Genshin Impact: This fireplace house is your graveyard.

Chapter 9 Do you like Pepe?

Clementine's sudden remark caught Akikawa off guard. She stared blankly for a few seconds before finally reacting. "Uh, oh... um..."

At this moment, Qiuhe gently placed his hand on Claire's feet. Claire felt the boy's hands massaging and kneading her feet.

The boy's hands were so warm; the hand holding my foot felt like holding my heart.

From toes to soles, from the instep to the ankle, I felt the boy's hands exploring my feet, like searching for a beautiful treasure from a dream in the dark.

Clementine was also breathing heavily, and Akikawa felt as if he had witnessed this scene before, but he couldn't remember who she was. The figure in his memory was so beautiful.

The outline of his body, every detail, was clearly visible. But I couldn't recall his face at all. It felt like I'd forgotten one of my most precious memories.

Who is that girl? Is she a fairy from heaven? Why can't I see her face clearly? The light emanating from her is warm and healing.

Qiuhe's distraction caused his hand to seemingly accidentally touch a button, instantly sending a tingling, pleasurable sensation from his toes throughout his body.

Claire shuddered and uncontrollably let out a very seductive and trembling sound. "Ah~". The sound wasn't loud.

But in the darkness, it was like a thunderclap, like a bolt of lightning striking Qiuhe's head.

Qiuhe was abruptly pulled back to reality from her thoughts. She stiffly turned her head to look at Claire.

Staring at Clementine with an intelligent look, Peruvier beside her wondered if she had misheard.

The situation remained deadlocked, extremely awkward, and the worst thing about awkward moments is the silence. At that moment, the surroundings were as quiet as a graveyard.

At this moment, Claire also stared at Akikawa and asked shyly and slowly.

“Le Yi…”

When Qiuhe heard him being called, he hesitated and replied, "Huh?"

"Do you...like Peipei?"

"?" "?"

What were you doing with Peipei in the room just now?

"Hmm—now that you have Peipei, you don't want me anymore, right?"

Qiuhe was stunned and sat there dumbfounded, looking as if his soul had been taken away.

"Sniff...hmm?...What's that smell?" Peruvieri thought she smelled something strange, like something burning. The smell was coming from Akikawa's direction.

Claire's mouth continued its incessant chatter. "Now that you have Pepe, will you never love me again?" Her face was flushed, and her eyes glistened with tears.

Peruvier finally caught a clue in his words; she had felt like she'd seen those lines somewhere before, and now she was certain.

Peruvieri turned Cléviel around and reached inside Cléviel's clothes, searching her body for something.

"Hey! Peipei, what are you doing? Oh no, Peipei, Peipei, no! Peipei, assistant Peipei!"

"Don't speak, let me see."

Upon witnessing this scene, Qiuhe's eyes gradually lost their luster. His brain regressed to early childhood, then returned from early childhood to the Warring States period.

Then, from the Warring States period back to the Jurassic period, and from the Jurassic period back to the vast Milky Way galaxy, the baby's cry in the Milky Way seems to be telling of the departure of the brain.

After a while, Peruvier finally pulled a novel out from behind Clover's underwear. "Sigh... I'll confiscate this book for now."

"Huh? No! Why?"

"Look back at the state you've made of Leyi!"

Claire turned around and saw that Qiuhe's eyes were glazed over. He was drooling and looked completely dazed.

"What's wrong with Leyi?"

"Think about what you just said to Leyi."

"What? What did I just say...?"

Clementine suddenly realized something, and her face flushed red from her neck down to the top of her head, just like when she was in his room. A mushroom cloud instantly rose above her head.

Her pupils trembled, she grabbed the blanket from the bed, and instantly burrowed under it. "Ahhh~ I'm so embarrassed! How could I have blurted it all out!"

Peruvelli moved closer to Akikawa and pinched his cheek hard. Akikawa didn't react, so Peruvelli raised her hand and slapped him repeatedly.

He slapped Qiuhe several times in succession. Qiuhe's eyes finally reacted, and he gradually came to his senses.

"Huh? What happened? What's going on? What just happened? What happened to me?"

"go to bed"

After saying "go to sleep," Peruvieri lay down next to Clover. Akikawa, looking bewildered, asked, "What's wrong?"

"Where am I supposed to sleep?"

Peruvieri didn't speak and seemed to be asleep, while Clévius just kept rolling around beside her.

Qiuhe picked up the remaining bedding from the bed and placed it on the floor. "Sigh. Whose room is this anyway?"

Inside Kujavina's Room in the House of the Fireplace

"The group of fools who went to Baisong Town this morning to look for the children are still missing."

Kujavina turned her back to the Fools' soldiers, staring at the flowerpot before her. Her smile was no longer the angelic one she once was.

His blood-red lips, combined with his smile, made him appear like a demon standing in the center of the room. The room was extremely cold.

The soldiers of the Fool's Army were drenched in cold sweat. They dared not raise their heads. "Let's retreat," one soldier said. "It's late; don't disturb the children."

Upon hearing this, the foolish soldiers wisely and slowly withdrew from the area. Kujavina looked at the flowerpot in front of her. A smile gradually spread across her face, revealing her pearly white teeth.

Kujavina covered her face, her hands leaving deep marks on it, before letting out a maniacal, morbid laugh: "Hehehe... Hahahaha, Hahahahahahaha!"

"Qiuhe," "Qiuhe," "Where is this?" Qiuhe found himself in an unfamiliar scene with a girl calling his name in his ear.

Qiuhe also saw a girl with her back to him not far away. She had no hair. "Who are you? Why do I keep thinking about you?"

Qiuhe slowly walked towards the girl, but found that although it was a short distance, it seemed like he could never keep up with her. Qiuhe reached out his hand to grab her, but the distance between them grew ever wider.

"Le Yi, Le Yi"

Qiuhe felt something pinching her face and slowly opened her eyes. "Uh... what's wrong?" Qiuhe still looked like she hadn't woken up properly, but she could see clearly.

It was Claire pinching her cheek to wake her up. "Lazybones, the sun's already up to your bottom!" Qiuhe, realizing it was already light, sat up and let out a loud yawn.

"Strange, it feels like I had some weird dream just now. What was it about?" Qiuhe thought about whether he had a dream, but he couldn't remember.

I could only vaguely recall that there was a little girl in my dream, but I couldn't think of anything else, so I shook my head, trying to clear my mind of those thoughts.

"What's wrong? Do you have classes today?"

"No, Mother told me earlier that he's leaving Hearth House temporarily today, possibly for a few months. We don't have anything planned for today, so I thought we should go out and have some fun."

At this moment, Qiuhe also caught the key words: Kujavina was no longer at the Hearth House, and she wouldn't be back for several months. What could he be doing there?

"Alright, stop spacing out. We don't have anything planned for today, let's go to the beach."

Qiuhe trembled violently upon hearing this. Back on Earth, he had often been beaten and scolded by his father as a child.

On one occasion, they even held Qiuhe underwater and nearly drowned him; this incident still haunts Qiuhe.

"Why do we have to go to the beach? Going somewhere else to play is just as good, isn't it?"

"It's been months since I last went to the beach. I'm practically going stir-crazy! My mother's not here, and we're having free time at Fireplace House, so of course I have to go to the beach!"

"Look, your foot injury hasn't healed yet, so you can't get it wet, right?"

"What are you talking about? My foot is already all better."

Qiuhe finally came to his senses. He got off the bed and squatted down next to him to talk to him. For the first time, Qiuhe felt that the medicine was too good but he was also very angry.

Just then, the bathroom door slowly opened, and Peruvé emerged wearing a towel, her hair still damp. Akikawa, who had been watching this scene intently, was also present.

Peruvée also noticed the gaze that Akikawa was casting at her and wondered what he was looking at now.

Akikawa stared into Peruvier's eyes for a long time, seemingly deep in thought, and slowly asked Claire beside him.

"Clover, how do you say shiitake mushroom in Inatsume language?"

"mushroom?"

Claire thought for a moment and then casually said...

"Shiitake mushroom (Inazuma's language)." Akikawa finally confirmed his earlier suspicions. No matter the language, it would translate into his own language in his mind.

But he didn't notice that Peruvée was slowly walking towards him. Akikawa was still thinking when he saw a shadow already in front of him.

Two drops of water dripped from her head and landed on Qiuhe's face.

Qiuhe looked up and saw Peruvier standing in front of him, water dripping slowly from her hair, the droplets sliding down the tablet.

Akikawa also marveled at the smoothness of her skin, but then he noticed something else: the red cross in Peruvier's eyes, which had been dark with anger, brightened slightly.

He stared at Qiuhe's mouth and slowly spoke.

"Okay, let's go to the beach today."

Qiuhe was also drenched in sweat at this moment, remembering what he had just said.

"We're doomed."