I'm in Morioh, just joined a chat group for cute girls.

Kiana squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth. She kept her mouth tightly shut, shook her head vigorously, and her body trembled slightly uncontrollably.

No! Not here! I absolutely cannot make any more strange noises in front of everyone!

Kiana used all her strength to move her already weak legs, and in an extremely awkward, strange posture, as if she were carrying something, she slowly made her way towards the villa's stairs.

"Kiana!"

Seeing this, Mei immediately rushed forward and supported her swaying body, saying, "I'll help you upstairs."

Kiana was too weak to refuse, so she leaned most of her weight on Mei and let Mei help her up the stairs to her room.

The moment the door opened, Kiana used almost all her last strength to push Mei out the door.

"I...I'm a little sleepy...I'll just need a nap!"

Her face flushed red, and she shouted incoherently before slamming the door shut, followed immediately by the sound of it being locked from the inside.

"Kiana?"

Mei, who was locked out, looked bewildered. She knocked on the door, but received no response.

Mei stood at the door, her brows furrowing as she listened to the complete silence inside.

Strange... Kiana looks like I've seen her somewhere before... She tried hard to search her memory.

Her cheeks were flushed, she felt weak all over, her speech was broken and intermittent, and finally she locked herself in her room...

A vague fragment of memory suddenly surfaced from the depths of my mind.

That was yesterday when I was with Gu Ye.

Mei's cheeks flushed slightly. She shook her head, trying to banish those inappropriate thoughts. No, that's impossible. I must be overthinking it.

Kiana must have been too tired from training.

Inside the room, Kiana lay sprawled on the soft bed, burying her face deep in the pillows.

This one-sided sensory storm, originating from Sirin, continued until the afternoon before slowly subsiding.

……

As the door to the villa's living room opened and Gu Ye and a refreshed Xi Lin walked in one after the other, a series of hurried footsteps immediately came from upstairs.

Kiana, who had just collapsed on the bed, rushed down the stairs like a white whirlwind.

Her white braids were a bit messy, and her cheeks still had a lingering flush.

She completely ignored the surprised looks from the other people in the living room, rushed straight to the two of them, and without saying a word, grabbed Gu Ye and Xi Lin by the wrists and dragged them upstairs.

Hey! Bug! What's wrong with you?!

Xilin stumbled as she was pulled, and began to complain.

"You two, come here!"

Kiana didn't turn her head, but with surprising strength, she dragged the two of them into her room, which was still filled with an ambiguous atmosphere. Then she slammed the door shut and locked it.

Inside the room, Kiana was breathing heavily, her chest heaving violently.

She stood with her hands on her hips, her eyes burning with rage, glaring at the two people in front of her.

"Say!"

She practically yelled, "You two! Were you just doing *that*? Were you riding bumper cars?!"

Facing Kiana's fiery gaze, Sirin showed no sign of guilt. Instead, she nodded cheerfully, her eyes filled with the pleasure of watching a good show.

"So what if it is?☆~"

She pulled her hand away from Kiana's, straightened her skirt, and said in a relaxed tone as if she were discussing the nice weather, "You're allowed to ride bumper cars with Gu Ye, but I, the queen, am not allowed to?"

Usuki

As she spoke, Sirin tiptoed and, under Kiana's shocked gaze that seemed about to split open, quickly kissed Gu Ye on the lips, making a crisp "chu".

"you!"

Kiana's finger trembled as she pointed at Sirin, momentarily at a loss for words.

"I don't care about your petty affair with Gu Ye!"

She finally found her voice, jumping up and down in frustration, then abruptly turned to Gu Ye, her voice trembling with a sob, "The problem is! Why do I feel something when you and she do that kind of thing?!"

Seeing that she was on the verge of tears, Gu Ye calmly asked, "Didn't Mei tell you about Stand users?"

"What Stand user?"

Kiana looked completely bewildered.

"The senses of the Stand and the original are completely shared."

Gu Ye explained, "Simply put, you can feel everything that's happening to Xilin right now. If I were to make a cut on her arm right now, you would see an identical cut on the same spot on your arm."

Old bell

"I, I don't know!"

Kiana's mind completely went blank; she had never heard of such an outrageous concept before.

"Oh? Are the senses connected?"

After hearing Gu Ye's explanation, Xilin was first stunned. Then, her eyes lit up with an unprecedented light, and her lips curled into an extremely dangerous smirk.

"So that's how it is. What an interesting body☆~"

Kiana looked at her malicious expression and immediately felt a strong sense of foreboding.

"Hey! I'm warning you, don't you dare do anything reckless!"

Kiana instinctively took a step back, assuming a defensive stance.

However, at that very moment, Kiana's usually not very bright mind suddenly started working at lightning speed.

Since the senses are interconnected, doesn't that mean...?

A resolute glint flashed in her eyes. Before Sirin could make any move, Kiana clenched her fist and punched herself hard in the stomach!

"Ow!"

A piercing scream echoed through the room, but it was Kiana herself who screamed.

She clutched her stomach and bent over in pain.

Meanwhile, Celine, standing opposite, remained unharmed, even tilting her head with interest, as if watching an interesting drama unfold.

"Why, why..."

Kiana clutched her aching stomach, her face filled with disbelief. "Why are you completely unharmed?"

"Ugh."

Gu Ye sighed helplessly, "As the host and the original body, the damage you suffer will not be reflected in the substitute. This connection is one-way."

"This is not fair!"

Kiana cried out in grief and indignation.

"Hahaha! I'm getting more and more satisfied with this body!"

Sirin put her hands on her hips and let out a gloating laugh, her eyes filled with a cat-and-mouse teasing as she looked at Kiana.

"You! Don't you dare do anything reckless!"

Kiana was both angry and anxious, but there was nothing she could do.

"OK."

Celine walked up to her with a smile, extended a finger, hooked her chin, and said in a mischievous tone, "Beg me, if you kneel down and beg this queen, maybe I'll be in a better mood and won't do anything reckless☆~"

"I'll fight you!"

Kiana's anger was completely ignited. She roared and lunged at Sirin.

Gu Ye immediately stepped between the two and grabbed Kiana's arm.

"Stop it."

His voice is not loud.

Kiana looked at Gu Ye, then at the smug-looking Sirin, her chest heaving violently, and finally reluctantly lowered her hand.

"Hmph! For Gu Ye's sake, I'll mercifully spare you this time!"

"Tch, what a boring bug."

Celine pursed her lips, but then her eyes lit up and she came up with an even more wicked idea.

"You wait for me!"

She pointed at Kiana's nose and declared, word by word, "If you dare to stay with that cook, I'll immediately go and have a go at Gu Ye! I'll make you look like a fool in front of her! Let's see how you'll face her after that!"

"you--!"

Kiana instantly lost her temper, practically bursting with rage.

Just as the atmosphere in the room was tense and a major battle was about to break out, there were a few soft knocks on the door.

"Kiana? Are you in there? What happened?"

It was Mei's voice, her tone filled with unconcealed worry and concern.

Clearly, their argument was too loud and had alerted the people downstairs.

Gu Ye glanced at Kiana, who was on the verge of losing her mind, and then at Sirin, who seemed to thrive on chaos, before walking over and opening the door.

Outside the door, Mei stood anxiously. When she saw that it was Gu Ye who opened the door, she was stunned for a moment.

"Gu Yejun? Kiana, she..."

"No big deal."

Gu Ye stepped aside to make way for them. "The two of them are arguing."

He gestured for Mei to come in, and then quietly explained to Mei what had just happened, namely the setting of the Stand and the original sharing the same senses, and the conflict between Kiana and Sirin that arose as a result. Of course, he cleverly omitted the most crucial part about "riding the bumper cars".

Mei's tightly furrowed brows slowly relaxed, and her gaze towards Sirin and Kiana was filled with understanding, replacing her worry.

She walked between the two who were still facing off and gently took Sirin's small hand in hers.

"Cirin, you're a family now, aren't you?"

Mei's voice was gentle, like a spring afternoon breeze, easily soothing the tense atmosphere in the room. "Family members should not hurt each other."

"Hmph, this bug provoked me first!"

Although Sirin said that, she didn't pull her hand away from Mei's grasp.

"But you can't use that to bully Kiana."

Mei patiently advised, "Think about it, if Kiana is on a mission or fighting an important enemy in the future, and you suddenly make her feel unwell, what serious consequences would that cause?"

"I……"

Xilin was speechless. She hadn't really thought that far ahead; she just thought it was fun.

"That's right!"

Kiana nodded frantically, finding a supporter, her voice filled with grievance, "Mei, you have to talk to her! She just threatened me, saying she'd do something to me in front of me..."

Kiana stopped mid-sentence. She couldn't very well reveal that Sirin had threatened to ride bumper cars with Gu Ye; that would be too embarrassing.

"In short! She's a terrible person!"

Kiana could only conclude it this way.

Watching all this, Gu Ye added, "If you really do that, it will only make them more distant from you, even afraid of you. That's not the result you want."

Sirin fell silent. She secretly glanced at Mei's gentle profile, then looked at Kiana beside her, who was sulking but didn't really hate in her eyes. Finally, she reluctantly snorted through her nose.

"Okay, okay, you're so long-winded!"

She muttered to herself, "As long as this bug doesn't bother me, I won't touch it."

Seeing that Celine finally relented, the atmosphere in the room completely eased.

Mei breathed a sigh of relief. As if she had remembered something, she took something out of her uniform pocket and handed it to Gu Ye.

It was a metal shell with a beetle relief design, which looked like a necklace pendant, but the inside was hollow.