Upon hearing this, Ho Fei-yu quickly lowered his hand, maintaining his smile as he looked at Hanasaku Tenkawa, as if nothing had just happened.
Hanasaku Tenkawa felt a strange sense of loss when he took his hand away, but remembering her senior, Hajime Nishida, she quickly quelled her wandering thoughts.
Both of them tacitly avoided mentioning Ho Fei-yu stroking her hair.
"What... what should we do about him?"
"It's fine. After the movie theater lets out, someone will come out and call an ambulance for him. Let him lie there for now."
"Al... alright."
"I'll walk you home first."
"Okay."
Hearing the boy offer to walk her home, Hanasaku Tenkawa nodded impulsively. She didn't know why, but she was reluctant to say goodbye to him just yet.
Just as they left, a black lightning-like streak struck Reiji Matsuoka. After a few convulsions, he fell still again. His eyes suddenly snapped open, both pupils turning pitch black, only to return to normal in the blink of an eye, as if the preceding moments were merely an illusion.
They didn't speak again for the entire journey.
Hanasaku Tenkawa was embarrassed; she didn't know why she felt a strange reluctance to leave the boy.
Ho Fei-yu, meanwhile, was contemplating how to complete the S-rank mission. Conquering a girl within two months—he had never been in a relationship in his previous life, and even his actions just now felt awkward and rude.
There was no other way. For the sake of his happiness and his 'little buddy', he had to go for it.
The best way to eliminate fear is to face it! Oli gei! Let's do this!
They walked for about 20 minutes until Hanasaku Tenkawa stopped in front of a small villa.
"This is it."
Ho Fei-yu prepared to turn and leave. He had already used the System to record the girl's location for future convenience.
"Wait... wait a minute."
Ho Fei-yu's step faltered, and a surge of joy rose inside him. He had gambled, betting that the girl would call him back as he was about to leave. He had won the bet, and now things would be easier.
"What is it?" the boy asked, feigning calmness.
"You saved me... but I still... don't know your... name."
A beautiful blush spread across Hanasaku Tenkawa's face. She didn't dare to look directly at Ho Fei-yu, and her words came out slightly stuttered.
"My name is Ho Fei-yu. 'Ho' is... wait, do you have a phone?"
It was too much trouble for Ho Fei-yu to explain his name. A sudden idea struck him. He pulled out the phone from his trouser pocket and showed it to Hanasaku Tenkawa.
"Yes."
Hanasaku Tenkawa also pulled a phone with a pink case from her short skirt pocket.
"Do you have Line?"
"Yes."
Hanasaku Tenkawa used her delicate fingers to slide across the screen and open the app.
"I'll add your ID."
"Okay."
"What's your username?"
"Uh..."
Ho Fei-yu saw Hanasaku Tenkawa stammering, too shy to speak, and looked down at her phone screen, only seeing the ID HanaHanaLovesMovies.
"Pfft."
"Ugh."
The girl's face turned even redder. Ho Fei-yu could even see a blush creeping up her fair neck.
"Alright, just accept my request."
Hanasaku Tenkawa quickly tapped on the friend request and saw a profile picture: a sharp blade resting on a cow-headed monster. She then looked at the name.
"Ho Fei-yu, huh?" the girl whispered softly.
"Alright, hurry inside. If that blond guy bothers you again, remember to message me."
"Don't keep silent about it." Ho Fei-yu instructed Hanasaku Tenkawa.
"Mhm."
"By the way, why did you, why were you so... so..."
"So what?"
"So kind to me," the girl said loudly, her face flushed and her cheeks puffed out.
"Fei-yu-kun, I... I'm sorry."
The girl seemed to realize her behavior was slightly rude and quickly lowered her head to apologize, her gentle, beautiful face nearly buried in her ample cleavage.
"It's nothing."
"As for why? Maybe I just didn't want such a beautiful jasmine flower to be defiled."
"Alright, goodbye."
Ho Fei-yu turned and left immediately after speaking, not waiting for the girl to reply.
"Wait, Fei-yu-kun! My name is Hanasaku Tenkawa!"
Hanasaku Tenkawa watched Ho Fei-yu's retreating back, suddenly remembering she hadn't introduced herself, and quickly shouted at him.
"Got it, Hanasaku-chan!"
She watched him wave at her and heard the intimate endearment before he disappeared around the corner.
Hanasaku Tenkawa stood there, dazed for another five or six minutes, before finally taking out her key, opening the door, and walking inside.
Ho Fei-yu turned the corner and immediately ran toward the cinema. He arrived in less than 4 minutes. The area outside the cinema was now empty. Reiji Matsuoka, who was lying on the ground, had also vanished. Ho Fei-yu didn't know if he had woken up and left on his own or if someone had called an ambulance.
Ho Fei-yu paused for less than a minute and started running towards his home. Finally, ten-plus minutes later, he stopped in front of an apartment building.
The building before him was a three-story apartment with three units on each floor. The first floor was unoccupied. On the second floor, he and Aunt Mitsuko's family lived in the middle, and Aunt Fuzifuji's family was in the innermost unit. The outermost unit was empty. On the third floor, the middle unit was rented by Aunt Kasumi's family. Like Aunt Mitsuko, she also had two beautiful daughters, who were apparently high school freshmen at St. Hua Women's Academy locally and should be rising to sophomores after this summer vacation.
Notably, this apartment building belonged to Aunt Mitsuko.
Aunt Mitsuko was a pure-blooded rich lady.
Lost in thought, he knocked on the door.
"Creak—"
The door opened inwards.
A beautiful woman came into view. She had shoulder-length purple hair that was casually draped over her shoulders. Her eyes were as soft as water, radiating an incomparably charming beauty. She wore a pair of dark-rimmed glasses, a leather pencil skirt, black stockings, and a pair of delicate bare feet. The outfit perfectly emphasized the round fullness of her perky bottom and her slender yet curvaceous legs, which looked beautiful in black stockings. Her pale, delicate feet were bare, with purple nail polish adorning her ten budding toes, full of mature charm. Her upper body was clad in a light purple long-sleeved summer top with a yellow apron over it. Overall, she looked both alluring and dignified.
"Oh! Yu-kun is back!"
"You got all wet again from running. Hurry inside and take a shower. Auntie is just about to make lunch."
"And your favorite eel rice, too~"
Seeing it was Ho Fei-yu, the beautiful woman pulled him inside, her cherry lips speaking continuously.
"Okay, Aunt Mitsuko."
Ho Fei-yu felt Aunt Mitsuko's soft, boneless hand in his and couldn't resist giving it a gentle squeeze. It was cool, tender, and soft.
Mitsuko Uchisama felt the movement from Ho Fei-yu's hand but said nothing, only giving him a charming glance, her eyes full of captivating allure.
Ho Fei-yu walked into the bathroom and took a refreshing shower.
"Regular training combined with the System's points is paying off."
He stood naked in front of the mirror, carefully examining his body. The muscles bulging on his upper arms were thick like bread, with veins winding like fierce blue dragons, extending all the way to the back of his hands. His broad, rounded shoulders, high chest, and six distinct abdominal muscles all radiated a strong masculine hormone presence.
"Hahaha."
The boy posed in a bodybuilding stance in front of the mirror, finding it somewhat amusing, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Looks like I need to find a home for my little buddy. Otherwise, if the System gives me a mission I can't complete, and he hasn't even come home yet, he'll be gone. That would be pathetic."
A complex look crossed Ho Fei-yu's face as he spoke, unsure if he was defending his 'little buddy' or himself.
"Swoosh—"
The sliding bathroom door was suddenly pushed open.
Ho Fei-yu quickly covered his 'little buddy' with both hands and looked at the person who entered.
"Oh, Aunt Mitsuko, what are you doing?"
The person who entered was none other than the beautiful woman, Mitsuko Uchisama.
"Huh? I came to get your change of clothes, darling. I already put the dirty clothes you left outside into the washing machine."
"I was worried you wouldn't have anything to change into, so I came in."
"Are you suggesting that..."
As Mitsuko Uchisama spoke, a look of injustice appeared on her face, and her beautiful eyes glistened with moisture.
"No... no, Aunt Mitsuko... I... I was just..."
Ho Fei-yu looked at the wronged expression on the face of the captivating Mitsuko Uchisama. He tried to explain while wanting to walk over and comfort her, but his hands were tightly covering his 'little buddy', and his thighs were pressed together, making the scene both awkward and comical.
"Pfft."
Mitsuko Uchisama, who had looked wronged moments ago, was now all smiles, covering her cherry lips with a small hand. She seemed delighted by Ho Fei-yu's flustered reaction, which showed he was concerned about her.
"I'll just leave the clothes here. I'm going to finish making lunch now."
Mitsuko Uchisama placed the clothes aside, her face still smiling. She subtly glanced at Ho Fei-yu's erect 'little buddy' before turning to leave and sliding the door shut.
"It's bigger now~"
"Phew~ I guess I misunderstood Aunt Mitsuko. After a year of living together, Aunt Mitsuko hasn't behaved like she did in the original world. Maybe it's the butterfly effect."
Ho Fei-yu felt relieved after Mitsuko Uchisama left and took his hands away from his 'little buddy'. For some reason, seeing Aunt Mitsuko's alluring legs and gentle face had caused him to get an erection.
"I hope Aunt Mitsuko didn't see my embarrassment."
"And you! Why are you so uncooperative? Haven't you ever eaten before? Why are you so weak?"
Ho Fei-yu seemed to feel his 'little buddy' was being disappointing and gently spanked its head, as if punishing it.
He quickly put on the shirt and pants Aunt Mitsuko brought and walked out of the bathroom.
When he reached the living room, no one was there. He glanced into the kitchen and saw the pretty purple-haired woman busy cooking, feeling a wave of guilt. In the year since he had transmigrated to this world, Aunt Mitsuko had taken care of his daily life, treating him like her own son, and yet he had harbored impure thoughts.
Ho Fei-yu resisted the urge to slap himself and sat down on the sofa, silently chanting:
"System, open the Personal Panel."
[Ding! The Host's Personal Panel has been opened.]
[Host: Ho Fei-yu Stamina: 10 Strength: 10 Spirit: 11 Speed: 6]
"System, how do Stamina 10, Strength 10, Spirit 11, and Speed 6 compare to an ordinary person?"
[Ding! The System will provide a rough explanation for the Host.]
[The baseline for each attribute is the peak human limit of the Host's original world, Earth.]
[Stamina primarily relates to physical exertion and sexual endurance.]
[Strength relates to the maximum Newtons of force that can be exerted in a full-force strike.]
[Spirit relates to willpower and future interaction with certain items.]
[Speed relates to reaction time.]
[Each attribute increases by one fold (doubles) every two points.]
[The Host is encouraged to explore the specifics slowly.]
"Alright..."
"Open the System Store."
[Ding! The System Store has been opened.]
Ho Fei-yu selected the Doraemon section. Many gadgets appeared before him:
Bamboo-Copter, Time Machine, Anywhere Door, Time Kerchief, Memory Bread, Momotaro Dumplings, Dress-Up Camera, Pass Loop, If-Box Telephone... The Preference Tree, totaling over 50 items.
Ho Fei-yu quickly tapped on each one and saw several that involved time and space, like the Anywhere Door, Time Machine, and Time Kerchief, which made him drool. He had grown up watching Doraemon and had always dreamed of owning some of these gadgets. Now his dream had come true, but when he saw the required exchange points—these items uniformly required tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, or millions of points—he looked at his 1,125 points and slumped down again.
He abandoned his impractical fantasies and looked at a few cheap and useful items, such as the Bamboo-Copter (500 points), Memory Bread (100 points), Momotaro Dumplings (500 points), and Translation Jelly (300 points).
He then switched to the Jojo's Stand section. Only the Stands of the main protagonists and bosses were listed: The Platinum Heart (60,000 points), The World (80,000 points), Crazy Diamond (45,000 points), Killer Queen (70,000 points), Gold Experience (50,000 points), King Crimson (80,000 points), Stone Free (30,000 points), Made in Heaven (100,000 points), Tusk Act 1 (10,000 points), Love Train (5,000,000 points), Soft & Wet (40,000 points), The Wonder of U (1,000,000 points).
"I can't believe the System was so generous to gift me a The Platinum Heart worth 60,000 points. Ah, well!"
"System, aren't there any other Stands that appeared in Jojo?"
[Ding! Other supporting character Stands will be awarded to the Host as mission rewards.]
[Rewards will be permanent or trial cards based on mission difficulty.]
"Oh."
Seeing that even the cheapest Stone Free required 30,000 points, Ho Fei-yu quickly switched to the Kamen Rider page.
Kamen Rider Faiz Driver, Kamen Rider Den-O Driver, Kamen Rider Kuuga Driver, Kamen Rider Agito Driver, Kamen Rider Ryuki Driver, Kamen Rider Blade Driver, Kamen Rider Hibiki Driver, Kamen Rider Kabuto Driver... Kamen Rider Decade Driver (Not Purchasable), Kamen Rider W Driver, Kamen Rider OOO Driver, Kamen Rider Build Driver... Kamen Rider Zi-O Driver (Not Purchasable).
Apart from the Decade and Zi-O Drivers, which were unpurchasable, all other Drivers cost 100,000 points.
"System, why are those two Drivers not available for purchase?"
[Ding! The Host must figure that out personally.]
[Since the Host is overly reliant on the System,]
[The System has decided that for future non-main-mission inquiries,]
[The Host must pay 2,000 points per question.]
"Fuck!!! System, you are ruthless!"
Ho Fei-yu almost lost it upon hearing the System's prompt, but he had no choice but to curse under his breath.
Ho Fei-yu closed the System. He was now dirt poor, and seeing those gadgets made his mouth water.
"The Platinum Heart, at least I have you."
Ho Fei-yu was thankful to have a good partner. He recalled the performance of Star Platinum in the anime of his previous life: punching his grandfather... oh no, punching the scum vampire, and kicking the perverted hand-fetish salaryman. Although he ultimately failed against the priest who went to heaven, that was because Jotaro was a father, but Star Platinum was invincible!!!