Volume 1, Chapter 32 – Lap Pillow?

No… to be precise, it was a call for help…

“Rea… can you hear my voice?”

Honestly, saying something like that out loud so directly… only an idiot would do that…

“……”

The surrounding forest was silent. It seemed like Yivrea hadn’t heard her voice at all.

But,

“Wait, didn’t we just talk a moment ago?”

Tianyin suddenly remembered that not long ago, Yivrea had clearly spoken to her.

Thinking carefully about it, the situation became obvious. When she got lost earlier, she must have already been trapped in the illusion. Which meant she could communicate with Yivrea properly from within it.

Then came the question.

If Yivrea had just spoken to her normally, then had she heard Tianyin’s earlier words or not?

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The answer was obvious.

“Rea! I know for sure you can hear me! Hey… if you can, please help me escape from this illusion!”

Yes, just as Tianyin expected, Yivrea was probably hiding somewhere, secretly watching her…

“Oh my, Xiaoyin realized it so quickly, huh…”

Not long after Tianyin’s voice faded, a sweet, melodious voice suddenly echoed beside her ear.

“Wuu… I knew it, Rea, you were secretly laughing at me again…”

Yes, over this past month, although Yivrea had indeed been teaching Tianyin seriously, sometimes, watching Tianyin make a fool of herself was one of her favorite pastimes.

As for the reason… She simply loved seeing the cute expressions Xiaoyin made when she panicked or got flustered.

The fact that this NPC girl actually liked watching her pitiful little loli self being cute… it was a personality quirk Tianyin instinctively rejected with all her being.

Muttering complaints, Tianyin puffed up her cheeks angrily.

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“Well, don’t mind the details~ I just wanted to see whether Xiaoyin could realize right away that she’d fallen into an illusion… but…”

“But what?”

“But Xiaoyin is unexpectedly dumb~”

At this point, Tianyin could easily picture the silver-haired beauty covering her mouth, her pretty eyes curved into crescents as she laughed softly.

“What do you mean dumb! Noticing I’m in an illusion that fast is pretty smart, isn’t it?”

“Really that fast? You do realize you already wandered around lost inside the illusion, right~?”

“Wuu… b-but I still noticed pretty quickly…”

Tianyin felt a bit guilty, her eyelids lowering slightly.

“Well… alright, I’ll stop teasing Xiaoyin. I’ll get you out of the illusion right away~”

“Mhm mhm, thank you, Rea~”

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Tianyin replied gratefully, and as soon as her voice faded, her vision was swallowed by darkness.

However, even though her sight fell into darkness, her consciousness still remained.

“Hey, Xiaoyin, wake up~”

Yivrea’s gentle voice suddenly sounded beside her ear.

“Wuu…”

Hearing that voice, Tianyin instinctively opened her eyes. Slowly, what came into view was the all-too-familiar forest canopy, the countless branches weaving together into a false “sky”…

“This is… huh… am I still in this forest?”

“Of course, Xiaoyin~”

Yivrea’s voice came from directly above her. At that moment, Tianyin realized that the girl’s voice was very, very close.

At the same time, she noticed that she seemed to be lying down, her head resting on something unusually soft…

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“Eh? What… am I resting my head on?”

Curious about the softness of her “pillow,” Tianyin instinctively reached out to touch it.

But just as her hand lifted toward that softness… clack!, it was gently caught.

“Honestly, even if Xiaoyin’s a girl, you still can’t just touch another girl’s legs so casually~”

“Eh… what…”

Tianyin froze for a moment.

Then she immediately realized.

“L-legs… wait, wait… am I—am I enjoying your lap pillow right now?!”