"Ding Dong!"
"Hello! Tail number XXXX, your delivery has arrived!"
Hearing the sound from the doorway, the white-haired girl, who had been watching TV boredly, sprang up from the sofa, her face full of anticipation for food. As if completely unconcerned about potential danger outside, she didn't even look through the peephole before casually throwing the door open.
However, upon seeing the delivery person outside, the girl's expression froze for a moment. Then, looking somewhat incredulously at Xin Yu, clad in a yellow delivery uniform, she said, "You! Why are you delivering food? Is your body really okay?"
Xin Yu was also taken aback when he saw that this last delivery was for an acquaintance. In such a large city like Nagazora, to repeatedly encounter the same person by chance within just one or two months without actively searching... it truly felt like a touch of inexplicable fate.
Now, if before it was just speculation, Xin Yu was now 100% certain: the girl before him was definitely one of the game protagonists in this world. Otherwise, there was absolutely no way he could have run into her three, four, five times in such incredibly coincidental ways.
The mysterious existence behind him was pushing his fate, or perhaps causality, making him constantly meet this girl, triggering events to participate in the plot.
But even so, what does that mysterious existence gain? Does changing the plot itself bring benefits? Or does it want to influence the future's direction to achieve its own advantageous goals? Or is it simply dissatisfied with the game's original plot development?
But that still doesn't explain why it had to choose the originally ordinary me. Wouldn't finding people with stronger capabilities, higher intelligence, and better psychological factors achieve Its goals faster and better?
Unless... it simply had no choice...
"No problem. I went to the hospital later for a check-up. The doctor said for the remaining few months I have, I should just eat well, drink well, and do things I want to do."
This was, of course, a lie. Xin Yu hadn't been to the hospital for a check-up. If his failure to go right after waking up was due to memory chaos, now, after receiving the Immortal Master's teachings, he wouldn't dare go for a check-up casually. If they found something, he might end up on an operating table.
Speaking of which, Master seemed to tell me not to fall into deviation when she taught me the arts. Later, she seemed to explain what deviation was, but I think I was busy copying books at the time and didn't really remember.
After all, Xin Yu back then was still an illiterate who barely understood classical Chinese. Immortal Red Kite probably felt there was no need to delve too deeply into advanced knowledge at that stage, simply wanting the youth to build a solid foundation first before learning more. Unexpectedly, before the foundation was even solid, the youth had already left, and relying on some bizarre talent, actually managed to cultivate the Taixu Sword Qi, which hadn't even been fully taught.
As for how exactly he cultivated it... don't worry about that, just tell me if he managed it or not.
"This really is quite a coincidence. Today is a rare day I felt lazy, so I chose to order delivery instead of eating out... And it just happened to be you delivering..." Recalling the previous coincidental encounters, Kiana felt something was a bit strange.
However, the other party didn't seem like the type to stalk her, nor did he have any reason to. There was no malice in the way this guy looked at her.
As a girl who had run around the world since childhood, she naturally possessed her own unique ways of judging people. In the past, the girl could distinguish good from bad people based purely on intuition. And her intuition about the youth before her was that he was completely unlike a bad person.
"The delivery has arrived. Well then, enjoy your meal tonight. Please remember to give me a five-star rating."
Xin Yu smiled, waved, and then turned to leave without hesitation. So what if she's a protagonist? My past memories made it clear: the protagonists in this world are all lesbians. There's no way I can complete the 'conquest' mission required by that mysterious existence.
After all, he currently lacked not only romantic experience but even theoretical knowledge.
Xin Yu rode his newly acquired small electric scooter through the busy streets. Although he lacked memories, his past self seemed to have used this type of vehicle often, allowing him to handle it skillfully right from the start.
As Xin Yu was crossing a street, he suddenly saw a familiar person on the road.
He saw the girl named Raiden Mei, surrounded by several girls in school uniforms... This scene looks kind of familiar.
Raiden Mei carried groceries she had just bought from the supermarket. As a former noble young lady, cooking was something she never needed to do. But now, with her father imprisoned and the family's finances plummeting, there were no longer servants to cook, clean, or do laundry for her. The girl had to do everything herself.
Yet, she didn't expect to run into fellow students just by going out to buy groceries, and these students happened to see her.
As students of a private noble academy, their families naturally had some means. So, when these girls saw the famous Raiden Mei actually carrying groceries herself, they couldn't help but walk up and let out piercing laughs.
Perhaps it was precisely because this young lady, once the wealthiest and noblest in school, had now fallen to the level of commoners, allowing these girls, who could only look up to her before, to now look down on her. This drastic change in status filled the girls' hearts with a strange excitement. It was this mentality that made them mock and ridicule Raiden Mei time and again.
Raiden Mei really wanted to beat down everyone mocking her. Having practiced her family's swordsmanship since childhood, she definitely possessed the strength.
But the girl didn't do it. She just kept her head lowered, silently enduring.
Just as one of the girls felt that mere words were getting boring and wanted to get physical, they suddenly heard a honking sound.
A youth in a yellow delivery uniform, riding an electric scooter, stopped beside them. The youth held a phone that seemed to be already recording.
"Are you guys bullying her?"
The youth's question made the faces of the girls surrounding Raiden Mei change instantly. Although doing this at school among themselves wasn't a big deal, once this incident was exposed online, those self-proclaimed righteous netizens would start pointing fingers from their moral high ground. Then, fanned by the flames, some people would do irrational things.
The girls immediately laughed it off, saying they were just joking around with an acquaintance, and quickly distanced themselves from the scene.
Xin Yu put away his phone, looked at Raiden Mei, who stood with her head lowered, holding a seemingly heavy plastic bag full of groceries, and said, "If you don't mind, would you like me to give you a ride?"
Raiden Mei looked up, saw the somewhat familiar youth, and recalled their previous encounter.
She lowered her head again, answering only in a very faint voice.
"Okay."