After a day of activities, Homura returned to his room.
During dinner, he had asked Sagiri and Eriri how they felt after meeting each other. Just by looking at Sagiri's slightly... creepy expression, Homura had already guessed.
Sitting down at his desk, Homura began to write...
An orphanage, a group of children playing, and an adult figure who was like a mother to all the children. The overall atmosphere was filled with warmth.
Except for the somewhat... strange numbers on each child's neck, everything seemed very normal.
But in today's manga, our protagonist "Emma" welcomes a new day, which represents...the end of a dream and the beginning of reality.
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Time slowly passed, and it came to Saturday.
As today was a day off, a few of them had stayed up late the previous night, but now, due to Homura's insistence, they had all gotten up to eat breakfast. After all, if they didn't eat enough, they wouldn't have the energy to sleep!
Utaha and Eriri were sleepy and lying on the living room sofa, but Megumi was not. She was helping Homura, as she had only studied last night and hadn't stayed up as late as the other two.
As for Homura, he didn't even feel tired, perhaps because his energy recovery rate was twice as fast as normal.
'I feel like I've mastered Level 5 in Cooking these past few days,' Homura thought to himself. 'Now that there are three more people to feed, I've had plenty of experiences from them. I was already at Level 4, so it's not surprising that I completely leveled up to Level 5 in Cooking!"
"Done! Megumi, can you help me set the table? I'm going to deliver breakfast to Utaha-senpai," he said, starting to place Utaha's breakfast on a tray. Then he looked up and shouted, "Haru! Where are you? Come eat!"
At that moment, the little one appeared out of nowhere, her eyes shining as she stared at her own food bowl, drooling incessantly.
Homura was used to it and just smiled at her, but the others, even though they had seen her twice before, still found her adorable.
"Haha!" Eriri covered her mouth and laughed. Seeing Haru's expression, she couldn't help it and laughed out loud, feeling much more refreshed.
"The way this little cat waits for food is always so funny! She's really so cute!" Eriri said that she would never tire of seeing Haru like this.
But then she fell silent.
"But precisely because of this, it shows how difficult it was for Haru-chan when she was still wandering around as a stray cat!"
As Homura went upstairs, he said, "You've been getting along for a few days now, and you're familiar with each other, so when you have some free time, play with her. The little one will be happy, and you can also relax."
Eriri heard this and leaned over to rub Haru's small head. The little one looked up for a moment but didn't react and turned back around.
Seeing that Haru didn't shy away, Eriri smiled happily.
Utaha lazily watched this scene, not approaching because she was afraid that touching Haru now would cause Haru to reject her, so she would wait until some time had passed before indulging in some cat petting.
Megumi had no particular reaction, as she had already gotten along well with Haru.
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After breakfast, Eriri and Utaha went back to their room to continue resting, while Megumi and Haru stayed together to do something.
Homura decided to go out and exercise. After notifying Megumi, Haru, and Sagiri, he left with great expectations.
Walking on the road, looking at the increasingly gorgeous sakura flowers, Homura felt unprecedentedly comfortable.
When he arrived at the park, he walked to a sakura tree where no one was around, quietly watched for a while, and then started exercising.
With a posture in place, he closed his eyes and began practicing Tai Chi.
During the practice, Homura felt that his aptitude was pretty good, and the vast experience in his mind was quickly applied, becoming more and more harmonious.
Looking at him from around, one could feel that his punches were alternately fast and slow, flowing like clouds, continuously rolling up sakura petals and integrating them into his movements.
Passers-by who saw this were all stunned. What was happening?
A pedestrian couldn't help but ask, "Filming a movie?"
More and more people were attracted to stop and watch, but no one came forward to disturb him.
After practicing for a while, Homura felt that his spirit had undergone some changes, and decided to stop there. He estimated that Ayano would contact him soon.
Preparing to end the exercise, Homura suddenly remembered a scene from a TV show in his previous life and had a playful idea.
Listening to the sound under his feet, Homura knew that he must have attracted many sakura petals. He deliberately changed his movements.
Exhaling, he gradually slowed down his movements. Opening his eyes, he looked at the Tai Chi diagram he had intentionally created using sakura petals under his feet. Homura nodded in satisfaction, then raised his head and looked around, feeling bewildered.
There were people all around, staring at him and the Tai Chi diagram under his feet in amazement as if they were witnessing a miracle.
Homura thought this was not good, so he took advantage of the fact that the crowd was still in a daze and quickly fled!
In a flash, he disappeared.
At this moment, the onlookers finally reacted and wanted to surround him... huh?
Where did he go?
Everyone looked at each other in confusion, dumbfounded.
Where did the person go?
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On the way home, Homura breathed a sigh of relief and muttered to himself, "Fortunately, no one came up to ask me to be their master!"
In fact, someone had wanted to, but Homura had run too fast.
"King called me to patrol the mountain~" The phone rang, and oh... it was a recording made by Homura himself, which had made several girls laugh. {TN: Folk song about Journey to the West - Sun Wukong }
Seeing that it was a call from Ayano, Homura answered the phone, "Hello, is this Editor Iida?"
"Yes, Minamiya-sensei, I am Iida Ayano. Do you have time now?" Came the mature female voice of Iida Ayano.
Homura immediately replied, "Yes, I have time. I just finished exercising, so I have plenty of time!"
"Well then, about the location for our meeting, I have already chosen it. It's in Akihabara. Is there any problem, Minamiya-sensei?"
'Akihabara? That's fine. I can also see how Akihabara has developed in this world.'
"No problem. Where is the exact location?" Homura asked.
"Well, Minamiya-sensei, let me send you the location information. You will be able to find it once you arrive. How about that?" Ayano did not answer directly but sent the location instead.
Homura was a little puzzled, but still agreed, "Okay, I'll go home and get the necessary items, and then I'll come to find you."
"I'll be waiting for Minamiya-sensei's arrival."
"Okay, see you later." Homura hung up the phone.
Back at home, he packed the new chapters of "Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun" and "The Promised Neverland" then said hello to Megumi, and told her to relay the message to the others before hastily setting off for Akihabara.
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Homura arrived in Akihabara and was quite excited to see this area of developed otaku culture.
Following the location information sent by Ayano, Homura searched high and low and finally found a shop.
Looking at the shop in front of him, Homura's face was full of black lines. How could Ayano have chosen such a shop?
With a twitching mouth, he read out loud.
"Maid Cafe..."