Give children a little self-destruction shock to their worldview.

The other person had lived in this world for many years, and their movements of unbuttoning their clothes were much smoother and calmer than hers. Their hands, free of calluses and scars, were clean and slender, with distinct knuckles, and their nails were neatly trimmed and rounded. Blue veins could be seen on the back of their hands.

Normally, these hands would be pleasing to the eye and make one feel that they are good enough to be a hand model, but at this moment, for some reason, they exude an indescribable feeling.

Lania suddenly remembered that Mayumi Haga was actually very good at musical instruments, and her fingers were very strong when adjusting the bowstring or drawing the bow.

It should be quite flexible.

She wasn't talking about her fingers...! She was talking about Mayumi Haga's fighting style!

All I saw was Mayumi Haga slowly and methodically starting with the second button that she hadn't unbuttoned before. With just a gentle flick of her fingers, her collar loosened, revealing her skin and collarbone.

Then came the second one, the third one...

Mayumi Haga was wearing a close-fitting sports vest underneath, for ease of movement. Her waist and abdomen were slender, and the muscle definition was even more pronounced when she exerted herself.

The large expanse of bright white skin made Rania feel a little dizzy.

In this world, Mayumi Haga's body has no scars, but due to the nature of a Guardian's body, her figure has not deteriorated due to a lack of exercise.

Seeing Rania freeze in place, Mayumi Haga grabbed her hand and asked a surprising question: "Want to do it?"

"...What...what are you going to do...?" Rania was drawn into those eyes and almost agreed.

But she suddenly realized that Mayumi Haga, who had made the suggestion, still had clear eyes and didn't seem to have been pushed around by the atmosphere to make such a suggestion, so she quickly pulled her hand away: "Who wants to sit here?!"

Yuga Mayumi calmly replied, "You can't even think about it. You're still using someone else's body."

"Then why did you ask that question...!" Rania was furious at Mayumi Haga's words and actions, as if she were meeting her for the first time. "So frivolous! What are you thinking?"

Although the local customs are relatively open, and people are straightforward about who they want to date, Rania has lived in the village since birth and was later respected as the only witch. She is incredibly innocent.

As for Mayumi Haga... she thought this guy was a blockhead!

“Shrike,” Mayumi Haga explained earnestly, “what I’m trying to say is that guardians generally don’t have sexual desires, and neither do I.”

Sex is not a necessity for the Guardian, and the Guardian's true form is the core, not the physical body. Over time, Mayumi Haga will stop caring about these things.

She had never done it with anyone else, and she wasn't curious about the feeling; she just thought it was a very troublesome thing.

"This kind of thing..." Rania frowned, about to ask what it meant to say such things to her at this time, but then she realized what was going on.

Mayumi Haga told her this not because she was rejecting her, nor because she had discovered her feelings, but simply because she thought that what she had just done might be because she needed to release the pressure that had been suppressed for a long time.

Although Rania no longer has a body and no longer has any physical desires, but...

...If this makes her feel a little better, Mayumi Haga really wouldn't mind.

“But you’re using Kagura Yu’s body right now, so don’t go too far… You can come to me next time.” Mayumi Haga said, unbuttoning the last button of her shirt. “If you can, possess me.”

She looked up into Rania's eyes, her expression unusually calm: "I don't mind if you can use my body as you please."

Is this complete trust?

Or perhaps, it also contains a great deal of indifference towards oneself.

If it's a request from a friend, Mayumi Haga will not refuse.

She looked at her body like she looked at a bottle of mineral water that could be bought anywhere—cheap, but still hers.

Outsiders cannot interfere, but those who approve of it can use it freely.

—Because you are within my acceptable range, it doesn't matter.

“…What nonsense are you talking about…” Rania was shocked by this attitude. She was about to raise her eyebrows and scold Mayumi Haga for her views when she heard the infirmary door slam open.

Through the gap in the bed curtain, the two instinctively turned around and saw a pink-haired, idiotic high school student standing blankly in the doorway.

Main Text: Chapter 108 The Melted Bow, the Soaked Bed

Tono Hitomi immediately went looking for Haga Mayumi after class.

In her memory, Kagura Yu seemed to have a subtle connection with Mayumi.

She remembered that on her first day at the school, Kagura Yu and Haga Mayumi ran to the rooftop during lunch break, attracting enemies and making a mess... Now that she thought about it, the liquid that was all over the rooftop was the mark of Mayumi's injury!

At the time, I didn't know that Mayumi was the guardian, and I didn't think much of it when I saw the orange juice all over the ground.

Now that Hitomi Tohno thinks about it carefully, she realizes that back then, Yu Kagura must have known some things that she didn't, possibly even some of Mayumi's experiences in her original world...

With this in mind, Hitomi Tono naturally couldn't bring herself to let the two of them stay together.

Honestly, why do you have to keep things from me?

Even though she was supposedly on Mayumi's side.

And what if something else happens...

Because of the previous incident where Mayumi Haga caused such a commotion after spending only one afternoon alone with Yu Kagura, Tono Hitomi was on high alert this time as well.

Her mind raced.

Since the last incident, a new iron gate has been installed on the rooftop, prohibiting students from entering or leaving at will. Therefore, Mayumi and Kagura Yu shouldn't be heading in that direction.

Mayumi and the others left either in the infirmary, in a corner behind the school building, or in other places where no one was after class.

In short, you should go to the infirmary and look for it yourself first.

With her high luck and accurate intuition, Hitomi Tono immediately went to the infirmary after class.

Just as I was about to push the door open, I heard a hushed conversation inside.

The soundproofing in the infirmary was rather poor; the sound of conversation coming through the door was intermittent.

"...Check...it won't work..." It was Kagura Yu's voice, as if she was suppressing something.

"...I'll take it off myself..." Mayumi's voice and the lines gave off a bad feeling.

Hitomi Tono's heart skipped a beat.

In an empty infirmary, the two are alone, examining each other's bodies...!?

Such an event should absolutely not occur on campus!

She instinctively moved closer to the door, and the sounds coming from inside became even clearer.

The rustling sound of clothes being taken off, along with increasingly rapid breathing, was of unknown origin.

However, based on Hitomi Tohno's understanding of Mayumi Haga, she shouldn't be a frivolous person; she would never lay a hand on someone in this situation. She must have just misheard.

Just as she was about to relax, she suddenly heard Mayumi Haga inside ask bluntly, "Want to do it?"

—What are you thinking about?!

Is it the thing I understand it to be?

Because she heard it very clearly, Tono Hitomi, who knew she hadn't misheard, fell into another layer of confusion.

What... what's going on?! How did these two get along like this right under my nose?!

Hitomi Tono was deeply shocked and stood blankly at the door of the infirmary.

She tried hard to think of any details she might have overlooked, so that even though Mayumi Haga was the closest person to her, she was now saying such things in front of others.

As her mind went blank, she heard Mayumi Haga's calm voice from inside: "Guardians generally have no sexual desire, and so do I."

Aren't the topics jumping around too much?!

Hitomi Tono's thought process could no longer keep up with the speed of these two.

For a fleeting moment, just a fleeting moment... she felt like a little mouse being run over by a car.

"If you can, possess me."

...Possession?

Hitomi Tono, who realized that something about the word was amiss, suddenly understood.

She said that Kagura Yu and Mayumi had only met a few times, yet they inadvertently revealed a sense of intimacy. If Kagura Yu is now possessed by someone Mayumi knows, then that would make sense.

If that's the case, then she must be Mayumi's friend from another world, right?

That's a good friend I've known for a long time.

Thinking about this, Hitomi Tono felt a sense of crisis rising in her heart.

Wait, wait, if the person possessing Kagura Yu is Mayumi's past friend, then that means... I am the one who came later?

Hitomi Tono, who had never said it but always believed that she was Mayumi's best friend, was struck dumb.

What she found even harder to accept was Mayumi Haga's next words: "You can use my body as you please, I don't mind."

Upon hearing this, Tono Hitomi instinctively looked up abruptly, bumping her head against the door of the infirmary, making a sound loud enough to attract the attention of the two people inside.

She saw Kagura Yu turn red and look at her with a hint of surprise in her eyes, and knew that this expression came from someone she didn't know.

Meanwhile, Mayumi Haga was disheveled... or rather, wearing only a sports vest, and was almost intimately pressed against the neatly dressed Yu Kagura.

The two were too close on the hospital bed. Even Hitomi Tono knew that friends wouldn't take off their clothes and hug in bed.

She stood at the door, looking at everything before her, completely lost and bewildered.

—Am I not your best friend anymore?

She wanted to ask Mayumi Haga this question.

But before she could speak, Rania's next action made her words catch in her throat.

Red mist rose from the wizard's hands, swirling and rolling around her fingertips as if possessing a divine power.

Then, in front of Tono Hitomi, she clenched her hand into a claw and forcefully stabbed it into Mayumi Haga's head!

Time seemed to stand still at that moment.

The wizard forcefully plunged her hand into Mayumi Haga's head. After observing him closely, she easily located his core and, with a single, decisive blow, ripped it out.

Mayumi Haga's body went limp and collapsed.

If the wizard hadn't had no blood on his hands, and if there hadn't been no large, bloody hole left on Mayumi's head after he pulled his hand out, Hitomi Tono would have screamed out loud.

She stared blankly as Rania pulled a golden crystal out of Mayumi Haga's head.

After losing her core, Mayumi Haga's body collapsed onto the bed.

Rania covered her with the blanket, but the human figure raised under the blanket became flatter and flatter until it disappeared completely, leaving only damp marks.

A strangely familiar liquid dripped down the side of the bed.

what happened?

Because this event was so far beyond our comprehension, and in a way, although there was no bloodshed, the impact was still significant enough that Hitomi Tono lost her ability to speak at that moment.

She looked at Rania, then at the bed soaked with the melted Mayum, stammering, "You... Mayum, where... this is..."

—What is this?!

Main text: Chapter 109 Precognitive Dream

At first, Lania really only wanted to remove the aquatic mark from Mayumi Haga's body; she wouldn't do anything else.

After all, she was using someone else's body, and Kagura Yu would know everything she had done with this body after she woke up. In addition, she didn't want to make Mayumi Haga's life more complicated, so she was still very restrained.

Moreover, after Mayumi Haga said that she could use her body at will, Lania could not make use of it immediately no matter what.

So right now she's really just trying to find a way to remove the mark from Mayumi Haga's body.

This immediately made Lania realize the problem.

...Why is this guy covered in marks?

If the mark of the aquatic creature is counted according to the places where it was bitten, then that means that the unknown aquatic creature almost ate the entire Yuga True Bow, including its core, and there are still faint traces of the aquatic creature's aura on it.

Lania cannot remove the marks on Mayumi's body for the time being, but the marks on her core can be removed.

As for the body, Mayumi Haga can also rebuild one, so let's just discard the old one.

The previous probing also temporarily depleted Ulzana's blessing, so it won't trigger for a while. This is the perfect opportunity.

Moreover, Lania also needs Mayumi Haga's corpse as material to study human alchemy.

So she made her move on Mayumi Haga and directly removed the core.

As she expected, even without any wounds, a corpse that looks no different from an ordinary person will decompose under the watchful eyes of the inhabitants of this world.

After being resurrected, Mayumi Haga, who had been wrapped in a blanket and dressed inside before peeking out, said, "So that's how it is."

“This world is too troublesome,” Lania complained. “There are so many restrictions.”

"...Wait! How come you guys are so accepting of this?!" Hitomi Tono couldn't help but complain.