There was such a place—
It was packed with countless hungry young men and women, shoving and jostling with anxious faces as they fought over meals that were never filling enough and always contained unexpected substances. Crowded before tiny service windows, they looked like the survivors in the last remaining Human Shelter after the Great Disaster...
That was right. This place was the legendary—cafeteria!
Qian Qian, Pandora, and I sat in a relatively empty corner, with meals before us that were clearly much more generous than everyone else's. Watching the classmates still fighting their battle around us, I felt thoroughly content.
"Lily, you really are my lucky star!" I praised sincerely, reaching out to stroke the little loli's hair beside me. Although she still wore an icy expression, I had become familiar enough with her to tell that she was quite happy right now—for a Shilin Apostle, nothing was more gratifying than receiving praise from an individual with high-level authority.
Qian Qian snorted and said disdainfully, "You've got some nerve saying that. You actually made your blind little sister squeeze into that crowd to get food—she can't see anything at all! If no one had helped her... weren't you afraid something might happen to her?"
"If Lily hadn't played the sympathy card, could you have gotten your food so smoothly?"
"...Anyway, you're the one people call Brother behind your back. I'm just taking advantage of the benefits." Qian Qian said without the slightest attempt at concealment, casually transferring the few slices of meat from my bowl into Pandora's lunch box.
"...Are the two ribs in your lunch box just decorations? Also, aren't you afraid of gaining weight by eating like that?"
"You know Lily doesn't like ribs. As for gaining weight—no matter what I look like, you'll still want me,