This is not the date I wanted.

"Shidou?"

Hearing the faint breathing sound, Mengyue couldn't help but turn her head in confusion, only to see Shidao lying on the table with saliva dripping from the corners of his mouth onto the table.

"Fell asleep?"

"It seems so." Kotori sighed softly, looking at Shidao who was sleeping soundly, and said helplessly, "This guy has been working since he got up at four in the morning, and he hasn't rested all day."

"Well, it's natural to be tired."

Meng Yue said with a helpless smile.

"I think it's not good for your health if you just leave Shidou to sleep here."

At this moment, Tobiichi Origami suddenly raised her hand and proposed while panting.

"Let me... take care of sending Shidou back to his room."

"turn down!"

Everyone rejected it in unison.

"Well, that being said, I'll do this. What Origami said is right, and the weather is getting cold at night, so I'll take Shidou back to his room."

As she spoke, Meng Yue crawled out from the kotatsu.

"Well, sorry to bother you, Sister Mengyue."

"I have objections! Why can Liang Yi Meng Yue do it but I can't?"

Origami protested in dissatisfaction.

"The accumulated credit difference. You should touch your chest and reflect on it first."

Kotori sighed helplessly and replied. In response, Origami pinched her chest and replied very seriously,

"Because I lost six centimeters in chest size?"

"..."

Although she had a lot of things she wanted to complain about at this moment, after feeling the inexplicable silence in the living room, Meng Yue decisively chose to pick up Shidao and slowly left the living room.

“——Hey!”

Arriving at Shidao's room on the second floor, Mengyue gently laid Shidao on the bed and covered him with the sheets.

(Really? I thought it had finally become more reliable, but it's still the same.)

Looking at Shidao's sleeping face, Mengyue couldn't help but think helplessly in her heart.

"Well……"

Shidao, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly frowned slightly, as if he was dreaming, and spoke in his sleep intermittently.

"It's okay... Mengyue... I will protect you all..."

"..."

After a moment of silent silence, Meng Yue let out a long sigh without saying a word.

"Really, there's no need to think about this kind of thing even in dreams. Although I'm very happy to have this thought, I'm a little anxious, Shidou."

Of course, Shidou, who was asleep, did not hear Mengyue's mumbling.

Rather than knowing how to protect and save others, Meng Yue hopes that the young man in front of her can learn to cherish himself.

(It can’t be helped… Let’s just try a little harder.)

After making a silent decision in her heart, Mengyue felt that she had regained her previous enthusiasm.

"..."

Standing silently beside the bed, Mengyue looked at Shidao who was sleeping soundly on the bed and fell into a brief silence.

After a while, Mengyue seemed to have figured something out. She slowly bent down, tied up her long hair, and kissed Shidao lightly on the forehead like a dragonfly touching the water.

(…This shouldn’t be considered sneaking out, right?)

Her cheeks felt slightly hot, Meng Yue touched her lips and looked around with a guilty conscience. Only after she confirmed that there was no one around and Shidao was not awake did she breathe a sigh of relief.

Turning off the lights in the room, Meng Yue couldn't help but smile happily as she looked at Shidao sleeping peacefully in the moonlight.

"Good night~ Have a sweet dream, Shidou."

PS: I originally wanted to write a chapter of Mengyue Test before updating the Rokuko volume, so I will write a few main articles first and then write short stories.

Mengyue Exam (I)

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It was an ordinary story about elves that happened in December, after Shidao's spiritual power went out of control and before Christmas.

Tiangong City, Laichan High School, Grade 2, Class 3

ding dong -- ding dong --

“…Huh…Hmm!”

As the school bell rang in the classroom, Yamayakushi, who had been holding his chin with his hand and looking drowsy, suddenly opened his eyes.

"Well, that's it for today's class."

The math teacher who was responsible for casting the hypnosis spell during breaks left the classroom. Seeing the troublemaker finally leave, Yakuya couldn't help but sneer handsomely.

"Kuku - it's finally here, the time for revolution!"

After neatly packing his textbooks into his schoolbag, Yakushi stood up from his seat with an excited look on his face.

"Half-body! Fellow countrymen! Are you ready? We are about to face the real battlefield!"

"Of course. If Yakuya wants to go, Yui will accompany you."

Sitting on the seat to the right of Yakuya, her soul mate, Yami Yuzuru, lived up to her expectations and nodded in agreement readily.

"Eh—are we going to the game center again?"

Sitting at the table in front of Yakuya, the close friend of hers, the hurricane sons' recognition with her impressive strength, the lightning priestess - Ryogi Yumezuki, showed a trace of boredom on her face after hearing Yakuya's words.

"Kuku——Are you retreating in fear? My compatriots~"

Covering half of his face with his hand, Yajuya looked at Mengyue with a provocative smile on the corner of his mouth.

"What's wrong? Are you afraid of the GodFinger (God's Finger) that I have forged through countless trials and tribulations? Kuku - it's understandable, but you have breathed too much of the rotten air of the real world, and your strength has declined significantly."

"The air you breathe is not much different from the air I breathe."

Meng Yue angrily shot a knife at Yejuya's forehead and sighed helplessly.

"Well, since we still have time, I can go play with you guys. But we can only play until 5:30. And I'm responsible for dinner today, so please accompany me to the supermarket to buy food before going to the game hall."

"Eh--"

Yakushi couldn't help but let out a dissatisfied sound.

"It's no use for you to say 'eh' to me."

Meng Yue shrugged helplessly, glanced at Ye Jushi, and said with a wry smile,

"Well, as compensation, I'll let you decide what to eat at dinner."

Hearing Meng Yue's words, Ye Jushi raised his eyebrows and declared with a proud look on his face.

"A fusion of snow and lava!"

"...Xixian, what is the name of that dish that sounds like it will make you sick?"

Meng Yue turned her inquiring gaze to Xi Xian, to which Xi Xian replied calmly.

"Translation. Yakuya said he wanted to eat curry today."

"Oh...Curry..."

The subtle sense of gap made Mengyue frown.

“Kuku—you are truly worthy of being my half. You know the true meaning of my words.”

Yakushiya nodded with great satisfaction.

"And my compatriots - don't forget to order the Infernal Level (super hot)."

"Additional information. When Yakuya eats curry, he always gets carried away and orders the spiciest one, and then his mouth becomes filled with fire. So it's better to choose sweet curry."

"Understood~"

"Xi, Xixian! Don't say unnecessary words!"

Hearing that Yui Xian actually revealed his dark history, Yakushi shouted with a blushing face.

"Yamai-san, wait a moment."

Then, just as the three were about to leave the school as usual, their homeroom teacher Sudo suddenly called them.

Yui and Yakuya stopped and asked with a puzzled look on their faces.

"Hmm? What's the point of calling us the sons of the hurricane?"

"Question. Teacher, what do you want to ask Yui and Yakuya?"

"Ah - I'm so sorry, you two are sisters..." Sudo scratched his hair in confusion, looked at the list in his hand, and changed the topic, "Yamayakutsu-san, come with me to the office."

"Eh?"

When he heard his name being called, Yakushi was stunned.

……

Since they couldn't leave Yakushiya behind and leave the school first, Mengyue and Yuigen waited outside the office door for Yakushiya to finish talking with the homeroom teacher.

"Question. Mengyue, do you think the teacher has something to do with Ye Juya?"

Xixian asked a little uneasily.

"Well... there shouldn't be any reason..."

Mengyue couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Was it during the morning class meeting that Yakuya suddenly grasped his right hand and wailed, "Seal! The seal on my right hand is about to be released!"?

Or maybe when the teacher called on you in history class to ask who the founder of Christianity was, you answered "an irreconcilable enemy"?

Or were they seen by the teacher during lunch break while fighting an invisible "enemy" with some like-minded students from other classes?

(No, there are too many reasons to think of.)

Mengyue couldn't help feeling ashamed.

"I'm scared. Could it be like in the school romance comics, where Sudo-sensei has some unknown leverage over Yakuya to threaten her, and then makes all kinds of excessive demands on the cute Yakuya?!"

Thinking of this, Xixian's face suddenly turned ashen.

"What kind of comics do you read?"

A row of speechless black lines appeared on Mengyue's forehead.

(Well... maybe it's because of that incident.)

Meng Yue thought silently in her heart.

If I remember correctly, during the surprise test in the first math class in the afternoon, Mengyue only heard Yakushi muttering behind him, "Show the truth! Akashic records!"

Then, Meng Yue heard a resounding “Here it comes!” from behind.

Then, Yakuya slumped down on the table and didn't look up again until the end of the exam.

When receiving a blank paper with nothing written on it except her name from the back row, Mengyue said that although she admired the fact that Yakuya successfully resisted the urge to ask Yui to cheat, it was a pity that Yakuya should not have the protagonist aura like Uzumaki Naruto.

Bang——!

Just when Xixian was about to rush into the office, the office door was opened and Yajuya walked out slowly.

"Thank you, teacher. I'll go back now."

After bowing slightly towards the office, Yakushi closed the door. After a few seconds of silence, he seemed to fall apart and fell to his knees in the corridor.

"Yajuya?!"

Seeing this scene, Mengyue and Xixian hurried over and helped her up.