All along the way, Kesu Su walked at the front, chattering non-stop. Whatever she was talking about, Xi Ye really wasn’t in the mood to listen.
The blue-haired little loli would glance back every now and then. At first, Huang Xiaoyi still tried to hide it, but soon she didn’t bother at all. In order not to be discovered, Xi Ye could only take the initiative to stick close to her shoulder, and at that moment, Huang Xiaoyi would give her a look that was both interested and disgusted.
Truly impossible to understand, the thoughts of an Evil God…
How can someone say “I hate you” one second, and then hold hands the next?
But if you could understand them, they wouldn’t be Evil Gods anymore.
“…So, as I was saying, that guy is really baffling. If I weren’t so busy, I’d have long since…” Kesu Su once again spun around as she spoke, walking forward backward, not at all like someone who had been spanked so hard she couldn’t stand up this morning.
Xi Ye, a little nervous, pressed herself closer to Huang Xiaoyi’s shoulder, hiding the hand she couldn’t break free from behind their backs. To distract herself, she started thinking of unrelated things:
Come to think of it, I didn’t buy her panties just now. That was lucky by accident—if she wore panties in this state, it’d definitely be super painful… For now, it’s best to just go commando.
“Hmm…” Kesu Su propped her chin on her hand, her soft cheeks puffed up. “I meant to ask earlier… When did you two get so close? You’ve been glued together this whole time.”
“That’s not true, it’s just your imagination, Susu.” Huang Xiaoyi shook her head, completely indifferent, denying it.
I can’t believe you can say something like that, Xi Ye silently complained in her heart.
“Is that so?”
Kesu Su glanced left, then right, suspiciously.
“I really feel like you’re hiding something… What’s behind your backs? Let me see!”
“How could we be hiding anything? There’s nothing behind us at all.”
Xi Ye replied, a bit guilty, while the hand being held kept tracing little circles on the back of Huang Xiaoyi’s hand with her fingertip.
Let go already!
Xi Ye tapped out a plea for release with her finger.
If Kesu Su saw them holding hands, nothing good would come of it. That barely established decent first impression would be ruined.
No.
Huang Xiaoyi replied with action instead of words—not only tightening her grip, but also using her free hand to catch Xi Ye’s anxious, swishing tail tip.
“Yii!”
A current, numbing her whole body, shot straight from the tail tip to her brain, making the little dragon girl’s body go limp. When she regained her senses, she found her burning face was nearly pressed against Huang Xiaoyi’s chest!
Her mind was completely blank…
Who knew the tail tip was such a sensitive spot!
“Xueli!? What’s wrong?”
Kesu Su was startled by Xi Ye’s sudden cry. She stepped forward to check, but Huang Xiaoyi was quicker, releasing Xi Ye’s hand and putting her arm around her shoulder, helping her up.
“It’s… it’s nothing, I just accidentally stepped on my tail…”
Xi Ye tried to suppress the coquettish gasp spilling from her throat, but the flush on her cheeks wouldn’t fade.
“Eh? You even trip over your own tail when you walk? Truly a useless dragon,” Kesu Su jabbed without mercy.
After all, for a dragon girl to step on her own tail was like a human tripping over their own feet on flat ground. Though Xueli hadn’t actually stepped on her tail, Xi Ye really had tripped on flat ground before.
“Ugh…”
She wanted to retort, but couldn’t get a word out. Frustration turned to a pitiful whimper. The little dragon girl bit her lip, glaring fiercely at Huang Xiaoyi.
Just you wait!
This grievance, she’d return twofold in the future! Don’t think she’s just cute and nothing more!
Noticing the intense gaze from beside her, Huang Xiaoyi turned to see the pink dragon’s fierce eyes turn instantly clear.
I really am just a cute little dragon, honest.
“…”
Huang Xiaoyi stared at her for a while, then said, “Susu, wait a moment. Xueli says she needs to go to the restroom, I’ll take her.”
“Eh? When did I…” Xi Ye just opened her mouth to object, but felt her tail being grabbed again.
That sinful hand wandered around her sensitive spot, sending wave after wave of tingling numbness through her body, making her almost cry out again.
Clearly, this was a warning:
Say one more word, and you know what’ll happen.
“Yes, I drank too much earlier and really need to pee,” Xi Ye quickly changed her answer.
Being obedient, please spare my tail.
Kesu Su pouted, “So much fuss. Fine, fine, you two go, I’ll head home first. It’s almost time for the event anyway.”
Her shoulder bag suddenly changed shape, like a flowing starry sky, condensing into a pair of small wings on her back, making one wonder if it had any use beyond decoration.
To everyone’s surprise, Kesu Su pushed off with her little feet, her petite body shooting up and hovering about five meters in the air, then shooting into the night like a missile and disappearing from sight.
“Byebye~”
Her voice drifted away on the wind.
Huang Xiaoyi watched her go, then, after confirming she’d left, turned her gaze back to Xi Ye, her eyes completely emotionless:
“I’m going to kill you.”
“!?”
Xi Ye the dragon was dumbfounded.
What now? Must you always say something so shocking?
“…If you don’t give me a good explanation,” Huang Xiaoyi said coolly.
Please, can you not talk like that!
One second longer and Xi Ye would’ve smashed the old seal in her face.
“Explain what…?” Xi Ye shoved the old seal back into her pocket, asking timidly.
“That look in your eyes.” Huang Xiaoyi’s triangular pupils locked onto her, as if to see through her entire being. “I wouldn’t mistake it. Even if it was just for a moment, you let it slip, Xueli.”
“That’s a look you only show an enemy.”
She raised her hand, idly playing with Xi Ye’s drooping hair.
“For certain reasons, I’ll give you a chance to explain. But if you can’t give me a satisfactory answer, I’ll kill you.”
The reason for murder was nothing more than a look in her eyes…
Xi Ye bit her lip and took a deep breath.
“Because I was angry.”
“Angry?” Huang Xiaoyi tilted her head. “Why?”
“You bullied me like that. Anyone would be angry, right?” Xi Ye retorted with righteous indignation.
“‘Anyone’?” Huang Xiaoyi shook her head. “You’re not human. Neither are we. We’re only ‘human-shaped,’ that’s all.”
Xi Ye’s cherry-pink eyes widened a little.
She suddenly realized…
Right, even though these Evil Gods accepted her as a ‘student’, that was all.
They simply didn’t question their own ‘human-shaped’ shells. To view their thinking from a human’s perspective was a mistake—they simply couldn’t empathize with other people’s emotions.
“…Because your actions made me feel troubled.”
Xi Ye tried to explain the source of her anger to Huang Xiaoyi, but unexpectedly, she said:
“But when I see Xueli ‘troubled’, I feel very happy.”