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Gu Chuan raised an eyebrow slightly, a hint of genuine curiosity flashing in his eyes.
In his "observational" view, several extremely incongruous labels were prominently displayed on the entry for Fujiwara Chika.
[Name: Fujiwara Chika]
[Status: Extremely distressed]
[Emotions: Curiosity, Confusion, Expectation]
[Intention: Seeking help (High difficulty, conceptual level)]
"Conceptual level"?
This label piqued Gu Chuan's interest.
He had dealt with apocalypses and guided the strong, but he had never imagined what kind of request for help would be so "difficult" and involved "conceptual" levels that Secretary Fujiwara found so challenging.
He put down his book and asked gently, "Secretary Fujiwara, is there something you need? You've been standing there for five minutes."
When her secret was exposed, Fujiwara Chika trembled like a frightened cat, but she still mustered her courage and walked in hesitantly, her hands behind her back, her head down, and her toes pacing nervously on the floor.
"Um...Gu Chuan..." Her voice was barely audible, completely devoid of its usual vibrancy, "I...I have a question I'd like to ask you."
"Please say."
"It's just..." Fujiwara Chika took a deep breath, as if using all her strength, and suddenly raised her head, her face flushed, and asked loudly, "What exactly does love feel like?!"
"..."
A brief silence fell over the student council room.
Gu Chuan was somewhat bewildered.
He had imagined countless possibilities, and even prepared for a crisis lurking beneath the surface of daily life that could destroy the world. But he never expected that Fujiwara Chika's "conceptual" plea for help would be this.
"I really want to experience that feeling... of my heart racing, my face turning red, and being speechless when I see the other person!" Seeing that Gu Chuan didn't speak, Fujiwara Chika thought he didn't understand, so she started to describe it with exaggerated gestures, "Just like in shoujo manga! Being 'plop' against a wall by the male protagonist, and then the whole world turns pink! That feeling! I can't even imagine it!"
She became increasingly distressed as she spoke, eventually slumping down and squatting on the ground, drawing circles: "But Kaguya-san and the student council president are both so strange, they can't be used as a reference at all. I've also tried to do a wall slam on myself, but I didn't feel anything at all... Gu Chuan, you seem so popular, you must know a lot, right? Could you teach me?"
Gu Chuan looked at the clear entry on her body, "[Goal: Experience Love]", and remained silent for a while.
He finally understood why this was a "conceptual" request for help.
For someone as naive and innocent as Fujiwara Chika, the concept of "love," a complex one composed of countless chemical reactions and psychological activities, was indeed beyond her comprehension.
"Hmm... what kind of feeling do you want?" Gu Chuan decided to start from the most basic level.
"I want something more exciting!"
Fujiwara Chika immediately perked up, "It's like riding a roller coaster, the kind where your heart is about to jump out of your throat! I want to experience it as quickly and directly as possible!"
19 My heart is beating so fast!
"Something a little more exciting..."
Gu Chuan nodded thoughtfully. He looked at Fujiwara Chika and casually asked in a half-joking, almost academic tone, "What if, just hypothetically, you increased your body's sensitivity? For example, what if your sense of touch and hearing became several times more acute than usual, and your heart rate increased with the slightest stimulus? Wouldn't that make it easier to get the 'pleasure' you want?"
"Eh?"
Fujiwara Chika was stunned. She blinked her innocent big eyes and seriously considered the possibility. "It seems... that makes sense! If the body becomes very sensitive, then even the smallest things will become very stimulating, right?"
But she quickly shook her head, puffing out her cheeks: "Gu Chuan, you must be joking! How could such a thing be possible!"
"Who knows?"
Gu Chuan smiled, neither confirming nor denying.
But on a level she couldn't see, Gu Chuan had already used up the inspiration points he had just recovered from his group members to accurately pinpoint Fujiwara Chika's core concept and made temporary edits to one of its sub-entries.
[Perception System] → [Sub-entry Addition: Neural Sensitivity x10 (Duration: 10 minutes)]
After doing all this, he stood up and slowly walked to Fujiwara Chika.
"Perhaps, no matter how much theory is explained, it is not as good as experiencing it firsthand."
He reached out his hand, his movements natural and gentle, wanting to pat her head lightly as he always did.
However, just as his fingertips were about to touch her pink hair, Fujiwara Chika shuddered violently, as if struck by an electric current, and two bright red clouds instantly rose on her face.
"Eee~~~~ya~~~!!"
She gasped and instinctively took a step back, but the sudden movement caused her to stumble and nearly fall.
Gu Chuan reached out and supported her arm.
When his hand grasped her slender arm, Fujiwara Chika felt her whole world explode.
Where her skin touched, she felt an indescribable burning sensation she had never experienced before, as if the other person's palm were a branding iron.
The warmth traveled up her arm and instantly spread throughout her body.
Her heart began to pound wildly without warning, each beat like a drumbeat, making her eardrums buzz.
She could clearly hear Gu Chuan's steady breathing and smell his fresh, pleasant scent, like grass after the rain.
Every detail about him was magnified countless times at this moment, turning into the strongest signal, impacting her already blank mind.
"Are you alright?" Gu Chuan's voice was very close, his warm breath gently brushing against her ear.
This completely shattered Fujiwara Chika's last line of defense.
Her legs went weak, and she lost all strength, sliding down Gu Chuan's arm until she collapsed at his feet.
She looked up at Gu Chuan with misty, dreamy eyes, her cheeks flushed crimson, and murmured unconsciously, "My heart... my heart is beating so fast..."
Gu Chuan looked down at her, his eyes calm and expressionless.
The experiment was a great success.
However, although--
This scene, however, was captured completely by another pair of eyes.
The door to the student council room had been pushed open a crack at some point.
Yukino Yukinoshita was standing outside the door. She had come to submit an application for a venue for the Service Club activities. But when she reached the door, she saw a scene that she could neither understand nor tolerate.
The mysterious boy, Gu Chuan, whom she had been secretly watching, was alone in a room with the student council secretary, Fujiwara Chika.
Meanwhile, Fujiwara, the usually energetic girl, was now disheveled, her face flushed, and slumped at Gu Chuan's feet, muttering incomprehensible words.
Gu Chuan, however, simply looked down at her indifferently, with an expression as if he were admiring a work of art.
In Yukino's righteous indignation and black-and-white values, this scene was instantly and automatically interpreted as some kind of taboo, dirty deal.
Assisted dating?
No, this is worse than compensated dating! This is happening in a sacred place like a school, to a young girl with an immature mind...
A flame, a mixture of anger, disappointment, and a sense of justice, blazed up in Yukino's heart!
"stop!"
She flung the door open abruptly, letting out a cold, angry shout.
She strode up to the two of them, shielding Fujiwara Chika with her body, then raised her head and stared intently at Gu Chuan with her icy, frosty eyes.
"To do such a thing to one's classmate in broad daylight, in the student council room..."
Her voice trembled slightly with anger.
"Gu Chuan, I really misjudged you!"
"You...pervert!"
20 Ripples of Misunderstanding
"You scumbag! I'm calling the police!" Yukino said in terror.
Gu Chuan was completely dumbfounded when he saw this icy beauty who had suddenly transformed into a disciplinary committee member.
Call the police? What is all this about?
He could observe and edit the concept of the world, but he found himself completely unable to decipher the logical circuits in the mind of the genius girl in front of him, which were comparable to a chaotic board game.
Especially when the physical evidence is irrefutable, and witness testimonies are still nearby delivering fatal blows.
"My heart is pounding... Whew... so fast... My body... feels like it's melting..."
Fujiwara Chika lay limp on the ground, her cheeks flushed, her eyes glazed, unconsciously murmuring words that would set any listener's mind racing.
Her body was slightly curled up, as if she was savoring some kind of extreme experience. Every word she spoke was like a small hammer, striking hard against Yukino's bottom line of common sense.
"You... look what you've done to Chika?!"
Yukino trembled with rage. She rushed forward and shielded Fujiwara behind her with her petite frame, as if facing a monstrous flood.
"No, Yukinoshita-san, calm down, it's not what you think."
Gu Chuan felt somewhat speechless.
He wanted to explain, but it seemed he couldn't.
Does that mean I just increased her sensitivity tenfold and conducted a scientific experiment on the feeling of being in love?
That makes him seem even more like a scumbag.
"Not what I thought?"
Yukino looked at Fujiwara Chika on the ground, then at Gu Chuan, and after a moment of silence, said, "What is it then? A girl, disoriented and disheveled, collapsed at your feet, and you're telling me this isn't what I think? Did she do it willingly?"
"She did indeed volunteer..."
Gu Chuan said it subconsciously, but regretted it as soon as the words left his mouth.
As expected, Yukino's gaze instantly turned to utter contempt.
"I see,"
She took a step back, took out her phone, and her slender fingers were already preparing to press those three familiar numbers. "It seems there's no need for further explanation."
Seeing that she was really going to call the police, Gu Chuan had a headache. Actually, it didn't matter if she called the police, but this matter made him very embarrassed.
Moreover, he keenly observed that the temporary buff of [Neural Sensitivity x10] on Fujiwara Chika's status entry was fading, but a brand new entry emitting a faint pink glow was quietly forming—[Concept Dependence: Heartbeat Experience].
Trouble.
Gu Chuan's heart sank.
His original intention was simply to help Fujiwara Chika, this curious little girl, experience something, but he never expected that this sensory overload would be like opening Pandora's box for her simple, chaotic nature, who was pursuing ultimate pleasure.
If not addressed promptly, she could become completely addicted and constantly seek out this stimulation.
Then my daily life would be completely ruined!
Unless absolutely necessary, Gu Chuan would never edit other people's perceptions or memories; this was an ironclad rule he set for himself.
But now, it seems we've reached the point where we have to break it.
Just as Yukino was about to press the dial button, Gu Chuan made a decision.
We can't let her misunderstand any longer, and we can't let Fujiwara really get involved!
He used his inspiration points, not on Yukino, but on Fujiwara Chika, who was still in a state of confusion.
What he needs to do is not to erase, but to correct and appease.
"Editing begins."
Using his mind as a scalpel, he precisely located Fujiwara's over-exaggerated "perceptual system" entry and restored it to normal.
At the same time, to prevent her from developing a dependency on the group, he added a vague sub-entry to that memory of "ultimate heartbeat" experience—[Memory Blurring: Dream Illusion].
He wanted Fujiwara to believe that everything that had just happened was just an unreal dream caused by her excessive excitement.
After doing all this, Gu Chuan breathed a sigh of relief, finally managing to clean up half of the mess.
However, he was still a step slow.
Just as he finished editing, Fujiwara Chika on the ground slowly woke up.
The overwhelming surge of sensory overload has subsided, but the powerful aftertaste lingers.
Her memory became somewhat confused due to the editing, and she completely forgot why she had sought help from Gu Chuan.