"Mm, I'm back."
Lin Yun lifted the corners of his mouth as pleasantly as he could, pretending it was his first time meeting Bai Jingxuan as he asked, "I've already met the student on the left. What about the one on the right? Is she your friend too?"
He ignored Xia Liang's little gestures, because he had no interest in figuring out what that troublesome girl was up to again. Or rather, he could probably guess what Xia Liang was secretly calling out.
Besides, Bai Jingxuan and Lin Xiaolu were watching right beside him. He still needed to conceal his identity from those two, and putting on the proper air of a serious elder was undoubtedly the safest approach.
As for Bai Jingxuan's identity as a magical girl, he had no intention of exposing it. Even from Lin Yun's perspective, he had every reason to infer as much, but continuing to play dumb was perfectly reasonable too.
"...Stop beating around the bush."
Lin Xiaolu, however, could not understand Lin Yun's considerations. She wiped her hands with a dishcloth, looked up at her father, and replied bluntly, "This girl, like Xia Liang, was one of my companions when I was a magical girl."
In her view, since she had brought outsiders home for the festival today, it was best to clearly explain who they were and what their circumstances were, so as to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.
Besides, although it was indeed her father's first time meeting Bai Jingxuan, everyone present today—Xia Liang and Hong Siyu—was connected to magical girls. There was no reason he would not be able to guess Bai Jingxuan's identity.
She had long since given up hiding the matter of magical girls from her father anyway. Saying whatever needed to be said was less of a burden on