I will swear to protect the beauty with my life

After having fun alone in the club for a long time, Yuta packed up his things and left the club activity room. In order to prevent anyone from passing by during the school festival and curiously going in to take a look, Yuta locked the door.

Just as Yuta was about to take out the key, he heard a voice full of tenderness and sadness calling him.

"Excuse me, is there a girl named Rikka Kotori here?"

Just one sentence brought Yuta back to reality, as he was still missing the warmth left on his fingertips.

Yuta subconsciously took a closer look at the woman in front of him. She had the same black hair as the Takanashi sisters, and the same blue eyes as Rikka... There was no doubt who this woman was, and no further explanation was needed.

Yuta felt guilty facing his future mother-in-law. He was Rikka's boyfriend... He must have felt guilty...

"Now... just not here..."

"Yeah......"

Mrs. Kotori only smiled slightly when she heard this, but deep inside her smile was an unconcealable sadness. Then she handed a small bag with exquisite packaging to Yuta with both hands, "Then... could you please pass this on for me?"

"that......"

Yuta could tell at a glance that there was a lunch box inside. He really wanted to let his wife pass it to Rikka herself, and Rikka would definitely be very happy. However, Mrs. Kotori probably saw through Yuta's thoughts, so she smiled bitterly and continued to pass the lunch box in her hand to Yuta.

"It's okay... I'll be leaving soon. I guess she still doesn't want to see me now..."

After hearing this, Yuta took the lunch box in a daze. Seeing Yuta taking the lunch box, Mrs. Kotori seemed satisfied. She bowed slightly to Yuta and turned to leave...

Yuta wanted to call her back, and also wanted to hand the lunch box back to her, and let her find Rikka herself and have a good talk. Rikka would definitely be very happy... But after hesitating countless times, he realized that what he should really do now...

Holding the lunch box in his hand, Yuta came to the playground and sat under the school's ginkgo tree, which was already full of autumn yellow, with his head down silently... At this moment, he felt the slightly cold lunch box in his hand, but he could feel a little warmth from this small lunch box, and its incomparable heaviness, so heavy that he could hardly hold it...

The wind blew through the treetops, making a rustling sound. The golden fallen leaves fluttered in the air, like dead butterflies, falling helplessly to the ground.

It's time to make a decision yourself.

It should be for Rikka, for myself, and especially for Rikka's mother...

Yuta, who was sitting under the ginkgo tree, looked at Nibutani, Rikka and others who had discovered him and were gradually approaching. He was already prepared, ready to let Rikka face reality.

Nibutani and others came to him and told him that it was time to go on stage, that there were a lot of people there, and asked him to cheer up. However, Yuta heard nothing. Instead, the noisy words reminded him of Touka's extremely heavy instructions last night and the cruelty of reality he had seen.

"Rikka...take off the blindfold."

The sudden words made everyone fall into silence...

"Yuta, do you want to see the Evil King's true eye? No, if you don't open it during the battle..."

"Rikka, that's about enough!"

Rikka, who originally thought that Yuta still wanted a small reward, was actually planning to lift the blindfold to let Yuta take a look, after all, he was Yuta, but the next second, Yuta let out a loud roar, which scared Rikka.

"Yuta...what are you doing..."

"Rikka... return to normal, okay? The Evil King's True Eyes and the invisible boundary line don't exist at all!"

Rikka was silent, and seniors Nibutani and Anise beside her were also silent. Even Fang Wuwei stopped talking... He looked at the lunch box in Yuta's hand and understood what had just happened.

He didn't intend to stop her. It might not be a bad thing to let Rikka realize the cruelty of reality first, so his choice was to shut up.

The autumn wind blew, leaving only the rustling of leaves in the air...

"Yu...Yuta, what are you talking about..."

"I say! Rikka, stop being so immature! Whether it's the Evil King's True Eyes or the invisible boundary, everything you pursue, how can it exist!"

Yuta suddenly stood up and grabbed Rikka's arm, suppressing the heartache in his heart and yelling at Rikka to accept the reality.

"Accept the reality, Rikka. No matter how hard you look for it, no matter how hard you try, something that doesn't exist just doesn't exist. You know that, right?!"

"No! That's not right! You...you're not Yuta!"

Liuhua never expected that Yuta would treat her like this. With her always immature thinking, she thought that the current Yuta must be a fake... But in fact, she understood that the Yuta in front of her couldn't be more real. Why would Yuta be like this...

Her voice had begun to tremble. The person who had always been by her side and supported her actually just... just denied everything about her...

"Hey, hey... Togashi-san, you..."

Dan Shenggu, who was standing by, saw that the situation was not good. The couple had just started dating and it was like this. What would happen to their lives in the future? He was about to step forward to dissuade them, but a hand was placed on his shoulder to stop him. He turned around and saw Fang Wuwei shaking his head at her...

"This is something between them... Besides, there's nothing wrong with it, right?"

Nibutani was stunned by the question. As a retired chuunibyou, she naturally understood that since chuunibyou can be called a "disease", it will have an impact on life. If that's the case... it seems that there's nothing wrong with it...

On this side, Nibutani was stopped by Fang Wuwei, but on the other side, the matter between Yuta and Rika was not over yet.

Yuta grabbed Rika's hand and forced her to face the reality, understand the cruelty of reality, and understand that the fantasy was ultimately just a beautiful bubble. No matter how beautiful it was, it would shatter with a poke and did not exist at all.

"You said your Evil King's True Eye is so powerful, can you really destroy the world? You said you want to find the invisible boundary line, can you really find it?! Rikka, you understand, these things don't exist at all! What's wrong with reality? What's wrong with recognizing reality and accepting it! You still have a sister and mother who love you!"

"I don't want to listen! You must have been bewitched, Yuta!!!"

Liuhua felt that the Yuta in front of her was so strange, yet familiar... Just like her sister, the Holy Counselor, so ruthless...

But she loved Yuta very much, and she didn't want to believe that Yuta, who had always been with her, would do such a thing. She would rather believe that Yuta did this in a moment of excitement, so she pulled her arm out of Yuta's hand, covered her ears with her hands, and refused to listen to Yuta's words anymore.

But Yuta's next move completely broke her defense.

Seeing that Rikka covered her ears, the verbal attack was no longer effective. Yuta took out the lunch box made by Kotori's mother and stuffed it into Rikka's arms. Rikka subconsciously opened her hands to catch the lunch box in her arms. Just as she was confused, Yuta's voice came again...

"Rikka, this is the lunch box your mother carefully prepared for you!!"

Rikka’s mind suddenly buzzed…Mom…?

Seeing that Liuhua suddenly calmed down, Yuta also calmed down, but his heart remained unchanged. He just spoke to Liuhua in a gentler tone...

"Your mother just came to see me... She is a very gentle person. She came to me and asked me to give you this lunch box... You know, you have deeply hurt your mother, and now she dare not see you. She is afraid that you still don't want to see her..."

Mother......

That figure, that gentle figure, appeared in Rikka's mind...

"Lihua... Sister Juhua may not have told you, but Sister Juhua will be going abroad soon to study at the head office in Italy and will no longer be able to accompany you, so... your mother will come and live with you instead of her..."

In order to make Rikka understand the reality, Yuta revealed the news. He wanted Rikka to understand that she is no longer just a person now, and besides herself, there are people who are responsible for her.

Rikka fell silent... tears welled up in her eyes, and she stopped arguing...

Danshengtani and Fennel beside him looked at each other, both of them had sorrow in their eyes, except Fang Wuwei. He was thinking that maybe he should go to Xiaoniaoyou's hometown after a while and see his father Xiaoniaoyou who had died long ago.