Really? I'm fighting the Dark Emperor.

Chapter 205 Poison Ivy

No, rather than what Ruibusi wanted to see, Miya Xing wanted to know something else.

There was a faint light in the cave, and it was hard to see at first, but after my eyes adjusted to the light, the surrounding environment gradually became clear.

After taking two steps inside, Rui Busi suddenly noticed that the person behind her had stopped.

"what happened?"

She turned around and found that Mi Yaxing was just standing there with his lips pursed. The disadvantage of the dim lighting was that she couldn't see his eyes clearly behind his glasses, but she could vaguely sense that he didn't seem very happy.

Then, recalling the journey, he realized that Mi Yaxing hadn't said a word the whole way, just silently letting him lead him.

What is he unhappy about?

She didn't throw a tantrum even when she was being tested for no reason!

"Rui Bu Si." He called her name softly and moved a little closer to her.

In this relatively enclosed space, even the slightest sound would be amplified. She heard it, then tilted her head in confusion, waiting for what would happen next.

"Ok?"

We didn't get to read the rest of the story.

The two of them were extremely close together. Rui Bu Si felt that his gaze was incredibly serious, as if he was searching for something, but after a moment it turned somewhat dejected.

Is there something on her face?

It's not a very romantic place, and it's all bare around us. There's no need to stare at each other for so long, is there?

As she opened her mouth to ask something, the other person suddenly released their clasped hands, then took off their glasses with one hand, and gently but firmly placed the other hand on the back of her neck.

When their lips were incredibly close, they seemed to pause for a moment, or at least she felt a pause. For a split second, she even thought that Miya Xing was just teasing her for some purpose.

But not.

I'm not teasing her.

Surprised, I instinctively prepared to take a step back, but was not allowed to.

It was just a simple photo; she didn't have the premonition that Miya Xing seemed to be preparing to bite her in revenge.

Of course, if Miya Xing really dared to bite, she swore she would bite back even harder.

"It's not that there's absolutely no reaction."

The other person released her, looked into her eyes for a long time, and spoke the first words.

Saying it's loosened isn't quite accurate either.

The hand was still on the back of her neck, making her feel a little uncomfortable. As she reached out to remove it, Miya Xing suddenly tucked her hair behind her ear.

She didn't tie her hair up when she went out today.

Or rather, from a certain day onwards, she rarely tied her hair up anymore.

Because she found that the hair tie disappeared very easily, and it was too much trouble to buy a new one, and besides, she didn't usually tie her hair up, she gradually stopped doing so.

"Ever since Valentine's Day, I've had this feeling that I'm the only one who's having feelings for you."

She was stunned for a moment, not understanding why Mi Yaxing suddenly said that.

His cool fingertips brushed against her earlobe, making her shiver involuntarily.

I can't stand having someone touch me here.

However, as if on purpose, or as if in retaliation, the other person kept their hand there, not moving it away.

“Rui Bu Si, I feel very uneasy.”

Whether it was her imagination or not, she could hear accusation and grievance in the voice.

"disturbed?"

"Yes, I feel uneasy."

"Whether it's a confession, a sudden kiss, or even the anger just now, you always seem like an observer." The sense of accusation disappears, replaced by a deep sense of grievance. "You watch me fall for you and get hooked, like teasing a puppy and occasionally giving me a piece of candy."

Rui Busi felt a sense of familiarity within that overwhelming sense of grievance.

It wasn't entirely about feeling wronged; rather, it seemed more like...

He looked intently into her eyes, put his glasses back on, and couldn't help but smile, interrupting her thoughts:

"That's great, Ruibusi, I'm not the only one who's falling for you."

He could clearly feel the changes in himself, and felt his love overflowing uncontrollably. He thought about her constantly and completely out of control, wanting to see her more.

Just like before their relationship was confirmed, he failed to notice that Ruibusi treated him differently from how she treated others.

Whether it was holding hands or kissing, she had always been observing him, observing something very interesting, and being curious about what kind of reaction that "thing" would produce that would make her even more amused, so she gave him more.

It's as if those words of "love" are something that can be said casually to anyone.

"Why...why would you say that?"

He looked at her reddened ears, moved his hand away, and her hair, no longer obstructing her view, returned to its original position.

"No, it's nothing." He took her hand, but not with the same tightness as before. "Didn't you say you were going to show me something? Let's go see it."

Rui Bu Si found him somewhat inexplicable.

If you want to kiss, just kiss. And then there's a whole bunch of post-kissing thoughts.

"I can't just leave things unsaid and expect me to guess before I go to bed, can I?"

This time, it was her who didn't want to leave.

Where do you feel uneasy?

Her fingers pressed against the swollen spot on his lips where she had bitten him.

"Now."

"Now?"

He sighed: "You make me feel like you did all this just to see me lose control, not out of 'love'."

She frowned: "Is there a difference?"

“Yes.” He squeezed her hand. “Rui Bu Si, there are differences.”

"You can't be nonchalant when you confess your feelings, you can't act like nothing happened after the kiss, you can't act like you're about to break up with me at any moment, and then make me feel like we'll never be apart."

“You always make me feel like all my unease stems from my overthinking, and you always make me feel uneasy... Rui Bu Si, don’t do this to me.”

He made some flawed statements to test her, and what he got in return, besides the result he wanted, was that she understood him better than he thought.

It even seems like he knows more about it than he does himself.

After that unexpected "kiss," and having recovered from that uneasy state, he suddenly realized—

She knew perfectly well what would make her uneasy, and even more so, she knew what would help him escape that unease. Whether she felt wronged or angry, her true reaction was far less intense than she outwardly displayed.

Were you really that angry just now?

"Maybe?" she asked, somewhat puzzled. "You want me to be angrier?"

"Well, I hope you're even angrier, and I hope that every time you make a move that's intimate, it's not out of intentional or unintentional teasing of me, or out of retaliation for me doing things differently than you expect."

"So what if that's the purpose?"

“That’s why,” he said, looking at her with an “what can you do about it” expression. “What can I do? I’ll just have to find a way to get back at her.”

"Ok?"

"Wisdom can be used to solve mysteries, and it's not that it can't be used for this. Rui Bu Si, I also have a vengeful nature, and I will retaliate."

She couldn't quite imagine what it would be like for Miya Xing to retaliate.

"What if I did it unintentionally?"

"I will retaliate against you in a 'deliberate' way."

She looked at him with that look of surprise and wonder, and Miya Xing sighed before turning her head away.

"I've answered all your questions. Now, can we go see what you're going to show me?"

He hadn't expected that what Ruibusi had mysteriously brought him to see was this.

"Poison vines?"

At the bottom of the glass bottle was a small amount of unidentified liquid. The object inside was suspended above the liquid, not touching it at all. It was withered and had no leaves. If it weren't for the faint, dark aura still present, it would look more like a dead twig picked up from somewhere.

“Yes,” she said, picking up the glass bottle from the stone table and shaking it. The quiet poison vine struggled to move upwards again. “It doesn’t seem to like this potion very much.”

It's more than just dislike.

Why are you raising this?

The poison ivy in the Moe Academy only grows in the underground sewers, and no one has ever studied whether it can grow well outside the underground sewers.

“Genny said he was going to give it away, but after getting some poison ivy, he realized it was hard to keep out of the sewers, so he asked me to find someone to take a look.”

Ruibusi thought back and realized that it seemed like a long time ago that Kenny had asked her for a favor.

In her memory, poison ivy was always easy to live, so when she heard Ginny say that it looked half-dead, she just assumed that the thing was acting.

If Miya Xing hadn't suddenly invited her to the grove today, and if she hadn't happened to see the location of the cave from afar, she might not have remembered it.

But now it seems like this thing isn't just acting; it's probably really going to fail.

Didn't Genny say that what he poured in was a magic potion to promote plant growth?

She shook the bottle again, and the once-quiet poison ivy became a little more "energetic".

Miya Star wasn't very optimistic about Genny giving a poison vine as a gift.

"Is this the person you're looking for?"

He had never grown poison ivy.