The next day, Rikka, whose prayers had gone unanswered, led Yuta back into the office, hoping to save the association through an alternative method.
Fang Wuwei saw all of this and kept it in his mind.
Even when praying, even when trying to save the association through an alternative method, Rikka was still unwilling to settle down and diligently study mathematics.
She was escaping, escaping this exam, just as she had escaped reality and fallen into chunibyo back then.
Finally, Fang Wuwei closed his eyes, lay on the ground, and stopped thinking.
How to cure Rikka's chunibyo, how to guide Rikka back on track, how to make Rikka face reality—these were not things Fang Wuwei should consider; this was Yuta's job.
Let her hero, Yuta, redeem Rikka, who had fallen into the abyss.
......
"So, this is the result you all discussed?" Fang Wuwei looked at the large group of people in front of him cleaning the swimming pool with brooms. "Exchanging labor for the continued existence of the association? What a genius idea, Yuta."
"Don't even talk about it. This girl just doesn't want to study," Yuta sighed helplessly, looking at Rikka and Totsuka, who were still clowning around in the present situation, and said.
"I'm even worse off; I'm in the cheerleading association, so why am I also here cleaning…?" Nibutani said from the side, spraying the floor with a hose, her perfectly developed figure looking even more alluring in her school swimsuit.
"But didn't you say the senior in the cheerleading association was too annoying and you didn't really want to go anymore?" Koushou, even in this situation, was hugging her lamb pillow, wrapped in a thin bath towel, lying on the ground sleeping.
"Why did you even bring your pillow to the pool?!" The lazy Koushou was practically a know-it-all, but Nibutani still didn't want to let Koushou keep being lazy because of that, so she complained. "Though I really don't have much interest in cheerleading either." After complaining, Nibutani also responded seriously; she really didn't want to go to cheerleading anymore.
"Then why did you even join?"
"Class president and cheerleading association member, that setting is completely opposite to chunibyo, right? I just thought it was the best way to change my image."
"Why do you want to change so much? I think chunibyo is quite fun," Koushou said. She wasn't a chunibyo, but she had always played along with Rikka and the others' chunibyo, perhaps regretting in her heart why she wasn't a chunibyo herself.
"It's not fun at all!" X2
Unexpectedly, this statement directly resonated strongly with Yuta and Nibutani, and even Fang Wuwei, who had walked away, felt like he wanted to find a hole to crawl into when looking at the memories in his mind.
"Eh? Why?"
"It's too embarrassing!" X2
"That's practically a dark history of one's life! It's like exposing all your shame to the sunlight!"
"And having to shout loudly for everyone to see! It's too mortifying!"
"Is that so… But I feel like Rikka and the others seem more at ease," Koushou didn't refute, just yawned indifferently, preparing to continue sleeping.
But Nibutani wouldn't let her be lazy, raising the hose and shooting a stream at Koushou, making her swallow a large mouthful of water: "Don't say seemingly reasonable things and then be lazy and sleep! You get to work too!"
Just as Nibutani was approaching step by step with the hose, intending to drag Koushou into the pool, Rikka unexpectedly rushed from behind, interrupting Nibutani's attack with a "Jet Black Slash (Sliding Kick)". Behind her, Totsuka Sanae was grinning sinisterly, tightly gripping a hose, blocking the water, preparing for a big shot.
"Aim at Ge 〇 delbar!" The hose in Totsuka's hand had accumulated a large amount of water, and it was about to burst. Totsuka released her hand, letting a thick stream of water spray out, accurately shooting towards Nibutani's face.
"Let me wash your rotten heart clean, Death! You damned hypocrite, Death! Disappear, disappear for me, Death!"
"You brat!" Nibutani took a sneak attack, recovered, turned her back, letting the water stream hit the back of her head, while bending down, pulling out her own hose, aiming at the incoming water stream, and pushing the water back. "Don't you dare be so arrogant!"
Two water streams clashed head-on, Nibutani's stream pushing against Totsuka's, and finally in the air, the two water streams stopped changing, like a beam clash, reflecting a rainbow.
"This is… the Legendary Art! Are you going to have a new vs. old showdown, Death?!"
"What kind of nonsense are you talking about? Put the hose down first!"
"Then I must respectfully decline, Death!"
"Don't worry, Totsuka, I'll help you." Seeing the two in a stalemate, Rikka decided to help her Master win, so she walked forward with an indifferent expression, half-crouched, placed her hands on Totsuka's waist, slightly gathered strength, and spoke the skill name: "Evil Eye Jet!" Then she pushed hard, and Totsuka directly slid rapidly towards Nibutani, walking on water and defying the laws of physics.
"Power… power is constantly surging, Death…" Totsuka grabbed one of her hair whips and swung it around her hand. "May the hose be with you~~ Death!"
On the other side, Nibutani's face turned green as she watched Totsuka slide towards her without any intention of slowing down.
Accompanied by two screams, the two collided. Nibutani was knocked backward onto the ground, feeling a sharp pain in her chest, while Totsuka's face was deeply buried in Nibutani's chest, struggling non-stop, which only made Nibutani even angrier.
Looking at the two tearing into each other and Yuta and the others constantly slacking off, Fang Wuwei, who had been diligently cleaning in the distance, dropped the hose from his left hand, propped himself up with the broom, and looked up at the sky…
— — — — This is a very tired dividing line — — — —
As the sun set, the constantly bickering group finally remembered their task of cleaning the pool, and hastily separated to get to work, only to find Fang Wuwei sitting by the poolside, leaning on his broom, looking displeased, and the pool beneath their feet was spotless, impossibly white.
How white?
The blue tiles had all been pried off and replaced with white ones by Fang Wuwei.
Three hours! Three hours! Do you know how I spent these three hours?! Do you know?!
"Eh heh heh… Wuwei, well… it's not like we wanted to slack off…"
"Shut up, and get out."
"Alright!"
...
Soon after, the Physical Education Teacher called by Yuta looked at the pristine white swimming pool, noticed something was off, and fell into contemplation…
Wasn't this thing originally blue?
Forget it… as long as it's clean, it's fine.
"Excellent! It's passed!" The Physical Education Teacher shouted happily, having saved himself a hard labor. How refreshing. "I'll go intercede for you with the math teacher! Don't worry!"
"That's great, the Naptime Association is saved!"
"Then thank you, Teacher."
"Hmph hmph… Everything is within the Evil King's True Eye's predictions!"
"How could the Master and my cooperation fail, Death!"
Only Fang Wuwei remained silent, leaning against the wall, pondering something…
There's a kind of 'pleasure' in raising children… Should I just blast them?