Ten minutes earlier, outside the teachers’ office.
“Brother Di, don’t go thinking Su Yu is anything special.
He only got me that one time before.
Today I counterattacked twice in quick succession, and I even talked Brother Itto into going to fetch medicine for Su Yu.
There’s bound to be a good show.”
The blue-haired, one-eyed pirate Kaeya was chatting with keen interest with the youth beside him, who had a head of crimson hair and the air of a noble young master.
“Call me Diluc.
What the hell is ‘Brother Di’?”
Diluc’s expressions were rich and varied; his red hair stood for his outgoing nature, but whenever he faced Kaeya he always found himself a bit outmatched.
Every time he saw Kaeya, he couldn’t manage to be outgoing.
He’d even put on a dead-fish-eyed look as he gazed at Kaeya.
“Aiya, don’t get hung up on what we call each other.
The point is, I defeated Su Yu!
Hmph hmph.
I, Kaeya, held it in for so long, and finally got my revenge!
Hahaha, you should be happy for me!”
Kaeya, who had never yet been beaten down by society, came off as a bit of a goof and a bit flippant, and he failed to notice the faint, hard-to-detect change in Diluc’s expression.
“Hey, Diluc, fine, I won’t call you Brother Di anymore, alright?
Don’t you want to say something about this?”
Seeing none of the expression he wanted, Kaeya even began shaking Diluc’s shoulders, while Diluc gave a mysterious smile:
“Take a look behind you, you idiot Kaeya.”
“No no no, he should be called Little Brother Kai.
He calls you Brother Di, so you call him Little Brother Kai, wouldn’t that be just fine?”
Su Yu, passing behind Kaeya, did not linger over it; he swept a few glances across Kaeya’s unnatural, stiff face, then, even as he spoke, gave a meaningful knock on the door and pushed it open, entering the office.
“Little Brother Kai, looks like the retaliation is coming.
You’d better catch it.”
On Diluc’s face was an irrepressible smile — he really wanted to throw his head back and laugh at this little brother who so often annoyed him.
But on second thought, as the elder brother, he ought to lead by example, so with a half-smile he patted Kaeya on the shoulder.
“Uh, alright, alright.
Looks like my good days are coming to an end.
Though I wonder how he’ll strike back…
He just went into the office.
Surely he isn’t going to tattle to the teacher, hahaha.”
“By common reason, that would be it.
But this person is Su Yu, and he never plays by the rules.”
Pricked by Diluc’s remark, Kaeya’s face immediately showed difficulty:
“Let’s hope he’s normal for once…”
From how absorbed she looked, she clearly hadn’t even noticed the knock just now.
Su Yu grew a little curious, and so made no sound, tiptoeing up behind Xianyun to crane his neck and look at the phone.
“Ho, isn’t that Ganyu!”
“Aiya aiya aiya!”
Su Yu’s startled cry made Xianyun instantly flush red to the ears and fling the phone high into the air; her hands, in her panic, failed several times to catch it, until the phone came flying at Su Yu’s face.
“Teacher Xianyun, please be a little careful, hey!”
Just when the phone was only a few centimeters from his face, it was caught by Su Yu’s reflexively moving right hand, and he grumbled at Xianyun without pause.
“It’s all because you sneaked over to look at my phone!
Speak up!
You didn’t see anything just now, did you…”
“It was just…
uh, alright, my eyes must have been playing tricks on me.
I must have misread.”
As for why Xianyun was stammering, Su Yu didn’t even need to ask to know: wasn’t it just that Ganyu had graduated, so she could no longer see Ganyu up close, and had started secretly peeking at Ganyu’s social media accounts?
Even though she missed her disciple terribly, she still had to insist she didn’t need her disciple to come visit.
Ah, a tsundere, huh.
But tsundere is already out of the meta!
Of course, Keqing excepted…
But then again, even in this world, Ganyu and Xianyun were still master and disciple.
That being so, was Shenhe also a disciple of this Xianyun fellow?
There was very little information about that one.
At least, without deliberately gathering intel, he’d never heard of it.
Su Yu observed Xianyun’s state again.
She looked just like a decent young wo—cough cough, it got Su Yu so embarrassed he didn’t dare get curious about Shenhe anymore.
It wouldn’t do to fully set off this powder keg.
After all, he still planned to have Xianyun introduce him to Ningguang.
And, of course, there was also that eyepatch-wearing, long-tongued “woman” outside.
“Teacher Xianyun, don’t you want to know how things went with Classmate Raiden’s cooking?”
Su Yu decisively steered the topic away, because he had already noticed that Xianyun had gotten that “in for a penny, in for a pound” feeling.
“I…
hmm?
Oh, right.
So how are things on Classmate Raiden’s side?
Are you confident?”
Xianyun, whose topic had been diverted, tacitly began another topic with Su Yu.
She was still optimistic about the cooking lessons.
After all, Su Yu’s lips hadn’t come down from a smile the whole time, so she could naturally sense that things must be going smoothly. Follow the newest chapters on g.com.
But even though Xianyun had great confidence in Su Yu and had made bold guesses, when it came to saying it aloud, she still only thought the matter showed some promise.
She never expected that Su Yu had already made Ei take a historic step.
“Confident?
Far more than that.
I’ve already gotten Classmate Raiden to successfully make a dish.
Though it’s only a cold dish, at least it’s a good start.”
Su Yu said this with a touch of seeking credit; he believed that once this problem, which had plagued Xianyun for so long, was solved, she would absolutely not refuse his request.
“Wh…
what?
Successfully made a dish?”
Xianyun stared fixedly at Su Yu, her thoughts already drifting off to who-knows-where.
A thing that was impossible to accomplish had truly been accomplished right before her eyes; even Xianyun, who had seen much of the world and considered herself emotionally stable, couldn’t help but crash.
“So, I have a request.
I wonder if Teacher Xianyun could agree to it?
If you agree, I’ll be even more motivated for my specialized teaching plan afterward.”
And realizing that she had once again lost her composure in front of a junior, Xianyun kept pushing at her perfectly fine glasses frame and, restraining her delight, said:
“What request?”
“Introduce me to Ningguang, in a reasonable way.”
Su Yu’s tone suddenly turned somewhat solemn.
This concerned the angel investment plan.
He couldn’t be careless!
There was no helping it; he was far too hungry for money.
Even though he now had a bit of wealth to his name, he was still freeloading off Furina’s house, cough cough…
“Oho~ aiya aiya, young people these days~”
Xianyun seemed to have discovered Su Yu’s little secret, and immediately stopped caring about his peeking just now.
Courtesy demands reciprocity, after all.
When your secret is known by someone else you care a lot, but when that person’s secret is also known by you, your mood suddenly becomes much more comfortable.
And Xianyun was a typical case.
“No, you’ve misunderstood.”
“I understand.
Teacher understands everything.
Don’t go hiding things here.
Rest assured and tell me, I absolutely won’t tell a second person~”
Looking at Xianyun’s somewhat improper gaze, Su Yu was equally helpless.
He, Lord Su, was a very pure man!
And most crucially, anyone who believed Xianyun could keep her mouth shut, Su Yu would absolutely laugh at them for the rest of his life.
“I want to do business in partnership with Ningguang.
Don’t misunderstand!”