[BL] Daily Disposable Persona

101: High School Student 09

Zong Yan had no idea the Lord of the Gate had secretly burned the love letter in his school bag.

He was taking a shower in the bathroom, lifting his head to let the hot water from the shower stream over his face.

Warm steaming mist wrapped around the teen's trim, slender body, condensing into water droplets that slid down his pale skin.

He turned off the hot water, put the bath towel to the side, shrugged into his bathrobe, and walked out.

A moment later Zong Yan received a meaningful stare from the Lord of the Gate.

Zong Yan: "...?"

His hand, which was rubbing his head with a towel, stopped. With a puzzled face he turned on the hair dryer and aimed it at his hair.

Tomorrow was the start of a free weekend, which he hadn't had in a long time. He was able to finish up his homework during evening self-study today, which meant he had two full days of rest.

For a senior three student, two days were a precious resource. All the students in Senior Class 3 who planned to take the college entrance exam paid for tutors on the weekends. There was no shortage of one-on-one teaching by famous tutors who charged four figures an hour.

Zong Yan was the only maverick who stood alone. That was because he was poor.

But he had money now. Zong Yan earned a decent sum by completing tasks during the previous incident when creatures were appearing in Jiangzhou. For his senior year, he was completely free from worries about making ends meet.

So—what was he going to do tomorrow?

Zong Yan picked up his phone and looked at it. There was no news.

He'd recently asked Wang KeMing to keep an eye on MU's internal affairs. If anything happened, he'd make sure to report it to Zong Yan.

After a few offhand question-and-answer sessions, Zong Yan learned from the Lord of Time and Space why Paracelsus had gone to Miskatonic University to become the vice chancellor.

During the previous century, MU organized a scientific research team to journey deep into the South Pacific. Their target was R'lyeh, the city which sank 300 million years ago.

The research team was said to be composed of the most famous senior investigators of the time, all of them able to shred otherworldly creatures with their bare hands.

They set sail on a ship and arrived at Pohnpei Island, a state of the Federated States of Micronesia.

It was believed that Pohnpei Island was the closest island to the sunken R'lyeh.

This was the conclusion investigators reached after covertly installing tracking devices on Deep Ones.

The entire occult world took the scientific research expedition to the South Pacific seriously, because the possibility of uncovering the history of R'lyeh was a rare opportunity for humankind. Investigators went on to discover a period of history in which the Earth was ruled by a Great Old One, knowledge they obtained from the mysterious 《R'lyeh Text》.

Studying history was incredibly useful for the occult world.

The magic patterns passed down to modern times were actually extracted from ancient magical formations. These ancient characters were then aggregated and converted for use in combat. Every archaeological discovery meant a possible increase in investigators' strength.

Unfortunately, only one of the senior investigators who joined the research mission came back alive.

The sole survivor fell into a fit of madness, mumbling, "The time of terror has come... He will surely return to the Earth". No one could get another word from him.