Real Kiana: Come to My Room Tonight; I Have a New Game I Want to Play with You (Continued)

"This young lady came all this way specifically to say goodbye to you, so accept this honor with gratitude—"

Kiana stepped forward, loosely hugging Mo Yi as she whispered into his ear, "Mom asked me to tell her—"

"Remember to come back early. She'll be waiting for you here."

Well, that was indeed what Kiana wanted to say, and the answer she had arrived at through observation. That meant she, Kiana, hadn't lied!

"I will—"

Still held in Kiana's loose embrace, Mo Yi finally smiled and replied in Kiana's mind through the Light of the Heart, "Thanks, Kiana."

"Hmph—"

After conveying that unreachable love on her mother's behalf, Kiana let go of Mo Yi with great disdain and hopped backward. With her hands on her hips, she said, "Who wants your thanks, anyway..."

"It'd be better if you left. Then this young lady wouldn't have to look at you and get annoyed."

Mo Yi: "..."

Kiana, as such an energetic girl, don't go adding strange traits to yourself. Especially tsundere—that was a loser heroine trait, damn it!

Having gotten the answer he wanted, Mo Yi waved to everyone. Then he and Siegfried slowly entered the Hyperion's hatch. As the door closed, this brief journey through a parallel world was about to come to an end.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the Hyperion slowly rose and flew into the sky ahead. Then a massive space-time passage opened before it, and the Hyperion gradually disappeared into it.

Mo Yi and Siegfried stood on the bridge, both looking in the direction where everyone was gathered.

Before the Hyperion entered the Sea of Quantum, Mo Yi's Light of the Heart finally found and connected with Cecilia, who stood before the floor-to-ceiling window in the principal's office, watching the Hyperion.

"Little Ai Mi—"

Cecilia stood there