The candlelight flickered, a subtle fragrance teasing the air.
Raiden Mei's breathing grew heavier under the familiar tingling sensation, and she was on the verge of letting out a soft moan.
No matter how many times she felt it, she was addicted to this feeling that swept over every cell in her body, only wanting more.
Perhaps... this was also why she was so attached to this guy.
Although they weren't married yet, Raiden Mei had already come to understand the truth that 'a harmonious marital life is the foundation of a good relationship.'
As long as their life as a couple was harmonious, no matter how much resentment she had towards him, it would start at the head of the bed and be resolved by the foot.
It was precisely because of this that even though Raiden Mei suspected Rita was an undead white moonlight, she didn't lose her temper with Brian.
A white moonlight that isn't dead isn't the best white moonlight.
As long as this woman was alive, she could keep her down.
For example... right now!
Just as Raiden Mei was about to cast a smug glance at the woman beside her, she saw a similar expression on Rita's face.
No matter how iron-willed a Valkyrie was, under the play of this Inner World Protagonist, she couldn't help but have a physiological reaction.
Raiden Mei saw her current reflection on the polished surface of a plate.
The blush on her delicate face looked like it was about to drip, and the watery light in her eyes was alluring, inadvertently stirring others' hearts.
And this woman Rita's reaction was no different from her own, equally lost in endless pleasure, unable to stop.
What a greedy bitch whose body is honest even when her mouth says no!
And then there were that guy's hands, which had disappeared under the table...
"..."
You despicable, lecherous bastard!
Eating from the bowl in his hands, eyeing the pot on the stove, and thinking about the field.
Truly, he would play with any he got wrong, and let none get away!
Raiden Mei was exasperated. She broke free from Brian's grasp and discreetly kicked to the side.
She expected Rita to react in some way.
But instead...
"..."
Excluding the possibility that this woman was now treating her as thin air, there was only one other explanation!
Raiden Mei suddenly bent down and happened to see a slender jade foot disappear into a spatial portal at that very moment.
"KI! A! NA!"
This woman Rita was one thing; after all, the two of them were competing in the same ring.
You make a move, I make a move, that's perfectly normal.
But she never expected Kiana, that white-haired fluffball, to backstab her, sneaking a taste while she was facing off against her white moonlight ex-rival!
Simply intolerable!
Traitor!
The sudden movement startled Rita, who was also lost in the moment. "Miss Mei, could it be Miss Kiana over there..."
Care leads to chaos. Rita, her mind a bit fuzzy, made the most appropriate choice for her role.
K-423 was extremely important to Otto, even linked to the possibility of humanity defeating the Honkai. Rita couldn't afford not to pay attention.
Raiden Mei shot a hateful glare at the man who had gotten all the benefits, put her shoe back on, and said, "It's nothing. I just suddenly remembered that with all of us away from the dorm, that girl is probably alone, letting loose and being silly."
All the benefits were enjoyed by this guy alone!!
And that Kiana, how dare she touch him without her consent. She was truly courting death!
...
"Damn it! Mei found out again this time!"
Flustered and panicked, she even limped as she fled.
Having escaped from the thrilling situation just now, Kiana felt her sweat filling every gap between her right foot and her shoe.
Sticky and hot...
The feeling was so embarrassing it was unbearable!
And most importantly...
"Mei probably found out. What should I do!"
As they say, once bitten, twice shy.
No, there's an old Shenzhou saying: things don't happen more than twice.
Although she hadn't reached the third time yet, she had been caught red-handed by Raiden Mei a full two times.
Last time was during dinner. That gleaming kitchen knife chopping down in front of her, she could almost see the cold sweat dripping from her forehead.
This time, she was even more out of line, not only seducing Mei's man but also doing it while she was facing off against a love rival.
"I'm doomed!"
Kiana fell to her knees, her snow-white hair a mess from her frantic rubbing.
Last time, she almost became *Kian-na* under Raiden Mei's knife. This time, an enraged Raiden Mei would surely be even more severe, letting her know the price of seducing her boyfriend.
A voice came from within her heart: "Hah! You foolish thing. Since you chose to do this, you should be prepared to accept all the consequences!"
The only things her resident Herrscher of the Void enjoyed, besides instant noodles, were watching Kiana make a fool of herself.
As long as Kiana was unhappy, she felt great.
If it weren't for this idiot acting on her own and getting that shameful thing drawn on their abdomen, she would have already unleashed slaughter upon this pathetic world!
Kiana immediately retorted, "So what?!"
Getting the Herrscher of the Void under control was, Kiana felt, the best decision she had ever made in her life.
Although she would have to bear the burden, and was destined to be exhausted, she could save more lives.
It was worth it!
Herrscher of the Void: "..."
"Hmph! Foolish thing!"
Both white-haired fluffballs were dropouts to varying degrees, so much so that they couldn't even come up with many insults, let alone launch personal attacks centered on parents with the family tree as a radius.
The Herrscher of the Void knew she couldn't gain any advantage over Kiana here, so she retreated back into the depths of the world of consciousness to ponder how to regain her freedom.
If she didn't remove the Honeysuckle Crest that guy had carved on this stupid donkey, then even if she killed Kiana or ran away, she would be given a dark history with a single thought from that guy.
She could even not kill people, but this one thing she could not tolerate!
After dealing with the Herrscher of the Void, Kiana's mood calmed down a lot.
She turned her head to look in the direction of Brian's trio, muttering from her cherry-like lips, "It's not entirely my fault, you know."
Ever since she let that guy draw the so-called Honeysuckle Crest on her tummy for the sake of the Herrscher of the Void, Kiana felt that she was always having some kind of strange impulse.
Sometimes she would find that Inner World Protagonist inexplicably handsome, she would lick her lips when looking at him, and at night she would have some shameful urges...
For all these things, Kiana could only convince herself that it was the price of controlling the Herrscher of the Void.
But in the long run...
"I have to hold back!"
Even if she couldn't, she had to. Otherwise, without her as a shield, Mei would be ravaged by that guy into a sorry state!
With her incredibly firm will, Kiana resisted the urge for the joy bean!
That was the world of adults. She was just a little baby in her teens!
On this point alone, the Herrscher of the Void and Kiana had a lot of common ground.
As long as this Kiana didn't use their body to get her ass pounded, this white-haired fluffball could do whatever she wanted before she took over the body!
This was the tolerance granted to Kiana by the great Queen of the Void.
But the tacit understanding between the two white-haired fluffballs alone couldn't eliminate the impending crisis of facing the wok.
Last time she was almost chopped up in the kitchen. Having been caught again, Kiana couldn't imagine what kind of punishment Raiden Mei would use on her.
Escaping this punishment was simple. She just needed to pack up her kennel and go find her stinky old dad, who was hiding somewhere.
But...
"If I do that, everyone will worry."
Besides, the problem with the Herrscher of the Void was solved, so she had no need to run away from home for everyone's safety.
So the question was...
How could she get through this unscathed?
Kiana racked her brains, exhausting her world-shocking Kaslana wisdom, but couldn't find an answer.
Asking Raiden Mei what she was thinking was impossible; Kiana wasn't that brainless.
After thinking it over and over, aside from Bronya, the Russian loli who was on leave at home, there was no one in the entire vast Far East Branch who could help her.
"Sigh, when fortune smiles, heaven and earth lend their strength; when luck runs out, even heroes are not free."
Her, Kiana Kaslana's, moment of glory was over. Her life's mission was to spend a 'bed'-time with the inherently evil little Herrscher, the Herrscher of the Void.
Kiana dialed Bronya's number. "Hello, my dearest classmate Bronya. Are you free right now? I have a life-or-death problem and I need your help."
Bronya, in the middle of a snowy landscape, glanced at her sisters frolicking around the airship and refused without hesitation. "Not free, goodbye!"
From a 37°C mouth came a sub-zero reply.
She, the wise Silver Wolf of the Urals, had no desire to get involved in this white-haired fluffball's foolishness.
She was afraid that the pit this girl was digging for herself would be absurdly deep, enough to bury her too.
Kiana heard this and immediately became anxious. "Don't hang up, don't hang up! Bronya, you're the only one who can save me now. Just help me come up with an idea!"
The pitiful look on the white-haired fluffball's face was almost visible to Bronya.
Humans are not plants; how can they be unfeeling?
Besides, this girl was about to spend a 'bed'-time with Raiden Mei. If she were to whisper some unfavorable pillow talk, it could potentially derail or delay the mission to save her sister Seele.
That was the one thing Bronya could not tolerate.
Everything... was just for the sake of saving the cutest little sister in the world, Seele Vollerei!
"Speak. What stupid thing did you do this time?"
The silver-grey-haired Russian loli pricked up her ears to hear what stupid thing her companion had done now.
Then she heard: "Bronya, you should know that woman Rita is here, right?"
The more mature Bronya, of course, knew what was going on and had a rough idea of Principal Theresa's plan.
"Great Aunt had me propose a suggestion to have that guy deal with Rita, who was sent by the Overseer. I did as Great Aunt said, and then Mei grabbed my ear and made me do my homework."
Bronya: "..."
She didn't say anything, because according to Kiana's world-shocking wisdom, such a death-courting action was certainly just the tip of the iceberg of her troubles.
Kiana continued, "It was supposed to be a candlelight dinner for Rita and that guy, but for some reason, Mei joined in too."
Given Raiden Mei's current personality, that was very reasonable.
"I couldn't stand it, so I thought I'd make that guy suffer in a chaotic romantic battlefield, so I..."
Even though she wasn't in front of Kiana, Bronya could still see the embarrassment and awkwardness on her face.
Even if this girl didn't say what happened next, Bronya could guess.
"So you used your brilliant intellect to devise a grand plan, created an ambiguous atmosphere among the three of them, and managed to let Sister Mei discover everything."
"But when you were about to retreat, the plan changed, and you were discovered by Sister Mei."
In short, Kiana, the instigator, stole Raiden Mei's cream, and did it while she was in the middle of a showdown with a love rival.
"What Are You Fucking?"
Bronya couldn't help but swear. Even she wouldn't dare to pull the tiger's whiskers of Raiden Mei under these circumstances.
Kiana scratched her head. "Fucking Me?"
She failed English.
Bronya: "..."
"Sigh, Kiana, why can't you ever learn your lesson?"
Regarding this girl's world-shocking wisdom, Bronya could only comment with this sentence.
"Don't you know your own limits? Why do you have to provoke that guy?"
In Bronya's eyes, Kiana's situation was similar to her own.
She could clearly have a vast world if she just gave up, but for various reasons, she had to sink deeper into the mud.
But Kiana was much better off than her. After all, as long as she let go of the already-turned-cream-puff Raiden Mei, she could be free from then on.
But the result...
"I can't just leave Mei alone!"
The white-haired fluffball of the Far East Branch said with righteousness.
Just as Bronya couldn't leave Seele, Kiana couldn't leave Raiden Mei.
But it was different from her own situation.
Her Seele was still trapped in the Sea of Quanta, while Kiana's Raiden Mei was on the verge of turning defeat into victory, beating that man to his knees and locking him in the basement.
Poor, poor Kiana.
Bronya felt that Kiana's inner thighs must be covered with countless characters for 'miserable'.
"Alright, since you've said so."
They saw each other all the time, and she needed to show some pity for this white-haired fluffball.
Bronya presented her countermeasure: "My countermeasure is for you to go kneel before Raiden Mei right now and ask for lenient treatment!"
Kiana: "Huh?"
Her paramecium brain overloaded and stopped thinking.
Why was apologizing to Mei the best solution?
She couldn't understand.
Then she heard Bronya explain, "Kiana, you can choose to run away or shift the blame, but all of this happened because of your suggestion."
"The monk can run, but the temple can't. Unless you run far away from now on and give up your relationship with us, you'll never get over this hurdle."
Bronya reiterated the fact that Kiana already knew, helping to reinforce it in her mind.
Confess and be treated with leniency—you might end up in the pot. Resist and be treated harshly—you'll be sent home for the New Year.
So...
"You should just go and apologize to Mei."
After all the twists and turns, they were back to where they started.
Seducing a man once will lead to a second time, and a second time will lead to a third.
And the number three in Shenzhou culture represents an imaginary number, which also means countless times.
...
A candlelight dinner's atmosphere was ruined by a troublemaker. The three of them tacitly avoided mentioning each other's out-of-line actions.
The two girls silently straightened their clothes and, after quickly finishing their meal, ended the night's dinner.
Raiden Mei went back to the Valkyrie dorm to deal with Kiana.
And Theresa's branch head office was the next battlefield for Brian and Rita.
"Principal, Miss Rita is only here to get close to me. She has no other mission."
The girl, who was drinking the Overseer's special bitter melon juice, snapped back to reality. After meeting Brian's eyes, she instantly understood the meaning behind his words.
"I understand. Then you will be responsible for all of Miss Rita's affairs in the Far East Branch."
This sentence had two possible underlying meanings.
One was that Schicksal Overseer Otto Apocalypse already knew everything and was somewhat interested in this new Herrscher of Death.
The other was that Rita had no other mission here; it was just a joke her grandfather was playing on Theresa.
From a results perspective, Rita Rossweisse had no motive or desire to stir up trouble in the Far East Branch.
However, although Theresa looked like a loli, she still had some adult-like qualities.
Even if Rita had no ill intentions, even if it was just a joke from her grandfather, it was worth her serious attention.
"Brian, I'm leaving Miss Rita's reception entirely to you."
This decision had been made long ago. It was just being restated now in front of Rita, the person concerned.
Having received his orders, Brian turned around and, with a very appraising look, made a 'please' gesture to Rita. "Rita, this way. I'll take you to your lodgings."
"Then I'll be in your care."
The conversation between them was as if they were conducting official business, which left Theresa somewhat puzzled. "Weren't they supposed to be exes?"
But she decided to let it go. The relationships of young people were none of her business. It was better to continue reading her HOMU manga.
Now, it was time for the Principal to slack off.
On the other side...
Rita followed behind Brian, maintaining her distance and guard, in case this guy made her suffer a third loss of composure.
But even as they entered the Valkyrie dorms and arrived at the lodgings the Far East Branch had arranged for Rita, nothing unusual happened.
Except...
"Mr. Brian, this room should be occupied, shouldn't it?"
Just as she entered the foyer, Rita, skilled at observing details, noticed something extraordinary, and a warning bell rang in her mind.
She had a feeling... that she had been careless and led into a wolf's den by this guy!
The man spread his hands, his attitude casual. "Correct, this is my dorm."
Rita: "..."
This is bad. She's been tricked into the Inner World Protagonist's criminal den!
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