Chapter 53: I’m Taking Medicine!
The two little ones nibbled on their roasted fish aimlessly.
At this point, let’s just eat.
As university students, they were at an age where their appetites were growing. Each bite of the roasted fish made them forget about their worries unawares.
“You are Sumu, right?”
Just as the pink squirrel stuffed her cheeks with roasted fish, a girl with short black hair appeared in front of her.
Sumu halted her chewing, staring blankly at Ning Ling, and blinked before swallowing the fish in her mouth.
“How do you know?”
“I heard from my Master that you believe there’s a safety issue with my cooking.”
That annoying dead rabbit!
“Uh, well, that might be a misunderstanding. I’m really enjoying this!”
Sumu displayed the half-eaten roasted fish in her hand while wiping the cold sweat from her forehead.
However, Ning Ling wasn’t buying it. She calmly took out her phone and played the recording Tang Nai had sent her.
“Hello, 12315? I want to report that there’s a hot pot restaurant involved in dangerous cooking here…”
Hearing that familiar voice, Sumu froze in place, her heart secretly shattering.
Tang Nai, you’re such a terrible person!
“That was just a joke. In fact, I ate a lot that day too.”
Sumu forced a smile while internally cursing that inconsiderate dead rabbit.
“Since that’s the case, eat all of this in front of me.”
Ning Ling said those dangerous words expressionlessly, and in her hands, she had unexpectedly gathered ten skewers of various seafood.
The only thing Sumu could recognize was a terrifyingly large octopus tentacle, which made her recall the unpleasant memory of being tied up by another Ning Xi, almost facing execution on the spot.
But she still decisively took that handful of skewers.
Although the shape and texture were not great, since the taste was decent, it was a feast.
Ning Ling, you underestimate a university student’s appetite!
After focusing intently on watching Sumu eat the skewers, Ning Ling’s demeanor finally returned to indifference.
For a moment there, her aura was almost identical to Luo Linglan’s, exuding a similar sense of pressure and a certainty in her tone.
Sumu had always avoided negotiations with such intimidating figures, but unfortunately, Tang Nai had set her up this time.
“So, it should be fine now, right?”
Ning Ling nodded but showed no intention of leaving. Instead, she sat next to Luo Jialan, causing the two little ones to unconsciously lean away from her, nearly shoulder to shoulder.
However, Ning Ling moved along with them, maintaining a distance of thirty centimeters, her nose occasionally sniffing, as if trying to determine the sweet scent mixed with the ocean breeze that lingered about Luo Jialan.
“You smell better than last time.”
Luo Jialan couldn’t help but lean completely against Sumu, while vigilantly watching Ning Ling, catching her off guard.
“We shouldn’t be this close, right?”
And Sumu, squeezed in the chest, was screaming inside.
We shouldn’t be this intimate, this development is moving way too fast!
“It’s nothing. I just felt that the magic power that symbolizes restraint on you seems to be purer, so I couldn’t help but get closer. If you feel offended, I can leave.”
Saying this, Ning Ling pressed her palms together in a gesture of apology and fell silent, ready to leave.
“Wait, when you mentioned restraint, what does that mean?”
After being nudged subtly by Sumu, Luo Jialan straightened up again, unable to suppress her curiosity and spoke up.
“Restraint is the opposite of desire. The Desire Witch and Magical Girl Ning Xi almost perished together, but it’s very difficult to completely eliminate existences like Level B witches. So the Combat Department ultimately decided to initiate a very secretive plan called Thousand Faces, which is about dispersing the core of the Desire Witch and Ning Xi’s core into countless parts, centering on Ning Xi to reassemble…”
Before Ning Ling could say more, the two little ones had already become dazed as if they were listening to a foreign language.
Let alone the exaggerated unknown information among them, just the so-called Thousand Faces plan sounded too controversial to casually discuss!
Girl, are you being too honest?
“I am Experiment Subject No. 0 Ning Xi, but I don’t like this name, so I changed it to Ning Ling. The core I selected comes from the part of the Desire Witch that symbolizes restraint, so its stability is very good.”
“Wait, saying this out loud shouldn’t have any consequences, right?”
Finally, Sumu couldn’t help but interrupt Ning Ling.
She didn’t want to be inexplicably invited for tea by the Combat Department, which she had always feared.
When she was a monster, the Combat Department was her nightmare. She would dream of being stormed by fully armed agents and tied up before being thrown into a special prison to pick up soap.
“Don’t worry, although they warned me not to say these things everywhere, I didn’t nod back then, so even if I say it, it’s fine.”
Clearly, it will cause trouble!
It seemed that this girl, who claimed to possess restraint powers, didn’t appear to have any self-discipline at all.
But Luo Jialan covered Sumu’s mouth, indicating for Ning Ling to continue.
“Uh, can you talk more about the part about perishing together? My impression is that the Combat Department publicly declared that the Desire Witch had been defeated.”
“If you ask me, I don’t know either. I only know that it was Magical Girl Ning Xi who fought against the Desire Witch in the end.”
This girl was so infuriatingly honest.
“However, I inherited some of Ning Xi’s memories. It seems she knew the Desire Witch before their battle.”
Ning Ling tilted her head, then threw out another shocking statement.
“It seems they were in a romantic relationship. Now I’m not quite clear, but I remember her saying something like—”
“You’re already mine for eating my fish every day, even if you die, it should be by my hand.”
Sumu silently clutched her head.
Ugh, such abstract remarks! I don’t want to hear this!
