Although Shinomiya Kaguya did not directly try the effects of the Instant Truancy Candy to prevent herself from entering a critical state of anemia or hypotension, out of reverence for Asakura's supernatural powers, she still bought some of each type in case of unforeseen needs.
"If the effect is good, I will buy more in the future."
The Shinomiya Family's young miss declared with full conviction.
"Oh, is that so…?"
Upon hearing this, Asakura's expression was somewhat subtle.
The instant truancy candy was, after all, meant for faking illness, and if its effects were too good, it might not be a good thing for ordinary people.
Just as the three of them left the changing room classroom, they saw Asagumo Chihaya rushing over.
"What happened?"
Seeing this, Asakura couldn't help but frown and quickly asked her, as in his impression, Asagumo Chihaya had always been relatively calm, not easily flustered by sudden situations.
For her to show such a slightly flustered expression, there must have been a problem.
Another piece of evidence was that Yuigahama Yui and Yukino were not present; only Asagumo Chihaya had come alone.
"For some unknown reason, the visitors in the school seem to have become agitated…"
Asagumo Chihaya didn't say much else, directly telling Asakura the problem: "The Student Council members have all gone to maintain order, Anna and Yukinoshita have also gone to help, Yuigahama is still looking after little Eriri, but Vice President Amakusa said that there are too many guests today, and even if all Student Council manpower is deployed, plus the support from the Magic Club and Service Club, it's just a drop in the bucket…"
Although the girl didn't continue speaking, Asakura could roughly guess what she meant.
Soubu High School now was like a seemingly calm but actually turbulent sea, where even though they had tried their best to suppress the waves, it was already precarious; once the undercurrents surfaced and the calm of the sea was broken, what would follow would likely be a tsunami-level storm.
And when the number of people in a place reaches a certain extent, quantity alone becomes the best weapon; if a pushing or trampling incident occurs, casualties would likely appear immediately.
At that time, the party with the greatest responsibility would undoubtedly be Soubu High School for not having adequate'safety measures,' and the specific responsibility would probably fall on the Student Council, as this school festival was entirely organized by the Student Council.
As for the cause of the commotion, Asakura didn't intend to delve deeply; it was probably just some trivial matters that would normally be insignificant, but Amakusa Shino's Holy Grail curse's negative effects had also started to fuel it.
"Do you need help?"
Shinomiya Kaguya asked, even though she didn't understand the full picture.
After all, even if she was just the Shinomiya Family's unloved youngest child, she could still mobilize some people to help maintain order.
"No need."
Asakura shook his head.
Under the influence of the curse, order maintained by conventional means would eventually break down, and even if Shinomiya Kaguya really transferred people from the Shinomiya Family, it would only make the situation worse due to the increased number of people on site.
Now, stronger measures were needed to suppress the outbreak of chaos.
At the very least, strong crowd control was needed to buy time for the Student Council members to guide visitors.
Asakura took one second to regretfully discard the strategy of 'standing on the rooftop, turning everyone into snakes to disperse them from school, then unified un-cursing them, and finally explaining it as mass hysteria'—regardless of whether his magic power could achieve this, the presence of filming equipment everywhere on campus at this moment meant that doing so would expose the existence of supernatural powers—and then took out his phone.
Before he could do anything, he noticed someone was intensely spamming the group chat.
[Unknow: I was offline for a bit because I found an interesting band, and when I opened the group chat, it seems everyone has already done a lot of incredible things?!]
[Unknow: Anon feels like she missed out on so many interesting things!]
[Unknow: To use a novel as an example, it's probably around twenty chapters!]
[Unknow: Hey hey hey, someone please pay attention to Anon! Otherwise, Anon will use the continuous group chat message reminder technique—]
[Yukino: Unfollow.]
[Unknow: Don't unfollow me!]
[Unknow: Ah, Asakura found!]
Seeing this, Asakura looked up and saw a pink-haired person in the crowd at the end of the hallway, desperately waving towards them while trying not to be swept away.
Of course, that wasn't the main point; what caught Asakura's eye was that behind the stinky pink-haired person were the magnetic levitation crunchy corner ahoge, the green belt destroyer, and the pink Tsuchinoko, the three little ones.
So Asakura quickly led Shinomiya Kaguya and the others towards Chihaya Anon.
With Asakura leading the way with the invisible magic [Scale], their group indeed moved much more easily through the crowd than others.
"Well done, Anon!"
After successfully meeting up with Chihaya Anon, Asakura praised her.
"Eh? Ah?"
Chihaya Anon was confused, clearly flustered by Asakura's sudden praise.
However, Asakura didn't explain further, merely looked at Gotō Hitori, who, after being squeezed through the crowd, looked even more like butter about to melt from high heat.
"Hitori, I need your help."
"Ah? Me?"
Gotō Hitori asked foolishly.
"And Ijichi and Yamada Ryo too."
Asakura continued.
"It feels like we're sponges bundled with dish soap for sale in a supermarket."
Yamada Ryo said with a straight face.
"Rather than bundled for sale, it's more like a freebie."
Ijichi Nijika retorted acidly.
"Don't want to help?"
Asakura asked.
"How could that be."
Yamada Ryo answered without hesitation.
"Asakura has helped us a lot, so at a time like this, we'll help even if we have to grit our teeth."
Nijika also nodded.
"Le-le-le-leave it to me awawawa…"
Gotō Hitori seemed to want to act cool, but due to too many strange sound effects, it was impossible to understand what she was saying.
"Asagumo—" To avoid confusing her with Chihaya Anon, Asakura could only revert to using Asagumo Chihaya's surname: "Please take Miss Shinomiya and Miss Fujiwara to the club room to rest. Leave the rest to me. Anon, take Hitori and the others to the rooftop. I'll be there soon."
"Why the rooftop?"
Chihaya Anon asked.
"You'll know when you get there."
Asakura did not answer directly.
Asagumo Chihaya nodded, but looking at the three pink-haired girls on the scene, she subconsciously rubbed the ends of her own hair, wondering if she should also dye her hair pink or something…
Shinomiya Kaguya seemed a little curious about what Asakura intended to do, but out of reverence for the supernatural, she said nothing.
Fujiwara Chika, on the other hand, was much more lively, directly asking Asakura: "Can I also go and help look?"
However, seeing her blinking eyes full of curiosity, Asakura directly translated her words in his mind to 'Can I also go and join the fun?'
"Do you play in a girl band?"
Asakura asked.
"No, but I can play the piano."
Fujiwara Chika said: "Although I haven't practiced for a while…"
"Then no, go and stay obediently in the club room."
So Asakura refused without hesitation.