Chapter 518 - The Cold (7)

"The school offers the use of the teleportation gate on the way back in exchange for our points. While we expend most of our mana in the morning to teleport near the buildings where the classes are held," she readily gave out the information.

"And you say that she's a dangerous person?" I wanted to rest inside the shack.

While I was surrounded by a barrier, I didn't want to continue standing outside her door. Since she was a student like us, she was probably safer than random strangers walking on the street. Knowing that Luke would put my health at a higher priority, I intentionally made my knees stagger, about to collapse onto the snow. I stopped putting strength into the rest of my limbs, making them drop.

"Only for half an hour," Luke caught my fall.

"Pretending to be sick," Alex mumbled in disapproval.

I instantly got up on my own, not hesitating to run into the shack. My fan was such a good person, all the strawberry desserts perfectly laid out for me to eat. The dining table was located near the door, making it the first thing I saw. Ignoring Luke warning me to not touch the food, I picked up a fork. Scooping the cake into the fork, I quickly took a bite before they could think of taking it away from me.

"It's not poisoned," she seemed offended by their distrust.

"Would you like some sugar?" My fan knew my preferences.

"You have raw sugar?" My eyes twinkled.

"We do. We know how much you would like it," she passed me a bag of sugar.

I was touched by my fan, finding all the plates of food perfectly matching how I wanted it. In fact, almost the entire living space had everything I liked. Instead of annoying couches, they had large bean bag chairs, the walls were bȧrė of its usual decorations, filled with practical shelves of light novels I could recognise. Posters of my favourite anime shows and figurines I couldn't source were nicely arranged.

I gasped when they had a large TV screen covering one of their walls, the cabinets filled with more anime CDs. This was considered to be ancient in the first district, everyone using marbles for those things after downloading the video. Wasn't this place paradise? What was I doing focusing on the desserts when I had the chance to catch up on the anime I missed? I could enjoy my desserts while watching the shows I wanted.

"Can I use your TV?" I brought out my most alluring smile.

"You can use anything you want. Everything here is for you," she gestured.

"Why didn't you bring me here sooner?" I started to turn the TV on.

"It takes a lot of complex spells to bring you here. We only recently acquired a part of you that would allow us to summon you near us," she revealed how the entire bed was teleported.

"If you met me in person, I would have willingly followed you," I placed the disk inside the player.

"Here's my number and the dorm I live in," I wrote all the details inside a note.

"Rika!" Luke swiped the note before I could pass it to her.

"She's a good person!" I argued.

I decided to ignore Luke as the show began playing once I pressed a buŧŧon on a remote control. My fan was better than the robots, placing the desserts on the table in front of the bean chair I sat in. She even handed a package of chocolate covered sticks, an amazing snack to go along with it. My eyes were starting to fill with tears, appreciating the hand drawn animation on the screen. Maybe the next project in the club room would be to create our own anime and manga.

"Don't come near the screen," I icily warned the others when they were about to turn it off.

"Can't you kick them out?" I turned to my fan.

"We can call for someone to help them return back to the middle school section," she pulled out her marble.

I stiffened since I knew they would bring me with them. It was better to be stranded in this place, having no chance in leaving. I shook my head, "they can survive in the snowstorm alone. You're being too generous, they have enough mana."

"We can leave this place right now then," Alex pulled my arm to lift me from the bean bag chair.

"What about your collection? Your precious collection might be here!" I tried to point out.

"We can always purchase them again," Luke started to drag me after Alex passed my arm to him.

"I can't believe how gullible she is," Charles watched us.

I felt a little offended, finding them going over the line. My fan was polite to them from the start to now. They were the ones being rude, declining everything that she offered, ignoring the large amount of effort she placed in trying to welcome us. If they were really struggling to survive with their current number of points, it was a big sacrifice on their end.

"Did our plan work? Is Rika here?" Someone interrupted us, running to my fan out of her room.

"She really is here!" She squealed when she noticed me.

"Can I ask who you are?" Alex turned to her.

"I am the fan site owner," she revealed.