Fenghuang Down

""Cough! Cough!" Kouro hit his chest several times, before breathing heavily.

Kouro lowered his head to hide his panicked expression, before his expression returned to normal because of his acting ability.

'What should I do?! How did she know!? Calm down Kouro! Think about it calmly, there is still a possibility that Fu Hua's intentions might not be about my transmigration to this world!'

Kouro raised his head again and stared at Fu Hua for a moment. No, to be more precise, Kouro stared at the hairpin decorated with red gems attached to her hair.

Seeing the hairpin, Kouro narrowed his eyes. 'I see... Has her memory returned? I don't know what really happened, but... It seems to be related to the senior Transmigrators who lived in the Previous Era. Hmm... Judging by her reaction, it seems like this senior has a special relationship with Fu Hua or... The organization behind Fu Hua. '

Kouro immediately stopped his thoughts at this point.

He just stared at Fu Hua, neither denying nor admitting it, before asking with a serious expression.

"Why… you ask that?"

Fu Hua still wore a serious expression and after seeing Kouro's reaction, the feelings in her heart increased slightly.

She didn't answer Kouro's question right away, she just stared at him for a moment before asking.

"Before I answer your question, do you know 'Shadow'?"

Kouro's movements suddenly stopped, system notification flashed through his mind, making his mind filled with question marks.

However, after a few seconds, he answered Fu Hua's question. "I do not know. "

"Then, did you have deja vu when you heard that?" Kouro shook his head.

Kouro really wasn't lying, he really didn't know what a 'Shadow' was, but judging by his system notifications and Fu Hua's reaction, this 'Shadow' was probably something very important, and might even be… The key, why did he reincarnated into this world?

"Is that so…" Hearing Kouro's answer, Fu Hua's eyes dimmed slightly, before putting on a sad smile.

"Forgive my impulsiveness earlier Kouro-san. Actually... You really resemble a person I know so well that I didn't realize it was you."

Seeing Fu Hua's pitiful expression, Kouro cursed Transmigrator senior in his mind, 'Senior bastard! If earlier, I swore to slap you hard! Now I will definitely beat you to death for making Fu Hua sad like this! '

"Ah! Then I'll go first. Kouro-san hope you get well." Fu Hua rubbed her slightly watery eyes before lowering her head slightly towards Kouro and leaving.

Kouro looked at Fu Hua's back with a doubtful expression as if he was undecided about something before he then took a deep breath and, with an expression full of determination, he said firmly to Fu Hua, who was about to leave.

"Fu Hua! Do you know Flame-Chaser and Project S.A.V.E." Fu Hua's movements stopped before the room around Kouro was filled with flying shining feathers.

Fu Hua, without looking back, asked Kouro, "Where did you hear that term from?"

Kouro glanced at these feathers flying around him. He knew that these feathers had the power to create illusions, and the source of this power, Kouro looked at Fu Hua's hairpin which was now slightly shining.

Yes, these feathers come from that hairpin which, if Kouro remembers correctly the name is [Fenghuang Down], this is a special Divine Key weapon for Fu Hua, no one knows how to use it other than Fu Hua and the weapon's creator.

Kouro didn't know much apart from [Fenghuang Down] Made using the 8th Herrscher's core which had the power to manipulate very real illusions and Kouro also remembered that this Herrscher's first appearance was shown to be able to manipulate dreams.

Fu Hua didn't emit any hostility towards him, but Kouro felt that if he didn't give a satisfactory reason, his memory might be changed by Fu Hua, although Kouro was sure that it didn't work against him due to the existence of the [Unknown] Ability.

But now was not the time to think about this, Kouro immediately answered Fu Hua's question with a lie without changing his face.

"That... This may sound crazy, but after you said 'Shadow', the terms Flame-Chaser and project S.A.V.E immediately popped into my head."

Right after Kouro said that, Fu Hua immediately ran up to him with a downcast face and gripped Kouro's shoulders hard while pushing him against the wall.

"Ouch! Ouch! It hurts! Fu Hua-san!" Kouro felt like his shoulder was going to break.

He really didn't expect to feel this way even though he had become stronger. Does that mean Fu Hua has become stronger after restoring her memory?

Fu Hua's grip loosened slowly before Kouro heard a sob coming from her.

"Fu Hua...?"

"Thank goodness..! Thank goodness…!" tears flowed from Fu Hua's eyes, making her glasses condense, even so she smiled in relief.

Seeing this, Kouro felt very guilty. He lied to Fu Hua, who was by nature just an ordinary young girl. She had gone through many sad things, endured loneliness, and had probably hung up on 50,000+ hopes for someone who might be dead, and now he was lying to be that person.

Kouro felt that he had become a bastard who cheated on a girl's feelings, but 'Rice has turned to porridge', so he could only bite the bullet.

Kouro subconsciously hugged Fu Hua, letting her head lie on his chest and patted her head before softly whispering, "I'm sorry Hua… You must have waited a very long time."

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15 minutes later.

"I-I'm sorry Kouro-san, to see me in this appearance." Fu Hua touched her cheeks while blushing in embarrassment.

Kouro, who was in front of Fu Hua, just wore a flat expression while blinking his eyes twice thinking 'Cute, if only I had a camera.'

After that, he took out a handkerchief from his shirt pocket and handed it to Fu Hua. "Here, you can use it."

"Ah! Thank you!" Fu Hua wiped her eyes with the handkerchief before returning it back.

Kouro, who felt the atmosphere was a bit awkward, scratched his head and said in an awkward tone, "Etto... Fu Hua, can you explain?"

"Ah well-" Fu Hua's words were interrupted by someone who immediately entered this room.

"Kouro! I heard you weren't feeling well, so we came here to see you." The person who came turned out to be Kiana with Mei and friends.

"Are? The class president is also here to?" Kiana said innocently.

"Hello everyone." Fu Hua's expression then turned calm before greeting them all politely.

Seeing them, Kouro nodded his head before looking at Fu Hua and saying, "We'll continue at my house later."

"Okay, then I'll go first, bye everyone." Fu Hua bid farewell to Kouro, and returned to class.

Kiana glanced back and forth between Fu Hua and Kouro.

Seeing Fu Hua leave, Kouro then looked at them, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya.

Ayame didn't come, maybe because class wasn't over yet, well or maybe she didn't come on purpose to avoid him.

"Well I'm not sick, it's just that my phobia recurs."

"Your phobia? Then have you improved?" Mei asked in a worried tone.

Just when Kouro wanted to explain, Bronya, without explaining anything, just said in a flat tone, "Starting the scan to the body of the subject Kouro, the scan is complete, Bronya has detected that the body of the subject Kouro has no abnormalities."

Seeing Bronya's behavior, Kouro just smiled a little, he then looked at Kiana who started staring at him with a strange look.

"Kiana... Why are you looking at me like that?"

Kiana didn't answer. She first looked at the wet front of Kouro's shirt, then looked at the slightly wet bedroom. She then recalled Fu Hua's somewhat messy appearance. After observing all of that, Kiana then looked back at Kouro.

Kouro, who was being stared at somehow, had a very bad feeling, and sure enough-

Kiana then asked with an innocent expression, "Kouro did you do something perverted with the class president?"

After Kiana said that, Kouro somehow felt a very strong aura of death.