"Breakfast is on the table. Heat it up yourself. The money for lunch is under the breakfast plate. Take some money and go out to eat..."
After silently reading the note, Dong Moxuan moved the plate aside and, sure enough, found several yen bills underneath.
There was quite a lot, enough for him to have a lavish lunch and still have plenty left over.
Although Raiden Ryoma had been betrayed by Cocolia and sent to prison, and Miss Mei had lost the halo of her former status,
Even a starving camel was still bigger than a horse; at the very least, the money she still had on hand was far beyond what ordinary people could imagine.
Under such circumstances, she naturally would not skimp on his lunch money.
"Mei's note... Why does it make this look like she's keeping me?"
Dong Moxuan made the comment with a slightly strange expression, but he did not feel that his pride had been hurt.
After all, if he could really be kept by a cute girl like Mei, that would be a pretty good choice. Plenty of people would be dying of envy.
Besides, the doctor had said that his stomach and intestines were in poor condition, so he could not eat food that was too hard.
After finishing the breakfast Mei had made, Dong Moxuan had originally planned to return to his room and sleep a little longer.
However, just as he carried the dishes to the kitchen to wash them, a very exquisite lunch box caught his attention.
When he opened it, he found a beautifully prepared Japanese-style lunch. Dong Moxuan could tell that it had just been made that morning.
Was this the lunch Mei had made for him?
The thought had barely occurred to him when Dong Moxuan dismissed it.
Mei had left him money for lunch, after all. Wouldn't making him a lunch box as well be a little contradictory?
So...
"Did Mei forget to take this lunch box with her?"
Holding the lunch box, Dong Moxuan thought this with a speechless expression.
If it had been some white-haired ball, that would have been one thing, but Mei was actually this careless too? It was truly hard to believe.
Still, this was the only possibility for now, and Mei was not a god. Making mistakes was perfectly normal.
Dong Moxuan turned around and checked the time. It was almost eleven, but Senba Academy was only about ten minutes from Mei's home, so he still had time.
"Phew. I thought I could keep sleeping... Forget it, forget it..."
Dong Moxuan was eating Mei's food and using Mei's things, after all. It would be a little too much if he could not even be bothered to deliver the lunch box she had forgotten.
Thus, although he was somewhat unwilling, Dong Moxuan still took Mei's lunch box and walked out the door.
"Crap... How could I have forgotten..."
Meanwhile, in one of the classrooms at Senba Academy, Mei only realized that she had forgotten her lunch box near the end of the final class of the morning.
Normally, given her personality, she would not have been so careless.
However, she had needed to make breakfast for Dong Moxuan and think about his lunch as well. On top of that, Mei had been feeling rather restless lately. The combination of all these factors had led to the current situation.
The midday break at schools in Japan was extremely short. Even though Mei's home was not very far from the school, there was obviously no time for her to hurry home and back.
So...
"Looks like I'll have to buy a piece of bread at the convenience store for lunch..."
Mei sighed softly and stopped worrying about the lunch box. Instead, she listened attentively to the lesson.
Returning our view to Dong Moxuan, he had already brought Mei's lunch box to Senba Academy. However, he was stopped at the entrance.
"Hey, young man, this is a girls' school. What are you trying to do?"
The gatekeeper looked at Dong Moxuan, who was holding a lunch box, his eyes filled with wariness and pained concern for a young man who had gone astray.
"You're still young. Don't do anything foolish!"
Dong Moxuan: "..."
"Um, sir, I'm not trying to commit a crime,"
Dong Moxuan raised the lunch box in his hand and explained, "My sister forgot her lunch box, so I'm here to deliver it to her!"
Only after hearing this did the gatekeeper relax and sit back down.
"Then tell me your sister's name and class, and I'll take it inside for you."
Hearing that, Dong Moxuan thought for a moment. It seemed reasonable enough, so he said, "My sister's name is Raiden Mei. As for her class, I'm not really sure."
"Raiden what?"
The gatekeeper was a little hard of hearing and had not heard him clearly.
"Raiden Mei..."
"What Mei?"
"Raiden Mei!"
"Raiden what?"
"Raiden Mei!"
"Raiden what kind of clothing?"
"Raiden Mei!!!"
"Raiden what?"
"..."
"No, never mind,"
Dong Moxuan silently took several steps backward with the lunch box in hand.
"Sir, you should just stay seated."
"Oh!"
After taking one last look at the gatekeeper, Dong Moxuan turned and left.
Clearly, entering directly through the main gate was not going to work.
However, Dong Moxuan had more than one option.
When he reached a corner of the wall outside Senba Academy, Dong Moxuan decided to climb over it.
The wall around Senba Academy was extremely high, and there were no footholds. Normally, an ordinary person absolutely could not climb over it.
Unfortunately, Dong Moxuan was not an ordinary person.
Although Dong Moxuan always described himself as a weak, pitiful, and helpless dead apostle, even the weakest dead apostle was far stronger than an ordinary person.
At the very least, climbing over a wall was a piece of cake.
Thus, Dong Moxuan climbed over effortlessly. Unfortunately, something unexpected happened as he descended.
"Bang!"
A silver figure flashed before his eyes, and Dong Moxuan collided directly with it.
With the sound of bodies striking the ground, Dong Moxuan and the figure fell to the ground together.
Fortunately, the ground along the inside of Senba Academy's walls was soft earth rather than hard concrete. On top of that, Dong Moxuan had immediately used Honkai Energy to disperse the force. Otherwise, even if no one had died, he probably would have left the girl with a level-three disability.
"Ugh... Did I hit someone?"
Less than a second after it happened, Dong Moxuan understood what had occurred.
He immediately looked toward his arms.
"Phew~ Thankfully, the lunch box is fine!"
Seeing that the lunch box in his arms was undamaged, Dong Moxuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, supporting himself with one hand on the ground, Dong Moxuan sat up.
The instant he straightened up, Dong Moxuan realized that something seemed wrong.
This sensation...
The place touched by Dong Moxuan's right hand was not hard. Instead, it was unexpectedly soft.
He subconsciously squeezed it...
"Mm~"
With Dong Moxuan's movement, a cute, delicate moan instantly sounded beside his ear.
Hearing that voice, Dong Moxuan seemed to realize something. His body stiffened, and he lowered his head with a slight tremble.
Then he saw the girl's flushed, adorable face—and his right hand resting on an indescribable part of her body.
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