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The entirety of School Garden looked like a small-scale town. Not only did it have all kinds of facilities and shops, but the buildings and various decorations all adopted a unified Western-style design, making it completely different from the streets outside.
Here, not only were the road signs and traffic lights different in appearance from those outside, but even the streets and buildings were made of marble. However, the stone surfaces didn't have the slightest tilt or unevenness, being incredibly smooth and level. The material also wasn't ordinary stone. If one were to examine it under an electron microscope, one would discover that these were all specially manufactured construction materials from Academy City, making the entire School Garden shine brilliantly with smoothness and remain spotless.
It was said that beneath the School Garden's underground, countless optical fibers were buried vertically. By gathering the points of light emitted by these fibers, various visual effects could be created, similar to the principle behind electronic bulletin boards.
Naturally, this garden, constructed with the most advanced technology in all of Academy City, was also among the most cutting-edge places in the city purely in terms of scenery.
Under Hokaze Junko's guidance, as Fang Li walked through the area, he had already seen numerous finely crafted fountains, open plazas, courtyards, and benches along the way. The whole place looked like a luxurious park, extremely pleasing to the eye.
Under normal circumstances, a male like Fang Li appearing here would absolutely cause a huge commotion.
But currently, it was the middle of the Daihasei Festival. Most of the students based here had already gone off to various competition venues, leaving very few people remaining inside the School Garden.
As for those who did remain, even when they noticed Fang Li and first showed shocked expressions, their eyes would suddenly flash with a trace of star-shaped light before they expressionlessly turned and walked away.
Seeing this, even Fang Li had to admire Shokuhou Misaki.
"Just to invite one person for afternoon tea, she actually went to this much trouble. She really worked hard for this."
Although Shokuhou Misaki's ability was extremely convenient, it wasn't capable of freely manipulating people outside her field of vision. She first had to aim with her remote control and then activate her ability.
If one had to compare it to a weapon, it was equivalent to a handgun, naturally making it ineffective against targets outside visual range.
Unless, beforehand, Shokuhou Misaki had already performed initial setup on the people she intended to control, like planting bombs in advance and then simply pressing a button when she wanted to activate them.
Only then could such large-scale control be achieved.
Now, every student in School Garden who saw Fang Li showed clear signs of having been manipulated, which was obvious evidence that Shokuhou Misaki had prepared all of this beforehand.
Fang Li could even imagine just how many laps that movement-averse girl had probably made around School Garden in order to accomplish this.
"Wouldn't it have been fine to just meet outside?"
After all, it wasn't as though they absolutely had to meet inside School Garden.
However, given Shokuhou Misaki's personality, the reason for doing this was probably quite simple.
"This makes me look more impressive~~☆"
It was probably something like that.
As Fang Li thought this, he didn't notice that Hokaze Junko, who was walking ahead to lead the way, had been secretly glancing at him out of the corner of her eye the whole time.
No, more accurately, he had noticed, it was just that he hadn't pointed it out.
But seeing Hokaze Junko repeatedly sneaking looks at him again and again, Fang Li finally decided to speak directly.
"What's wrong? Is something the matter?"
Fang Li's sudden voice seemed to startle Hokaze Junko.
"U-Um..." Hokaze Junko hesitated for a moment, then, as if gathering courage, asked Fang Li,
"May I ask... what kind of relationship do you have with Queen?"
When saying this, Hokaze Junko's tone was clearly filled with curiosity and surprise.
Obviously, Hokaze Junko had been extremely shocked ever since hearing that Shokuhou Misaki had invited Fang Li.
"Yesterday, I was nearby watching as well. Fang-san, you seemed to already know Queen, didn't you?" Hokaze Junko asked curiously. "Would it be alright if I asked?"
This curiosity probably wasn't limited to Hokaze Junko alone.
Perhaps all of the Tokiwadai young ladies within the Queen Faction were abnormally curious about Fang Li.
Judging from yesterday's situation, Fang Li not only knew the Queen whom all the young ladies in the faction served, but he also knew Tokiwadai's other Level 5 Esper, Misaka Mikoto, whose ranking was even above Shokuhou Misaki's, and his relationship with both sides seemed far from ordinary.
There was no way everyone wouldn't be curious or surprised.
Not to mention, Fang Li also knew the legendary Diva from the rumors, the world's number one idol.
And likewise, his relationship with her appeared to be extremely unusual, to the point where they had apparently known each other for several years.
As a result, for these young ladies whose curiosity was running at full force, Fang Li naturally attracted all kinds of attention.
Hokaze Junko was one of them.
As Shokuhou Misaki's confidante and the second-in-command of the faction, Hokaze Junko, who was constantly by Shokuhou Misaki's side, knew very well that Shokuhou Misaki had never shown such familiarity, or even closeness, toward any male before.
Because of this, Hokaze Junko was genuinely curious.
Thus, Fang Li scratched his cheek slightly and spread his hands as he replied,
"We just have a bit of history, that's all. We actually haven't known each other for that long, at most, only about a year. And as for how many times we've met, it's pitifully few. So there's really no strange relationship between me and that girl."
Fang Li's answer made Hokaze Junko mutter inwardly.
(No strange relationship?)
There was no way that was true.
If that were really the case, Queen wouldn't have cared so much about the Diva staying by Fang Li's side, nor would she have gone to such lengths to invite Fang Li into School Garden for afternoon tea.
Moreover, as Shokuhou Misaki's confidante, and theoretically the person who understood and stayed closest to her the most, Hokaze Junko could tell one thing clearly.
Even if Fang Li himself had no special intentions, that didn't necessarily mean Shokuhou Misaki felt the same way.
(In that case, no wonder Queen said before that she had encountered an opponent she found difficult to defeat.)
If the opponent was that rare Diva, then without taking abilities into account, Shokuhou Misaki truly would have difficulty competing with her in terms of charm.
Even though Shokuhou Misaki herself was also an immensely charming Queen, it was still the same.
(Looks like Queen-sama has truly encountered a difficult problem this time.)
This made Hokaze Junko secretly come to a decision.
(I must secretly gather everyone together for a discussion.)
Even if Shokuhou Misaki alone had no way to win over this man, if all the wealthy young ladies of the entire faction acted together…
Could they really still fail?
As soon as this thought surfaced, Hokaze Junko quietly took out her cellphone and sent a group text.
The recipients were every member of the Queen Faction.
Only then did Hokaze Junko smile faintly, lead Fang Li onward, and head toward Shokuhou Misaki's location.
(End Of This Chapter)
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