Then Kiana unceremoniously squeezed in beside Mo Yi. The space was a little tight, but Kiana was fairly slim, so although it was crowded, it was no big deal.
Seeing her foolish grin, Mo Yi's mood inexplicably brightened. He reached out and stroked her head.
After a while, Kiana finally broke the warm, everyday atmosphere and said, "We're leaving again... I really don't want to go—"
"Do you feel that way too, Mo Yi?"
Kiana had wandered all over the world in her early years. She had no fixed home, spending more than two years in a three-point routine of earning money, drifting around, and searching for her missing father. But now, she had nearly forgotten that she was a tenant here. As for the rent Mo Yi used to complain about and use to make her do this and that, he had not mentioned it in a long time. Perhaps she still owed him two months' rent.
Kiana: Hehe, it was better if Mo Yi forgot! She had worked hard to escape the unfair life where she was the only person in the entire Valkyrie dormitory who paid rent.
"Of course I do—"
Mo Yi looked out at the night. If he enhanced his eyesight with Light of the Heart, he could even make out the details of the distant dormitory building: clothes fluttering in the evening breeze from the balconies, the insides of shower rooms where someone had forgotten to close the windows... Though he had not been at St. Freya Academy for long, Mo Yi had already grown accustomed to the campus atmosphere, orderly yet carefree and brimming with youth.
"But we'll be back soon. We might even make it back in time for the midterms—"
Kiana: "..."
The atmosphere was so nice. Why did you have