"How about it?"
Seeing that Miyamoto Rei remained silent, Su Yan spoke up to confirm.
Rei replied subconsciously, "I think for dinner, it might be better to eat something light..."
"Who's asking you about that?"
Su Yan flicked the girl's forehead lightly and asked, "Miyamoto-san, are you awake?"
"Huh...?"
Rei rubbed her slightly reddened forehead and fell silent.
So, she hadn't misheard him?
Su Yan really said he would help her kill Shido Koichi?
Then the question was: did Miyamoto Rei truly hate and loathe Shido Koichi enough to want him dead immediately?
The answer was a definite yes.
Given the chance, Rei would have loved to run him through with a spear herself.
But should she really ask Su Yan to kill him for her?
Rei couldn't help but shake her head inwardly.
Her father was a police officer at the Tokonosu Police Department; her upbringing told her that doing such a thing was wrong.
Moreover, Su Yan had never demonstrated his Nen abilities in front of her, so in her eyes, he was just an ordinary person with strong swordsmanship.
Without a long-range weapon, killing Shido Koichi would require leaving the infirmary, chasing him down, and then killing him at close range.
But now Shido was almost out the school gates; doing that would be far too dangerous.
She didn't want Su Yan to take that risk.
Rei shook her head and answered firmly, "No. Someone like Shido Koichi will get what's coming to him sooner or later, even if we leave him alone."
"Is that so?"
Su Yan looked deep into Rei's eyes and confirmed.
"Besides, if it weren't for Shido Koichi..."
Rei didn't finish her sentence.
However, judging by her evasive gaze, it was easy to guess what she wanted to say.
If Shido hadn't caused her to be held back a year, she might never have met Su Yan.
From that perspective, maybe she should even be grateful to him?
She tried to suppress her loathing for Shido, forcing herself to justify her decision to stop Su Yan.
"I understand," Su Yan replied with a nod.
Hearing this, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, Su Yan hadn't rushed out in a fit of impulse to kill Shido; if anything happened to him, she might never have forgiven herself.
However, in the next second, Su Yan's words left her stunned.
"Retribution, huh? Well, unfortunately for him, his retribution has already arrived."
After all, Su Yan had only asked Rei for her opinion; he never said he would actually follow her lead, did he?
With that, he struck a pose as if drawing a bow and nocking an arrow.
Nen surged within him, instantly condensing into a bow and arrow made of pure energy.
In other Nen systems, given Shido's current distance, even if one infused Nen into a scrap of paper to use as a dart...
The paper, even reinforced with Nen, might not be able to fly that far and hit the target.
Not everyone was a master archer who could hit a willow leaf from a hundred paces, and Su Yan hadn't exactly practiced dart-throwing.
But who could Shido blame for his bad luck?
What Su Yan had synchronized from Marikawa Shizuka was the Emitter type—the specialty that allowed one to project Nen outside the body while maintaining its power.
Furthermore, Emission wasn't like Enhancement; items reinforced with Nen and thrown by Enhancers couldn't have their flight paths forcefully manipulated.
After all, right next to the Emission category on the chart was the Manipulation category, the masters of controlling Nen!
Seeing the school gate drawing closer, even a hypocrite like Shido Koichi couldn't help but show the joy of imminent escape on his face.
Unfortunately, just as one of Shido's feet stepped beyond the school gates...
An invisible arrow of Nen suddenly appeared from behind, piercing straight through his heart.
"Urgh!"
The intense pain caused a metallic sweetness to rise in Shido's throat, and a large mouthful of crimson blood spilled from the corners of his mouth.
"H-how can this be?"
He was only one step away from leaving this godforsaken place. How could he die here?
Feeling his vision blur, Shido's survival instinct made him reach out desperately toward the others.
However, just as he didn't care about the lives of others...
Others didn't care about his life or death either.
Everyone was scrambling toward the school gates.
Upon seeing Shido collapsed on the road, some people's first reaction wasn't even to go around him, but to use him as a stepping stone and trample right over him.
That wasn't all.
Not long after, two more invisible arrows flew through the air.
One arrow buried itself in Shido's right chest, while the other pierced straight through his head.
With arrows through both the heart and the head, even a zombie would be dead, let alone an ordinary human.
And so, Shido Koichi was officially offline!
"That feels better."
Withdrawing his projected Nen, Su Yan let out a slow breath.
Before transmigrating, he had read many fanfiction novels.
But most of the protagonists in those novels had one trait that annoyed him greatly.
They loved to follow the plot blindly, sometimes letting enemies go over and over again when they clearly could have dealt with them.
They called it 'not wanting to affect the plot.'
Because only by keeping the plot unchanged could the protagonist maintain their advantage of knowing the future.
Some went as far as giving away the female leads even when they clearly loved each other.
Su Yan scoffed at such ideas.
The plot? What was that even supposed to be?
As long as it didn't infringe on his interests, following the plot might be a fine choice, but once his interests were at stake, to hell with the plot.
If someone couldn't even live well in the present, what right did they have to talk about the future?
The chance to change the future was right in their hands, yet they chose to restrict themselves for the sake of some ridiculous plot progression.
Su Yan had nothing but contempt for such people.
Besides, it was just Shido Koichi. So what if he held the cure for the zombie virus?
If he's dead, he's dead.
Who cares?
Oh, Miyamoto Rei cared.
"Su Yan!"
Seeing Shido actually die right before her eyes, Rei excitedly threw herself into Su Yan's arms.
She didn't even stop to think about how Su Yan had actually done it.
She just stared at him intently.
Her eyes were watery and full of affection; in short, she was deeply moved.
Only one thought filled her mind: 'He did all this for me!'
Rei's crimson lips trembled as she looked at Su Yan's face so close to hers. She felt a powerful urge to kiss him.
Closing her eyes, the girl slowly leaned toward his face.
Just as she was about to kiss him, her movements suddenly froze in mid-air.
"Kiss him! Kiss him!"
Shizuka Marikawa, who had been silently observing from the sidelines, suddenly started cheering them on.
That voice suddenly made the flaxen-haired girl realize that someone else was in the infirmary.
Consequently, the impulse that had just welled up from her heart was completely shattered by Shizuka's actions.
Blushing furiously, she lowered her head and looked down, her toes curling awkwardly in her shoes. She wished she could dig a hole in the floor and hide in it.
Su Yan turned a displeased look toward Shizuka Marikawa.
'Dammit, it's you again, Marikawa Shizuka? Ruining my moment?'
'And you're saying you didn't do it on purpose?'
'Then why are you always there whenever something spicy is about to happen?!'
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