Chapter 2

Lin Ye pulled Hoshino Ai and walked away quickly, shielding her in front of him.

At this moment, Hoshino Ai was shocked.

What had she seen? What had she just seen?

The world had been imprisoned and stopped rotating; the man had moved freely in that frozen world, beating the man in black and setting things up, while he had pinched and touched her, taking advantage of her.

She wanted to move, wanted to avoid it, but had no way to do so.

Her body completely refused to listen to her.

Until the world returned to normal.

Hoshino Ai swallowed, her large eyes filled with shock.

In her field of vision, there was only the back of the man in front of her.

The male fan who had confessed to her but was rejected by her was a superpower user, and it seemed to be a Time Stop superpower; he must have obtained this magical power from the Weird Game!

Hoshino Ai couldn't help but feel worried and afraid, yet she couldn't help but be curious.

A living, super-powerful Weird Game player!

A person from the rumors!

Lin Ye noticed the girl's terror out of the corner of his eye.

It was normal for a young girl to be afraid and terrified when encountering an evil fan attack and a bloody incident.

"Wu, ah ah ah..."

The smell of blood permeated the air, and red liquid kept flowing from the man's body.

"Wh, why... would... it be... like this..."

"I, I still wanted to be with Ai..."

He supported himself with one hand reaching toward Hoshino Ai, seemingly wanting to grab this panicked girl.

"Ah ah..."

Finally, it turned into a roar of unwilling shouting.

The man couldn't catch his breath, lying on the ground and unable to move anymore.

Dead.

Hoshino Ai realized at this moment that the black-clad man who had attacked was dead; she hugged herself tightly, her entire brain still in a state of chaos, her body trembling slightly.

Lin Ye was thinking about the limits of Time Stop; the crisis had been resolved, so why not start testing the limits of Time Stop—the time limit, the range limit.

Thinking of this, he began to do it.

"Time Stop activated."

The world fell into a state of stagnation once again, and Lin Ye began counting his own heartbeats to calculate the elapsed time.

At the same time, he walked out of the scene to observe the range of Time Stop; within the visual range, everything had fallen into a state of stop.

Suddenly, at one point, Lin Ye felt a clear change in his heartbeat; it had become faster.

"Five minutes."

He noted this time point. But he didn't stop Time Stop, continuing to calculate the time; after some time, he felt a strong sense of fatigue, roughly around ten minutes.

Lin Ye felt that his breathing had also become somewhat difficult.

Time Stop still hadn't stopped; it seemed that as long as he was willing, Time Stop would continue indefinitely.

However, Lin Ye knew that even if this Time Stop had an infinite duration, his body was bearing a certain load; once it was too long, his body would be unable to take it and would collapse.

"Hoo,"

At roughly twelve or thirteen minutes, Lin Ye, who had returned to the concert venue, stopped Time Stop.

"Five minutes is the safest, ten minutes is the allowed range; beyond this time, one must consider the body's endurance."

"Using Time Stop at a high frequency will cause the load on the body and mind to accumulate, requiring a period of rest."

"But I exercise to increase my body's strength; I don't know if that can increase the duration of Time Stop."

Was this a drawback of Time Stop? Lin Ye wasn't sure.

But Lin Ye knew that every ability had its limits and should also come with a price.

"The most important point is whether my lifespan will pass while in the Time Stop state."

Everything except him had fallen into a Time Stop state, but he hadn't; was his life still passing?

Lin Ye looked at his fingers. "Ten minutes is hard to use to judge the body's lifespan and passage of time by healing wounds."

He thought about it and didn't come up with a suitable test method for the time being.

And Hoshino Ai had witnessed the world fall into a state of stagnation once again; that man had used Time Stop, making the whole world stop, but this time he hadn't killed anyone, nor had he taken advantage of the girl, just left the scene and returned after roughly ten minutes, as if he were observing and testing something.

And she, throughout the whole process, still couldn't move or say anything, only able to watch the only figure in her field of vision that could move freely.

Who exactly was he, what kind of person was he?

Question after question kept emerging in Hoshino Ai's heart.

Her star-purple eyes were full of that man's figure.

Fifteen minutes later, the police arrived, the body was taken away, and the manager Saitou, who seemed to still be in shock, hadn't woken up yet and was sent to the hospital.

And the parties involved, Lin Ye and Hoshino Ai, were taken back to the nearest police station to be questioned by the officers.

About half an hour later,

The questioning and statement recording ended.

The two were sent out of the police station.

At this time,

Hoshino Ai was still in an unstable state of panic; she hugged the coat she was wearing tightly, her mental state not very good.

"Can you take me to the nearest hotel? About two hundred meters away, I remember there is a hotel."

It wasn't that she hadn't thought about Lin Ye harming her, but once she thought about the other party's unreasonable Time Stop superpower, Hoshino Ai knew she had thought too much.

If the other party really had ulterior motives and ill intentions, she couldn't refuse at all; she wouldn't even have any way if she were played until she broke.

In many anime, the male lead obtains the Time Stop ability, and the girls all suffer and get played until they break; she understood that if this man with the Time Stop ability wanted to play with her, she wouldn't end up well either.

So, he had a bottom line and principles, and could be trusted.

Late at night, there wasn't a sliver of moonlight, and the stars and the lights on both sides of the street didn't have much brightness either.

Lin Ye agreed.

The two walked side by side.

I don't know when,

The fog became thicker and thicker.

The surroundings became even quieter, without even the sound of insects; the night wind blew, bringing a trace of chill.

Soon,

A building in the distance was lit up, the red and purple light becoming the only light in the dark night.

Lin Ye led Hoshino Ai and walked straight toward it.

When he saw the sign hanging on the building clearly, he was stunned.

Koi no Kokoro Love Hotel.

Love Heart Love Hotel?

Hoshino Ai wanted him to take her to a love hotel; this was implying something, right!

Are 2D heroines this open and proactive?

Is she going to give herself to him just like that?

Tonight, this is going to be amazing.

And at this time,

Hoshino Ai looked at this hotel, and as if she had thought of something, her face turned pale in an instant.

"Ding!"

"Welcome to Love Heart Love Hotel."

... ===== CHAPTER 5 =====