Xia Yue stared at Xia Xi suspiciously for a very long time.
Being stared at by this little girl, Xia Xi didn’t dare to move a muscle.
If it weren’t for the fact that his figure body couldn’t sweat, he might have been drenched in sweat by now.
“Alright, alright~”
Xia Yue finally gave up on interrogating Xia Xi. Mostly, it seemed that who he really was didn’t matter much to her anyway.
She just thought that if he really was that so-called ghost gentleman, it would be really fun if her guess was right.
But unfortunately, he was too tight-lipped, not revealing a single clue about his identity.
Well, that wasn’t entirely true. He did reveal something, like claiming to be some princess. Hatsune Miku is a princess, so that wasn’t wrong~
“Onii-chan, let me pinch your cheeks!”
Suddenly, before Xia Xi could react, Xia Yue blurted this out at lightning speed.
Xia Xi instinctively said, “No way,” but then immediately felt something was off.
What did Xia Yue just call him? Onii-chan?
Why would she use that term for a figure? And a female figure at that.
But Xia Yue didn’t answer the question burning in his mind. She just smiled brightly, reached out, and started pinching and squeezing his cheeks.
Stealing a cautious glance at Xia Yue’s face and seeing no particular expression, Xia Xi could only assume it was a slip of the tongue.
After all, one second she suspected he was the ghost gentleman, the next second she couldn’t possibly suspect he was her brother, right? That would be way too much of a mental leap.
And since that one time he swapped with her, and then later with An Xiaoyu which she knew about, based on just those two swaps, this annoying little sister probably didn’t know about his special ability, right? She probably wouldn’t be testing him by talking to a figure like this.
“Little princess, your cheeks are so soft~”
Xia Yue was all smiles, seeming really happy.
“Don’t pinch like that, it’s really uncomfortable!”
Xia Xi tried to resist a few times, but it was useless. How could a figure’s strength compare to a human dozens of times its size?
“Hehe, I don’t care~ Let me see if your there is as soft as your cheeks~”
As she spoke, Xia Yue’s sweet smile suddenly twisted into a mischievous, wicked grin. Her fingers slowly started moving down from Xia Xi’s cheeks.
Feeling the strange sensation on his body, Xia Xi quickly stepped back a few times, only to find himself pressed against her other hand, which had been holding the hairdryer.
That palm, which usually looked so soft and puffy, now seemed like an insurmountable wall in Xia Xi’s eyes.
“Lewd things are forbidden! Xiao Dao, save me!”
Xia Xi raised his arms in front of him, trying to push away her approaching index finger, and kept calling for help from Xiao Dao, whose fur was already dry, under the desk.
But Xiao Dao, having experienced being left for dead by his own ‘big sister,’ pretended not to hear. Let his ‘big sister’ experience the despair he felt when Bai Xiaocha held him down for a bath!
Just as her finger was about to touch his body, the bathroom door suddenly swung open.
“Xiao Cha, save me!”
In an instant, Xia Xi saw hope again.
Hearing Xia Xi’s cry for help, Bai Xiaocha, forgetting she hadn’t put on her pants yet, rushed over and pushed Xia Yue aside.
“Xia Yue, what are you doing? Why are you bullying her!”
Seeing Xia Xi looking disheveled like he’d been badly mistreated, Bai Xiaocha’s cheeks puffed up instantly like a pufferfish.
This must be what they call an adorable steamed bun face, just like Bai Xiaocha’s.
“I’m not! I’m just playing with him~ Right, Onee-san (big sister)?”
Looking at the wicked smile curling on Xia Yue’s lips and that meaningful look in her eyes, combined with her earlier ‘Onii-chan’ (brother) which might have been intentional or not, and now the emphasized ‘Onee-san’ (big sister), Xia Xi felt like this girl might have discovered something.
But things had come to this, he had to brazen it out and keep up the act. At the very least, he couldn’t let Bai Xiaocha guess his identity. In Bai Xiaocha’s eyes, he had to remain the number one Princess Hatsune Miku!
“Little princess, is she telling the truth?”
Bai Xiaocha ignored Xia Yue and asked the victim, Xia Xi, instead.
Xia Xi snuck a peek at Xia Yue’s expression and saw a look that clearly said, “If you dare tattle, you’ll be in for it.” He could only let out an awkward laugh or two, indicating that he was indeed just playing around with Xia Yue.
“What? And here I thought you were being bullied. I was hoping to pull off a ‘beautiful girl saves beautiful girl’ move to boost my likeability~”
Ugh, when did this silly loli Bai Xiaocha learn to be so mischievous?
“By the way… Is Xiyu-jie not staying in the dorm again tonight?”
Bai Xiaocha looked around, didn’t see Leng Xiyu, and asked Xia Yue.
“Seems like it. I wonder what Xiyu-jie has been busy with lately.”
…
In high school, lights-out time is generally quite early. Not long after Bai Xiaocha finished her bath, the lights suddenly went out.
“Meow?”
(Big Sis, when are you gonna teach me the magic to turn into a two-legged beast?)
In the darkness, a pair of bright green cat eyes stared fixedly at Xia Xi.
Xia Xi was currently positioned right next to Bai Xiaocha’s head, which was resting on her own pillow.
“Shh~”
Hearing Xiao Dao’s question, Xia Xi put his index finger to his lips and shushed him, signaling him not to make a sound.
Lights were out already. If a patrolling dorm supervisor heard a cat meowing in the room, there would be big trouble.
At the very least, the cat making the noise wouldn’t be allowed to stay in the dorm anymore.
“System, use the Animal Humanization Card.”
Xia Xi silently thought to himself.
The next second, a small figure in the darkness slowly began to grow.
That figure gradually changed from a pose on all fours to standing on two feet.
Through the moonlight streaming in from the window, you could see two small ears on top of the shadow’s head, still twitching left and right. Behind the shadow’s waist, a long tail moved like a little snake, incredibly agile.
“!”
Xiao Dao felt the change in his body and got so excited he was about to speak to his ‘big sister.’
“Don’t talk!”
Xia Xi yelled out suddenly, cutting him off sharply.
Bai Xiaocha, right next to him, was startled and her whole body trembled.
“Why are you suddenly yelling like that… you scared me…”
Bai Xiaocha reached out, grabbed Xia Xi, pulled him under the covers, and held him tightly against her chest, giving him a good squeeze as punishment for the disobedient little princess scaring her.
Punishment over, she turned onto her side, ready to go back to sleep. But out of the corner of her eye, she inadvertently caught a glimpse of a tall figure not far from the bedside.
“Xiyu-jie, is that you back?”
Seeing the shadow looked kind of like a person, she thought it might be Leng Xiyu sneaking back into the dorm late at night, so she asked.
Even though her voice echoed through the whole dorm room, no one answered her.
Xiao Dao was scared silent after seeing his ‘big sister’ get viciously bullied by some evil two-legged beast just for talking loudly.
As for Xia Yue…
This girl was covering her mouth, eyes wide open, staring intently at the male version “neko musume” (cat girl) with cat ears!
