It should have been something to be happy about.
But looking at her radiant smile, Xia Xi instinctively felt a little uneasy.
Yet Persimmon gave him no chance to refuse.
The door gently closed.
The night breeze passed through the courtyard, stirring the wind chimes outside Xia Xi's door and making them jingle softly.
At the same time.
Tamayo, who was developing medicine in her room.
Suddenly raised her head, as though she had sensed something.
At this hour...
Miss Persimmon should have brought Mr. Xia Xi that bowl of hot soup by now, right?
Ah, I was too softhearted, after all.
Faced with Miss Persimmon's determination and earnestness, I wavered in the end.
But since Miss Kanae has already tacitly agreed.
I'll just pretend I know nothing, too.
Compared with what had happened with Kanae, however.
Things on Persimmon's side took on an entirely different tone.
Although she had prepared herself to battle Xia Xi, her lack of experience was not so easily remedied.
And Xia Xi, who should have cooperated with the training...
Could not actively guide her because of the drug's effects.
So Persimmon could only figure everything out herself.
But some things were simply beyond her knowledge.
Even though the drugged Xia Xi had no strength to fight back.
It still took Persimmon a long time to learn how to use his weapon to strike her own sore spot.
After an irrepressible cry of pain.
Persimmon sat there with tears in her eyes, not daring to move carelessly for a time.
Training at this level.
Hurt more than she had imagined, and was rather different from what those instructional books she had secretly read in the past had said.
But...
When the girl saw Xia Xi, whom she had knocked down.
His pupils trembling violently,