Thanks to his sharp hearing, Chen Li caught the other party muttering to herself as she wrote.
"Hmm... when interacting with companions, if you want to quickly close the distance between you, you have to forcefully seize the [initiative]..."
"So, during interactions... occupying the [top] position—what they call the 'superior's stance'—is extremely important."
"This is easy. I'll learn it."
"Don't go learning every weird thing you come across!" Chen Li couldn't help shouting.
The girl was so startled by Chen Li's sudden "questioning" that her whole body trembled, and she nearly dropped the pen in her hand. Then she looked up at him with innocent eyes that differed from Cyrene's, yet were nearly identical to those of the newborn Mimi, and tilted her head.
PS: Damn it, I forgot to buy my Star Rail pass, and I forgot to claim it too. Another day of massive losses.
The girl before Chen Li looked almost exactly like Cyrene. Her facial features, body proportions, even the angle at which she tilted her head—it was as though they had been carved from the same mold.
But Chen Li was certain that she was not Cyrene. It was not because of the most obvious difference, her hair color; after all, he couldn't rule out the possibility that Cyrene had used Beautiful Girl's Privilege to change its color and come over to surprise him.
The most important thing was her gaze.
It lacked the youthful, lively, spirited air that Cyrene possessed. Instead, it was more like... the pure gaze of a child who had only just encountered the world, innocent and full of fresh curiosity toward everything.
That feeling was practically identical to the newborn Mimi's!
Combined with her blue-purple gradient hair, which looked so much like the Herrscher of Corruption's... rather than a corrupted