Please stop persecuting your students!

"Why is it pink..."

However, there were fewer decorations there than in the living room. Instead, there were two more fully stocked bookshelves. The windows in the room were closed, and a table lamp with a painted lampshade stood quietly on the floor. Two beds were deliberately placed together on the floor, and the light with some charming colors filled this small bedroom. There was also an incense burner and several sealed incense sticks next to it, which made Saki, who was already seated at the long table, frown.

Is this hotel of yours a decent one?

'No, I can't think about it.'

As soon as this thought came to his mind, Saki quickly came back to his senses, relying on the gradually changing and growing control to force his mind to empty. Nia glanced back at him suspiciously, and then closed the door casually.

Although she had taken that step, Nia had no idea of ​​the hint, and there was no useful feedback from Saki. After complaining about the strange color, she turned around and walked to the cushion next to Saki, who had been sitting for a while, and sat down in a standard duck position. She casually took off the water curved blade hanging on her waist and placed it between the two of them. Her amber eyes stared at Saki, who was gradually coming back to his senses. Saki, who had completely returned to his senses, also lowered his head, and the two of them just stared at each other quietly.

After a while, a crack appeared on Saki's side, and a game console and two sets of controllers slowly floated out of it and fell onto the long table beside them.

"Let's try and see if we can do that."

Volume 599: Return to the Netherworld, the Day of Saving the World: Chapter Chapter : Nia’s ties are complete!

Nothing could better illustrate the changes in the two men than playing a game that requires intrigue.

Yes, change, this is the most appropriate definition to describe the current strange state. It happened this morning, and most people with a discerning eye have already seen the change.

We'll keep the details a secret for now, and focus on the game the two are currently using to test this change.

A turn-based chess game that Nia had never played before. It was similar to the Fire Emblem that Mel and Lysitia came from, but there were some differences in the specific details. The production was still the same, surpassing all the games that Saki remembered that were still in the console and handheld generation. As he played it, he couldn't help but think, "With such high technical skills, you actually made a chess game?"

This is not the type of game that Nia is good at. Although this catwoman loves to play games and there seems to be no type that she cannot accept at the moment, people still have their strengths and weaknesses. Nia, who has advantages in reaction speed, dynamic vision, and instinct, is more suitable for fighting and shooting games that rely more on these abilities. In comparison, she is not particularly good at games that require more brainpower.

It's not that she doesn't have a good brain. If it's just about trying to figure out other people's psychology, this seemingly carefree Catwoman is still very sharp. It's just that she's not good at deducing the situation, and her overall view is a little weak... In other words, she's not very good at games that simply rely on logical thinking ability, but for games that require trying to figure out other people's minds and intrigue, she's at least above the level of a normal player.

And the current war chess game can only mobilize the initial limited number of troops, and cannot increase it... It is obviously the former, which is a type that Nia is not good at at all. It is the first time she has come into contact with the game itself. Only Saki has seen the rules and they have not even been explained to her. In the case of a large plain terrain, relying on exactly the same number of troops, she was beaten by Saki... It is hard to tell the winner.

It was quite embarrassing for a quasi-pure-blooded reformer to be evenly matched with Nia, an opponent who was not good at logical thinking and had only a vague understanding of the rules, in a game that was based on logical thinking.

But this was indeed within Saki's expectations. First, he only used two cores this time, and secondly...

When facing an opponent who can almost completely read your mind, it is difficult to please him no matter how calculating he is.

Yes, this is 'change'.

Even without the Water Blade, Saki and Nia can now communicate with each other to a certain extent. They can understand what the other wants to do without any prior actions such as eye contact or sticking their butts out. In the game, all Saki's plans are invalid. Nia will know when he comes up with the idea of ​​laying a trap, and he will also know that Nia knows that he has set a trap.

The same goes for Nia not reading the rules, because Saki knew the rules, so she understood the rules as well.

After a stalemate of more than ten minutes, Saki finally defeated Nia by relying on his understanding of the deviations in random numbers that came with this type of game. He then fell backwards and lay flat on the floor with empty eyes.

"Why did it become like this?"

"I do not know..."

"Is it the same with Nia and the previous Blade Master?"

"How is that possible? The best we can do is to reach the state that our teacher once reached."

Nia pursed her lips. Although she didn't continue speaking, a thought quietly flowed into Saki's mind.

After she became a cannibal, she lost even the minimal telepathy with her original Blade Master. Perhaps it was because of the special nature of the cannibals, or perhaps it was because... from that moment on, in the mind of her original Blade Master, 'Nia' had already died.

Yes, the one who died was not his beloved daughter, but an ordinary healing blade named Nia who had just been tuned in. Perhaps this mentality formed a barrier that blocked the connection that should have existed between the Blade Master and the Blade. After that, she was not raised as a Blade, but as a human being by the other party, and was constantly emphasized to live as a human being, and she did so... until she met the man in front of her.

“I can hear you.”

"I heard it, so I heard it~"

Nia retorted with a bit of dissatisfaction or self-abandonment, and pulled Saki's body, moved Saki, who was lying on the ground like a corpse, to a new position, and placed him on her thighs. She stroked Saki's fur like Saki usually did, and hummed a brainwashing tune that she had picked up from some game. A feeling of joy quietly flowed into Saki's heart, causing him to pause when he was about to get up, and he honestly enjoyed the care of this girl, which led to the current situation.

...Well, nothing much to think about, it's probably that.

Klaus, the God of Creation who designed the strange existence of the Blade, added a special attribute to it in the original design in order to bind the Blade Master and the Blade and deepen the connection between the two - let's call it "bond" here.

The deeper the bond between the Blade and the Blade Master, in other words, the better the relationship, the greater the combat effectiveness they can exert when fighting side by side, and this bond also involves all aspects of the subsequent things...

I think that this is the situation between him and Nia. In other words, the degree of bond - the mutual favorability has reached a certain level, which has led to a significant increase in the efficiency of telepathy. Telepathy is closely related to the tacit understanding during combat. When the tacit understanding increases, the transmission efficiency of ether will also increase, and the cooperation will be more handy in combat, and the combat effectiveness will also increase!

I just didn't expect that the "bond" in the original book, which requires certain plots and specific conditions to be unlocked, is actually... um... that.

Although it makes sense if you think about it carefully, after all, Nia has hardly seen Tsao during this period of time, and only Jiao is left. The favorability has obviously been in place for a long time, but because the relationship between him and Nia is not a normal relationship between a Blade Master and a Blade, it has not been reflected in the battle. After breaking through that threshold last night and having a substantial connection (physical) between the two, the accumulated feelings are just like the feedback welfare activities such as "Double the accumulated login rewards in the past" opened in the game, and they are vented in the bond in one breath, and finally become what they are now.

——That’s what Saki judged.

"so..."

Saki raised his head and looked at the girl's delicate face, which was a little childish, with a subtle expression:

"Nia's favorability towards me is so high?"

"It's the same with teachers!"

Nia retorted without hesitation.

Stupid teacher! It takes two to tango. Do you think you can get yourself out of this? !

Upon hearing that, Saki's eyes widened and he decisively turned over and knocked Nia to the ground. The two of them rolled on the floor and then rolled into a crack that had been torn open at some point. As soon as the imaginative voice came out, it was sealed by the crack that closed up, and the room returned to silence.

Volume 600: Return to the Netherworld, the Day of Saving the World: Chapter , Chapter : What could the little cat be thinking?

In the guest room of Yama Pavilion, in just one hour - considering Nia's unreasonable healing ability, one hour was indeed very short - two people came out of the different space. One of them supported his waist with phantom pain and collapsed on the sofa by the window, while the other one fell on the sofa with an awkward look on his face again, with his head resting on the former's legs, and said no more.

It's just like eating a lot in a buffet restaurant for an hour without any regard for the consequences. You feel good while eating, but you will feel uncomfortable for at least five or six hours afterwards. If you burp due to digestion, your mouth will be full of the taste of rotten eggs.

The more reckless you are during the process, the more uncomfortable you will feel afterwards. This is the consequence of recklessly relying on the healing ability with cheating specifications. Just like Saki, at this moment, he still has the phantom pain of being hollowed out.

After a while, Saki lowered his head and looked at the catwoman who was holding his right hand and gesturing with her hands on his lap, and sighed:

"Nia~"

"hold head high?"

"Although it's a little late to say it now, are you really mentally prepared?"

"You are indeed speaking too late."

Nia rolled her eyes, and her delicate fingers continued to wander on Saki's right hand - just like modern people pressing bubble wrap when they have nothing to do. Her fair fingers pressed back and forth on Saki's slightly rough fingertips, which were at least a circle larger than hers. It seemed that this unremarkable hand was more worthy of her concern than Saki's nonsensical questions.

"If you want to ask, you should have asked last night~ and..."

Even if she asked this one more question, it would be a waste of effort. Could it be that she really wanted to continue to drag it out until two more people came down from the sky and beat her into the third female position? She had a good endurance, but this endurance was not for being persecuted!

"If you don't allow the persecution, will you torture yourself?"

Saki lowered his head, staring at Catwoman whose movements were frozen, and his eyelids drooped slightly.

"Don't force yourself."

"It's not forced..."

Nia finally shifted her attention away from that hand. She looked at Saki and then silently retracted her gaze, which made Saki shake his head helplessly.

Before she knew how to turn off this telepathic ability, Nia really had no privacy at all from him - he was actually okay with it, as he could use multi-threaded thinking to forcibly cover up some privacy that was not suitable for Nia to know now, and Nia would really pour out her feelings to him without reservation.

Thanks to this, some things that were once speculated were finally confirmed...something that made Saki not know what expression to use to deal with it.

This girl who looks carefree but is actually more thoughtful than anyone else... is deliberately accommodating, or imitating, and the object of her imitation is none other than a certain person, Sakisaki.

From small things like daily eating habits and small hobbies including games to big things like the way of fighting, thinking and looking at problems.

It's not an imitation based on a desire to be like someone, but... a kind of self-sacrificing accommodation.

People's joys and sorrows are not shared. Normal people have their own preferences and comfort zones. When time, energy and financial resources are limited, what they often like to do when interacting with others is to pull the targets they value into their comfort zones, share them with the other party, and try to make them accept their preferences, rather than doing the opposite and adapting to the preferences of others - because that means that when time is limited, they will have to give up some of their own hobbies.

Nia actually did that.

For example, she was exposed to spicy dishes that she was not good at at all. Another example was that she was exposed to something completely unfamiliar like video games... Even her favorite fish, she had not touched it in recent days.

It's like a kitten that's afraid of being isolated and is trying hard to fit in, or like it's trying to make up for the regret that the relationship between the Blade Master and the Blade is not a normal one after all. It's hard to say what to say.

"What's wrong with that..."

Some of Nia's little thoughts were exposed, and her cheeks only flushed slightly. She turned over and rested her chin on Saki's hard thigh, leaving Saki with her back and head covered with silky silver hair, and muttered righteously.

"Anyway, the teacher doesn't dislike it..."

"It's impossible for anyone to dislike this kind of personality, but that's not the question..."

Saki rubbed his brows in annoyance. It is the most basic human behavior to pull others into one's comfort zone and let them adapt to one's hobbies. Nia's personality perfectly caters to this. In most cases, she chooses to suppress herself and accommodate others because of consideration for others' feelings (endurance up↑). It is not an exaggeration to say that she is the most ideal object - if it is limited to the level of hobbies, Saki would not say anything, but...

It's not so nice when the action is driven by fear.

Saki's eyes flickered, and the other four processes in his mind frantically filled the facade with seemingly mysterious information, but he said with a somewhat embarrassed smile on his face:

"If you do this, I will feel like I am pushing my own daughter. I have an inexplicable sense of guilt."

Nia: “???”

Why are you so weird?!

Even though she knew that this was not the teacher's true words, Nia was still shocked and could not recover for a while. Saki didn't care that she didn't get a response immediately. He put his hands into the middle of the silver hair and groped the girl's slender waist. Then he slowly exerted force and picked up the confused Nia like a large Maine Coon cat. He straightened her in his arms, put his chin on the top of Nia's head, and rested it between a pair of cat ears, narrowing his eyes.

"Are you still afraid of being left behind?"

"...I am a cannibal."

"Well, the minimum guarantee is only thirty years, right?"

"Teacher, did you hear me..."

"I know everything that happens in the other dimension, and I can see it at any time."

Saki held Nia without moving, and Nia shrank closer to Saki. Their gazes gradually became vague, and their thoughts connected at this moment.

Thirty years is not long, it can be said to be extremely short, but that is only the minimum time limit. In other words, as long as you hold on and let Xia or Guang help adjust the ether flow, you don't have to worry about suddenly dying one day for at least thirty years. No one knows how long you can live after that.

"So you have to practice your spiritual power as much as you can. As long as you can accumulate 50,000 units of spiritual power, then even if you lose your body in the future, you can transform it into a spirit and survive."

Nia raised her head and asked curiously:

"Can you stay until the teacher dies of old age?"

Having reached this point, she doesn't have anything extra to look forward to. The next and also final small goal in life is to watch Saki die of old age. Then she won't have anything to worry about.

After pretending to think for a while, Saki said uncertainly:

"It will be so long that it will become boring."

Volume 601: Return to the Netherworld, the Day to Save the World: Chapter : Chapter : When in Despair, Be Strong

"That..."

The girl's golden eyes flickered, and she lowered her head again, allowing Saki to rest his chin on the top of her head, muttering:

"You need to practice hard..."

Fifty thousand units of spiritual power. Currently, the upper limit of the spiritual power she can increase every day is twenty to twenty-five. In thirty years, fifty thousand is not difficult.

"Then it's the same question as before, are you still afraid of being left behind?"

"Don't be afraid! Don't keep asking the same question over and over again!"

Saki didn't say anything else. He looked straight ahead, but in his mind, the shadow of a mysterious crystal body given to him by the principal, which he had sealed, appeared.

"Perhaps, that can serve as a final insurance policy."

He couldn't help but think so. When he came to his senses, he found that the cat in his arms had run away at some point. After running to the range of his spiritual power, he raised his hand and grabbed the game console and the controller on the table. Then he jumped back onto Saki's legs and handed him a controller. Saki couldn't help but smile.

"Well, let me show you the true power of the Reformer."

"The real power is information bombardment? To be honest, that feels really annoying..."

......

When Saki is still involved with his own cat as usual.

Outside of Yama-tei, which can be called the world in a box, excluding locals like Rex and "experienced people" like Saki, the genuine Netherworld tourist group, led by Meleve and Kagutsuchi, successfully entered the town of Torig. Such a group of strange combinations wandering in this peaceful town naturally attracted countless eyes.

The Imperial Archon Meleph, his blade Kagutsuchi, a group of strangely dressed children and youths who were clearly not from the Gura people, and the strange puppets they were holding...

Yes, considering that Agumon and the others are too strange in appearance, it would be troublesome if they were mistaken for a large number of Blade Guardians entering the city, so before entering the town, Red Enma killed all the slightly older Digimon with one sword and returned them to Infant Stage II, and then they were held in the arms of their partners.

This action really frightened Mellove again, but she had been frightened a lot since she met these people, and this time was no exception.

However, this was the first time she had seen a 'Blade' that changed its shape after being damaged... No, considering the information she had at hand, these things might not be the 'Blade' she had originally imagined.

While the residents of Torig were curiously looking at this strange group of people, the members of the 'God Sightseeing Group' were also looking at these 'humans' who were fundamentally different from them.