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“What about you? Aren’t you going to eat? Or have you already eaten?”

“I haven’t seen you for almost a day, and as soon as I see you, you tell me to leave~” Seiun Sky acted like a little resentful woman who had been abandoned. “It seems Trainer doesn’t miss me at all.”

“I miss you, I miss you.” Lu Jue fell for this trick and couldn’t resist at all. “Didn’t you say you were coming earlier? I’ve been looking forward to it.”

“Really?”

“Absolutely.”

“Then what were you doing yesterday, hugging Silence Suzuka behind my back?”

What was bound to happen always does. Seiun Sky didn’t ask yesterday, but that didn’t mean she would forget everything today.

“You’ve already given your embrace to Xiao Te, and now Silence Suzuka is joining in. You want three…”

Lu Jue quickly covered Seiun Sky’s mouth. “Don’t say it.”

Seiun Sky stared with wide eyes, looking at Lu Jue like an angry kitten, huffing and puffing.

“Yesterday, that was because Silence Suzuka used the condition of winning the simulated race.” Lu Jue didn’t lie to Seiun Sky, even though he had guided her.

Seiun Sky removed Lu Jue’s hand and looked at him skeptically. “A condition from the simulated race?”

But it wasn’t that she didn’t believe Lu Jue’s explanation, it was more like, how could Silent Suzuka propose such a condition?

Silence Suzuka shouldn’t be that proactive… Could it be that his excessive stimulation had activated her?

“Yes.” Lu Jue spread his hands.

“I’ll trust Trainer for now.” Seiun Sky glanced out the window and saw Silent Suzuka’s back as she swept the floor.

Mischievous thoughts crept into her mind again.

“Today’s kiss, you have to kiss me.” Seiun Sky pointed at her cherry-like mouth.

“Aren’t you afraid of Silence Suzuka finding out? Didn’t you tell me not to tell anyone before?” Lu Jue lowered his voice.

Kissing Seiun Sky in the lounge behind Silent Suzuka’s back, he felt a bit strange…

“What am I afraid of? I just told Trainer not to tell anyone~” Seiun Sky chuckled, exhaling softly with a gentle whisper, urging him, “Hurry, hurry~ Does Trainer want Silence Suzuka to catch us kissing?”

“Alright.”

As soon as Lu Jue lowered his head, Seiun Sky stood on her tiptoes and kissed him.

Was the longing from just half a day apart so intense?… It was like holding a piece of jelly, unwilling to bite into it, and unwilling to swallow it whole.

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“Lu Jue-jun, Lu Jue-jun?” Silent Suzuka carefully finished sweeping the floor and turned around, calling out Lu Jue’s name.

Strange, why was there no answer? Did no one hear her?

Looking through the window, Silent Suzuka didn’t find Lu Jue either.

“Ah, what’s wrong, Silence Suzuka?”

Lu Jue took a deep breath as if he had narrowly escaped a disaster, then showed half his face by the window.

He was leaning against the wall, with Seiun Sky nestled in his arms, her head pressed tightly against his chest.

“Lu Jue-jun, I just have a few clothes to wash, and I wanted to ask where the laundry detergent is. I couldn’t find it just now.”

“Hmm… Let me think.” Lu Jue’s voice was unnatural, because Seiun Sky in his arms was not being well-behaved; her small hand had already broken through the barrier of his clothes, tickling his waist.

Seeing Lu Jue look over, she even managed to extend a small hand, making a shushing gesture, and whispered, “You can’t tell anyone~ Trainer promised~”

Lu Jue realized he had miscalculated; Seiun Sky was not shy at all.

But he couldn’t deal with her for now, because Silent Suzuka was still waiting for his answer.

“I remember it seems to be… behind, behind the washing machine? You can look there.” Lu Jue endured the tickling, his words not very coherent, but thankfully Silent Suzuka didn’t notice anything amiss.

“Okay, I’ll go look.”

“Okay, thank you, Silence Suzuka.”

Seeing Silent Suzuka temporarily leave, Lu Jue’s gaze returned to Seiun Sky.

Seiun Sky rested her chin on Lu Jue’s chest, lifted her head, and looked at him with a sly smile on her lips, just smiling at him sweetly.

“Trainer, your ears are a little red, are you shy? I like Trainer when he’s shy.”

Seiun Sky really wanted to see Lu Jue’s face blush with shyness, like a green junior being toyed with by her.

“Little devil, what exactly do you want to do today?” Lu Jue admitted that his cheeks were indeed a bit warm.

“Little devil? A new nickname, huh.” Seiun Sky tapped her index finger on her lips. “Is it the succubus kind?”

“It means your mischievous skills are superb. Aren’t you afraid that one day Silence Suzuka will get revenge? Since she could use a condition to get one hug…”

Seiun Sky froze, and in an instant, many fantastical images flashed through her mind.

“Trainer is absolutely right.” Just when he thought Seiun Sky would back down, she changed her tone and said, “There’s an old saying in Dragon Country: ‘A wise person doesn’t suffer immediate losses’~”

“Wait, who taught you that? Uralala?”

“Trainer knows too much.” Seiun Sky stood on her tiptoes, pouting, and was about to kiss Lu Jue again.

But Lu Jue extended his two fingers, trapping those flower-like, vibrant lips. “Wait, first tell me what that saying means.”

“Isn’t it simple?” Seiun Sky remembered Uralala’s explanation. “A famous Uma Musume won’t suffer immediate losses!”

Lu Jue was utterly dumbfounded. “Then what will she eat?”

“Eat you!”

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Seiun Sky timed it perfectly, and after her intimate moment with Lu Jue, she secretly slipped away through the front door.

She said Uralala had recently become very interested in some of Dragon Country’s memes and had shared quite a few with her.

Before leaving, Seiun Sky left Lu Jue with the phrase “very smooth,” leaving him in a daze for a long time.

He felt defiled, but it actually felt pretty good.

Uralala is truly a troublemaker; she should sit at the same table as Nice Nature for dinner.

“Lu Jue-jun, what is this?” Silent Suzuka came in through the back door after finishing her work, and as soon as she entered, she saw Lu Jue leaning against the table, lost in thought.

“Don’t disturb me, I’m thinking.”

“Thinking? What are you thinking about so intently?”

“Never mind, it’s nothing~”

What Lu Jue said left Silent Suzuka feeling confused.

“Silence Suzuka, is the outside cleaned up?”

“Yes, it’s all cleaned.” Silent Suzuka’s gaze suddenly fixed on Lu Jue’s face. “Lu Jue-jun, did you bite your mouth when you were thinking just now? It looks a little red around the edges.”

“Ah? Is it very red?” Lu Jue did feel a slight swelling sensation around his mouth.

A certain sharp-toothed cat was truly too much.

He only did that when he ate those snails or periwinkles at home, especially the ones that were hard to suck out.

The initial description of jelly was too conservative.

“Not very red, just a little bit.”

“That’s good, no worries~” Lu Jue sighed. “Are you, uh, going to eat now?”

“Mm…” Silent Suzuka always felt that time alone with Lu Jue passed too quickly.

Seeming to notice Silent Suzuka’s hesitation, Lu Jue said, “Or do you need a massage to comfort your body and mind?”

“Th-that’s fine too…” Silent Suzuka’s restless hands were clasped in front of her.

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