Chapter 73: Renting a House

Su Ling saw Tao Tao’s eyes rolling back and immediately reacted.

What do you mean “fell asleep”?

She had clearly suffered some kind of shock and fainted.

Su Ling and Su Yao scrambled to help.

Fortunately, the car doors were unlocked.

They rushed inside and began patting Tao Tao’s small cheeks.

“Hey, wake up!”

‘My head is so dizzy…’

In her daze, Tao Tao felt as if someone was calling her name.

‘Is it an angel? So beautiful…’

Tao Tao opened her eyes groggily and caught a glimpse of a beautiful angel.

White hair and cherry-colored eyes—and there was more than one.

‘Ugh, have I gone to heaven?’

‘But… aren’t Witches supposed to report to Fengdu after they die?’

‘Is the Soul Reaper coming to guide me an angel Xiren?’

“Ling Ling, why isn’t she waking up? I read in a book that we might need to perform artificial respiration. Should we…?”

“Ah, me? Do I have to?”

“If you mind, Ling Ling, I can do it.”

“Wait, wait, wait! I’ll do it, I’ll do it,” Su Ling quickly interrupted.

Su Yao was her mother, after all; she couldn’t let Su Yao do something like that.

‘Whatever, it’s not like I haven’t kissed her before.’

‘Whether it was the top or the bottom, I’ve kissed her countless times.’

‘One more time won’t hurt.’

“Ugh, I’m so dizzy…”

Tao Tao sat up shakily at that moment.

She had no idea what she had almost missed.

“Phew, you’re finally awake. What’s going on? Why did you faint?”

Su Ling and Su Yao let out sighs of relief.

Seeing the two of them, Tao Tao suddenly snapped to attention.

“Ah, my money!”

She quickly opened her phone.

When she saw the 20 Moni inside, she was stunned.

How could this be?

Didn’t she remember that bratty girl eating all of it?

“Haha, loser Tao Tao, stupid Tao Tao! You can’t even handle this much? Loser, loser~”

The voice of the Mesugaki followed her like a shadow.

Tao Tao was completely enraged.

“Argh! I’m going to blow you up!”

Luckily, Su Ling held her back; otherwise, the little girl would have started brawling with her own car.

“Stop, stop! Calm down. Just mute her.”

“By the way, do you know where we can rent a house? We just found jobs and want to find a place to stay.”

The moment Su Ling saw Tao Tao, she knew her housing situation was as good as solved.

To her, Tao Tao was like a guide sent from the heavens, appearing every time she needed her most.

Just look—even after fainting, she still managed to drive the car to a place where they could see her…

Wait, how do you drive while unconscious?

Su Ling remembered that this location was different from where they had said goodbye to Tao Tao.

If Tao Tao hadn’t been the one driving, then it must have been…

Su Ling glanced at the Mesugaki on the car’s display who was bickering with Tao Tao and scratched her head.

Things were getting weirder and weirder.

Whatever, it wasn’t her business.

“I do! The big sister living next door to me just moved out the day before yesterday!”

Tao Tao ignored the Mesugaki in the car and replied instantly.

At the same time, her heart started thumping.

The mere thought of being neighbors with two beautiful girls made her feel inexplicably shy.

“Pervert Tao Tao, you just want their bodies! Loser, loser~~”

The Mesugaki began her mockery again.

“Ahhh, shut up!!!”

Tao Tao went completely ballistic.

Her small hand suddenly swelled to the size of a sandbag, smashing the car’s projection system into smithereens.

This terrified Su Ling and Su Yao.

Looking at the two of them shivering in each other’s arms, Tao Tao finally calmed down.

She looked at her sandbag-sized fist and spoke incoherently.

“Ah, this is a Life Sequence… I-I didn’t mean it! I really didn’t mean to scare you…”

“It’s fine, it’s fine. Let’s just go look at the house first,” Su Ling said softly, glancing warily at the massive fist as she comforted the crying Tao Tao.

Seriously, could she please turn that fist back?

It was terrifying.

“Waaa, you guys are so nice.”

Tao Tao’s fist deflated like a punctured balloon, quickly returning to its original size.

In her heart, she felt that Su Ling and Su Yao were truly good people.

Because of this, she worked even harder.

The little tricycle went into a frenzy.

This resulted in many Witches along the way shouting “blessings” at Tao Tao’s entire family.

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This time, Tao Tao didn’t get lost.

After all, it was where she lived; no matter how bad her sense of direction was, she wouldn’t forget her own home.

It was an old-looking residential complex.

Some of the buildings were covered in green ivy, giving the place a cozy, lived-in feel.

“I thought the Witch Academy didn’t have off-campus housing,” Su Ling remarked.

On Azure Star, only the residents of the Lower City lived on the ground.

The residential areas of the Upper City were either in the sky or within Folding Spaces.

“The academy’s space is extremely tight. Almost all of it is used for transportation, and even then, it’s not enough. Using it for housing is considered a luxury, so most of it has to be built on the ground.”

The sky was the same.

The Witch Academy simply had too many people.

Eligible students from almost an entire constellation had come here.

Things like Folding Spaces were nowhere near enough.

Hearing this, Su Ling began to understand.

The complex looked old; it had probably been around for many years.

Following Tao Tao, they reached a unit building and took the elevator up.

“The landlord said she’s already at the door,” Tao Tao said.

She had already contacted the landlord while they were racing over.

Su Ling and Su Yao both looked pleased.

When they reached the eighth floor and the elevator doors opened, they were met with a long corridor.

“Are you the ones looking for a place?”

The landlord was a little girl.

She wore flip-flops, and her dainty pink toes were wiggling—it was quite cute.

She wore a pink T-shirt on her upper body; she was flat-chested, a very standard little girl.

A large bunch of keys hung from her waist, jingling and clanking—the sound of money.

“Hehe, would you two sisters like to stay at my house? My place is quite big.”

The landlord had started off sounding arrogant, but her expression changed the moment she saw Su Ling and Su Yao.

Su Ling didn’t know how it was possible to see such a lecherous expression on a cute little girl’s face.

Tsk.

“Haha, we just want to rent a room,” Su Ling said with a forced smile, swatting away the small hand that was trying to cop a feel of Su Yao.

It was fine to touch her, but don’t touch her mom!

“Hmph, fair enough. 50 square meters, independent bathroom, one bedroom, and a stove. 10,000 Moni a month. How about it?”

The landlord opened the door.

What met their eyes was a large bedroom with a big bed.

The stove was opposite the independent bathroom.

The space was small, but it was decent enough for two people to sleep in.

There was a small balcony—it wouldn’t be a bad place for Hajimi to stay.

“Can it be a bit cheaper?”

10,000 Moni a month for 50 square meters was way too expensive.

“Sister, there’s nothing I can do. Surface housing is already very limited. A policy was released recently saying they’re going to plan some kind of Double Folded Space for accommodation. It’ll be hard to find a place on the ground in the future.”

Double Folded Space, as the name implied, was a fold within a Folding Space.

However, its safety was much worse, and spatial collapses were common.

If one were caught in a spatial turbulence, even a Soul Reaper wouldn’t be able to recover their soul.

They wouldn’t even have the chance to go to Fengdu for reincarnation.

Although the higher-ups repeatedly promised that The Company had solved the technical issues and it was safe, many students still protested it.

Regardless, it was a fact that surface residential areas were becoming fewer and fewer.

Su Ling glanced at Tao Tao and noticed she was nodding, indicating that the landlord wasn’t lying.

“Alright then.”

Su Ling sighed.

Sigh. Just a moment ago, she was celebrating their 12,000 Moni monthly salaries, and now the rent was about to take away almost one person’s entire paycheck.

And this was just the rent.

Even though utilities were free, other things like food and future tuition fees made her head ache just thinking about them.

She didn’t know if their salaries would be enough.

Su Ling felt a headache coming on.

‘If it really comes down to it…’