Volume 1, Chapter 52 – The Wonder of the Artifact

Well, sometimes having a master who’s way too cute can really be a headache.

Looking at Tianyin, who was puffing up her little cheeks and pouting angrily right in front of her, Mengyao’s lips curved into a smile that came straight from the heart.

“Master~ isn’t being cute a good thing? Normally, you could be even cuter than this! And with your long hair being so nice, it’d be such a shame not to tie it up in twin-tails~”

“I… I don’t want that!”

Being told she was cute so bluntly like that… absolutely… absolutely not something she could admit!

I mean, I’m a boy!

…Well, I used to be…

“Well… anyway, hairstyles like twin-tails are for little kids! And I’m your master, you know? As a master, I need to look dignified, got it?”

After thinking deeply for a moment, Tianyin put her hands on her hips and started lecturing with a serious face.

“Eh… but master, aren’t you just like me? You’re still a little kid who hasn’t grown up yet.”

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Even though Tianyin tried to deny it, Mengyao, who wasn’t good at lying, saw straight through it and spoke honestly about what she thought.

“You… you you you you you you you you you you you you you’re the kid! Your whole family are kids!”

There was no denying it, those words hit Tianyin’s “tiny” heart with a ton of emotional damage.

After taking that hit, the silver-haired loli glared angrily at her own loli disciple with her big eyes, her tiny tiger teeth grinding audibly.

After glaring at Mengyao for a long time, Tianyin gradually realized that just being angry and glaring didn’t intimidate her disciple at all. With her ridiculously cute face, all it did was make her look like she was acting adorable.

Yes, not only was it not intimidating, it actually looked like she was trying to act cute instead…

It was at this moment that Tianyin gained a certain degree of self-awareness for the first time in her life.

“Forget it… after we finish eating, Xiaomengyao, you’ll be heading out for training again… If I remember right, you still haven’t completed your job change quest, right?”

“Uu… that… that…”

When Tianyin suddenly brought up the job change training quest, Mengyao’s expression became a little awkward.

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“Master, that quest is… kinda hard…”

“Hm? What’s hard about it?”

Tianyin tilted her head. After all, when she’d assigned the quest to her loli disciple, she had specifically chosen the easiest one possible.

“Because… um, master, Slimes really are just weak low-level monsters that can be easily defeated. But… but…”

“But what?”

“Um… after you kill a Slime, if its slime mucus sticks to your body… it’ll corrode your clothes…”

“……”

Now that she thought about it, Tianyin had never actually heard of Slimes before, but upon hearing that their slime could corrode clothes, she instantly understood why her loli disciple looked so hesitant to bring it up.

It seemed that just fighting Slimes must have cost her quite a few sets of clothes.

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…Probably.

“Well, even if Slimes are disgusting like that, Xiaomengyao, as a Blood Knight, and as my disciple, there’s no way a mere Slime could ever defeat you~ So, Xiaomengyao, do your best~”

“M… Master…”

Her loli disciple looked at her with teary, pitiful eyes.

But Tianyin, determined to maintain her masterly dignity, cruelly turned her face away.

“T-This kind of thing… you need to learn to handle it yourself…”

In the end, she mumbled those words that sounded strangely like they carried some real weight.

“Mm… Master… I… I understand…”

After hearing Tianyin say she needed to learn to solve it on her own, Mengyao felt that she could sense the deep intentions behind her loli master’s words.

Ah, master must be trying to teach me to overcome difficulties on my own!

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Thinking that, Mengyao finally made up her mind to complete her training quest by herself.

“I absolutely… can’t let master down~”

With that determination, Mengyao felt a sudden rush of fighting spirit fill her heart.

But in truth, Tianyin hadn’t been thinking that deeply at all.

Having recently discovered the wonders of the artifact “Golden Exclamation Mark,” today Tianyin had decided to go out and post some quests to make players run errands for her.

After all, with the Golden Exclamation Mark, not only could she easily attract players’ attention, but all the quests’ creation, editing, and final interpretation rights were entirely in her hands.

“Hmm… for today’s quest… let’s start by having players gather some materials for potion making.”

After thinking it over, Tianyin decided on the quest content for the day.