Kevin's Wisdom

"... Is Vil-V alright?" Although it was a bit of a pity, Mobius felt that having Liu Bai teach wasn't a bad thing, so he turned to ask about the important matter.

"After observing for a while, it seems there's nothing wrong, so for now... we shouldn't worry."

"I feel like you're planting a flag."

"I think so too, but it's true." Liu Bai shrugged. "Alright, I'm taking Gretel out. You guys can calm down for a bit."

"Oh, I almost forgot the important thing. I was originally going to ask Dr. Mei to report the damage. Liu Bai, your kid almost demolished the entire training ground."

"What?" Liu Bai looked completely bewildered. "My child?"

"It's Kalpas, Kalpas!" Elysia said with a smile. "Didn't Sakura say you two look like father and son?"

"... Why is Sakura starting to say strange things too? So, Kalpas wrecked the training ground?"

"Because that kid absolutely wants to fight me." Elysia scratched her head. "That kid's fighting style is really brutal and fiery; the entire training ground is wrecked. So I have to go report the damage to Dr. Mei. Bye-bye~"

Elysia skipped and hopped out of the office.

After seeing Mobius sit back down in his chair, Liu Bai took Gretel's hand and left the room.

"Gretel- chan, how old are you this year?"

Liu Bai and Gretel strolled around, chatting about everyday things.

"Seven years old," Gretel answered timidly. "And my brother?"

Gretel rarely takes the initiative to ask questions.

"Does Gretel care a lot about this?"

"Brother, or uncle?" Gretel seemed a little confused about how to address Liu Bai.

Liu Bai was slightly taken aback, a strange look on his face. He thought to himself, "Is he really such a pure-hearted child? He's so perceptive."

"Just call me teacher."

Liu Bai did not answer the question directly. After all, in terms of age, he was old enough to be Gretel's great-grandfather, and he himself couldn't quite remember the time.

"Teacher Liu Bai?" Gretel called out in a clear, cheerful voice.

"Right."

Looking at Gretel in front of him, Liu Bai inexplicably thought of Bronya when she was a child.

Although the reasons for their lack of motivation are different, their blank expressions are strangely endearing.

Ah... even though Bronya has gone astray.

Liu Bai gently patted Gretel's head with a touch of emotion.

"Hmm...?"

Liu Bai looked up at Gretel, who had a cute, confused expression on her face, and couldn't help but smile. He then reached out and picked Gretel up.

"Gretel- chan, come on, let's go read a picture book together."

"Hey, have you heard the latest ghost story at headquarters... it's that 'Phantom Princess floating in the air'!"

Chapter 401 Kevin's Wisdom

"Compared to the battlefield, this is a completely different kind of exhaustion..."

Su rubbed her shoulders and turned her neck as she returned to her dormitory.

I worked in the office all day... well, although I did slack off quite a bit, there was just too much work for Klein to do. After sharing some of the work with Blanca, I was almost exhausted.

As for Mobius and Danzhu?

One is a hands-off manager, and the other only makes things worse; there's absolutely no way to rely on them.

Fortunately, the number of people doing the work increased from one to three, so the work progressed relatively smoothly.

"Let's just rest..." Su pushed open the door.

"Ah, you're back, Sue."

"..."

Looking at the white-haired man smiling at her from inside the house, Su slammed the door shut, stepped back, and glanced at the house number.

Yes, it's my own dorm room.

Sue opened the door again.

"Hey, Su, slamming the door shut like that is really hurtful, isn't it?"

It's still that white-haired guy.

"... Kevin, can you explain why you're in my room?" Sue's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Huh? Did you try to kick me out this morning?" Kevin looked confused.

"..." Su fell silent again. "So you've been in my room since this morning?"

"I'm just afraid that Mei will kidnap me if I go out," Kevin said, shrugging.

"You think Mei's a teacher? Besides, that guy doesn't have time to catch you!"

Su's face darkened.

"Get out of here! Now! Immediately!"

"Wow! Sue, you have such a bad attitude!" Kevin plopped down in a chair. "I was just about to make you dinner."

"Who wants to eat your noodles?!" Su knew perfectly well that all her childhood friend could do was cook noodles. Who gave you the audacity to utter the word "cook"?

"Alright, alright, why are you so angry? I've thought of a way to settle this score!"

"I don't want to listen to your bad ideas at all."

Seeing that Kevin didn't seem to be leaving anytime soon, Sue went into the room by herself and got into bed.

"If you're going to do something stupid, do it alone. Don't drag me into it."

Su sighed deeply and distanced himself from the reckless crowd—this was probably the clearest philosophical realization he had ever had in his life.

"... Su, can you please stop looking down on my intelligence and stop associating everything with courting death?"

"Huh? Kevin, what did you just tell me to respect you for?" Sue rolled over and looked at Kevin with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot.

What the hell is wisdom?

How can you say something like that without any shame?

No, I should say, please, you bastard, have some shame! How could you say something like that?

If you say that on the battlefield, I'll accept it, and I'll have 1000% trust in you on the battlefield. But in normal times?

Come on, if you were smart, would you have done something like that?

You bastard, even if you're going to fool someone, you'd use this kind of talk to fool others. You think you can fool me? Are you out of your mind?

"Wisdom!" Kevin was quite displeased with the distrustful look on Sue's face.

"Then do you want to hear my wisdom?" Su asked helplessly, turning her body to the side and propping her head up.

"You have an idea too? Tell me about it?"

"—That means don't trust your wisdom, you piece of trash!"

After saying that, Sue immediately turned over and ignored Kevin.

"Go find other people who can trust your 'wisdom'—like Kosma."

Go ahead and mess with your little brother. I'm just a field medic, all skin and bones, I can't be fooled by a dog like you.

Kevin watched as his best friend fell silent, no longer paying attention to him, and began to reflect on whether he had been too disrespectful lately.

"Never mind, "Kevin shook his head and stood up.

"So, Su, you're really not going to eat dinner?"

"I'll make it myself, so don't mention your noodles again."

"Su, your taste is terrible."

"... Get out of my room, Kevin." (Song)

The next day, in Mobius's laboratory.

"Um... Kevin, are you really unable to contain your chilling aura?"

Mobius felt the intense cold emanating from Kevin, which was already making him uncomfortable, and his expression turned strange.

That shouldn't be the case. The surgery was successful, so how could this happen?

"Perhaps it's because Parvati is pure elemental energy, so the need for control is higher? After all, normal humans cannot have the power to manipulate elements."

"Yes, Master's wife, I feel extremely cold all over my body right now."

Kevin gave Mobius a sincere look.

"Do you think I can no longer have contact with other people?"

"..."

Upon hearing Kevin's address, Mobius fell silent. Being a smart woman, she immediately understood what Kevin meant.

"So, what's going on?" Danzhu and Blanca, who weren't very familiar with Kevin, seriously pondered the question.

Meanwhile, Su, another assistant, twitched slightly at the corner of her eye.

Is this... what you call "wisdom"?

Of course!

The two communicated through eye contact.

Sue looked away and began to silently pray that this guy wouldn't get beaten up by Mobius.

No, bad luck might be a mixed doubles match between one's own teacher and Dr. Mobius.

Su suddenly caught a glimpse of her teacher's thoughtful yet slightly strange expression.

Clearly, his own teacher had guessed Kevin's thoughts pretty accurately.

Mixed doubles! Mixed doubles! Mixed doubles!

Su began to silently shout in her heart.

"... Well, maybe I really made a mistake somewhere. If it's still like this after two days, then I'll just have to accept it."

To Sue's surprise, after some thought, Mobius calmly accepted the matter.

Wait a minute! Shouldn't this be a matter of the PhD student's dignity?

Then Su noticed that her teacher's lips twitched, as if he wanted to say something, but he held it back.

"The experiment is finished, I'm going to keep little Gretel." Liu Bai left these words and transferred the host.

Mobius didn't care, and he couldn't be bothered to care either.

How those two explain things to Mei is none of my concern.

"You guys should go out and tidy up first."

Mobius directed his assistants to go out first, and then looked at Kevin.

"Kid, remember, keep a cool expression once you're outside. Aren't you a husky? Cooling down your head should make your intelligence take over, right? You get what I mean? Keep a cool face."

"... So you mean just freeze your face?" Kevin tried to straighten his face, but it didn't seem to work very well, so he thought of another way.

Even Mobius's face twitched slightly after hearing this bizarre method. "... More or less."

Kevin tried to concentrate the power of the ice on his face and successfully froze it.

"Hmm... it feels strange, like the heat in my body hasn't dissipated at all."

Although it was described as frozen stiff, Kevin felt more as if the power of ice had shaped his face, and he couldn't feel the cold at all.

"That's the wonder of the Fusion Warrior."