"My name... is it strange?" Gladiia was very surprised by Hong Yu's exaggerated action.
"Ah no, no, I just choked on my own," Hong Yu quickly waved his hand, indicating that it was his own problem.
"So... you're being forced by your mother?" he then asked tentatively.
"Mm, I just had a fight with her. I'm currently in a phase where I don't want to have anything to do with her, so I ran out." Perhaps Hong Yu's question touched upon Gladiia's current situation, so she couldn't help but say a few more words to him.
Ah, so it's running away from home.
Why say it in such a roundabout way?
But after Gladiia said this, she looked a little regretful. She looked at Hong Yu, seeming to be hesitating whether to just leave directly.
"Since you've run away from home..." Hong Yu said slowly,
Another smart-ass who's going to call the sea patrol to get me to go home...
Gladiia heard the first half of Hong Yu's sentence and was about to turn and leave, but the second half of his sentence made her stop in her tracks.
"If you really don't want to go home, do you want to stay at my place for a night?"
The atmosphere was silent for a moment.
Gladiia: Cold gaze, takes out her terminal to prepare to dial the police.
Hong Yu, sensing things were not going well, quickly explained, "Wait! Wait! I actually already have another girl who's even younger than you at my place."
Gladiia: ...Dialing in progress...
Hong Yu's explanation, in his own view, was "I have my family at home, I don't live alone, and it's a girl, so you don't have to worry."
But these words, in Gladiia's ears, gradually turned into "What?! Has another girl already fallen victim to this pervert?!"
"Wait a minute!! You've definitely misunderstood something, right?!" Hong Yu was still trying to explain...
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...
...
In the end, Gladiia still followed Hong Yu to the sculpture shop he had rented.
As for the reason why Gladiia came here...
Perhaps it was out of confidence in her own strength. Seeing Hong Yu's weak appearance, Gladiia believed that if Hong Yu really had ill intentions, she could send him to jail for the rest of his life with her absolute strength.
Or perhaps it was because she really didn't want to go home to face that mother's face that she didn't even want to remember, and she had left in a hurry without bringing enough money to get a room, and she really didn't want to sleep on the street...
Or to find an even more ridiculous reason, she was here to rescue that girl who had already fallen "victim" to Hong Yu?
Okay, that's a bit ridiculous. What if they're just a normal family?
With all these thoughts in her mind, Gladiia followed behind Hong Yu until he opened the door of the sculpture shop.
"Yu!"
As soon as Hong Yu opened the door, a white figure rushed over and at the same time, at an extremely fast speed, threw herself into his arms.
"You're finally back..." Skadi hugged Hong Yu's waist, her face showing a look of relief.
"Ah... mm, I'm back." Hong Yu patted Skadi's head, but his eyes glanced at the white killer whale plushie he had made on the counter.
That white killer whale plushie was just lying there on the counter, with a note written "Yu the Second" stuck on its forehead. Its wise eyes were emitting the same strange light as the one that had made the 2019 high school entrance exam candidates collapse.
"But, Skadi, can you explain what's going on with that 'Yu the Second' on the counter?" Hong Yu gently pinched Skadi's fair little face and pointed to the counter.
"That..." Skadi's head tilted up slightly, with a very proud expression. "I ordered it to watch the shop door after you left!"
Hong Yu: If no customers come when I'm not here, and then someone comes as soon as I leave... I'm going to have to suspect that the reason no one is visiting is because of me...
"Well, Yu, who is that person who has been standing at the door?" Skadi's eyes looked at Gladiia, who had been standing at the door looking at her and Skadi interacting with suspicion, and asked in a small voice.
"Did you bring back a customer?"
Hong Yu was at a loss for words for a moment.
How to say it... your dad went out to scout the competition but found that our line of work is so unpopular that there isn't a single competitor, so I sadly went to the park and brought back a JK to stay for the night?
Wouldn't the author be scolded by the readers for being too OOC if he wrote such an experience so concisely?
But although Hong Yu had always considered himself Skadi's dad in his heart, in reality, he had never corrected the way Skadi addressed him. Perhaps in her eyes, his identity was just "brother" or "friend" or... no more or.
"Er..." Hong Yu hesitated for a moment, and then said in the most euphemistic way he thought Skadi could accept, "This is your future roommate who will be living here..."
Skadi: "Huh?"
Yu kidnapped a high school student!!!
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"You still have that killer whale plushie, Skadi." In the inn on land, Ishar-mla found that white killer whale plushie in Skadi's luggage, a little surprised.
"It must be something from more than twenty years ago..."
"Don't touch it," Skadi reached out and snatched the plushie, holding it in her arms with a nostalgic expression.
Ishar-mla looked at Skadi's so-cherished appearance and couldn't help but say with a teasing tone, "Mmm... I remember you used to call this plushie 'Yu the Second,' right? You're not treating it as a substitute for Hong Yu, are you?"
Skadi: Stunned, face gradually turning red.
"Oh my, oh my, could it be... you can't fall asleep without hugging this plushie now? Like before when you couldn't fall asleep without hugging Yu... ouch!!" Ishar-mla's tone gradually became more cheerful, and then she was disciplined by Skadi's "300,000 Horsepower Whale-Slaying Tyrant Fist."
"Don't talk so much..." Skadi's face was slightly red, while Ishar-mla sat on the edge of the bed with a smoking bump on her head, on the verge of tears.
"Skadi~~ you don't love me anymore~~" she cried, and then was met with Skadi's reply.
"Quiet, go to sleep," Skadi threw a pillow at Ishar-mla's face, interrupting her clowning.
"Alright," Ishar-mla pouted helplessly, and then asked, "I also want to sleep hugging that white 'Yu the Second.' Skadi~ how about you let me hug it for one night?"
Skadi: Stare—
There's killing intent!
Ishar-mla decisively pulled up the covers and at the same time poked her small head out. "I said, hurry up and go to sleep. What's with the pillow at this hour? Turn off the lights! Sleep, sleep!"
This scummy god...
I wonder who she learned it from...
Helpless, Skadi hugged "Yu the Second" in her arms and turned off the lights.
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