"Then—"
Kiana shouted, her face slightly red:
"Isn't it normal to forget once or twice? Everyone does it!"
"Anyway, my socks don't stink at all!"
With that, she handed it to Sirin beside her and said:
"Um..."
Only then did Kiana realize that she did not know the other girl's name.
"Other me, tell them whether my socks stink or not!"
As my stand-in, she should at least be on the same side as me!
Kiana held out the sock with one hand while repeatedly blinking at Sirin, hinting at what she wanted her to say.
Sirin: "..."
Damn Aqua!
"No. Get lost!"
With that, a beam of Honkai Energy shot out from a black hole in the Imaginary Space, burning the sock in Kiana's hand into nothingness.
PS: Kiana: Can a girl's socks be called smelly socks? They're called authentic socks with Kiana's scent!
The Other Side Was So Cute, She Definitely Wasn't a Bad Person!
"What the hell are you doing?!"
Kiana was startled by Sirin suddenly destroying her sock. She was initially stunned, then grew angry and shouted, "There's only one sock left now. Should I throw it away or keep using it? Do you know how hard life is?!"
Sirin: "..."
Just what kind of freak was her host?
Sirin glanced at the silver-haired, twin-tailed girl who had touched the red mist and quietly walked over to that man. No matter how she looked at her, the girl did not seem like she wanted to fight. Then there was that mysterious man whom even she had initially misjudged, and who now gave off an aura she could not see through. Sirin knew there was no need to keep fighting.
After all, even without fighting, maintaining this energy-body form consumed massive amounts of Honkai Energy every second. Naturally, there was no reason to stay any longer.
"Hmph, you damn poor bastard—"
With that, she turned into a cloud of mist and vanished.
After being called that by Sirin, Kiana flew into a rage from embarrassment and defended herself with a red face. "You've got the nerve to mess with my socks, so don't run away!"
"You..."
Hmm, Kiana remembered once again that she still did not know the other girl's name—or even what she was.
After thinking for a while, inspiration suddenly struck her.
"You Miss Pufferfish!!"
Mo Yi, who roughly knew what was going on, could not tell Kiana. After all, Sirin was sleeping inside Kiana's body. In a sense, she was another Kiana.
Sirin apparently had the ability to manifest as an energy body out of thin air in addition to taking over Kiana's body. If he exposed her secrets, she might learn of it immediately, then lash out in embarrassment and stab him in the back with a "you know too much" while Mo Yi was off guard. Wouldn't that be unfair to him?
Moreover, Kiana and Sirin's relationship was one bound at the genetic level. It could be said that every cell in Kiana bore Sirin's imprint. It was unlike ordinary possession, where energy, part of a body, or consciousness was sealed within another person. Mo Yi still could not think of a way to separate Sirin from Kiana.
Until he found a solution, not provoking or agitating her seemed like the best choice.
"All right, all right, Kiana, stop obsessing over the sock—"
Seeing Sirin, the temporary teammate who was the most dangerous person on the field and might suddenly fire a shot at him, disappear, Mo Yi inwardly breathed a sigh of relief. He mocked Kiana, "Why not keep that sock? If one of your other socks gets a hole in it someday, you can pair it with this one."
"Of course, you could also buy a single sock to make a pair."
"Oh—"
Upon hearing that, Kiana suddenly understood and sighed:
"Mo Yi, you're still the smart one. You really think things through."
Mo Yi: "..."
Kiana, why didn't that make me happy at all? Did she seriously not understand I was making fun of her?!
Not wanting to discuss Kiana's socks any further, Mo Yi turned to Theresa and Kiana, who had walked over to him, and asked, "So how did you two end up fighting?"
When Kiana saw that Theresa did not seem to be attacking Mo Yi and instead seemed to know him, her courage returned. She immediately complained to Mo Yi, "When I was heading back tonight, I suddenly noticed she was following me. After I caught her, she attacked me too!"
"That's not what happened, big brother—"
Theresa, who had been looking for a chance to speak, glared at Kiana angrily and aggrievedly, as though saying that if Kiana slandered her again, she would pull out her huge axe and chop her down.
"Hmm—"
Mo Yi looked at Theresa beside him and could not see her as the kind of person Kiana had described at all.
That was right—one of the benefits of being cute was that people subconsciously felt that someone so cute definitely could not be a bad person!
"Little sister, long time no see—"
"My name is Mo Yi. Of course, you can call me big brother if you want."
"My name is Theresa, Brother Mo Yi—"
After hearing Mo Yi introduce himself, Theresa remembered to introduce herself as well. She then explained, "I only followed delivery sister after accidentally noticing a certain scent on her."
"Delivery sister attacked me first, so Theresa fought back."
Kiana: "..."
"No, I didn't—"
When Kiana thought back on it, it really did seem that she had fired first. The other girl had only been following her at the beginning.
"Who wouldn't think you were up to no good if you followed them? You couldn't explain yourself clearly either. I thought you were looking for trouble with Mo Yi, so of course I wasn't going to tell you anything about him!"
From the few lines they had exchanged, Mo Yi roughly reconstructed what had happened that night.
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