As soon as the two returned to Huang Yan's apartment, Jian Jingyu opened the door from the inside,
"Welcome home!"
Wang Tianwei was the first to change her shoes and walk in. Zhang Lyra was adjusting the projector, and the hot pot, meat, and vegetables on the coffee table were already prepared.
Her own cooking robot from upstairs had also been brought down by the two of them.
"Little Bear!! I missed you so much!!!"
Not having seen her for an entire summer vacation, Wang Tianwei threw herself directly at her to express her longing.
Huang Yan then walked in unhurriedly, closing the door behind him.
Jian Jingyu smugly rolled his short sleeves up to his shoulders, showing off the muscles on his arms,
"Sir Huang, look! Aren't they huge!"
He kept changing his poses as he spoke,
"How about it!? Huge, right!?"
"..."
Over there, Zhang Lyra really could not stand Wang Tianwei rubbing her head wildly, so she pushed her away with one hand,
"Huh!? Is it just my imagination? ...Why does it feel like you've gotten stronger again?"
At the end of last semester, she wasn't this powerless to struggle, was she!? Did she remember it wrong? Or had she herself gotten weaker?
Wang Tianwei stood frozen in self-doubt.
Zhang Lyra calmly took off her long-sleeved outerwear and raised her arm, imitating Jian Jingyu's pose,
"Holy crap! King Kong Barbie!!"
Wang Tianwei was dumbfounded to see muscle lines even more defined than before the summer vacation!
"Confess! What did your aunt feed you these past two months!?"
"Yo! Lyra is looking pretty good too!!"
Jian Jingyu walked all the way over maintaining his Mr. Bodybuilder pose and stood side by side with Zhang Lyra,
"Get bigger! Only then can you get stronger!"
Wang Tianwei looked down at her own arms and also rolled up her short sleeves,
"I'm not too shabby either, right? I built three mechas over the summer vacation... Ever heard of Qilin arms!?"
"Small... is also very cute."
"Sister Zebra, I'm not trying to lecture you, but you can't just skip leg day!"
"..."
Huang Yan bypassed the three of them, sat down on the sofa, and picked up his chopsticks,
"You all trained your trapezius muscles pretty well, but can you even roll over in your sleep at night?"
One sentence killed the competition...
The three of them rolled down their sleeves and put their clothes back on.
They dejectedly found their respective seats, sat down, and started putting their favorite foods into the pot.
It wasn't on purpose either... No matter what they trained, those muscles would lend some force, which was why they had gotten just a tiny bit bigger...
But why didn't Sir Huang show everyone!? Blind guess: his muscles weren't as good as theirs!
Jian Jingyu secretly peeked to his side, meeting Huang Yan's calm gaze that plainly said, I know exactly what you're thinking.
He immediately snapped his head back, staring intently at the meat in the pot,
"...Is it not cooked yet?"
While waiting for the pot to boil, Wang Tianwei handed Zhang Lyra her spatial button,
"Little Bear, your mecha! Now we have three Super A-grades!"
"Thanks a lot! You've worked hard."
Zhang Lyra wished she could release the mecha and try it out right away!
Tianwei had sent her all the data and test videos to watch, so she already knew what her new mecha looked like!
She could only say that every detail was exactly to her liking! In a couple of days when school started, she would be able to experience it on the training ground!
"...What time are we heading out tomorrow?"
"It takes an hour to get there from here, how about eight o'clock?"
"If we leave at eight, we still have to do morning exercises when we get up... Are you guys eating breakfast?"
Huang Yan turned his head to ask the people around him, and all three nodded,
"Then let's wake up at six. We have to go find Feng Yi first, better early than late."
"Okay."
"No objections."
Speaking of this, the four fell somewhat silent again.
"I prepared a bouquet."
As soon as Jian Jingyu finished speaking, he noticed the strange looks the three were giving him. After thinking for a moment, he said,
"...It's Xiaozhi's white chrysanthemums! I do have some common sense, okay!?"
The others finally withdrew their gazes; they had almost gotten physical...
"Everyone rest early today."
After dinner, Wang Tianwei took Zhang Lyra back to the upstairs apartment to sleep.
At six-ten the next day, the two appeared punctually at Huang Yan's place again.
Jian Jingyu came out with a toothbrush in his mouth, his hair looking like it had been blown up,
"You're here this early?"
"Weren't we going to eat breakfast and do morning exercises together?"
The two girls actually weren't fully awake either.
Lyra, like her, didn't like sleeping in the sleep pod. The two had laid in the same bed, and as they chatted, it had gotten a bit late.
In the middle of the night, she seemed to have been kicked out of bed by her once... but she was so sleepy that she didn't even know how she climbed back up?
When Huang Yan came out after changing his clothes, he saw three people and two robots taking up the entire common area...
Wang Tianwei was restocking nutrient fluids in his fridge with her eyes closed, and Zhang Lyra had already gone to the living room to pump iron.
Jian Jingyu was eating pancakes in the kitchen; the cooking robot would make one, and he would eat one...
"Sigh... Goldfish, go change your clothes first. If you stand there eating them, when will it ever finish making them?
Restocking some nutrient fluids is fine... bring a few packs for us to drink on the way.
Little Bear, stop training for now too, and clear the table."
Only then did the group start moving according to the brain's instructions.
Without Jian Jingyu's interference, pancakes, eggs, vegetables, and fruits were served on the table one after another.
After breakfast, the four finally woke up completely and began their morning exercises.
Jian Jingyu and Zhang Lyra didn't use any equipment, but even when they threw punches, a faint swish, swish sound could be heard!
Wang Tianwei felt that she had slacked off a bit physically over the summer vacation and was working hard to catch up, her face flushed red from the weight she was carrying on her shoulders.
Huang Yan, on the other hand, continued to practice according to the training plan Yi Shao had set for him.
An hour later, the four took another shower and gathered in their Qilin school uniforms.
Everyone had a completely different image from just a moment ago. Their hair was combed neatly, and their uniform buttons were fastened all the way to the top,
"...Let's go."
"Okay."
Arriving at Feng Yi's house according to the location, Wang Tianwei sent him a message on her optical computer.
Before long, a person dressed entirely in black opened the door and came out.
Feng Yi couldn't help but freeze for a moment when he saw the four of them in uniform attire,
"That's right... wait for me to change my clothes."
After saying that, he turned around, went back inside, and came out having changed into the Qilin school uniform.
"This is good too... compared to all black, they would probably prefer this outfit."
The four from Mortal Enemy felt quite uneasy in their hearts upon seeing Feng Yi.
In just three months, he looked much more mature...
They couldn't put their finger on what had changed, but his whole aura was different from before, as if he had suddenly gone from being their peer to someone like Yi Shao...
The last time they met, it was the four of Mortal Enemy against the four of Firefly, but today, only one person remained in Firefly...
Qi Chengyan was also missing... Sometimes Wang Tianwei couldn't even tell whether death or missing was more despairing in this situation.
Feng Yi looked at the bulk of the group,
"Looks like you guys weren't idle over the summer vacation either? This is bad, we're going to get scolded by the teachers again when school starts."
"..."
Seeing that no one responded to his words, he stepped forward and patted Huang Yan on the shoulder,
"Don't keep such a straight face.
My cousin likes interesting people the most, and Yi Shao too, despite how he looks! He actually likes liveliness as well..."
As he finished speaking, Feng Yi's eyes grew a little red. He turned and boarded his flying machine,
"Let's get going, don't be too late."
