"She fell asleep, so I brought her back."
Yomi's words stabbed into Raiden Mei's heart like every syllable was a knife.
"Kiana... why is she with you?"
The moment she saw Kiana in Yomi's arms, Raiden Mei felt that the world had somehow become even worse.
"She ran into me in the woods. We talked for a while on a bench, then she fell asleep."
Yomi explained.
"The woods, talking, a bench, and she fell asleep?"
Raiden Mei was deeply puzzled.
With Kiana's personality, there was no way she would fall asleep beside a stranger unless she trusted that person immensely...
But Kiana had only met Yomi today, and she was sleeping so soundly that Raiden Mei could even hear her faint snores.
Who could sit on a bench in the woods for that long and still fall asleep?
"May I come in?"
Yomi's gaze toward Raiden Mei was complicated.
After learning half the truth about her identity, Yomi had come to a conclusion about the flutter in her blood whenever she came into contact with Raiden Mei. She simply did not know how to face her yet.
"..."
Raiden Mei hesitated for a moment before finally stepping aside.
"Please come in, Teacher Yomi."
"Thank you."
Yomi gave a small nod of thanks.
"Kiana's room is over there. Teacher Yomi, you can just take her in."
Raiden Mei spoke softly.
Kiana could be said to be the person she cherished most now. Seeing her lying in Yomi's arms made her feel awful.
After carrying Kiana back to her room and tucking her in, Yomi quietly came back out.
"Do you all live here?"
Honestly, Yomi found this place strangely familiar. On the way back, she clearly did not know where their dorm was, yet she had found it accurately through