"Now, you're telling now?"
Asai Reina found Xia Nuo's declaration utterly astonishing.
What she said... should be the heartfelt truth I want to know, right?
But...
Reina recalled that her arrival at this point wasn't due to her own strength but Fang You's, which made her feel extrely guilty.
"But I—"
"It's okay, Reina!"
Xia Nuo patted Asai Reina's shoulder, "I, Nuo Nuo, always keep my word. I definitely won't go back on a promise! If I said I'd tell you the truth, then I must tell it now!"
"But our original bet was to choose an outstanding class in military training—"
"But, but!"
Xia Nuo, with her arm over Reina's shoulder, said, "Your fearless courage moved and made realize so things, so I've decided not to hide my feelings anymore."
"But—"
Xia Nuo continued with a radiant smile on her face:
"Just say it, do you want to hear my heartfelt truth?"
"I do!" Asai Reina said earnestly, "Of course, I do!"
"Then that's enough!"
Xia Nuo coughed a few tis and then continued more seriously, "But let's not talk about it here, as things outside are about to wrap up and we're short on ti. Let's talk about it tonight when we et alone, okay?"
"Alright, okay..."
Asai Reina nodded and Xia Nuo, pushing her along, said:
"Alright, you head out first!"
"And you? What are you staying here for?"
Xia Nuo looked around humming and mused:
"I want to see if there are any hidden items or sothing..."
Xia Nuo with hands on her hips, wore a look of full confidence:
"Actually, based on my information, that treasure of yours is likely just a regular one. There might be so mysterious treasure hidden inside—"
"Ah, okay..."
"Then be careful, okay!"
"No problem! Off you go, off you go!"
Xia Nuo cheerfully waved Reina off until her figure disappeared at the end of the cave. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief, as if a weight had been lifted.
Phew...
That was close.
She almost spilled the beans about the real situation.
Xia Nuo couldn't help but shake her head with a sigh.
Reina, Reina, it's always like this.
"Hasn't changed from when we were kids."
Sincere, frank.
A scaredy-cat who likes soone but doesn't dare to say it.
But it's precisely such a scaredy-cat.
That has always been doing things far braver than .
Just who is the real scaredy-cat...
Xia Nuo took a long breath.
She pursed her lips then shook her head, with her mouth pouting, she revealed a bitter smile.
When Xia Nuo erged from the cave, Ai Wei led Class S with the information brought by Pi Chao to support the fight against the raccoon boss.
Of course, that raccoon was ultimately defeated under the impressive 999 hit damage from Emperor You You, with Fang You achieving the first kill hence unlocking a pile of material items.
anwhile, Asai Reina also found the treasure protected by the raccoon in the cave, securing an additional 100 points bonus for Class S.
Due to the school's survival training competition rules and Zhendan Academy's principles of cooperative progress, cross-class mbers couldn't engage in "faction strife," which precluded any bloody PvP conflicts.
As Class D despaired over their efforts only benefiting others, Fang You chose to share the materials with Class D who had also fought the raccoon.
The condition proposed was mutual cooperation and exchange of necessary survival resources.
Although it seed like a tactic to curry favor, the terms were too tempting to resist, even carrying that indulgent sentint of "because the class leader is Xia Nuo, you get to benefit this much."
With Fang You's off-the-charts stats and verifiable first kill, students from Class S had so complaints, but with Ai Wei's support, nobody dared to offend this big shot Fang You lightly.
"Are his stats really not hacked?"
"No way, this is too much..."
After coming out of the cave, Xia Nuo had been sowhat quiet, and everyone thought it was because she felt defeated by Reina in the cave, so they all tried to encourage her.
"It's okay, Nuo Nuo."
"Ah Yu."
"Let ask you sothing."
"Don't ask about anything too complicated, because I won't know."
"Don't tell to be with You You, even though that would be easy for ."
"Then... uh, never mind, go ahead and ask."
"Do you rember the first ti you t You You?"
"Yeah, I rember."
Luo Xianyu nodded, "It was during a show filming. Nobody was there to get a al, and I was crying. You took to get food, and in the end, it was You You who helped get a al."
"At that ti..."
Xia Nuo said with a smile, "It's funny how you rember sothing from when you were just a few years old so clearly!"
"It's nothing, mainly because I asked You You about it before, and he told , so I imdiately rembered it."
Luo Xianyu rubbed her hands together to warm her breath and then placed them on Xia Nuo's face, "But... why are you suddenly asking this?"
"I can't quite rember now," Xia Nuo said.
"What can't you rember?"
Luo Xianyu, hugging her knees and tilting her head, asked curiously, "Can't you rember the first ti you t You You?"
"Yeah."
"Couldn't you just ask You You? He should rember."
"But, that would be from when we were really young, just little babies."
"After all, you were born on the sa year, the sa month, and the sa day... Maybe you t for the first ti when you were switched at birth?"
"Haha... that's true."
"You're acting strange."
Luo Xianyu thought for a mont, "Although you've been strange since high school, you've never been this weird before."
"Is that so! Then I should feel really proud!"
Xia Nuo stood tall and confident, striking a very confident pose.
The relationship with You You started... when?
Days filled with his presence in my mory seed like they should be just how life was.
Everyone always took it for granted to see them as inseparable, as if their relationship had always been that close.
But for Nuo Nuo, it had not always been this way.
"Is there anyone following you?"
"Um..."
"Then I'm going to speak my true feelings."
"Um."
"But first I want to say sothing that's not true!"
"Okay."
"..."
Xia Nuo fell silent for a bit, and then said with a smile:
"Being scared to change what You You and I have now, that's a lie!"
"Wishing You You would date another girl is also a lie."
"I knew it!" Asai Reina was imdiately angry.
"The truth is, because."
"I wasn't ntally prepared."
Xia Nuo said.
"Huh?"
"ntally prepared?"
"Yeah."
Xia Nuo nodded.
"So it's because of that, you rejected You You's confession?"
"Why?"
"..."
"Because, I had it all planned."
"I was planning to confess to You You."
"Wouldn't it be great that he confessed to you!"
Xia Nuo muttered, "It wouldn't be great at all."
"It's always been taking the initiative, ever since we were little."
"I was really scared when he suddenly took the initiative."
"Besides, I wanted my confession to You You to be well planned."
"I wanted to confess there, to You You."
Xia Nuo looked up, gazing at the distant sky.
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