So You're a Masked Fool Too? / If She Doesn't Wake Up, I'll Have to Be the Bottom from Now On!

"Hahaha, forget about Lan being so single-minded. I didn't expect Big Rock and that little guy to join in too. Fight, fight! Should I do what I did before and sneak over to the Luofu for a look?"

"Forget it. It's pretty interesting to watch this way too. I just wonder what expressions they'll have when they discover the truth—when they find out the little guy became a member of Joy ages ago. Hahaha, interesting. This is really too interesting!"

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Turns Out You're Also a Member of Joy?

When Kafka returned after taking a lap around the area, carrying quite a few Xianzhou snacks and drinks, she found that the other two had already stopped playing games and were gathered around something.

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Kafka watched as the two of them seemed not to notice her.

After placing the things she had bought on the table, Kafka sat down on the edge of the bed.

She wanted to see what the two of them were looking at so intently. Even after she returned, they hadn't reacted at all.

What she saw was a mask.

"What's this?"

After Silver Wolf and Kiana explained the mask's origins,

Kafka fell silent as well. She suddenly felt that the Express wasn't quite as safe as she had thought.

After all, the Express had been bombed once before. Aha had disguised himself and infiltrated the train at the time.

Although it was unclear whether that had been a clone or his true body, he had still managed to blow up half the train and a planet while the Pioneering Aeon Akiwilli was still around, then swagger away.

Now there was also Kiana, who was suspected to be an Envoy of Joy, aboard the Express. And with Kiana's mouth, she was no less threatening than Aha.

At the very least, Aha merely liked watching a good show and could control himself. Kiana couldn't.

Thinking of this, Kafka suddenly began to worry about whether Elio's script could be carried out smoothly.

She even felt the urge

to keep Kiana from returning to the Express and place the White-haired ball of fluff under house arrest here.

Once everything was over, she could let Kiana leave.

"Mom Kafka, don't look at me like that. You're scaring me a little."

Kafka's gaze genuinely frightened Kiana.

She had the feeling that Kafka's eyes were gradually becoming a little yandere.

It was as if she wanted to lock Kiana in a dark room and prevent her from interacting with outsiders.

Fortunately,

Kafka only thought about it and didn't put it into practice.

After all, although Kiana was an uncontrollable variable, in this universe, wasn't everyone a butterfly whose flapping wings could bring about a storm?

Elio and the Stellaron Hunters weren't gods who could observe the future and rewrite the world.

They had merely glimpsed fragments of the future and hoped to select the most ideal outcome from them, turning everything into a script and smoothly achieving the ideals in their hearts.

"Come on. Go out for a stroll with me."

"No. I want to play games!"

"What are you, a little kid?"

Seeing that Kafka intended to take Kiana away and deliberately leave behind clues about her so the Express crew could reunite and continue following the script,

Kiana suddenly acted like a child. She sprawled on the bed, hugged the pillow tightly with both arms, and refused to take her hands off her phone.

Even Silver Wolf couldn't help complaining.

Kiana, however, looked proud and even puffed out her chest.

The outline of a pair of developing little rabbits appeared before Silver Wolf.

"I am a little kid. What's wrong with letting me play for a while longer?"

She said it with such confidence that both Silver Wolf and Kafka were rendered speechless.

But in the next moment...

Kiana's body was enveloped in white light. It was as though the light had formed a cocoon around her, nurturing her anew and waiting for a butterfly to emerge.

But what appeared wasn't a physically mature Kiana breaking out of her cocoon. Instead, it was an adorable white-haired girl who looked only eight or nine years old.

The little girl crawled out from a pile of clothes that were far too large for her. The clothes that had fit Kiana now hung around her like a robe.

After poking her head out, she discovered that both her arms were wrapped inside the clothes and couldn't be extended at all.

"What are you doing?"

At some point, Silver Wolf had come up behind Kiana. She directly picked up the shrunken Kiana and placed her in her arms.

Pinching the adorable little girl's cheeks,

Silver Wolf suddenly didn't want to let go. The smooth, tender texture made her want to abduct Kiana.

"Kafka, why don't we leave Kiana like this? She's pretty cute. Can we take her home and raise her?"

"Stop fooling around."

Seeing the fluffy little girl bristling before her, Kafka snatched Kiana from Silver Wolf's hands and placed her in her own arms.

She let Kiana lean against her, then used her ample chest as a pillow.

Kafka even removed her gloves and ran her slender fingers through Kiana's hair, smoothing it out. She rolled up the ill-fitting clothes so Kiana's little hands could stick out.

"Kafka, what she said really was right. You're quite suited to being a mother."

"Oh? Then if I'm the mother, what does that make you? Her aunt?"

"That works too. Then should Blade be called Uncle or Great-uncle?"

Looking at the obedient Kiana in her arms, Kafka kept chatting, but her heart had already become a tangled mess.

She had brought Kiana out, intending to leave behind her own clues and then use some clues about Kiana as bait.

Once Jing Yuan recovered, she would let Kiana go.

But now Jing Yuan Yuan hadn't even turned back into Jing Yuan, while Kiana had already turned into a child.

"By the way, Kiana, do you have any clothes you can wear now? You can't go outside dressed like this."

"Wait. I'll look."

Kiana waved her hand in the air, only to discover that the door to the Imaginary Space could not be opened. She tried several more times, but none of them worked.

After thinking about it carefully, Kiana realized that it actually made sense. If she had become her younger self, then she really was nothing more than a child with slightly better physical fitness.

But that raised a problem: what was she supposed to do about her clothes? She couldn't keep wearing the ones she had before.

Silver Wolf seemed to see what Kiana was thinking. She took a little undershirt from the luggage prepared for the trip.

After putting it on the current Kiana, they found that it fit perfectly. Since it was sleeveless, there was no need to worry about the armholes being too long.

And so, Kafka and Silver Wolf took Kiana out.

Looking at the two people standing on either side of her and holding her hands,

Kiana suddenly felt as if her parents had taken her outside.

However, Silver Wolf's build made calling her an elder somewhat inappropriate. Even though Kiana had now become a little girl, Silver Wolf's figure wasn't exactly impressive either.

At most, she counted as an older sister.

Only after leaving did Kiana realize that she hadn't been taken very far at all. This was the same street Tingyun had taken her around yesterday.

Kafka and Silver Wolf seemed to have spotted something. They released Kiana's hands, told her to stay where she was and not wander off, and said they would be right back.

Watching the two of them disappear from her view, Kiana couldn't help complaining.

"You two really trust me. Aren't you afraid I'll just go back?"

But perhaps because Kiana had become smaller and her mentality had changed to match a child's, the sound of gongs and drums nearby drew her attention.

Chapter 66: If She Doesn't Wake Up, I'll Have to Be the Bottom Forever!

"Come one, come all, have a look!"

"My sister and I are performing chest-smashing-a-boulder! Those with money, support us with money; those without money, support us with your presence! Friends in the livestream, you can also tap the free hearts!"

After saying all this, Guinaifen wiped the sweat from her hands, picked up the large iron hammer beside her, and prepared to swing.

"Hey, are you ready?"

"Wait, wait! Why am I the one lying underneath for chest-smashing-a-boulder? Shouldn't you be the one down there?"

Sushang was panicking badly. She had thought she would be the one wielding the hammer, and had even been worried about her friend's safety.

Yet somehow, she had ended up lying on a bed made by pushing two wooden chairs together, with a stone slab a full ten centimeters thick placed on her chest.

Watching Guinaifen pick up the hammer and sway as she walked, Sushang was terrified out of her mind.

But panic was useless. She no longer had time to run.

Guinaifen raised the hammer above her head and smashed it down hard on the center of the stone slab.

With a crack, the stone slab shattered. So did Sushang's heart, which had risen to her throat.

"Hey, Sushang! Hey, are you all right? Why are your eyes rolling back? Wait, what's coming out of your mouth? Wait, don't scare me!"

Guinaifen no longer had the time to pay attention to the audience's tips or the livestream comments.

She hadn't even had time to thank the top donor, the Diting Storm gifted by the Envoy of Cat-Petting, before hurriedly placing her phone on its stand and checking on her best friend.

"Someone's been killed!"

No one knew who had shouted it, but the cry suddenly caused the crowd to erupt in panic. The people who had been surrounding them scattered at once.

Only a few remained watching.

Among them was our adorable Kiana.

"Make way. I'm a doctor. Let me take a look."

Hearing the sweet, pleasant, yet slightly childish voice, Guinaifen froze.

When she realized that Kiana had called herself a "doctor," Guinaifen quickly made room for two people.

But when she saw that the person approaching was only a little girl, Guinaifen wanted to stop her.

"It's fine. She was only frightened. She's actually quite sturdy. Even without the stone slab, if you smashed her directly, she'd probably just cry out once and recover."

"Really, little sister?"

"Of course. If you don't believe me, I'll teach you a method that will guarantee she wakes up immediately."

"Really?"

Kiana waved Guinaifen over, indicating that she should come closer.

But when Guinaifen walked over, she simply stood there blankly, and Kiana's cheeks puffed up at once.

"Crouch down a little!"

"Oh, oh! All right."

Guinaifen crouched down and leaned over to listen to Kiana's whisper.

After hearing it, Guinaifen looked at Kiana doubtfully. "Little sister, is what you said really true? Will this wake Sushang up?"

"Trust me. If she doesn't wake up, I'll have to be the bottom forever."

Although Guinaifen had no idea what Kiana meant by "bottom," seeing how serious she looked, perhaps it was simply a different culture.

Thus, she leaned over to the unconscious Sushang and lowered her voice.

"Sushang! You got ninety-nine on the exam. You're first this time!"

Sushang, who had been unconscious, suddenly sprang up and grabbed Guinaifen's hand, mumbling, "Mr. Xuehong, is that true? I'm not dreaming, am I?"

"False."

Jing Yuan Yuan, who was watching the livestream in the Divination Department, twitched at the corner of her mouth. She also knew about Sushang's situation. Although Sushang's academic performance was average, her parents' identities were rather special.