God Invasion: It's awesome to save the world with five problematic girls!
Chapter 55: The note passed through the crack in the door read the way out.

Chapter 55: The note passed through the crack in the door read the way out.

Sakuragi Hitomi admitted to herself that she had a bad habit.

That is hypocrisy.

Of course, everyone may harbor a bit of hypocrisy, as no one is keen on hearing the truth forever, which leads to pretension and play-acting to disguise their real thoughts.

It’s just that Sakuragi Hitomi knew to what extent she could be hypocritical and how dreadful the reality hidden beneath that facade was.

Thus, the girl with deep self-awareness grew rational thorns on her gentle exterior.

This made her declare openly when she first entered school: she would never fall in love.

It seemed like a statement looking down on everyone, but in fact, its meaning was to prevent any close relationships from getting past the thorns of rejection to see the most real and dreadful her.

By that time, the so-called affection would be scared off by her terrifying inner self anyway.

Since such an ending was inevitable, it was better not to start anything at all.

However, she seemed to have overlooked the fact that the thorns of rejection were only fending off the approach of outsiders, yet they couldn’t stop the most genuine part of her from looking outside and yearning to draw closer to someone out there...

She couldn’t remember when she started having feelings for Yan Huan.

She just remembered that one afternoon, she invited the student council members to her rented house for a visit. The initial plan was to dine out, but Yan Huan cooked a meal for everyone at home.

She recalled having her favorite caramel pudding that day, and then her gaze unconsciously drifted towards Yan Huan, who had made the dessert.

And she saw her three cats cuddling up to him so obediently, meowing and acting coquettishly as if they really liked him.

He also showed great patience, smiling and gently stroking the chins of the cats.

Just witnessing that scene for a moment, the inner unrest among the thorns of rejection began to stir, beginning to long for understanding him.

Wanting to understand all of him, his thoughts, his behaviors, his emotions, his body...

To know when Yan Huan would come to the student council office, she installed the first camera here.

Afterward, things spiraled out of control.

The classroom of Yan Huan, many corridors within the school, the student council office, outside of his part-time job, and even outside of the house he rented...

Do you remember the plane message Sakuragi Hitomi suddenly sent when Ye Shiyu was hypnotizing Yan Huan last Friday?

That was because that time was usually when Yan Huan finished his part-time job and returned home. However, Sakuragi Hitomi did not see Yan Huan coming out on the streets outside the tavern where he worked, nor did she see him returning to his rental house.

Therefore, she sent that message, and didn’t even want to wait before directly making a phone call, causing Ye Shiyu on the other end to be thrown into confusion.

Reason told Sakuragi Hitomi that this was not the right way to like someone. She shouldn’t pathologically surveil him, attempting to manipulate his life.

But the true inner self was already impossible to restrain, like a prisoner trapped within reason.

That prisoner was gracefully dancing under the shackles of her persona, "the empathetic Vice President Sakuragi."

In fact, the folder in her laptop not only contained many candid photos of Yan Huan, but even the words he said were recorded by Sakuragi Hitomi.

She had reached the point where she needed to grasp the meaning behind each and every word Yan Huan said, trying to completely understand all his thoughts through this method.

Of course, many times she couldn’t comprehend the meaning behind some of Yan Huan’s words.

[Fish, such big fish, a tiger shark.]

Attached in the document was a screenshot of a plane chat page, with the date, annotation, and other information written by Sakuragi Hitomi herself,

"March 9th plane chat record, message sent by Yan Huan after visiting the Oceanarium."

"It seems that he wasn’t talking about a certain type of shark, and there was no obvious response to my attempt to enlighten him... the meaning is unclear, so I have noted it for now."

[I ward off the hostel’s evil spirit, really?]

"On March 6th, I handed over the task of reporting to the principal to the President, and he suddenly said this to me."

"I don’t understand why he compared the principal to the mythical monster. Does he think the principal is that scary? The meaning is not clear..."

[Where did you bring this from, is this still within our country?]

"On March 4th, the President, who had just started the term, said this when he saw the student council office I had tidily prepared in advance."

"It seems to be because I didn’t decorate the student council in the style of Lin Gate? But all I did was rearrange the positions of the desks and add quite a few bookshelves..."

Below were a heap more records, stretching from last term’s attempt to analyze Yan Huan to the present.

Although after more than half a year of interaction, everyone in the student council had also gotten used to the President occasionally saying things they didn’t understand.

Maybe it was the local language of Lin Gate, Dragon Country?

But Sakuragi Hitomi had asked many people from Dragon Country and Lin Gate, and they also did not understand what those meant...

These were just the verbal misunderstandings, more often than not, in conversations with Yan Huan, he would reveal emotions that she completely couldn’t understand.

In her mind, Sakuragi Hitomi unconsciously recalled a scene from last semester when she was taking an elective course with Yan Huan. They were preparing for a group report and needed to collect some information on famous companies.

When seeing certain information, Yan Huan suddenly murmured,

"The Golden Lion Group finishes work at four-thirty in the afternoon, huh?"

"Yes, President, it is quite troublesome to handle business affairs with them, often requiring weeks of queuing."

"I see..."