I will swear to protect the beauty with my life

Fang Wuwei stared at the vague figure in front of him. He believed that this was Liuhua's father.

When he arrived at this place, the figure still did not exist. It was not until Rikka and Touka arrived that the figure suddenly appeared and followed the two of them.

When the two people were fighting, you could see that the figure was very panicked and tried to use his non-existent body to stop the two people... There was no doubt that this must be Rikka's father.

Fang Wuwei stared at the figure until the figure nodded and acknowledged his identity...

Fang Wuwei was very excited. He felt that he was finally about to discover the truth of this world. Ever since he discovered that this world was not just an everyday romance, he had been actively exploring the secrets of this world. He believed that the second-year fantasies of Liuhua and others were very likely to be real, so...

He had a lot of questions to ask, but when he saw the figure in front of him gesticulating and showing something he couldn't understand, Fang Wuwei realized that the other person seemed unable to communicate with him...

It's not a big problem, you can give it a try.

Fang Wuwei's right eye slowly rotated, and he used the power of kaleidoscope for the first time towards the figure in front of him.

Tsukuyomi!

The figure only felt his mind was in a trance, and the next moment, he appeared in a blood-red space. There was water of unknown depth under his feet, but he was standing firmly on it. In the sky above his head, there was a terrifying blood-red moon.

"This...? Eh? Can you talk now?"

"Mr. Kotori, welcome to the world of Tsukuyomi."

Just as he was confused and surprised, Fang Wuwei's voice came from behind him.

When he looked back, he saw Fang Wuwei looking at him. With the help of illusion, he had restored his appearance before death. He was no longer a blurry figure, but a person, a person who would go crazy if Liuhua and Shihua saw him.

Facing this character that was not in the original plot, Fang Wuwei felt for the first time that the development of things was far beyond his expectations, but he still wanted to explore...

"Child, let me ask you, who are you?"

But the difference is that Mr. Kotori is very alert. Why does he know about my family's affairs and how long has he been watching here?

Fang Wuwei expressed his understanding of his vigilance, saying that if he had a daughter in the future, he would probably do the same.

"I, my name is Fang... No, I'm Sora Hiroyuki. I'm a close friend of Rikka and Yuta. Yuta is the boy who just stood in front of Rikka, Rikka's boyfriend."

"Eh?! Rikka has a boyfriend?!"

Mr. Kotori was very shocked. He hadn't seen them for a few years, and both of his children had grown up...

Although Mr. Kotori still didn't completely believe what the man said, he probably didn't believe it at all. If he could drag himself, who had already turned into a ghost, into this unknown space, he might also have a way to get rid of him...

An exorcist?

Mr. Kotori sighed. He knew that he had been dead for three years. During these three years, Rikka had never been to this place, and he could not easily go out. As a result, he had no idea how these two good sisters Rikka and Juka had become like this...

Looking at Mr. Xiao Niaoyou who was frowning and sighing in front of him, Fang Wuwei sat down cross-legged. The space around him began to change slowly. The blood-red moon disappeared, replaced by a classical wooden ceiling. The ground under his feet was no longer water, but tiles...

I seem to have come to...a cafe?

(In the Moonlight Space, all time, space, and matter are controlled by the caster.)

"What do you want? Anything is fine."

"...Then please give me a cup of coffee..."

Fang Wuwei knocked on the table lightly, and the next moment, a cup of steaming coffee appeared on his table.

"It looks like you have a lot to ask. Just tell me. I'll tell you as much as I can. In return... I'll also ask you some questions."

Mr. Kotori silently picked up the coffee and took a sip, feeling the taste in his mouth that was exactly the same as his favorite coffee when he was alive. After thinking for a moment, he nodded.

"Then, please tell me why Rikka became like this... and why did Juuka fight with Rikka so fiercely... and who are you?"

"Well...it's a long story...let me think about where I should start..."

————This is a lovely dividing line————

On Yuta's side, after following, he found that Rikka had disappeared, so he immediately rode his bicycle and rushed more than ten kilometers back to Rikka's grandparents' house.

Ignoring the pain in his feet and the hunger from not having dinner, the first thing Yuta did when he got home was to run upstairs to look for Rikka.

However, when he opened Rikka's door, all he saw was an empty room.

Such an abnormality naturally attracted the grandmother's attention. It was rare to find a boy who would play with his granddaughter.

"Grandma, where's Rikka?"

"She just came back in a taxi. She should be on the beach now, right? Shortly before she came back, the others said they were going to set off fireworks and went out."

"Okay...thank you!"

Having obtained important information, Yuta dragged his tired body and set out again, riding his bicycle towards the beach.

But the facts disappointed him - Rikka was not at the beach, and after asking, he even found out that Rikka had never been there.

If this is the case, it can only mean that Rikka has once again avoided this cruel question, so where will she escape to?

Yuta already had the answer in his mind, and rode his bicycle towards the station. He must stay with her tonight...

Now that he had put on shoes, he no longer felt pain in his feet when riding a bike, but his heart was more uncomfortable than ever before...

In the end, he arrived at the station on time and boarded the last train on time. He did not see Rikka from beginning to end. He was taking a gamble. He was betting that Rikka boarded this train and escaped back home.

Fortunately, he made the right bet, or perhaps his understanding of Rikka meant that he would not lose.

In the empty carriage, Rikka was staring at the scenery outside the window in a daze, but in the reflection of the glass, she saw the panting Yuta.

"Yuta...!"

The moment he saw Rikka, Yuta felt relieved. His body was so exhausted that he couldn't hold on any longer. He sat on the seat diagonally opposite Rikka and gasped for breath. He had ridden for dozens of kilometers tonight, and his legs and feet were sore.

"I almost missed it..."

"Why......"

Why, you still choose me?

In response to Yuta's rhetorical question about where he was going, she gave her answer.

"As expected, the power of the Administration is too strong in this land, and the power of the barrier is also very strong. I retreat."

"So that means going home, right?"

Rikka did not answer this question, but just stared out the window silently, not knowing whether she was looking at the scenery or at Yuta's face reflected in the glass.

Rikka didn't speak, and neither did Yuta. The two of them waited in silence for time to pass...

"Yuta...Yuta, where did you get the power of the Black Flame?"

Yuta wanted to subconsciously stop Rikka from bringing up his old story, but in the end, he decided to tell her everything...

"At first... I was just chatting with friends. Everyone was excitedly discussing where to go, but I always felt that something was wrong, as if I was the only one who was different from them. It could be said to be a sense of disharmony, or a strange sense of loneliness that was isolated from the world..."

At that time, he might have just thought that the normal world was not suitable for him, so he chose to be a chuunibyou with Sora Hiroshi and... Nanamiya Chion.

(Strangely enough, what I wrote here refers to episode 8 of the first season, in which Yuta talks about his chuunibyou experience. It is said that the loneliness of being outside the world made him choose to hide in the world of chuunibyou and awaken on his own. But everyone knows that Yuta's chuunibyou was infected by Nanamiya... Maybe Kyoto Animation didn't expect a second season at all, so they didn't introduce the character of Nanamiya.)

"Is it the dark consciousness that awakens the memories of another world?"

"Maybe, that's about the feeling, so I was..."

Yuta thought back to the notebook, a memory that still made him feel extremely ashamed, and he held his head and refused to think about it again.

When he came to his senses, he looked at Rikka, only to see that Rikka had taken off her blindfold, revealing her true evil eye, staring out the window. Just as he was curious about what was outside the window and looked there, he found Rikka's reflection on the glass, looking at him.

"Our eyes met."

The two of them stared at each other through the reflective window glass.

After a long while, Rikka put on the blindfold again.

"In this way, we have concluded a closer contract, Dark Flame Master."

Yuta, who was still a little nervous, instantly wilted after hearing these words, and knew that she would not change.

"Be consumed by the pitch-black flames!"

Rika stretched out her hand and said Yuta's classic line, which scared Yuta so much that he quickly grabbed her little hand to stop her from being silly and stop himself from being silly.

The hands of the two people holding together felt a little warm, and their eyes were no longer separated by the glass, looking deeply into each other's eyes.

A smile appears on the face and love appears in the heart.