Chapter 4 The Magic of Touch System (k)
The corridor across the door was quiet, outside the window was deep night, and the sky was pitch black.
The whole bedroom was enveloped in an atmosphere of silence.
After a long time, Kiana, who couldn't hold back her temper, finally broke the almost frozen atmosphere.
"Mei, how...how have you been doing recently?"
It would have been fine if Kiana didn't ask this, but as soon as she asked this, Raiden Mei suddenly felt very angry.
She glared at Kiana, her complaints full of resentment and bitterness coming out like a barrage of bullets: "What do you think? How dare you ask this question? Do you know how worried everyone is about you... how much they miss you!? Why would you rather hide in this cafe than contact us or come to see us? "
The resentment that soared to the sky made Kiana shrink her neck again and again, like a sparrow that was constantly teased. After Raiden Mei finished speaking, she stammered and argued for herself aggrievedly: "I... I actually just discovered this cafe tonight..."
"You dare to talk back?" Raiden Mei narrowed her eyes and spoke with a hint of danger in her voice, "Are you trying to say that if it weren't for this cafe, we wouldn't have been able to find you at all?"
"..." Although Kiana knew in her heart that this was probably the truth, she wisely chose to keep her mouth shut and not bring bad luck to the other party at this time.
But at this time, silence is actually no different from a direct answer.
Looking at Kiana's embarrassed yet stubborn expression, Mei Raiden felt a surge of blood in her chest. She desperately told herself to be magnanimous and not get angry with Kiana, as Kiana was still in a dangerous situation...but when she thought that this guy actually dared to hide from them in this situation, Mei Raiden couldn't calm down at all.
Everyone in Saint Freya has long regarded you as an inseparable companion, and the dean has long regarded you as his true relative. But after encountering such a big trouble, you would rather face it alone than seek help from everyone.
Now that the awakening of the Herrscher of the Void has become a fact, let’s work together to find a way to face her!
Hide? Even if you want to hide, where can you hide?
Where do you put our relationship?
Even though the resentment in her heart couldn't be fully vented in a few words, this cafe was someone else's territory after all. With Mei Raiden's self-control, there was no way she could vent her anger in the middle of the night when everyone was asleep.
So, after trying her best to endure the resentment that was almost burning her rationality, Raiden Mei took the initiative to change the subject for the time being.
"Tell me about it."
She gently smoothed her long hair which was still a little wet, then turned around and sat side by side with Kiana on the bed.
The lower body wrapped in the nightgown sank into the soft sheets, and the fresh scent of the girl mixed with the shower gel dissolved silently into the depths of the bedding.
She turned her head and looked at Kiana with an unquestionable gaze like that of an elder: "Since we met, you have been telling me in both explicit and implicit ways that you don't seem to want to leave this cafe?"
Kiana opened her mouth and was about to say something, but unexpectedly Mei Raiden suddenly interrupted her.
"Forget it, just tell me the details of what happened after you came to this cafe. I don't trust your subjective judgment at all now."
The tone filled with resentment and suspicion choked Kiana who was about to say something and made her speechless.
"I haven't said anything yet?!"
"After all, your intentions are too obvious."
Raiden Mei looked into Kiana's eyes dimly and spoke dangerous words in a calm tone:
"I can't guarantee that if I hear you say 'I can't go back yet' right now, I can resist the urge to forcibly take you back and break your limbs on the spot."
"Don't... don't make such a scary joke..." Kiana was sweating profusely and gave a stiff smile to Raiden Mei. "I, I believe Mei will definitely not do such a horrible thing to me, right?"
"..." Raiden Mei didn't say anything.
"Right...right!" Kiana's anxiety grew stronger.
"..." Raiden Mei still didn't speak.
——How terrible.
It's indescribably terrible.
Feeling Raiden Mei's deadly gaze, Kiana even felt a chilling sense of terror even more than when she faced the Herrscher of the Sky.
Why did Mei become such a scary person?
She felt a chill down her spine, cold sweat on her head, and she kept roaring deep in her heart.
Where on earth has my gentle Mei gone?
"What are you talking about? Kiana-chan~" Raiden Mei smiled sweetly. She even added an ups and downs and frivolous "chan" at the end of Kiana's name in her native language - that is, the homophonic "chan" in Shenzhou dialect to express her friendliness. "I haven't changed at all, but Kiana-chan seems to be a little too naughty during this period."
"He's so naughty that we have to use slightly radical means and methods to educate him." Raiden Mei said with a smile, "Don't worry, I think Principal Theresa will be very supportive of my approach."
"What about my opinion?" Kiana was stunned.
"Will I listen to your opinion and let you continue wandering outside?" Raiden Mei's smile instantly disappeared.
Kiana suddenly wilted like an eggplant hit by frost. She finally understood that Raiden Mei had made up her mind to take her back.
In order to achieve this goal, she didn't even give herself a chance to reason.
As far as Kiana knew, Mei Raiden was not originally an unreasonable person.
But even rabbits will bite if they are cornered.
Mei Raiden's rationality and patience have probably been gradually worn out during these four months of searching for herself.
To be honest, Kiana has been feeling guilty ever since Mei Raiden came to her house.
She actually knew how much trouble and harm her behavior of avoiding Saint Freya had caused to her former companions and elders.
But so-called human beings are born to be creatures that are extremely good at playing to their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses.
It is because they have made full use of their strengths that they are able to stand at the top of the food chain.
In other words, as long as one is a human being, he or she will naturally learn the skill of "escape", just like a student will choose to ignore those troublesome summer homework during the summer vacation.
As long as you don’t really face it, all problems are not problems.
However, once you have chosen to escape, when you inevitably run into that problem, the costs that have been infinitely magnified by the act of "escaping" will ruthlessly backfire on the person who chose to escape.
What Kiana is facing now is actually the same thing faced by those students who have only one day left in summer vacation but find that they have not done any homework.
Fortunately, there was one person present who did not have to bear the cost of escape.
So when Kiana was speechless because of the completely unreasonable Mei Raiden, a faint flame suddenly poured out from Kiana's body.
Mei Raiden instinctively showed a vigilant expression, but was stunned when she saw the translucent figure formed by the fire.
"Class...Class Monitor?"
"Yeah." Fu Hua looked at Raiden Mei with a complicated expression and sighed, "Long time no see, Mei."
"You..." Raiden Mei was stunned for a long time before finally reacting, "So the squad leader has always been by Kiana's side?"
Mei Raiden actually has very complicated feelings towards Fu Hua.
On the one hand, after knowing that it was Fu Hua who brought Kiana to the Sinister Headquarters, she actually had a lot of resentment towards Fu Hua.
But on the other hand, when the Herrscher of the Sky took away Kiana's body and defeated their companions one after another and was even about to kill them, it was this simple squad leader who came to support them at the first moment.
Now, Fu Hua suddenly reappeared from Kiana's body.
And judging from Kiana's expression without any surprise, she had already known the fact that Fu Hua was following her, and she once again accepted the squad leader who had once forcibly abducted her.
After a moment of silence, Raiden Mei took a deep breath and said, "It seems that the situation between you two is more complicated than I thought."
"So, squad leader, you are here to speak for Kiana?"
"I don't deny that." Fu Hua nodded, "However, speaking for Kiana doesn't mean I oppose your approach."
"Class monitor?" Kiana was stunned.
"Don't worry, Kiana." Fu Hua waved her hand, signaling Kiana to stay calm. "Mei, you want to take Kiana back because you don't want her to face the erosion from the Herrscher's consciousness alone, right?"
"..." Raiden Mei nodded silently.
"If that's the case, the only better option is to let Kiana stay in this cafe for the time being." Fu Hua said calmly, "If I'm not mistaken, the reason you were able to locate this cafe is because you detected the Second Herrscher's Honkai energy fluctuations in this place not long ago, right?"
"Yes."
"Well, let me tell you now. When you detected the Honkai energy fluctuation, Kiana lost control."
"What——" The sudden bad news made Raiden Mei's expression freeze.
Before she could ask further, Fu Hua calmly added: "Then, in less than a minute after Kiana's body was taken away, the manager of this cafe successfully suppressed the will of the Herrscher of the Sky."
"The manager of the cafe..." Mei Raiden murmured softly, and then quickly understood what Fu Hua meant: "So, the monitor means that it is safer for Kiana to stay in this cafe than to come back to us?"
"I know this may be a little hard for you to accept. In fact, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would find it hard to believe that the Herrscher's consciousness, power, and even the erosion caused to the host could be resolved so easily." Fu Hua's expression was a little complicated.
She couldn't help but feel complicated. As a pioneer from 50,000 years ago, she had experienced despair once. When she saw that a problem that could not be solved with the power and wisdom of billions of people in the world was suddenly solved with ease, she even doubted the meaning of her life.
Moreover, after feeling the power in the store manager that was almost equivalent to the "end", she even suspected that the store manager might be the leader and source of the "collapse".
However, the personality displayed by the store manager is too far away from the evil characteristics displayed by "Honkai".
If we look at his personality alone, apart from that unfathomable power, the young store manager is just like an ordinary boy who is enjoying life, enjoying living, and enjoying youthful love.
The posture of praising the beauty of life and enjoying everything in this cafe is just like——
"..."
—Like, who?
A slight pain flashed through her brain, and a flawless pink figure vaguely appeared in the depths of Fu Hua's memory.
Because their consciousnesses were bound to each other by Yu Duchen's zero rated power, Kiana noticed Fu Hua's abnormality at the first moment: "Squad leader, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay." Fu Hua narrowed her eyes and shook her head.
Mei Raiden was silent for a while: "I see, now I know why Kiana stayed in this cafe."
"But...how can you guarantee that the manager of this cafe is willing to keep you here forever?"
"..." Kiana hesitated for a moment and blushed, "No big deal... I can make a small sacrifice and give the store manager some benefits..."
“So that’s how it is… uh, ah… ah???”
Mei Raiden was stunned.
"No, isn't it possible?" Kiana asked cautiously.
"Is this a question of whether it's okay or not? What nonsense are you thinking about!!!" Raiden Mei's face turned red, not because of embarrassment, but because of anger.
She suddenly reacted, and her face darkened: "Is this the request made by the store manager to you?"
"...Do you think it's possible?" Kiana rolled her eyes and asked back.
"..."
It seems true.
Mei Raiden recalled the scene she saw when she first broke into this cafe, as well as the Shura field she experienced in the corridor not long ago, and her expression relaxed slightly.
Although Kiana is quite pretty, she is still slightly inferior to the stunning beauties in this store.
It is really hard to imagine that the store manager would go to great lengths and choose the worst to force Kiana to do those awkward things.
and so--
"Is this your own idea?"
"I don't have anything to pay the store manager..." Kiana lowered her head, her pretty face and even her earlobes turned red - this place had just been pinched by the young store manager not long ago, "and... and, I'm not that annoying..."
Chapter 4: Raiden Mei's Fantastic Ideas (k)
Looking at Kiana's charming appearance like a young girl in love, Raiden Mei and Fu Hua were both stunned.
Honestly speaking, if Kiana was simply thinking of making a deal, and was prepared to use her body as a price in exchange for the young store manager helping her control the Herrscher's consciousness, Raiden Mei and Fu Hua would feel heartbroken, sad, and even hate their own weakness and incompetence, but at least they could understand Kiana's thoughts.
Kiana herself is an upright girl.
All along, the education she received has always told her to protect everything she cherishes.
Based on what Mei Raiden and Fu Hua know about Kiana, if just by selling her body she can guarantee that she and the people she cares about will not be harmed, then this deal would not even be a break-even, it would be a huge profit.
Even if it was Raiden Mei or Fu Hua herself, if they were in Kiana's position, they probably would not refuse this deal.
But no matter what, it is just a pure transaction relationship. There is no possibility of any personal feelings or love in it.
After all, transactions are transactions, and subjective likes and dislikes are things that are difficult for a person to control.
Perhaps, after having enough physical relationships and spending enough time together, they will develop some affection for the trader because of certain qualities and advantages, and it is not even impossible that they will fall in love with him.
But if things develop to that point, the reason for the good feelings is no longer the transaction itself.
But look at Kiana's current appearance - her whole face is red from her neck to her ears, her heterochromatic pupils are filled with hazy mist, her knees and thighs are rubbing restlessly together, and her eyes are wandering so much that she can't focus at all.
