My name is Levi, and I work in anime.

Amidst the high-pitched clang that reverberated for miles, the vampire's defenses proved utterly ineffective, and his heart was instantly cleaved in two by the blade!

It's over. This battle, which was strange from beginning to end and seemed to show that no one really cared about winning or losing, has finally come to an end.

Li Wei slowly sat down on the ground, hugging the body under the blade. His powerful life force began to take effect, and the wound healed rapidly.

"I really like you, Shinobu, but I can't go with you."

Holding Da Ren's head in his arms, as if in a world-famous painting of a fine ship, Li Wei said very seriously, "I already have many ties, but human possessiveness is at play, and I don't want you to leave me."

"..."

"Fine, it's all my fault. Let's not be stubborn. Come home with me, okay?"

"..."

"I will try my best to make every girl happy and live a good life. If you want, you can start a family and have a few children when you grow up."

"..."

"I know I'm not happy about you sharing with so many other women, but I'll be accommodating as long as you don't get angry with me."

"..."

"This is such a tired old phrase, but I can't think of anything more suitable to say right now. Shinobu, you are all my wings!"

"Dad, is this the first time you've ever been a jerk?" The vampire took a deep breath, finally regaining some strength: "What you said was awful, I want to hit you."

"Anyway, you know what it means."

Li Wei smiled and said, "So, would you like to go home with Dad?"

Are you being sincere about what you're saying?

"Of course, every word I said was sincere."

"..."

She seemed to have thought of something, and a funny expression appeared on her face: "As long as you cut off my limbs and keep them, leaving only my body to use as a body pillow, I will go home with you."

Li Wei: "Please forget that line!"

Chapter 44: Relationship with Touma Kazusa is temporarily stable.

The next day at school, the students were surprised to find that Li Wei looked very tired and in a bad state.

It's as if he spent a whole day simultaneously resolving the issues of several fiancées, fighting his way back from hell to earth, dealing with demons, vampires, and other mysterious beings from the underworld, and even battling the True Ancestor.

Coupled with the fiancée controversy of the previous two days, two different opinions quickly emerged on the campus forum.

The first version of the story is that Li Wei is actually a kind and considerate "central air conditioner" who is gentle and considerate to everyone, flirting with girls to no end. In the end, with everyone's unanimous agreement, they decided to lock him in the basement and have him jump on in turns. He was just released today.

The second version of the story is that Li Wei is actually a scumbag who falls in love with every girl he meets. He can meet eight girls who like him even when he goes out to buy fried noodles or bread. Last night, after shouting "You are all my wings", he was brutally attacked with a machete and barely escaped with his medical skills.

If the teenager involved saw this, he would feel that both versions of events have a degree of merit. If one could take the best of both worlds, combine them, and remove the elements of gore and violence, that would be roughly the truth of the matter.

Shinobu is really serious, twisting her own limbs to become a little girl and it feels strangely comfortable... No, no, no, has the aftereffect of the Sword of Light not completely subsided yet? It's better to use it less in the future.

Li Wei glanced at his shadow instinctively and shook his head violently.

However, not everyone understands the great sacrifices the boy made for the safety of the world. At least the acting homeroom teacher, Ms. Kirisu Mafuyu, was very dissatisfied.

He was clearly trying his best to teach, and he even changed into the latest tights and outfit, but he didn't even glance at me. Instead, he was staring at his shadow, completely distracted!

What's so interesting about that? Just because you have a fiancée doesn't make you any special. Be careful, or I might join your "alliance of desperate, single female teachers," you bastard.

"Avi... Li Vi, you seem to be in a bad state." The pink-haired acting homeroom teacher said with a serious face, and anyone could tell that she was unhappy: "Touma, take him to the infirmary and take care of him."

"Eh?"

This order was clearly unexpected for the boy and girl. Still caught in a cold war, they exchanged a glance and were momentarily at a loss for what to do.

However, as a gentleman, it would be impolite to embarrass a girl. Besides, in his current state, he really couldn't listen to anything.

As for Touma... she never listens in class.

Thinking of this, Li Wei stood up, grabbed the girl's hand somewhat forcefully, and walked towards the infirmary.

Rather than saying Touma took him to the infirmary, it would be more accurate to say that he took his childhood friend, a girl, to skip class.

"Sigh..." Kirisu Mafuyu sighed, slightly helpless.

Childhood sweethearts are such a sentimental thing. But I've known him since he was five or six years old, so I guess I could be considered childhood sweethearts too? What kind of fantasies do young people have these days? It's so strange.

The pink-haired acting homeroom teacher lowered her head, looking at her beautiful legs encased in black pantyhose.

"Am I really getting old?"

Thinking this to herself, she subtly wiggled her toes behind the podium, causing her stockings to twitch, then recover, their transparency increasing and then decreasing, creating a unique allure in the dim light.

Unbeknownst to the other students, she sighed inwardly, "I wish I were younger."

……

On the other side, at the door of the infirmary, there was no response after knocking. It seemed that Sister Juchuan was not there, so she simply pushed the door open and went in.

This place was very familiar to him; coming here felt like coming home. He casually found a hospital bed covered by a white curtain and lay down, looking at the hesitant, loyal girl in front of the bed.

"Didn't Kirisu-sensei say you were supposed to take care of me? You can't just stay there all the time."

These words seemed to give Touma an excuse. The girl with long, straight black hair took a deep breath and silently lay down on the other side of the bed with her back to him.

The two were less than five centimeters apart, but back to back.

Still angry with yourself? But it's all your own fault.

Thinking of this, the spot in his lower abdomen where he had been stabbed seemed to still ache faintly, telling him that the girl in front of him really dared to use a knife.

Then, neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere became slightly awkward. After a while, Li Wei finally spoke first.

"Touma, how have you been lately?"

"It's alright, I have everything I need. I can live a simple life on my own, and the piano is all I need."

"Is that so? But lately, your piano playing seems a bit different from before." Li Wei recalled the piano music he had been hearing from next door recently: "Compared to your previous strength and fearlessness, it seems to carry more sorrow and melancholy..."

"That's none of your business!" She covered her head with the blanket, her long, straight black hair speaking with unwavering conviction: "Even without you, I can live just fine."

That's what she said, but from beginning to end she never showed any intention of rejecting him.

They were silent for a moment. After a while, it was Touma's turn to speak first.

"And you, how have you been lately?"

"well enough."

He couldn't very well tell her that he had a very exciting life, having first participated in the battle against the True Ancestor in less than three months, then gone to the Fairy Kingdom to forge a sword and save the world, been locked in the basement by Morgan for a while along the way, and was now busy with his fiancées all over the world.

If you say that, the atmosphere that had just eased will immediately vanish.

Just then, Li Wei's phone suddenly received a text message. The sender was—

"Sister Tongxu?" The boy was somewhat surprised.

Because her back was to him, the girl with long, straight black hair was unaware of what was happening behind her and continued talking to herself.

"Sometimes I wonder, what would happen if there existed a world we don't know? Would all the unpleasant things between us never have happened, and would we have no connection at all..."

"No, if this timeline really exists, I will correct it even if it means traveling back in time."

After reading the message sent to him by the substitute homeroom teacher, the boy strengthened his resolve and, holding the girl's hand, answered resolutely, "No matter what, I will never give up on you, because I love you, Touma."

“…I don’t need it.” After a moment of hesitation, Touma Kazusa immediately retorted, but did not pull her hand back.

The boy and girl seemed to enjoy the atmosphere where they didn't interfere with each other too much, and the atmosphere became somewhat ambiguous without either of them speaking.

Meanwhile, in her office, looking at the text message she had sent to Li Wei, Kirisu Mafuyu sighed.

"Kirisu Mafuyu, you failed yourself but you still give advice to others."

"Ah, ah, I really want to be in a relationship too," she muttered.

PS: It's a new month. To achieve my goal of writing 15 words per month and receiving a six-month bonus, I will start updating three times a day today. The second update will be at noon, and the third update will remain the same.

Chapter 45 Hinako: Sister, that's enough.

It wasn't until the morning had passed that Li Wei, having had plenty of rest, finally woke up from his hospital bed.

It's basically like I missed half a day of class, but considering that besides Kirisu-nee's class in the morning, it was Itoshiki Nozomi's Japanese class—he substituted for Hiratsuka-nee before she came back—there's no need to worry. I can just tell him later.

There was no one around. The girl who had grabbed his hand and said nothing had vanished without a trace. Only the lingering fragrance of her body and the blanket she had tucked him in proved that she had taken care of him before leaving.

This is a crucial little step in breaking through in my relationship with Touma, and I should thank Kirisu for her help.

Thinking of this, Li Wei jumped out of bed, rushed out of the infirmary, and headed straight for the teachers' office.

Today's situation was much better than he had imagined, which made him even happier. Even when he entered the teachers' office building and saw Yokoshima Naruko and Totsugi Natsumi discussing the concentration of computer parts, he didn't go up and beat them up.

For these two guys, being beaten up by a beautiful young man is hard to say whether it's a reward or a punishment; either way, they're not at a disadvantage.

The level of focus they displayed was far greater than during class, which reminded me of a certain researcher who relentlessly pursued increasing Yukikaze's bust size, and has now lost all his hair.

However, this pleasant mood did not last long.

Before meeting Nozomi Itoshiki and Kirisu-nee, he encountered other people, including his fiancée Hinagiku Katsura and her sister Yukiji Katsura, whom he hadn't yet figured out how to explain.

The two sisters were sitting in the office talking, and the topic, of course, was Li Wei.

"So, this is pretty much the situation with the marriage certificate that Mr. Sakata gave you."

Katsura Hinagiku, her expression now calm, said this, completely transforming back into the perfect class president in everyone else's eyes, and becoming one of the two pillars alongside Hanekawa Tsubasa.

"Ah, I knew it! There was definitely something wrong with how quickly that guy wrote it." Gui Xuelu, who had intended to drown her sorrows in alcohol, looked helpless: "Xiaochu, what are you planning to do? Give up?"

"How could I possibly give up Avi and let those fat, low-class girls have her?"

"That little chubby girl, do you really think their biggest threat is their breasts?"

“Of course.” Katsura Hinagiku said the insane words expressionlessly: “Avi is an orphan and has absolutely no resistance to older sisters who are overly maternal. I’ve noticed that when he looks at other girls, he lingers for an extra 0.13 seconds on girls with particularly good figures, and 67.7% of that time he’s looking at their useless flabby flesh. There’s still a chance to salvage this situation. If those girls really get ahead of me, I’m afraid I won’t have any chance at all.”

"That's not true. Actually, having a flat chest has its advantages..." Gui Xuelu, as the older sister, subconsciously wanted to comfort her younger sister.

No, that's exactly how it is.

Katsura Hinagiku continued, "I have to act immediately. I now seriously suspect that some lewd devilish best friend has already cheated on me, or that the vampire mother and daughter are doing something involving incest. If I'm any later, it might be too late, and Avi will become their prisoner!"

Li Wei: "..."

Logically speaking, leaving now and waiting for Hina to calm down before discussing things would be the right choice, but the boy thought about it and decided that there was no better time than now.

If this continues, things will probably get worse, and in the eyes of the Gui sisters, she will gradually become the type who hates flat-chested women.

Even though she is very loving, Ryougi isn't that big—though she's still bigger than Katsura Hinagiku.

"Um, Hina, were you alright that day?"

Knock on the door, pretending not to have heard the sisters' conversation, and walk in with an innocent look on his face.

When she saw that the person she and her sister had been discussing had actually appeared, the pink-haired class monitor, who had just been thinking about how to win, suddenly became speechless, completely losing her previous confident demeanor.

Her face flushed, her voice trailed off, and she didn't know what to say.

At this moment, it was Gui Xuelu, who was usually unreliable, who was the first to adapt. He greeted her casually, "Oh, it's my brother-in-law. We're family, so let's not stand on ceremony. Please have a seat."

As expected of a reliable adult, he settled the formalities with just one sentence, and everything else was easy to discuss.

"Um, Yukiji-nee..."

"What, you don't want to admit it, you brat?"

When it came to his younger sister's lifelong happiness, this drunkard was uncompromising: "Let me tell you, my sister likes you to death. Her computer and phone wallpapers are photos of the two of you together, her bedroom has a New Year's greeting you wrote for her, and there's a card you gave her when she graduated from elementary school under her pillow!"

Katsura Hinagiku: "!!!???"

Gui Xuelu: "She cherishes the bandage you put on her when she was injured at the junior high school sports meet, the ointment you applied to her during her sword practice, the towel you used to wipe her sweat during the track and field competition, and the Valentine's Day gift you gave her."

Katsura Hinagiku: "Sister, you betrayed me?"

Gui Xuelu: "A few days ago, after I found out that I was your fiancée, I was so happy that I couldn't sleep. I got up in the middle of the night to sneak some wine from the basement, but I heard my sister calling your name in her dream. She also said that she had three children with you and raised two dogs."

Katsura Hinagiku: "I can't believe I had a dream like that!"

"In short, she already considers you her husband. If you dare to deny it, I will never let you off the hook for the rest of my life."