Just then, the sugar figurine vendor handed over two figurines, perfectly rescuing Mo Yi and distracting them from discussing who was happier.
Tsukuyomi took one of the sugar figurines. Looking at its silly, vacant expression, then at Mo Yi, she could not help but laugh.
Mo Yi: "..."
Mo Yi saw through what Tsukuyomi was thinking at a glance and could not help complaining, "You do not think this sugar figurine was made to look like me, do you?"
"Hmph, it is good that you know—"
Tsukuyomi put away her previous wicked little-devil expression and became a young girl again. "If I say it looks like you, then it does. Let's go, let's look over there."
Little Night held Mo Yi's hand in one hand and a sugar figurine in the other, taking small licks and bites from it as she gazed around at the lanterns with great interest. Mo Yi, meanwhile, acted as her human carrying machine and silently followed behind her.
A thousand lanterns drifted past the streets before them, while lights shone in scattered layers in the distance, as if in a dream. Flutes played, red lanterns blazed, and for the first time, Mo Yi truly found himself immersed in such a lively atmosphere and spectacle.
Honkai World was a modern society. Its bustling scenes naturally could not be compared to a feudal society like Heian-kyō—not even in terms of sheer numbers.
Yet the liveliness of modern society was something one could never truly blend into. The more bustling the surroundings, the lonelier one often felt.
Watching the girl ahead pull him along, occasionally turning back to say something strange, Mo Yi could not help having such a thought.
Actually, this was not bad either... If only it could stay like this forever.
Perhaps because of that