Chapter 112 Yen
In a male dormitory, no matter how thoroughly it was cleaned or maintained, the air was always filled with a mixed odor of sweat, garbage, and feet.
Li Ang walked slowly along the dormitory’s narrow corridor, absently flipping through a ComicMarket art collection he had found in a storage box, still sealed in its plastic bag. He had a smattering of Japanese, and with the System’s translation, he could understand it.
Hmm... The quality of the color pages is pretty high this time, he thought.
Chai Cuiqiao’s head popped out from his chest, wanting to take a look at the art collection, but Li Ang immediately pushed her back. "Kids shouldn’t read comics."
Since entering this scenario, he hadn’t let Miss Chai show her face. This was mainly to guard against the two teammates they had encountered this time. If they discovered Miss Chai’s existence and traced things back in the real world, they could very well link "Li Rising" with "Li Ang."
The man and the ghost searched floor by floor, moving upwards through the male dormitory. Soon, on the seventh floor (the high school section), they discovered an anomaly.
On the floor of this corridor lay one yen banknote after another, in denominations of 10,000, 5,000, and 1,000. However, the people depicted on them were not Noguchi Hideo, Higuchi Ichiyo, or Fukuzawa Yukichi, but various students from the Japan Islands: a suntanned delinquent girl, an ordinary male high school student with messy hair, a materialistic girl fond of phones, shoes, and handbags... Their genders, ages, and appearances varied, but they all shared a common expression of despair and regret.
With Li Ang’s arrival, the banknotes began to tremble slightly, and the figures on them started to move.
"SOB SOB SOB..."
They cried softly, their plaintive, disordered sobs echoing through the corridor.