This way, there's no trace of a "deal" at all.
Mei Raiden and Fu Hua even suspected that even if there was no reason for the transaction, if the young store manager suddenly broke into the bedroom at this time and asked Kiana to warm his bed, they would probably only be able to watch Kiana half-reluctantly crawl into the young store manager's bed, and then be meowed by the other party.
When she thought of Kiana being so annoyed by a boy she had only seen for less than half a day that her brain went blank and she could only meow, with her long and well-proportioned cat legs stretched straight, Fu Hua was fine, but Raiden Mei felt as if the whole sky was falling down and there was a thousand pounds of weight on her head.
What is the relationship between her and Kiana?
To this day, it is actually difficult for Mei Raiden to answer this question.
Just pure friendship?
No, although she was too shy to admit it, but with Kiana's direct confessions over the years such as "I like Mei the most!", "As long as Mei is here, it's like the power of a hundred people!", and even "Why do you need treatment for me? I want to drink Mei's juice!", her thoughts have actually been subtly influenced a lot by this nymphomaniac who has always been restless with her.
But if it comes to love between a man and a woman - no, love between a woman, Mei Raiden feels that it has not reached that level yet.
In a sense, Mei Raiden, who was born into a large clan in the Far East, is actually a very old-fashioned girl.
The three values she was educated on made it difficult for her to accept this relationship that violated universal moral ethics.
In other words, unlike open-minded Europeans like Kiana, she still has some dignity.
Although Kiana, who saved her life several times, has become the most important person in her life, she really can't bring herself to admit that she has romantic feelings for Kiana.
Moreover, Kiana's direct confession to her was at a time when both of them were still immature. In Raiden Mei's opinion, Kiana's previous behaviors were more of a playful act than an expression of her true love.
If Kiana, who has now left the playful stage and has become completely mature, still has bad intentions towards her, then, considering how hard she is trying, she can't... try to accept her.
But the result... the result was, after only four months of separation, Kiana actually... actually fell in love with another man so casually.
Mei Raiden bit her lower lip slightly, her face turned pale, and her breathing became unconsciously heavy.
Rationally speaking, if Kiana really found a lover she could entrust her life to, she should feel gratified from the bottom of her heart and offer her blessings wholeheartedly.
But emotionally, Mei Raiden understood that it would be difficult for her to accept this fact in such a short period of time.
Just when Mei Lei Dian was feeling extremely confused, Fu Hua suddenly moved.
She stretched out her hand towards Kiana, with her five fingers spread out, and a piece of dazzlingly colorful feathers suddenly appeared in Kiana's field of vision.
Mei, with Kiana on her mind and Raiden in a complicated mood, raised her head at the same time and looked at Fu Hua in mid-air with a puzzled look. Fu Hua frowned and whispered to herself: "Strange... There seems to be no sign of her consciousness being interfered with..."
"?" Kiana tilted her head, her face blank, obviously not realizing Fu Hua's intention: "What...what do you mean?"
A flash of inspiration suddenly came to Raiden Mei's mind.
She stood up in a flash, her eyes slightly widened, sweeping away the previous haze: "Team Leader, are you suspecting that the store manager has interfered with Kiana's consciousness and modified some of her cognition?"
"I can only say that this possibility cannot be ruled out." Fu Hua touched his chin, with a hint of thought in his eyes. "In my opinion, the influence of the power of consciousness on a person's subjective ideas is actually very limited. It cannot change the consciousness of a person's likes and dislikes of a certain thing, nor can it make people like something that they originally hate."
"The power of consciousness is essentially a power of deception. For example, if it wants to change the relationship between you two, it will deceive your perception and create an environment where you two kill each other, but it cannot directly make you hate each other."
"..." Raiden Mei's face fell again.
"but--"
At this moment, a powerful turn of events revived Raiden Mei's spirit, which had just been weakened.
Fu Hua took a long, deep breath and said, "This is only the limit of what I can do with Yu Duchen, but it does not mean the limit of the store manager's ability."
"If it was the store manager who could easily deprive the Herrscher of his power... perhaps, it is not impossible to surpass the limits of the power of knowledge that we know."
Mei Raiden swallowed lightly, her expression solemn: "So, for the time being, we can't rule out the possibility that Kiana's consciousness was interfered with by the store manager, right?"
"To be honest, with the manager's ability, even if he interfered with Kiana's consciousness, I can't guarantee that I can find any traces of Kiana's consciousness being modified."
"Wait wait wait! What are you two talking about all of a sudden?!"
Kiana finally understood what the two were talking about and stood up from the bed, her face flushed:
"Why do you baselessly believe that my consciousness was interfered with by that store manager? My will is not so weak that it can be changed at will!"
"So are you trying to say that you fell in love with the store manager at first sight?" Raiden Mei asked softly.
"I—! Who, who said that I fell in love with the store manager at first sight!"
Kiana's face turned even redder.
“I… I just think that even if I really give that store manager some benefits, if he can help me control the Herrscher’s will, then I won’t lose anything… Isn’t that store manager good-looking… And he’s so young and handsome…”
The voice became smaller and smaller, and in the end, only a thin breath remained, and even the content of the words could not be heard clearly.
The tender and delicate look of the girl, who was just beginning to fall in love, with only her lips being hard, made Raiden Mei and Fu Hua look at each other, and they both held up their foreheads at the same time.
...There's no hope.
Seeing the helpless looks on Mei Raiden and Fu Hua's faces, Kiana couldn't help but choke up and argue for the store manager: "Anyway, anyway, you can't suspect others without any basis like this! The store manager has obviously been helping me all the time! If he has been doing good things all the time and still being wrongly accused, he is too pitiful!"
"It's not that we doubt the manager, it's just..." Raiden Mei considered her words, "It's just that Kiana's reaction is a little too abnormal."
"What's abnormal about that! Isn't it natural to speak up for the person who saved you?" Kiana asked back.
Fu Hua asked calmly: "So Kiana, you think that the manager didn't do anything to your consciousness, right?"
"No!" Kiana answered firmly in an instant.
"Since you trust the store manager so much—" Mei Raiden paused, "—you probably don't mind if I test him a little, right?"
"Probing? What do you want to do?" Kiana's face turned pale, "Mei, please don't mess around!"
"Don't worry." Raiden Mei shook her head. "After all, the store manager is also the benefactor who helped Kiana control the Herrscher's Will. Since he is Kiana's benefactor, he is of course my benefactor as well. I won't do anything that would hurt my benefactor."
"No matter what the final result is, the store manager will definitely not suffer any loss."
Mei Raiden spoke word by word, her tone full of determination to go through fire and water.
Kiana was silent for a moment, then asked tentatively: "... Tell me what you want to do first?"
"It's simple." Mei Raiden crossed her arms, "In the next period of time, I will approach the store manager on your behalf with the purpose of 'not falling in love with the store manager'."
"Since your original idea was just a simple transaction, and you didn't admit that you had any romantic feelings for the store manager, then there shouldn't be any problem with replacing you with me in the transaction."
"Huh?" Kiana was stunned.
Mei Raiden continued, "If I fall hopelessly in love with the store manager after meeting him, then at that time, I hope Kiana can see the true face of the store manager. Since he has won my heart, the store manager has also received what he wanted, and the transaction is established."
"The store manager got me without any loss, and you can see his true face, so it can be said that it kills two birds with one stone."
“???” Kiana’s face was filled with a look of clear confusion.
"On the other hand, if I still don't fall in love with him in the end, it means that we have wronged the manager." Raiden Mei paused, "As compensation for wronging the manager, I will not terminate the deal. If it comes to that, and you still have the same opinion of the manager as you do now, then I, who wronged the manager, will naturally not continue to interfere in anything between you and the manager."
Fu Hua looked at Raiden Mei's calm expression with horror on her face. She felt as if she was meeting this Far Eastern girl who was as gentle and conservative as Yamato Nadeshiko for the first time.
Kiana opened her mouth, and it seemed as if countless truths were pouring out of her mind for free.
After a moment, she slammed the pillow next to her: "What a joke! I can't accept it!!!"
"Why can't you accept it? This is the best option where no one will get hurt." Raiden Mei asked back confidently.
"Why should Mei have to pay the price for my problems? Don't you get hurt?!"
"Why would I be hurt?" Raiden Mei shrugged. "Just like you said, isn't the store manager pretty? If you don't think you're at a disadvantage, then I certainly won't think I'm at a disadvantage either - in fact, to some extent, compared to the beautiful companions around the store manager, the two of us are the ones who are at an advantage."
"That's right... No! Is this the point?!" Kiana was almost going crazy.
Mei Raiden raised an eyebrow, "What's the point? Do you care if I seduce the store manager you fancy first?"
"Nonsense! It was obviously me who was the first... Bah! I already told you that I don't like the store manager! Why don't you listen to me!!"
"Don't forget, before the two of us, the store manager already had his own lover." Raiden Mei stared at Kiana's angry eyes and said firmly, "You don't care about Yuexia, Rita, and maybe even Bronya, but you care about me?"
"Is the relationship between us really so shallow?"
This righteous question was a fatal blow, directly piercing Kiana's heart.
So Kiana also fell silent.
Although I always feel like something is wrong, but...it seems to make some sense.
Fu Hua, who was floating in the air, turned gray and completely petrified.
This great pioneer, who had maintained the appearance of a girl for 50,000 years, finally felt for the first time that she had been left behind by the era of young people.
Chapter 4: It was a mistake after all, also known as: Raiden Mei's Fantastic Ideas (k)
2013, Changkong City.
Under the cold inorganic light, the silver-haired girl suddenly sat up from the bed, breathing rapidly and covered in cold sweat.
Before she could observe her surroundings, a strong feeling of dizziness instantly hit her brain, and she felt a sharp dull pain between her eyebrows. The girl couldn't help but gasp.
“Hiss… it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts…”
"what happened to you?"
At this moment, a moving voice came from the side. The gentle tone that vibrated the eardrum was like lightning striking through dark clouds.
The brain, which had been unable to think due to the intense dizziness, suddenly became clear from the chaos.
Hearing the voice, the silver-haired girl instinctively turned her head, then froze, her heart pounding uncontrollably.
Time seemed to have stopped.
The person who spoke was a beautiful girl.
And she was a beautiful girl who touched the silver-haired girl's heart directly.
The black hair in a waist-length ponytail hung down softly, and her eyes, full of intelligence and a little sadness, were staring at this place with a hint of worry. Her dignified facial features were both gentle and heroic, and her posture leaning against the porthole made people feel extremely noble.
She was half a head taller than him, about 170 cm tall. She was wearing winter casual clothes that made her look youthful yet mature.
A very cultured young lady - this was the silver-haired girl's first impression of her.
In the next millisecond, the silver-haired girl confirmed an irrefutable fact deep in her heart without hesitation—
——I like her, I fell in love with her at first sight!
"Are you...are you okay?"
Feeling the eyes that seemed to be licking her whole body, without concealing his covetousness at all, Raiden Mei suddenly felt a chill on her back.
The silver-haired girl was stunned for a moment, then she quickly got off the bed, straightened her back, put her hands on her hips and said, "No, no, no, it's okay! What can happen to me?!"
Hahahaha, that silly laughter made Raiden Mei couldn't help but quietly take a step to the side.
This person doesn't seem to be very smart...
After laughing for a long time, the silver-haired girl finally reacted, with surprise and confusion creeping onto her face: "By the way, where is this place?"
"Don't you know this place?" Mei Raiden took another step back, keeping a safe distance from the silver-haired girl who looked quite dangerous, and asked cautiously.
The silver-haired girl didn't seem to realize that Mei Raiden was trying to escape, and spoke in a matter-of-fact tone: "Of course I don't know this place. Should I know this place?"
"But according to what the person in charge here said..." Raiden Mei hesitated for a moment, "You are that person's niece."
"Uh...what?" The silver-haired girl was stunned.
"Is your name Kiana Kaslana?" asked Mei Raiden.
The gentle voice calling her name seemed to contain infinite warmth.
The silver-haired girl's heart, which was already pounding, suddenly became even more violent. In an instant, she felt her whole body and even her entire soul fell into an incomparably gentle embrace. An indescribable sense of refreshment and security rushed from her heels to the top of her head. There was a gentle breeze blowing on her face, and the birds were singing and the flowers were blooming all around, as if singing the praises of happiness and joy.
The silver-haired girl once again confirmed an irrefutable fact deep in her heart—
——I like her so much!
Dad, your daughter is in love!
Mei Raiden is not yet clear that she has achieved two MEI face-certified achievements at the same time - "One sentence to make Kaslana fall in love with me" and "Three sentences to make Kaslana fight for me". She just feels that the girl who is sometimes dazed and sometimes giggling is really mentally ill, so she can't help but take a step back in fear.
Oh, manager, have you cured this child? Mei Raiden thought worriedly.
Or, although that blow to the head cured the child's mental illness, which was the same as mine, it also made her stupid because I didn't control the force well?
Decided.
Next time we meet, I must make sure he learns to control his strength.
How can you not be gentle to girls?
When she thought of the store manager, Mei Raiden suddenly recalled the figure who was younger than herself but extremely reliable standing in front of her, and her pretty face couldn't help but blush again.
Looking at the charming and graceful appearance of her sweetheart, the silver-haired girl couldn't help but look dazed again.
Her eyes were staring straight ahead and there was a mysterious silly smile on her face, her expression was like a puppy that had seen a big piece of fat meat. Not only was her tail wagging rapidly, but there was also a long line of drool hanging from the corner of her mouth, which kept flowing down.
