Kiana: "..."
A few seconds later, the girl clutched her head and squatted on the ground, wailing:
"So this means I still have to put up with that noise for a while!?"
"Nooo—!!"
Jiang Lianqiu walked over and rubbed the girl's head. "Don't worry. I'll adjust your mind so you'll be completely immune to this information overload. The entire process of receiving it will be silent for you. It's just that... for a while, you'll still need to stay here and learn from Nahida how to receive and understand the information from the Tree of Existence. This ability is important to you in itself. If you want, I can ask Himeko for leave on your behalf."
"Really!!??"
The moment she heard the word "leave," Kiana perked up again.
However—
"Leave is leave, but you can't fall behind in your studies. The classes you miss—Teacher Nahida, I'll leave them to you!"
"Leave it to me." Nahida smiled as she patted her flat little chest. "Teacher Nahida will teach this child well. How about... we have Kiana enroll at the Akademiya first?"
"I... I... you... Dad... I...!" Kiana's mouth fell open as she stared at Jiang Lianqiu, who had arranged her entire future in just a few sentences. In the end, she simply shut her eyes, lay down on the floor, and played dead.
Nicole, Whose Brain Had Been Fried by Coffee
Nicole opened her eyes.
The chandelier on the ceiling gave off a warm yellow glow, soft and gentle on the eyes.
She stared blankly at that warm light for a few seconds before realizing that this was the ceiling of her own bedroom.
When had she returned to her room?
It felt as though someone had stuffed a ball of waterlogged cotton into her head—heavy, soggy, and sticky. Every attempt