After successfully "blending into" the Japan tour group—no, Kassel College's Dragon-Slaying Squad—Xia Mi swiftly integrated herself into the group with her innate, almost uncanny affinity.
There was no need to mention Lu Mingfei. The fact that "Xia Mi is He Xiaomeng's younger sister" was enough to earn her an extremely high baseline of goodwill from him.
What was more, when the girl smiled, her eyes curved into crescents. Her words always carried a teasing, whimsical edge, and he vaguely felt as though he were seeing some unreal reflection beneath the sunlight—familiar and relaxing.
Chu Zihang was somewhat different. All the "investigations" of late had already left him with a complicated curiosity and a faint fondness for this junior sister who was sometimes mysterious and eccentric, sometimes soft and adorable.
Deeper down, an indescribable sense of familiarity surged like an undercurrent beneath the water. He always felt as though he had known her for a very long time—so long that it seemed like something from a past life.
Even Finn and Caesar quickly found themselves unable to feel much negativity toward their new junior sister.
She always found a way, at just the right moment, to make them laugh with one or two absurd quips or a vivid ghost face.
Finn especially felt a kinship with her. Since he could hit it off with Lu Mingfei at first sight, naturally he could do the same with Xia Mi—she was practically a female version of Lu Mingfei!
That quality of carrying a hint of bad luck yet still shining so brightly was exactly the same.
At school, everyone said Lu Mingfei was a man like a lion. Could Xia Mi be a woman like a lion? Finn thought wildly.
With Xia Mi present—though she swore with a raised hand that she would