Chapter 120

"We didn't want to interrupt you because you were so serious—I didn't say anything!"

After being glared at by Rita, Lin Yu immediately nudged Durandal's ribs with his elbow and gestured for Durandal to keep up with him.

Guided by Lin Yu, the two hastily sang a birthday song and then watched as Rita blew out the candles.

For the remainder of the day, the three did not delve any deeper into those uncomfortable topics.

Even Durandal, being very tactful, chose to avoid those topics and instead chatted with the two about their recent daily lives.

Under these circumstances, the three of them enjoyed a happy time.

After finishing her meal, Rita unusually put the dishes in the dishwasher instead of washing them herself, and went to Lin Yu had already left the table.

"A'yu, your vacation shouldn't be limited to just today, right?"

"Ah, I won't be returning to the Far East Branch until tomorrow morning."

Lin Yu, who had settled on the sofa, instinctively shrank back when he saw Rita suddenly leaning close to him.

"Sister, please don't do this, I really won't do anything reckless."

Sigh, I haven't even said anything yet, and you're already saying these things.

Isn't this just having a guilty conscience?

A'yu, you're such a worry!

"Okay, okay, I'm not the kind of person who likes to ramble on and on."

At this moment, Rita walked up to Lin Yu, suddenly took Lin Yu's hand, and forcibly pulled Lin Yu up from the sofa.

"I know that you have many outstanding girls around you at the Far East Branch."

"You're a big boy now. Sooner or later, you'll fall in love with another girl and start to think your older sister is becoming more and more nagging and unnecessary."

Wow, don't do that.

Seeing the tears suddenly welling up in Rita's eyes, Lin Yu felt extremely uncomfortable.

"Well... I don't think it's that bad—I've only been away from home for a month, why are you acting like it's a reunion between a daughter about to get married and her elderly mother!"

"Oh, is that so?"

Upon hearing Lin Yu's peculiar analogy, a sly smile suddenly appeared in Rita's tear-filled eyes.

"Alright, alright, I'm not kidding anymore. But A'yu, now that you've chosen to embark on this path, I have to tell you something."

"To advance within Schicksal, it's not enough to just be good at fighting. At the very least, you must learn the most basic social etiquette."

"Promotion is not only related to fighting Honkai Beast, but also involves your interpersonal relationships within the organization."

So...

"So?"

After being led by Rita to the center of the living room, Rita smiled and said to Lin Yu.

"Let Durandal play the role of the audience, and you stay here and dance with me."

"After all, because of women's advantages in these areas, the proportion of women in the high-ranking members of Schicksal and the high-ranking Valkyrie is quite large."

"If you attend those high-society social balls in the future and find that you can't even dance the most basic waltz, how embarrassing would that be?"

"Ah?"

Seeing Lin Yu's desperately pleading eyes, Durandal asked with a hint of confusion.

"Rita, is that true? I seem to remember that we've only participated in these kinds of events since we've risen through the ranks..."

"That's because we completed that special mission before, and because you, Durandal, are too powerful."

At this moment, Rita, quite unusually, chose to interrupt Durandal's words with an impolite act.

"Our promotion speed is fast, but that doesn't mean A'yu can be promoted just as fast as us."

"No, I don't think it's too slow for a junior agent to be promoted directly to a B-Class knight..."

"So you're saying you're satisfied with the current pace of promotions?"

Upon hearing Lin Yu's rebuttal, Rita suddenly nodded in satisfaction.

"I'm glad you're so easily satisfied, A'yu. I'll go and ask Bishop Otto to transfer you back to headquarters from the Far East Branch."

"I'll jump."

At this moment, Lin Yu spoke to Rita expressionlessly.

"Fine, I'll jump, okay?"

"This is my good little brother."

After receiving Lin Yu's affirmative answer, Rita took Lin Yu's other hand and placed it on the base of her left arm near her back.

Meanwhile, after Rita had positioned herself in a waltz pose by holding Lin Yu's other hand from the beginning, she began to guide Lin Yu on how to dance according to the standard posture.

Looking at Lin Yu, whose body was stiff, and Rita, who was smiling Durandal, as a spectator, felt that Lin Yu was indeed being put in a very difficult position.

She's not stupid; how could she not see that Lin Yu's whole body was stiff and he had no desire to dance?

But now— Durandal has seen through this doesn't mean she has a solution.

Durandal, who had spent several years with Rita, had long noticed that Rita restless during their time together.

It goes without saying who is responsible; everyone knows.

Now that Lin Yu has returned, Rita's actions, whether genuinely for Lin Yu's benefit or a way to punish him through special means, are, in Durandal's view, entirely deserved by Lin Yu.

Besides, it's just a dance, why is Lin Yu's body so stiff?

Isn't it normal for family members to have some physical contact?

Ever since Lin Yu went to Changkong City, he seems to have changed a lot.

St. Freya Academy, Himeko's House

After finishing the exam, Lin Yu temporarily disappeared from everyone's sight by requesting leave.

After Lin Yu returned home, Kiana felt her inner turmoil growing stronger for some reason.

Lin Yu had clearly distanced himself from Fu Hua.

In Kiana's opinion, there was clearly no romantic atmosphere between Fu Hua and Lin Yu.

Clearly...

These things actually had nothing to do with her.

But annoyance is annoyance. Even after repeating all sorts of opinions to herself a thousand times, Kiana still felt that the irritation in her heart could not be completely eliminated.

Because of this distraction, Kiana only ate one bowl of rice that night, and returned to her room under everyone's incredibly surprised gazes.

"Ugh... Ughhhhh! This is so annoying!"

Kiana, who had pounced on the bed, hugged the pillow and began rolling around on it frantically.

She really couldn't understand why she had become like this.

Even in the past, when her father Siegfried abandoned her without saying goodbye and left her in the snowfield, Kiana had never felt so agitated.

After rolling around for a long time, Kiana finally stopped her pointless actions, exhausted, and looked up at the ceiling.

I've become weaker.

I used to think that even without my stinky dad, I could definitely manage on my own.

But after meeting a senior colleague, I actually started to worry about these trivial things.

Moreover, this situation clearly only happened to me in the entire dormitory.

Kiana, are you asleep?

While troubled, Kiana suddenly heard a knock at the door.

That voice... it's Mei.

Ha, my behavior is too abnormal, it's not surprising at all that Mei and the others noticed.

"No, Mei, you can just come in."

As expected, Kiana saw a look of worry on her friend Raiden Mei's face after the door to the room was opened.

"Something's not right with you today. Did you fail the exam?"

"No, this exam... I should at least pass without any problem, right?"

This time, surprisingly, it wasn't a confident statement.

Kiana, something's definitely not right.

Looking at her friend, Mei walked to Kiana's bedside and sat down. She gazed at Kiana's face and suddenly fell silent.

Kiana, who was feeling uneasy under Mei, suddenly began to look away unconsciously.

"What, what are you doing?"

"Sure enough, your strange reaction today is related to the time you went out a few days ago."

After letting out a slight sigh, Mei said to Kiana with a helpless expression.

"Kiana, we're comrades. If you have something on your mind, there's absolutely no need to hide it."

"Can you tell me what happened to you after you went out that day?"

What exactly happened that day...?

Recalling the blood-stained sheet, Kiana blushed and became even more unable to speak.

After Kiana returned, she was so distracted that Bronya came to her door.

Sister Kiana, something seems off about you.

Bronya chose to give you that information to help you, but now that you've done this, Bronya feels like she might have harmed you.

What exactly did you see? Can you tell Bronya? Bronya doesn't want Sister Kiana to get expelled from school because of some inexplicable thing.

After hearing Bronya's words, Kiana slowly told Bronya about the blood-stained sheets she had seen.

As a result, Bronya's expression immediately became extremely strange after hearing what Kiana told her.

Then, Bronya opened a search engine website starting with G, clicked on a website, and gave Kiana a lesson.

[If the amount of bleeding described by Sister Kiana is accurate, then this is clearly not the amount of bleeding that should occur during the first time a man and woman have sex.]

[Sister Kiana, you actually looked like you were about to cry because of something like this. Bronya is extremely disappointed in you.]

[I heard that high schools in the Far East have physiology classes. Sister Kiana, were you still sleeping in during your regular high school years?]

Kiana, upon hearing those words, really wanted to shout, "Knowing this stuff is amazing!" and "Being good at studying is amazing!"

But in the end, she held back.

After reflecting on it, Kiana realized two things.

I was really stupid.

Furthermore, Bronya is indeed remarkable in terms of knowledge.

Despite being the youngest in the dormitory, she was able to objectively and calmly use her knowledge to help Kiana recognize the embarrassing reality that Kiana Kaslana was simply making a fuss over nothing.

But just because that happened in the past doesn't mean Kiana is completely at ease.

Even after Bronya explained that the bed sheet was most likely a misunderstanding, but...

—The atmosphere between Fu Hua and Lin Yu still made Kiana too uneasy.

The two were so in sync that even if their expressions didn't change, others would think they were old acquaintances.

Now that Mei has come to Kiana's door to ask Kiana what to do, what else can Kiana do?

Is she going to tell Mei...?

—Is this what she really thinks: 'I just don't want to see Senior Lin Yu and Class President Fu Hua getting too close!'