Chapter 232: Attempting to Draw Out One’s True Nature

“Little Red Riding Hood, where are we going to have fun today?”

“I’m not going.”

“Huh? Why not?”

“After hearing those kinds of things just now, how could I still be in the mood to play around so carefreely!”

“Eh —“

“But Lord Xingyue said before, unless there are unexpected circumstances, we have to follow the schedule strictly, right.”

“B-b-but!!”

“Alright, let’s go play! I was just talking nonsense earlier, maybe Lord Xingyue and Lord Jinlin are busy with something important.”

“Your words just made me even more anxious, okay!?”

In the blink of an eye, it was deep into the night again.

When night fell, Luo You woke up on time.

Opening the window, tonight’s night view was pretty good. The sky, reflected by the lights, appeared even darker, making Luo You want to put on black stockings with a sukumizu and just go out to hang around.

But that was way too provocative—very likely to turn into a restricted-rated scene, so Luo You still had to avoid it.

She stealthily crept up to Xingyue’s window, gazing at those great buns whose enchanting curves were still outlined even beneath the thin quilt, and suddenly had an idea.

“Hey, Xingyue, wake up.”

She pretended the room was too dark to see anything, groping all over the bed—only to precisely grab that otherworldly-feeling excess flesh.

Xingyue sat up slowly, suddenly saying, “I understand.”

“You understand what?” Luo You asked.

“Nothing. The understanding is in my heart. No need to say more.”

Divine gold!

Luo You rolled her eyes at her. “Let’s go to the hot spring. Tonight’s night session seems pretty nice.”

Hearing the sounds of her getting ready in the bathroom, Xingyue felt a little happy inside.

She understood why this little demon girl always acted in such friendless ways.

Rather than saying she acts that way and has no friends, maybe this is just her normal mode of interacting with friends?

Xingyue had the feeling that her own efforts were finally being acknowledged.

“Let’s go.”

This time, they didn’t bother going to the changing room; they just put on their swimsuits in advance and wore bathrobes directly to the hot spring for convenience.

Splash, splash.

Whenever Luo You walked beside Xingyue, she always seemed to hallucinate those kinds of sound effects.

[Tsk tsk, what on earth happened in these seven years? Why did Xingyue grow up so fast?]

A reasonable guess was that Xingyue was only around thirteen or fourteen seven years ago, and now, after the development period, she had reached this majestic scale.

But Luo You just couldn’t believe that Xingyue had the strength to claim the First Seat even as a new middle-schooler, and could sit there so steadily.

“There are more people than last night,” Luo You commented.

“The night session’s gotten popular, and more people have noticed,” Xingyue replied.

“Then there’s nothing special about it anymore.”

The night session simply meant there were more late-night snack stands, and some areas had prettier neon lights to set the mood.

But of course, the crowd was still less than during the day.

Luo You was one hundred percent sure that somewhere in this hot spring resort, there was a couple passionately making out.

So didn’t that make her and Xingyue’s goal pretty obvious?

“Alright! Let’s go hunt down those people who ruin the atmosphere!” Luo You raised her hand and declared.

Xingyue gave her a sideways glance.

Who ruins the atmosphere the most usually? She wouldn’t name names.

The real reason she specially came to the night session with this little demon girl wasn’t to punish other couples—it was to deepen their friendship, so of course she wouldn’t go along with Luo You’s ideas.

So she changed the topic.

“By the way, you’ve been getting along well with Zhizhi lately?”

“More or less. She insisted I join her ‘Shorty Squad.’ She even cried her eyes out begging me to join.”

“Don’t call it the Shorty Squad in front of Zhizhi.”

Xingyue asked again, “Zhizhi has been hanging out with you a lot recently, and even posted those kinds of indecent tweets.”

Zhizhi had already given Luo You a heads-up about this before, so Luo You handled it naturally.

“What’s indecent about it?” Luo You scrutinized her. “Did she show anything? Did she do anything? Or is there some offline monthly link?”

“……”

“As long as it’s legal, it’s normal and accepted by the public. If someone doesn’t accept it, that means there are bad people among the public, and we must firmly resist—”

Xingyue chopped her on the head.

“Stop twisting right and wrong. If you really think that way, would you dare announce to everyone that it’s your account?”

“Got to maintain some mystery, you know.”

“In any case, don’t do things like that again. If you get exposed, it’ll drag down the reputation of Magical Girls.”

If you’re going to do it, then just do it! And take it even further!

Luo You spotted a snack stand up ahead, went to the freezer, and bought an ice cream bar, then handed it to Xingyue.

“A treat from me?”

“Bought you an ice cream. Don’t be ungrateful.”

“If you’re treating me, just say so. Why make it sound so mean?” Xingyue happily accepted it, tore open the wrapper, and started savoring it slowly.

“Sigh—!”

“What now?”

“Who taught you to eat ice cream like that? Sucking on it? And sticking your tongue out as you suck?”

“I have no idea how to eat it that way. If you’re so capable, show me how you eat it like that.”

Heh! You don’t believe me?

Luo You immediately bought herself another ice cream bar and started sucking on it the way she’d just described.

The effect—well, needless to say, even the sound was indecent.

“Ah—ah.”

Luo You did it on purpose, letting the melted ice cream drip down onto her tender bare feet.

“Ugh, how gross. All white and sticky, it’s gotten on my feet. Is there anyone who can help wash it off? (sneaking a glance)”

Tch, Xingyue didn’t even look her way, just pointed at a restroom not far away. “Go over there.”

Tch.

Luo You clicked her tongue. She wanted to see Xingyue’s blushing reaction, but it was no use.

She went to the restroom and rinsed her feet off with water—it took less than ten seconds.

“Let’s soak in the hot spring.”

“Mm.”

Xingyue naturally fell half a step behind, her gaze lowered—who knows what she was looking at.

Since she was alone with Xingyue now, and the mood was just right, there was something Luo You just had to ask.

How many times do you get your weekly reward?

Of course, that wasn’t it.

“I wonder when the Black Candle Colossus will come back again,” Luo You asked with a worried look.

Xingyue closed her eyes slightly and said, “.Maybe soon. I can feel the first signs of movement in the Zeroth-Rank Magic.”

“The Seal is loosening?”

“Mm.”

“Why not go reinforce the Seal?”

“It’s useless. The Black Candle Colossus has already awakened. No matter how much you reinforce it, in the end it’ll break through. It’s impossible to drag all Ten Seats into the depths of the Sea of Boundaries just to reinforce the Seal, right?”

“Then what about combining forces to kill it?”

“No way. In the depths of the Sea of Boundaries, no one can suppress it, let alone kill it. Even if the Zeroth-Rank Magic appears again, it’s useless. We can only wait for it to ride the tides back inland and Seal it again.”

This method would inevitably come with great sacrifices, but besides that, there was no other way.

“You say it so matter-of-factly,” Luo You commented. “But things won’t always turn out the way you imagine.”

“I think so too. The current situation is—whoever reveals their trump card first, loses.”

Time passed little by little.

Luo You suddenly stood up in the hot spring.

“Ahh… After walking so many days lately, my feet are sore. Xingyue, give me a full-body massage, will you?”