Volume 5, Chapter 3 – The Elf Girl Eating in the Cafeteria

“An elf girl? Wow, this photo—she really does look beautiful. No wonder she’s trending everywhere right now.”

“Too bad it’s only a side profile. Oh? There are front-facing photos!”

“Damn… but you have to pay for them. What a scam!”

“But to think there are actually real elves in this world, and they can use magic too?”

“How incredible… If magic exists, I wonder if it could cure my illness.”

“Cough cough cough!”

…

Staring at the news on his phone, a sophomore student named Huang Chengxin couldn’t help but sigh repeatedly.

He had to admit, that elf girl on the internet was absurdly beautiful—beautiful enough to make one’s heart race.

However, Huang Chengxin was fairly realistic. Although he also found the elf girl cute and beautiful, his thoughts were mostly just appreciation of her beauty, without any lewd intentions.

“But seriously… judging from her figure and appearance, she’s clearly an onee-san type, right? Why do all these animals on the internet keep calling her a cute girl? Is it because of her expression?! What a bunch of idiots!”

Huang Chengxin, who unhesitatingly joined the onee-san faction, immediately fired off dozens of confrontational messages online.

His typing speed was so fast it left people dumbstruck.

After sending the messages, he put down his phone and focused his attention on the hooded girl wearing sunglasses in front of him.

“Um, are you okay?”

…

About ten minutes ago, Huang Chengxin had accidentally encountered this person.

At the time, this girl was standing in front of the school cafeteria, staring intently at the food inside.

And she kept looking at him while he was eating, making Huang Chengxin quite uncomfortable.

Although Huang Chengxin initially wanted to ignore her, that gaze from behind the sunglasses was really too intense… and she kept drooling.

Clearly, she was craving his food…

—”Come on!! You’re supposed to be a girl! Can’t you be a little more reserved?!”—

Huang Chengxin couldn’t help but roar in his heart.

Perhaps not wanting to attract more attention from nearby students, Huang Chengxin eventually got up and brought her into the cafeteria, pointing to the food not far away.

“Take whatever you want, I’ll pay.”

“Re… really?”

Hearing that adorable voice, Huang Chengxin couldn’t help but shiver all over.

Although he couldn’t see her face clearly, just from this voice… Huang Chengxin identified her as a beautiful girl.

But why did this classmate’s Chinese sound a bit stuttering? Like she hadn’t spoken it in a long time?

Well, it didn’t matter.

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Taking a deep breath, Huang Chengxin nodded.

“Yeah, eat whatever you want, until you’re full.”

In this college student’s eyes, this seemingly confused classmate in front of him should be like those starving ghosts in his dorm—the type who spent too much money and had no money left for food at the end of the month.

Looking at her like this, she’d probably been hungry for several days.

Huang Chengxin’s family wasn’t wealthy, but because he’d received scholarships, his meal card still had some savings.

Treating her to one meal wouldn’t be a big problem.

…

Back to the present…

Watching the girl eating in front of him, Huang Chengxin suddenly felt the problem was a bit big.

The reason was simple—this female classmate could eat way too much!!

From just now until now, in just a few minutes, she’d already eaten over ten bowls of rice! Seven or eight dishes!

Not only hadn’t her speed decreased, she was eating even faster!

Now she was literally eating while holding the bowl!

If this continues, my week’s meal expenses will be gone!

Is this girl the reincarnation of a starving ghost?!

But even starving ghosts don’t eat this much! This girl eats way more than those food streamers online!!

Huang Chengxin couldn’t help but frantically complain in his heart.

At the same time, he glanced around awkwardly from the corner of his eye. He saw that at this moment, the attention of many students and teachers had been simultaneously drawn to this head-wrapped food-devouring girl, and quite a few people had even taken out their phones to record videos.

After all, it was rare to encounter such a big eater.

Additionally, people were starting to get curious about his identity, sitting across from the girl…

This made Huang Chengxin feel somewhat uncomfortable. As a rather shy college student, he didn’t really like this kind of attention.

After taking a deep breath, Huang Chengxin gathered his courage and spoke to the girl in front of him:

“Um, classmate, have you… had enough to eat?”

However, faced with this question, Huang Chengxin didn’t receive a reply. The girl continued silently eating with her head down, quite focused.

Seeing this, Huang Chengxin could only sigh helplessly and continued browsing his phone with mixed feelings.

However, just then, the girl’s ethereal voice suddenly drifted into Huang Chengxin’s ears.

—”Excuse me… what year… is it now?”—

“Huh?”

The sudden question caught Huang Chengxin off guard.

What he didn’t expect even more was that she would ask such a basic question.

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But considering that her tone seemed quite serious, Huang Chengxin still gave a solemn reply:

“Right now it’s July 2038.”

“Year 38… July…”

After getting this answer, the girl’s spoon stopped midway to her mouth.

“I died in 2035… so it’s only been three years?… The time flow… is indeed the same as Taro said.”

“Huh? Died? Flow? Classmate, what are you talking about?”

Huang Chengxin’s eyebrows twitched a few times.

However, the girl sitting across from him still didn’t answer his question, but continued eating on her own.

“Uh.”

Seeing that she was ignoring him again, Huang Chengxin could only awkwardly continue browsing his phone.

Continuing his online battle with the cute girl faction!

Just then, Huang Chengxin received a message from someone.

—”Look at this video, listen to her voice!! See if you still dare say she’s not a cute girl?!”—

Hmm?

Frowning, Huang Chengxin clicked on the video recorded live by some streamer.

As the elf girl’s voice came through his earphones, Huang Chengxin’s eyes suddenly contracted.

The voice was indeed very cute… but… why was it so familiar?

This voice… wasn’t it…

Trembling, he looked up at the girl who had been talking to him just a minute ago, and Huang Chengxin was completely stunned.

Could it be? Such a coincidence?

I must be mistaken.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Huang Chengxin tentatively suggested:

“Classmate, could you take off your headscarf and sunglasses?”

“Hmm? Why… why?”

“If you take them off, I’ll get you ten more servings of fried rice?”

Honestly, Huang Chengxin felt he’d made a stupid suggestion and felt embarrassed.

Unexpectedly, the girl actually agreed to this proposal?!

“Okay!”

“Eh? O… okay?”

“Mm!”

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Tempted by the food, under the dumbstruck gazes of everyone, the girl directly removed her headscarf, and the cyan-silver gradient hair hidden beneath cascaded down like a waterfall. When she removed her sunglasses, those soul-stealing dark red eyes like precious gems were revealed.

—”Holy shit!!! Isn’t that the big-breasted elf cutie?!! Why is she here?!!”—

In an instant, the entire cafeteria erupted.

“You, you really are, really are that elf??”

Looking at the absolutely beautiful face in front of him, Huang Chengxin couldn’t help but swallow. The shy him was now blushing furiously.

On the other side, the elf girl who was eagerly waiting for Huang Chengxin to order food seemed to notice the gazes from people around her.

Although her brain was temporarily a bit fuzzy, the elf girl still had some basic judgment ability.

She realized that she might have done something wrong…

Attracting attention… wasn’t very appropriate.

“Um… that…”

Looking at Huang Chengxin, the elf girl spoke with her pleasant and adorable voice.

“Ah?! Please, please speak!”

“The train station… where is it?”

“Train station? If you mean Cangdu North District Station… after leaving our school’s north gate, walk straight for two kilometers and you’ll reach it.”

“Um… that? Do you… have money?”

“Ah?”

Being asked this, Huang Chengxin felt even more confused.

But faced with a beauty, he was already too nervous to think clearly and just nodded woodenly.

“Yes, I have some.”

“Could you… give me some?”

“Ah? Sure… yes, I can.”

Nodding, Huang Chengxin took out the three hundred yuan in cash he kept as backup from his wallet.

“Thank you.”

Taking the cash, the elf girl smiled gratefully.

Her beautiful smile made Huang Chengxin tremble all over. Due to being too shy and excited, a sharp pain suddenly came from his chest, making him involuntarily press his hand to it.

“Hiss…”

“Your… heart… isn’t good?”

“It’s okay, an old problem…”

“Don’t you… go to the hospital?”

“Hehe, forget it.”

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Huang Chengxin smiled bitterly.

His congenital heart disease… with that degree of deformity, hospitals couldn’t treat it very well either. Even if they could, his family didn’t have that much money.

“Then… I’ll… help treat you.”

“Mm… huh? What did you say?”

Blinking, Huang Chengxin looked up in confusion.

Then he was surprised to discover that the elf girl had somehow extended her hand in front of him and was gently touching his forehead with her index finger.

“I said… I’ll help you… with treatment. As thanks~, thank you for treating me… to food~”

The elf girl smiled slightly.

“Also, I’ll give you… ten more years of life… ehehe~”

In an instant, under the envious and shocked gazes of everyone nearby, an emerald-colored light of life quietly bloomed from the girl’s fingertip, suddenly enveloping Huang Chengxin’s body. An unprecedented feeling of comfort quietly spread throughout his entire body.

The elf girl wasn’t the type to just take benefits without showing gratitude.

Since Huang Chengxin had treated her to food and given her travel money, she naturally had to properly repay him.

…

After the emerald light faded, Huang Chengxin was amazed to discover that his heart… didn’t hurt anymore?

Moreover, whether it was his imagination or not, Huang Chengxin felt his body had become unprecedentedly light!! As if he could run around the track a dozen times in one go!!

He’d really been healed?!!

For a moment, wild joy rapidly spread and grew in his heart.

The excited Huang Chengxin hurriedly looked up.

“Thank… hmm??”

Then this college student awkwardly discovered that the elf girl who had been eating across from him had somehow disappeared without a trace, leaving only ice-blue flower petals scattered on the ground… and a crowd of bewildered students and teachers.

“Where, where did she go?”

Looking around, Huang Chengxin muttered to himself somewhat dejectedly.

…

While the entire cafeteria, and even all of Cangdu University, was in an uproar due to the elf girl’s appearance and disappearance, the instigator herself—that is, our Miss Bai Lianyue—quietly came to the rooftop of the teaching building and gazed in the direction of the train station.

“No matter what… I should… go home first…”

The evil god miss muttered to herself absentmindedly.

As for why she chose the train?

The reason was simple.

The evil god miss… didn’t know the way…