The instant Ling Yi spoke, Kiana visibly tensed.
She leaped backward, drew the pistols at her waist, and warily scanned her surroundings.
‘Just now…
someone spoke right beside me.
I heard it clearly.’ Seeing Kiana’s reaction, Ling Yi finally understood why Kiana had been called “Kiana the Kitty” in her previous life.
Right now, she looked exactly like a startled kitten hissing at someone.
‘How am I supposed to explain my existence to you…?’ “What was that?
Who’s talking?” Kiana looked around.
This time, the voice had been unmistakable.
She had definitely heard another voice, but she didn’t realize it had come from inside her mind.
‘I’m inside your head.’ “Inside my head?” Kiana thought about it briefly, only to realize she hadn’t figured out anything at all.
‘Could it be…
I’ve developed a split personality?!’ Sitting in the consciousness space, Ling Yi’s eye twitched when she read Kiana’s thoughts.
When she had been with Mobius, she could also read Mobius’s thoughts.
However, Ling Yi felt that doing so violated the other person’s privacy, so she had almost never used that ability.
But Kiana’s thoughts…
They crashed over Ling Yi like a tsunami.
She couldn’t avoid reading them even if she tried.
Simply put, Kiana’s thoughts were straightforward and uncomplicated, while Mobius’s were somewhat darker…
‘…That’s right.
You have a split personality.
I’m the other you.’ Although she nearly lost her composure, Ling Yi still gave Kiana an answer.
“Then you…” As though she had suddenly thought of something, Kiana’s eyes lit up.
‘I…
What about me?’ “Can you control my body?” Kiana returned the pistols to her waist and asked excitedly.
‘I can…
Also, you don’t have to speak out loud.
Try talking to me silently in your head.’ “Huh?
I can do that?” ‘There’s already another voice inside your head, yet it never even occurred to you to try…
Aren’t you an idiot?’ The conversation felt oddly familiar to Ling Yi.
Surely she wouldn’t have to go through this with every host from now on, would she?
“So, so, can you control my body or not?” ‘I can.’ Although Ling Yi didn’t understand why Kiana kept pestering her about this, she answered anyway.
“Then, then, then…
can you do my homework for me?” Kiana pointed at the mountain of workbooks on the table, her eyes sparkling with anticipation.
‘Help…
help you with your homework?’ Ling Yi had never expected Kiana to make such a request.
When Mobius had first met her, she had even threatened to kill herself unless Ling Yi left her body.
Yet Kiana was actually delighted at the thought of Ling Yi taking control of her body just to…
do her homework.
‘How did you go from being on guard one second to happily letting me control your body the next…?
Seriously, girl…’ “Yes, yes!
Help me with my homework!
Thank Jesus, thank Buddha—my prayer has been answered!” Kiana clasped her hands together, then drew a circle over her chest.
Not long ago, she had wished there were another version of herself who could do her homework for her.
Now, her wish had come true.
‘Who said I’d do your homework?!
You need to handle your own responsibilities!’ So declared Ling Yi, who had cooked for Mobius for seven years.
“Huh?
Aren’t you the other me?
My head hurt really badly when I tried doing my homework just now.
I honestly can’t do anything with this stuff.” Kiana pouted aggrievedly, her entire face drooping.
She wasn’t lying.
Her head really had started hurting the moment she opened her workbook and prepared to write.
Ling Yi sucked in a breath.
Rubbing her chin, she wondered whether Kiana’s headache had been caused by her fight with the Queen or by the homework…
“Please, other me.
I’ll let you have my favorite instant noodles.” Kiana offered what she believed to be an incredibly generous reward.
‘Who wants instant noodles?!
You’re not allowed to eat instant noodles, either!
Besides, we share the same body.
What difference does it make which of us eats?!’ The moment she heard “instant noodles,” Ling Yi’s PTSD nearly flared up.
Not long ago, someone else had been clamoring for instant noodles every day, and now there was another one.
Could instant noodles actually be the underlying logic of Honkai 3?
“Then, then…
I’ll let you play with my game console?” ‘…I don’t play.’ Ling Yi had realized that the current Kiana was simply an overgrown brat.
Judging by how much she had matured, this should be before the Third Honkai Eruption.
If this were Kiana at St.
Freya, she would probably offer to share Mei’s cooking instead…
“Um…
Other me, please don’t be angry, okay?
I’m sorry.
I’ll do my homework myself right now.” When the other version of herself fell silent, Kiana panicked and hurriedly apologized.
She suddenly realized that the person in her mind was another version of herself.
If she didn’t want to do homework, then her other self probably didn’t either.
‘You definitely need to handle your own responsibilities.
I can chat with you while you work so you won’t feel so bored.’ “Fine…” Kiana pulled a long face, picked up her pen, and reluctantly began doing her homework.
‘This part is wrong.
You picked the wrong unknown.
You should make the marked angle on the left your unknown.’ Looking through Kiana’s eyes, Ling Yi watched helplessly as Kiana got the very first step of the first giveaway question wrong…
“Huh?
Aren’t you the other me?
Why can you do homework?” Kiana was stunned.
She had assumed that the other version of herself would also get a headache at the sight of homework.
Why could this person solve the problems?!
‘Is being able to do homework really that difficult…?’ Ling Yi had studied alongside Mobius from the time Mobius was nine until she grew up.
Even if Ling Yi wasn’t as capable as Mobius, she could certainly handle basic high school problems like these…
Besides, teachers assigned homework to reinforce what had been taught that day.
There wouldn’t be any questions beyond the curriculum.
Not knowing how to solve them was the real problem.
“Amazing…
I’m so impressed…
Then, other me, how do I solve this one?” Kiana pointed at a question.
‘Hmph.
This is easy.’ Ling Yi quickly recited the steps required to solve it.
“Slow down, slow down!
I can’t copy that fast!” Kiana’s eyes lit up when Ling Yi began explaining the solution, and her hand flew across the page.
Unfortunately, speaking was always faster than writing, so she missed the later steps.
‘Tsk…
Can’t you only ask me about the problems you don’t know how to solve?
You’re basically using me as Homework Helper.’ “Homework Helper…
What’s that?
Besides, these questions…” Kiana grinned cheerfully, having given up entirely.
She raised both hands overhead and traced a semicircle.
“I don’t know how to do any of them.” ‘…I’ll teach you from the beginning.
I’ll teach you how to solve every problem you don’t understand.’ “Huh?
Huh?
Huh?!” ★ ★ ★ T/N: If you spot mistranslation, do tell me!
★ ★ ★ Shilling time!