Tang Nai picked up the water glass and brought it to her lips, pretending to take a sip.
In reality, her hand was shaking so badly that the water inside nearly spilled over.
“Darling?”
Su Ya’s mind was already in complete chaos.
Recalling Tang Nai’s tone, which could almost be described as seductive, waves of shock surged through Su Ya’s heart.
‘Could it be that our Su Mu wasn’t the one who got pushed down, but instead was the one who took the initiative to seduce her and pull her onto her body?’
“Little Mu, Little Mu… why don’t we get engaged right now? From now on, I’ll be your—”
Full of teasing, the petite silver-haired loli sat straddling her, making it impossible to look past that mischievous face toward Su Ya.
Without her anchor, Su Mu panicked, her heart pounding wildly.
Immediately after, Tang Nai mischievously leaned in closer and whispered softly into her ear.
Feeling her throat go dry, Su Mu gulped and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
“Instead, it’ll be me who possesses you.”
“Aren’t you… supposed to be unable to feel any emotions anymore?”
“Then do I look like someone who has cut off all emotions and desires right now?” Tang Nai chuckled lightly.
Her slender fingers traced along Su Mu’s collarbone, deliberately wandering up and down—from the delicate hollow of her throat to the beginning of her cleavage.
A feeling of being claimed, of being dominated, rose unbidden.
“In the future, you’ve probably already seen what’s around the side of my room. If I really had no emotions at all, I wouldn’t have arranged such uninteresting things, right?”
Su Mu subconsciously nodded.
In her mind, she recalled those eye-opening varieties of equipment, and she hurriedly pressed her legs together tightly.
“To put it more bluntly, when I was acting as a magical girl, my codename was Nai Rabbit. The reason I like rabbits isn’t just because I once raised a whole group of them in the mansion. It’s also because I like the traits they possess. The biggest trait of rabbits is that they’re super fertile, isn’t it? Speaking of which, how could Su Mu not catch the implication in Tang Nai’s words—aside from humans, they’re the only mammal that can stay in breeding season all year round, giving birth to an entire litter at once, then immediately getting pregnant again. They live carefree lives without worrying about survival. Because they’re weak, they have no idea when death will come for them, so in their limited and short lives, they do everything they can to bring forth the next generation… It might sound monotonous and crazy, but for me, perhaps this is also a kind of happy ending.”
“Don’t you consider solving the Authority issue first and then enjoying a more leisurely and longer life?” Su Mu asked in a low voice.
Tang Nai’s smile froze for a moment, then quickly returned to calm.
“Then, who do you think I should ask for help? When even I’m at a loss with this problem…”
As if realizing the atmosphere had turned off, Tang Nai immediately reined in that side of herself that could perhaps be called vulnerable and put on her sweet smile again.
“Most importantly, even if I want to enjoy a leisurely life, shouldn’t I also have an interesting companion to spend the rest of my days with?”
“It doesn’t have to be a lover. Friends can keep you company too.”
Hearing Su Mu’s words, Tang Nai raised an eyebrow.
“You’re not going to say something like ‘a lover can only be one, but friends can be many,’ right? Then who’s going to fill in the part of romantic love that I’m missing?”
Tang Nai grabbed Su Mu’s collar.
A passionate heat glowed in her gray eyes, like a silent question.
“No matter what, you’re still unwilling to stay by my side? Or are you determined to remove yourself from consideration?”
Faced with such a sharp and aggressive questioning, with Su Mu’s gentle personality, she would probably yield and feel scared, right?
But Su Mu narrowed her blue eyes and glared back without retreating at all.
“Aren’t I listening to you say all this right now? Do you think everyone believes you’re a bad person, so I naturally think the same and therefore couldn’t possibly willingly accept you?”
“Isn’t that the case?” Tang Nai countered, but her slightly trembling tone suggested she was a bit shaken.
Soon, she was silenced by Su Mu’s firm, deep blue gaze and could only wait quietly for Su Mu’s next words.
“I hate the feeling of being forcibly claimed as someone’s possession. It feels like I’m not Su Mu, but just a doll, a puzzle piece that can be traded. You need me not because you have any special feelings for me, but simply because your incomplete life requires a puzzle piece like me.”
Su Mu spoke slowly, her tone heavy, and her heart felt equally heavy.
She didn’t know if saying this would hurt Tang Nai, but this was truly what she thought.
“If it’s only because you want me to become the perfect magical girl and help you break free from the shackles of the Void Authority, then why put on this whole act?”
“If that’s really what I thought, I would have forced you to do it long ago, as long as I wanted to.” Tang Nai’s face darkened, but her tone was simply stating a fact.
It was obvious she wasn’t lying and had even seriously considered it.
Did Su Mu have leverage?
Yes, and plenty of it.
Whether it was the other magical girls or Su Ya, they could all become pawns that would force her to obey.
Even without using those dirty methods, Tang Nai had more than enough schemes to manipulate her into willingly abandoning Irina.
So what exactly was holding her back?
That was what Su Mu wanted to know.
She wanted Tang Nai to admit it with her own mouth, not through indirect hints.
She also wanted to know what this woman—who saw herself as evil and full of wicked tastes, yet was actually quite boring—was truly thinking at a moment like this.
“But I wouldn’t do that. After all, no matter what, I wouldn’t go so far as to force a child I watched grow up… Did you think we only first met inside the dream world?”
Hearing this, Su Mu’s pupils shrank slightly.
“From the moment you were born, while you were still in the amniotic fluid, I once held you. You should be able to guess that. And unfortunately, I have to tell you that from that very moment, I already started plotting against you.”
Su Mu couldn’t help but blush with embarrassment.
A terrible possibility gradually occurred to her.
Fresh, tender lamb meat—select the two freshest and tenderest little lambs, let them grow up in an ideal environment, meet, and give birth to offspring.
Then, the moment the amniotic sac breaks and the little lamb is born, take her away from her parents and slaughter her, like this…
Su Mu suddenly stared intently at Tang Nai’s gray eyes.
A rare fierce glint appeared in her own eyes, but Tang Nai ignored it and continued.
“You are that little lamb. It’s just that I’m not the shepherd. It was probably coincidence that sent you into this world and brought you to my side.”
Su Mu let out a heavy breath.
Her tightly tensed body gradually relaxed.
Although she also knew that Tang Nai wasn’t some great witch who had been pretending and scheming for hundreds of years just waiting to “slaughter” her, for a moment she had still been terrified by the thought that flashed through her mind.
If it really had been like that, even if she charged at her in full rage, she would only be subdued and then toyed with at will.
“Probably around the age of three, you still couldn’t speak clearly, but back then you would already call me Sister Tang Nai—I wasn’t taking advantage of you, that’s the truth. Actually, I hate children the most, but for some reason, I was especially patient with you and particularly enjoyed teasing you.”
As she spoke, Tang Nai reached out and pinched Su Mu’s soft, baby-fat cheeks.
The moist, supple feeling was just like when she was little—fair skin with a touch of pink, so healthy, so alluring.
“Speaking of which, back then you were actually a little boy. It was all because of Senior Ya’s idea. She wanted you to stay far away from everything related to magical girls. First exclude the girl part, then distance you from magic power, and take you away from B City. It’s quite amazing, isn’t it? A magical girl can actually influence a child’s gender through sheer willpower.”
It really was… quite amazing.
Su Mu lowered her head and looked at her now quite well-developed soft breasts, momentarily at a loss for words.
“But the most straightforward reason is that two women can’t possibly produce a male offspring. So at that time, I guessed that once Su Ya’s influence gradually faded from you, all it would take was one magical girl transformation and you would turn into a cute girl—and sure enough, that’s exactly what happened.”
Tang Nai smirked mischievously as she poked Su Mu’s plump, white bunny-like chest.
The latter vigilantly protected her breasts and glared at Tang Nai in complaint.
‘Just tell the story. Don’t get handsy.’
“And even more unfortunately, from my observations, you’ve been overly delicate and pretty since you were little. It was impossible for anyone to treat you like a boy. Even you yourself sometimes had doubts about it, right? Because there was no instruction manual, you didn’t know how to use Miss Water Cup properly.”
Having her dark history exposed, Su Mu’s pretty face burned with heat.
She lightly punched Tang Nai’s shoulder.
It seemed she used a bit too much force, because the other girl let out an “Ouch!” and started to fall backward.
Seeing this, Su Mu hurriedly wrapped her arms around Tang Nai’s slender waist.
However, the moment she reached out, Tang Nai revealed a sly, triumphant smile.
She took advantage of the situation to pounce into Su Mu’s arms, clinging to her neck like a koala and looking at Su Mu from an extremely close distance.
With every breath and every word she spoke, her unique scent brushed against Su Mu’s neck, bringing a slight coolness to her burning skin, yet the fire seed in her heart burned even hotter.
“Perhaps you thought I only played the role of your ‘dad.’ In fact, it was far more than that. I also played your elementary school class monitor, the owner of your middle school snack shop, and even a few months ago, I was your math teacher who assigned you an explosive amount of vacation homework~”
“You’re so bad! Wait, when I was in elementary school, my homework mysteriously disappeared after I turned it in—was that your doing? And in middle school, whenever I bought things from the snack shop, the price always felt off. When I wanted to argue, the owner just ignored me…”
Su Mu’s face turned red.
She had always thought it was because she was too unnoticeable, but she never expected there was someone hiding by her side secretly messing with her!
“And I only picked on your homework. You must have been so confused why your math vacation assignments never passed, right?”
Smirking mischievously, Tang Nai pinched Su Mu’s face, which was as red as a ripe apple, and giggled with satisfaction.
“From that time on, we’ve already been tied together by this sinful fate. Who would have thought~”