Without realizing it, three months had already passed since Yuji arrived at the Flame-Chasers.
During these three months, the presence of the system had grown thinner and thinner.
If Yuji could not still open the system interface, he would have almost forgotten that he even had one.
During this time, Yuji’s days had been extremely full.
Every day was filled with all kinds of tests and training.
His learning in various fields never stopped.
By now, he had dabbled in almost every area.
With his current knowledge reserves, he could completely open his own research institute and become a doctor.
But that was only “could.” He was not good at handling that kind of troublesome thing.
Every time he saw Mobius busy to the point of exhaustion, Yuji felt that not just anyone could take that position.
During this period, Yuji had also become familiar with the layout of the Flame-Chasers.
The dormitories for him and MEI had long been assigned.
It was just that MEI did not like living alone and often went to Yuji’s place.
There was also one very important matter: Yuji had followed the combat teams to several Honkai outbreak sites and gained a deeper understanding of how to deal with the Honkai.
At the very least, when he saw ordinary civilians who had been eroded by the Honkai and turned into Death Soldiers, he no longer hesitated to act.
With Yuji following them, the casualty rate of those soldiers had also dropped quite a bit.
As a result, every time he returned, Yuji would see a large number of soldiers thanking him.
In the morning, Yuji arrived at the First Research Institute.
After clocking in, he placed the coffee he had just made on the table.
He casually took a pair of glasses from his pocket and put them on.
These glasses were because MEI felt it was a pity that she had not seen Yuji wearing them when they previously tricked Mobius.
So she forcefully demanded that Yuji wear them.
Yuji did not mind much.
After all, it was just wearing a pair of glasses, and MEI herself always wore them as well.
“You’re here so early today?”
Klein came out of the laboratory.
One look was enough to tell that she had stayed up working late again last night.
The two dark circles under her eyes were especially obvious.
Yuji casually handed the milk tea he had made to Klein while looking at the report in his hands without raising his head.
“I sent MEI to the airport this morning. She said she left something in Nagazora City.”
Klein let out an “oh,” then sat down beside Yuji.
“Speaking of which, where is Mobius?”
These past few days, Mobius had been avoiding Yuji.
Ever since last week, when she could not hold back and was caught red-handed by Elysia during a night raid, she had become extremely well-behaved.
This “well-behaved” was not the ordinary kind.
Previously, Mobius had used every possible method to seduce (lure) Yuji.
Now that she had suddenly been quiet for a whole week, Yuji was instead a little unaccustomed to it.
“The Doctor… she is doing something very important.”
Klein showed a hesitant expression.
She had been given a gag order by Mobius.
If she did anything unnecessary that affected Mobius’s plan, Mobius would not let her off.
“So mysterious.”
Yuji also knew he would not get any information from Klein, but he was not worried.
Judging from Mobius’s movements, whatever she was doing should not be too excessive.
After all, she could not possibly still be thinking only about getting revenge on Elysia, right?
Speaking of Elysia, Yuji suddenly remembered that last time she had given him several concert tickets.
They were all for Eden’s concert.
She had also instructed him that he must go when the time came.
Thinking of this, Yuji took out a ticket from his pocket and handed it to Klein.
“Eh? This is… a ticket for Eden’s concert? I remember these are very hard to get. Are you giving it to me?”
Klein took the ticket and discovered that it was even a VIP seat.
“It’s okay. I didn’t snatch it. Elysia gave it to me.” Yuji took a sip of coffee.
“Oh, so you’re giving me the ticket because you want to go on a date with me? Or have you already decided to accept my condition?”
“Pfft—! Cough cough!”
Hearing Klein’s words, Yuji was so shocked that he spat out the coffee in his mouth.
“Listen, Klein. You have free will. You can’t do that kind of thing just because of Mobius!”
“Oh, so you mean you’re rejecting me?”
She was completely unmoved.
Yuji did not dare to continue speaking even one more word.
Seeing that Yuji said nothing, Klein gently nodded and said thoughtfully, “I understand. So you feel that just me alone is not enough…”
???
When did I say that?
Yuji felt very innocent, but Klein did not care what he was thinking.
Right after that, Klein opened her phone, opened a certain group chat, and seemed to be helping Yuji look for new “victims.”
“Alright, alright, let’s stop this topic, Klein. There are more important things to do.”
“Mm, I know, Yuji. So, this ticket really isn’t for a date with me?”
Forget it.
Yuji no longer planned to resist.
There was a beautiful girl offering herself for free.
Although it was a little immoral, he could not keep rejecting forever.
“Yes. Just take it as me wanting to go on a date with you. After all, you’ve always been the one taking the initiative.”
Hmm?
Something seemed a little off.
After all, MEI and Mobius also seemed to be the ones taking the initiative.
Hiss… so that means I’m the one being pressed down?
“But, after all, it’s Eden’s concert. There will definitely be many people asking you out, right?”
“Alright, stop belittling yourself, Klein. You’re clearly excellent. Being able to join Mobius’s laboratory already says everything.”
Klein shook her head, indicating that she was not belittling herself.
“What I mean is, with so many people inviting you that day, will it even be my turn?”
“Uh… it shouldn’t be? There shouldn’t be that many people. Mobius should have no interest in this at all, and she’s still avoiding me. Elysia was originally going to go, so that leaves only MEI accompanying me.”
“But what if? After all, the things you’ve done these past few days have made a lot of people want to ask you out…”
Seeing Klein’s questions coming one after another, Yuji could only firmly state that no matter who came, it was impossible for him to agree.
“What if… you break the appointment?”
“Then I’ll… I’ll…”
“Then you’ll agree to my condition?”
So she had been waiting for him here.
However, Yuji was confident that he would not break the appointment.
“No problem!”
“What’s no problem?”
Just as Yuji answered Klein’s question, Mobius suddenly appeared from who-knows-where, still chewing gum.
After briefly understanding the situation and finding out that Yuji had invited Klein to the concert, she no longer cared.
Recently she had been researching a kind of “weapon” specifically for dealing with Elysia, but Mobius did not plan to let Yuji know.
Just as she reached the laboratory door, Mobius seemed to think of something, then came back to Yuji’s side again.
Before Yuji could realize what was happening, Mobius pulled him over and kissed him, then handed the already tasteless gum to him.
“This is compensation for these past few days. Don’t worry, this is only the ‘deposit.’ I’ll give you the ‘final payment’ later.”
After saying that, Mobius dove back into the laboratory again.
Yuji chewed the gum, still not fully reacting.
He looked at Klein, and Klein only gave him a look that said “I don’t know anything.”
Forget it.
It was only a kiss.
In these three months it was not as if they had never kissed.
With their current relationship, aside from going all the way, they had already done more or less a bit of everything else.
After that, Yuji helped Klein organize experimental data and various meeting materials.
After being busy the entire morning and finally finishing all the data, Klein also looked a little relaxed as she expressed her thanks.
“Today’s workload is finally finished. Thank you so much.”
“No need to be polite… Wait! You said today’s workload?”
Seeing Klein nod, Yuji finally understood what kind of days Klein had been living.
With this kind of workload every day, she would die from overwork, right?
Yuji lightly weighed the various reports on the ground. This chapter was copied from g.com without permission.
Stack after stack filled the corners of the laboratory.
He secretly decided in his heart that he had to make Mobius give Klein a holiday.
Otherwise, if she kept working like this, problems would easily appear.
Klein, who finally had a chance to rest a little, opened her phone and discovered that there was less than a week left until the academic seminar on the Mu Continent.
She secretly calculated the work content for these next few days and found that there still did not seem to be enough time.
If she took time to go to the seminar, the work would not be finished.
Although Klein worked so hard partly because she liked it, that was not the only reason.
When Klein first discovered the existence of the Honkai, she had almost been scared to death.
That kind of thing could descend upon you at any time, take away your loved ones, or even your own life.
Klein was only a researcher.
The only thing she could do was work hard and contribute her meager strength, while also using continuous work to numb herself.
But if you carefully thought about it, if a person knew that the end of the world was not far away, and that they could lose their life at any moment, and more importantly, that they had no cheats of their own…
No one would be able to treat it with a normal heart.
Fear of loss and fear of death were engraved in DNA.
If Yuji did not have the system, he would probably not be able to stop having such thoughts either.
“Yu, can you accompany me for a day today?”
“Sure! Is it a date?”
“No. There’s not much time left until the academic seminar, but the work in the laboratory still isn’t finished, so I hope you can accompany me.”
Oh right, the academic seminar.
He still remembered it was on the Mu Continent.
According to the original timeline, MEI should have only come into contact with Mobius at that time.
However, because of Yuji’s interference, it had been advanced by three months.
Wait a minute.
It’s already been three months.
Doesn’t that mean Kevin and Su have already transferred to Chiba Academy by now?
Yuji fell into deep thought about the upcoming timeline.
After the academic seminar was Eden’s concert.
Online promotion and ticket sales had already started, and tickets would probably continue to be sold for a while.
After all, tickets were hard to get.
People who wanted to see Eden’s concert were spread across the entire world.
If not for Elysia’s good relationship with Eden, getting a ticket would have been extremely difficult.
Oh right, and Hua.
At this time she should still be studying in Canghai City, right?
The moment he thought of the future Red Kite Immortal who made no progress for fifty thousand years, he could not help but laugh.
The good news was that no matter how he insulted the Immortal, he would not be split open by a Dimension Slash.
But the bad news was that they still needed to grow further before they could become combat strength against the Honkai.
Oh right, and the Honkai.
In less than three months, the Third Honkai would break out.
At that time, Yuji could only take things one step at a time, whether by actively going out to fight the Honkai or waiting for the Flame-Chasers to defeat the Third Herrscher.
Yuji could not do anything.
He did not have powerful enough strength to limit the outbreak of the Honkai.
As for the range of the Third Honkai, what Yuji remembered most clearly were Nagazora City and Canghai City.
It seemed to have also affected the entirety of East Asia.
Yuji and MEI arriving at the Flame-Chasers early was not without benefits.
With MEI’s talent, she had helped Mobius a great deal and made Mobius’s experimental progress much faster.
Yuji had also created new anti-Honkai weapons, improving the efficiency of eliminating the Honkai and the survival rate of soldiers, saving who knew how many families.
Especially the most critical medicine for treating Honkai disease.
According to the original timeline, the medicine for treating Honkai disease required antibodies from thousands of Honkai patients to produce.
A single dose of medicine could only save one person.
In other words, one thousand people in exchange for one life.
But with the help of Yuji and MEI, the special medicine for treating Honkai disease had already shown initial results.
The drawback was that it could only alleviate symptoms, and the cost was still very high.
Currently only soldiers could use it.
Once the medicine for treating Honkai disease came out, MEI should be able to have her own independent laboratory, right?
By then, MEI should also be called Dr. MEI.