grabbed the fake Kiryu's hand and led him into the building, saying, "Kiryu-kun, you've come at the perfect time! We were just discussing tomorrow's shop. We're planning to turn the classroom into a haunted house!"
"In order to make the renovation, I even borrowed the original old human skeletons from the old teaching materials room!"
Old human skeleton?
The fake Kiryu was dragged along by Nagaibuki until they arrived at Class 2-B.
The most lively group in Class 2-B at this time was undoubtedly the Hayakawa sisters.
Hayakawa Mizue was as energetic as ever, running around the classroom, while Hayakawa Kanae followed behind her older sister, coordinating everyone's work.
The classroom had been transformed; black curtains now separated it into a narrow path, which would be the route through the haunted house. Along this path, everyone who came to visit would experience the ultimate fear.
Even the windows were covered with red handprints from the students, which looked extremely terrifying. The dense red handprints resembled blooming flowers, which looked very beautiful from a distance, but were chilling to the bone when you got close.
"Yo! Kiryu-kun!" Hayakawa Mizue greeted the fake Kiryu and rushed over.
After she came over, she patted the fake Kiryu on the shoulder and said, "You haven't been to school much since Kamogawa City! I'm so envious of you!"
"Sister..." Hayakawa
Kanae leaned closer and tugged at her older sister's sleeve: "Kiryu-kun still has to work, and Kyoko-sensei already agreed, didn't she?"
"That's exactly why I'm so envious!" Hayakawa Mizue said with a look of indignation. "If only I could have that kind of treatment..."
"Ruizhi, Xiangmiao, how's the setup going?" Nagaibuki asked.
"It's almost all set up. Oh, right, the human skeleton from the old textbook room hasn't been moved over yet," Xiangmiao said.
At this moment, the fake Kiryu also learned the names of the two by looking at the name tags on their school uniforms.
Hayakawa Kanae and Hayakawa Mizue... are sisters, they seem to be friends with Kiryu Toudou, and are one of the few who aren't afraid of him.
"I see... Then Kiryu-kun and I will go move it." Nagaibuki waved his hand.
After saying that, Nagaibuki left with the fake Kiryu. In order not to be exposed, the fake Kiryu obediently followed Nagaibuki.
After spending a few days together, Nagaibuki and the fake Kiryu were quite happy. At least the fake Kiryu didn't have the cold indifference that Toudou had, making Nagaibuki much more comfortable around him.
As they walked toward the old textbook room, Nagaibuki said, "Kiryu-kun, you're so tall, would you be interested in playing an NPC in the haunted house tomorrow?"
He grinned mischievously, his eyes crinkling into crescents, like a little devil whose gender was hard to discern: "It must be very interesting, right?"
After a moment of silence, the fake Kiryu said, "It's not impossible, but you'll need to wear makeup, right?"
"Mmm." Nagai-buki nodded.
"Then I'll just put on makeup so no one will recognize me," the fake Kiryu said, then sighed.
In that case... even if Makiru comes tomorrow, at least it won't cause panic between him and me.
Chapter 219 The Skeleton Came to Life!
The fake Kiryu followed Nagaibuki to the old textbook room, where Nagaibuki took out a key and opened the door.
The old textbook room was still piled with clutter, but... it wasn't chaotic.
The original classroom was now filled with discarded desks and chairs along the walls, and several cabinets at the back of the classroom contained teaching aids such as set squares, but they all looked damaged.
In the center of the classroom, there were two tables and two chairs.
It's like... there are two unknown students who will be taking classes here.
The blackboard was covered with messy writing, which looked like it was about mathematics. The handwriting was relatively new, but it was impossible to tell when it was written.
Next to the blackboard was a skull hanging on a steel frame.
That's the skeletal model that Nagaibuki was talking about, which has been abandoned.
The skeletal model was wearing a white lab coat, which looked rather odd and made the model appear somewhat...angry.
"Hey, has anyone come to clean it recently?" Nagaibuki walked into the old textbook room with some curiosity and looked at the two desks.
The fake Kiryu looked at the skeletal model with a strange expression.
For some reason... he felt that when he first entered the room, the skeleton's jaw moved, as if it wanted to talk to him.
Then he held it back.
Maybe I'm overthinking it?
Nagai looked at the blackboard and said, "It looks like someone is having tutoring here, Kiryu-kun. These are all second-year questions."
The fake Kiryu looked at the blackboard.
Then I realized I couldn't understand it at all, and I didn't even have a trace of it. It seems I really don't have a talent for learning...
Even before the amnesia, it was the same, right?
The fake Kiryu coughed twice in embarrassment and said, "Let's get down to business first, Naga-kun."
He pointed at the skull model: "Just move this over there, right?"
"Click..." Suddenly, the skull model shook and made a sound of bones colliding.
This startled the fake Kiryu, whose eyes were filled with suspicion and uncertainty.
Nagaibuki shrank back further and looked at the fake Kiryu, saying, "Kiryu-kun, you...did you see that just now?"
"Ah, I see it, this thing seems to have moved?"
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