Atobe agreed without hesitation.

What followed was a straightforward way of dealing with the matter. Because of his unyielding attitude, he didn't hold back at all. This matter caused a huge reaction in the school.

Following the reformation of Atobe's fan club, the matter that was originally kept under wraps could no longer be suppressed.

Ignoring the students who came to look at Huaguo during class, even the teacher who was in class had an indescribable shock in their eyes when they looked at Huaguo.

Facing gazes that were several times more intense than when he first entered the school, the pressure on Huaguo increased day by day.

But the most painful thing was …

One day, Zongxiang Lisi suddenly came home.

Ever since Huaguo moved into Zong Xiang's house, the other two masters of the house either left early in the morning and returned late at night or were busy all day long.

At this crucial moment, the man suddenly returned.

Huaguo could not tell whether the man had heard something or not.

But ultimately, this was the man's home, and she had no right to say anything. She nodded at Steward Tanaka to signal that she understood.

Dinner.

Since Zongxiang Lisi was coming home, the family prepared the most classic Japanese dinner.

"Miss …"

Huaguo's hand that held the book shook subconsciously, and she realized that she had overreacted.

Adjusting her emotions, she turned to Steward Tanaka at the door.

"What's wrong?"

"The young master said that he still has some things to deal with, so you don't have to wait for him for dinner."

She should have been happy, but when she heard the words that she had been waiting for, she felt strangely disappointed.

She closed the book in her hands. She had not read much to begin with, and now she did not feel like reading anymore.

"I understand."

A little lemon juice drizzled over the salt-grilled salmon skin. It was crispy and delicious.

But because she was worried about the man who was coming home, Huaguo did not eat much of it, no matter how delicious it was.

She waited until it was time for the clock to turn in the middle of the night.

The hand on the clock was turning, and it was about to be the next day.

Steward Tanaka brought the milk over as usual. "Miss, I'm afraid Young Master won't be coming back today."

He looked up at the clock. "You still have school tomorrow. You should go to bed early."

"Did he say he's not coming back?"

"Young Master has told us in advance that if he doesn't return home after midnight, he won't be coming back." Steward Tanaka said with certainty. The group of maids behind him nodded.

It was hard to describe the indescribable emotions in his heart. "Then I'll go to sleep first."

It was already late at night, and those who were still working had already fallen asleep.

In the bedroom, Huaguo hugged the soft pillow in his arms, but he couldn't fall asleep.

Something was stuck in his throat, unable to go up or down for a long time.

It was so suffocating that he couldn't fall asleep.

Feeling a little irritated, she rolled back and forth on the spacious bed, silently reciting the content of her lesson today.

After rolling back and forth a few times, she finally felt a little sleepy. With her sharp ears, she heard the sound of a car outside the door.

The sound was actually very soft, but in such a quiet night, it seemed to be much louder.

Everyone in Zongxiang's family had already gone to bed.

Huaguo also abruptly sat up from the bed, a little anxious and a little hopeful as he looked out the window.

In the living room, Steward Tanaka helped Zongxiang sit down on the sofa. He was about to ask someone to prepare supper, but was stopped by him.

"Don't bother."

He rubbed his temples. "I just came back to get something."

"Young Master, it's already late." Steward Tanaka hesitated. "You should take care of your body."

"I know. You should go back and rest too."

Recently, more and more things had piled up, and it had just come to an end. Zongxiang Lisi hadn't had a good night's sleep for a few days.

But thinking of his promise to go home, he dragged his tired body back.

Steward Tanaka had been in Zongxiang's family for many years. Seeing this, he could only sigh. He knew that his young master's temper didn't listen to advice. Just as he was about to leave, he saw Huaguo appear on the stairs.

"Miss." He turned to look at the person behind him and shook his head. "Why aren't you asleep yet?"

"I couldn't sleep. I heard some movement at the door, so I got up to take a look."

Huaguo went down two steps. When he got a little closer, he stopped at the top of the stairs. "Steward Tanaka, aren't you going to rest?"

"Young Master just came back. I'm going to rest now."

Steward Tanaka gently hammered the back of his waist. He had just gotten up when he heard that the young master was back.

After all, his body was a little stiff compared to when he was young.

He took two steps back and suddenly remembered something. "There's cold noodles in the kitchen." He lowered his voice a little. "Young Master probably hasn't had dinner yet. Miss, remember to remind him to eat something. Don't always treat your body as if it's nothing."

"Okay."

After watching Steward Tanaka leave, only Zongxiang Lisi and Huaguo were left in the living room.

When their eyes met.

"Let me take a look at your hand."

She removed the layers of bandages, revealing her slender fingers. The wound on her hand had healed a lot, but the marks on her hand could still be seen.

"It's just that you shouldn't use your power casually. It doesn't mean that you can't use it to protect yourself."

Zongxiang Lisi seemed to have thought of something, and his voice was a little gloomy.

"I was the one who chose the school for you. I didn't know that something like this would happen. If you want to transfer to another school, it's fine."

"I think Ice Emperor is a good school." Huaguo touched the railing beside her. "It's just that it's a little far from home."

She actually didn't like the feeling of being picked up and sent to and from school.

Even though he wasn't imprisoned, just take the previous time as an example. It was just a small matter like buying a book, yet he still had to seek permission from the other party. This made him feel stifled.

However, Ice Emperor was indeed too far from Zongxiang's house.

If she didn't take the family car, she could only squeeze on and off the subway. But —

Thinking about the subway pervert incident that had caused a lot of discussion, Huaguo thought of her short school skirt. In the end, she still didn't have the courage.

If only she could go to a school closer to home.

That was what she thought.

"Such a big thing happened, but I didn't hear you mention it when you came back."

Zongxiang Lisi opened his eyes slightly and looked at her from head to toe. He focused on the bandages wrapped around her hand.

In the end, he patted the seat beside him. "Come here."

The two figures in the stairwell were in a stalemate for a while.

Only then did she follow the direction of the speaker and sit down obediently.

However, she didn't know if it was intentional or not, but even though the two of them were sitting on the same sofa, the distance between them was very far.

No matter how tired Zongxiang Lisi was, he wanted to laugh when he saw this.

"Do you hate me?"

"No." Huaguo looked at him and was speechless for a long time.

After a long time, she spoke in a low voice.

"It's just that — I don't like it."

Today was the full moon.

Under the clear moonlight, one could vaguely see the dust floating in the air in front of them, moving up and down.

The moonlight was like water, and the night was brewing an indescribable atmosphere.

At night, one's emotions would often be unconsciously magnified.

Huaguo subconsciously wanted to avoid the body that suddenly approached her, but it was too late.

"What are you doing?"

She didn't hear a reply.

However, the breathing that came from beside her ear was light but hot.

The heat from the breath started from her ear and went straight from the bottom of her heart to her limbs and bones.

It was strange, but inexplicably made one's heart soften.

"Just like this, just like this, let me lean on you for a while."

The man, who had always appeared to be very strong and calm, took off his glasses and closed his eyes with a hint of tiredness.

Perhaps it was because of the huge contrast from usual, the fragile feeling made Huaguo subconsciously straighten his back. He didn't dare to move and used his shoulders to bear the weight of the adult man beside him.

It was the first time he was so close to the opposite sex.

He was so close that he could vaguely count the eyelashes on the other party's eyelashes and see them rise and fall as he breathed.

It was unexpectedly peaceful and close.

The moonlight poured on the other party's face, and he could see the faint green stubble on his chin.

It was probably because he was really tired.

However —

It was so itchy.

It wasn't just the other party's breath that brushed against his ear.

It wasn't just the neck where he could feel the other party's body temperature.

It wasn't just the heartbeat that could be heard when the two of them overlapped.

Her heart was numb, soft, and itchy.

As time passed, her back, which could still be straightened, gradually became soft and numb with each breath in her ear.

Finally.

Just as she was about to collapse, the other party raised his head from her shoulder.

Just this one raise.

She still hoped that the other party had never raised his head.

"You, why is your face so red?"

"No, it's not."

Huaguo pulled the hair tie on his head, and his hair fell down to cover his cheeks. At the same time, he lowered his eyes and didn't dare to look directly at the person in front of him.

She had never experienced such a strange state of mind, and for a moment, she felt that the teasing smile on the other party's face was very strange.

"You, are you hungry?"

She panicked and subconsciously wanted to change the topic, but forgot that the other party was still beside her. The consequence of moving too much was that Huaguo's forehead and the other party's chin had an intimate contact.

'Bang —'

It hurt just by listening to it. Zongxiang's chin looked fine, but her forehead was already red.

Even so, Huaguo, who was now in the kitchen, was still muttering to herself as she prepared the cold noodles that Steward Tanaka had mentioned.

She didn't know how to make complicated things, but for something like cold noodles, she only needed to see it twice to know how to make it.

When it was summer, people liked to eat something cool to avoid losing their appetite. Cold noodles were a good choice.

The kitchen was well-prepared.

Japanese soy sauce, kunbu, firefish fillets, rock sugar, soba noodles, cucumber, wasabi … This was the first time she had made cold noodles.

She focused all her attention on the movements of her hands. She deliberately used the terminal to search for the recipe of cold noodles. She was even more serious than when she was doing experiments in school.

She was just short of using a measuring cup to cook.

Zongxiang Lisi watched from the side for a while. He stared at her slightly pouted mouth because of her seriousness, and the corners of his mouth rose.

"I want lots and lots of matcha."

He stared at her for a while. He watched as she trembled in fear. Under his gaze, her limbs were stiff and she didn't know what to do. She almost knocked the bowl over a few times.

His smile widened. He crossed his arms and pretended not to feel anything, but in fact, he was staring at her more intensely than before.

His gaze was so intense that she couldn't ignore it.

"Matcha?" Huaguo was shocked. "Who would put matcha in cold noodles?

And matcha — "She carefully recalled the taste and frowned subconsciously." How can it taste good if it's made this way? "

"Without matcha, I don't want to eat it."

Was he for real?

Huaguo stared at him for a long time. After confirming that he wasn't joking, she added Matcha into the soup with a look of disbelief.

Even without tasting it, she felt that it didn't match the taste.

Would it really taste good?

With doubts, she broke two bowls in the process. She almost scalded her hand while boiling the soup. Huaguo scrambled to get a bowl of cold noodles out of the kitchen.

Zong Xiang's love for Matcha was to a certain extent. When he ate ice, not only did he have to eat Matcha flavored ice cream, but he would also add a large cup of Matcha into the soup when he ate a bowl of cold noodles.

This taste wasn't complimentary to Huaguo, but to him, it was a delicacy.

During the meal, the two of them swapped positions.

This time, it was Huaguo's turn to hold his face with both hands. He stared at Zongxiang Lisi without blinking. He wanted to ask how his cooking was, but he remembered that he had just added a large amount of matcha.

He felt that it was better not to ask.

Unlike Huaguo, who felt uncomfortable from being stared at, Zongxiang Lisi ate his cold noodles with a calm expression. He even lifted his head leisurely. "Do you want to transfer schools?"

He still remembered what he had asked previously.

Huaguo held his face with both hands. He was angry for a moment. "What schools are there?"

"You want to be closer to home, right?" Zongxiang Lisi, who was talking about serious matters, instantly became serious. He was no longer as relaxed as before.

"If it's near Zongxiang's house," Lisi pondered as he tapped his knuckles on the table, making a 'duk duk duk' sound.

"There's a girls' school called Santa Maria, and there's also an aristocratic school called Bai Xuekuan Academy." He looked at Huaguo's expression. "There's a normal school called Bingsheng, and there's also a night school called Heizhu Academy."

"Night school?"

"It means going to school at night."

Seeing that Huaguo seemed a little interested, he took a sip of the tea beside him and added casually, "It's a little dangerous."

He looked at her hand and closed his eyes. "It's best not to go to this school."

"I'll get someone to give you the brochures of those schools tomorrow. You can take a look and see if there's anything you're interested in."

He adjusted his spectacles. "As for the Ice Emperor, you can go to class if you want. You don't have to go if you don't want to."

"Steward Tanaka will help you deal with the bullying and transferring schools. The Zongxiang family won't be bullied to this extent."

Huaguo suddenly saw a flash of white light on his spectacles. He couldn't bear to look at it directly for a long time.

Sure enough, his brother in name —

Was very strange.

.....

A new day had arrived.

The two people eating in the dining room were silent and unfamiliar. Coincidentally, they both seemed to have forgotten what happened last night.

Huaguo recalled yesterday's awkward question. He could vaguely feel the heat on his cheeks.

The burning sensation lingered in his mind for a long time.

Zongxiang Lisi looked calm, but Huaguo couldn't. She didn't notice, but she stole glances at Zongxiang more than ten times during breakfast.

So many times that even Steward Tanaka, who was standing behind Zongxiang, noticed. Zongxiang still didn't seem to notice.

Finally, breakfast was over.

Seeing that he was about to leave, Huaguo hesitated whether to go up and talk to him, but he waved at her.

With an inexplicable joy, Huaguo jogged a few steps. "What's up?"

"If you don't go to school today, someone will come to pick you up later."

"Who?"

Zongxiang looked at her strangely. "Guochang Road."

"Ah, okay, okay." Huaguo felt ashamed of herself for jumping for joy at that moment. She tightened her grip and nodded.

"Then I'll be going."

Zongxiang gestured to Steward Tanaka, put on his coat, and quickly disappeared through the door.

Huaguo froze in her seat for a long time before she angrily went back to her room.

Last night, even when she returned to her room and laid on the soft bed, she tossed and turned because of the lingering heat.

By the time he finally fell asleep, the sky was already turning bright.

While she was glad that she didn't have dark circles, she also made up her mind to not think about what happened last night.

But seeing that Zongxiang Lisi also seemed to have forgotten what happened last night, she inexplicably felt a little depressed.

She waited until the Golden King arrived, but her mood didn't improve at all.

"Because the difficulty of detecting high-risk worlds is higher than what we predicted at the beginning, this time, the Golden Clan sent a new self-defense method."

As the rabbit with the golden mask approached, the object covered by the cloth on the tray gradually revealed its shape.

Looking at the size and shape, it seemed to be a sword.

The cloth on the tray was lifted, and what was revealed was a sword more than one foot and nine centimeters long.

"This is?"

"Wuji Sadakazu.

Tokugawa Ieyasu's beloved sword, a sword that can bring good luck. "

"This sword is a relic?"

Although Huaguo had never heard of the name of this sword, but who was Tokugawa Ieyasu? Huaguo had heard of him when she learned about him before.

"It's not a relic."

The rabbit with the mask was silent, but Guo Changlu behind her seemed to be surprised. He seemed to hesitate for a moment about how to explain. Then he said, "This sword appeared by accident. It's exactly the same as the one enshrined in Tokugawa Ieyasu's house, but the detector detected some differences."

"Differences?"

Looking at the other party's hesitant look, Huaguo suddenly thought of a possibility, and the way he looked at the sword changed. "Monster?"

"Probably, it's Death God Fu."

Death God Fu?

From Night Fight, Huaguo had a rough understanding of the eight million gods here. Looking at this sword that was so quiet that he couldn't see any abnormalities, he hesitated for a moment, but still decided to take it in his hand.

Almost at the moment when his hand touched the hilt —

A dazzling white light flashed.

Then, out of thin air, a golden-haired young man appeared.

"I went to Tokugawa Ieyasu and learned what the powerful Wuji Sadakazu is!

From now on, I will follow my own beliefs and bring good luck to my master! "

His golden eyes were shining. Even if the so-called "master" was a girl half a head shorter than him, he didn't waver at all.