When Zonggu woke up, the morning light was dim.

Getting up alone, he went to the window and stood for a while.

After the New Year, there are sometimes wind and snow, and until the end of the holiday, it is difficult to have a completely sunny day in the Kinki area, and dark clouds often envelope Lake Biwa.

This is still the case today.

After an unknown amount of time, a pair of hands reached out from behind and hugged him.

"Can't you sleep again?" Hongzi whispered.

"No." Zong Gu held her hand, "I just got up."

"It's only six o'clock."

"It's not too early, I have to go to school today."

The vacation has ended, and the last semester of first grade will begin today.

Hongzi lowered her head and leaned against his back, "Do we still need to go to school?"

"Of course. Life has just begun. If we become idle now, we will go crazy in less than a hundred years."

She said no more, just hugged him tightly.

Zonggu turned around and kissed her forehead.

After a moment of tenderness, Akane Kirino woke up on the bed.

"Zonggu, Hongzi..."

"Good morning." Zong Gu sat on the edge of the bed and touched her face, "It's time to get up."

She looked at him for a while, then closed her eyes and rubbed her cheek against his palm.

"It's cloudy again."

"Um."

"Are you happy today?"

"well enough."

"It's 'okay' again."

"Better than 'bad'."

Holding his hand, Kirino Akane buried her face a little deeper.

The two of them got up and changed clothes. Zonggu left the room and went to wash up first.

Before going downstairs, he stared at the door that would never open again.

Ten days have passed since I returned from Huangquan.

He returned to his fifteen-year-old body, and his three girlfriends all received cursed immortality. Asagiri Suzu entered the underworld and stayed in another world forever.

The separation seems like yesterday.

"..."

Shaking his head, Zonggu went downstairs to wash up and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for three people.

"After the opening ceremony, I don't want to go home directly. Do I want to go shopping somewhere?" Akane Kirino asked during the meal.

"good."

"Where do you want to go, Soya?"

"It will be all right."

Kirino Akane and Anko looked at each other, inevitably feeling uncomfortable with his negativity, but they couldn't let him stop thinking about it.

"Then let's talk about it then..."

Zong Gu looked at them, lowered his head and continued eating: "Don't worry, I will adjust."

The two looked at him again and said nothing more.

After finishing breakfast, the three of them went out to school together.

After getting on the tram, two stops later, Kyoko also squeezed into the same carriage.

Soya: "The new semester has begun."

"Well." She looked at him for a while, "How are you today?"

“Not too good.”

She pursed her lips.

"Just kidding."

Zong Gu smiled at her, took her hand again, and squeezed it gently.

"I have decided: starting from today, I will start a new life."

After being silent for a while, she looked at Asagiri Suzu and Anko who were looking at her, and Kyoko nodded.

Drop - drop -

The car door is closed.

"Tamako will start school today too."

"Well, mother drove her to school."

"The vacation just ended, can you get up in the morning?"

"Yuzi slept with me last night. She had to get up even if she couldn't get up."

"Bad sister."

"..."

Kyoko pinched him lightly.

There was a fine wind blowing outside the window, and the tram continued to move forward while shaking, passing one stop after another.

"Omi Naniwa Station—Omi Naniwa Station, here we are—"

When we arrived at the school, the stairs up the mountain had been cleaned.

The three girls walked in front, followed by Soya. After climbing for a while, a figure caught up from below and put his arm directly on his shoulders.

"Sogu...I'm sorry! I recognized the wrong person...eh..."

Fushimi put his hand on his and quickly took it away, looking at him in surprise: "Are you Soya?"

Looking at the three girls who turned back in front, his tone became more certain: "You are Zonggu."

"Who else could it be?"

Fushimi breathed a sigh of relief, put his hand on his again, and kept his eyes on his face.

"We haven't seen each other for only half a month, and I feel like Zonggu has suddenly become much younger... like a middle school student."

"Just a middle school student."

Zongya smiled a little complicatedly, "I took the improved version of APTX-4869 and became what I was when I was fifteen."

"Come on, there is no such medicine in reality... unless you give me one. Is there any more?"

"Yes, I have."

Souya picked his nose a little.

"Whoa!"

Fushimi quickly evaded.

The three people in front turned around again and continued walking up.

Soya followed, and so did Fushimi.

"Forget it, Zong Gu has always been mysterious. Even if you suddenly turn into a woman one day, it wouldn't be too strange."

"You accepted it too quickly... I hope everyone can be like you."

When he arrived at the school gate, his eyes glanced at the "Opening Ceremony" sign, and Fushimi suddenly realized that something was not quite right.

"By the way, Asagiri-san didn't come to school with Soya?"

"..."

Fushimi looked at Soya. He turned away and looked at the other side. After a while, he turned around.

"Ling dropped out of school."

"Eh...why?"

"Why do you have so many questions?" Hongzi looked back at him.

"Ah, sorry."

"It's okay." Zonggu shook his head, "Ling has her own affairs and can't come to school."

"That's it."

Sensing that there seemed to be something hidden, Fushimi didn't ask any questions.

When they reached the second floor, Jingzi separated from several others.

Arriving on the fourth floor, Zonggu passed the classroom without entering. He handed his schoolbag to Hongzi and said, "I'm going to the staff room."

"I will accompany you." Akane Kirino said.

He shook his head.
To be continued...