But that figure remained motionless, just staring expressionlessly at Sakuragi Hitomi.

Then, she clicked her tongue.

"You... are you alive?"

Sakuragi Hitomi snapped out of her panic, finally able to take a closer look at the figure before her... or rather, a petite girl with a Noh mask slanted on top of her head.

The girl in front looked very much like herself, only with a cold expression, and waist-length ombre black and pink hair...

This expression was just like when she hadn't yet come to Linmen and was still with the Sakuragi Family!

Which means, this Personality Mask is...

The "Sakuragi Hitomi" in front of her, with a cold face, directly spat out,

"Idiot!"

"Huh?!"

Like a thunderbolt, Sakuragi Hitomi's face flushed red again,

"What nerve! Daring to insult the present me when you're just a past version of me?!"

The cold Sakuragi in front, with a "General" Noh mask slanted on her head, remained elegant and icy,

"Hah, if I had known my future self would become like you, I would've wanted to never come to Linmen my whole life!"

"Huh?! Are you serious? If I hadn't come to Linmen, I wouldn't have met the President!"

"..."

Upon mentioning this, the cold Sakuragi's momentum suddenly faltered, and she fell silent.

Seeing her like this, Sakuragi Hitomi remarked in a daze,

"Well, I have to say, even your liking for the President is just like mine. Looks like you really are a part of me."

Sakuragi Hitomi gave a gentle wave of her hand, the distorted room slowly returned to its original state, along with the cold Sakuragi being lowered back down.

Upon descending, she immediately spoke disrespectfully,

"Hmph, clearly just a step away from the President, but you, this useless fool, ruined everything."

"... I'd love to hear what the past me has to say about that."

"Simple, use all available resources, and at all costs, snatch the President back."

The cold Sakuragi crossed her legs, speaking bluntly,

"Send the family doctor during biology class and alter everyone's perception using the Barrier, then consummate the relationship with the President."

"That's way too hasty, isn't it?!"

"Besides, once isn't enough! During the subsequent retreat, pay off the classmates to cast votes for wherever the President goes."

The cold Sakuragi clenched her fist and pounded into her left palm, saying,

"Ten days and nights, drugging the President night after night, making sure he remembers with his body..."

"A supplemental medicine... later on..."

Sakuragi Hitomi, filled with regret, covered the cold Sakuragi's mouth, almost in tears.

Back when she stayed in the deep chambers of the Sakuragi Family, she barely had contact with any males outside her family.

At that time, her notions of love relied completely on the improper storybooks brought by Yakusi Mizuki... currently the president of Yuanyue Mahjong Club...

It goes without saying how shocking it was to the conservative Sakuragi Family when she recited classic lines from those storybooks to her traditional grandfather.

"How could it be like this?!"

Sakuragi Hitomi and the cold Sakuragi both froze, because the voice wasn't from either of them.

Turning around, Sakuragi Hitomi suddenly saw a tiny Sakuragi, about thirty centimeters tall, standing on the bed behind her.

"You..."

She also had a Noh mask slanted on her head, this one a Young Woman's mask.

"Before, you used underhanded means to spy on the President, and what happened? You blew it up!

"Then, you tried to use the Barrier to cover it up, causing immeasurable damage to the President!"

The tiny Sakuragi stood akimbo, looking at Sakuragi Hitomi with puffed cheeks, speaking with deep disappointment,

"You know it yourself. Using perception modification is the wrong path to make the President like you; isn't consummation equally wrong?

"The only effective way is one, which is to sincerely convey your feelings to the President! Heart to heart!"

Though the tiny Sakuragi was no bigger than Thumbelina, her momentum pressed Sakuragi Hitomi lower and lower.

These words, were always the ones that surfaced in her mind before she installed surveillance or planned to use the Barrier...

This tiny Sakuragi was Sakuragi Hitomi's conscience.

The cold Sakuragi behind snorted disdainfully, saying,

"What a joke, having money and not using it makes you kind, having the superpower of the Barrier and not using it; what's the point in having it?"

The tiny Sakuragi walked to the edge of the bed, akimbo, looking up at the cold Sakuragi three times her own height, saying,

"It's not that it shouldn't be used, just that in this situation it can't be used! It's precisely because she used it that she turned a winning hand into such a mess!"

"I do agree that she's just a useless fool in this regard."

Sakuragi Hitomi's conscience and her past unscrupulous self seemed to have reached some strange consensus.

This made Sakuragi Hitomi completely flush, she covered her ears unwilling to hear their nonsense as she stood up, planning to verify her new abilities.

She quickly walked to the door, thinking about Yuanyue Academy's Barrier.

Then, she placed her hand on the doorknob.

"Click~"

As soon as she opened the door, in a trance, a golden twilight streamed through the gap, landing in front of her eyes.

She hesitated slightly, raising her hand to shield against the twilight, but through the gaps between her fingers, she saw a boy on the office chair smiling at her,

"Sakuragi, you're here."

"..."

Sakuragi Hitomi's eyes narrowed slightly, yet the next second, everything before her was slowly restored to the quiet nighttime student council office by the Barrier.

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