Flying Snow Velvet

Tap, tap, tap.

Lynae jumped up from her seat as soon as Mo Bai walked out of the Infirmary.

"How is it, how is it? Are you all right?"

She looked him up and down and asked.

"I'm fine."

Mo Bai replied with a smile, though a moment later, his smile became a bit strained.

"Little Lynae, here is your leave pass, and Mo Bai, here is yours."

The caregiver N.A.N.A. walked up to Lynae and Mo Bai with a smile.

"Thank you, Ms. N.A.N.A."

Lynae cheerfully took her own and Mo Bai's leave passes first, and then turned around to see Mo Bai wearing a deadpan expression.

"Ahem, wanna go for a joyride?" she probed.

She didn't know when it had started, but Lynae had found that Mo Bai was just like the Rover, having a strong opinion about her skipping class to go for joyrides.

"That's because both the Rover and I are afraid that you'll have too much fun and not have enough exam credits."

Mo Bai saw through what she was thinking and feeling, covered his head, and said helplessly.

Heaven knew what excuse she had used this time to get the leave pass from N.A.N.A.

However, he didn't refuse Lynae's invitation this time either.

Vroom, vroom, vroom--!

Subsequently, Mo Bai and Lynae drove to the highway beside the Academy.

"I haven't gone street racing in so long! This feeling is still as refreshing as ever!"

Lynae rode on the Motorcycle, her arms spread wide as if she were embracing the breeze.

Logically speaking, she shouldn't have been able to leave the Academy because of her confinement, but with a leave pass this time, she could roam around just outside the Academy.

Moreover, although it was called confinement, because of Lynae's feat of defeating the Voidworm, the Academy mostly turned a blind eye to her.

Mo Bai, at the side, watched as Lynae vented the emotions she had suppressed for several days, the corners of his lips curling up slightly.

When doing what she loved, her optimistic personality easily infected others with her joy.

However, besides accompanying her, Mo Bai had another reason for coming out with Lynae this time, which was that there was something he wanted to ask her.

"By the way, you've stayed in the Academy much longer than the Rover and I. Are there any pink-haired, gold-eyed female students with a single ponytail in the Academy?"

What Mo Bai was asking about was the pink-haired girl he had seen earlier in the hologram who had helped him.

Thinking about it now, her appearance was someone he had seen before.

She looked almost identical to the pink pixel girl who had given him a helping hand on the Motorcycle screen earlier.

He wanted to meet her.

Because she seemed to know something about the Remnant Star Society.

"Pink hair and golden eyes... Oh, you're talking about that famous diva from the Academy's past, Flying Snow Velvet?"

"Flying Snow Velvet?"

Lynae's words made Mo Bai freeze.

Because the name in the other's mouth sounded more like a stage name.

"It's normal for a newcomer like you not to know. Although I'm not interested in chasing after idols, there are a few songs she sang in my vehicle's playlist."

Click.

As she spoke, Lynae turned on the car music.

"Even if we're meant to fall apart"

"I will gaze at where you are for all time"

"Bon voyage"

A string of English lyrics; Mo Bai hadn't expected that this world actually had such a thing as English, probably left over from the previous civilization?

The melody sounded somewhat sad, and the meaning wasn't hard to understand.

The gist was that the protagonist in the lyrics was saddened by the impending departure of her beloved.

Yet beneath the sadness, she stubbornly vowed to watch over him well wherever he might be, finally bestowing her blessings upon that person.

"So is she still in the Academy now?" Mo Bai noticed that Lynae had just used the word "past".

"She's gone. She disappeared a long time ago, and the Academy dispatched a large amount of manpower to search for her, but in the end, there was no result..." Lynae said with some sorrow.

However, Mo Bai frowned fiercely as he listened to the other's words.

If she had disappeared, what was it that he had seen earlier?

A ghost?

It seemed things weren't so simple.

Ring-ring-ring!

At that moment, Lynae's phone rang.

Although there were Tacet Discs that could be used as terminals for contact and communication, Lynae clearly preferred using her more portable phone.

"Lynae! Where did you run off to again?! How long has it been since you returned to the Academy, and you're already skipping class again?!"

The teacher on the other end of the phone was roaring angrily.

It seemed that even a Voidworm Knight couldn't escape from class.

"But teacher, I asked for leave..."

"A leave pass? Don't think I don't know—you little girl definitely found some excuse to beg N.A.N.A. to issue you a leave pass again!"

Lynae wanted to retort, but was rebuffed right back by the teacher on the other end.

It appeared the teacher was extremely familiar with Lynae's style.

"Phew, that's it for now. I can see your vehicle's location right now; if you let me find out that you haven't started driving back within ten seconds, humph."

Without waiting for Lynae to speak, that teacher hung up the phone.

"Sigh, it seems the wonderful joyriding time can only end like this."

Lynae turned back with a defeated look on her face and shook the phone in her hand at Mo Bai.

Mo Bai teased, "A good thing. If the Rover were here, he probably wouldn't accompany you on a joyride, but would directly urge you to hurry back to class."

In his impression, the Rover always put on the airs of a senior or an elder.

"Fine, then I wish you a pleasant joyride by yourself. Oh right, you still can't be careless about your body," Lynae cared for Mo Bai before leaving.

Perhaps because Mo Bai had an accident in the hologram earlier, Lynae didn't tease him much this time.

"I know, Voidworm Knight."

After exchanging a joke, the two drove off in different directions at the intersection.

Screech--!

After parking the motorcycle, Mo Bai walked toward a certain place.

The Academy's Screening Room.

Because the teachers and students were still in class at the moment, there weren't many people here, and naturally no one was using the facilities.

Mo Bai found the interface of the Screening Room's equipment and then imported some data from his Tacet Disc.

They were all Flying Snow Velvet's songs. Before parting with Lynae, he had asked her to transfer all of these songs to him.

Hum--

After getting everything ready, Mo Bai came to the auditorium alone, staring quietly at the screen in front of him.

After all, there still wasn't much news about Flying Snow Velvet.

"Meeting you in that swirling snowflake's"

Just as Mo Bai began to think, the Screening Room had already started playing Flying Snow Velvet's songs.

It was the one Lynae had played for him earlier, which seemed to be called "Farewell of the Voyage Star".

Mo Bai wasn't looking for Flying Snow Velvet for any big matter; he just...

"the most beautiful thing ever happened to me"

Just wanted to say thank you to her, considering she had helped him twice.

"It sounds really sad..."

After listening, Mo Bai made this remark before finally leaving the Screening Room.

He didn't know what Flying Snow Velvet's own ending was, but he could tell that the story told at the end of this song was a bad ending.

He didn't like stories with bad endings.