Really? I'm fighting the Dark Emperor.

Chapter 204 Straightforward

He paused for a moment, not flustered by being exposed, but rather seemed relieved: "I knew you'd find out."

"You knew all along, yet you still tried to test me?"

“I don’t want to keep doubting you,” he released her hand, his fingers slipping between hers. Not sensing any resistance, he pursed his lips and gripped her hand again. “It’s so good that it’s not you.”

Rui Bu Si automatically ignored his last sentence.

"What do you suspect me of? The person the Dark Emperor is looking for, or a Dark spy?" She lifted his chin, deliberately looking him in the eye. The close proximity allowed them to see every subtle expression and change in each other's eyes.

"It seems to be the former."

"Yeah." He responded.

Why would you suspect me?

"When Teacher He Yan mentioned this, the thought that it was only recently the start of the semester popped into my head... it's nothing."

Sensing that the other person's mood was a bit off, he cautiously stopped talking.

Although he occasionally makes mistakes, he always trusts his intuition and is accustomed to finding all the evidence and analyzing the causes and consequences before revealing the answer to the matter to the public.

This is a habit he's had since he was a child.

But in that instant, as doubts and thoughts of the past popped into his mind and were then dismissed, he was afraid for the first time that his intuition was correct.

"That's so unfair," she repeated, looking very aggrieved, "My boyfriend suspected me on the very first day of our relationship."

In his nervousness, he unconsciously tightened his grip on her hand. He opened his mouth as if to explain something, but then felt that any explanation would seem pale and powerless at this moment.

He did have some doubts;

It was indeed a deliberate test.

"I don't want to be filled with doubt when I'm with you."

I might as well just say what I really think.

The other person's mood did not worsen further, nor did it show any improvement.

"Is the probing over now?"

"Ah."

"Got an answer?"

“…Hmm.” The more she answered, the more guilty and ashamed she felt.

However, she absolutely did not allow him to make any attempt to escape. The moment he tried to look away, he could feel the hand that was holding his trying to pull away.

During that strange and prolonged eye contact, he felt himself sinking into boundless unease, an unease that expanded rapidly, filling his entire heart. Only the hand he was still tightly clasped offered him a sliver of security, making him increasingly afraid that the longer time passed, the more he feared that his only sense of security would vanish.

The longer time passed, the more he felt that sliver of security could vanish at any moment—even though she didn't seem to have any intention of pulling her hand away.

At this moment, I actually hope she will ask something else.

she asked.

Why not use mind reading?

"You don't like it."

"Would the Star of Wisdom of the Cute Knights care whether the person the Dark Emperor is looking for likes or not?"

She emphasized the words "Star of Wisdom" and "Dark Emperor," making it clear to him that this matter was far from over.

"I care whether you like it or not." After answering, he understood where the real problem lay. "Even if I have doubts in the future, I will not test you in this way again."

With a cold snort, Rui Bu Si finally withdrew her hand from his chin: "You're thinking there'll be a next time, huh?"

"I……"

"If you have doubts, why test me with statements full of loopholes?"

He looked at her, unable to bring himself to say "no."

He was somewhat surprised that she could perceive his thoughts so clearly, and afraid that she would continue talking, and say more...

Rui Bu Si clearly had no intention of stopping.

"Testing dark spies is obviously more accurate and faster using instruments. The teachers in Meng Academy are more familiar with the students than I am, not to mention that one of the teachers, He Yan, has been in the Dark Clan for a long time and has an incomparable understanding of the Dark Clan and is very sensitive to the dark aura."

Even assuming you didn't think of any of these things, school rules prohibit magical attacks between students, but you've never followed them.

She rattled off a long string of words, then asked him, "Miya Xing, what kind of answer did you want to get when you were testing him?"

"Do you hope I really aren't? Or even if I am, will you pretend not to be after you realize it, so I can lie to you and you can lie to yourself?"

"I……"

He was unable to respond to such questions.

Thoughts he hadn't even considered in detail were spoken directly from another person's mouth—he had previously wondered what it would be like to switch roles when he used mind-reading to decisively point out other people's hidden thoughts.

He thought it must have felt awful.

However, I've now discovered that I don't actually dislike it.

"What's wrong? After getting the answers you wanted by testing the waters, you made your unease and struggle so obvious, as if you were afraid I wouldn't notice. In the end, you didn't even think about how you would answer the questions I asked you?"

"I don't want to hide it from you."

"You don't know how to explain it, so you're planning to let me find out for myself?"

"Ah."

"What if I don't notice?"

I will tell you directly.

"How can you answer smoothly now?"

"...because I felt that you definitely wouldn't like my answer to the previous question."

Rui Bu Si was so angry at his honesty that she almost laughed.

"Miya Star, you're really something."

She suddenly closed the distance between them, which was already not far apart, and wrapped her arms around his neck, forcing him to lower his head without any room for resistance.

His glasses were lifted up, and his eyes, which had lost their glasses, couldn't adjust for a moment. Everything he saw suddenly seemed to be shrouded in a hazy mist, and he felt as if the whole world had shrunk to just the two of them.

The stinging pain on his lips traveled very slowly to his brain, so much so that by the time he realized something had happened, he was hearing Rui Bu Si's threatening voice in his ear:

"Miya Star, dare to try that again next time?"

The unease that had been creeping into my heart vanished completely until she tapped me on the forehead, bringing me back to my senses.

They haven't fully returned yet.

"Come on, since we're already here, I'll show you something."

She acted as if nothing had happened.