You said with such ironclad conviction last night that you wouldn't set foot in my room even if you died. Isn't this "it smells so good" turnaround way too fast?!
On Houraisan Kaguya's side.
For some reason, Kaguya had gotten angry. She had intended to take a deep breath and calm herself down, then immediately use her ability to sever the time of her world from the outside world and research a way to "crawl through the internet cable." But then, through Mo Yi's field of vision, she saw Delivery Girl Kiana carrying a lunchbox.
She froze, then used her ability to stop time. From her messy blankets, she dug out the modified phone she had made, swiped across the screen, found Honkai Impact 3rd among dozens of game icons, opened the game, and repeatedly compared the girl with the free character Kiana: White Comet, whom she had only used for a day.
Although there would be some differences when a 2D character became three-dimensional, Kaguya was extremely confident in her judgment and observational skills. After conquering every game, she had gained superhuman observation skills.
So Mo Yi's world was the Honkai World. She just didn't know which installment, or whether it was some related spinoff world.
But no matter what, Kaguya, who had always been grinding Honkai Impact 3rd and scrubbing decks year-round, had found something very interesting.
So many regrets in the game... if it had become a live-action version now...
Not a single Valkyrie on this Princess's ship could be missing!
Since the tuna had already appeared, could Bronya be far behind?
That was right. Kaguya's favorite character was Bronya, the kuudere girl with the greatest gap between her cute appearance and her actual personality.
After confirming that the white-haired girl beside Mo Yi was Kiana, Kaguya withdrew her ability and continued admiring the living tuna.
Then she heard Kiana call herself "Sonic Kiana," and that completely confirmed it.
"Cough, cough—"
Since he couldn't stop it, he might as well go with the flow. Mo Yi had nothing to hide. What was there to be ashamed of?
Kaguya wasn't his girlfriend, so what was he afraid of?
With that in mind, Mo Yi stopped panicking. The facts were what they were, so he said to Kaguya, "Her Highness the Princess, I'm going to eat first. We can queue together after I'm done."
"Sure, go ahead—"
Then Mo Yi noticed that Kaguya had returned to her smile as warm as a spring breeze. Well, her gaze was a little strange. More precisely, it carried an eager, restless hint of mischief.
Forget it. Whatever bad idea she was plotting, he would deal with it when the time came.
So Mo Yi ended the video call, looked at Kiana, and complained helplessly, "Kiana, didn't you promise me last night that you wouldn't enter my room without permission?"
"Did I?"
Kiana thought carefully and realized she really did seem to have said that. Looking embarrassed, she chuckled. "Well, I specifically brought you lunch, so don't fuss over such tiny details."
"Guys who care about details can't get girlfriends!"
Mo Yi: "..."
So somehow this was my fault?
Seeing Kiana's sneaky expression, what could Mo Yi do? It wasn't like he could beat her up.
Then the two of them went to the dining table in the living room, each with a lunchbox, and started eating.
Still, the main reason Mo Yi didn't hold it against her was that she had remembered him and deliberately brought him a lunchbox.
Looking at the opened lunchbox, Mo Yi felt that something was off!
Takeout usually consisted of one or two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes. Yet the lunchbox before him had seven or eight different dishes, though there was only a little of each, and they had been arranged haphazardly.
With a suspicion forming in his mind, Mo Yi looked at Kiana's opened lunchbox and found that it was more or less the same.
After two seconds of silence, Mo Yi complained:
"Kiana, don't tell me you picked bits and pieces out of other people's takeout to make these two lunchboxes?"
"Haha—"
Having had her secret exposed, Kiana turned her face away awkwardly and muttered, "None of it has been eaten yet, and I'm very experienced at this. I won't get caught."
"As long as nobody finds out, it's like it never happened!"
Mo Yi: "..."
Was getting caught really the issue here? Why could she say that so righteously?!
For a moment, Mo Yi didn't know how to complain about her. He could only say that poverty made people wise, and poverty made people capable of anything.
In the end, Mo Yi still picked up his chopsticks and accepted Kiana's goodwill. It was already done; they couldn't exactly put it back. Wouldn't throwing it away directly be a waste of food?
Mo Yi was a well-educated young man with lofty ideals. Wasting food was absolutely unacceptable.
As for whether it was clean, Mo Yi could even withstand Honkai Energy. Was eating some takeout really going to give him a stomachache?
After taking a few bites, Mo Yi couldn't help sighing. This kind of mishmash was actually pretty tasty.
"It smells so good—"
"Hehe—"
Seeing Mo Yi eat so happily, Kiana said sneakily:
"Miss Kiana is loyal, right? Whenever I find something good, I think of you first."
Mo Yi: "..."
In a certain sense, Kiana really was loyal. It would have been even better if she applied it elsewhere.
On Houraisan Kaguya's side.
After learning that Mo Yi's world was probably the Honkai World, Kaguya picked up her phone, recalled her memories of playing Honkai Impact 3rd, and began considering strategies for the live-action version. As she thought, she let out strange "heh-heh" laughter in her room, startling Reisen, the Moon Rabbit servant who had come to call her to dinner, into standing there dumbfounded.
There was no need to say it. Princess was definitely thinking about, or doing, something strange again.
If Reisen went in now, there was a chance she would be caught and tormented in all sorts of ways, such as being made to wear all kinds of bizarre clothes before Princess took pictures of her.
Reisen had plenty of experience with that sort of thing.
After finishing her strategy guide, Houraisan Kaguya thought of something else and shouted, "Reisen, are you there?!"
Even though Reisen was terrified at the sound of Princess's call, she could only carry the food into Kaguya's room.
While organizing cloud storage files and searching for fan comics starring herself as the protagonist, Kaguya casually asked Reisen beside her, "Reisen, when you've been out and about buying medicine, have you ever encountered a blonde girl performing a puppet show in the Human Village?"
"Mm-hm—"
Although Reisen was curious why Her Highness the Princess, who had stayed shut in her room and not gone out for hundreds of years, was asking about the outside world, she still answered honestly.
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