Xu Lin walked toward Li Zhi Ran’s home with a backpack on his shoulders and a cloth bag in one hand.
This counted as officially moving in with her.
After everything that happened yesterday and last night, he had already accepted that he would be staying here.
Even setting aside the fact that as long as he remained a student at Nangang University he couldn’t escape the temple even if the monk ran, there was also Li Zhi Ran’s condition to consider carefully.
Her stability was only temporary. One careless misstep and he might step on a massive landmine.
Since she was stable now, the best plan was to maintain that stability while going along with her wishes and looking for a sliver of opportunity to survive.
Even for moving house, he hadn’t made a big fuss. He only took the relatively important things.
But among those, if there was one item he absolutely had to keep with him no matter what, it was the cloth bag in his hand.
Actually, the reason he had been smoothly released back to the dorm this morning was largely thanks to this very item.
The cloth bag was the one LinShen Xue had given him yesterday morning before leaving.
Inside were the clothes she had personally sewn for him.
He hadn’t expected to be forcibly dragged home by Li Zhi Ran yesterday. Before going to meet Luo Qiu Zhu, he had first brought it back to the dorm.
Without it, tomorrow’s date with Lin Shen Xue would probably go catastrophically wrong.
Besides, this item was extremely important to Xu Lin in another sense.
The moment he accepted the cloth bag from Lin Shen Xue, he had felt it was unusually heavy.
Only later did he realize it wasn’t an illusion; it was the manifestation of the power contained within.
Even before opening the bag, Xu Lin had sensed something ominous.
Yet the clothes inside weren’t overly eccentric in design; they were perfectly street-wearable.
The real problem was the system description floating above them.
『Heavy Girl’s Little Token of Affection』 (Blue): When worn, mental resistance decreases. If the owner of a <Heavy Girl> tag has the intent, the wearer will be bound and unable to move easily.
Was this really clothing and not some kind of restraint device?
It didn’t just affect the mind; it could physically restrict him?
When he saw the description, his face had darkened, and he couldn’t help roasting it internally.
But after rereading the item name, his expression softened again.
『Heavy Girl’s Little Token of Affection』?
It had that extra “little,” but it was still a token of affection. Could he perhaps synthesize it into 『Lin Shen Xue’s Little Token of Affection』 or 『A Bit of Lin Shen Xue’s Regard』?
With that thought, he had immediately checked the synthesis preview.
Sure enough, it could become 『Lin Shen Xue’s Little Token of Affection』, and it was indeed effective against 【Heavy Girl’s Love】.
Unfortunately, it could only lower the grade of 【Heavy Girl’s Love】 when it was below Lv3, and even then only by half a level.
Right now his 【Heavy Girl’s Love】 was already Lv5; it couldn’t reduce the grade at all.
Still, it wasn’t completely useless.
Because 『Lin Shen Xue’s Little Token of Affection』 had another crucial effect: it increased resistance to the power of <Heavy Girl> tags and could completely block 【Heavy Girl Gravity Field】 below Lv5.
For Lv5 and above, it could only mitigate the negative effects of the gravity field, and once the level became high enough, the token would be completely shattered and lose all effect.
The same applied to 【Heavy Girl’s Love】, just with different applicable levels.
If he succeeded in synthesizing it, he would gain another helpful item.
The problem was that he was currently missing one crucial synthesis material: a tag.
As for energy, the moment he received Lin Shen Xue’s gift he had gained over six thousand points; more than enough to unlock the next stage.
But in the end he was still short one thing, and even after unlocking he would probably need points to craft it.
That wasn’t a big issue; he could farm points just by interacting with Lin Shen Xue.
But tomorrow he had to wear these clothes to the date.
With double debuffs stacked on him, the road ahead looked perilous.
Yet he couldn’t not wear them.
He could only see later if there was some other way to reduce the negative effects.
Right now, the most positive feedback this outfit gave him was probably just a clue about what exactly a “Heavy Girl’s token of affection” was.
Back at Li Zhi Ran’s home, he didn’t need a key; the door opened by itself.
Only, there was no Li Zhi Ran waiting behind it.
According to her, “The magic door has already recognized you; you may enter freely.”
Did that mean he had passed facial recognition?
Though she had completely failed to mention anything about “freely leaving.”
“So this is the garment bestowed upon you by the Gravity Witch? As expected, it carries a strong aura of Gravity Witch magic.”
He returned to his room; Li Zhi Ran was already waiting there.
This room still felt the most comfortable. Even if he had to keep the lights on in broad daylight, at least the lighting was easy on the eyes.
He placed the cloth bag on the table; Li Zhi Ran’s gaze locked onto it immediately.
“Lady Witch, now that you’ve seen the lost item, do you have any way to suppress the power on it?”
Before going to retrieve the clothes, he had briefly explained the danger of the outfit to her in magical terminology.
At his question, Li Zhi Ran frowned.
Xu Lin instantly had a bad feeling.
“If it were in a pre-prepared location, I am confident I could suppress the power of these clothes—for example, inside this very room.
“But Young Hero, tomorrow you must wear these clothes and go to an unknown place… My power cannot help you by acting only on the garment itself.
“However, you have a method.”
“But I told you, I’m still missing one material.”
Li Zhi Ran shook her head.
“It’s by using a different approach.”
“You mean using different materials? But using other materials produces terrible effects.”
In the synthesis preview, there was more than one synthesis path.
He could also fuse it with a <Normie> tag.
But as he said, the resulting item would no longer be 『Lin Shen Xue’s Little Token of Affection』; it would only be a purple-quality special outfit. Its only effect would be resistance to <Heavy Girl> tag power, and it would have durability.
Even low-level negative statuses would wear out its durability, turning it into ordinary clothing afterward.
Whereas 『Lin Shen Xue’s Little Token of Affection』 could infinitely block negative effects below a certain grade, only breaking completely once the grade exceeded its limit.
If he had many sets of these clothes, he wouldn’t mind using the <Normie> route. But the problem was he only had this one set.
He still hadn’t figured out the whole “Heavy Girl token of affection” situation; it was hard to say whether the clothes he had received were a unique item.
He wanted to synthesize 『Lin Shen Xue’s Little Token of Affection』 as much as possible.
Li Zhi Ran shook her head again.
“These clothes need a wash.”
The moment she said that, Xu Lin instantly understood what she meant.