As the dating holy place of St. Freya Academy, the rooftop of the teaching building had always been favored by couples.
Until that strange rumor appeared.
It is said that a mysterious person who specializes in breaking up couples often roams on the rooftop. Any couple who is seen by him, without exception, will break up within three days.
The most famous victim was some guy from Class 3, Grade 1.
According to his own account, after he and his girlfriend were seen by that person on the rooftop, the next day he received a breakup text from his girlfriend.
No matter how he tried to get her back, the girlfriend was unwilling to change her mind, and even scolded him as a scumbag.
As time went by, the rooftop became a forbidden area for couples.
However, on the other hand, precisely because of this rumor, the rooftop space also became vacant.
Eventually, it gradually became a good place for some students to study and eat.
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On the rooftop, a light breeze gently blew.
Kiana was sitting on a chair, wolfing down her lunchbox. Her cheeks were puffed up with food, like a fully inflated pufferfish.
"Stupid Kiana, slow down. No one's fighting with you for food."
Looking at Kiana like this, Bronya was really afraid she'd choke, so she helplessly handed her a cup of water.
"Mm mm... Who told Mei's bento to be so delicious!" Kiana mumbled unclearly while sneaking her chopsticks toward the braised pork in Bronya's lunchbox.
The outcome goes without saying.
Upon noticing Kiana's intention, Bronya immediately used her chopsticks to fiercely knock the pair of 'sinful hands' reaching for her lunchbox.
"Ugh..."
Kiana rubbed her slightly reddened fingers, muttering, "Stingy Bronya..."
Beside them, Raiden Mei looked gently at the two who were playing around, with a faint smile hanging on the corners of her lips.
"Mei's cooking has improved again recently."
Bronya picked up a piece of braised pork and put it in her mouth, "The braised pork is fatty but not greasy, cooked just right."
Bronya's praise made Raiden Mei's eyes light up. "Really? As long as you like it. I was actually worried I added too much dark soy sauce. After all, it's been a long time since I made this…"
"No way~ Mei is too modest…"
While the two were chatting idly, Kiana suddenly stood up from her chair and raised her rebellious lunchbox high toward the sky, shouting, "I declare! Mei's bento conquest plan has been completed successfully!"
"Stupid Kiana, when was there such a plan..." Bronya covered her face, about to complain, when suddenly the rooftop door let out a creaking sound and was pushed open by someone.
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While preparing to go to the rooftop, Van suddenly heard a familiar notification tone from the phone in his pocket.
This sudden sound made Van shudder all over, instinctively thinking Ai-chan had released a new exposure video again.
But, after he tremblingly tapped open the phone screen, he realized it wasn't a video push, it was a message notification.
Good news: not an exposure video.
Bad news: it was messages from them.
Worse news: it was freaking two messages!!!
Looking at the two messages displayed side by side on the phone, Van's mouth twitched slightly.
[Mobius: Little mouse~ There's a freshly prepared "nutritious meal" in the lab…]
[Himeko: Van, if you have time, can you come to my office? I have something to talk to you about…]
To this, Van only wanted to say, 'I believe you, my foot! Do you two really think I don't know what's going on in your hearts?'
Looking at the messages sent around the same time, Van could bet with a hundred and one thousand percent certainty, those two were definitely setting up a trap.
As long as he dared to go to one of them, within five minutes, the other one would definitely receive a mocking text message from the first one.
As for why Van was so clear about this?
Don't ask. Just know, it came from bloody, tearful experience.
Ignoring the two messages, Van decisively arrived at the rooftop door of the teaching building. Then, he grasped the doorknob and pushed open the rooftop door...
Sunlight poured down. The rooftop was empty, and Van let out a long sigh of relief.
For some reason, at the moment he opened the rooftop door, Van had a strange premonition that he'd run into someone he knew.
Fortunately, what he imagined didn't happen.
"Heh~ scaring myself."
Van shook his head self-deprecatingly and found a shaded spot to sit down.
However, just as he was about to enjoy this rare moment of peace, clear conversation suddenly came from outside the rooftop door.
"Stupid Kiana, you're always so careless. You didn't even realize something fell."
Bronya's voice came from the stairway.
Immediately after, Kiana's energetic voice followed, "Aiya~ didn't I come to look for it as soon as I realized~"
Bang!
The rooftop door was suddenly pushed open.
"Eh?"
Kiana suddenly stopped her steps, suspiciously looking around, "Bronya, did you see something just now flash by?"
Here, Bronya followed behind Kiana and stepped onto the rooftop.
Looking at the empty rooftop, Bronya complained, "Stupid Kiana, always making a fuss over nothing. Besides us, who else could be here?"
On the other side, hiding in the rooftop corner, Van heard this and instinctively held his breath. That Kiana girl, although not very smart, her intuition was still sharp.
"Looks like no one came after we left."
After scanning the area, Bronya turned to Kiana, "So, what you dropped should still be here."
While the two of them were lowering their heads to search, Kiana suddenly asked, "By the way… Bronya, what do you think Himeko-sensei called Mei away for?"
"I'm not really sure."
Bronya didn't even raise her head and continued searching the floor, "If you're curious, just ask Mei yourself later?"
After a round of searching, the two finally found Kiana's lost student ID at the corner of the bench where they had just eaten.
As the rooftop door closed again, silence once more returned to the rooftop.
A while later, after confirming again and again that no one was around, Van finally walked out from the corner.
He wiped the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead and quietly mocked himself for being too nervous.
Logically, the two of them hadn't regained their memories yet, so it shouldn't cause much trouble to his life.
But deep inside, there was a voice warning him that, if he hadn't hidden just now, something very bad would definitely have happened.
After all, judging by the way Ai-chan's exposure videos were going, it was only a matter of time before they regained their memories...
By then, his previously peaceful campus life would probably completely explode.
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