When An Le heard that, an awkward expression involuntarily appeared on her face.

She couldn't explain how she had left halfway through to go to the Skytree and fire tentacle cannons all over Tokyo.

"I had already seen all your works when I was in Tokyo before; they're really well done. Also, the support website from before was your art, right? So I thought, it's such a pity to give up halfway like that…"

Yan Huan placed her hands on An Le's shoulders, gently pushing the stunned An Le sitting at the doorway into the room, smiling as she spoke.

"Eh eh, did Xiao Huan see... see all of it?!"

An Le's face turned red, recalling.

It seemed that one night, Xiao Huan had indeed used a rather creative yet familiar position...

Now she just barely recalled that she had drawn it in her book!

"Ugh..."

Thinking about it made her face turn even redder.

"Teacher Ping Xi, there's cake here!"

Ahead, a cream-colored cake with candles inserted all around was being pushed over, clean and white in the middle.

And beside it, Miyake Huhu picked up the device to squeeze the differently colored cream, inviting An Le to draw on the cake once again,

"Ah, we also prepared... come on, do you want to draw something on top with the cream?"

Seeing this, An Le bit her lip, nervously yet excitedly looking back at Yan Huan.

Seeing his smile, she mustered up her courage, taking the device handed by Miyake Huhu,

"I... um... thanks..."

On her shoulder, Little Thumb seemed affected by the atmosphere, sticking out its tongue to reveal its shape.

Glancing around, Little Thumb mumbled listlessly,

"Huh, turns out it's a surprise, with quite a ceremonial feel..."

As An Le reached out and squeezed the differently colored cream, she simplistically drew a Q-version avatar of a character on the circular white cake, leaving the words "Ping Xi" below it, prompting applause from all around,

"Clap clap clap..."

"Great! We can eat now!"

"With Teacher Ping Xi's blessed cake, quick, quick, let's prepare to cut the cake!"

Stepping back, An Le watched the lively surroundings, covering her mouth as she laughed.

As she laughed, she couldn't help but turn back to smile at Yan Huan, softly saying,

"Xiao Huan, thank you..."

Little Thumb stuck out its tongue, snarking like a commentator,

"Tsk tsk tsk, what's with the thanks, just stick your tongue out like me and twine them together... don't make it so complicated..."

"Crack..."

As it was speaking, Little Thumb's body suddenly stiffened.

Then, it incredulously lowered its head to look at its body, which was slowly cracking,

"No... no way?"

"Crack!!"

An Le, the Modifier Fragment dropped!!

"No, I'm... I'm just a bystander, I... ahhhhh!!"

In the next second, realizing something was wrong, Little Thumb didn't even have time to run before the whole snake fell from An Le's shoulder, writhing on the ground in pain like Electric Shock Boy.

"Ahhhh!!"

"Hehehe..."

Beside him, a black cat appeared gloatingly, looking at the Little Thumb writhing in pain, saying,

"Little Thumb (unconcerned)?"

"Your mom!! Ahhhh!!"

Miao-chan wagged its tail, ignoring Little Thumb, instead raising its tail and shaking its hips, elegantly picking up the Snake Scale Fragments.

Then, it blew on the Snake Scale Fragments with its mouth and called out joyfully on the ground,

"Look, Yan Huan, I picked up the fragment, nyan!!"

"..."

Yan Huan chuckled helplessly, ignoring Miao-chan, still looking at An Le and saying,

"Actually, it's not just me and Teacher Miyake, another person helped a lot too."

"Another... person?"

"Yeah..."

Yan Huan nodded, glancing at Miyake Huhu.

Miyake Huhu smiled slightly, made an 'OK' gesture, then turned around to shout towards the bookstore warehouse serving as a temporary dressing room,

"Is the coser ready over there?"

"Coming, coming!"

The voice of the makeup artist came, and Yan Huan smiled, stepping back to have An Le stand in front.

Hearing this, An Le was slightly startled, looking towards the direction of the dressing room.

Before long, she saw the open dressing room, where a small girl wearing a pink wig and a familiar forum mascot cosplay outfit walked out, looking a bit shy.

She had twin ponytails and held a calligraphy brush cos prop, but it seemed like wearing such an outfit for the first time, making her a bit reserved.

Although she was wearing an over-knee long skirt, her legs wrapped in white socks still couldn't help but press together, as if afraid to move like bamboo poles.

It seemed that the draught under the skirt made this cosplayer very uncomfortable.

After all, even though she was a girl, she had never worn a skirt before.

As a result, even her small face covered by makeup couldn't hide the redness of her cheeks now.

But even through the heavy makeup, An Le recognized the visitor at a glance.

After all, her Caucasian features were too distinctive, not to mention, they were so well acquainted before...

That was...

Spencer?

"The lines, the lines..."

Behind her, Miyake Huhu whispered a reminder.

And Spencer pouted, finally bracing herself.

Seeing her suddenly close her eyes tight, raising the brush in her hand, striking an adorably cute pose, and mustering all her effort to shout sweetly at An Le,

"G-give me your story, ow!"

"..."

An Le opened her mouth, suddenly staying rooted to the ground in a daze.

And Yan Huan was also nervously watching her reaction, afraid that their reconciliation plan would fail.

In this regard, Yan Huan also felt unsure.

He even started praying to Neko-chan and turned around, intending to close the shop door, fearing An Le would turn around and leave...

However, as he turned around, he suddenly saw through the railing outside the shop, at the mother-baby room entrance across the building below, Sakuragi Hitomi in a JK uniform was pushing open the door with a knife in hand...

As that door was pushed open, Yan Huan clearly saw Sakuragi Hitomi with mouse ears vaguely appear inside the mother-baby room!

"..."

Yan Huan couldn't hear whether Sakuragi Hitomi holding the knife said anything, only seeing her raise the silver-glinting knife and suddenly rush in.

"Bang!!"

Then, the mother-baby room door slammed shut.

"!!"

But this scene shocked Yan Huan into breaking out in a cold sweat.

Oh no!

His heart leapt straight to his throat in a jolt.

He glanced back at An Le behind him, his face showing ultimate hesitation.

Yet, remembering the blood-stained birth certificate in that equipment room at the time, he knew what was about to happen.

So after thinking for a moment, he still gritted his teeth and gently pushed the door, walking out of the bookstore.

Inside the bookstore, it was silent.

"..."

An Le looked at the extremely nervous Spencer, pressing her lips together, unconsciously covering her chest with her hand.

She seemed to be trying to say something, but after taking a deep breath, she instinctively looked back for Yan Huan.

Recently, An Le, who increasingly depended on Yan Huan, would confirm his presence before doing anything.

But this time, there was no one behind her.

"Xiao Huan?"

Her expression turned confused, her words stuck in her throat.

An Le furrowed her brows, instinctively pushing open the shop door to look for Yan Huan.

But after stepping out of the shop, scanning outside, she could not see Yan Huan at all.

"..."

As she was about to take out her phone to look for Yan Huan, Spencer, with twin ponytails, suddenly mustered up her courage and rushed out from the bookstore behind.

"An Le!"

"Eh?"

An Le paused slightly in her motion of taking out her phone, instinctively turning back.

She saw Spencer standing at the doorway, looking at her breathlessly, clenching her fists, trembling as she said,

"I... I really want to reconcile with you! What happened before, I really didn't mean it, I've always considered you a friend!

"Today's plan was originally for Yan Huan and Miyake... Huhu Sensei to do, so even if... even if today you don't want to reconcile with me, you must continue drawing!"

Looking at the Spencer in front of her, An Le's eyes couldn't help but widen.

For a moment, she stood frozen on the spot, unable to make any further movements.

Only the hand holding her phone started to tremble slightly. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

"..."

All around, it was extremely quiet, as if the entire world consisted only of the two of them...

No, and a snake.

At this moment, looking at An Le's reaction, Little Thumb, having just managed a sigh of relief at her shoulder, suddenly felt a tight squeeze,

"Hey, hey, hey!! What are you planning to do?! Don't... don't explode again, if you explode fragments again I...

"Ahhhhhhhh!!"