"Is this the time to be talking about that?! Now! Immediately! Get out here and answer the phone!" At that moment, Edelweiss seemed to turn into a real nagging mother as she shouted at Void within the space.
Hearing Edelweiss's motherly urging, Void startled.
"I'm coming out, I'm coming out. Why are you being so fierce... you're like some old lady," Void muttered quietly.
"Hmm?!"
Cold sweat broke out.
"I'm out, I'm out!"
Then, a hollow rift slowly appeared in the space beside Edelweiss.
A petite girl then appeared at Edelweiss's side.
Her violet hair reached down to her heels, while her golden, Liuli-like eyes shone brightly. She had an exquisite, tiny, adorable face. Two dark violet feathers adorned the violet hair on the right side of her head. She wore dark long gloves, a purple-and-white formal dress with a short skirt, and beneath its purple-and-white ruffles was a ring of bright golden trim like sunlight. Purple skirt panels hung at both sides, decorated with golden patterns. Beneath them were her fair, slender little legs, clad in white stockings, and purple childlike high heels.
The exquisitely beautiful girl, as though an angel had descended, had fear in her lovely eyes.
Void glanced at Edelweiss and saw her nod firmly with a gentle expression.
Her cherry lips adorably puffed out a breath. Then she gathered her courage and reached for the cordless phone in Edelweiss's hand.
The instant she grasped it—
Crack!
The phone seemed unable to withstand the spatial fluctuations constantly emanating from Void.
With a crack, it was gone.
Gone...
Reduced to fragments...
"Hm?"
On the other end of the line, Luo Mio was somewhat dumbfounded when he heard the disconnection tone.
This...
Why had they hung up?...
Luo Mio stared blankly at the Student Handbook.
Edelweiss watched Void slowly take the cordless phone, a gratified smile still on her face. Then, just as Void's tiny hand gripped it, the cordless phone in Edelweiss's hand shattered with a crack.
"..."
This...
Void, who had caused the cordless phone to end up like this, stood there stupidly as if time had frozen.
Void slowly raised her head and looked at Edelweiss with her exquisite little face. Like a wronged child, she blinked her eyes, tears wetting her Liuli-gold irises and hanging from her long lashes.
Edelweiss instantly came to her senses and hurriedly comforted Void.
If outsiders saw Twin Wings, the woman hailed as the World's Number One Swordsman, panicking as she soothed a child, they would probably be dumbstruck.
"It's all right, it's all right." Edelweiss crouched down, wiped the tears from the corners of Void's eyes, and gently comforted her. "Maybe the phone equipment is old and worn out. It's fine."
Then, using her astonishing senses and eyesight, Edelweiss surveyed the surroundings and immediately spotted another phone booth not far from them.
"Void, look over there!" Edelweiss took Void's little hand and pointed toward the other phone booth.
When Void saw the phone booth, her Liuli-gold eyes seemed to see hope.
The two of them immediately went to the phone booth.
Edelweiss picked up the cordless phone and dialed Luo Mio's Student Handbook.
Meanwhile, Luo Mio was still sitting there in a daze.
Why had they suddenly hung up?
Ring ring~
The phone rang again, and Luo Mio hurriedly answered it.
"Hello."
"Hello, hello. I'm terribly sorry. My daughter was so excited that she could finally talk to you that she accidentally crushed the phone."
"..." Luo Mio was a little stunned when he heard that.
Crushed it...
It reminded Luo Mio of a certain type of character.
A forty-five-year-old loli auntie.
"Ahahaha, is your daughter a Blazer? She's incredibly strong." Luo Mio still replied politely.
"Ahaha, yes. I'm so sorry. I'll trouble her to answer the phone."
After saying that, Edelweiss handed the cordless phone to Void beside her.
Though Void was a little nervous, she happily prepared to take the phone.
Crack!
The instant her little hand grasped it, the cordless phone shattered again.
"..."
Time froze once more.
"Huh?..."
Luo Mio heard the disconnection tone again.
...They hung up again?
Did she crush it again?
Edelweiss's beautiful silver-gray eyes once again stared blankly at the cordless phone in her hand.
"Sniff."
The cute sobbing sound of the little girl brought Edelweiss back to her senses.
"Don't cry, don't cry." Edelweiss crouched down and stroked Void's head, comforting her.
This time, she also realized it.
The reason the phone shattered the instant Void touched it was the faint spatial fluctuations around Void.
The moment the phone came into contact with her, the energy emitted by those spatial fluctuations shattered it.
After Edelweiss explained everything to Void, Void sniffled with her delicate little nose.
"Really?"
"Really!"
Then the two of them found another phone booth nearby.
This time, Edelweiss learned her lesson. She compressed her mana to the limit and wrapped it around the cordless phone.
Then she dialed Luo Mio's contact number.
"Here."
Void tremblingly reached toward the cordless phone, afraid it would shatter again.
This time, when her little hand grasped the phone, it did not break under Edelweiss's protection.
Joy and happiness instantly filled her Liuli-gold eyes.
"Um... hello?"
The call connected, and Luo Mio's voice came through.
Upon hearing Luo Mio's voice, Void clenched her other hand tightly into a fist.
She let out a breath and slowly spoke in a quiet voice.
"Hello..."
Chapter 35: Angel's Smile
Luo Mio sat on the sofa, looking at the Student Handbook with an amused expression.
Ring ring~
Before long, the Student Handbook rang again.
"Um, hello?" Luo Mio answered the phone and asked the person on the other end.
The other side fell silent for a moment before a voice sounded.
"Hello..."
Unlike the refined, mature woman's voice from before—
It was a soft, young, adorable little girl's voice.
Was this the "daughter" that woman had mentioned?
That angelic voice sounded so sweet it made him want to—
System: Ahem... F!
Hearing the system's voice, Luo Mio quickly stopped that train of thought.
"Hello." Luo Mio softened his voice considerably, speaking carefully in case he frightened the little angel on the other end.
"..."
On the other side, Void held the cordless phone to her ear. When she heard Luo Mio softly greet her, a bright smile instantly bloomed across her little face, and a faint blush appeared on her cheeks.
Then Void said in a somewhat excited, tiny voice, "Um, um, um..."
Perhaps because she was excited, or perhaps because she could not find a topic, Void was at a loss for what to say.
Seeing Void so flustered, Edelweiss smiled softly.
Luo Mio could hear the girl's uncertainty and asked with a chuckle, "Then may I ask what this little angel's name is?"
System: Host, that sounds a little dangerous...
Little angel...
Hearing Luo Mio's soft form of address, Void's exquisite, adorable face instantly flushed crimson.
Right, right.
Her name...
Um...
Void thought for a moment, bit her tiny lip, and quietly said,
"L-Luo Xiao Kong..."
Luo Mio paused when he heard Void's quiet reply.
Luo...
The Luo surname...
After pausing for a moment, Luo Mio asked, "Luo Xiao Kong?"
"...Mm."
Hearing the little girl speak so softly every time, Luo Mio said with a light laugh,
"That's a lovely name. Is Xiao Kong Chinese?"
"Mm."
After so long, Luo Mio finally heard the language of his former homeland again. He switched to Chinese as well and asked, "Then who taught Xiao Kong Japanese?"
Hearing Luo Mio ask her in Chinese, Void pictured a man desperately studying languages in a library.
Then she replied in Chinese as well, "My brother taught me..."
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