"Huh?" Hong Siyu felt that the other party's comments were utterly unreasonable.
Rather, it was the first time she realized that Lin Yun had such a side to him.
Previously, based on bits and pieces of information she had gathered and her own extrapolations from various external factors, she had always thought that Lin Yun was the type of quiet boy who, like herself, was more reserved.
Although his reputation at school wasn't very good, and it seemed that many people gossiped about him being involved with two girls at the same time and being a big playboy implicated in puppy love and cheating, Hong Siyu always felt that the Lin Yun she knew wouldn't do such a thing.
How could such a meticulous, determined, indifferent, and handsome person trifle with a girl's feelings?
But now, the personality that Lin Yun was displaying was shattering Hong Siyu's former imagination.
She seemed to have always been immersed in her imagination without really getting to know him, and Hong Siyu recognized this point once again. However, before her girlish emotions could fluctuate, a roar from outside the door once again interrupted her thoughts.
As the roar thundered, the door in front of them shook violently and a tremendously sharp claw pierced through the classroom door from the outside, reaching out in front of them.
Seeing that purple-black claw tinged with a hint of blood, Hong Siyu nearly screamed, barely managing to cover her mouth with her hand to suppress any undue noise. Then, she looked helplessly at the calm boy before her.
Lin Yun said nothing, just made a silencing gesture toward her, then dodged the claw that had stretched into the classroom and continued to hug the classroom door, peering through the gap at the situation in the hallway.
His bold actions sent Hong Siyu's heart racing to her throat.
The two maintained an eerie silence, with Lin Yun frowning at the situation outside the door, and Hong Siyu standing slightly behind, waiting for the Remnant Beast's next move. Inside and outside the door, a strange equilibrium was achieved for a moment.
The fragile balance was, after all, unsustainable, so before long, another crashing sound came from outside the classroom.
The classroom door was torn open by the Remnant Beast once more.
Clearly, the Remnant Beast had confirmed there were people in the room.
"What what what what do we do!" A panic-stricken Hong Siyu stuttered as she backed away, "It's coming in!"
"Yeah, it's coming in," Lin Yun calmly nodded.
"Now is not the time to repeat what I said, right?" Hong Siyu's eyes widened, feeling on the verge of collapse, "If this continues, we are going to die!"
"Don't worry, we won't die."
"Eh? Do you have a plan?"
"I... don't have a plan, but someone will come to stop it."
"Who?" Hong Siyu asked, full of hope.
"Magical Girl." Lin Yun answered with certainty.
The classroom fell into silence for a moment, and even as the Remnant Beast had nearly torn half the door apart, with most of its claw inside, the awkward atmosphere remained undisturbed.
"...Are you joking, senior?" Hong Siyu tried to make her tone sound less like she was talking to a fool, "Expecting a Magical Girl at a time ? That kind of illusory thing?"
"Is it so strange?" Lin Yun glanced at her, "Where there are Remnant Beasts, there will be Magical Girls. Isn't that a matter of course?"
"What kind of logic is that?"
Hong Siyu pointed at the beast at the door, but her fingers trembled like a sieve: "We're not in a cartoon on TV, that thing is about to come in, can't you stop joking around!"
"It's okay, the Magical Girl will come."
"Why do you have such bizarre confidence!"
"Wait for me a moment; I'll just go out for a bit." Without responding to her question, Lin Yun said this and walked straight to the classroom window, pulling open the one facing outside the building.
"Huh?" Watching his inexplicable behavior, Hong Siyu felt increasingly unable to keep up with the pace of events, "But this is the fifth floor, where are you going?"
"Out for a bit." Lin Yun indicated towards the window.
It's over, he's going to jump to his death.
That was Hong Siyu's first thought.
Since bringing her into the classroom, he had been speaking nonsense, probably because the attack of the Remnant Beast had pushed him to the brink of mental breakdown. Now he was also in a state of collapse, which was why he was acting so abnormally.
Thinking this, Hong Siyu felt a slight sense of solidarity with Lin Yun.
Maybe she should jump with him? In her short-circuited state of mind, Hong Siyu also had a few mad thoughts. She felt that if she was going insane, it might as well be with a boy she kind of liked at the end of her life.
But just as she had made up her mind and looked towards the window again, wanting to express her feelings to that boy, she found that Lin Yun's figure had already disappeared from the opened window.
He had already jumped out.
Hong Siyu looked at the wide-open window, all the expressions she had been preparing frozen on her face.
Almost at the same moment, the shattered classroom door could no longer withstand the Remnant Beast's destruction and burst apart under its impact, exploding into debris. The Remnant Beast's dark form poked through the doorway of the classroom, its bulging eyes staring straight at Hong Siyu, and then it opened its mouth.
It seemed delighted to have found its prey.
With the only companion in the classroom gone, facing the fearsome Remnant Beast on her own, Hong Siyu felt she had even lost the ability to scream, only able to slowly back away.