Let's speak of one side at a time.
Fuli fell into deep thought, but the other two wouldn't pause time because of this.
"Ah? Leave directly?" Kiana tapped her toes, looking reluctant. "Can I go home and change clothes first?"
At the same time, she cast a look at Fuli as if looking at a lunatic, seemingly saying, Are you kidding me? How dare you let Mei cook?
Fun fact: Mei's cooking skills were slowly acquired after her family went bankrupt and are currently still under enthusiastic study.
During this period, Kiana served as her guinea pig every now and then to test her dishes. Although she could deceive her brain with "Love is the best seasoning," her taste buds and digestive system didn't care about that.
In the previous loop, Fuli didn't have the chance to be her guinea pig in the early stage. In the middle stage, he directly came into contact with the Rice-Cooking Wife Immortal whose cooking skills had reached perfection, hence the stereotype that deviated from reality.
Unaware of this, the person involved said, "Go back to change clothes? As long as your piggy tummy can hold on."
Mei was curious about Kiana's outfit, realizing only then that the clothes on her friend were Fuli's.
However, the girl was considerate enough not to ask.
As a latecomer, Mei had always understood that whether it was her or Kiana, keeping Fuli at a distance was just to avoid involving him in the non-human world.
Ordinary people were too powerless there. Not to mention anything else, just Kiana's leg clamp earlier almost gave Fuli, who hadn't activated the Demon Blade Shiranui, a concussion.
If they really got together, maybe during some intimate moment, a slight carelessness would lead to the white-haired person sending off the black-haired person. ("White-haired person sending off black-haired person" is a Chinese idiom for parents burying their children, but here it's literal since Kiana has white hair and Fuli has black hair.)
For example, getting too excited and sitting down, breaking the waist, causing a 2.5D transformation, becoming Frenda(). (Index reference, getting cut in half)
Now it was different. Since Fuli had become one of them, the cold mask deliberately put on in the past naturally didn't need to exist anymore.
Mei believed that as long as Fuli and Kiana continued to interact, Kiana would sooner or later get rid of that unhealthy citrusy thought and establish a normal concept of men and women.
But the problem now was...
Reflecting in her beautiful eyes the scene of "Fuli holding Kiana's shiny forehead with one hand, preventing her from touching him as she clawed and kicked," Miss Mei sighed slightly.
The problem now was that Fuli seemed completely uninterested in Kiana.
During the three months her father was arrested, Mei, who suffered from campus bullying, gradually honed her ability to judge people.
She was sure that if Kiana had questioned Fuli about stealing her family's ancestral Kaslana Gun Kata just now, he wouldn't even have bothered to lie and would have directly said, "I learned it, so what?"
When Mei asked, the boy's relaxed heart instantly lifted, and his tone carried a little panic and forced calm.
As a female, Mei felt secretly delighted at the bewilderment of an outstanding boy facing her.
But as a friend, she couldn't help but worry about Kiana.
Should she help her?
A gentle breeze brushed past Mei's hanging sideburns. The cold and beautiful girl, with a smile as gentle as high mountains and flowing water, warmly watched the duo who would draw swords at each other if they weren't careful.
"Hmm?!"
"Stop fighting!"
...
"Don't be smug! If this Miss hadn't held back and not used guns, how could a mere Ah-Li have the upper hand?!"
"Ah, yes yes yes, our Miss Kiana is really amazing! How about we try a different binding method next time? The Trailing Shadow Sword can do more than just tortoise shell bondage."
"Why are you so skilled at binding! How many times have you bound people with tortoise shell bondage!"
"Thirteen times. Compared to some bad guys who are used to playing with enemies using threads, I prefer the interrogation method where the blade cuts into the muscle. That's much more refreshing."
"Eee! Pervert!"
In the corridor of the apartment building, Kiana kicked Fuli's calf, turned around, and pulled Mei into room B201 with high spirits.
Fuli followed leisurely behind.
Kiana turned back to glare at him, glaring fiercely. "What? Want to peek at this Miss changing clothes?"
Fuli opened his mouth and said, "Actually, I learned from Kuang Heng (ancient scholar who bored a hole in the wall to steal light) and bored a hole in the wall shared by our homes. I've long seen everything clearly, what should be seen and what shouldn't be seen."
This was half true and half false. Boring a hole was false; seeing Kiana naked was true.
Not only seen, in the previous loop, he had touched her whole body with his own hands.
Bloody and messy, couldn't trigger any XP system at all.
"I don't care! Anyway, you are not allowed to come in!"
Kiana just took it as him running his mouth like when he talked about cutting people earlier. She pushed Fuli, who had half a foot in the room, out and slammed the door shut with a Bang!
Turning back, she couldn't help but be surprised. "Mei, what are you doing?"
Mei, who was lying on the wall looking for holes everywhere, smiled awkwardly. "N-Nothing..."
She had been to Kiana's house quite often.
What if she was also...
"No, Mei, you don't really believe Ah-Li's nonsense, do you?"
Regarding this, Kiana expressed utter speechlessness.
She put one hand on her hip and said confidently, "Ah-Li isn't the type to peek at others. I can guarantee you on this point."
Mei asked calmly, "Kiana trusts Fuli very much. Did you go through something together?"
"Go through something together? I guess you could say that."
Kiana ran to the corner wardrobe, rummaging for clothes convenient for movement, and said, "Stinky Dad told me, don't look at what a person says, look at what he does."
"Ah-Li came to the Far East on the same ship as me, but his enrollment time was more than half a month later than mine. Mei, do you know why?"
"Seems... he had a fight with someone?"
Mei said uncertainly. At that time, she was still amid the internal and external troubles of ME Corp's bankruptcy and the bullying environment, and her perception of outside intelligence was quite lacking.
"Yeah." Kiana, who took out shorts and stockings, nodded. "He fought with people outside the school and was almost deported back to Shenzhou."
"The reason?"
Fuli's obsession with Kiana was obvious to all. Risking repatriation to fight someone, there must be some important reason.
"What reason could there be?" Kiana laughed mockingly, her tone inexplicably gentle. "Afterwards, I ran over angrily and asked him if he could stop causing trouble for me. He actually replied with a serious face, 'We promised when we were young, a "Knight (Kaslana)" cannot ignore innocents in danger!'"
"I don't remember any of this at all, and I always feel he's looking for the wrong person." The white-haired girl sat on the bed, taking off the shoes and socks belonging to Fuli from her thighs. "I investigated the whole story afterwards. Basically, that girl named Asakura Miyuki was bullied for a long time but didn't have the courage to resist, making those bastards treat her worse and worse. That day they were even going to drag her into the alley to do... do that kind of disgusting thing!"
Kiana gritted her teeth. "Fortunately, at the critical moment, that idiot Ah-Li heard the cry for help from deep in the alley, picked up a steel bar from the ground, and rushed in!"
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