On the night of the full moon, atop the Forbidden City, a sword comes from the west, like an immortal flying from the sky.
—This was the most authentic thought deep within the hearts of the swordsmen who were fortunate enough to witness Ximen Chuixue VS Ye Gucheng, the Lord of White Cloud City, back then.
So strange, it feels like crushing reason and art, kneading them together with humor, steaming them with confusion, creating a taste that is 30% madness, 50% absurdity, and 20% torment, lingering in the mind.
—This was the most authentic thought deep within Raiden Mei's heart when she arrived at the rooftop and saw the interaction between the two.
The thoughts of both sides seem vastly different, but in fact, they can be summarized in one word:
"Ah?"
This was not just a word, but also a sentence, vividly expressing Fuli's surprise and shock upon seeing Mei.
It was like in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Boss Cao failed to assassinate Dong Zhuo and fled, and Lu Bu was ordered by his adoptive father to pursue and kill him.
Both sides chased each other for thirty miles under the moon. Seeing that Boss Cao was about to escape, his horse Jueying suddenly turned its head on its own accord, carried him to Red Hare, and asked, "Bro, any recommended pastures nearby?"
(Context: Cao Cao is fleeing his enemy Lu Bu. His horse betraying him to chat with the enemy's mount is like your getaway driver driving you straight to the cops just to ask for directions.)
Boss Cao's thought was probably mostly "Grass" (F*ck).
Fuli's too.
"M-M-M-Mei? Why are you here at this time?!"
"Idiot, didn't I tell you to call her?"
"Of course I know I told you to call! I mean why did she come so fast!"
Kiana only felt that the sky had suddenly collapsed.
This feeling was as if she had just eaten the legendary death cuisine of the British Empire a second ago, and the next second she was being pummeled by a hundred Star Platinums in turns with "ORA ORA," and yet she happened to possess Battle Continuation EX, so she couldn't die no matter what.
It was truly Picasso's mom taking Picasso back to her parents' home—abstract all the way to his grandma's house.
"How the hell should I know why she came so fast?" Fuli, with a splitting headache, couldn't help raising his volume. "Also, spread your legs quickly! You [Shenzhou Profanity] are squeezing my head!"
Originally, his head was buried between Kiana's two slender, long legs. This unlucky child trembled and clamped her legs, instantly squeezing him until he saw stars and wished for death.
This girl wasn't Fuli who needed the Demon Blade Shiranui for amplification; her B-rank Breaker status was permanent in all aspects.
Under nervous conditions, she couldn't control her strength. Fuli almost got sent to the west by this elephant-crushing clamp, becoming the first unlucky rebirther in history to have his head crushed by a white-haired beautiful girl's thighs!
By the way, does this count as embarrassing?
"Oh, oh!"
The girl, in a dazed state, also realized that the tactile sensation in a certain place was wrong and hurriedly relaxed her strength to let him out.
Fuli, out of life-threatening danger, had wandering eyes at this moment. He tried his best to stand straight, stared at Mei who looked ethereal, and suddenly blurted out, "Whose general is this? Bring me the time machine quickly!"
"Ah-Li, don't scare me, Ah-Li! I'm still counting on you to think of a way with your invincible Memory Eraser!"
Kiana was so scared that she hugged him and shook him vigorously. The worry in her eyes was absolutely genuine, genuine in every sense.
"Stop shaking, stop shaking! Shake any more and my brains will be mixed evenly!"
After her shaking, Fuli's head became much more normal.
"The Memory Eraser doesn't work on ability users with an energy cycle in their bodies." He covered his throbbing temples, eyes revealing a fierce light. "Things have come to this, only amnesia (physical) remains!"
As he spoke, he grabbed the 28cm long Memory Eraser covered with various protrusions from his pocket, swinging it with gusto, intending to perform a minimally invasive brain surgery on Mei with this thing.
"You are clearly not normal yet!" Kiana hurriedly hugged him from behind. "Mei, run! If you don't run, Ah-Li is going to light a sky lantern on your head and open a skylight!" ("Light a sky lantern" refers to a cruel punishment, and "open a skylight" implies making a hole in the head.)
After her repeated reminders, the girl whose worldview had suffered a devastating blow finally came back to her senses.
"No! It's okay! I disturbed your good time! I didn't expect you two to have such a relationship where you know each other inside and out!"
Regrettably, her statement didn't exactly run counter to Kiana's expectations, but it was basically talking about entirely different things.
"'Know each other inside and out'." Fuli chewed on this phrase and asked curiously, "Kiana, is she making a dirty joke?"
Clearly, he hadn't recovered yet.
"Dirty joke my foot! Stay put!" Kiana scolded him, then turned to Mei, her tone becoming aggrieved again. "Mei, listen to my explanation. It really wasn't what you saw just now!"
"No need to say more! I understand! Wish you happiness!"
There have been many cases proving that people not only won't become discerning because of education but will stubbornly believe that since they have received an education, the conclusions they draw must be correct.
Therefore, Mei waved her hand, dropped a sentence of blessing, and turned to leave.
Bang!
A long sword with its sheath cut through the air, brushed past Mei, and stuck lightly into the fire door in front of her.
There were several layers of tape wrapped around the center of the scabbard, seemingly a patch applied temporarily by its owner after a big battle. Hmm, in fact, that was exactly the case.
Seeing this, the girl stopped and turned slowly.
She stared at Fuli, who had retracted his throwing posture, her hand resting on the hilt of her self-defense wooden sword.
"You—are really Fuli?"
The hustle and bustle just now swept away, and the air was filled with heaviness and vigilance.
Mei understood and knew about Kiana's situation. Clearly a year younger than herself, yet her strength far exceeded her own by a large margin.
She would tell Kiana many things because they were essentially people of the same world.
Fuli was not.
He was just an ordinary person.
An ordinary person getting close to Mei, and a Shenzhou transfer student at that, would 100% be targeted by those "classmates."
Therefore, although she inwardly regarded Fuli as half a friend, Mei remained quite cold to him on the surface.
Just to the extent of occasionally responding, which from Fuli's perspective was only slightly better than a stranger.
However, it was this ordinary Fuli who today, just now, suddenly erupted with swordsmanship and strength far superior to her own.
She, Raiden Mei, had a Menkyo Kaiden in Hokushin Ittō-ryū!
(Menkyo Kaiden is a certificate of full mastery in Japanese martial arts.)
Even her strict father highly recognized her talent in Kendo!
To surpass such a self overnight!
Could it be...
"Could it be that you, Fuli..."
Biting her lower lip with porcelain-white teeth, the girl asked in a tentative tone: "—Have obtained the Kendo inheritance of some senior Sword Saint?"
It's like this. Raiden Mei is so outstanding.
So much so that if put on some pink app, strange tags full of boki power like Ojou-sama, Senpai, JK, Flower on a High Peak, Queen, Black Thigh-Highs, Tits-sama, etc., would have to be marked below.
However, such a perfect girl had a mysterious tag that only a very few people had the chance to know.
That is Chuunibyou.
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