Time seemed to freeze. The room fell silent.
Bronya stared blankly at her toenails, which were stained a crimson red.
Her slender, delicate, snow-white feet shone at their tips with a noble and bewitching crimson.
It was identical to the scene she had witnessed in her dream.
Bronya even remembered it—her husband grabbing her foot, carefully and attentively painting each stroke.
At that time, she had only felt shy and a little ticklish. The bare foot held in her husband's hands had trembled slightly.
But her heart was filled with a sweet and warm feeling.
Bronya didn't like this kind of "adornment," nor did she have the energy to fuss with it, but her husband thought it was beautiful. Suddenly, Bronya felt that colored toenails… seemed pretty good.
Especially when her crimson toes on her smooth, snow-white feet stepped on a dark surface, even Big Duck Duck would feel her blood race.
So…
"Why is it appearing in reality?"
Bronya's mind exploded with a buzz.
Wasn't it a dream?
Like what Kiana and the others had experienced, was it… a real existence, intertwined with the original world?
Thump, thump, thump, thump-thump! THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP…!
Bronya's face remained expressionless, but her heart was beating faster and faster.
If it was real… then was he, Bronya's husband, also real?
If so, if so…
A dream come true!
The beauty of a fantasy, a real existence on a distant shore.
Bronya was somewhat entranced.
She sat there in a daze, her gaze unfocused as she stared at the sky outside.
However, from that day on, Bronya could never have that dream again.
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Big Duck Duck stood in the white light of the office. On the surface, she looked very cold.
Paired with her silver hair, which was like a snowy plain, she gave off an extremely aloof impression, like a snow lotus made of ice crystals.
But after a deeper exploration, one would discover that this silver-haired beauty, who seemed like an iceberg, was actually fiery and passionate, her body exquisitely seductive.
Soft, yet firm.
When she bloomed, she was as bewitching as a spider lily.
"I finally found you!"
CRASH—
Kiana kicked the door in.
Ye Feng, who had been admiring Big Duck Duck's figure, turned around just as Kiana charged toward him.
Chong Chong closed the distance rapidly, her nose almost touching his face.
"You dog Ye Feng, what are you hiding from!?"
"What do I have to hide from?" Ye Feng blinked, feigning ignorance.
"Hmph, you turned the 'Vibration Mode' on for the Honeysuckle Pattern on my stomach and then just left, didn't you? Do you have any idea how I've been getting through these past few days!?"
"You've been training late every day to vent your excess energy. Both Major Himeko and Theresa have been praising you for your diligence."
"Eh? How did you know that? Ohh~~ Were you secretly peeping on me?" Kiana placed her hands on her hips, a look of smug pride on her face.
"No, Mei just told me. She also said Kiana has finally grown up."
"Mei was just here? Hmm? Why is there a full-sized version of Bronya here?"
Only then did Kiana notice the Big Duck Duck NPC standing by the window.
Instantly, the Horny Chong's mind conjured up some unsavory ideas.
She sniffed the air, checking for any strange smells.
Ye Feng couldn't resist pinching Kiana's nose. "So Kiana's not a Chong Chong anymore? Did you decide to become a little dog instead?"
"Let goff… of me… nghhh…"
With her nose pinched, Kiana couldn't break free.
Her small fists flailed wildly in the air, her soft, long, and slender waist twisting like a willow branch.
Though she was still a pure young maiden, she appeared incredibly alluring.
But this was just a cover. The moment Ye Feng's fingers touched her, Kiana felt a tingling numbness.
The crimson light of the Honeysuckle Pattern on her lower abdomen began to flash indeterminately.
It felt incredibly good.
Ye Feng released his hand. Kiana glared at him like an angry kitten.
Anger was the best disguise for shyness.
Ye Feng stopped teasing her and smiled. "So, what did Kiana want from me?"
"Not that!" Chong Chong had already learned to catch his puns.
She said resentfully, "Turn off the 'vibration'."
Ye Feng smiled. "Why?"
"Fine, fine, I get it. Equivalent exchange, right? Go on, say it. What do you want to do? This young lady will see it through to the end."
Kiana held her head high with defiance.
Ye Feng laughed. "You're saying such humiliating words, so why can Chong Chong wear an expression of someone who would rather die than submit?"
"Cut the crap!"
She hadn't been able to find Ye Feng for days.
Now that she had finally run into him, she had to get this sorted out—before she embarrassed herself at the academy.
Otherwise, what if she actually lost control during training?
Alright, the possibility was extremely low.
But she had to be on her guard.
After all, knowing the perverted nature of this dog Ye Feng, he was definitely capable of doing something like that.
"Didn't Chong Chong say she would never beg me?"
"Huh?" Kiana craned her neck and argued, "I'm not begging you, this is a transaction! An equivalent exchange!"
"Ohh~~ You're right." Ye Feng looked at Chong Chong with gratification. Now this was what it meant to have "grown up."
"Then, for this week, Kiana, be my dog."
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Kiana was furious. "A warrior can be killed, but not humiliated!"
"If you don't want to make a deal, then forget it."
"Can't I be a cat?"
"Kitty-Kiana? That works too."
"Fine, deal."
A few large words floated through the space.
[Contract formed. The one who breaks their word shall suffer the punishment of eating semen.]
Ye Feng explained, "That's 'jing' as in 'essence,' don't misunderstand."
"..."
Before Kiana could retort, her tailbone began to extend, growing a soft, smooth, and fluffy white tail. Two cat ears also sprouted from the top of her head.
"Very cute."
Her hands and feet didn't need to turn into paws; that would be inconvenient.
"For this week, Kitty-Kiana has to add 'nya' to the end of her sentences. Also, you have to call me Master."
"What kind of cat calls someone Master? You should be the one calling this young lady Master, nya… eh?"
My speech is already out of my control, nya… Ah, how can this be! Even my thoughts are like this, nya?!
But the Honeysuckle Pattern on her lower abdomen had truly stopped its incessant flashing.
The "vibrations" that had been plaguing Kitty-Kiana for over a week had finally disappeared.
The young woman instantly felt incredibly refreshed, and her body felt much lighter.
Ye Feng reached out to rub Kiana's cat ears, but she instantly dodged away.
Kiana leaped nimbly to the side of the wall, staring at Ye Feng warily.
"What are you doing, nya?!"
"Not doing that. Have you ever seen a male master who does it with cats?"
"Hah." Kitty-Kiana looked at Ye Feng. "With you, it's hard to say, nya."
"You're right."
Kiana was shocked on the spot. "You're not even going to deny it, nya?"
"Call me Master and let me hear it."
Kiana licked the back of her hand, an unconscious action she wasn't even aware of.
"I don't want to, nya."
Ye Feng hadn't used a "forced contract" like the one he had on Ji Lin.
"Alright, it's also nice to see Kitty-Kiana so carefree."
"Who's carefree, nya!? The school entrance exams are coming up, nya!"
Ye Feng said, "Then why can the eigenvectors of the adjacency matrix of an undirected graph span Rn space?"
Kiana instantly replied, "That's probably because the eigenvalues of a real symmetric matrix are all real, and its eigenvectors are orthogonal."
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