Cream

This was a stress response from Jilan's body after receiving training Ogami the Werewolf and his crew at the Oumagadoki Zoo; she didn't consider the other person's situation. When Jilan saw that the person who had fallen headfirst into the cake was a girl, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Are you alright?

Jilan kindly pulled the other person's wrist and pulled them out of the cake. The other person's face was covered in cream, and even their golden hair was covered in cream.

"Sir, here's a towel." The waiter standing to the side probably misunderstood the relationship between the two and handed the towel to Jilan Jiyu instead of the lady with cream smeared on her face, seemingly mistaking them for a couple who were playfully fighting.

"Thank you." Jilan, unaware of the waiter's good intentions, took the towel and handed it to the person opposite her. "Miss, here's a towel, please wipe your face yourself."

After saying that, Jilan picked up the plate full of fruits and vegetables and prepared to leave.

An anxious voice came from the other end. "Please wait a moment!"

Telling me to stop—was she trying to cause trouble? I hadn't touched her at all; she wouldn't blame me for falling in the cake, would she?

Jilan stopped in her tracks, frowning. "Is something the matter? I don't think I did anything to you."

"I have no intention of making you take responsibility." The blonde girl wiped the cream off her face; although her face was a little sticky, she could finally see clearly.

Although the girl opposite had just experienced an embarrassing moment, she greeted him without the slightest hesitation, smiling as if nothing had happened and asking, "I'm Nakiri. I wonder if you remember me, Jilan- san?"

Jilan didn't make any special effort to disguise herself, so it was easy for people who knew her to recognize her.

As Jilan looked at her, memories gradually surfaced. "... You're the Student Council secretary, right?"

Jilan's impression of Nakiri remained from the Sports Festival. After that, Jilan handed over all the external affairs of the class to Yaoyorozu, and he never saw Erina Nakiri again.

Why is she here now, and why did she greet me? And... if I'm not mistaken, she probably tried to bump into me on purpose, right?

Nakiri's next words cleared up Jilan's doubts.

"What a coincidence, Jilan! Are you also going to the IIsland International Exposition?" Nakiri smile. "I heard from Yaoyorozu that you, the knight, weren't planning to go with her. I thought something had happened. So you're going there by cruise ship. You didn't tell Yaoyorozu about this, she'll be heartbroken."

As a member of a well-known and prominent family, Yaoyorozu naturally received an invitation. She also invited Jilan to accompany her, but Jilan politely declined, suggesting that she bring her close female classmates to visit instead, without mentioning her own plans.

Jilan didn't know exactly who Yaoyorozu was taking, since the ship's communication equipment was basically out of service. However, since she could hear Yaoyorozu mentioned by Nakiri, her hurried pace earlier was understandable.

Jilan didn't have any personal prejudice against Nakiri. Although she knew that Nakiri had become Yaoyorozu's close friend, she had never really learned anything about her. She only knew that Nakiri was highly regarded in the General Studies Course and that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, she would likely become the Student Council during the student Student Council in the second semester.

The "knight" she just mentioned was probably a sarcastic remark about Jilan's exaggerated performance in the conference room. Given her relationship with Yaoyorozu, she must have known that it was all just an act.

The wariness in Jilan's eyes disappeared. To counter her earlier remark and also to change the subject, she smiled and said, "I didn't know Secretary Nakiri liked sweets so much, or perhaps you like to use cream as a face mask?"

"I love it, I love it the most." Nakiri's eyes narrowed into slits like a little fox's, and as he smiled, he wiped the cream off his hair with his index finger, then licked it with his tongue.

Her smile was so alluring that the waiter, who had just handed her the towel and moved to a place where he couldn't hear the conversation, blushed deeply.

Completely ignoring Erina appearance, which seemed even slightly seductive to others, Jilan calmly said, "Secretary Nakiri, is there anything else? If not, I'll be going now."

Nakiri's expression suddenly stiffened. "Hey, give me some reaction! Your calm, indifferent attitude, like you've just seen a corpse lying on the street, is making me doubt my own charm!"

Seeing that the other person was standing there in a daze without responding, Jilan took her silence as consent, turned around and left, picking up a plate of food she had picked up at the meat shop on the way.

As the waiter watched the man in the white suit leave, he cautiously approached and said, "Miss, um..."

Just as I expected, it was still difficult to reach... Nakiri sighed inwardly, showing no sign of disappointment on the surface. He turned to the waiter with an apologetic expression and said, "I'm sorry, I know the food on the ship is precious and shouldn't be wasted. I will reflect on my actions. If you don't mind, consider this cake as something I bought at another restaurant."

As he spoke, Nakiri took out his boarding pass and handed it to the waiter, asking him to deduct the money from his card.

"No, no, no, this is a free buffet restaurant, how can we let you pay for it!" The waiter blushed and quickly waved his hands, saying, "I saw it too, it was beyond our control, it was that gentleman's fault, please don't make things difficult for me!"

The waiter had seen customers leave a lot of food on the table at buffets before. He had only wanted to ask if he could take the cake away and get rid of it; he had no intention of making Nakiri pay for it.

"Then... I'll take the card back?"

Please do that!

When Jilan arrived at Ibara Shiozaki's Ibara Shiozaki, two little ones had already taken up the seats opposite him, especially the one with orange hair, who was excitedly talking to Ibara Shiozaki.

"I'm an incredibly talented inventor! Do you remember someone in your grade named Mei Hatsume? She's my apprentice, and she hasn't even graduated yet!"

"If she were your disciple, you'd probably be like Tang Sanzang, completely helpless," Jilan remarked, sitting down next to Ibara Shiozaki and casually placing the plate of vegetarian food in front of her. "You didn't tell me what you wanted to eat, so I just grabbed a little something for you."

"As long as there's bread, that's fine." Ibara Shiozaki picked up the multi-layered vegetable and fruit sandwich that Jilan had prepared and began to eat it earnestly.

"Jilan Jiyu! Why is it you again!?" Ueno Jilan and jumped up instantly, her twin tails defying gravity and shooting straight into the sky.

Ibara Shiozaki had been instructed by Jilan Jiyu not to reveal his name to anyone, and Shiozaki did just that.

"I knew it was you two just by looking at your backs," Jilan Jiyu said calmly. "I don't need to guess to know you came with Secretary Nakiri. So, tell me, who are you trying to spy on this time?"