"Wherever you don't understand, click there!"
Mo Yi immediately picked up on her words:
"Mom will never have to worry about my studies again!"
PS: Yue Xia's storyline begins next chapter.
God's Go With The Flow
Just as Kaguya had said, she was genuinely interested in the entirely new knowledge Mo Yi was studying.
After finishing their games yesterday, she had even taken the time during dinner to pull out a notebook, write things down, and study them carefully.
First, she had a thirst for knowledge—learning really could make one stronger. Second, she thoroughly enjoyed criticizing Mo Yi while guiding him in a disdainful tone. After all the frustration Her Highness the Princess had endured, there was a certain delight in finally making him realize how important she was.
How could Mo Yi have known that, in order to guide him, Kaguya had actually sacrificed precious gaming and rest time? She had first thoroughly understood everything herself before displaying such domineering confidence with her "wherever you don't understand, click there."
After all that bitterness, the sweetness had finally come. What a cause for celebration.
Under Her Highness the Princess's disdain-filled guidance, Mo Yi quickly immersed himself in the joy of learning. Many concepts that had once seemed like heavenly texts gradually began to make sense.
Time passed without him noticing.
"Mo Yi, don't zone out during class."
Kaguya had noticed long ago that he had started checking the time half an hour earlier. He was clearly thinking about something.
"Sorry, Teacher Kaguya—"
Mo Yi smiled awkwardly and said,
"It's almost eleven at night. I was thinking of taking a shower."
In truth, Mo Yi was wondering why Kiana still had not returned. Based on her usual routine, she should have been back around ten. Even food delivery orders for late-night snacks would stop coming in after a while.
He could not help worrying that the white-haired idiot, who could snap a bowl in half while washing dishes, might really have driven too fast and accidentally fallen into a sewer—then conveniently hit her head and passed out.
That was no small matter.
Kiana had said that Honkai Beasts had been appearing around Changkong City lately. At the rate she encountered one every other day, could she have gotten carried away in a burst of hot-blooded enthusiasm, thought, I can do it too, challenged a Honkai Beast one-on-one, and gotten smashed flat?
The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed!
"Really?"
Kaguya propped up her chin with one hand and looked at Mo Yi with a faint smile. In a soft voice, she said, "Why do I feel like you're wondering why that grasshopper hasn't come back yet?"
"At this hour, she would normally have come to call you for a late-night snack already."
Mo Yi: "..."
Her Highness the Princess, did you also have some big eyeball that could read minds?
Though Kaguya was smiling on the other end of the screen, she was quite displeased inside. This Princess had sacrificed precious gaming time to study with you, yet you were not focusing and still had time to think about other things?
What a heartless bastard. No conscience at all.
"Ahem—"
Having had his true intentions exposed, Mo Yi could not keep making excuses. Kaguya was not some fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl—how could she be fooled so easily? With how severely addicted to games she was, so lazy that she would rather starve than waste gaming time, yet still willing to spend time teaching him, he really was in the wrong.
"Her Highness the Princess, you really are omniscient. I am indeed a little worried about Kiana. She is my pet grasshopper, after all. Staying out all night is far too improper."
"Of course, the main reason is that it's getting late. I was thinking I'd take a shower, then come back and play some games with you."
"That's more like it—"
Kaguya did not expose him further and said with a smile,
"Then go do what you need to do. This Princess is getting ready to take a shower too. I'll find you later so we can queue together. Don't forget—after your shower, don't flop onto your bed like a pig and fall asleep."
"Why do young people need so much sleep? Once you're dead, are you worried you won't have enough time to sleep?"
Mo Yi: "..."
Her Highness the Princess, when did you develop this adorable sharp-tongued trait? Long black hair and a sharp tongue—this kind of character setting had been done to death. You would never be able to carry the title of Moe King like this, because you had gone down the wrong path.
A scheming personality, a gap from your moe side, and being a NEET—those were your true traits!
Look at the hamster spirit Doma Umaru from the next set. Her traits were similar to yours, and look how popular she had been these past two years.
Kaguya gave Mo Yi no chance to argue or complain and directly ended the video call.
"I'm going to take a shower. Bye-bye—"
Who would have thought that I, Mo Yi, would one day hear a goddess tell me, "I'm going to take a shower. Bye-bye"? Yet my heart did not stir in the slightest.
"I don't know why nothing has been going my way lately. When I sit down and look out the window, all I do is hate myself..."
A sweet, milky female voice rang out. It was Mo Yi's ringtone, "God's Go With The Flow." Of course, it was not Leng Niao's original version—after all, this was a different world, so artistic works like music were vastly different as well. (The singer's real name was Ling Yuan soyou; Leng Niao was an affectionate nickname.)
This was Her Highness the Princess's imitation of Leng Niao's version. Mo Yi had been overjoyed to receive this gift. It was a precious memory from his previous life; during countless nights when he worked overtime until two in the morning writing copy, he had relied on a pot of green tea and Leng Niao's voice to keep going.
In theory, based solely on vocal tone and singing ability, Kaguya—who had lived longer and possessed a better natural voice—was undoubtedly superior. But many things depended on a sense of nostalgia. To put it pretentiously, that was called sentimental attachment.
So Mo Yi still missed Leng Niao's version more. He had "casually" mentioned it to Kaguya, hoping that she, with access to the internet of other worlds, could send him the original version. The result was that she simply glared him down.
Take it or leave it. If you don't want it, get lost!
It was worth mentioning that the god in "God's Go With The Flow" referred to Amaterasu Omikami, Kaguya's theoretical aunt. Yet whenever Kaguya spoke of her aunt, Mo Yi did not sense respect, but rather contempt, helplessness, and nostalgia.
Of course, perhaps it was merely Mo Yi's imagination.
He picked up his phone and saw that it was indeed a text from Kiana. He opened it casually.
Mo Yi as a whole froze!
"Danger. Don't go out. Be careful of the silver-haired girl. She is—"
The message ended there.
"You idiot, at least tell me where she is—"
After several seconds of silence, Mo Yi's face remained calm, but his heart was burning. His head felt as though it were swelling.
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