Chapter Thirty-two: People who pursue their dreams shouldn't be alone

  "Shang Tian, is there something?"

  Kaito just released his innate skill 'Thick Skin' and absorbed the accusing gazes from the surrounding people, even reflecting them back. He glanced at the small cars speeding by outside the car window on both sides, and his heart was a bit worried as he spoke to Sotenashi on the phone; "This is a bad time for a call, please don't let anything happen! There isn't even a place to pull over here."

  "I'm about to pass out, aren't I......" Soten Ryoko said into the phone on speaker mode to Kaito Hatsuyuki, although it was phrased as a question, she stated it in a declarative tone.

  She no longer had the strength to pick up her phone and speak, even starting to feel like her eyelids were getting heavier, as if she was about to fall into an unknown darkness at any moment. She had just hung up the call with Chūshun Shōri, now leaning against the edge of her small bed in her room, using her last bit of energy to muster up the spirit to dial this foolish senior's phone number. Hoping to talk to him, tell him many, many things, and finally tell him that if he hadn't passed out yet, then he should quickly stop using "Fantasy Hand". Even though she was afraid of being alone, even though she was afraid of falling into that kind of darkness where nothing could be done and nothing was known.

  But Sora Takanashi's mouth moved silently, and she couldn't manage to control her muscles to utter a single complete sentence.

  After hearing only one sentence from Sora Aoi, Kaito Minato didn't make another sound. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath in and slowly exhaled, and his dead fish eyes returned to normal. Speaking loudly as if talking to himself, he said: "You're almost out of it, aren't you? I know you can still hear me, so just respond in your heart. Please give me some time - this brief period of unconsciousness - consider it a short rest after running hard to reach your dreams! I won't say anything pretty, but I'll show you through my actions because I think someone like you shouldn't be walking alone in the dark for their dreams! The journey to find one's dream should be incomparably beautiful!"

  What's wrong with me... I'm really a stupid senior... But... it's really... thank you...

  Her mouth curved into a beautiful arc, her eyes closed completely, and she leaned sideways on the edge of her small bed; The gentle breeze combined with the bright sunlight passing through the curtains shone on her delicate body, the light and shadow, as well as the smile that had not faded from the corners of her mouth and the tears on her face that had not been wiped away, outlined a sleeping beauty waiting for the prince to come and wake her up.

  After hearing a loud bang on the other end of the phone, there was no other sound. Kei Tsurugi didn't need to guess what had happened. After hanging up the phone, Kei Tsurugi punched the tempered glass of the bus with one fist, and the loud "peng" sound scared the other passengers.

  "Driver, I'm sorry to be a bother, but I have something to take care of and need to get off for a moment. Would you mind stopping the bus and opening the door?" The passenger took three quick steps forward and two steps closer to the bus driver, his eyes more serious than ever before.

  "No way, this is a high-speed overpass connecting other school districts! It's too dangerous!" The bus driver replied in a more severe tone than the student. As a bus driver, he had to think about the safety of his passengers. How could he stop the bus and let passengers off on this road where cars were speeding by without any villages or shops nearby? No matter how you thought about it, it was just too dangerous.

  "Damn it, just at this time! Jie Lü Chū Yì was scowling and couldn't help but punch the front windshield of the car again; the bus driver was so frightened that he shouted loudly: "Idiot! Don't interfere with the driver's driving while the vehicle is moving."

  Jie Lü Chū felt like those movie protagonists who make the audience anxious to the point of frustration, knowing that something was happening but unable to do anything about it. He impatiently walked back and forth by the bus door, every now and then pulling out his phone from his pocket to check the time. He had never missed those bus drivers who used to drive at reckless speeds on the edge of violating traffic rules as much as he did at this moment.

  Just as Kai Lü Chū Yì took out his mobile phone from his pocket for the nth time to check the time, the bus suddenly slammed on its brakes, almost sending him tumbling from the back door to the front door.

  Have we already passed the overpass? The traveler instinctively covered his sore head with one hand and quickly looked up; a warning line had been set up on the overpass ahead, and many vehicles were already turning around under the command of the security team. What's going on? Forget it, who cares what's going on, looking at this situation the bus driver will have to turn back too, wasting time like this won't do, get off the bus first!

  "Driver, open the door and let me get off."

  "No way, I'm responsible for the safety of the passengers!"

  The bus driver again refused to let the passenger get off at Jiayu's request; what a joke, it is not yet clear what happened ahead, and now that the police have set up a cordon, it is even more impossible for passengers to get off at this place.

  "I am Kuro Shirai, the 177th branch of the Wind Ward...! I have official business to attend to now, please cooperate with our work and make it convenient for us!" Just as the bus was about to turn around, he used his LV4 lying skills on the driver, trying to get him to agree to his request.

  "Don't discipline committee members wear armbands when they're on duty?" The driver didn't immediately believe the lie that Jie Lü Chu Yì had made up, but instead pierced through to the flaw he had revealed.

  "That's because it was an emergency and I didn't have it on me, I also only received the notification that I needed to work overtime halfway!" Jie Lü Chu Xiang quickly came up with another lie to cover his exposed weakness.

  But he still looked at the driver in front of him with a half-believing, half-doubting expression. The security team member who was directing the vehicle to turn around had already walked over this way. Ji Luoye finally exhausted the last bit of patience in his heart; he didn't bother wasting any more words on the driver and directly pulled out an aluminum card from his pocket. Under the bewildered and astonished gazes of the driver and passengers, he easily inserted the card into the tempered glass of the front car door like inserting it into tofu.

  He used the edge of his aluminum card to create a high-frequency vibration effect, quickly drawing out an opening on the tempered glass of the car door that he could fit through, and then kicked off the remaining tempered glass still attached to the car door and jumped out.

  Obviously, the action of Jiaolü Chūyì startled not only the bus driver and passengers but also put the highly tense security personnel on high alert. The miniature submachine guns they held, previously pointing at an angle to the ground, suddenly pointed at Jiaolü Chūyì as he jumped out of the damaged bus door.

  "One of us! I'm Shirai Kurotarou from the Wind Discipline Committee's 177th Branch!" Intimidated by the sudden appearance of the security guards, Kaijiro hastily raised his hands to indicate he meant no harm and calmly approached them. In his mind, he thought: Who knows what happened ahead, but for now, I need to come up with a way to persuade these guards to let me through.