Meanwhile, inside the study—
"Not good! This is very not good!"
Kiana, having listened intently to the conversation outside, looked at Raiden Mei with a solemn expression.
"Mei, a very serious problem has appeared regarding your ecological niche!"
"Not only does MEI look exactly like you, but she also has the opportunity to become the Herrscher of Thunder."
"If this continues, you and that guy..."
Speaking of this, she couldn't help but look pessimistic.
"?"
Hearing this, Raiden Mei couldn't help but slowly type out a question mark in her mind.
However, it was obvious that it wasn't she who had a problem, but that she felt Kiana had a problem.
"Is this... very important?"
"How is it not important?"
Seeing Raiden Mei's indifferent attitude, Kiana couldn't help but feel a bit like one hating iron for not becoming steel.
"Mei, although I don't know what happened between you and that guy, if you continue to relax your vigilance like this, MEI will completely occupy that guy's mind."
"And once MEI becomes the Herrscher of Thunder, given that guy's rabbit-head personality, he will gradually ignore you. Are you sure you're indifferent to this too?"
Admittedly, she kept shouting things like "My Mei, My Mei," but when she really saw Raiden Mei find her own happiness, she would also offer her blessings.
—After all, this guy Leo really wasn't someone she could bring herself to hate.
So during the day when touring Nagazora City, she had already confirmed Raiden Mei's feelings, so naturally, she wouldn't try to stop it anymore.
Mainly, she couldn't stop it anyway, and perhaps... she couldn't even protect herself?
In short, the reason she was offering advice to Raiden Mei now was that she didn't want to think about these "troublesome matters."
However—
"It won't happen."
Shaking her head at Kiana, Raiden Mei said with a firm face: "Leo isn't a person who loves the new and loathes the old."
"Moreover, people are people, and stats are stats; he can distinguish them clearly."
Not to mention... my long sword is not necessarily dull!
As Leo's weapon, she knew very well how much Leo liked her current main body.
It was just that the opponent's way of maintaining the blade made her somewhat unable to speak of it.
"Mei, men are all pigs; you absolutely must not believe his nonsense!"
Seeing Raiden Mei so unclear-headed, Kiana couldn't help but look heartbroken.
"If he can speak sweet words to you, naturally he can speak them to MEI."
Or even... to me?
"But, but..."
Seeing Kiana had no intention of letting her off, Raiden Mei could only suppress the shame in her heart and bring out the decisive evidence.
"MEI has actually only just got on the runway, while I have already..."
"It's precisely because she just got on the runway that it's most terrifying!"
Without waiting for Raiden Mei to finish, Kiana interrupted: "This is the time when feelings heat up fastest between them."
"If you relax your vigilance again, MEI might surpass you at any time."
Honestly, she also felt she was going a bit too far saying this about Leo.
But now, in order to make Raiden Mei sober up and no longer indulge in Leo's sweet words, she felt it necessary to play the villain.
Otherwise, if Raiden Mei continued to maintain the status quo, she was really afraid Raiden Mei would be cut in line by MEI!
However—
"Kiana, who did you hear these principles from?"
Revealing a subtle expression, Raiden Mei couldn't help but become curious.
"Uh..."
Asked this question, Kiana was momentarily tongue-tied.
A short while later, she whispered: "It's, it's romance manga... and Galgames."
After speaking, her gaze darted around under Raiden Mei's scrutiny, looking guilty.
"Sure enough."
Covering her forehead with a helpless face, Raiden Mei couldn't help but say: "Seek less reality in illusory things in the future."
"If Leo were really such a person, I wouldn't have chosen him either."
One thing is one thing. Although she was definitely willing to let Leo [Level Up] in the end, her heart would absolutely not belong to Leo.
—This is a matter of principle!
In other words, she was at most Leo's... comrade-in-arms, but absolutely not a partner!
"That, that's true too..."
Sensing a familiar lecturing aura from Raiden Mei, Kiana's momentum quickly weakened.
Instinctively kneeling on the tatami and straightening her back, she revealed the appearance of an elementary school student obediently listening to a lecture.
"And—"
Pursing her alluring vermilion lips, the slightly blushing Raiden Mei continued the previous topic.
"MEI has only just got on the runway, while I, while I..."
Mustering all her courage, she finally said to Kiana: "Have already reached the finish line."
It was precisely because of this that she had no sense of crisis at all.
It was just that as soon as she finished saying this, her pretty face turned completely red.
"Huh?"
Hearing this, Kiana was completely dumbfounded on the spot.
—Mei, translate for me, what does "while I have already reached the finish line" mean?
Although she really wanted to ask this, facing Raiden Mei's reaction where the girlish aura was almost overflowing, she could understand the meaning no matter how stupid she was.
Thus—
"Why are you glaring at me?"
Looking at Kiana who had been glaring at him ever since coming out of the study, Leo was naturally confused.
"It's! No! Thing!"
Gritting her teeth and glaring at Leo, Kiana replied: "I just simply find you unpleasant to look at!"
"That really is honest..."
Facing such a reply, Leo was also somewhat helpless, simply turning his gaze to the blushing Raiden Mei.
However—
"..."
Daring not to meet Leo's eyes, Raiden Mei's gaze was fixed tight on the rice bowl in her hand, as if a secret treasure were hidden in that snow-white rice.
And facing this subtle atmosphere, MEI acted as if nothing was wrong, even forgetting not to pour oil on the fire—
"You come over yourself later."
After speaking, she deliberately patted her rather voluptuous thighs clad in black silk stockings, hinting as obviously as could be.
Thus—
"Stare!"
Undoubtedly, the gaze Kiana cast towards Leo became even more unkind, as if she wanted to eat Leo alive.
—Like an evil ghost!
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